Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Cruise from Hell

A few months ago, there was a flurry of news items about the plight of the Carnival Triumph, a ship which due to power failures was uncooled, unable to move, and had nonfunctional toilets.  And cold food from the buffet.  It was variously styled the Poop Cruise or the Cruise from Hell.

Anyway, the ship had to be towed back to the U.S., before docking in Mobile.  A further indignity for many passengers.

It was a hot, miserable experience for the passengers.  I wonder why they had to sail back all the way back to the U.S.A.   Couldn't they land at some nearby port and charter flights for the passengers back home?

But, like other nautical misadventurous smaller than the Titantic class, this faded from public consciousness due to other, more current news.

But how did a cruise of this type affect the passengers?  I suspect that some might have sworn off sailing forever; but there would be others who might have seen it as a "unique experience," one to provide a topic of conversation in the future.  After all, humans do enjoy reliving past experiences; and their memories of adverse ones are sometimes softened with time, provided  they are not too traumatic.  They may come to see it as a test that they passed.

And, who knows, maybe there will be Cruise from Hell reunions in the future.  As a matter of fact, a canny cruise company might employ that for one of its currently popular theme cruises.

6 comments:

MarkD60 said...

I think they all got free trips from Carney-val

Grand Crapaud said...

A news item today indicated that Carnival knew about the problems beforehand.

Mike said...

All the passengers should get life time free cruises for that fiasco.

Duckbutt said...

Some of the cruise ships have maintenance issues. Recently, we took a cruise on HAL and it had a/c problems.

Those ships with 4000-5000 people on board may be especially hard to evacuate from if needed.

TexWisGirl said...

i'd never take a cruise again - not that i've ever wanted to...

Bilbo said...

We've taken four cruises with Princess and never had any trouble ... knock on wood.