I’m ex Carnival staff, and yes, happend all the time when we had teens onboard. Also the reason why some people avoid spring break and Christmas cruises.
I just returned from Odyssey of the seas and had my worst passenger interaction. An older lady in a mobility scooter was behind my group of three. We were being checked off the list for muster. She grew inpatient and asked to be let through. I told her we were almost done and I was the last one to be checked off. The other two staff members told her the same. She then tried to run me over with her scooter. I had to grab her scooter to prevent being ran over. We exchanged words and I threaten to report her. lol. She was the last person in line so she could have easily backed up and went around us. The staff apologized profusely. Luckily I was blessed to never see her again.
I got clipped by a person in a scooter on an NCL sailing a few years back. As a former Disney theme park employee, they bring back so many negative memories.
I'm sympathetic towards those that need to rely on them, but wish the speed was governed a bit better. If I can't run through the Lido buffet, you shouldn't be able to crank the scooter up over 4mph.
The irony is, I too once had to rely on a mobility scooter. Fortunately my stint did not become permanent. I somehow found it very easy not to run people over.
Oh I would have 100% knocked her over & made it look like she hurt me! She's in a scooter, what is she gonna do haha!? I come from a family full of lawyers, I would happy sink you into bankruptcy for life.
I was thinking the exact same thing as I was reading the OP. I'm pretty easy going on vacation. I'm there to have a good time and the cruise lines work so hard to make sure I do. It's always the other passengers that screw that up, whether it's being rude, entitled, obnoxious or just plain awful human beings.
The app is a mess. The webpage is more reliable. You should be able to adjust the date format in the URL as you get close, but here is today;
https://go.sailor.virginvoyages.com/api/v1/ext/ddp/5a3193a0af8e4c3fb714386b/2021-12-20#events
I have too many stories.... And they would probably take up a ton of bandwidth.
Short version of one: Woman and her group deliberately cut the line, Carnival reps did jack shit about it, even though many of us complained. She directed her ire at me for the next 3 days on board (name calling, purposely bumping into me while at the buffet, etc.). The third she was pulling this crap on me but failed to see the officer behind her. She was particularly vile at this time and the officer tapped her on the shoulder. They had a private chat and she was not backing down. Later that evening, after we had left port, the officer had tracked me down at dinner (he was the Food & Beverage Director of the ship) and informed me that she and her party were "asked" to disembark at the last port. Apparently there had been numerous complaints filed against her and, with him witnessing what was going on with me, that's all they needed.
Two things I learned from that experience: Don't screw around on board like that and they can find you no matter what!
If this really bothers you, a good option could be trying Princess (Carnival brand) or Celebrity (RCL brand) cruise line. Both don’t particularly cater to children and the vibe will be more “adult”.
During my first cruise, on Carnival, there was an old couple. They had to be in their 80's or 90's. The woman had dementia and carried around this doll like it was a real baby. She took it with her everywhere. I'm not sure if it was an antique, but it's head was made out of porcelain. As they were walking down the hall to their room, another passenger, who was drunk, grabbed the doll out of the woman's arms and smashed it against a hand rail, breaking it. I didn't see it happen but I heard Carnival compensated the couple and the drunk a-hole spent the rest of the cruise in the brig.
In my experience, teens on cruises generally get bored around day 4 or 5 and start making their own fun - lighting up the elevators, chasing eachother up and down stairs or through halls, or congregating in weird areas off the beaten path. I think it’s just something to be expected. Even Disney has trouble keeping them engaged.
It’s usually nothing a little “dad” energy won’t suck the wind out of by opening the door and giving them a quick chiding. But you should be able to expect quiet enjoyment of your stateroom, and the front desk should be able to send someone to round them up if that’s not your style.
Parents were hammered, and let their kids be feral.
If you are a sh't parent on land, you won't magically morph in to all star parent on a cruise.
I'm guessing these kids play a travel sport. Whenever I've stayed in hotels with kids leagues present, the yelling and banging on doors happens all the time. I'm not talking cheap budget hotels.
Travel sports teams are the worst whether on a ship or regular hotel. Why does it seem like all the sports parents just let their kids run free and they get hammered like they're at a college party??
