Biggest Fight You've Personally Seen on a Cruise Ship?

[donaldsc]

Not having seen the extent of the "beating" I would have to say I side with the father here unless it was unusually excessive or would be punishable on land as child abuse. CCL seems like it wants to parent everyone's children when at sea, I only bring mine once a year to avoid that. If my daughter gets sassy, she's getting the backhand. I don't need an issue with security for doing my job as a parent!

 

I assume that you are not being serious on your post and if you are just joking, it is in really bad taste. If you are being serious, I would hope that the child abuse services where you live is monitoring CC.

 

DON

[gerelmx]

I have never seen a fight, but reading CC on one occasion a woman was being harassed in the pool area during a dance party, the guy came up behind her. She was angry and broke a bottle of wine on her head, and a pitched battle was fought between the friends of both sides. All were confined to their cabins and expelled at the next port.

[sail7seas]

No way, I saw a fight last year in the casino that took 5-10 minutes for security to break up. It was late at night and two guys got into a fight while drinking and talking about WWII - no exaggeration. Other passengers broke up the fight and both guys were allowed to roam the ship for what was left of the night. However, I did not see them the next two days so there may have been some delayed punishment. That was actually the only fight I've ever seen in a casino on land or at sea.

 

 

What cruise line?

 

 

It would be quite different on HAL. HAL ships have a brig. :cool:

[ldubs]

Happily, I've never seen a fight on a cruise. I've seen quite a few here on Cruise Critic. ;p

[julie3fan]

Happily, I've never seen a fight on a cruise. I've seen quite a few here on Cruise Critic. ;p

Hahaha!

[smplybcause]

It technically wasn't because our side didn't engage, but there was around 20 of us spread in smaller groups on lounges ith like an at most 30ft radius on the cruise ships island (some wanted shade, some sun). One sun group had come over to chat with us shade people when we noticed someone was carting off their loungers. They walk up and say hey those are ours and he explodes. Screaming and cursing about how they're his loungers now and he deserves them because he hasn't had a chair all week (probably because he waltzes in at noon like he did on the island). Everyone in his group is just sitting there.

 

It was insane! And they were gone in like 2 hours or less. If they had just kept walking 100ft they would have found more chairs and been closer to water!

 

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[Fergus]

On our very first cruise back in the 80's, there was a honeymoon couple across the hall from us. We hadn't spoken to them much, but knew their faces and that they were honeymooning. EVERY NIGHT of the cruise, they fought. There was crying, screaming, doorslamming. One of them was out in the hall with a suitcase on several occasions. During the days - nothing. Nighttime comes, it starts again. I suspect alcohol consumption contributed to the ruckus!

[Yukonjake]

Happily, I've never seen a fight on a cruise. I've seen quite a few here on Cruise Critic. ;p

 

Post of the day!

[pathi]

The biggest fight I know of was between my wife and I. I forgot to load the bag with her shoes!!! ;)

[K32682]

Not having seen the extent of the "beating" I would have to say I side with the father here unless it was unusually excessive or would be punishable on land as child abuse. CCL seems like it wants to parent everyone's children when at sea, I only bring mine once a year to avoid that. If my daughter gets sassy, she's getting the backhand. I don't need an issue with security for doing my job as a parent!

If you were seen backhanding a young female in a public place, daughter or not, ship security might be the least of your problems at least initially.

[Needz2Cruise]

Not a fight, but on RCC Majesty of the Seas several years ago, there was a line for the tender to Coco Cay that went up a few decks on the stairway. One party decided they would circumvent this by taking the elevator down to the tender deck (deck 1?). Some of the waiting passengers on the stairway took exception to this and got into a verbal discussion with the folks getting off the elevator. RC staff tried to intervene, telling the elevator folks they needed to go back up the stairs and get in line, but they refused. The staff backed off and these folks just about pushed their way out and on to the tender. Not handled well at all by RC (I think they were fairly inexperienced staff).

 

Just will add that I've been on one RC cruise since (Enchantment OTS) and they made it pretty clear you weren't supposed to use the elevator for this unless you had a physical issue and I didn't see any issues.

[CPT Trips]

Not having seen the extent of the "beating" I would have to say I side with the father here unless it was unusually excessive or would be punishable on land as child abuse. CCL seems like it wants to parent everyone's children when at sea, I only bring mine once a year to avoid that. If my daughter gets sassy, she's getting the backhand. I don't need an issue with security for doing my job as a parent!

 

My thoughts and prayers go out to your family.

[PTMary]

I an surprised by how many people have viewed this thread (4,698 at the time I am writing this) and how many posts have been made (yes, I am surprised that this includes me). Not being a Carnival fan as the OP is, only two things come to mind on this subject:

 

1) don't have the morbid fascination with people fighting on cruises. I have much better things to focus on when enjoying myself, such as relaxing, eating way too much, watching the ocean pass by my balcony, and visiting all the fascinating ports along the way

 

2) since I don't cruise with Carnival, I have never seen a fight on any of the cruises I have been on in over twenty years. Must be a different demographic on the ships I spend my time on

[ldubs]

I an surprised by how many people have viewed this thread (4,698 at the time I am writing this) and how many posts have been made (yes, I am surprised that this includes me). Not being a Carnival fan as the OP is, only two things come to mind on this subject:

 

1) don't have the morbid fascination with people fighting on cruises. I have much better things to focus on when enjoying myself, such as relaxing, eating way too much, watching the ocean pass by my balcony, and visiting all the fascinating ports along the way

 

2) since I don't cruise with Carnival, I have never seen a fight on any of the cruises I have been on in over twenty years. Must be a different demographic on the ships I spend my time on

 

1) People witness a fight. People talk about it on CC.

