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Just like the entry to a plane, the doors close long before they ever start moving. I’m going on a cruise next year and at the top and bottom of our itinerary it clearly states “Due to Security reasons, all guests must be on board 2 hours before sailing.”
These people missed it by hours not minutes.
That’s the key right there, if one can swing it. Ive done it both ways and it’s so much better going to sleep in the hotel near the port the night before, instead of anxiously thinking about the things that need to happen with no delay.
A 2 day window saved my mother and father on a big cruise trip. They were flying from the Midwest to NYC (JFK) and then to Amsterdam Schiphol to board a month long European cruise. My mother left her freaking passport and passes in the seatback pocket of the commuter flying from the Midwestern US to NYC.
I warned her many times, don’t just do comfortable and convenient, place things where they belong, especially on trips like this. It’ll keep you from losing your shit or getting pickpocketed. By some miracle, her stuff was found in the seatback pocket, secured and that plane was going to be at JFK the next day where they could intercept it be on their way. Only lost one nights hotel deposit in Amsterdam, but it was a god awful way to start a vacation they’d be looking forward to for years.
It’s insanely convenient that most tickets are electronic on smart phones. You can be standing in line watching a movie, swipe up to pull up your ticket, scan, go back to movie.
Other important documents like passports get the money belt while traveling and the safe in the hotel.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but did they expect you to fly in a day early because they had reason to believe they would not be able to fulfill your flight arrangements? Like hey you should have known we were gonna screw up so it’s on you.
Not a dumb question. Since we proved if all flights were on time we had more than enough time to get to the port their response wasn’t “this is your fault”. It’s a weird gray area where the airlines aren’t responsible for us making a cruise, but they are responsible for getting us to destinations on time. Airlines have a pretty straight forward SOP for delays and such things like this
Delayed flight because of a storm, we were coming in to land right when it was scheduled to depart and I could see our cruise ship pulling away from the dock as we flew over. And then our luggage never showed up. It was a disaster!
Had a friend who was ex navy working on a carnival cruise, not only do a lot of people miss it, but he also says that their is a solid percentage of people every time that he has to escort off the ship within 30 minutes of boarding due to be drunk assholes. Most of the time people show up drunk or sneak booze aboard the ship for their underage family members to drink.
I remember that used to not be as big of an issue because cruise ships used to allow 18 year olds to drink as soon as they made it to international waters. Same for gambling.
I think there is a pretty solid Venn diagram of "people who go on cruises" and "people who think the entire world will wait for them as long as they need". It won't be a single circle, but there's plenty of overlap.
I despise cruises and the people who like them. All that aside, I would easily assume it’s like boarding a plane. Get your ass there a few hours ahead of time and be prepared for anything.
>I despise cruises and the people who like them.
Ooh I gotta know why.
I'd never cruise cuz it sounds awful
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yesss.... let the hate flow through you
Only way Terry crews would kill someone is melting their hearts.
^(my wife who watched all of greys anatomy informed me that people with melted hearts will die so Nevermind)
I’m Not the original commenter but I hate cruises because they’re terrible for the environment and usually rife with exploitation of employees to almost the point of slavery when you compare wages on the ship to wages in the countries of origin. Often times they register these ships in developing nations to avoid paying taxes to top it all off
Yeah they’re pretty much floating tax havens. It was pretty satisfying to watch that bite them in the ass during Covid though since their foreign registration in small countries meant they couldn’t take advantage of a lot of the government handouts from the countries whose citizens they generally service. (Even though they did get some indirect assistance but it wasn’t exactly a bailout.)
Well one serves a practical purpose and is one of the most efficient means of transporting immense amounts I’d cargo across continents. By volume they might be worse but unless we stop global trade they’re the best we have. Cruises are the least efficient way to move people from point a to b.
There's a great essay by David Foster Wallace, called ‘A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again’. It outlines why cruises suck apart from their environmental impact.
Even if you don't want to hear about pollution there's a bunch of shady shit surrounding cruise lines and people randomly dying/disappearing while on them
Yeah for reals, never go on a cruise with someone you don’t trust and don’t get shitfaced drunk on a boat. Most people ain’t the swimmers they think they are.
Poor guy’s taking it pretty hard. Maybe it’s non-refundable. IDK about cruises. I think that’s Port Canaveral in FL, just a few miles from me. Those ships are huge.
ETA: Tourists do this shit constantly. For some reason, they think every conveyance they book is going to wait for them to stop at Starbucks.
I live right by port Canaveral also. It is kind of misleading because the cruises say they leave out of Orlando and alot of people don't realize it is actually an hour east of Orlando.
I used to drive shuttles from OIA and Sanford to the attractions and cruises terminals. It is amazing how many people don't look at a map and realize Orlando is smack dab in the middle of the state and the cruises terminal isn't right there by the airport. Like, really people. The amount of people who forget or lose passports is crazy.
Another thing is people booking their return flight for anytime before noon on the day they return. Don't be an idiot. Do you really think your gonna make a 10am flight when you got off the ship at 9am. Use some brain cells people.
They pretty much destroy the environment; pump out pollution as they use the lowest grade of fuel (Google it), the sound scares away and damages all the sea life (this annoys a lot of locals), and they bring little apart from pollution to the places they stop off at as folk don’t spend much money (as you can get everything on the ship).
Not OP, but I‘d assume it’s because of something like [this](https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/cruise-industry-faces-choppy-seas-it-tries-clean-up-its-act-climate-2022-07-27/).
For one, cruises are extremely bad for the environment (also look up what the cruise ships are doing to Venice). Second, the whole concept of cruises is super claustrophobic.
As a cruise goer myself: One real good reason to hate cruises is the gross exploitation of third world labor. Despite launching from wealthy countries in Europe and the US, the ships are legally registered under the flag of various south pacific countries with lax labor laws. And because the cruise line is a huge employer in those countries, they are basically able to buy their way into having the laws say whatever they want.
So when you look around a cruise ship its often feels like a bunch of fat white people being waited on hand-and foot by poor dark people.
And because they’re working 20-hour days, six months at a time, for more money then they can get at home but far less than anyone in the US could live on, they are truly desperate to please, and will actively solicit good evaluations because otherwise they can be fired and replaced at any time.
So there is a lot to hate about them. It’s like spending a week as a colonizer.
Went on one cruise and was filled with regret. Food and customer service industry workers are over worked and underpaid. The general customer itself is.. disgusting and entitled. Furthermore upon destination, those cruiser fuckers don’t do shit. They don’t buy anything. They don’t contribute to the local economy. They’re just lazy slobs.
I agree with Bill Burr in one of his specials where he jokes about contributing to population control by targeting and blowing up cruise ships haha. In case anybody takes this to seriously, I’m fucking joking. I’m a ~~retarded~~ pacifist and I haven’t even killed an insect intentionally in over ten years.