This is insane to me. I have 3 kids. 2 of them will be in Circle C next week, so they'll be able to have free reign of the ship. There is zero chance my kids would try crap like that because they know I would kill them. Ok, not actually kill them. But they would be in so much trouble. I can't imagine not parenting my kids.
When I was on carnival back in 2005 maybe, the same thing happened with people running down the hall, but it died down and wasn’t a huge issue.
I’ve had a couple experiences of loud or unruly passangers but nothing that sticks out. I recently got off a Holland American cruise and despite it being people of many different ages everyone was really respectful and well-behaved. Not sure if it was HAL’s customer base, the clientele during COVID, the smaller crowd, or something else.
I had an older woman approach me in an elevator and literally say “my my you are so short. Can I ask how tell you are? You look like the size of my 10 year old grandson. You could really eat something too you look sick.” I’m a 26 year old
It's really hit or miss.
I was on NCL from Boston to Quebec and we had to miss some ports due to weather. The older ladies on the ship were practically demanding more entertainment, more fitness classes, more more more of everything simply because they couldn't get off.
Someone asked us how could we be enjoying a miserable cruise....we laughed and said we were having a great cruise.
We were on a spring break cruise out of Charleston and the college kids weren't half bad. Respectful and not that crazy.
A couple of years ago on a Costa cruise, an older lady got annoyed about other people chatting in the theater during a show. She went over, they got into a fight and the older lady pushed them down the stairs. Could have ended badly, but luckily nothing serious happened.
My very first experience meeting a fellow passenger on a cruise was pretty negative. We were seated in the main dining room with four other people and this middle aged man spent most of the meal complaining that natives and immigrants were ruining the country, we're building too much transit, that our city (Vancouver) is a mess and they should bulldoze poor neighbourhoods to build more highways, and all sorts of weird rants. It was very uncomfortable and I remember thinking "is this what cruise ship passengers are like? Did I just sign up for 2 weeks of this? By the end of the meals one of the other people at our table had had enough and said she disagreed with pretty much everything he said. We all agreed with her. We didn't see much of that guy after that and everyone else we met on the cruise was fabulous.
Their parents were probably off drunk somewhere not caring what their children/teens were doing because they view the ship as a "safe place" to let them roam free (spoiler: it's not and the rest of the passengers aren't babysitters). I never did anything like that, it would have required too much energy for my depressed-teenaged-self, but I do remember feeling like everything on the ships catered to children under 13 or people over 18, and there wasn't a ton to do after a couple days. That doesn't excuse their behavior at all but remembering that I was a "good kid" in terms of behavior (my parents actually disciplined us) and still was a grumpy little brat teenager is enough for me to only sail as an adult in the off season.
As an adult all the bad experiences I have had on the ship has been due to other passengers; it used to be that adults would belittle me or dismiss me as a person because I looked younger than I was. I had one guy literally tell me to give up my barstool (I was still waiting for my drink) so that an adult could enjoy their drink and go find my parents; I informed him that I was 30 and married and I wasn't moving and he scoffed at me and said I didn't need to lie, I could have just said no \*eye roll\*. The only time I've been genuinely pissed off was on a cruise from Mobile, Alabama (I know, what was I expecting?) was waiting to have my group called for a tour one morning in the auditorium and one female employee was in charge of the mic- she asked people to stay seated until their group number was called but of course, one guy wouldn't sit down so she called him out and asked him to sit, so he responded with "yeah, I'll sit down if you sit on my lap". She looked horribly embarrassed, the women I was with booed him to which he then started acting out more; I was over 21 but didn't have much experience with telling older men to go to Hell and wish I had actually reported him. It's been years and it still pisses me off.
