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03-17-2013, 10:49 AM
Warriorbird

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Originally Posted by Parkbandit

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You may not believe this, but ANOTHER Carnival cruise ship is having issues.

The fourth in a month!

This time, it's the Carnival Legend. Technical problems are affecting its sailing speed in the Caribbean. So Carnival says it's skipping its Grand Cayman stop and heading slowly back to Tampa.

It's only been a month since the Triumph spent 8 days without power, trapping thousands on board.

On Saturday, the Elation needed a tugboat to get into port due to steering problems. Then on Wednesday, the Dream got stuck in St. Maarten.

Carnival says it's offering refunds and discounts to passengers on both the Legend and the Dream. People on the Dream are being flown home starting this morning. The company said it only makes sense and that it's arranging charter and commercialflights to Orlando or their final destinations.

Carnival also downplayed reports of overflowing toilets on the Dream.

Wow. I've even been on the Legend. Insanity.
03-17-2013, 10:52 AM
diethx

Maybe with all the trouble, they'll let you cancel your trip and you can book elsewhere. I realize it was a group thing but.. what if your ship breaks down?
03-17-2013, 11:01 AM
Parkbandit

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Originally Posted by diethx

Maybe with all the trouble, they'll let you cancel your trip and you can book elsewhere. I realize it was a group thing but.. what if your ship breaks down?

I don't know.. I'm no fan of Carnival.. but my hope is that 4 breakdowns in a month is a really REALLY bad string of luck and not a systemic problem of old ships that aren't being taken care of.

Might be too late for all the families involved to change their plans... but maybe we will get a discount if we say we are concerned..

And we're all looking into travel insurance.
03-17-2013, 11:07 AM
diethx

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Originally Posted by Parkbandit

I don't know.. I'm no fan of Carnival.. but my hope is that 4 breakdowns in a month is a really REALLY bad string of luck and not a systemic problem of old ships that aren't being taken care of.

Might be too late for all the families involved to change their plans... but maybe we will get a discount if we say we are concerned..

And we're all looking into travel insurance.

I hope for your sake that's all it is. :/
03-17-2013, 12:05 PM
Mighty Nikkisaurus

I just got back from a little over a week long cruise with Norwegian. In every port we were docked next to the Dream and pretty much everyone from our ship and the Disney ship that was our other sister ship said she didn't look so good. Most ships on port days do a shit ton of maintenance including rust removal, etc and you just did not see that on the Carnival ship and a lot of people who were on board complained about it (plumbing especially). They skipped Nassau because the Dream was having issues even getting into port despite very calm water. Lots of pissed off people because there's some pretty expensive excursions on the island (Atlantis and all) and they wouldn't even anchor in the harbor and let people tender to shore. I talked to a few crew members who had been crew on other cruise lines who all said that NCL and a few other cruise lines (like Celebrity) are very careful to dry dock their ships for at least a total of 1 month out of the year combined (usually it's one to two weeks at a time) to do heavy maintenance on them. Carnival apparently does not do that and hasn't had any issues only using dry dock for "emergency" situations, but now it's coming back to bite them in the ass hard core.

I wish you luck PB but I'd definitely advise you guys to opt for the travel insurance. Even on these busted cruises their "consolations" are super shitty and I know if I took time off for a 7 day cruise that broke down half way through, a free 3 day cruise would not be enough to make up for it.
03-17-2013, 02:13 PM
diethx

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Originally Posted by Mighty Nikkisaurus

I wish you luck PB but I'd definitely advise you guys to opt for the travel insurance. Even on these busted cruises their "consolations" are super shitty and I know if I took time off for a 7 day cruise that broke down half way through, a free 3 day cruise would not be enough to make up for it.

This exactly. HI NIKKI!!!!!!!!
03-17-2013, 10:52 PM
Mighty Nikkisaurus

HI, I EXIST AND LIVE AND SHIT. <3 I'm flaky, that's why I don't hang around the PC. Also I'm still licking my wounds from the whole losing-my-best-friend-because-his-wife-didn't-know-I-existed fiasco. It's hard to be here and laugh at shit and realize that I can't talk about with Nachos :/
03-17-2013, 11:12 PM
Latrinsorm

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Originally Posted by Mighty Nikkisaurus

HI, I EXIST AND LIVE

Yay!

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AND SHIT.

Girls don't poop. :nono:

edit: PS come join the real life cyber Barbie thread!!! Your outfit IRL is automatically sorted!
03-18-2013, 05:05 PM
DCSL

One client is late and it makes me late for everyone else. Inconsiderate!
03-18-2013, 10:11 PM
iJin

I'm really sick, stomach feels like its on fire, internal volcano wanting to self-combust. Can't compute.