Originally posted by gdjoslin: Our friends told us that his business partner and family were kicked off of a ship last fall. It was after the mom was complaining about the kids being in different Day Camps because of age. She wanted them together. After she threaten to become physical, they were removed from the ship. Sounds to me like it was all her fault....
These type of stories always give me better faith in the judgement of the Captain and crew. Threats, petitions and other rude, obnoxious or anti social behavior should be dealt with in this manner. I'm happy to hear it is. The spoiled cry babies in society need these type of lessons in life. Where else in society can such just deciesions be made and enforced? Not very many places and as a result there are plenty of rude, obnoxious, anti-social bullies out there. Nice when they get slapped with a lesson they should have had way back in kindergarten!
Ahh, that didn't take long. I found an even better - free - site here. So I guess it had to be the Majesty or the Sensation, and so it would seem it was the Majesty and it didn't leave until midnight since RCI did provide a reply to the TV station.
I was just looking around the 'net at some Cruise Compass's and recent reviews of the Majesty Of The Seas. They show the ship as being in Nassau until midnight, so it would appear the RCI website is wrong - not that that has ever happened!
So the case appears to be the family in question was on a 4 day cruise on the Majesty, and they were hastened to leave the ship and go to a hospital since the ship was trying to leave on time - that being midnight.
Well I don't buy it... Either way whats up with that? A baby on a cruise?? My best recommendation to anyone that is reading this post, don't take your kids to a cruise until they are at least 3 years old and do your self a favor...
Just the mere fact that a sick infant was directly involved makes the media salivate. Big heartless company squashing the vacation plans of Joe Middleclass. Sheesh... the headline virtually assures itself of media sensationalism. RCCL did not have to issue the family anything... much less credit towards a future cruise. My wife if a physician and she has had to make some unpopular decisions. It's sort of like those, "Life comes at you fast" Nationwide insurance commercials. People inherently hope for the best but they never plan for the worst. It is a shame that it happened but it could happen to anyone... well, anyone who chooses to travel with a 7-month old. Just think, earlier that day little Zoie was probably sharing her diarrhea with anyone in or near the "kiddie*" pool. *kiddie pool refers to any pool on the ship. Why can't we as people harbor a slight amount of responsibility for our actions and outcomes. That little extra for trip insurance would have sure made a difference. I dare say that the evil corporate giant that is RCCL would not have forced them to walk the plank had they not had their belongings ready to go in ten minutes. Can you see Rambo the armed cabin steward. "Drop the cute towel monkey and reach for the skies!!"
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RCI had an ambulance pick up the child and her family at the pier - they were that concerned over the child's health. RCI also set up a hotel room for the family for that night and provided them with contact info for getting a refund for the part of the cruise they missed. And finally, RCI reimbursed the family for the passports and air home.
Of course, the Orlando TV station was more concerned with creating news out of a non-event than they were with the truth.
If you are going to quote it Neil, you have to quote it accurately... Ahem... "I asked if my wife could get out of their pajamas and there was no time for that. We had to leave," Luis Cortes said. Since it's been posted I have been wondering what the wife was doing in "their" pajamas.
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Here's the bottom line to this story. It sounds as though the child was dehydraded and the Physician was concerned that the child needed hospitalization. Wonder what would have happened if they would have been allowed to stay...and the child died because they couldn't give it the proper care??? I agree with all of you...there's more holes to this story than swiss cheese. And, Dave, the moral is right. PASSPORTS!!
