An Interesting story...

Brady121291 · June 19, 2006

:rolleyes: Last July I took a cruise aboard the voyager of the seas from Bayonne, New Jersey.It was a beautiful sunny day, Our cruise was set to embark at 5:00, when an announcement came on stating "Due to Food supply the cruise will not begin embarkation until 7:00" which was fine by me, as I had more time to view the New York Skyline, as I looked overboard I saw crates being loaded aboard, which I thought was the extra supply. Then 7:00 came along, and nothing happened, finally by 8:25 the motors began to run, it seemed we were finally off, We had finally embarked by 9:00. It seemed odd that we didn't leave earlier as the ship seemed ready to go by 7:00. I thought whatever, the cruise had left, everything was great!! I went out and enjoyed my first night, at about midnight I finally came back to the cabin, I flipped on the TV and CNN came on, I saw the headline "Cruise ship Delay!!!", and I saw the picture of the voyager of the seas, It said that the delay was because of the fact that we were head on with Tropical Storm Frances, That worried me,and the fact that there were huge waves crashing against the ship, I went to sleep, then the news had spread, we had a bumpy cruise, but It still was great!!

Joshua Brady, :tongue:

GottaCruz · June 19, 2006

A few years back, we were on the Paradise, the non-smoking ship , in the Port of Miami. We couldn't understand why we were so delayed in leaving. It was about 2 hours after the time we were supposed to leave. Finally, we found out that some people had been found aboard with tobacco products and had to be taken off the ship before we left. I don't know if they were just found to be carrying tobacco products or if they were caught using them . When boarding, you even had to sign papers indicating that you knew it was a non-smoking ship and that you couldn't take aboard any tobacco products. Guess those folks had that"I won't get caught syndrome". Anyway, it was smooth sailing after that.

DaCruzNut · June 19, 2006

During my first cruise, aboard the Holiday, Hurricane Hugo was battering the Wester Caribbean. While we were cruising the Eastern Caribbean, the water was rough for a few days and we hed a bunch of extra ships in oyur ports...