5 Weird Ways to Get Kicked Off a Cruise Ship!!! Very unOfficial Travel Guides

[@canadiankellygirl]

My mom got sick and needed surgery in Huatulco, Mexico. NCL called for an ambulance and paid for an interpreter. The doctor spoke English but the hospital staff didn't. It's the most eerie feeling watching the cruise ship you should be on, leave without you. My husband and mother in law stayed on the ship and I stayed with my mom. Five days later I got her on a no stop flight to Toronto and my sister picked her up. I still had 6 days of cruise left so NCL made arrangements for me to get back on the ship in Panama. I had no idea that I was getting back on the ship in the ocean climbing the side of the ship on a rope ladder while the ship was moving. I guess I can cross that off my bucket list. NCL was amazing and so were the citizens and hospital staff in Huatulco. And I'm still great friends with my interpreter.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

I have to tell you I love that you stayed positive and make it sound like an interesting adventure rather than a total drama. Other people would have been like, "It was the worst experience of my life... I even had to climb a fricken ladder to get back on the ship." Sounds like NCL took great care of you, too. Is your mom ok?

[@canadiankellygirl]

+Very unOfficial Travel Guides She's great! I was so scared about her having surgery in Mexico but Huatulco has a Naval Hospital and it's beautifully clean. The little hotel I stayed at was within walking distance and the staff and the community were amazing. The people on the street got to know me and would wave and greet me with "Senora Kelly! Hello!" They would leave flowers, food and Cola on my doorstep. It's a beautiful little city. They have big resorts there but I recommend seeing the real people. They are awesome. When I made it to Panama, I really didn't have clear instructions except to go to the Balboa Yacht Club at 4am. A van driver for a company said he would take me to a hotel close to it for $30. Great! It was so far out and worth it. He escorted me to dinner (me paying of course) and we ate on the edge of the water with boats all around and people dancing in the streets. He ordered a $35 steak lol. I didn't care. He showed me so much of Panama City in the few hours I was there that it was worth the money spent. He was very entertaining! My mother has told this story over and over and over again. This was in 2012 right after we lost our house in a fire. My husband and I had been through so much and wanted to have a relaxing time with our moms (who get along like best buddies!) then this happened! I guess you learn to roll with the punches. By the way, she's 84 now and still my world.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Holy crap! What a story! Thank you for sharing it with me!

[@deliadelacruz9865]

Wow Kelly! Glad she's ok and you were able to get back on the ship, what an ordeal!

[@time4taneshia]

Wowzers! Hope Mom is fine👌🏾

[@KTZed]

My mom was on a ship where a lady actually slapped the captain. The ship missed a port because of weather and as he was explaining this to her, she slapped him! She was confined to her room ( with guards out side) until the next stop. then she was escorted off the ship.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

No she didn't?!?! How can you slap the captain, or any other person for that matter? I think it's great she got thrown off the ship, what about you?

[@KTZed]

+Very unOfficial Travel Guides I asked my mom about this and she said that it was a trip from Los Angeles to New York that went all the way around South America. Some people got on the ship for just one leg, in Chile. those people were extremely upset that they were not going to go through the fjords. The captain had a "meeting" in the atrium and offered everyone a $100 room credit. the woman stopped him on his way out, yelled In his face and slapped him in front of everyone! The husband and wife were confined to their room with an officer outside. Mom did say that she saw them bring them room service, but they were escorted off the ship at the very next port!

[@KTZed]

+Very unOfficial Travel Guides She also told me that 7 people died on that trip! All of natural causes I imagine.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Well, not that I really find hard to believe.

[@jarcave]

Sounds like a Carnival cruise.... Seven people didn't die though. Cruise ship deaths are all covered on the cruiseshipdeaths.com website. I suspect the slapping of the captain is a lie too.

[@carolynlucca]

The muster drill takes up 30-40 minute out of a week. Just go and don't whine about it. You're just going to wind up doing it anyway.

[@dedetwilight]

that's when everybody get's out of their cabin right away... Sometimes people are ignorant and take long time to get down to the muster drill.....

[@HellfireCignus]

Ask the people from the Coasta Concordia if they would have preferred to have their muster drill first thing or after they rolled over.

[@marklouis1890]

Tototototo it's for your own safety anyway

[@babyskitty5445]

Tototototo what's a muster drill

[@Glock2201]

I agree. Not sure what the big deal. It takes half an hour and then you get to do whatever you want for the rest of the time.

[@marcuss7819]

I had a cruise where we missed a port because of a medical emergency. The ship had to turn around to get in range of a helicopter. (A crew member had pregnancy complications). This meant we wouldn't make our 1st port in Jamaica. All that to say, there was a guy who scheduled a meeting in the main lobby to gather people together to sign a petition against the cruise line. (He did his speech without a shirt on if that's any indication of his personality) The captain allowed them to gather and even came to the meeting and spoke to the people. This however didn't deter the man from continuing to try and start a mutiny against the captain. Needless to say, he was kicked off the boat once we got on land. So #6 I guess would be: You can get kicked off the ship for trying to start a mutiny!

[@brianpan6453]

AARRGGHHHHH!

[@dmpyron2]

Of get hanged from the yardarm. The captain is still "second only to King and God" 😮

[@artsmoke2273]

You are correct about missing the muster drill. On one of my cruises, the drill was held while we were still docked. A cabin failed to show up, and we all stood at our stations for about 40 minutes. An announcement was made over the PA system that the offending couple were being escorted off of the ship. Once we were underway, I encountered an Officer, and thanked him and the Captain for their actions.

[@donnabowdler9262]

I was on an Alaskan inside passage cruise with my husband and kids when the captain broke his leg and had to be taken off the ship by helicopter. He was back the next day, plaster cast and all. It was pretty exciting seeing the helicopter come and go. My kids, who were teenagers at the time were very impressed! Lol

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

That IS exciting! What a memory!

