What is the worst/strangest thing you have seen someone do on a cruise?

[Mydnite]

We have a cruise booked for Sept. Thinking of buffets and places where there is alcohol, and reading some posts I can imagine that some very strange, surprising and even disturbing things happen on cruises. So, what is the strangest or worst thing you have ever seen on a cruise?

[abitaturbodog]

I believe that the strangest thing I've seen on a cruise was this past April on the Valor. There was a middle-aged lady who wore her cabin bathrobe everyday, all day.

 

She had a room just down the hall from us, and everytime I saw her she was wearing that bathrobe. I don't know if she went to dinner in the dining room in it, but I wouldn't put it past her. She was strange!

[roscoe39]

I believe that the strangest thing I've seen on a cruise was this past April on the Valor. There was a middle-aged lady who wore her cabin bathrobe everyday, all day.

 

She had a room just down the hall from us, and everytime I saw her she was wearing that bathrobe. I don't know if she went to dinner in the dining room in it, but I wouldn't put it past her. She was strange!

 

 

WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If i do that think of all the extra room Ill have in my bag for contraband booze, walkie talkies and a boom box. FORGET FILLING YOUR LUGGAGE WITH CLOTHES>>>>JUST WEAR A ROBE!!!! I LOVE IT!

[abitaturbodog]

And to think, we spend all this time shopping and packing for our cruises!

[cruizinwithkids]

I remember reading about a nudist cruise years ago. That would be great for packing, but meal time - not so good.:eek:

[bbcc]

Piano Bar was rockin on formal night and a couple (woman in a slinky dress and man in tux) were dancing on the carpet. She was doing the boogaloo and a matronally woman came around the corner from the elevators and caught a glimse of what was going on. My back was to the happening, but my wife and friends started laughing so hard I wondered what was taking place. I turned around and almost fell off the chair. It was priceless. I wish I had had a camera to capture the look on her dear face. It truly was a "Kodak moment"!!!! Paul in San Diego

[cb at sea]

On our last cruise was a woman who changed her bathing suit from a wet one to a dry one every time she took a dip in the pool. The odd thing was that she did it right in the open on the upper pool deck! Some pre-teen boys got quite an education! It was a daily occurence, so needless to say, the lounges around where she sat were ALWAYS full!

[JolieMadam]

Although this didn't happen on a cruise ship, a lady at the Cancun airport changed her clothes right in the line for the ticket counter check-in....she had been wearing a bathing suit...no easy feat!. Had to be a European as they are usually the only ones who would do something like that and think nothing of it.

[alphakitty]

The worst thing I've ever seen on a cruise was a domestic dispute between the couple next door to us. We saw her running from the cabin all bloodied and he was kept in the room with guards at the door all night. :eek: We'd seen the couple earlier in the store on board buying lots of liquor and fighting. The next day was debarkation and the Miami police came and took him away. What a terrible way to spend a vacation!

[jp2001]

What horrible story!

[Capt_BJ]

On one of our first cruises in the mid 80's I recall an older gent who appeared to be traveling alone.

 

He was at the pool bar and pretty pickeled b4 the ship even left port. He was loud and obnoxius. After the ship got underway he was ranting and raving because his luggage was lost.

 

Later at dinner he showed up and was wearing what looked exactly like a waiters uniform.....and if lit b4 he was 3 sheets to the wind now. How wonderful, he was seated at a table not far from us. He continued to be loud, slured and basically obnioxious. Being the 80's tho, he continued to be 'served'....but his potential table mates were re-seated elsewhere.

 

About 1/2 way thru his entree his eyes rolled up into the back of his head and he dropped face down into his plate. I distinctly remember the mashed potatoes a'fly.....thunk

 

A couple of waiters and the head' promptly came over and grabbed him by the arms and drug him out of the dining room. "Happens every couple of cruises" .....

 

He continued to be a regular fixture at the bars but did manage to eat - ALONE - without causing a scene for the duration of the cruise; on the occasions he showed up.

[Louise22]

On my last 120 passenger ship cruise there was a woman approximately 50 years old who wore everything of value and some not so valuable things on a belt. She wore this everywhere on the ship and off. There were containers with her passport and money attached with locks to her belt. And, she had two portable fans attached to it pointing up at her face. I don't know what else was attached but the belt was completely filled with things hanging down - it must have weighed a least 5 pounds.

