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Except that they didn't know where those people were or when they might be back. - if at all. If they did wait one hour .. or 2 or 3 ... and then left, people would still be criticizing them for not waiting longer. NCL and the captain did nothing wrong here. NCL is telling it like it is in their own comments .. they were on a private excursion and got back to the tendering location over an hour past cut off time. Go off on your own .. then you assume all responsibility for getting yourself back on time. If not, oh well.

We like to have room service coffee delivered to our cabin pre-breakfast. We were on Mariner last April and was surprised that the free coffee was pretty good (on prior trips, the free coffee was either bad or really bad!). I like the little pastry plate and the fresh fruit plate that you can order alone with the coffee. Always came right on time each AM. Coffee in the promenade cafe is really good as well..

Very little sympathy for this group. They chose to go off on their own on a non-ship excursion and were well over an hour past the cutoff time. NCL owed them nothing. The ship staff had no idea where these people could have been on that island .. or how far out they were.

I don't think it's about ridiculing at all, really .. its all just part of the fun. What i've seen is people up on deck whooping and cheering them on as they run toward the gangway and then the claps, etc. when they make it on. I only ever saw someone denied once .. and it was more because he was wasted drunk and combative and was screaming and throwing his fists at the ship gangway/security staff in Cozumel last April. . People did cheer when they yanked up the gangway and left him behind .. being carted off by the Mexican police .. which he deserved.

..Hoping not to drown or be eaten by a shark or run over by rescue boats in the dark or washed up onto the jagged rocks by the waves. (I'm just sayin... )

.. and once you've found your way in the darkness up to the door, you have to climb out and across the hull and scale down the bottom of the hull on a rope and into the frigid oil slicked water (Costa Concordia).

And the ship is lying on its side. 😳

A worse nightmare is the ship sinking. At night.

We went to Playa Mia and it was kind of a pit (dirty, crap food, even crappier weak drinks, REAL crowded) ... so I'd be interested in this

I was on Mariner last April and loved it. I like the mid-size ships best (the Voyager and Freedom class). The bigger crazy amusement parks at sea with 6000+ pax have no appeal to me. Mariner was just the right size.

Uhhh .. 🤭

I'm guessing he was hiding under the bed in hopes of hearing some bouncy-bouncy-squeaky-squeaky above him. 🤪