[@kayearlkay]

as a cruise specialist I tell my clients all the time some of these facts. they happen much too frequently. I was on Norwegian Escape and 11 people were kicked off the ship for fighting. ugh some people are stupid.

[@Road2PBATour]

I don't understand why cruise ships don't have a muster video played in the cruise room like some airlines have it would actually make you enjoy cruising more.

[@thermaljesus4530]

I was on a cruise with my Farther back around Christmas. There was a male who was being very aggressive towards the staff because they had closed the buffet and he was late. They tried to explain to him that he can have room service but he wasn't accepting it, he started bellowing vile insults towards the staff. Next, he was taken away by security and was kicked off the following day with his luggage

[@rgruenhaus]

Thermal Jesus there are also 24/7 complimentary restaurants around the ship so who needs the buffet?

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

That is crazy! Jut because of the buffet?

[@katietheconnectedcruiser4733]

There was a guy kicked off a an NCL cruise he lit up a joint in the hot tub. The hot tub was swarmed by 10 security guards in about it 30 seconds.

[@dexterswanstrom7940]

good

[@SportSoulLife]

Katie Hyslop Kicked off? Usually we confiscate the drugs and hand them to the captain, who calls the police to be there in port waiting as they get there. The guy who is in possesion of the drugs gets thrown in the ships cell.

[@SportSoulLife]

Ken Wilson Depens on the day. Sometimes workers dont bother doing anything about it and sometimes thats all they want to do. Really depends on who sees it, but it is very risky.

[@Kevinegan1]

Some country's have strict laws concerning drugs including marijuana. Should a passenger get busted in one these countries the local authorities would come down hard on the passenger and the cruise line. In some countries you could be executed for bringing in illegal drugs.

[@ExtraordinaryLiving]

+Eyes Wide Open VSG Yea, I heard about that story from Mr. Traveler. Pretty outrageous! I don't know why the officers of the ship did not do anything about the offender--it was not just a nuisance to a couple passengers but a real hazard and danger (of fire) for the entire ship.

[@jackw5626]

Few years back a person was on there phone during the muster drill and a very serious crew member took them away... It was like in school getting in trouble with the teacher 😂

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Haha. I can picture that happening.

[@ananesthesiia]

I was on my moms phone and I didn't get in trouble

[@SLqB11]

Dude, muster drills are for your own safety, you HAVE to do it so that us, CREW, don't have to chase you around the ship in case something goes wrong. Trust me.

[@daleyjeeper6188]

And atleast they only have to do 1 drill a cruise I'm working 14 day cruises and have drill every week

[@laquitahaynes8879]

I was aboard a Carnival Cruise 5 years ago when a 'lady' of the night was removed from the ship. She had a very lucrative 'business' going with a small expense up front for her 'place of business.' Although we had already spotted her at the bar beside the casino and had suspected what she was up to, a crew member verified it to be true. Another time 2 young men who was very, very intoxicated and had been warned the previous day, were confined to their cabins and removed from the ship at the next port. Getting home was on their dime.

[@TonyCoreyMaineMFD19]

We were in line for the main dinning room and before we even got under way a gentleman got kicked off the ship for being belligerently drunk. He took on three security officers but was quickly wrestled down cuffed with zip ties and lead off the ship. We will be sailing to Bermuda in October of this year. This will be our first time in a suite with butler and concierge. Cant wait.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Wow! What do you tell your friends back home after something like that happens to you? "Hey, guys, I was so drunk they had to cuff me and throw me off the ship!"

[@Kamelhaj]

I once took a friend on a cruise. He went on the ship quite drunk and, unbeknown to me, quite high. He wanted to eat instead of going to the muster drill, got into a pushing match with one of the crew members, bumped into a man on the elevator, and stormed out to our cabin. During the cruise, he smoked in the room and made a mess of the room (smearing food, etc.), but was never kicked off the cruise.

[@hanmaenen7337]

If you go on a private excursion and the tour is delayed on the way back to the ship, you will be left behind if you are too late. Going on an excursion booked on the ship, you will not be left behind or the shipping company will have you transported to the next port to rejoin the cruise.

[@ricklynn6176]

I knew a couple that got kicked off a carnival cruise for having a domestic dispute at one of the bars. They left her in the Bahamas. And he was on further room arrest until the duration of the cruise and ended. They do not play around with any kind of violence verbally or physically. she had to spend upwards of $1000 to get back home from the port in which she was left. So just be happy and your cruise will go better than planned.😁

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Wow, that is shocking and sad!

[@kellon511]

I went on the Carnival Freedom, Thanksgiving 2014, and we were on our way back from Grand Cayman (which was a skipped port due to bad weather) and we heard an announcement of some guest needed hospitalization so we were going to Key West, but eventually, it got worse or something so a helicopter got called in to evac the guest. They never said what it was specifically and one of the people we sailed with said he couldn't find anything online about it.

[@bertcutler9483]

And there are ALWAYS those people who think the muster drill doesn't apply to THEM, because they've been on umpteen cruises before, so they don't show up and crew members have to go looking for them and drag them into the room, while everyone else has to waste time waiting for them!

[@LCAviation]

During a muster drill on my 3rd Cruise (Oasis of the Seas) my foot slipped on my flip flop whilst watching the saftey video and it sounded like I farted and about 40people in that room looked at me...

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Aaaaahhhhhahahhahaha! That must have been so embarrassing!