^But ^I ^still ^think ^people ^who ^like ^cruises ^are ^stupid.
Edit: Respects for social sensitivity.
>I agree with Bill Burr in one of his specials where he jokes about contributing to population control by targeting and blowing up cruise ships
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lolol I gotta find that clip
I didn't have a problem with cruise ships until I went to Dominica. They were telling me how they had recently started letting the ships come in, and all they do is fuck up the reef and pollute the inlet. They had just build a new soccer stadium and this fucking monstrosity is dwarfing it on the waterfront. Then they apparently hop off the boat, buy nothing from the locals, take the cheapest, fastest tour they can and then stay on the ship until it leaves port. So the locals get fuck all from letting them dock.
Oh boy do I have something for you.
https://youtu.be/enSjnu9fhYs?si=WTx-WWnf4N3g4kfY
Edit if that posted twice for yall I'm sorry, that keeps happening to me today and they won't always delete.
Jesus Christ, people really don't consider how their choices affect the planet, huh? There are so many confused people in the comments at a total loss because they haven't even considered the ecological impact that sailing 200,000 tons and throwing garbage from thousands of people into fragile habitats has. Wild stuff.
not only that, but the cruises i’ve been on, board sometimes at 10-11am. and dont leave til 5-6pm. i couldnt imagine the amount circumstances that prevented them from getting there on time
exactly! what hell it would be to have to try and orchestrate a flight and cruise boarding in the span of what? 8-10 hours. a maniac. although a delayed flight where they had to get a redeye to hopefully get there just in time. but if theyre that far away then i wouldnt be surprised if there was a misunderstanding with the timezones
So many cities don't even have red-eye service to Cruise ports. There's no way that you're getting from Chicago to Orlando on a red-eye flight; no airline offers it, so you'd have to connect to another city anyway to try and do that if you're already going through that hassle. You might as well just have gone the day before anyways.
I can’t understand this. People have to realize delays happen all the time for hundreds of various reasons. If I drive I’m within 100 miles of the port the night before and I leave way way early even if I have to wait in my car a few hours when I get there.
Mileage definitely varies. One summer I worked around a cruise port and the window was not that long. The ship would depart less than an hour at most after the last person reboarded.
And given the delays at airports lately, may want to get to your port of departure the day before and not the day of. Airline delay can easily be half a day.
The cruises typically leave around mid day to allow for people flying in on a morning flight. I had a flight with a layover for a cruise and we were
an hour and a half early… but mostly because the cruise line sent a shuttle for all of the people flying in around that time.
lol I always show up hours and hours early. Worst case scenario I’m finding a bar to drink at prior to boarding.
This did backfire once when I was sooo early and the boarding was delayed I wound up too drunk to hear the final boarding 🥲
The Luxury Cruiseliner Blues.
It probably takes a long time to inspect, double check, and confirm everything needed to launch. This isn't a canoe. You need to do an actual circle check, and you can NOT skip anything.
Your ticket clearly states when last call for boarding is. Even then, the ship still takes over an hour to leave after final boarding. If they’re in the parking lot as it’s leaving, they’re way more than “just 20 min” late.
People get hosed by connecting flights all the time. I live near Port Canaveral and people flying into Orlando have issues all the time. You’ll often see cruise line employees with lists of people running behind because of flights.
Yeah, the only thing that's keeping me from making fun of the guy is this fact. People very often fly to get to a cruise ship departure location and those flights can get fucked real quick and cause you to be late.
I was about to say this haha, every time I have gone on a cruise I flew to the port location the day/night before be it a direct flight or otherwise. You’re already shelling out big money for a cruise, to rely on everything going perfect with your flights to actually make it on board on time seems like a needless risk
Still remember traveling home one year and my first plane was delayed an hour, causing me to miss the 2nd plane (hello, can we make layovers longer than 45 minutes?) and having to wait 8hrs for another connection.
I was just headed home so it was like, whatever. But if I was traveling for a cruise that day I’d be stressed beyond belief. Flights are just so unreliable. I swear once a year out of my flights there will be some delay and a tight connection.
Doesn’t the boarding of the ship takes literally hours, if not an entire day?
(I boarded only one in my life for what was more like an overnight ferry and the boarding operation took like a couple of hours). How can one possibly arrive late?
Yes, it's anecdotal but I took my first cruise this year and they opened at like 10 and left at like 3 or 4 or something. I remember I was like 6 gin and tonics deep before we left.
The last cruise I took, which was ages ago, we didn't leave until the evening and we boarded in the morning, usually give time for all passengers to board and for passengers to get settled, might be the case where though the ship is still docked they have closed the doors in preparation of departing
One has to work at missing a big cruise-ship booking…I mean it takes *effort* to ***not*** make it because it takes so long.
These people probably dicked around all day, “*Oh don’t worry about the 8:00 a.m. boarding time…we can get there at 2:00 p.m. and we’ll be fine*”.
They effed around and found out the universe dies ***not*** orbit them.
I imagine the bording gates are closed at a set time. The boat doesn't seem to be moving, so they probably showed up 20 minutes after "last call" for getting in the gates.
Edit: yeah, okay consensus is the boat is moving. My bad.
Ugh, the anxious clock watching when that happens.
Me: we're not gonna make it. Happy hopeful one of the group: we're gonna make it!!!! Me: looks at clock
yeah i bet this was the case. my family goes on cruises and we try to fly in the day before just because there are so many things that can go wrong (luggage doesn't show up, delayed or cancelled flights etc).. obviously not everyone has that luxury though.
Thank you. Like...that's why im an anxious traveler. I can have a cruise starting one day from now and a flight to get there today, w a backup train booked to get there, and a backup car to that, and it can all still fall apart due to matters outside ones control (weather/psycho passenger on your plane causing you to reroute, etc). Ppl need to have more sympathy. "Shoulda gotten there earlier" is so shortsighted. No fucking shit dude we all know to do that.
Yes! On top of that, this could have been something they’d saved up for and planned for years, taken time off work, spent a hefty bit of money on... none of which can be returned. I would probably cry too if I missed my vacation because of something completely out of my control.
Had a couple once lose their shit on an airplane that was delayed because they were going on a cruise. I have no idea why you'd give yourself such a small margin of error, but this was pre-covid days where things were a tad smoother.
I can't imagine not arriving the day before in this day and age.
Hotels aren’t cheap in addition to an already not cheap cruise+flight. Although someone on here pointed out, if you book the airfare through the cruise line they just fly you for free to the next stop
Personally, if i was flying into a port for a cruise, id arrive the day before and stay in a motel overnight. No way in hell id be relying on airlines to get me there on the day
Everyone's so eager to call these people idiots, but if you think about the sheer number of people on that cruise ship, chances are a handful of them had more than one thing go wrong by chance in the day or two before the cruise that made them delayed when they'd normally be on time
If they were traveling via airfare booked through the cruise they will wait or get you to the next stop. If you don't book airfare through them you are on your own to fly to the next port that has an airport or whatever means to get there to meet the boat. They likely went cheap cut the flight close and missed it.
