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This came from my mother. She was on the same cruise vacation. Yes the vacation was great, thank you for asking.
[BACKGROUND/]: Our ship arrived at Half Moon Cay, a Bahamian island owned by the cruise line. This is a tender port. Most cruise ships are too large to dock there, so they open a gang plank to smaller vessels called tenders. As this island is coral-formed, building a pier to accomodate today's mega-ships would be quite a feat of engineering (that's the civil engineer in my talking).[/END BG]
On the scheduled day, it was seriously windy--I could see white caps on waves and tenders were getting tossed almost vertical.
The captain determined that trying to use tenders would be quite dangerous, so he wisely cancelled the port stop and turned the ship towards Jamaica, our next scheduled stop. Yes, of course, we (us passengers) were refunded for reserved excursions and port taxes. As Mrs. TGK reserved a cabana, so our refund was significant
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Mother was at the excursions desk just opposite Guest Services and overheard a big guy in swim trunks. He was extremely upset that the port of call was cancelled. This member of Dark Helmet's crew reamed out the guest service staff, as if they made the decision
He used all the classics: ruined vacation (never mind that we were only one day into a seven-day cruise), never sailing this line again (some had a 'thank God for that' look on their faces)...all in all a tantrum that would embarrass the children on board.
I find to easy to believe that this
would not waste time suing if he broke a fingernail or worse.
I hope (strictly for his sake
) that he realizes that he can be disembarked at any port-- and not necessarialy back in Ft. Lauderdale.
Our stop in Grand Cayman was also cancelled due to high winds and waves overtopping the tender pier--it was so extreme that the local port authority closed it down and barred all cruise vessels. I wonder how he acted at that time, assuming the captain didn't have him chucked at Ocho Rios (a docking port).
[BACKGROUND/]: Our ship arrived at Half Moon Cay, a Bahamian island owned by the cruise line. This is a tender port. Most cruise ships are too large to dock there, so they open a gang plank to smaller vessels called tenders. As this island is coral-formed, building a pier to accomodate today's mega-ships would be quite a feat of engineering (that's the civil engineer in my talking).[/END BG]
On the scheduled day, it was seriously windy--I could see white caps on waves and tenders were getting tossed almost vertical.
The captain determined that trying to use tenders would be quite dangerous, so he wisely cancelled the port stop and turned the ship towards Jamaica, our next scheduled stop. Yes, of course, we (us passengers) were refunded for reserved excursions and port taxes. As Mrs. TGK reserved a cabana, so our refund was significant.Mother was at the excursions desk just opposite Guest Services and overheard a big guy in swim trunks. He was extremely upset that the port of call was cancelled. This member of Dark Helmet's crew reamed out the guest service staff, as if they made the decision
He used all the classics: ruined vacation (never mind that we were only one day into a seven-day cruise), never sailing this line again (some had a 'thank God for that' look on their faces)...all in all a tantrum that would embarrass the children on board.I find to easy to believe that this
would not waste time suing if he broke a fingernail or worse.I hope (strictly for his sake
) that he realizes that he can be disembarked at any port-- and not necessarialy back in Ft. Lauderdale.Our stop in Grand Cayman was also cancelled due to high winds and waves overtopping the tender pier--it was so extreme that the local port authority closed it down and barred all cruise vessels. I wonder how he acted at that time, assuming the captain didn't have him chucked at Ocho Rios (a docking port).
(Most of them are around the idea that Holt was secretly a Chinese spy and one theory was that he was abducted 
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