What is the most disgusting thing you have seen fellow passengers do?

[Hawaii697]

After a fun day in port, came back to the ship starving. Hubby and I are enjoying our burger and fries, when this man at the table next to use starts picking his feet. Hubby says to man, please move somewhere else with that nonsense. He didn't move. I did . . . with a loss of appetite! What the heck ever happened to common courtesy.

[sperkins921]

I've seen a lot of gross things on ships, but the worse to me was watching a passenger literally feed themselves from the buffet. No, I don't mean, use tongs, put food on plate, sit down at a table, and eat. I mean, use hand to put food on plate. Eat food with hands/fingers, licking them, reach back into food (pushing tongs aside with said hand) to get more, lick fingers- I think this was breakfast and bacon/sausage/something greasy- realize they had more on their plate than they wanted....and dump food BACK INTO THE PLATTER. Oh, and lick fingers after.

 

I must've been staring at the person with my mouth hanging open or something, because they see me staring- cloth napkin wrapped around the tongs in my hand (I don't touch utensils, railings, elevator buttons etc for exactly this reason) and food forgotten- and said something to me like "what the %&%) are you staring at?"

 

I was just like "That was literally the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. No one wants your spit and germs all over their breakfast" and walked off. I mean, if they do that? You KNOW they aren't washing hands after toileting AND are still touching everything AND licking same fingers.

 

Freaking disgusting.

 

ETA: I was so mortified I lost my appetite. DH and I went elsewhere. Wish I had thought to tell the staff to replace the tongs and food.

[ParrotRob]

I don't like robes being used as cover ups either but you know what? There is no rule to quote on Carnival to say people can't. Carnival might rethink if enough complaints were registered.

 

There's no written rule that says you can't come to the buffet in your underwear, either. Some rules SHOULD be common sense... but we know how that works.

[PaulieG13]

A woman sneezed into her hands and then wiped her hands on the railing

 

My wife used to ask me why I absolutely refuse to use hand rails on staircases and escalators (even to the detriment of my safety). I asked her to consciously watch for instances of people cleaning said rails and get back to me with the results of her studies. I am in my mid 40's and I have never witnessed a cleaning event applied to staircase/escalator handrails in public places.

[sanmarcosman]

After a fun day in port, came back to the ship starving. Hubby and I are enjoying our burger and fries, when this man at the table next to use starts picking his feet. Hubby says to man, please move somewhere else with that nonsense. He didn't move. I did . . . with a loss of appetite! What the heck ever happened to common courtesy.

You describe a scene from One Flew Over the Carnival's Nest.

[laumicmah]

Hate the folks in swimming attire in the buffet.

 

I saw a kid throw up in a cabin hallway as the mom was dragging them off to somewhere. They didn't stop to clean up nor alert the steward that was around the corner. I did. This was on a Disney cruise.

 

Saw two gross scenes in ladies rooms. One was off the Lido deck pool area and was a trash can filled with throw up. Other was a toilet near the casino that was loaded to the max with...won't go into any more details on that one. Except to say there was no toilet paper in there. Makes one wonder. These were both on Carnival.

[LakeWobegon]

People changing their baby's diaper on the dinner table. I can put up with a lot but please, that's the same thing as me placing my bare butt on the table and wiping right there. How is a baby any different?

[siestakeys04]

Puke in the hot tub then just swish it around.

 

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

[CeleBrat]

Disgusting, from a "being nice to the world" perspective: A drunken (and mean) passenger taking his empty beer bucket, and flinging it over the side of the ship. And then shrugging when people tried to "call" him on it. He reasoned, "It's just one bucket...who cares."

 

A horrible person, and ultimate litterbug. Plastic in the ocean is a HUGE problem, and he made me so sad.

 

CeleBrat

[code_d]

My wife used to ask me why I absolutely refuse to use hand rails on staircases and escalators (even to the detriment of my safety). I asked her to consciously watch for instances of people cleaning said rails and get back to me with the results of her studies. I am in my mid 40's and I have never witnessed a cleaning event applied to staircase/escalator handrails in public places.