[Fredr]

We have a cruise booked for Sept. Thinking of buffets and places where there is alcohol, and reading some posts I can imagine that some very strange, surprising and even disturbing things happen on cruises. So, what is the strangest or worst thing you have ever seen on a cruise?

 

Hello,

 

We have been on 20 cruises, including several 14 day plus cruises, and there has been only one incident.

 

My DW and I were standing on the Boat Deck having a conversation and we were close to a door leading into a foyer or hallway. We were not in the middle of the Boat Deck, which on this ship, was used for walkers. Inadvertently or advertently this ugly burly character walked right into me! I am a rather tall man, very slow to anger, but his action was just terrible.

 

I know enough not to start throwing punches because someone in authority would have seen me do so (the referee always gives the yellow or red card to whom he or she sees, and this is true of every sport on both sides of the pond, Australia, Japan and so on). My wife really hollered at him but there were no more problems.

 

Do not let anyone convince you that cruises are for hooligans, or that there are a minimum of 10 hooligans on each cruise ship. Rather the overwhelming majority of cruisers are polite and have wonderful manners...more the House of Lords than the House of Commons. A question...why do they frequently interrupt speakers in the House Of Commons?

 

Hope that this helps.

 

Fred

[BobBeaSea]

On my last 120 passenger ship cruise there was a woman approximately 50 years old who wore everything of value and some not so valuable things on a belt. She wore this everywhere on the ship and off. There were containers with her passport and money attached with locks to her belt. And, she had two portable fans attached to it pointing up at her face. I don't know what else was attached but the belt was completely filled with things hanging down - it must have weighed a least 5 pounds.

 

Maybe it was her Batgirl utility belt :D :)

[S&S Cruisers 1983]

On the first night of our Alaskan cruise in September two men got into a big fight in the cabin down from ours. You could hear glass breaking and furniture being thrown. Of course everyone was standing in the hallway listening. Security came and took them away.

[greatam]

Dawn Princess, Alaska Southbound, September 2003

 

Gentleman attended first formal night/Captain's Welcome Party in his robe and pj's from home. Wandered around, sat in the atrium, sat at the bar drinking the free drinks. It was just plain gross-he had no underwear on. We saw him after dinner, still in his robe and pj's, wandering around the ship. Don't know if he was allowed into the dining room, but no one said a word to him that he was inappropriately dressed at the cocktail party. Either VERY rich (a la Hugh Hefner) or more likely, just plain nuts.

 

And the gentleman on my Antarctic cruise-31 days on the ship-he CONSTANTLY had his GPS and THREE walkie talkies, even at dinner and in the lounge. Don't ask me who he was talking to (often it seemed like himself). He appeared to be solo-never saw anyone with him. One of my bunkmates got stuck with him in the helicopter to the Dry Valleys. He carried all three walkie talkies, and other than the time the helicopter pilot told him to turn them off while flying, she stated he had constant conversations with SOMEONE, using all three walkie talkies. Weird, weird, weird.

[KandCsailing]

For buffet area strange there was the family of four at the midnight buffet who brought an entire chocolate cake back to the table next to ours and then didn't even finish it. What a waste.

 

Lido deck strange for me on our first cruise was the 'leather people'. Sitting out all day, every day, sunning on the very top of the ship, he in his speedo. They were a very un-natural dark brown colour, so I figured they must live in Florida and sun all day there also. All skinney and wrinklely like beef jerky. I wanted to spray them with water to rehydrate them so they might puff up and look 30 years younger. They could put their photo on sunscreen bottles as warnings.

[KS&JW]

I wanted to spray them with water to rehydrate them so they might puff up and look 30 years younger.

 

:D:D:D:D:D

My, have you made me laugh. The visual in my mind......

[Bonnie J.]

Once on a 'newly, not so newly wed' game the couples were asked the strangest place they ever made whoopie. One young couple said "In a life boat". They both answered the same when answering! Was there laughter!! When asked which lifeboat, they both said #12! Then the ship conversation the next day as anyone walked past #12 was, "How did they get in it"?