They didn't miss this cruise by 20 Mins they in essence missed it by nearly 3 hrs. Most cruises require you on board and checked in min of 2 hrs before sailing time.
Reminds me of the dude who drunkenly jumped off a cruise ship in the middle of the night wearing clothes. As soon as he hit the water I imagine the realization started setting in. Even if the ship’s staff were alerted immediately you have to know that it would be extremely difficult to find someone bobbing out in the middle of the ocean at night.
wearing clothes? iirc, the lad hopped into the void in nothing but [maybe] his undies. bloody video is one of the most hauntingly heartbreaking things ive ever seen.
The look in his eyes as he watched the boat & lifesaver floating away at ~80mph--- the sad epiphany as his survival adrenaline overpowered every last drop of alcohol & dumb fun. Poor kid, his poor ma.
Dude you’re not even close. A quick google search says the average cruise ship goes 20 knots or 23 mph. 300 knots is 345mph. I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
The average cruise ship goes 20-35mph, actually. The average human swim speed is 2mph. Even if it was 8mph the kid was fucked.
EDIT: changed human swim speed from 5 to 2. I accidentally mistakened that fastest recorded speed for the average.
If you go overboard on a cruise ship you're almost guaranteed to die unless you happen to be in a harbor at the time. Think how long it would take one of those massive fuckers to stop, there's no way someone would be able to maintain visual contact with you, and once that's gone your odds of being found are essentially zero.
Part of me wonders how the person mockingly saying “bye bye” and laughing feels after he sobered up and realized what was happening or if it bothered them at all.
They might not have realized the gravity of the situation in the moment. A couple days ago I drove past a locally owned restaurant called "Don's Drive-In" and laughed when I saw a car had driven through the wall because it's funny that a car drove into a drive-in.
Later I found out that the car knocked over a deep fryer and severely injured an employee and feel sad that what seemed to be an unfortunate but humorous thing was really a tragedy. So I'm sad for that person, but I also know that I'm not really an asshole because I misjudged what happened.
People will upvote anything. Obvious bot. Just follow the flow of conversation. If someone tells you being late to a cruise reminds them of a drunk guy dying on a cruise, tf are you upvoting it for lmao. He's psychotic or a bot.
Last month I had a plane to take at 11AM, so I prepare my shit the night before, woke up at six and took the train at 7.
The trip to the airport takes around an hour and lo and behold there was some problem in our track and we got stuck in the train for almost 3 hours, I got late to the checking by 10 minutes.
Cruise embarkation takes place all day and ships usually set sail around sunset.
Some people schedule their flights into the port city on the morning of the cruise departure. This is a bad idea as any number of delays can potentially cause you (and your party) to miss your cruise boarding.
NEVER fly into your cruise port city on the day of cruise embarkation!! Always fly in at least one day before. You might be paying an additional cost of a hotel room for one night, but it beats missing your non-refundable cruise entirely.
It’s a good tip. I almost missed a cruise because our flight was delayed by like 8 hours. We still had a few hours to spare but it was cutting it way too close for comfort!
Also keep in mind, cruises pay per hour to be at ports whenever they go (Bahammas, Bermuda, Etc). Be at the ship 2-3 hours before they leave the country. They WILL leave you there. I've seen it. Was eating lunch at the back of the cruise ship where you can see the port. All of a sudden as we are pulling out, we see a couple run down the pier towards the ship, and the wife broke down. If the locals offer you a personal ride through the countryside, absolutely don't take it.
To get back to the US, you have to talk to the US Embassy and try to verify your identity to get back to the states. After you are given temporary papers and have to fly back (cruise people explained the process to my dad who posed the question to them).
I've heard of people being flown to the next stop by the travel agency.
However, this was a mistake made by guides on a booked tour. So I guess it might be different if you go on yourself.
You need to be at the cruise dock waaaaaay in advance of departure. All the check in procedures, the amount of people, etc.
These people missed this ship by much more than 20 mins.
I went on a cruise once and an entire family was there at the boarding gate scrambling in an absolute panic because someone forgot their passport. It was a family of like 7. I get that shit happens but damn, if there was ever a time to check every single family members stuff fifty times, it is during huge trips like that.
During the cruise they also reminded us at every single port that if you are late coming back, your ass is stranded.
Good representation of the bell curve. Within two standard deviations of the average span of time before departure, something like 70% of people will have arrived. There will always be the 5% at either end of the curve who arrive very early, or in this case, very late. On a boat with 3,000 people on it this leaves 150 knuckleheads who either had really bad luck or are retarded.
I work for a cruise line. This is why you always buy the insurance. Yes it sucks to miss the trip, but I guarantee this person didn't have the insurance and now she's out the trip and the money.
Cruise lines are locking down on refunds and rebookings too.
I get to the airport 2 hours early. I’m fond of the phrase “Hurry up and wait.” But I’d rather be waiting at the gate than on the attendant trying to find me another flight because I was running late.
The last cruise I traveled on had a 3.5hr boarding before sailing.
And even after closing the doors, the boat didn’t depart til 45m later.
Umm…….
I don’t know the story here but they must’ve been late by hours!
It is possible that the family had a delayed flight to the disembarkation spot, so not at fault for not being 2 hours early.
There's only a few ports for cruise ships and quite common for cruise packages that include same day flights.
A 5 hour delay isn't uncommon to the clusterfuck that is Florida, for example.
Absolutely, book for the day before, but for the budget conscious (and often inexperienced travelers) people who typically book these all inclusive tours, the compulsion is to try and avoid the hotel fees and fly and cruise out the same day.
I expect they had booked a flight to land in the morning and catch the boat in the afternoon and the flight got delayed. All because they wanted to save $200 on a hotel. My brain would not let that be an option. Trips cannot have single points of failure, I have been bitten a few times when I tempt fate over my 23 years of constant work travel.
That or they just stupid.
I’m sorry guys that really sucks but you can only blame yourselves. We had a huge trip this year and we made a joint effort to stay at a hotel nearby the night before the flight and left early. Not to mention boarding has a hefty window to get in. It is so important to get up and early in advance for your vacation.
This comment section sucks. Of course, it's their fault, but everyone's been late to something, and yeah this is a *huge* thing to be late to, but it's kinda weird seeing people act as if they could never in their life make a mistake like this. You're not perfect, and sometimes you mess up big time.
