Carnival ecstacy

Anonymous:

The brosure was misleading

There's a similar word in English: brochure.

the slide at the pool had a hight restriction of 48". That is a large roller coster restriction!

It's also a Carnival ship's water slide restriction.  Freaky coincidence!

you could not drink anything in the pool.

You are surprised by this?

you would think serving a cold steak would not happen with fine dinning but it did

It's not a McDonalds; send it back ... order something else.

Third, there was a foul oder commjng from the hall like sewer

People trying to flush pads or diapers block the plumbing every time.  Idiots.

The ship crew were trying to locate the problem, but I don't think they were successful

There's easily 10 miles of sewer pipe on the boat.  A stuck maxi-pad could be anywhere.

the shows the ship offered we sad

If the folks who do the shows had Broadway talent, they'd be on Broadway.  As it is, they're better than you and me both.  Give them a break.

the crew in masks and resperators dissasembling the hallway

A maxi-pad can be hard to find in 10 miles of pipe.  And smelly while they're looking for it.  Sewage is classified as "toxic waste".

We will never travel with carnival again if they do not own there mistake!

What do you expect them to do or say?

Yes, you have to be a certain height to use the water slide; accidents happen, especially to small children, and then idiot parents who make inane threats [like you] tend to sue; hence the rule.

Yes, you cannot drink in the pool. You drop your drink, you've just poluted the pool with a sodapop, a mai tai, a paper umbrella with a sharp point [risking more lawsuits, not to mention the risk of broken glass or shattered shards of plastic] or hunks of slimy fruit ... causing, at the very least, the entire pool to be shut down for the rest of the day so that maintenance can clean it and disinfect it when they come on shift -- at 10 pm.

Yes, occassionally you'll get something in the dining room [two Ns in 'dining', not 3]that is unsatisfactory; send it back or order something else.  Don't be a baby.

Yes, sometimes idiots try to flush things down the toilet that they are told explicitly not to flush, and it causes backed-up plumbing.  If you want Carnival to routinely hand out free or discounted cruises because of their idiot passengers doing idiotic things, then you're going to see a rash of people bringing diapers simply to flush so they can get a free cruise out of it.

Exactly what do you want anybody to "own"? apart from the responsibilty for your childish ignorance?

Thanks for your wonderful response. I really didn't want to take the time, but you summed it up quite nicely.

I surprised there was no complaint about eating cold steak in the pool.

Expecting QE2 service on a Minnow budget. 

Two thumbs and big toes UP!

And, why did you wait so long to post if it was such a bad experience???

rwilymz:

Anonymous:

The brosure was misleading

There's a similar word in English: brochure.

 

the slide at the pool had a hight restriction of 48". That is a large roller coster restriction!

 

It's also a Carnival ship's water slide restriction.  Freaky coincidence!

 

you could not drink anything in the pool.

You are surprised by this?

 

you would think serving a cold steak would not happen with fine dinning but it did

It's not a McDonalds; send it back ... order something else.

 

Third, there was a foul oder commjng from the hall like sewer

People trying to flush pads or diapers block the plumbing every time.  Idiots.

 

The ship crew were trying to locate the problem, but I don't think they were successful

There's easily 10 miles of sewer pipe on the boat.  A stuck maxi-pad could be anywhere.

 

the shows the ship offered we sad

If the folks who do the shows had Broadway talent, they'd be on Broadway.  As it is, they're better than you and me both.  Give them a break.

 

the crew in masks and resperators dissasembling the hallway

A maxi-pad can be hard to find in 10 miles of pipe.  And smelly while they're looking for it.  Sewage is classified as "toxic waste".

 

We will never travel with carnival again if they do not own there mistake!

What do you expect them to do or say?

Yes, you have to be a certain height to use the water slide; accidents happen, especially to small children, and then idiot parents who make inane threats [like you] tend to sue; hence the rule.

Yes, you cannot drink in the pool. You drop your drink, you've just poluted the pool with a sodapop, a mai tai, a paper umbrella with a sharp point [risking more lawsuits, not to mention the risk of broken glass or shattered shards of plastic] or hunks of slimy fruit ... causing, at the very least, the entire pool to be shut down for the rest of the day so that maintenance can clean it and disinfect it when they come on shift -- at 10 pm.