 

I see Carnival workers cleaning railing all the time. But not so much anywhere else.

[RenoNanaOz]

I see Carnival workers cleaning railing all the time. But not so much anywhere else.

 

 

I was about to say the same thing, every ship we have been on we always see them wiping down the hand rails. But yes I still try to avoid them not just on ships but everywhere.

[JKAMAM]

Years ago when they still had the midnight buffet we saw a lady with several plates of food in front of her. She proceeded to chew the food, spit it out in her hand and line it up on the plates. 🤢

I can't imagine being the one to clean those plates up!

 

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[repo-cruiser]

Watching a Man wear a tux to MDR on a casual night. How disgusting. It ruined the ambiance of casual night.

[Lottacruises]

I I hate it when the pirates come around and hug on me at dinner with those never washed outfits. Gross

[sanmarcosman]

I I hate it when the pirates come around and hug on me at dinner with those never washed outfits. Gross

No kidding, I decline before they get close to our table with those crusty clothes.

[watermelonqueen99]

I once came out of a bathroom stall (I'm female) and saw an elderly MAN cleaning his dentures in the sink.

[marshhawk]

DH and I were just discussing gross things on a cruise ship right before I found this thread- Halloween cruise a few years ago, party group on the Lido, guy was so drunk he couldn't' figure out how to unzip his pants, and peed all over himself. Instead of taking him back to his cabin, his wife tucked a napkin into the front of his pants, and he kept on drinking. arghhhh!

[bakersdozen12]

Honestly, the most disgusting thing I have seen is when people leave half eaten food out on trays near their cabin doors. I don’t really care if you are going to leave trays in the hallway, but cover up the food with a napkin or the covers they give you with room service so that other people don’t have to see it when walking down the hallway.

 

 

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[Keys2Heaven]

Vista, last year. Two rather unkempt people, with the nastiest unclean, cracking, dirty feet you can imagine and tied to the whitest pair of legs.

 

But that's not all. This was back in the Havana area and these rather large people had two huge plates of food from the buffet. They were laying on their sides in one of the clamshells and stuffing their faces in a way that would make a pig at a feeding trough feel disgusted......yuck!

 

Hate to call people pigs, but some of the worst eating behavior on some of the dirtiest people I've ever seen.

[salty dingo]

I would be more worried about all the things you DON'T see others do... no telling where their hands have been. :eek:

[Cruise a holic]

Not using utensils to grab foodfrom the buffet, not washing hands after using bathroom and nose picking. Sorry three

[salty dingo]

Disgusting, from a "being nice to the world" perspective: A drunken (and mean) passenger taking his empty beer bucket, and flinging it over the side of the ship. And then shrugging when people tried to "call" him on it. He reasoned, "It's just one bucket...who cares."

 

A horrible person, and ultimate litterbug. Plastic in the ocean is a HUGE problem, and he made me so sad.

 

CeleBrat

I guarantee that act was caught on video. Ships have all the decks covered with cameras.

 

Witnesses should have reported it to security - tell any employee to call security over immediately. They would take a report, review the tapes, and Mr. Drunk Litterbug would find himself put ashore at the next port.

[crooooze]

I’ve seen a guy in the pool pinch one nostril, while blowing snot out of the other nostril. Then took his hand and pulled the strand of “taffy” into the water. I nearly got into a fist fight over that.

[Scurvy Seadog]

While enjoying my breakfast at the buffet one morning, I watched a man with a heaping pile of greasy bacon on a plate proceed to wrap it in several cloth napkins and then place it into his backpack.

Edited April 20, 2018 by Scurvy Seadog

[sarmat1]

Parents letting their little kids use their empty beer bucket as a toilet. :eek:

I guess they were too lazy to take them to the bathroom.