[@LCAviation]

It was... haha

[@Stevah00]

Only one cruise in my life but I will never forget the family boarding in front of me out of Miami; young couple with 2 grade schoolers not allowed to board because they didn't know they needed passports. That cruise was jinxed anyway. The night before we arrived at the Cayman islands a crew member who worked in the ship's store committed suicide in his room. We had an extra long stay while the body was taken off and police came aboard to investigate and make a report. I was glad because I had lost my wallet the stop before at the falls in Jamaica. I spent hours in the AMEX office, they were great. THEN, we never made our first stop in Mexico to let the divers off because we were late. So we stayed late in the sweltering heat at 10PM sitting on a cinderblock wall two blocks high waiting for the ship to signal boarding. Finally, once underway for about half an hour, I was just asleep when the ship violently tilted to the sides and did a vibrating turn. Much of the pool water spilled onto the balcony deck and flooded the hallway, it smelled musky after that the rest of the trip. Turns out they had left some 14 year old in Mexico. He forgot to get back on board, so they had to go back for him. If I was smart I would have gotten some money back. It was the, "Frustration of the Seas". I just haven't had the urge to go back. I like Club Med.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Holy crap! remind me to never go on a cruise with you! You're bad luck! What ship were you cruising with?

[@XJPink]

On our cruise to the Bahamas (Royal Caribbean) a couple was fighting in their cabin. They were kicked off of the boat when we docked in Nassau. After they left, they made an announcement that violence will not be tolerated.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

That is awful. Sad, and awful. I feel so sorry for people sometimes!

[@andreagriffiths3512]

Jeez I don’t get people hating the muster drill. Yes, it’s a yawn and not much fun but it’s legit what might save your life in an emergency. Sign me right up for that bad boy! 20 mins from a fun filled cruise is a small price to pay to know where to go and what to do in an emergency.

[@lexievineyard5255]

The first one he said isn't true on all ships because it's your option to go off the ship. The ship will not hesitate to help a sick person but if you don't want to get off the ship they won't make you they'll just make you be locked in the room. In 2012 I went on the carnival magic and some guy that was with the group I went with fell off the side of the ship and landed on deck five (I believe) which basically extends out a little and he died. Carnival cleaned up everything and put him in one of those body bags and offered to fly him and every one of his close friends and family to fly home at the next port, they denied and he stayed on the ship.

[@imluvinyourmum]

Dead is not sick... Plus they already had big problems with a corpse on board, if he was just sick they could wipe their hands clean. Plus if you're contagious you should volunteer off the ship, only an absolute pig would stay.

[@NinaAngelix]

I was on the Disney Magic in 2016 for a 4 night Bahamas cruise, my first ever, and of course I was nervous and watched videos about the Costa Concordia, I was actually very excited to do the muster drill. I was grateful for it and grateful that all the people around us were actually paying atention and seemed to be willingly participating in it. We had a wonderful time btw.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Great! Do you think you'll do another cruise sometime? Would you try a line other than Disney?

[@ConriOakfield]

FYI, concerning your first point, all cruise ships are required, by law, to have a morgue on board. Annually, some 200 passengers die a year on US cruise ships. Not surprising considering the number of older, retired people getting a cruise off their bucket list.

[@tezzalenko]

There is absolutely no reason for being nasty to staff. If you have an issue then you just go to the front desk and they sort issues out. We're planning a Christmas cruise for 2019 out of Sydney on Carnival Spirit. It costs a bit more, but it's something that we have wanted to try for a while now.

[@rachaeladler3631]

Hello Morgan; long time fan here. While I've never seen anyone kicked off a ship I have seen people denied access twice. Once, as you mentioned, for screwing up their paperwork (boring). The send time was when a couple arrived amidst a huge fight that they were having and ready to rock and roll. The line kept them off the ship which, of course, only got the two of the even angrier with each other. I don't that their travel insurance would have covered that.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Thanks for sharing! I wonder what the two were fighting about.

[@Kylem6875]

I was on Norwegian Escape the other week and a guy got kicked off for running and smashing through one of the windows on the 17th deck and falling into the pool on the 16th. His stuff was all kept onboard with his family and so he was ditched at the port with basic items

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Whaaaat? How? Was he on drugs?

[@mathijs4022]

There is on almost every cruise a morgue, so it is not bad for their PR. The company don't want you to die especially if there is a hospital on shore where they do have the facilities and where they might heal the passenger (or crew member)

[@nyiaa9511]

Yeah I don't understand rude people period, but especially on a cruise ship. Like, what the hecks?? You're on vacation and people are practically waiting on you and foot, everyone should be in a great mood! I'm with you Morgan, kick em off! lol. And can I tell you how informative and entertaining your videos are? I always take something you've said with me when I cruise. Our next one is November 2016, Allure of the Seas. We're sooo stinkin excited! But yeah, love, love, love your videos. Thanks man!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Do you have your battery operated candle???

[@nyiaa9511]

No...but after watching your video today I've already searched Amazon for one. I am going to order one for our next cruise. We won't really "need" one, b/c our cabin is an outside balcony, but I love candle light so the battery operated ones will be a great substitute since they don't allow real ones on cruise ships. Gonna tell my sis n law about them, she loves candles too!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

I always have to pee in the middle of the night, (sorry TMI), and it's so nice to have the candle in the bathroom so I don't have turn on the light, burn my retinas, and wake Markus up.

[@nyiaa9511]

Lol, I get up in the middle of the night to pee too and so does my husband, so that candle is definitely going to come in handy! I ordered it today and I'll let you know how it goes :-) Thanks M to tha organ! lol

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

:- P

[@ashleyblaxton9619]

I know a lady who got really sick on a month long cruise and she was quarantined for 21 days 😂 and last time I went on a cruise as we were boarding we found out from other passengers 2 men had died on the ship that day from heart attacks. The crew didn't even mention it

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

21 days?!?! That sounds awful! What a terrible way to spend the vacation of a lifetime!

