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My partner and I were on the Celebrity Millenium. We had an aft cabin with a very deep veranda. One formal night after dinner we went back to our cabin to freshen up before going to the martini bar. While he was in the bathroom, I went to the rail on the veranda to enjoy the fresh air. Slam! I hear the door close behind me. It is locked. I knock. No answer. I knock louder. No answer. I beat on the glass with my shoe. No answer. Now I am MAD! I wait for about 30 minutes, surely my partner will miss me and come back, right? WRONG!

 

Above our veranda was the Sunset Bar. There was a musician up there playing guitar, several waiters, a bartender and about 2 dozen passengers. I tried yelling "Help" but could not be heard over the music and the wind. So I decide to throw a shoe up to the bar to get someone's attention. The shoe hits the rail and falls onto the veranda two cabins over. The next shoe hits the floor just in front of the musician. He doesn't even flinch. Next I wing a cuff link at him and miss. The next cuff link hits his guitar, he stops playing, and announces that people need to quit throwing things at him. He says, "I'm doing the best that I can."

 

I wait another 30 minutes, still trying to yell to the people above. No one hears me! I am desperate and now my feet are COLD.

 

I drag the table from our veranda to the canopy edge covering one half of the veranda and a put a chair on top of the table. I take my tuxedo jacket off and I climb up on the table then the chair. I climb up on the canopy which is made of canvas......dirty, dirty canvas. The canvas is not going to hold me because it is so sun-damaged and begins to tear.

 

(Mind you. If I fall, the farthest I fall is back onto our veranda. The aft cabins are stepped so it's not like I was going to fall off the ship or anything.)

 

As I am hanging half on and half off the canopy a waitress sees me and screams! All of the passengers and staff come running to the rail to see what the crazy man is doing. Now they see me! I yell for them to call security..........like they wouldn't have anyway considering the fact that I am hanging off of a balcony on a cruise ship.

 

I climb back down to see three security guards in my cabin with GUNS drawn . They slowly open the glass door. Here I am with no shoes on, my shirt untucked and black from the dirty canopy, no cuff links, sweat pouring down my face from all the climbing and moving of furniture, shaking at the sight of GUNS!

 

I explain the situation. They want to know why I didn't call security myself instead of climbing up on the canopy! "THE PHONE IS IN MY CABIN AND THE DOOR WAS LOCKED!" They wanted to know I could lock the door behind me.

 

Then my partner walks in the cabin. It has been over an hour and a half. He has had several martinis.........without me! He sees guns, security guards, our cabin steward, various other staff, some passengers from the bar above........ALL IN OUR CABIN! He freaks out!

 

He explains that he thought that I had left the cabin while he was in the bathroom. He locked the door for security reasons, just in case someone was crazy enough to climb on the balconies!!!!!!

 

We got everything settled. Even the security guards had a good laugh......at my expense. I changed out of my ruined tuxedo and I made it to the martini bar where I downed about 9 martinis!

 

The rest of the cruise I was known as the guy who was climbing up the side of the ship!

i am in my school library reading this. it is so hard to not laugh out loud right now. that one really takes the cake!!!

passengers on HAL dress mor sophisticated because that is the type of cruise line it is. when my family cruises the boys rent tuxes and the girls wear prom dresses that are similar to ball gowns. the people who stand out are the people who dont dress up. my family sees cruising as a time to be pampered so we dress up!! when do you ever have the chance to dress like this at home? and this is also a perfect oppurtunity for a great family photo

i have noticed that when they do have the midnight buffets on the ships, there isnt much food offered. (if there is any left when u get up there) when i cruise i am always hungry so a midnight buffet is ideal because it is a few hours after dinner. i also only saw 24/7 self serve ice cream on my first cruise back in '03.