 

2) A lot of the incidents described are on other than Carnival.

[NotThePest_Too]

I've never seen one, but it came close as I was threatened. I was sitting with my wife on 2 chairs in Navigator of the Seas Solarium (Adult area ;)) A guy came up to me and said I was in his chair. I started rationally mentioning we were there for 2 hours and it was empty when we arrived. No logic would calm him down and he started talking about physically removing me from my seat. I made my plan, I was going to stand up, yell loudy for security and then was going to announce to the crowd, "watch this guy, if he hits me first, he is going down". Years later I would have just gotten everyones attention and let him hit me and make a big deal about it. But fate stepped in, just as I stood up, his wife called out, "Over here honey!" He had left the solarium from one direction and come back from the other, so he was confused by which side he was on.

 

Did he at least put on a sheepish face and apologize?

 

Ramona

[iancal]

Never witnessed an argument let a lone a fight on cruise ship. Twenty plus cruises on 5 or 6 cruise lines. This includes several Carnival cruises. Never really witnessed any drunken or rowdy behavior either. Never had a bad cruise. Maybe we are just lucky.

[ldubs]

Never witnessed an argument let a lone a fight on cruise ship. Twenty plus cruises on 5 or 6 cruise lines. This includes several Carnival cruises. Never really witnessed any drunken or rowdy behavior either. Never had a bad cruise. Maybe we are just lucky.

 

My experience is almost identical except for us it is only 4 different cruise lines and only 3 or 4 times on Carnival. I suspect our experience is more the norm.

[sloopsailor]

I love the immediate assumption that all fights are on Carnival. Someone didn't bother reading the thread. ��

 

Well, considering that the OP only posts on this and the Carnival forum and is fascinated with on board fights, it is easy to make the connection about Carnival. A quick google search for videos of fights on cruise ships will bring up a ton of them on Carnival, and not too many on all the others combined. The first twenty hits are all Carnival (I stopped counting after that!). It's not hard to assume fights are mainly an issue on Carnival.

 

I also have never witnessed a fight during 3 decades of cruising. Even my first and only Carnival cruise was devoid of fights. I guess I should feel cheated out of such entertainment? ;p :D

[gooch47]

I'm not sure this would qualify as a fight but I witnessed a middle-aged woman push and knock down an elderly woman so she could be the first one to board a tour bus.

[Sea Hag]

:eek: That's terrible!

I'm not sure this would qualify as a fight but I witnessed a middle-aged woman push and knock down an elderly woman so she could be the first one to board a tour bus.

[Essiesmom]

Well, considering that the OP only posts on this and the Carnival forum and is fascinated with on board fights, it is easy to make the connection about Carnival. A quick google search for videos of fights on cruise ships will bring up a ton of them on Carnival, and not too many on all the others combined. The first twenty hits are all Carnival (I stopped counting after that!). It's not hard to assume fights are mainly an issue on Carnival.

 

I also have never witnessed a fight during 3 decades of cruising. Even my first and only Carnival cruise was devoid of fights. I guess I should feel cheated out of such entertainment? ;p :D

 

 

Did you read the entire thread? I explained the Carnival reference in post #39. EM

[sail7seas]

Reaffirms why to avoid roll calls :eek , IMO

[go.without.you]

I've seen only one fight - two women fighting over a deck chair. It seems one was a chair hog who left a flip flop or something similar to save the chair, and the other woman moved the flip flop and took the chair. The chair hog was not happy. Security put an end to the fight rather quickly.

 

Who won??? I hate those people that save seats for hours and never use them. grrrrr...

[Jasalth]

I can't say I have seen a fight or argument at all on a cruise ship, but I almost started one and I am not ashamed to admit it either!

 

Was an NCL ship (which hasn't been mentioned here at all yet oddly with the free alcohol!) and this was at 11pm or so. Some sports championship game or something on at the pool bar right next to the smoking area. 4 adults all sitting there laughing and drinking and watching the game. During this time, their were 2 small kids and I do mean SMALL children, no older than 3 years old jumping from lounge chair to chair, climbing on rails and jumping off them onto chairs. Me and DH stayed there for 45 minutes and kept an eye on them. We know they belong to this group because they would run over and climb up the bar stools to get a drink or what no, then go right back to trying to break their necks!

 

Wasn't going to sit there all night so as we were leaving we told them they really should watch their kids before they get hurt and the mom almost decked me! Teach me to be a responsible person, but then again I still wouldn't let my 15 year old in the ocean without me around! (DH can't swim so... its all me to remember 20 year old life guard training if needed) I walked away, but the bartender was already calling someone and there was already a crew member talking to those poor kids. I just hope those kids grow up to the teenagers, heck even tweens without having a serious injury!