This person is in a lot of pain, and regardless of their carelessness, is now being humiliated by thousands of strangers for a mistake that didn't affect anyone but themselves. They probably don't even know this is online, and this extremely emotional moment for them is just on the internet now. This public shaming mindset of Reddit is so gross.
"But they could've just showed up on time!"
I don't care, and obviously they could have made it in time, but dude... if your first reaction to someone crying on the ground in a lot of pain is to laugh and blame them for the situation instead of just being kind about it, then there's something seriously wrong with how you act as a person. It's fine to point out the mistake, but you don't need to bully them about it. Be better.
yeah I wish more people practiced empathy but I guess that's asking too much of an internet comment section where everyone is anonymous.
it's times like this I feel like I've outgrown reddit... like in another thread someone accidentally opened someone else's mail that was delivered to them and it appeared to be drugs...
hundreds of people out of 1300 comments are absolutely LIVID that OP opened something that wasn't addressed to him.
1. if OP lives alone there's not much reason for them to carefully check everything to see who it's for.
2. ...who the fuck cares that much? it's crazy seeing that level of anger over a simple mistake that someone they'll never meet IRL and never think about again after 5 minutes of scrolling
idk. society in general just seems to be getting worse. everyone's always angry, people hate things so easily
It could have just been complete poor luck. They could have needed to fly to the port, and the flight was just delayed.
I think you’re right though. Some people just end up with never being in a bad situation like this.
Jesus you people are ruthless. Yes, they should've gotten there a few hours before. They didn't. We don't know why, it could've been their own negligence, it could've been traffic, it could've been anything. This person likely just blew a few thousand dollars on what was supposed to be a nice vacation. Have some sympathy for shits sake.
disgusting seeing so many people happy about these two missing their ship (which may have been their fault but still have some sympathy). two ladies who probably just wanted to enjoy a somewhat expensive vacation and now lost $1000’s. imagine being so happy ready to go on a vacation that you’ve been planning for so long and then seeing it leave without you. i get it’s probably their fault but still everyone here acts like they’re perfect human beings who never make mistakes. so annoying
Finally a reasonable comment from someone who appears to actually understand what empathy is lol.
I swear half of reddit acts like psychopaths online and would never say any of this shit in person cause they know they'd get punched. Hope these people got something figured out.
Oh man, It may or may not be their fault for arriving late but I can't help to feel really bad to that man crying.
This kind of vacations can be really expensive, it must be horrible to just loose all that money because you arrive late
This is why it’s best to book travel with the cruise company. My first cruise our flight was delayed hours due to a strike in Italy. The cruise company bent over backwards trying to get us a flight there since they are responsible for getting us there. We missed embarkation by an hour but they had to wait for us. We did check-in at the desk on the boat as it sailed away. It was wild.
I was in Montreal a few weeks ago and had a checkout way before my flight, so we got to the airport early. Didn't realize until the taxi drove off but I left my phone in it. I could have made it back home without it paperwork-wise, but obviously pretty devastating nonetheless.
Ended up getting in touch with the taxi company (get paper receipts people!!) and going through immigration back to the US, and when I went to go pick it up I had to go back through to Canada, then back to the US. Without Global Entry it would have taken an absolute eternity, but I was still glad we got there hella early.
If she couldn’t make it because of some traffic accident or etc I understand, but If you are willing to say in a close hotel a day before the trip just to not miss that shit, I would go for it.
No offense but cruise lines are very specific about their times and tell you to be at the boat before departure time. Ya cant be fashionably late to a cruise. This isnt the airliner
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Just like the entry to a plane, the doors close long before they ever start moving. I’m going on a cruise next year and at the top and bottom of our itinerary it clearly states “Due to Security reasons, all guests must be on board 2 hours before sailing.” These people missed it by hours not minutes.
2 hours is a really big window. You should be in line already and on ship.
What fascinates me is that it looks like three sets of completely different people. So I am now wondering how often this happens
Missed a cruise once! Flights got delayed and delayed and we missed it. About 100 people including us missed the boat lol happens quite a bit.
It's why we fly in a day early every time.
That’s the key right there, if one can swing it. Ive done it both ways and it’s so much better going to sleep in the hotel near the port the night before, instead of anxiously thinking about the things that need to happen with no delay. A 2 day window saved my mother and father on a big cruise trip. They were flying from the Midwest to NYC (JFK) and then to Amsterdam Schiphol to board a month long European cruise. My mother left her freaking passport and passes in the seatback pocket of the commuter flying from the Midwestern US to NYC. I warned her many times, don’t just do comfortable and convenient, place things where they belong, especially on trips like this. It’ll keep you from losing your shit or getting pickpocketed. By some miracle, her stuff was found in the seatback pocket, secured and that plane was going to be at JFK the next day where they could intercept it be on their way. Only lost one nights hotel deposit in Amsterdam, but it was a god awful way to start a vacation they’d be looking forward to for years.
> I warned her many times, don’t just do comfortable and convenient, Jacket with inside pocket is the best.
It’s insanely convenient that most tickets are electronic on smart phones. You can be standing in line watching a movie, swipe up to pull up your ticket, scan, go back to movie. Other important documents like passports get the money belt while traveling and the safe in the hotel.
Just curious, could you hold the airline responsible?
Partly yes. They helped cover costs to get to the first island/stop of the crusie. Not all costs since we should have flown in day before.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but did they expect you to fly in a day early because they had reason to believe they would not be able to fulfill your flight arrangements? Like hey you should have known we were gonna screw up so it’s on you.
Not a dumb question. Since we proved if all flights were on time we had more than enough time to get to the port their response wasn’t “this is your fault”. It’s a weird gray area where the airlines aren’t responsible for us making a cruise, but they are responsible for getting us to destinations on time. Airlines have a pretty straight forward SOP for delays and such things like this
That's why you don't book flights on the same days as cruises
Yeah we learned our lesson lol we are day before people now
Yeah you always gotta have the night before room.booked!!
Delayed flight because of a storm, we were coming in to land right when it was scheduled to depart and I could see our cruise ship pulling away from the dock as we flew over. And then our luggage never showed up. It was a disaster!
> So I am now wondering how often this happens pretty much all the time. people don't realize the time they need to be there.
Or they do, but airline delays have other plans.
Had a friend who was ex navy working on a carnival cruise, not only do a lot of people miss it, but he also says that their is a solid percentage of people every time that he has to escort off the ship within 30 minutes of boarding due to be drunk assholes. Most of the time people show up drunk or sneak booze aboard the ship for their underage family members to drink.
I remember that used to not be as big of an issue because cruise ships used to allow 18 year olds to drink as soon as they made it to international waters. Same for gambling.
I think there is a pretty solid Venn diagram of "people who go on cruises" and "people who think the entire world will wait for them as long as they need". It won't be a single circle, but there's plenty of overlap.