[@ashleyblaxton9619]

Very unOfficial Travel Guides Ooh AND on that same trip when she got back her house had burned down. So what did she do? She went on another cruise!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+Ashley Blaxton Whaaaaaat?!?! No way! How can the universe be so mean to someone?

[@deidreswanstrom6868]

on my last cruise the crew was using a pad that recorded your sign and sail card as you walked in the door. Its amazing to me that people think they are going to avoid the muster drill when the computer knows you arent there. Hope they get kicked off or fined for not being there it makes the whole thing longer than it needs to be. The crew compared the names of people who were carded to a hard copy roster of who should be there. If you have been on 50 cruises and done 50 muster drills suck it up and do the 51st muster drill, its the law.

[@josephdaisley3660]

The first point isn't a nice way to do to get kicked off the ship, although it happened on our recent cruise. Tragically, a child drowned in the pool and we had to return to New Jersey and drop off a party of 49 people.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Oh no that's awful!

[@ve2vfd]

I've seen people getting kicked off 3 different cruises... First was off the RCCL Freedom OTS, second was off the Carnival Glory and third off the Carnival Dream. In all cases it was BOTH parties involved in physical altercations (fights) and they were all dropped off with their luggage at the next port.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+Pat D Why do people get like that on vacation? It's so sad.

[@ve2vfd]

My guess? Way too much alcohol and poorly behaved clients. :) I've only seen one or two fall down drunk people on RCCL ships and only one became belligerent (and was swiftly removed by security). Never seen any on Celebrity, Holland America, NCL or Costa. On Carnival though... wow... more than I can count! There is a reason why the "unlimited" drink package on RCCL is unlimited, yet on Carnival there is a 15 drinks limit. :)

[@scottybird5263]

Pat D b

[@crash3x]

I was on the Celebrity Constellation in Feb/March2015 "Spring Breaker" Cruise offered drink package deals.....no one ever had ID for proof of age..they gave up and the party started.....4 kids kicked off in Cozumel, for drunken behavior. Key West kids kicked off and fined I think for tossing deck chair overboard........and beer bottles........there was like 2500 passengers and 1600 were students. Captain and CD kept making announcements asking the "Crazy People" to keep their clothing on in appropriate areas...CD asked guest entertainer to put special shows on in afternoon on seaday to keep the above 35 crowd happy cause there was no way you wanted to be on pool deck.......crowded , drunken, loud........but yet they were still respectful of old passengers.........one for the books

[@caseyvee4419]

If this was called a "Spring Breaker" in advance, the over 35 crowd should have known not to book, but the problem is you can find yourself aboard a "booze cruise" you did not expect, also. I have been on a couple where I spent much of my time in my stateroom just to avoid the drunks. Naturally, I went to the dining room(s) for meals and to the more organized shows, but not to clubs at night nor poolside during the day.

[@ellapessoni6839]

I once saw a lady and a woman in a wheelchair badly insult a crew member, when I was ten. The crew girl was just like "thank you" so everything was good XD

[@bogofusion]

We were on transatlantic cruise where someone violated their noroviris quarantine. The passenger and his very disappointed wife and their luggage were left on the pier in Toulon France and they had to find their own way home.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Oooh! That's harsh, (but understandable, I guess)?

[@yamahaguy1732]

I watched this video where a cruise director was calling out late passengers and their room numbers because they were late

[@waltermckenziewilson]

I am currently planning my honeymoon cruise. We are going on a Mediterranean cruise next June. Honestly, I think we are both more excited about the honeymoon than our wedding.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+Alison Robson I understand why! Which cruise line and ship will you be on?

[@waltermckenziewilson]

RC Jewel of Seas. I have never been on that line. I have just been on two princess cruises when I was younger.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

I think you're going to love it!

[@dehdeh55]

I found the muster drill cute. A close look at lifeboats and rafts, etc. And if the boat sinks you will actually need the drill. Also, I saw people being mean to crew - perhaps they were not mean enough, but they stayed on the ship.

[@rachaeladler3631]

I found another way to get the boot. There is a KZbin video around here someplace where a kid jumped off a moored ship on purpose and filmed himself on the way down into the ocean. He got the boot. It's not one of your videos but you can find it with a little hunting.

[@deidreswanstrom6868]

watched a family removed from the ship in cozumel.. Set their luggage on the pier buttoned up the ship and left. They looked pretty lost and none to happy when the police drove off with one of them in the car.. Hope it worked out for them.

[@SuperstarCandy]

disney cruise line's muster drills are in 2 languages, english and spanish!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+Superstar Candy When we were on MSC, they were in 5 languages! It tok foreverrrrrrr....

[@SuperstarCandy]

ikr sometimes you don't expect the same announcement in another language

[@tammyboyer3199]

On our MSC Divina cruise at the beginning of August, many events ran through at least 5 languages, including the muster drill, the pre-bingo and theatre presentations, and so on. Many glazed-over eyes when you looked around.....

[@SuperstarCandy]

+Tammy Boyer happens on disney ships too. the announcements, the tv loops, the muster drill, in 2 languages. english and spanish.

[@tammyboyer3199]

As a Canadian, I'm used to hearing English and French -- sometimes one after another, sometimes mixed (I've been guilty of that myself -- LOL!)....even at work!

[@Jwalker1742]

I took a cruise where we had to make an emergency stop in Cabo San Lucas because a lady was extremely sick.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Oh no. That sounds serious. I hope she was ok!

[@Jwalker1742]

I do too

[@ngg23]

When I was a teenager we had a group of teens get in trouble for some how bring thousands of dollars of weed back on the ship from Jamaica. I heard the crew confiscated the pot and didn't charge them with a crime. That didn't make much sense to me but that's one of the trillion reason I won't go on MSC again worst cruise line I've ever been on.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

OMG, how dumb can you be to try to bring drugs onto a cruise ship?!? Which MSC ship did you cruise with?