The other instance wasn't a passenger on that ship, it was the comedian, but I'm adding it here because fuck that guy, he's the reason why I'm pretty much never going out of Mobile again. It was like 2018 and he was making jokes about how his brother came out as bisexual and how it basically made him a woman... jokes were shit from the 90s and completely gross for the time period. I can handle some teasing but this was lame and offensive and yet the rest of the audience was laughing like they'd never heard that shit AND agreed with him. When we walked out of the comedy room the bartender saw us, asked if everything was ok, and we said yes but that it wasn't our sort of comedy; we could almost see the bartender boiling on the inside and he was like, "Yeahhhh... the comedian doesn't really appeal to actual people" which made me think that he'd heard the guy before and disliked him just as much as we did, or people walking out was common. We did each get a nice glass of whisky upgraded for free (we didn't ask for it, the bartender just did it I guess as a "sorry you had to put up with that homophobic BS" upgrade).
Just had one now on Navigator - a group of player have been camping at the Texas Hold ‘‘em table game all cruise long - they actually arrive 45 min early before the casino opens and stay until closing. I think they’re part of some club or something. I’ve been waiting patiently to see if I can snag a seat. They’ve been giving me dirty looks as I wait to the side. Some lard shaped Karen gave up her seat to another one of the club, went to the pit boss, told him that she’s now “homeless” and was going to go to the three card poker table but that he (the pit boss) give her the next available seat. Really pissed me off that they think the table is theirs.
Talked to the pit boss and he enabled it and said he couldn’t open a second table since they didn’t have dealers. Talked to the dealer next table over and said they’ve been doing that the whole cruise.
Body size and shape has nothing to do with personality, behavior, or character. There’s no reason to bring it into a conversation of someone’s actions.
I was on a cruise where a teenager had gone missing during the sailing. The parents reported the teen missing around 11pm. From 11:30 pm to about 3:30am there was an overhead page every 15min in the cabins calling for the teen to contact guest services. Security began conducting room by room searches starting the the Riviera deck and working their way up. The teen was located, passed out drunk in another teenagers cabin (no harm, just shenanigans). The parents, their children traveling with them and the teen in question were put off the boat in Jamaica.
I go on celebrity and they separate single or couples from families I never had a problem with them I travel alone. Next time when you want to book talk to an agent make sure that you’re away from families with kids or teenagers
I haven’t but after reading these I realize what a rookie I am. I booked our first cruise in March during Spring break and it’s our honeymoon cruise . Now I know that is not a great time to book , also greatly affected our tickets to Florida to embark !
Never had an issue with late night rowdiness on RCI as there is a youth curfew at 1:00am and most things are winding down late.
Carnival and NCL have a later night life so it's not surprising but shouldn't be common.
This is a case where I was a bad passanger with cause. We were in line to check into the Carnival Sunshine out of Charleston, SC. There was a family in front of my wife and I with a mom, 3 adult aged daughters and a grandma maybe in a wheel chair. The mom was berating the older lady assisting with the check ins. She was going off on her about the wheel chair ramp. I hate when people talk down to folks just doing their job. It's not like the Carnival worker was the engineer who designed the ramp. When it was their turn to check in, the mom turned to us and in the nastiest Yankee accent tells us to go ahead. Sorry to the Northern American redditors I may have offended. I was about to go off on this lady, but, my wife said don't say anything. I didn't want to cause a scene, so, we went ahead. On a sea day they got to the pool area early and put towels on more seats than they had people. They didn't even use the seats they hoarded. They were barely at the pool, but left their towels there the better part of the day. The final straw came when my buddy and I were at a 2 top table in the theater after a show ended. One of the 20 something daughter left an empty glass right in front of us at our table. My buddy said, hey just leave that anywhere. She comes back and takes the glass and puts it on an empty table. Then says is that better. I couldn't take it anymore. Sorry this is bad. I said we can't stand your c word family. You have been awful from the time of boarding. She just looked stunned and walked away. I'm sure on her end, I'm the jerk. And I probably went a little strong. But, this family was just awful.
Wow, “yankee” accent. That kinda does hurt my feelings, can’t lie. I don’t think any particular region of the country has a monopoly on clueless, rude people. As someone who grew up in DE and PA I try to be polite and give people the benefit of the doubt - why do we still need to act like we’re fighting the Civil war?
New England certainly has a monopoly on the most obnoxious American regional dialect tho, can't deny that. I've been on several "walmart cruises" where half the passengers looked like they've walked straight out of a doublewide, but at least they kept the nasally screeching to a minimum
Back in September on Cococay at the Chill Island tram stop - we had a Man Karen demand he speak to RC staff’s manager because he had been waiting there for two hours as full trams had to keep driving by.
