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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by DidYaWipe on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:45AM (#41485765)
For my girlfriend's family's sake, I've taken cruises the last two years. One Royal Caribbean, and one Norwegian.

Decades ago I took a couple of Carnival cruises.

Things are not better now. What a shitshow. Royal Caribbean sucked, but Norwegian was a new low. The only word that describes both the en-route experience and the destinations is DISMAL.

At least Royal Caribbean had a pleasant food-court type of dining area, with stations of verious kinds in a dispersed layout that was navigable. Norwegian had only a narrow "racetrack" going around a central core, with serving stations in the wall. It was only a few feet wide, which meant you couldn't move because it was blocked by scooters (a totally predictable situation given the demographics of cruise ships).

Then there was the smoke. WTF. We had an upper cabin with a balcony. Doing 20 knots on the open ocean, we couldn't hang out out there because it was continually inundated with cigarette smoke... and not even from the immediate neighbor. It was mind-boggling. There was also a smoking area right next to a sushi restaurant. And you had to walk through the smoke-ridden casino area on every deck to get anywhere on the boat. At least Royal Caribbean kept that whole giant ashtray confined to a central area on the lower level. Totally fine.

Cruises are absolute shit. You're way better off just going to an all-inclusive resort somewhere, even somewhere cheap.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by jesterson on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:58AM (#41485833)
Not sure where you have gotten your experience from. If there is a smoke just complain and it will be taken care of.

Been cruising for many years and loving it.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by DidYaWipe on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:26PM (#41493302)
On Norwegian, the casino straddles the entire width of the ship on multiple decks.

Which line do you prefer?

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by DiggyJohnson on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:07PM (#41489939)
> Then there was the smoke. WTF. We had an upper cabin with a balcony. Doing 20 knots on the open ocean, we couldn't hang out out there because it was continually inundated with cigarette smoke... and not even from the immediate neighbor.

Did you notify staff? This would almost certainly get remediated or result in reimbursement.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by DidYaWipe on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:25PM (#41493286)
It wasn't possible to identify the source.

Now that you mention it, though, I wonder what they would have done. Late at night before bed, when you want to hang out and look at the ocean, isn't the time you want to call the steward and wait for someone to come up into your room.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by DiggyJohnson on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @09:27AM (#41500568)
Yea I mean the best they can do is reassign your room but it's the same situation as if this happened in a elevator. My point being that "smells like human shit in my room" is just as unacceptable on a boat as it is in a hotel.
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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by DidYaWipe on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @10:56AM (#41501429)
Hahaha, well it wasn't in the room; only outside on the side of the ship. And appeared to be widely dispersed. Thus it didn't seem as though a solution would be forthcoming anyway.
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