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Thank you so much for brining this here; can you tell the name of the group here that had booked the ship charter? It would help future cruisers from what you experienced.

Many of us have had the same experiences and would like to avoid it so giving the name here would be helpful. Sorry it happened to you and your vacation. I am not convinced the cruise lines are aware of how much the charters affect other passengers, JMHO. I would like to think they care but maybe not.

This spreadsheet is genius for us frequent cruisers.

Thanks to all who have added to help us all.

Safe cruising all! :)

I'm sorry, I'm new at this site and unsure of how much I can post with direct information. I can only find their Facebook note regarding the planned cruise. I'm not sure how to find out any other information. This is a global company and those we encountered were not speaking English. I am not prejudice against any one group; however, if being rude is their culture it is unacceptable to us.

Jeunesse Mediterranean Cruise Incentive Trip 2016

In May of 2016, Jeunesse’s top business builders will set sail on the Norwegian Epic for an awe-inspiring tour of the Mediterranean Sea’s finest offerings. With ports of call including Civitavecchia, Naples, and Cannes, our Distributors will be treated to the marvelous treasures of some of Europe’s oldest cities.

It would depend on what type of group was sailing. Some groups can be uncivilized and make for a horrible cruise.

I just returned a week ago from a cruise on the Norwegian Epic in the Western Mediterranean and the ports were wonderful. Every tour we planned privately went off perfect, but on the ship we were constantly bumping into extremely rude people who, I'm assuming, were all from the same very large group of women who won the cruise as an incentive prize from their company. When I came home I googled the name and found it posted on Facebook that this trip was planned for them last September. I had no idea this was going on. Someone said there were 3500 of them; my guess is that's a bit high, but it is possible given the large number of groups who were assigned to disembark on separate decks 15 minutes apart.

My question: do ALL cruise lines cater to special groups or allow very large groups to pretty much "take over" the ship? I'd really like to know in case I decide to cruise again; today my response is "never cruising again".