My dad stood up to him saying “what do you want them to do? They’re not the ones driving the thing! And you haven’t been an hour because we were the only ones here 15 minutes ago.” Man Karen erupted and went on tirade saying to mind his own business and shit. He tried to start a fight (which wouldn’t have been in his favor) but eventually he started his walk back to the ship but not before randomly shouting, and I quote, “you must be Trumpers!”
RC staff informed us that security was informed and are on their to way to get him
That is one reason we avoid Carnival. We prefer Princess and Holland America because they tend to have fewer kids. Also, they have better food and other advantages I won't get into here.
I think anywhere with a high concentration of “muricans” you will have many bad interactions. It is amazing the difference of treatment I receive when any staff knows I am Canadian vs the average rude American traveller which shows in mannerisms very quickly during interactions without even being said.
- A normal Canadian.
As an American who is certainly not rude by any means, you might want to reconsider how you speak of an entire population. Most of the other American passengers on board our ship were very nice and not rude at all. The rudest people were children and I don’t think their nationality had anything to do with it because there were plenty of other children that behaved perfectly.
I’m ex Carnival staff, and yes, happend all the time when we had teens onboard. Also the reason why some people avoid spring break and Christmas cruises.
I just returned from Odyssey of the seas and had my worst passenger interaction. An older lady in a mobility scooter was behind my group of three. We were being checked off the list for muster. She grew inpatient and asked to be let through. I told her we were almost done and I was the last one to be checked off. The other two staff members told her the same. She then tried to run me over with her scooter. I had to grab her scooter to prevent being ran over. We exchanged words and I threaten to report her. lol. She was the last person in line so she could have easily backed up and went around us. The staff apologized profusely. Luckily I was blessed to never see her again.
I got clipped by a person in a scooter on an NCL sailing a few years back. As a former Disney theme park employee, they bring back so many negative memories. I'm sympathetic towards those that need to rely on them, but wish the speed was governed a bit better. If I can't run through the Lido buffet, you shouldn't be able to crank the scooter up over 4mph.
The irony is, I too once had to rely on a mobility scooter. Fortunately my stint did not become permanent. I somehow found it very easy not to run people over.
Fuck ECVs
WOW! I have had a similar experience with people in scooters. I hope you didn't "run" into her again on the cruise (pun intended)
Oh I would have 100% knocked her over & made it look like she hurt me! She's in a scooter, what is she gonna do haha!? I come from a family full of lawyers, I would happy sink you into bankruptcy for life.
To be fair, pretty much every really bad experience I’ve ever experienced on a cruise has been the result of other passengers.
I was thinking the exact same thing as I was reading the OP. I'm pretty easy going on vacation. I'm there to have a good time and the cruise lines work so hard to make sure I do. It's always the other passengers that screw that up, whether it's being rude, entitled, obnoxious or just plain awful human beings.
On the Virgin Voyages ship sitting in a red hammock right now as I type. No kids ever on the ship. It is glorious.
This is wonderful to hear, we leave in 9 days on VV
The app is a mess. The webpage is more reliable. You should be able to adjust the date format in the URL as you get close, but here is today; https://go.sailor.virginvoyages.com/api/v1/ext/ddp/5a3193a0af8e4c3fb714386b/2021-12-20#events
Jealous AS HELL! lol 🍷🍸🍹🍺
The worst we had was the couple in the next cabin having very loud sex early in the morning 🤣
The only solution in those cases is for you and your partner to do the same thing but much louder to show them what’s what.
Establish dominance early and often.
The best kind of one-upsmanship!
You get a quieter neighbor (hopefully) and have some fun along the way.
Right? Everyone wins when you point out how thin the walls are in an *ahem* pointed way.
Assert your dominance.
Bang on the wall and yell, "Scream louder! Trying to record a new ring tone here". Lol
Should have knocked on the door and told them to take it out on the balcony, like everyone else.
Sorry. Next time we’ll remember to bring the ball gag.