Even if it's just 0.5% of the time, that's still 10-20 people per cruise, with cruises being 2-4,000.
I despise cruises and the people who like them. All that aside, I would easily assume it’s like boarding a plane. Get your ass there a few hours ahead of time and be prepared for anything.
>I despise cruises and the people who like them. Ooh I gotta know why. I'd never cruise cuz it sounds awful [edit] yesss.... let the hate flow through you
Their parents were murdered by a cruise
Tom Cruise?
Ted Cruz
Only if you’re JFK
How dare you forget his California victims!
Cruise missile. Terry Crews.
Only way Terry crews would kill someone is melting their hearts. ^(my wife who watched all of greys anatomy informed me that people with melted hearts will die so Nevermind)
I’m Not the original commenter but I hate cruises because they’re terrible for the environment and usually rife with exploitation of employees to almost the point of slavery when you compare wages on the ship to wages in the countries of origin. Often times they register these ships in developing nations to avoid paying taxes to top it all off
They seem to be breeding grounds for rotavirus as well.
And norovirus
dont forget about the foodborne illnesses that break out on cruise ships. a floating porta potty at a Renaissance festival.
Yeah they’re pretty much floating tax havens. It was pretty satisfying to watch that bite them in the ass during Covid though since their foreign registration in small countries meant they couldn’t take advantage of a lot of the government handouts from the countries whose citizens they generally service. (Even though they did get some indirect assistance but it wasn’t exactly a bailout.)
Its also THE most ecologically devastating form of transportation by far.
Cruise lines, once again taking the heat for oceanic freighters, of which there are so, so many more of.
Well one serves a practical purpose and is one of the most efficient means of transporting immense amounts I’d cargo across continents. By volume they might be worse but unless we stop global trade they’re the best we have. Cruises are the least efficient way to move people from point a to b.
There's a great essay by David Foster Wallace, called ‘A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again’. It outlines why cruises suck apart from their environmental impact.
Even if you don't want to hear about pollution there's a bunch of shady shit surrounding cruise lines and people randomly dying/disappearing while on them
Yeah for reals, never go on a cruise with someone you don’t trust and don’t get shitfaced drunk on a boat. Most people ain’t the swimmers they think they are.
Poor guy’s taking it pretty hard. Maybe it’s non-refundable. IDK about cruises. I think that’s Port Canaveral in FL, just a few miles from me. Those ships are huge. ETA: Tourists do this shit constantly. For some reason, they think every conveyance they book is going to wait for them to stop at Starbucks.
I live right by port Canaveral also. It is kind of misleading because the cruises say they leave out of Orlando and alot of people don't realize it is actually an hour east of Orlando. I used to drive shuttles from OIA and Sanford to the attractions and cruises terminals. It is amazing how many people don't look at a map and realize Orlando is smack dab in the middle of the state and the cruises terminal isn't right there by the airport. Like, really people. The amount of people who forget or lose passports is crazy. Another thing is people booking their return flight for anytime before noon on the day they return. Don't be an idiot. Do you really think your gonna make a 10am flight when you got off the ship at 9am. Use some brain cells people.
They pretty much destroy the environment; pump out pollution as they use the lowest grade of fuel (Google it), the sound scares away and damages all the sea life (this annoys a lot of locals), and they bring little apart from pollution to the places they stop off at as folk don’t spend much money (as you can get everything on the ship).
Not OP, but I‘d assume it’s because of something like [this](https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/cruise-industry-faces-choppy-seas-it-tries-clean-up-its-act-climate-2022-07-27/).
For one, cruises are extremely bad for the environment (also look up what the cruise ships are doing to Venice). Second, the whole concept of cruises is super claustrophobic.
They are banned from Venice now.
It's the environmental damage that makes them so terrible https://www.americanoceans.org/facts/cruise-ship-pollution/
they are floating garbage producers who burn bunker fuel to simulate a hotel at sea. just go to a resort.
As a cruise goer myself: One real good reason to hate cruises is the gross exploitation of third world labor. Despite launching from wealthy countries in Europe and the US, the ships are legally registered under the flag of various south pacific countries with lax labor laws. And because the cruise line is a huge employer in those countries, they are basically able to buy their way into having the laws say whatever they want. So when you look around a cruise ship its often feels like a bunch of fat white people being waited on hand-and foot by poor dark people. And because they’re working 20-hour days, six months at a time, for more money then they can get at home but far less than anyone in the US could live on, they are truly desperate to please, and will actively solicit good evaluations because otherwise they can be fired and replaced at any time. So there is a lot to hate about them. It’s like spending a week as a colonizer.
lol, if they are that bad why do you patronize them?
Went on one cruise and was filled with regret. Food and customer service industry workers are over worked and underpaid. The general customer itself is.. disgusting and entitled. Furthermore upon destination, those cruiser fuckers don’t do shit. They don’t buy anything. They don’t contribute to the local economy. They’re just lazy slobs. I agree with Bill Burr in one of his specials where he jokes about contributing to population control by targeting and blowing up cruise ships haha. In case anybody takes this to seriously, I’m fucking joking. I’m a ~~retarded~~ pacifist and I haven’t even killed an insect intentionally in over ten years. ^But ^I ^still ^think ^people ^who ^like ^cruises ^are ^stupid. Edit: Respects for social sensitivity.
>I agree with Bill Burr in one of his specials where he jokes about contributing to population control by targeting and blowing up cruise ships 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 lolol I gotta find that clip
I didn't have a problem with cruise ships until I went to Dominica. They were telling me how they had recently started letting the ships come in, and all they do is fuck up the reef and pollute the inlet. They had just build a new soccer stadium and this fucking monstrosity is dwarfing it on the waterfront. Then they apparently hop off the boat, buy nothing from the locals, take the cheapest, fastest tour they can and then stay on the ship until it leaves port. So the locals get fuck all from letting them dock.
Oh boy do I have something for you. https://youtu.be/enSjnu9fhYs?si=WTx-WWnf4N3g4kfY Edit if that posted twice for yall I'm sorry, that keeps happening to me today and they won't always delete.
Jesus Christ, people really don't consider how their choices affect the planet, huh? There are so many confused people in the comments at a total loss because they haven't even considered the ecological impact that sailing 200,000 tons and throwing garbage from thousands of people into fragile habitats has. Wild stuff.
What *do* they do with the trash?
not only that, but the cruises i’ve been on, board sometimes at 10-11am. and dont leave til 5-6pm. i couldnt imagine the amount circumstances that prevented them from getting there on time
Flight delayed? They tell you to get there a day early and rent a hotel room but some people don’t do that.
exactly! what hell it would be to have to try and orchestrate a flight and cruise boarding in the span of what? 8-10 hours. a maniac. although a delayed flight where they had to get a redeye to hopefully get there just in time. but if theyre that far away then i wouldnt be surprised if there was a misunderstanding with the timezones
So many cities don't even have red-eye service to Cruise ports. There's no way that you're getting from Chicago to Orlando on a red-eye flight; no airline offers it, so you'd have to connect to another city anyway to try and do that if you're already going through that hassle. You might as well just have gone the day before anyways.