[@ngg23]

Very unOfficial Travel Guides I was on the Poseca idk how to spell it. I was 16 at the time and had higher expectations from cruising with other lines. I'm used to the American way of cruising, this was very European. First the food was terrible and outside of a meal time I couldn't find any food. No food? it's a cruise ship rip. The one night they had lobster in the main dinning room it tasted like dish soup yuck. Second as a 16 year old I expected a teenager only area with all day activities for us, thats what you get on most cruise lines. What we got was 45 minutes in one of the small clubs before the bar would open and they'd kick us out every night. Some kids program lol. Third I can't remember how many ports we had but we had excursions in Playa del Carmen ship refused to stop there had to stop in Cozumel. Found out from talking to several employees they never stop in Playa del Carmen. Then we missed Grand Cayman all together. Talking to the the staff they seemed to have a much harder time then staff I've talked to on other lines. The only plus is that at the time they ran an offer for a free cruise to anyone under 18 with the full price cruise of an adult. Well at least it was mostly free. I even had an extra special name for the line while on the ship My Sh*tty Cruise. Our whole cruise group had to agree, and most of them have been on 20+ cruises. So my opinion is if you want a really good time stick to the major lines Royal Caribbean Carnival Norwegian Princess ect.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

I agree with everything you say! I would only cruise with MSC again if I was really bored, had a bunch of time off of work, and it cost less than like $200.

[@dmpyron2]

We were on a cruise where a guy had a stroke literally as he was getting on the shop. Because, for very legal and technical purposes he had "left" the U.S. and was on Medicare he was moved back into the building before END was called. Report later was that he was okay. THEN 4 hours out someone had an MI and we had to turn around. He was also reported as doing well, but we were now in port almost 9 hours after our scheduled departure. But with a sea day ahead we were pretty much on time for our next port. THEN a guy went overboard. Only be didn't. One of the other guys in his cabin thought it would be funny to Day they saw him jump. So funny that said joker spent the night in the brig (yes, they have one) and was introduced to the USCG the next day. First cruise of the Carnival Magic.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Holy crap! How much drama can happen on one cruise?!?!

[@tammyboyer3199]

A few years back, our debarkation was delayed due to policemen coming on board with a dog, and walking out with passengers wearing handcuffs. We happened to be on the same floor, so saw it all go down except for the obvious arrest itself.....never a dull moment on cruise ships!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Wow. I wonder what the "bad guys" did! If the police had a dog with, maybe it was to sniff for drugs?

[@tammyboyer3199]

I strongly suspect it was drugs.....I think the island we had been to just prior was either Bahamas or Jamaica.....they probably brought back "special" souvenirs ;)

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Oh yes, that sounds very likely!

[@danlepine9761]

My girlfriend and I have started the process of planning our first cruise and your videos have been extremely helpful. If I spot you in the crowd of thousands I'll buy you a drink.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Thanks! I hope you're not planning on trying any of these methods!

[@danlepine9761]

Very unOfficial Travel Guides let's hope not. I'd be in trouble if I was behind that ice cream cone lady though. I don't often hold my tongue. Maybe there's one more thing you could lend some advice on. I'm a big guy,6'6 and broad, am I going to be overly uncomfortable on a cruise ship in your opinion? I know you won't have any personally experience but if there's any advice you can give based on what you've observed I'd gladly take it.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Wow, you're more than a foot taller than I am! I don't think being on the ship will make you uncomfortable, other than in the cabin, maybe. Cruise ship cabins are like really small hotel rooms, so you will feel cramped in there for sure. Also, stay away from the balcony railing when you're really drunk!

[@danlepine9761]

Very unOfficial Travel Guides excellent. We'll probably end up paying a little extra and go for a balcony even though we wanted to start out modestly for our first cruise. Wouldn't want to have a small room to put a sour taste in our mouth for future trips. I really appreciate you taking some time out of your day and fielding my rookie questions. Im sure you'll see me commenting again from time to time. You gained a subscriber.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+Dan Lepine Let me know how it goes!

[@joelmartin2549]

I've never been on a cruise, is muster drill like the safety briefing on an airplane, were you can sit there and ignore it, or does it require participation. Because you know on most flights the safety speech is not an inconvenience since nobody is paying attention anyway.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Well, kind of. You have to go there and stand with your group, so it's not like you can watch TV the whole time.

[@imluvinyourmum]

Yeah but on a plane you can't move around anyway, you're expecting boredom once you're above the clouds

[@jpet1626]

One time in Mexico, my brother and I were on the taxi(?) getting to the port from the ship. it was just the two of us and one other guy who was being escorted off by security. we asked him what was going on and he said he was being kicked off for being too drunk and smearing feces all over his room. (True story). And then he leaned over to us and whispered something about a weed stash hidden and to inform his friends. He said they were kicking him off without allowing him to have contact with anyone in his group. So he put it on us to get in contact with his group and inform them about his weed. And yes we made the effort and drunkenly made it our journey that day to find his friends and let them know what happened. We succeeded.

[@calserve447]

I'm taking the 7 day Mexican Riviera cruise with Princess on February 18th. Anyone else on that one and is there a social media to meet others on the same cruise?

[@TTInfiniteGaming]

I haven't seen many over the top cases of people being rude to crew members but there was this one time where I was talking to my sister and I cursed in my sentence. I didn't see any children around. Apparently there was a mother with her child and she confronted me and made me apologize. I apologized and then she said "This is what you deserve" and she threw her alcoholic beverage at my face (and I am a minor).

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Wow, that's hardcore.

