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Posted: 1 year ago | 328 Views

Yeah sure............... lesson learned

https://www.cruisehive.com/cruise-passenger-criticized-after-casually-arriving-late-to-ship/106153

Kind of bewildered by this article. Near the end, it states "this saga serves as a stark reminder to all future cruise guests about the importance of punctuality and respecting the schedules of the ship and their fellow travelers". How so? I would only agree with that statement if the ship were adhering to their departure schedule and planned to leave the dock at the scheduled time. Had they done that, or did they linger past their scheduled departure time to accommodate this guest? The way this article was written, it's impossible to know. I do know that if that were my wife and I, the speed in which that woman is walking would be our "short distance sprinting speed", and I can assure you the ship would be pulling away from the dock.

PS: Although the pics and video are from a distance, she kind of resembles CCL's President Christine Duffy. That may explain things.

PPS: Hey Y47.... This is your ship (you only sailed on her about 500 times). Do you happen to recognize this person?

9 Answers

Posted: 1 year ago

There are a number of YouTube videos. Some are quite amusing

Here's one that's pretty sarcastic

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8aBrdPKKf4A
Posted: 1 year ago

They were left in Kauai.

Posted: 1 year ago

We did leave a family (Mom, Dad and two toddlers) in San Juan, waited 45 minutes. Sadly the next port was skipped due to high winds. So they had to get to the home port from San Juan. It was a large family group in the ship and the port Carnival rep had a manilla envelope tohand to them. We had pulled away as they showed up. They waved, but not frantically, to their family.
Posted: 1 year ago

Never been there, but most piers usually have a gate at the end with security, in touch with the ship. guess its to prevent some idiot jumping in the water. I assume the ship left them?

Posted: 1 year ago

We were on an Hawaii cruise iin the port of Nawiliwili Kauai, last port of the cruise. I believe the tides indicate the departure of the ship. They paged a couple constantly, 40 minutes past departure time we threw lines and sailed.
When we were about 200 yards off the dock and heading out there they were at the end of the pier waving their arms trying to get the ship to return. It was the last port before heading back to California.

Posted: 1 year ago

Saw an almost once, knowing how to tell time is paramount.
Posted: 1 year ago

I have never witnessed a Pier runner first hand. Hell, the closest ive come to boarding near departure time is 1hr prior...

I believe that this is a stark reminder of how the pandemic has changed society, and how people have forgotten how to act.
Posted: 1 year ago

We've seen some similar walks. My favorite was a guy who acted like he didn't care and waved at the cat calls. As it turned out, he wasn't a passenger at all but an official working on the dock. He pretended to be a passenger.Big Smile
Posted: 1 year ago

Yknow i had several responses and re-edited them all....waaay too over the top for this place...except clearly she was allowed out on the pier by Security up at the entrance...so everybody knew she was there...takes stones not to want to run etc etc, but once out there, the ship's not going anywhere...and if 1000+ people are making noises, clearly she doesn't care...reminds me of one of my exes....

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