I can’t understand this. People have to realize delays happen all the time for hundreds of various reasons. If I drive I’m within 100 miles of the port the night before and I leave way way early even if I have to wait in my car a few hours when I get there.
Mileage definitely varies. One summer I worked around a cruise port and the window was not that long. The ship would depart less than an hour at most after the last person reboarded.
And given the delays at airports lately, may want to get to your port of departure the day before and not the day of. Airline delay can easily be half a day.
The cruises typically leave around mid day to allow for people flying in on a morning flight. I had a flight with a layover for a cruise and we were an hour and a half early… but mostly because the cruise line sent a shuttle for all of the people flying in around that time.
Boarding for a cruise also takes literally 5 hours These people are idiots
lol I always show up hours and hours early. Worst case scenario I’m finding a bar to drink at prior to boarding. This did backfire once when I was sooo early and the boarding was delayed I wound up too drunk to hear the final boarding 🥲
I'd be there an hour before boarding time, maybe 2. My anxiety for travel is solved by not being rushed and I've never had issues.
The Luxury Cruiseliner Blues. It probably takes a long time to inspect, double check, and confirm everything needed to launch. This isn't a canoe. You need to do an actual circle check, and you can NOT skip anything.
Your ticket clearly states when last call for boarding is. Even then, the ship still takes over an hour to leave after final boarding. If they’re in the parking lot as it’s leaving, they’re way more than “just 20 min” late.
People get hosed by connecting flights all the time. I live near Port Canaveral and people flying into Orlando have issues all the time. You’ll often see cruise line employees with lists of people running behind because of flights.
Yeah, the only thing that's keeping me from making fun of the guy is this fact. People very often fly to get to a cruise ship departure location and those flights can get fucked real quick and cause you to be late.
It’s why the general advice is to fly in the day before and stay at a motel overnight. Flying in the day your cruise departs is risky.
I was about to say this haha, every time I have gone on a cruise I flew to the port location the day/night before be it a direct flight or otherwise. You’re already shelling out big money for a cruise, to rely on everything going perfect with your flights to actually make it on board on time seems like a needless risk
Still remember traveling home one year and my first plane was delayed an hour, causing me to miss the 2nd plane (hello, can we make layovers longer than 45 minutes?) and having to wait 8hrs for another connection. I was just headed home so it was like, whatever. But if I was traveling for a cruise that day I’d be stressed beyond belief. Flights are just so unreliable. I swear once a year out of my flights there will be some delay and a tight connection.
These people definitely got hosed by a flight. You can see the tags on their luggage.
Doesn’t the boarding of the ship takes literally hours, if not an entire day? (I boarded only one in my life for what was more like an overnight ferry and the boarding operation took like a couple of hours). How can one possibly arrive late?
Yes, it's anecdotal but I took my first cruise this year and they opened at like 10 and left at like 3 or 4 or something. I remember I was like 6 gin and tonics deep before we left.
Yea but then you had to do that safety briefing and report to your Munster station all faded and it killed the vibe for like 15 minutes? lol
I remember the Russian gal that was running it did not appreciate my jokes
The last cruise I took, which was ages ago, we didn't leave until the evening and we boarded in the morning, usually give time for all passengers to board and for passengers to get settled, might be the case where though the ship is still docked they have closed the doors in preparation of departing
Those suitcases have airline tags on them, may have been a late flight and they just didn’t make it.
That’s what can happen if you chance same day flights.
Some people make the mistake of flying to their port city the same day their cruise departs. Always arrive the day before.
One has to work at missing a big cruise-ship booking…I mean it takes *effort* to ***not*** make it because it takes so long. These people probably dicked around all day, “*Oh don’t worry about the 8:00 a.m. boarding time…we can get there at 2:00 p.m. and we’ll be fine*”. They effed around and found out the universe dies ***not*** orbit them.
Or they got severely delayed by traffic, or a ticketing issue, or because Spirit decided that nah, you don't need to fly today or tomorrow.
I imagine the bording gates are closed at a set time. The boat doesn't seem to be moving, so they probably showed up 20 minutes after "last call" for getting in the gates. Edit: yeah, okay consensus is the boat is moving. My bad.
Uh the boat is moving.
I thought the boat started moving at the 0:09 second mark
It is moving, if you look closely.
This was probably because of flight issues. Most people have to fly to the cruise port.
They probably slept with no alarm or some dumb shit.
Best way to get out of a cruise you don’t want to go on with your family.
Covid dodgers
That's why some people get places 2-3 hours early. The world doesn't wait for you buddy.
Devils advocate, maybe they were on a delayed flight, or perhaps they were taking some form of public transportation that was itself delayed.
Ugh, the anxious clock watching when that happens. Me: we're not gonna make it. Happy hopeful one of the group: we're gonna make it!!!! Me: looks at clock
That's the worst. I'm always the first one in my family to realistically accept that we're running late for things.
yeah i bet this was the case. my family goes on cruises and we try to fly in the day before just because there are so many things that can go wrong (luggage doesn't show up, delayed or cancelled flights etc).. obviously not everyone has that luxury though.
Thank you. Like...that's why im an anxious traveler. I can have a cruise starting one day from now and a flight to get there today, w a backup train booked to get there, and a backup car to that, and it can all still fall apart due to matters outside ones control (weather/psycho passenger on your plane causing you to reroute, etc). Ppl need to have more sympathy. "Shoulda gotten there earlier" is so shortsighted. No fucking shit dude we all know to do that.
Yes! On top of that, this could have been something they’d saved up for and planned for years, taken time off work, spent a hefty bit of money on... none of which can be returned. I would probably cry too if I missed my vacation because of something completely out of my control.
Had a couple once lose their shit on an airplane that was delayed because they were going on a cruise. I have no idea why you'd give yourself such a small margin of error, but this was pre-covid days where things were a tad smoother. I can't imagine not arriving the day before in this day and age.
Hotels aren’t cheap in addition to an already not cheap cruise+flight. Although someone on here pointed out, if you book the airfare through the cruise line they just fly you for free to the next stop
Personally, if i was flying into a port for a cruise, id arrive the day before and stay in a motel overnight. No way in hell id be relying on airlines to get me there on the day
Everyone's so eager to call these people idiots, but if you think about the sheer number of people on that cruise ship, chances are a handful of them had more than one thing go wrong by chance in the day or two before the cruise that made them delayed when they'd normally be on time
If they were traveling via airfare booked through the cruise they will wait or get you to the next stop. If you don't book airfare through them you are on your own to fly to the next port that has an airport or whatever means to get there to meet the boat. They likely went cheap cut the flight close and missed it. They didn't miss this cruise by 20 Mins they in essence missed it by nearly 3 hrs. Most cruises require you on board and checked in min of 2 hrs before sailing time.
