Not Safe to Fall Asleep on the Glory?

[tk5953]

"disturbing" not "distubing"

[hotrod1954]

Did they ever say what the smell came from? We had the same kind of smell in our cabins and the hallway on the splendor in May. We also told the pursers office about it they said they would check it out. It was there the next day also. But it did not affect like it did you guys.

If the smell was that bad how in the world did the workers use this product and not be orver come by it. Im sure they were a lot closer.

[hotrod1954]

Regardless of all the hish-hash going on here, it is entirely possible that a strong odor of paint solvent got into the cabin's air handling system. One day on our Carnival Splendor transatlantic cruise, we discovered our cabin has a strong odor of paint in it. We went out on deck and discovered that the deck apes were painting the grill over the air intake for the system for our area of the ship. Now DW has been diagnosed with asthma (my diagnosis in different, but that stands for now) and she had to leave. Was this a big deal? No indeed. We had to stay out of the cabin for a couple of hours. Then things were fine.

 

Two part polyurethane marine paint smells nasty. Some people may be very sensitive to this product. But it is used on all lines and is found everywhere nowadays.

 

I personally would give OP a credit just to shut him/her/it up. I would also hope they go cruise on RCCL.

 

Doc

I personally would give OP a credit just to shut him/her/it up. I would also hope they go cruise on RCCL.

I don't know if he would like them either we went on Monarch in May and they painted the hand rails on a tender boat and the paint was wet when we boarded, A lot of people had white hands.

[hotrod1954]

You obviously missed my point. You also seem to have a problem recognizing sarcasm. I normally do not waste time trying to clarify, but you seem to have taken his word as gospel and the severity of his parties reactions to be exactly as described.

 

If his party was having respiratory distress to the extent he claims, they should have presented for treatment. They did not. Case closed.

 

He has a history of having horrible experiences on cruises. At least that is what his few posts indicate. I am discounting the severity of his problem because of his almost equally hysteric reaction to all the problems he has encountered on his other cruises. I'm sorry if you think I am being hard on the OP, but his history demonstrates to me that he has enough difficulties on cruises that I cannot believe he still goes cruising one or two times a year. This is not rational.

 

Doc

Well Said

[trisonik]

Here is one for those of us that feel that improved safety oversight is not required for the cruise lines. Forget how tall the rails are. People do not 'fall' off of ships, the jump or are pushed... On the otherhand, there are plenty of ways these folks put us in danger and you trust them at your own risk.

 

Not Safe to Fall Asleep on the Glory

 

On Tues the 16th, my wife and I along with her parents where sailing on the Carnival Glory on a seven day Caribbean cruise. When we awoke around 8:30 in the morning, our cabins where filled with an extremely strong smell of a ‘paint-thinner’ like chemical that was very overpowering and left us disoriented and having breathing difficulties. We immediately notified the room steward, who was in the hallway, and vacated the cabins. After about an hour, the smell began to subside and we returned to prepare for our tours (Ochoa Rios, Jamaica) while attempting to dress, the smell again flooded into the cabins (very quickly) and we were again forced to leave coughing and nauseous. At this point, both my mother and myself were having breathing problems and contacted the customer service desk for help. They eventually sent a supervisor to confirm the problem and promised it would not happen again. Despite feeling very ill, we decided to proceed ashore and join the tour group we paid for. This tour included some strenuous activities (climbing waterfalls) and when we arrived at the location, we decided that we were not able to participate safely as both of us, as well as the rest of our party, were feeling light headed and not breathing properly. These tour tickets cost us $300 and we were really trying to participate but it there was just no way to precede safely. We ended up sitting in the parking area and waiting for the bus to return.

 

That evening, I spoke with ‘Freddy’ the assistant to the Purser and was given his solemn promise that it was safe to sleep in our cabins and that the mornings ‘gassing’ would not be repeated. I have to sleep with a breathing assist device and my mother takes blood pressure medication. I explained that we are both very susceptible to this hazard and wanted to make sure it was safe. Someone with asthma or an elderly person could have been hospitalized or worse by what they did to us.