[@ARParanormal]

a man was kicked off a cruise ship i was on backbin 2015 on carnival ecstasy. Him and his wife were at one of the bars drinking alot and left when one of the crew members brought back the women walet her husban acused him of stealing it and started to fight him. Later they found they had snuck liquor, beer and drug paraphernalia on the ship. they were put in a holding room and were told at the first port they have to make there way back home.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

That's crazy. And sad, too, actually!

[@zachtipton3202]

A lady had a stroke on my cruise also I fainted and got to miss the muster drill

[@zachtipton3202]

Mine took 45 min. because people would' come

[@econojon]

getting out of the muster drill is like getting out of jury duty.

[@Road2PBATour]

I was on the Carnival Glory in 2009. We had a drunk guy trying to jump off the balcony near the pools. So they kicked him off in Mexico. It wasa good thing he was rowdy.

[@petergilbert144]

Last month I was on the Carnival Freedom. I was originally going to be on the new Vista during the December break, but things changed and I went on February vacation which was not too bad because almost no school districts do February break anymore so lines weren't as bad as they would have been during the Winter break, but I did have to say good bye to a nicer more modern ship. The only thing was that they were not expecting so many people for breakfast one day so it took over an hour to get our food.

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Very nice video and fun to watch. Have a nice day.

[@lololivia6663]

when I went on Norwegian Dawn somebody had medical issues and they had to close the 13th deck because a helicopter was picking up the person

[@caseyvee4419]

Same thing happened when I was on Norwegian Epic once, only they just had to shut down the forward part of a deck so no one could get to the helipad. It was on a TransAtlantic cruise from Barcelona to Miami. Oldest group of passengers I have ever seen. There was the one removed by helicopter, another taken off on a gurney in port, and I was told one death on that 2 week cruise. Was never able to verify the death, ship was quiet about it, but with 2 weeks of 4000+ passengers who appeared to average about 80 years old, I would not be surprised. I was a bit over 60 on that trip, and about 90% of the time any passenger I was talking to was older than me.

[@stewartmcmanus3991]

We sailed from Singapore on Princess, then stopped in the middle of the Straits for a long time until a medivac boat came and took off a couple.

[@tristingaspard6917]

I've slept in during a muster station safety briefing before and they didn't even check my room.

[@nickvolpe5849]

I'll be watching more of your videos as I plan my first solo cruise. I just got back yesterday from a 9 day with my family on the Anthem of the Seas.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

You should check out the bigger ships from NCL, as they have whole blocks of the ship designed just for solo cruisers!

[@Zaksporebrainiac]

they're things i never thought about but agree with totally. And i don't see them as werid, some of them are just things stuck in the back of my head so they become second nature to my knowlage.

[@dragons2369]

2014 oasis of the seas, seen a guest kicked off for fighting the cabin attendant. it scared my son

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

That's terrible! Good that they got the boot!

[@radnectar7011]

I was in the Norwegian Escape late June to early July, we were on our way to Nassau when I overhear people talking about a really sick person on the ship. So I go around asking people if it's true and so it is. About 3 hours go by, the ship is stopped at sea and you can sea the outline of a Coast Guard freaking Blackhawk come to the ship! (Idk if blackhawks are common for med vacs :P) Long story short, the next day we leave Nassau at like 8 P.M

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Wow. I hope they survived!

[@jamesfrommanitoba.1992]

Enjoy you blog big time. We are going on a family Christmas cruise in the epic. I have always done carnival and had a great time, did one princess on the Caribbean princess which was terrible and boring. Any advice for me on the epic please??

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Watch my playlist about the EPIC. You'll find out a lot about the ship that way! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaW5aYR3mb17iNk

[@douglasmcgee1508]

i am going on a carnival cruise for my birthday this September for 5 days 16th-21st out of Tampa

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+douglas mcgee I hope you have a great time! Will it be your first cruise with Carnival?

[@douglasmcgee1508]

no it will be my 6th cruise with carnival

[@tortaboy]

If there is anything left of Tampa post Hurricane.

[@bryanramaglia96]

in 2013 I was on my first cruise Norwegian Breakaway out of New York going to Bahamas scuba guys were throwing chairs overboard when we go to Coco Beach it was over silver bracelets off the ship hope it was worth getting s***-faced

[@Jdazzler15]

A friend of mine was denied boarding because of a mix up and confusion trying to use his Puerto Rican passport. What a mess!!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

That's terrible! I'm sorry!

[@beckeb00]

I'm curious. What is a Puerto Rican passport?

[@jackmakackov7077]

After 13 years in the restaurant business, I would love to be the guy that decides who gets kicked off

[@scots451]

When a crew member gets fired. They automatically half to disembark. Or if they quit they half to disembark

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

And then they have to find their own way home from wherever they are?

[@stupid2574]

Last year on a carnival cruise we had someone airlifted with a helicopter when we were in the middle of the ocean. Pretty much the entire ship showed up to the top deck to watch lol

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Crazy! Do you know what was wrong with that person?

[@stupid2574]

Very unOfficial Travel Guides Have no idea, there were rumors around for the rest of the cruise about heart problems but I cant be sure

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

OK, thanks.

[@MulataLinda8]

So glad I watched this.. I'll be sure to be at the safety drill before we leave!!

[@juliecarlee5154]

I'LL have to go check out your Cedar point video!!! It's only a couple hours from me :))))) But i've only been there a few times.. we usually head South to Kings Island ...mainly I think because the waterpark was always included in the price AND they had a 2 day price that was about the same as a 1 day!

[@tinklvsme]

HI around 4:18 u have an orb fly slowly drown on your right side. : ) Not a bug

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Have I been blessed? Cursed? What does it mean???

[@elainemarie9470]

I saw it, too. Very typical orb phenomena, was over to your right side. You'd get a better look on a computer and can go frame by frame. It is a blessing! Considered to be angelic and it is rare.