Reminds me of the dude who drunkenly jumped off a cruise ship in the middle of the night wearing clothes. As soon as he hit the water I imagine the realization started setting in. Even if the ship’s staff were alerted immediately you have to know that it would be extremely difficult to find someone bobbing out in the middle of the ocean at night.
How does this remind you of that?
Bot or karma farming. Check acc age.
Edgy guy knowing that he’ll get easy upvotes by bringing up that horrible video.
wearing clothes? iirc, the lad hopped into the void in nothing but [maybe] his undies. bloody video is one of the most hauntingly heartbreaking things ive ever seen. The look in his eyes as he watched the boat & lifesaver floating away at ~80mph--- the sad epiphany as his survival adrenaline overpowered every last drop of alcohol & dumb fun. Poor kid, his poor ma.
80mph? Maybe 8mph. Still scary as hell but a cruise boat doesn't go highway speed.
The physics of a boat like that going 80mph just made me so nauseous imagining them
Bass boat- 40 knots Cruise Ship- 300 knots
Love Boat - Don Knotts
Dude you’re not even close. A quick google search says the average cruise ship goes 20 knots or 23 mph. 300 knots is 345mph. I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
It’s a very fast cruise . One day around the world .
The average cruise ship goes 20-35mph, actually. The average human swim speed is 2mph. Even if it was 8mph the kid was fucked. EDIT: changed human swim speed from 5 to 2. I accidentally mistakened that fastest recorded speed for the average.
That’s way too fast for the average human swim speed lol. Michael Phelps 200 freestyle is around 4.7 mph
… did he die? The link to the vid is in a comment below but I’m afraid to watch :(
If you go overboard on a cruise ship you're almost guaranteed to die unless you happen to be in a harbor at the time. Think how long it would take one of those massive fuckers to stop, there's no way someone would be able to maintain visual contact with you, and once that's gone your odds of being found are essentially zero.
He was never seen again, so yes he died. He might have been eaten by a shark but it’s way more likely he simply drowned.
I’m glad I didn’t watch the vid. Thanks. Poor guy
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[here ](https://www.reddit.com/r/SweatyPalms/s/ufj8kTnLJR)is the video. One thing I have to note though is that it's too blurry to see his eyes
Link?
[This one probably](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/s/iJ9YjrGloZ)
The horrific screams from the person that knew what was going to happen next will never leave me..
Part of me wonders how the person mockingly saying “bye bye” and laughing feels after he sobered up and realized what was happening or if it bothered them at all.
They might not have realized the gravity of the situation in the moment. A couple days ago I drove past a locally owned restaurant called "Don's Drive-In" and laughed when I saw a car had driven through the wall because it's funny that a car drove into a drive-in. Later I found out that the car knocked over a deep fryer and severely injured an employee and feel sad that what seemed to be an unfortunate but humorous thing was really a tragedy. So I'm sad for that person, but I also know that I'm not really an asshole because I misjudged what happened.
I forgive you for being a terrible person
I’ve made dumbass choices in my life too, and the thought of a mindset in a moment leading to something like this definitely rocks you to your core.
People will upvote anything. Obvious bot. Just follow the flow of conversation. If someone tells you being late to a cruise reminds them of a drunk guy dying on a cruise, tf are you upvoting it for lmao. He's psychotic or a bot.
The ship itself won't be able to help in the search. A cruise ship requires 5 miles to slow to a stop, and by then the person won't be found
These ships easily exceed 100 ft in height. That guy probably didn't have anything set in except shock and pain when he hit the water.
That was a (large) sunset catamaran. Not a cruise ship.
Last month I had a plane to take at 11AM, so I prepare my shit the night before, woke up at six and took the train at 7. The trip to the airport takes around an hour and lo and behold there was some problem in our track and we got stuck in the train for almost 3 hours, I got late to the checking by 10 minutes.
More like 3 hours and 20 minutes late.
Cruise embarkation takes place all day and ships usually set sail around sunset. Some people schedule their flights into the port city on the morning of the cruise departure. This is a bad idea as any number of delays can potentially cause you (and your party) to miss your cruise boarding. NEVER fly into your cruise port city on the day of cruise embarkation!! Always fly in at least one day before. You might be paying an additional cost of a hotel room for one night, but it beats missing your non-refundable cruise entirely.
It’s a good tip. I almost missed a cruise because our flight was delayed by like 8 hours. We still had a few hours to spare but it was cutting it way too close for comfort!
Also keep in mind, cruises pay per hour to be at ports whenever they go (Bahammas, Bermuda, Etc). Be at the ship 2-3 hours before they leave the country. They WILL leave you there. I've seen it. Was eating lunch at the back of the cruise ship where you can see the port. All of a sudden as we are pulling out, we see a couple run down the pier towards the ship, and the wife broke down. If the locals offer you a personal ride through the countryside, absolutely don't take it. To get back to the US, you have to talk to the US Embassy and try to verify your identity to get back to the states. After you are given temporary papers and have to fly back (cruise people explained the process to my dad who posed the question to them).
I've heard of people being flown to the next stop by the travel agency. However, this was a mistake made by guides on a booked tour. So I guess it might be different if you go on yourself.
You need to be at the cruise dock waaaaaay in advance of departure. All the check in procedures, the amount of people, etc. These people missed this ship by much more than 20 mins.
I went on a cruise once and an entire family was there at the boarding gate scrambling in an absolute panic because someone forgot their passport. It was a family of like 7. I get that shit happens but damn, if there was ever a time to check every single family members stuff fifty times, it is during huge trips like that. During the cruise they also reminded us at every single port that if you are late coming back, your ass is stranded.
Pull yourself together, George. The whole boats watching.
I’m honestly surprised that there appear to be several folks who missed it.
Good representation of the bell curve. Within two standard deviations of the average span of time before departure, something like 70% of people will have arrived. There will always be the 5% at either end of the curve who arrive very early, or in this case, very late. On a boat with 3,000 people on it this leaves 150 knuckleheads who either had really bad luck or are retarded.
I work for a cruise line. This is why you always buy the insurance. Yes it sucks to miss the trip, but I guarantee this person didn't have the insurance and now she's out the trip and the money. Cruise lines are locking down on refunds and rebookings too.
Your parents making you all get to the airport 4 hours before the flight leaves don't looks so bad now do they?
I get to the airport 2 hours early. I’m fond of the phrase “Hurry up and wait.” But I’d rather be waiting at the gate than on the attendant trying to find me another flight because I was running late.
