LongIsland-Cruiser

Right? Edibles are still weed. They are still illegal. Thank you for chewing your weed instead of smoking it, my nose and lungs thank you. But still illegal.

I find that a lot of rule breaking news articles tend to devolve into "Well that shouldn't be a rule anyway!" "I need it for my anxiety!" "It's legal where I came from!" "No one can tell me what to do!" "Cancer patients need it!" What have you. At the end of the day, you agreed to allow a company to house you, feed you, and cart you from one end of the globe to the other. In doing so, you agreed that you would leave your stanky danky at home. SO JUST DO THAT. Follow the rules you agreed to. The moral, ethical, legal, philisophical angle doesn't matter. You said you wouldn't do it, so don't. If NCL says you can't wear yellow socks, don't. Who cares what your opinion is...you chose to cruise.

This is it right here. The APP doesn't have as many selections as the Website.

Latitude Rewards are usually for the sailing. It doesn't matter what room you have.

They will put you in whence ever room is available. Which quite possibly would be a less wanted room like one with an obstructed view.

This no doubt is part of it. Also part of it is the chance of getting tips in the service industry is used as a carrot to make workers go above and beyond. It's like any bonus system that any employer comes up with.....just instead of them paying it they make their customers pay it. Ultimately, since I only encounter about 2% of the people who worked to make my vacation great, this is the only way I can contribute to those faceless workers who should be paid more but aren't, and are depending on me.

This is an asinine question as the pay system on a land based vacation is not set up in the same way as a cruise, so you are basically comparing apples to oranges and asking why the orange isn't red. You withhold fees if they haven't done a good job. The fact that you are already trying to withhold fees before you even get on a ship shows that no matter how hard they work, they are not going to get a gratuity from you.

Probably b/c no one is going to try to bully the tour operator for a fat payout or for future vacations. Follow the money. There is a reason this couple immediately went to the media and blamed everything on NCL.

Right??!! It's like the restaurants that say "If you leave your child unattended they will be given coffee and taught how to curse". I am eating at that restaurant!

That would be an incredibly childish thing to do. But given their behavior so far, you have probably pegged them right. It's interesting how many people think that those in the service industry are there to be their punching bags.

Why do you think the captain would take your abuse? A simple response of "Gosh, if your meds were so important, you think you could have made it back on time? I use this new invention called a watch for just these types of situations." But this is sort of the attitude I am talking about when I am saying that NCL shouldn't have let them back on the ship at all, and just sent them home or cancelled their vacation. There is no doubt that their attitude is similar to this poster...namely "I am the main character, and I think I can be abusive to crew members if they do something I don't like". This poster actually treats it as a point of pride that they try to needle people and cause fights and would like to end up in the brig over it. Why let someone with such an axe to grind back on the ship to abuse your staff?

I can see the ads now "Exotic Locales! That we are not afraid to leave you at if you cause problems!"

I mean, they got back on this cruise ship and went thru 7 different countries to do it. Apparently they liked something about the cruise.

I don't want to read 27 pages of this, especially as I am seeing people claim that "The customer is always right! NCL should have let them come back at their own pace". But I am curious....Would it benefit NCL to just ban this couple? Not to put to fine a point on it, but they purposely broke the rules, went directly to the media with their grievances, and have basically been nothing but a horrible headache and PR disaster. And at no point have they ever admitted that they could have done better. Their basic attitude is "I am always right, rules don't apply to me". So you can imagine how they flout other rules and treat other passengers/crew members. If I was NCL I would do a full pushback and say "Not only did we leave your late ass behind, but we are banning you for life for trying to ruin the vacations of 2998 other passengers with your actions." Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. I really think hotels, planes, cruises, stores, and sporting stadiums should start standing up for the vast majority of people that follow rules and try to be cognizant of the OTHER paying customers they are with. I would have much more respect for any business that said "This person was abusive to staff, wouldn't follow the rules, threatened the vacations of others, and so we decided we didn't want them on future cruises." I wouldn't have let them come back on the ship at all. Fly them home. But maybe I am too harsh. I am getting to the point though going to public events fills me with dread because I know 5000 people will behave, and 2 will try to ruin everything.

I mean, this pretty much sums up quite a few threads here on Cruise Critic.