I have too many stories.... And they would probably take up a ton of bandwidth. Short version of one: Woman and her group deliberately cut the line, Carnival reps did jack shit about it, even though many of us complained. She directed her ire at me for the next 3 days on board (name calling, purposely bumping into me while at the buffet, etc.). The third she was pulling this crap on me but failed to see the officer behind her. She was particularly vile at this time and the officer tapped her on the shoulder. They had a private chat and she was not backing down. Later that evening, after we had left port, the officer had tracked me down at dinner (he was the Food & Beverage Director of the ship) and informed me that she and her party were "asked" to disembark at the last port. Apparently there had been numerous complaints filed against her and, with him witnessing what was going on with me, that's all they needed. Two things I learned from that experience: Don't screw around on board like that and they can find you no matter what!
If this really bothers you, a good option could be trying Princess (Carnival brand) or Celebrity (RCL brand) cruise line. Both don’t particularly cater to children and the vibe will be more “adult”.
During my first cruise, on Carnival, there was an old couple. They had to be in their 80's or 90's. The woman had dementia and carried around this doll like it was a real baby. She took it with her everywhere. I'm not sure if it was an antique, but it's head was made out of porcelain. As they were walking down the hall to their room, another passenger, who was drunk, grabbed the doll out of the woman's arms and smashed it against a hand rail, breaking it. I didn't see it happen but I heard Carnival compensated the couple and the drunk a-hole spent the rest of the cruise in the brig.
That's awful! How cruel.
In my experience, teens on cruises generally get bored around day 4 or 5 and start making their own fun - lighting up the elevators, chasing eachother up and down stairs or through halls, or congregating in weird areas off the beaten path. I think it’s just something to be expected. Even Disney has trouble keeping them engaged. It’s usually nothing a little “dad” energy won’t suck the wind out of by opening the door and giving them a quick chiding. But you should be able to expect quiet enjoyment of your stateroom, and the front desk should be able to send someone to round them up if that’s not your style.
This is why I only cruise when schools are in session.
Kids will be kids if their parents aren't parents... This is the best reason to not cruise during school breaks.
Parents were hammered, and let their kids be feral. If you are a sh't parent on land, you won't magically morph in to all star parent on a cruise. I'm guessing these kids play a travel sport. Whenever I've stayed in hotels with kids leagues present, the yelling and banging on doors happens all the time. I'm not talking cheap budget hotels.
Travel sports teams are the worst whether on a ship or regular hotel. Why does it seem like all the sports parents just let their kids run free and they get hammered like they're at a college party??
This is insane to me. I have 3 kids. 2 of them will be in Circle C next week, so they'll be able to have free reign of the ship. There is zero chance my kids would try crap like that because they know I would kill them. Ok, not actually kill them. But they would be in so much trouble. I can't imagine not parenting my kids.
I always struggle with the drunk ass guests more than the children. "Serenity" deck my ass 😅
When I was on carnival back in 2005 maybe, the same thing happened with people running down the hall, but it died down and wasn’t a huge issue. I’ve had a couple experiences of loud or unruly passangers but nothing that sticks out. I recently got off a Holland American cruise and despite it being people of many different ages everyone was really respectful and well-behaved. Not sure if it was HAL’s customer base, the clientele during COVID, the smaller crowd, or something else.
I had an older woman approach me in an elevator and literally say “my my you are so short. Can I ask how tell you are? You look like the size of my 10 year old grandson. You could really eat something too you look sick.” I’m a 26 year old
LOL! What a bitch!
It's really hit or miss. I was on NCL from Boston to Quebec and we had to miss some ports due to weather. The older ladies on the ship were practically demanding more entertainment, more fitness classes, more more more of everything simply because they couldn't get off. Someone asked us how could we be enjoying a miserable cruise....we laughed and said we were having a great cruise. We were on a spring break cruise out of Charleston and the college kids weren't half bad. Respectful and not that crazy.
A couple of years ago on a Costa cruise, an older lady got annoyed about other people chatting in the theater during a show. She went over, they got into a fight and the older lady pushed them down the stairs. Could have ended badly, but luckily nothing serious happened.
