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Update: 11 October 2019 The Norwegian Spirit returned to Southhampton, UK morning of 11 October. Many passengers minced no words as to their displeasure with the number of sea days encountered during their 14 day cruise (7 instead of 4) and destinations missed. With many threatening legal action against Norwegian …
October, 2019
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1 October
Two elderly Brits guilty of drug smuggling on Marco Polo
Roger & Sue Clarke Meet septuagenarians Roger and Sue Clarke. Roger, 71 and Sue 72 both of the UK who were sentenced to eight years for smuggling drugs. The Clarkes resided in the Guardamar del Segura, Spain. The UK’s Telegraph describes them as the life and soul of local bars …
September, 2019
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21 September
Carnival Corporation forms Incident Analysis Group
Following a series of fines for environmental misdeeds where they were fined $40 million and a variety of on-board incidents involving passengers, Carnival Corporation, the parent company to nine cruise line brands and self-declared “world’s largest leisure travel company” has formed an internal investigations group to which they hung the …
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12 September
Mexico 2020 Cruise Season Opens in San Diego
The Port of San Diego’s 2020 cruise ship season is upon us. The port advises that 104 ships will visit the port this season, from a host of companies (see below). The vast majority of the cruise ships will be heading south to the Mexican Riviera, though a few will …
July, 2019
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28 July
Brawl at sea on board P&O’s Britannia
The P&O Cruise ship Britannia was 12 hours out of the port of Bergen on the tail end of a luxury cruise to the Norweign Fiords. The ship was heading back to the port of South Hampton and all hell broke loose on the 16th deck. The cruise ship had …
March, 2019
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30 March
Video voyeurism - motels, hotels, and cruise ships
More than 1500 people were surrepticiously videotaped in South Korean motels If you turned on the news in the last 48 hours you no doubt heard of the arrest of two men in South Korea for having surrepticiously installed video cameras in more than 42 rooms spread across 30 different …
November, 2018
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1 November
Carnival Fantasy - There’s a video camera in my room!
There’s a video camera in my room and we’re not talking about the one in our smartphone, must have been the exclamation of Chris and Dana White of Pensacola, Florida when they found a video camera hidden behind their stateroom’s television aboard the Carnival Fantasy in October 2017. The shocking …
October, 2018
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6 October
Cruise passengers gone wild - Australia edition
The luxury cruise ship market serving the Australia and Southeast Asia market continues to grow, and with such the law of averages state that untoward onboard incidents will also grow. Within the last year two cruises within this market have percolated to the top as sufficiently disruptive to capture the …
May, 2018
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11 May
What happens when you forget your passport?
You hear stories of this or that person having forgotten their passport and being turned away at the airport for international flights or at the dock for international cruises. And for the normal John Q. Public, that is the norm. The airline or cruise line have check lists in place …
