Has anyone got any cruise from HELL stories to share

cruise reporter

31 August 2008

Cruise companies seem to be putting customers first as they should, but has anyone had a really really bad cruise that they want to share what happened. Please don't hold back, dying to hear the stories Cheers T

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staceygrove

04/01/2009 12:43:04

Re: Has anyone got any cruise from HELL stories to share

A few years ago now my husband and I were celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversary and went on Fred Olsens Black Prince. To say it is the death ship is being polite. We booked it as it was advertised as having a pontoon from which you could do water skiing and various other water sports. Once onboard of course staff told us that it had not been used for over 5 years and said just look at the age of the cruisers. We had to make a detour at one point to Malta as someone had a heart attack, whilst being nosy and watching the unfortunate casualty being off loaded another elderly lady slipped and broke her hip, but did not tell anyone till we were an hour outside of Malta. So once this was discovered we had to turn around and go back to Malta to off load another casualty. Most nights we were in bed by 10 as the entertainment was war songs or a scottish harmonica player with a ginger wig. The entertainment was repeated for the 3 weeks we were on board. Having said that I am not saying that I am ageist we met some lovely people, but variety would have been nice. The swimming pool which was heated broke the first week and was not repaired so 2 weeks of freezing water or no swimming at all. We also experienced the most snobbery on this cruise, as we had been previously on CTCs Southern Cross and Airtours Sundream (which was great fun). When we of course got the "have you cruised before question" we were answered with "well some people like might like that sort of thing". Cruising to us if Fun, Dressing up (as most of us do not have the chance to wear lovely clothes all day) Seeing amazing places, meeting new people, and eating lovely food and most of all enjoying ourselves, perhaps Fred Olsen should take note.

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