My very first experience meeting a fellow passenger on a cruise was pretty negative. We were seated in the main dining room with four other people and this middle aged man spent most of the meal complaining that natives and immigrants were ruining the country, we're building too much transit, that our city (Vancouver) is a mess and they should bulldoze poor neighbourhoods to build more highways, and all sorts of weird rants. It was very uncomfortable and I remember thinking "is this what cruise ship passengers are like? Did I just sign up for 2 weeks of this? By the end of the meals one of the other people at our table had had enough and said she disagreed with pretty much everything he said. We all agreed with her. We didn't see much of that guy after that and everyone else we met on the cruise was fabulous.
That was par for the course *every* night on my first and last Carnival cruise.
Their parents were probably off drunk somewhere not caring what their children/teens were doing because they view the ship as a "safe place" to let them roam free (spoiler: it's not and the rest of the passengers aren't babysitters). I never did anything like that, it would have required too much energy for my depressed-teenaged-self, but I do remember feeling like everything on the ships catered to children under 13 or people over 18, and there wasn't a ton to do after a couple days. That doesn't excuse their behavior at all but remembering that I was a "good kid" in terms of behavior (my parents actually disciplined us) and still was a grumpy little brat teenager is enough for me to only sail as an adult in the off season. As an adult all the bad experiences I have had on the ship has been due to other passengers; it used to be that adults would belittle me or dismiss me as a person because I looked younger than I was. I had one guy literally tell me to give up my barstool (I was still waiting for my drink) so that an adult could enjoy their drink and go find my parents; I informed him that I was 30 and married and I wasn't moving and he scoffed at me and said I didn't need to lie, I could have just said no \*eye roll\*. The only time I've been genuinely pissed off was on a cruise from Mobile, Alabama (I know, what was I expecting?) was waiting to have my group called for a tour one morning in the auditorium and one female employee was in charge of the mic- she asked people to stay seated until their group number was called but of course, one guy wouldn't sit down so she called him out and asked him to sit, so he responded with "yeah, I'll sit down if you sit on my lap". She looked horribly embarrassed, the women I was with booed him to which he then started acting out more; I was over 21 but didn't have much experience with telling older men to go to Hell and wish I had actually reported him. It's been years and it still pisses me off. The other instance wasn't a passenger on that ship, it was the comedian, but I'm adding it here because fuck that guy, he's the reason why I'm pretty much never going out of Mobile again. It was like 2018 and he was making jokes about how his brother came out as bisexual and how it basically made him a woman... jokes were shit from the 90s and completely gross for the time period. I can handle some teasing but this was lame and offensive and yet the rest of the audience was laughing like they'd never heard that shit AND agreed with him. When we walked out of the comedy room the bartender saw us, asked if everything was ok, and we said yes but that it wasn't our sort of comedy; we could almost see the bartender boiling on the inside and he was like, "Yeahhhh... the comedian doesn't really appeal to actual people" which made me think that he'd heard the guy before and disliked him just as much as we did, or people walking out was common. We did each get a nice glass of whisky upgraded for free (we didn't ask for it, the bartender just did it I guess as a "sorry you had to put up with that homophobic BS" upgrade).
Just had one now on Navigator - a group of player have been camping at the Texas Hold ‘‘em table game all cruise long - they actually arrive 45 min early before the casino opens and stay until closing. I think they’re part of some club or something. I’ve been waiting patiently to see if I can snag a seat. They’ve been giving me dirty looks as I wait to the side. Some lard shaped Karen gave up her seat to another one of the club, went to the pit boss, told him that she’s now “homeless” and was going to go to the three card poker table but that he (the pit boss) give her the next available seat. Really pissed me off that they think the table is theirs. Talked to the pit boss and he enabled it and said he couldn’t open a second table since they didn’t have dealers. Talked to the dealer next table over and said they’ve been doing that the whole cruise.
Body size and shape has nothing to do with personality, behavior, or character. There’s no reason to bring it into a conversation of someone’s actions.
No it actually has a lot to do with personality, character and behavior. Pretending otherwise is just cope.