[@abby259]

Michele Conley probably just dust lol

[@tinklvsme]

No dust doesn't move in directions like that did. I see orbs on u tube videos all the time. I see them in movies and tv shows also. I have them here at home, a really big 1 flew right up to me when I was in bed, I just swished it off. Hehe

[@tinklvsme]

Elaine Marie Do u see orbs also?

[@coffeelink943]

I stole a bar of soap on the cruise ship and They didn't get kicked off. So is stealing ok?

[@heidismith7858]

hey just subscribed to your channel and have found some great information...thank you! Going on my very first cruise (Im 58) on the Norwegian Pearl to Alaska. So very excited. I will keep my eyes open and camera at the ready to give you any think weird, wonderful or exciting!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+Heidi Smith Heide, we cruised to the fjords in Norway and it was breathtaking! I bet you're going to love your cruise!

[@heyitslaura843]

It is so upsetting when Passengers are rude to the crew. The Crew works so hard to make sure we all have a great experience.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+AccioLaura I agree completely. It's never acceptable!

[@marklouis1890]

thanks for those helpful warnings. slot of them are common sense but the second one is good to know. My family and I are going on a cruise in November to the Bahamas

[@savannahleigh9292]

I went on a cruise and we were supposed to go to the grand cayman island and Mexico but after we went to grand Cayman we were on our way to Mexico but some poor guy had a heart attack so we actually had to turn back to grand Cayman and spent another day there than in Mexico.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+Savannah Leigh Oh no! Poor guy!

[@maxinethomson6872]

travelling from Scotland six days in Orlando then an eight day southern Caribbean cruise with carnival never been on a cruise before hope its for us

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

What do you usually like to do on holiday?

[@dgtbdt]

I was doing some type of search-n-thing and I went and asked the captain if he had been on more than 1 cruise.. I was probably should've been pimp slapped

[@MethosFilms]

Love your energy. U seem like a great person to know. Best wishes from 🇨🇦

[@bradleykirkham2543]

Morgan join us on the Celebrity Equinox 10 day to Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Grand Cayman, and Key West!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Haha! Hi Brad! Sounds like fun, but I don't think I can, sorry!

[@bradleykirkham2543]

+Very unOfficial Travel Guides it was worth a shot ☺

[@shawn14014]

Our cruise started in New York and at the Florida stop a guy was so drunk they kicked him off

[@enaark2631]

I would never be able to go on a cruise, I get sea sick very easily and I have a very weak stomach when it comes to ships....

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+Midnight Combat I was worried about that before my first cruise, but except for one terrible night in the Mediterranean, I have never had a problem on all 7 cruises I've been on!

[@averagejoesmo1967]

Hi Morgan. Everyone needs mustard:-) drills. It's the LAW! Just wanted to make a recent comment on this video since it's under viewed. I didn't realize the cone lady was this long ago.

[@wyattbrown6197]

With all of the checks and stuff they do to make sure people are at the muster drill I'm surprised people can get away with it. I'd be too scared to do that!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

I know, right? I would be so afraid of getting busted!

[@Oreobaby0120]

I was on a cruse a few years ago where on man was confined to his cabin for 5 days after repeated complaints form other passengers. he was Very belligerent and sexist when he got dunk, even telling a few of the teenage girls that they should just get naked if they were going to were bikinis in the pool to swim. the only reason he wasn't thrown off was that it was a Hawaii cruse round trip for LA, and his final offence was as we left the islands

[@marylewis698]

The Cone Lady lol! She needed to be left adrift bobbing in a life ring.

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Her lips would have kept her afloat :-P

[@Emmalovesdogs678]

I went on a carnival cruise ship and you could literally still see the dock and stuff like that and then we saw a helicopter taking off with someone who had to go to the hospital

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Oh no! That is always really serious when that happens. I wonder what was going on. Did you enjoy the cruise?

[@sshort1205]

Morgan we are going to Bermuda tomorrow on the Carnival Pride out of Baltimore Maryland USA. Are you planning a review of Bermuda in the future? We would have loved to see what you had to say before we went. We won't be slapping the captain by the way! Happy travels!

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Hahaaaa, yes please don't slap the captain. I don't know if we'll be in Bermuda soon. You'll have to tell me what you did when you get back!

[@AshenTechDotCom]

