Bucket List

[mossguy]

I have removed Carnival Cruise from my Bucket List!

[porsche4life]

C'mon Tom, ya gotta live it up now!!!

[weseeeee]

I've been on about ten Carnival Cruise adventures and never had a problem. I'm gald I missed the boat on this one

[9dreizig]

I have a sales meeting on a Carnival ship in April :-(

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, the tugboat cruise does not sound like fun. I bet there are hundreds of lawyers lined up at the doc waiting for them to get off the boat.

[sammyg2]

My bucket list?

A fly yellow 427 cobra from superformance with white racing stripe.
Fully independent suspension with anti-locks and traction control adapated from a modern car.
5 liter engine with a big ole polished 671 blower sitting on top of it with an enderle injector hood for a throttle body pumpin out at least 600 hp.
Stickin up so high I'd hafta look around it to see.
Side pipes with shrouds so as not to burn anyone's legs, but with resonators before the twice pipes so the darn thing would be quiet (except for the weezer whine of course).

That would be the last car I'd ever own.

[KFC911]

KFC 10 piece
Figallon

[gshase]

We went on a Windjammer cruise on the Sailing Vessel Phantom, it sank a few months later in Hurricane Mitch. SV Fantome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by mossguy

I have removed Carnival Cruise from my Bucket List!

You want a few days on a real boat, grey, with numbers on the side, I'll make it work to the best of my ability.

Haze grey, Tom

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by 9dreizig

I have a sales meeting on a Carnival ship in April :-(

Doesn't sound like a problem, as long as you don't have to ever leave port.

[Baz]

Out to sea and stuck with 4k others?

[aigel]

Only boat I go on is a fishing boat. No way in hell will you ever catch me on a cruise ship.

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[Rick Lee]

A Carnival cruise was never on my bucket list, but an ex did talk me into it once. Never again in a million years and the cruise went fine without a hiccup. It was the most ghetto crowd of unworldly, low-class fat bodies I have ever seen. Dinner looked like that old "Prom Night in the Hood" email.

[johnsjmc]

My 85 yr old mother (with macular degeneration) took my wife and I on our first cruise in Nov.2012. She offers trips to my sisters and brother on a rotating basis. Holland America. Other than being a floating nursing home we had a good time. There were two fires while we were at sea. Both were handled very rapidly and efficiently. One in the kitchen and one a burned up transformer in an AC space.
The second one required evacuation of one lower deck at the stern.Precautionary because of smoke in the hallway.
Seeing this my wife doesn,t ever want to go on one again.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by johnsjmc

There were two fires while we were at sea.

What?!?! Twice on the same trip?!

Considering that fire is regarded as the worst emergency to occur on a vessel at sea, I don't care how competently those events seemed to have been resolved. That's a major red flag to me!

However, I must confess that I once went on a cruise in the Greek islands. As much maligned as Greek-flagged vessels may be, they did have lots of cute young (in their 20s) female passengers.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by mossguy

I have removed Carnival Cruise from my Bucket List!

LOL! Too funny to add to..

[aigel]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/us/carnival-cruise-line-ship-triumph-towed-into-port.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0

Even when it is, it will probably come as little comfort to people like Cindel Peña, 28, who ended up sleeping on the deck except on Wednesday, when it rained and she curled up on the casino floor. Since Monday, there had been no gambling or drinking, and there also had been no showers.

“We are all just beyond disgusting,” she said by cellphone, planning her flight back to California.

This obsession with showers is really stupid. So what. People can survive perfectly for a lifetime without a single shower. I'd worry more about food poisoning. But what's really disturbing is that they did not hand out any alcohol. WTF? I would have organized a mutiny to get to the booze!

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[tevake]

Has anyone heard why the company chose to drag all those Pass, all the way across the gulf rather than tow into the nearby port in Mexico?
I can understand the company would prefer to get the ship to a port where repairs are possible asap. But if they were thinking about the pass. the quick dropoff would have shortened their ordeal by many days.

Cheers Richard

[GWN7]

Originally Posted by tevake

Has anyone heard why the company chose to drag all those Pass, all the way across the gulf rather than tow into the nearby port in Mexico?
I can understand the company would prefer to get the ship to a port where repairs are possible asap. But if they were thinking about the pass. the quick dropoff would have shortened their ordeal by many days.

Cheers Richard

Because there is no way to fix the ship in a Mexican port. Logistics to bring the men and materials into Mexico to do the repairs and the time required would be astronomical.

News reports say the company has offered the passengers a full refund, a second cruise and $500 cash. Not to mention hotel and connecting flights when they reach port.

[tevake]

My thinking was that they could have pulled in the nearest port to drop off the pass. Then head out towing deadhead to a port for repairs. That would have been a kindness to the pass.
It was reported that the break down happened less than one hundred miles from a major port in mexico. Sure that would have cost the company a bit more in the short term. Perhaps not so in the long run.