 

The next morning it was even worse. The air was so thick with chemicals that I just ran out of the room without even stopping to call the desk. Even our steward did not want to enter. To clear the air enough to grab our clothes required large floor blowers to be brought in. At this point ‘Freddy’ was offering us a ‘complementary’ trip to the ships doctor and I was demanding the ships safety officer make an appearance. Well, no safety officer. Apparently the staff did not feel he needed to be bothered and my requests to meet with him where refused. The Purser herself got involved at this point and we again proceeded ashore to the beach on Grand Cayman feeling like we could hardly breathe. Spent the day sitting in the shade on the beach trying to recover. On our return to the ship, I informed them that we did not feel safe sleeping in the cabins which did nothing to change the tune of the staff who said it was an accident and we were safe to return. Alternative cabins where not provided. At this point we did not know what to do. Two of the three ports on our trip had been ruined for us, we felt horrible, and the ships staff was simply not taking any proactive action to protect us. Lots of big talk about the Captain and such but still no safety officer or explanation as to how this could happen two mornings in a row.

 

Thursday the 25th. Mom can no longer sleep as she is afraid of the gas so when it starts again around 8am, she calls to get us out of bed and the cabin. Needless to say, I am rather ticked off and go straight to the desk in search of someone with a clue. The staff see me coming with a mixture of pity and avoidance in their eyes. Seems they all knew before I got there. Several hours later, the Purser finally decides it is time to actually see me and offers more apologizes. Still no offer of new sleeping arrangements or a safety officer. I told her we expected to be compensated and provided a safe place to sleep and that I felt they had crossed the line from accident, to stupidity, to gross negligence and reached total indifference at this point and repeated my request to speak with a ships officer. Received the same promises and vague assurances with no confidence that anything was going to be done after three days of this.

 

Friday we get a letter in our cabins offering us $120 per cabin for our troubles. Less than the cost of the lost tour on the first day. Hardly seemed fair that the most important three days of the cruise (10th anniversary for my wife and I). As far as I am concerned the entire trip was flushed. We are all stressed out, sleep deprived and poisoned and they are using some asinine formula figuring the percentage of our fare attributed to the cabin by the number of hours of lost usage. To say I was shocked is an understatement. We feel like we have been repeatedly assaulted by this crew and to tell us that we are getting $20 for each gassing. Great, they could have killed us and it is worth just less than the price of two drinks per person.

 

At least on Friday we did not wake up in gas chambers again. I did take the letters to the purser and tell her, politely, what I thought of the refunds. Next day we get hit again. This time in the afternoon and not as bad but bad enough. I called the desk and left the room. Did not bother to wait this time and the smell, as always, was in the hall as well. Couple of hours later, they tell me it is all my imagination and tell my wife the comp offer is final as if we made it up to get a better offer. For days, multiple staff come through and confirmed the smell, and the purser has the nerve to suggest this to my wife. If we were stateside, I would have called the police the second day and filed an assault charge.

 

Funny final note: when we checked our bill on the way off the ship, the credits, pathetic as they were, had not been applied to our cabins. Needless to say, a formal version of this letter is going to the Coast Guard Marine Safety office, the Federal Maritime office, a couple of Congressmen and likely an attorney as I feel we have grounds for a formal complaint. Obviously, I plan to copy Carnival, but suspect they will ignore it until queries start showing up from the authorities. Nice of the Purser to acknowledge that the incidents occurred in those offer letters. Bet the Carnival lawyers are going to love that!

 

Sad thing is that we sailed the Glory last year and had a wonderful time which is why we decide to return with the parents for our 10th. Go figure…

 

I belive the OP, On the Valor they were cleaning the balconies (I can't remember which day), the adults area was full, so we decided to go down to deck 3 and sit on the longe chairs. 2 crew members started painting one side of the deck, within 20 minutes my husband and I had a headache, my husband said his throat was scratchy also. We did not tell anyone about this, because we thought there was nothing that could be done it was outside...oh well

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This thread still going?? I think the OP is long gone, probably overcome with all the hot air in here