i have been rude to cruise staff all of 3 times, once because the gal dumped juice all over me, and kept making it worse.. and twice because they did shit like grabbed the controls of my mobility scooter and ran themselves or their co-workers over with my scooter..with me in it.. the one gal..her supervisor found me later and gave me a voucher for a free drink, for not being more upset, after she kept telling me to back up, then reached over my shoulder and ran her own foot over so bad her shoe and sock where off her foot..she made a very angery sound and gave me a dirty look... i just told her, thats why had not backed up yet...and said "dumbass" loud enough she could hear it but not angerly or meanly... her sup said she had to go have them mole skin where she ran herself over, it wasnt bleeding but was weeping and had stuck to her sock.. (ouch been there), i had some zink oxide first aid cream (always bring at least a couple tubes of zinc oxide cream, be it first aid cream or diaper rash cream, the stuffs a life saver), i kept a brand new tube on me, when i saw her, i gave it to her, and told her to use it on her foot, and pointed down.. she was south african, black, and, she turned to chocolate strawberry milk... LOL...so much pink.... later she thanked me, they where not really allowed to take "gifts" from passengers that way from what her super visor said, but, she told her and showed her, and, she found it ok that i did that as a nice gesture, i mean i get why she was annoyed, but, she needed to slow down, and think, before acting... and, realize, everybody was feeling pressed, it was the first day and everybody was trying to get to their rooms... the only time i saw anybody get into any kind of scuffle and not get kicked off... one of the bridge crew and somebody from the customer side got into it, turned out they knew eachother in jr.high and they where both fucking assholes, and both had a few drinks that night(afik the crew member wasnt really sposta be drinking but...well..that just made this happen more quickly, but also likely lead to it being over alot more quickly), with 2 drunk idiots both in the pool, and a bunch of people gawking and laughing at them... they had a damn slap fight... eventually devolving into a few poor punches and 2 grown ass men, likely in their 50's or 60's, rolling around in rough weather, talking about shit that happened decades earlier... in the end, both where sitting neck deap in a pool that was sloshing like a half full cup in a drunk whos fighting the DT's hands... when they looked up and around... then at eachother... all of a sudden you could see a couple school boys... sheepish.. and..then... they both almost at the same moment started laughing.. and sputtering because the ship was a rockin and the where in the pool..as it sloshed around..LOL.... neither of them where taken off by security, hell i told them, that i would bet them another cruise that the fight was over, and the 2 would be buying eachother drinks and talking about people and things they shared in common... i wasnt wrong... but the security fellows also wouldnt take the bet, when we told them what happened.. not one could hold back a grin, if not a full smile, bridge crew brawling... wtf.... either way... i also watched 12 people get booted off because the mother got drunk(didnt want to waste her booze package so she was hitting it as hard as they would let her...).. she got so drunk... she attacked a cardboard cut out of the mascot, then, walked into the alchemy bar, and, i shit you not, i saw the end of this part. chugged a bottle of malibu coco nut rum(well what was left) some of a bottle of applewood estates rum, grey goose vodka, and a few other things, a few chugs, or less if she couldnt swallow and spit it out.. anyway, yeah, when security did show up, she was so drunk she couldnt talk in sentences, and needed something to hold to stay upright... they actually took her to the brig then as soon as they made dock she was turned over to authorities, her husband was lucky he actually had already called security when she started acting nuts, and he and the rest of their multi-cabin group didnt endup booted off or banned..... they nearly gave her a lifetime, but, i was told that several people went to the capt and requested he not do that, she was showing signs of a psychotic break or manic episode and, i agree with what they said, it would be wrong to punish her for life if, as it sounds, this was something that was far from expected or the norm.. temp ban was what she got, but..to rub some salt into the wounds, they gave the family a discount and cabin credit for their next cruse, with an expire date, 6mo before she could sale with them again... non-transferable... even the small kid got one... i got a feeling that, and dealing with the legal system in the bahamas... not knowing if they could endup stuck there for a long time.. prob a very good "you need to get help, and, avoid booze if its going to contribute to that behavior" (the 16yo daughter told me that they actually got a call on the last day, she was going to fly back and meet them at the airport, she had fines to pay, and had to pay for what she did...(the booze bill was over 1500bucks alone..they charged her by the shot for each bottle she drank from...the whole thing... at full cruise rates.. ), i gotta say, and the husband(who kinda befriended my parents...or the other way around? my father and him shared a huge love of the same sports teams), he told us carnival actually helped her get flights and gave her a ticket to ride their shuttle to the port to meet her family and get her belongings(and sign the papers saying she understood she was banned for X amount of time), the husband/father and my father are connected on facebook....one of under 20 people my father has as friends on facebook...he wont even add me... (cannot blame him honestly.... i would annoy him to no end calling out him sharing cnn/buzzfeed/fox quality reporting as fact... i think the crew handled the weird situation i saw and was not really a part of but...was close enough to witness her going off the rails and hear the families take on it... i also think, they had a bit more understanding since, she only lost it after a few days of rough as fuck weather and her being stressed out because, she logically knew the ship was fine, but, emotionally "we are all going to die" ... could easily be that stress that caused a psychotic/manic episode in somebody who never had issues anybody really noticed before... the husband, kids, and the wifes mother and sister went on the cruise the family got at a discount.... they even gave her a discount...shes also a plat member... shes taken so many cruises she and charlie(gal who about lives on carnival cruises, and is well known), could probably compete on who has more cards saved up... she found it very amusing that her daughter who was always the good straight laced one, was the one who got kicked off a ship and arrested for trying to drink every bottle behind the bar, before security got there.. (i have met her now, shes a bloody riot.. omg.. shes what my grand mother would have been like, had she not gotten stomich cancer and died all too young.

[@insertnamehere5660]

Just to say Morgan, I have not left, I'm Olli smith btw. I just went to Cornwall

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

Hey Olli! Nice to "see" you again.

[@insertnamehere5660]

Very unOfficial Travel Guides Yes, it's good to watch these videos again.

[@brrrrrrrrit2663]

Going on the ruby princess for a week long Alaska cruise next august for our honeymoon!!!

[@edwardcameron4149]

4 days ago I got of a 12 day cruise on Holland America`s Eurodam

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

+Edward Cameron I hope you had a great time!

[@edwardcameron4149]

Thank you very much; It was wonderfull, and I agree with you on how you love cruiseing, its awsome!

[@ValerieReese]

We're going on Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas to Alaska at the end of May.

[@joshj5194]

Valerie Reese may 2018? My wife and I too!

[@joshj5194]

Valerie Reese if this year, how was it???

[@jontee2724]

So say the wrong thing to a crew member and you could get kicked off, sounds pretty touch and go, me personally I think customer service is gone to shit now a days,so ...I probably wouldn't make it out the harbour lol

[@mrfanaticgamer8716]

Going on Carnival Breeze in 2018! Leaving from Galveston, Tx! :D

[@bencarter2841]

My brother got kicked of the Carnival Legend in New Zealand when he streaked through the Casino 😂😂

[@VeryunOfficialTravelGuides]

2 Questions: Why did he do it (and do you have any pictures)?