[OceanDreamin]

On Carnival Pride in April, on the night of our 14th anniversary, a very drunk lady in the jacuzzi jumped into my husband's lap (also in the jacuzzi) when security tapped her on the shoulder. We found out later that she had slapped a woman earlier, and the slapped woman and her husband got out of the jacuzzi and went and fetched security. I did not happen to be in the jacuzzi at the time, but another couple who had been there when I was - thinking my DH was going to take advantage of the situation, which he had no intention of doing - kept saying "but you have such a lovely wife," over and over. DH cracks up just thinking about it.

 

Meanwhile the drunk lady had quite a talking to by security and was escorted back to her cabin. We saw her around the ship in the days following much more subdued, and always with her husband (who was not with her for the jacuzzi incidet).

[momofmeg]

Hello,

 

We have been on 20 cruises, including several 14 day plus cruises, and there has been only one incident.

 

My DW and I were standing on the Boat Deck having a conversation and we were close to a door leading into a foyer or hallway. We were not in the middle of the Boat Deck, which on this ship, was used for walkers. Inadvertently or advertently this ugly burly character walked right into me! I am a rather tall man, very slow to anger, but his action was just terrible.

 

I know enough not to start throwing punches because someone in authority would have seen me do so (the referee always gives the yellow or red card to whom he or she sees, and this is true of every sport on both sides of the pond, Australia, Japan and so on). My wife really hollered at him but there were no more problems.

 

Do not let anyone convince you that cruises are for hooligans, or that there are a minimum of 10 hooligans on each cruise ship. Rather the overwhelming majority of cruisers are polite and have wonderful manners...more the House of Lords than the House of Commons. A question...why do they frequently interrupt speakers in the House Of Commons?

 

Hope that this helps.

 

Fred

 

Sorry Fred, but I do not get your point-this is the worst thing you have seen on a cruise that some jerk deliberately ran into you? is that what you mean? that has happened to me many a time, on cruises and off, that hardly qualifies as something terrible-just someone will no manners and those people are everywhere.

 

Houise of Lords to House of Commons? what in the world does that mean?

[momofmeg]

For buffet area strange there was the family of four at the midnight buffet who brought an entire chocolate cake back to the table next to ours and then didn't even finish it. What a waste.

 

Lido deck strange for me on our first cruise was the 'leather people'. Sitting out all day, every day, sunning on the very top of the ship, he in his speedo. They were a very un-natural dark brown colour, so I figured they must live in Florida and sun all day there also. All skinney and wrinklely like beef jerky. I wanted to spray them with water to rehydrate them so they might puff up and look 30 years younger. They could put their photo on sunscreen bottles as warnings.

 

I remember a woman like that on one of my cruises, very slim and shapely in her bikini and her hair was brown but possibly dyed but her skin looked 70 years plus. I wondered how old she was really as she looked youthful except for the horible leather like wrinkles.

[iheartbda]

Sorry Fred, but I do not get your point-this is the worst thing you have seen on a cruise that some jerk deliberately ran into you? is that what you mean? that has happened to me many a time, on cruises and off, that hardly qualifies as something terrible-just someone will no manners and those people are everywhere.

 

Houise of Lords to House of Commons? what in the world does that mean?

Got me on this one too.:confused:

Guess someone British needs to answer the question.:)

[momofmeg]

Once on a 'newly, not so newly wed' game the couples were asked the strangest place they ever made whoopie. One young couple said "In a life boat". They both answered the same when answering! Was there laughter!! When asked which lifeboat, they both said #12! Then the ship conversation the next day as anyone walked past #12 was, "How did they get in it"?

 

I bet they had rehearsed that beforehand to say that. You only have to go to one or two of those games to realize, no matter the line or ship, pretty much the same questions are asked.

 

The making strange place whoopie question is ALWAYS asked.

 

The answer I liked best of all the shows I have seen on the cruises was this couple who said it was the wife's parent's bedroom before they were married. Parents were gone from home, out of town, and the teens as they were then-(they had been married like 20 years) took advantage.

[momofmeg]

Got me on this one too.:confused:

Guess someone British needs to answer the question.:)

 

sort've came off as a snob question to me- you know in England they have the "gentry" and the "commoners" so he was saying this guy had no money.

 

but I guess the guy had enough money to go on the cruise, huh?

 

The problem is-jerky, impolite, rude, people can be wealthy.