Yes, occassionally you'll get something in the dining room [two Ns in 'dining', not 3]that is unsatisfactory; send it back or order something else.  Don't be a baby.

Yes, sometimes idiots try to flush things down the toilet that they are told explicitly not to flush, and it causes backed-up plumbing.  If you want Carnival to routinely hand out free or discounted cruises because of their idiot passengers doing idiotic things, then you're going to see a rash of people bringing diapers simply to flush so they can get a free cruise out of it.

 

Exactly what do you want anybody to "own"? apart from the responsibilty for your childish ignorance?

 First of all, I think it's incredibly rude, disrespectful, and even a bit cruel to be making fun of someone's spelling errors.  What does that have anything whatsoever to do with the point of that poster's comment?  Does it really make you feel better about yourself to stoop to the level of cracking jokes about a person's mispelled words?  Sounds to me like you're trying to skirt around the actual issue while putting someone else down to make yourself feel like less of the sorry excuse for human being that you obviously are.  I'm sorry, but it just seems a little odd that you are calling this person "childish" as you pick on them for their mispellings.

Next thing I want to know is why in the world you feel the need to make all of these excuses for Carnival.  Seriously, what are you trying to prove?  They messed up.  Their experience was obviously less than exceptable and they deserves an apology for that after paying thousands for the dream vacation that Carnival promises.  I don't know what your deal is, but get a life and stop picking on people.  Oh, and pulling your head out of Carnival's *** might be another good idea for you to try while you're at it.

Lucky.Lola:

I think it's incredibly rude, disrespectful, and even a bit cruel to be making fun of someone's spelling errors.

I don't care.

Lookit: if someone has a point to make then getting that point across unambiguously is critical; if that point is being made in a written-medium forum, then to making that point clearly and unambiguously, the right word and the right spelling of that word is also critical.  If that point is hidden behind clownishly-spelled words ... then the point isn't going to be made.

Time is wasted on both the point-maker's end and the point-interpreter's end if the point-maker cannot even spell what he's trying to say.

What does that have anything whatsoever to do with the point of that poster's comment?

What point is that?  The point of being irrantionally peevish?  Naive?

Sounds to me like you're trying to skirt around the actual issue while putting someone else down to make yourself feel like less of the sorry excuse for human being that you obviously are. 

You certainly put me in MY place, now, didn't you?

And after not reading a word I said after correcting the juvenile spelling.

Listen, Lola, if I was "skirting" the teary quibbles the guy made, then how come I addressed them all?  Hmmm?  Or didn't you read that far?  I give the guy the courtesy of reading his entire wet-panty litany and you can't make if past my first entry.

Nice.

Or did you read it all and are simply dishonest in how you are choosing to characterize it?

Next thing I want to know is why in the world you feel the need to make all of these excuses for Carnival.

All what "excuses"?  You go to any theme park in the country, there are going to be height requirements for the rides, period, end of discussion.  You find the same thing on the water slide on board.  Are you actually surprised by this?  Are you going to cop to being that ignorant of the world around you?

Carnival's shows are not Broadway-caliber; but the talent has to be?

Seriously?

what are you trying to prove?

...that some people have unrealistic expectations that they choose to whine and carry on about.  I thought I was fairly successful in that description, frankly.

They messed up.

I know; I told him so.  And so did you.  And now I am telling you as well.

Their experience was obviously less than exceptable and they deserves an apology for that after paying thousands for the dream vacation that Carnival promises.

You probably meant acceptable, as "exceptable" would literally mean "able to be made an exception", for which we already have the word "exceptional".

I don't know what your deal is, but get a life and stop picking on people.

I have a low threshold for weepy whiners, and it is particularly low lately; I have a further low threshold for those who wish to rationalize weepy whiners ... and that is also somewhat lower recently.

And I'll stop "picking on people" when they stop making public comments in a public forum to which public response is normal and acceptable.  Not all people will like all responses; that can't be helped.  It is not "picking on people" to write something they don't like to hear.

pulling your head out of Carnival's *** might be another good idea for you to try while you're at it.

Ow!

I'll get right on that one.  You can rest assured of that!