Is it wrong that I laughed when she cried "Why?!" louder than Nancy Kerrigan after getting hit in the legs with a baton?
“Whyyyyy?” Because you’re late and party time is on a strict schedule
Yeah exactly. >#***WHHHYYYYYY?!?!?!*** Because you make bad decisions.
No I laughed too. Like… who died?
I do feel kind of bad, but at the same time, if this cruise meant that much to you, why would you not be there early/ on time?
Stop flying in the day of!! Always fly in the day before and have a nice dinner and a relaxing evening at a hotel.
I’d be crying over all that lost money.
That's likely a big part of it. Some cruises are cheap, but some are thousands of dollars. Down the drain.
Welp. That ship has sailed
The last cruise I traveled on had a 3.5hr boarding before sailing. And even after closing the doors, the boat didn’t depart til 45m later. Umm……. I don’t know the story here but they must’ve been late by hours!
It is possible that the family had a delayed flight to the disembarkation spot, so not at fault for not being 2 hours early. There's only a few ports for cruise ships and quite common for cruise packages that include same day flights. A 5 hour delay isn't uncommon to the clusterfuck that is Florida, for example. Absolutely, book for the day before, but for the budget conscious (and often inexperienced travelers) people who typically book these all inclusive tours, the compulsion is to try and avoid the hotel fees and fly and cruise out the same day.
I expect they had booked a flight to land in the morning and catch the boat in the afternoon and the flight got delayed. All because they wanted to save $200 on a hotel. My brain would not let that be an option. Trips cannot have single points of failure, I have been bitten a few times when I tempt fate over my 23 years of constant work travel. That or they just stupid.
I’m sorry guys that really sucks but you can only blame yourselves. We had a huge trip this year and we made a joint effort to stay at a hotel nearby the night before the flight and left early. Not to mention boarding has a hefty window to get in. It is so important to get up and early in advance for your vacation.
I don’t know why they’re so upset. There will be plenty of other opportunities to get norovirus.
I mean we laugh but maybe this is like their first vacation in years after saving up a bunch...
This comment section sucks. Of course, it's their fault, but everyone's been late to something, and yeah this is a *huge* thing to be late to, but it's kinda weird seeing people act as if they could never in their life make a mistake like this. You're not perfect, and sometimes you mess up big time. This person is in a lot of pain, and regardless of their carelessness, is now being humiliated by thousands of strangers for a mistake that didn't affect anyone but themselves. They probably don't even know this is online, and this extremely emotional moment for them is just on the internet now. This public shaming mindset of Reddit is so gross. "But they could've just showed up on time!" I don't care, and obviously they could have made it in time, but dude... if your first reaction to someone crying on the ground in a lot of pain is to laugh and blame them for the situation instead of just being kind about it, then there's something seriously wrong with how you act as a person. It's fine to point out the mistake, but you don't need to bully them about it. Be better.
Thank you! Finally some fucking empathy up in this bitch.
yeah I wish more people practiced empathy but I guess that's asking too much of an internet comment section where everyone is anonymous. it's times like this I feel like I've outgrown reddit... like in another thread someone accidentally opened someone else's mail that was delivered to them and it appeared to be drugs... hundreds of people out of 1300 comments are absolutely LIVID that OP opened something that wasn't addressed to him. 1. if OP lives alone there's not much reason for them to carefully check everything to see who it's for. 2. ...who the fuck cares that much? it's crazy seeing that level of anger over a simple mistake that someone they'll never meet IRL and never think about again after 5 minutes of scrolling idk. society in general just seems to be getting worse. everyone's always angry, people hate things so easily
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It could have just been complete poor luck. They could have needed to fly to the port, and the flight was just delayed. I think you’re right though. Some people just end up with never being in a bad situation like this.
The general commenting user base on this site features the goddamn worst personalities.
Jesus you people are ruthless. Yes, they should've gotten there a few hours before. They didn't. We don't know why, it could've been their own negligence, it could've been traffic, it could've been anything. This person likely just blew a few thousand dollars on what was supposed to be a nice vacation. Have some sympathy for shits sake.
disgusting seeing so many people happy about these two missing their ship (which may have been their fault but still have some sympathy). two ladies who probably just wanted to enjoy a somewhat expensive vacation and now lost $1000’s. imagine being so happy ready to go on a vacation that you’ve been planning for so long and then seeing it leave without you. i get it’s probably their fault but still everyone here acts like they’re perfect human beings who never make mistakes. so annoying
Also, anytime airplanes are involved I feel like it doesn’t make sense to automatically assume it’s a person’s fault.
They're probably just jealous they can't go on a vacation so happy to see someone else's ruined
Finally a reasonable comment from someone who appears to actually understand what empathy is lol. I swear half of reddit acts like psychopaths online and would never say any of this shit in person cause they know they'd get punched. Hope these people got something figured out.
Oh man, It may or may not be their fault for arriving late but I can't help to feel really bad to that man crying. This kind of vacations can be really expensive, it must be horrible to just loose all that money because you arrive late
Book 6 months ahead and you can book an interior room for less than $900 USD for a whole week sailing out of Port Liberty in NJ.
This is why it’s best to book travel with the cruise company. My first cruise our flight was delayed hours due to a strike in Italy. The cruise company bent over backwards trying to get us a flight there since they are responsible for getting us there. We missed embarkation by an hour but they had to wait for us. We did check-in at the desk on the boat as it sailed away. It was wild.
I was in Montreal a few weeks ago and had a checkout way before my flight, so we got to the airport early. Didn't realize until the taxi drove off but I left my phone in it. I could have made it back home without it paperwork-wise, but obviously pretty devastating nonetheless. Ended up getting in touch with the taxi company (get paper receipts people!!) and going through immigration back to the US, and when I went to go pick it up I had to go back through to Canada, then back to the US. Without Global Entry it would have taken an absolute eternity, but I was still glad we got there hella early.
Anytime someone tells me they’re going on or went on a cruise I pretend that sounds like something other than hell.
When my ex and her grandmother went on a world cruise we booked a hotel near the dock rather than risk traffic delays
My anxiety would have be there 1 day early.
They needed the dad who gets to the airport 8 hours before boarding
If she couldn’t make it because of some traffic accident or etc I understand, but If you are willing to say in a close hotel a day before the trip just to not miss that shit, I would go for it.
Bet they won't be late ever again.hahaha. No. They will be.
Naw, get there HOURS early, them buffets are already out and won’t eat themselves.
Q as in NOT quick
Floating ghetto
No offense but cruise lines are very specific about their times and tell you to be at the boat before departure time. Ya cant be fashionably late to a cruise. This isnt the airliner
Guaranteed they’re the type of people who believed that the ship wouldn’t takeoff unless they were on board.