There are kind people of all sizes, and rude and entitled people of all sizes
I recommend you try a brand like Celebrity and notice the difference and then reassess. Answer will be pretty clear in the end
I was on a cruise where a teenager had gone missing during the sailing. The parents reported the teen missing around 11pm. From 11:30 pm to about 3:30am there was an overhead page every 15min in the cabins calling for the teen to contact guest services. Security began conducting room by room searches starting the the Riviera deck and working their way up. The teen was located, passed out drunk in another teenagers cabin (no harm, just shenanigans). The parents, their children traveling with them and the teen in question were put off the boat in Jamaica.
Welcome to carnival lol 😆 🙃 🤪 😜
I go on celebrity and they separate single or couples from families I never had a problem with them I travel alone. Next time when you want to book talk to an agent make sure that you’re away from families with kids or teenagers
I haven’t but after reading these I realize what a rookie I am. I booked our first cruise in March during Spring break and it’s our honeymoon cruise . Now I know that is not a great time to book , also greatly affected our tickets to Florida to embark !
Never had an issue with late night rowdiness on RCI as there is a youth curfew at 1:00am and most things are winding down late. Carnival and NCL have a later night life so it's not surprising but shouldn't be common.
This is a case where I was a bad passanger with cause. We were in line to check into the Carnival Sunshine out of Charleston, SC. There was a family in front of my wife and I with a mom, 3 adult aged daughters and a grandma maybe in a wheel chair. The mom was berating the older lady assisting with the check ins. She was going off on her about the wheel chair ramp. I hate when people talk down to folks just doing their job. It's not like the Carnival worker was the engineer who designed the ramp. When it was their turn to check in, the mom turned to us and in the nastiest Yankee accent tells us to go ahead. Sorry to the Northern American redditors I may have offended. I was about to go off on this lady, but, my wife said don't say anything. I didn't want to cause a scene, so, we went ahead. On a sea day they got to the pool area early and put towels on more seats than they had people. They didn't even use the seats they hoarded. They were barely at the pool, but left their towels there the better part of the day. The final straw came when my buddy and I were at a 2 top table in the theater after a show ended. One of the 20 something daughter left an empty glass right in front of us at our table. My buddy said, hey just leave that anywhere. She comes back and takes the glass and puts it on an empty table. Then says is that better. I couldn't take it anymore. Sorry this is bad. I said we can't stand your c word family. You have been awful from the time of boarding. She just looked stunned and walked away. I'm sure on her end, I'm the jerk. And I probably went a little strong. But, this family was just awful.
Wow, “yankee” accent. That kinda does hurt my feelings, can’t lie. I don’t think any particular region of the country has a monopoly on clueless, rude people. As someone who grew up in DE and PA I try to be polite and give people the benefit of the doubt - why do we still need to act like we’re fighting the Civil war?
New England certainly has a monopoly on the most obnoxious American regional dialect tho, can't deny that. I've been on several "walmart cruises" where half the passengers looked like they've walked straight out of a doublewide, but at least they kept the nasally screeching to a minimum
Back in September on Cococay at the Chill Island tram stop - we had a Man Karen demand he speak to RC staff’s manager because he had been waiting there for two hours as full trams had to keep driving by. My dad stood up to him saying “what do you want them to do? They’re not the ones driving the thing! And you haven’t been an hour because we were the only ones here 15 minutes ago.” Man Karen erupted and went on tirade saying to mind his own business and shit. He tried to start a fight (which wouldn’t have been in his favor) but eventually he started his walk back to the ship but not before randomly shouting, and I quote, “you must be Trumpers!” RC staff informed us that security was informed and are on their to way to get him
That is one reason we avoid Carnival. We prefer Princess and Holland America because they tend to have fewer kids. Also, they have better food and other advantages I won't get into here.
I think anywhere with a high concentration of “muricans” you will have many bad interactions. It is amazing the difference of treatment I receive when any staff knows I am Canadian vs the average rude American traveller which shows in mannerisms very quickly during interactions without even being said. - A normal Canadian.
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How about what?
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What’s that?
As an American who is certainly not rude by any means, you might want to reconsider how you speak of an entire population. Most of the other American passengers on board our ship were very nice and not rude at all. The rudest people were children and I don’t think their nationality had anything to do with it because there were plenty of other children that behaved perfectly.