This never happened to Captain Stubing.
It almost sounds like she’s a “cursed ship.”
IIRC, some of the rooms on the QM2 will set you back a cool $50K, the people with that kind of income aren’t the ones you want to be pissing off.
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Christ Jesus, aren’t they even going to try to repair the ship, or are they planning to screw over the next batch of passengers, too?
I actually know two people now aboard QM2 – a former cow-orker and his elderly uncle (an 80something former steamship executive and inveterate globetrotter).
However I doubt they’re too terribly put out by her canceling ports of call. They’re hardcore – the odd kind of travelers who go to sea for the sake of going to sea. As long as there are 3 squares a day and a working bar, they’ll do fine.
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Heh heh.
I wonder just what a ticket says on the back, to the QM2. There must be a shitload of disclaimers that cover such events as this. Fiddy Grand is a lot of money to go to sleep every night deeply intoxicated in a room half the size of a cell at Sing Sing.
On the upside, they did the right thing and towed back into port immediately. They could have forged on for Rio. Which would have had them meandering all over the Bermuda Triangle. God knows what would have become of them then !!
I’d want to stay on board. I’ve never taken a cruise but I adore the ocean. Ports of call sound cool, but - and I defer to cruise takers on this one - from what I’ve heard, they are fast-paced, high-pressure visits that deposit you directly at one overpriced tchotchka hut after the next.
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I forgot to ask, sorry for the double-post… Beware of Doug, can your pals get cel phone service on the ship? Can you call them? What’s the mood on board?
Well, it sounds like the alternatives are picking up the passengers, giving them a reduced itinerary, and refunding them most of the cost of the trip, then (presumably) heading for Europe and the dry dock…or not picking them up, refunding them not-a-lot more, pissing them off a lot more, and just heading straight for the dry dock.
I have no idea about cel phones, but they have AOL, so I’ll try dropping them a line that way. No guarantees, though.
[q]there is a guest bathroom with a shower[/q]
On a ship? What’s it for, stowaways?
That’s so if you decide to pick up someone from the “lower classes” in the ship’s bar, you don’t have to let them clean your love juices off themselves in your shower.
I’d like to do that someday. I have little or no interest in a cruise, but a days long trip from point A to point B I think I’d enjoy. Or maybe an around the world trip.
If I´d be part of the crew I´d be more nervous than a gator in a shoe factory; that´s one long keel to be hauled along and a hell of a drop from the planck to the splash. 
Now wait… It’s a 38 day cruise. They’ve missed 2 of their ports of call because the ship has to go a bit slower than expected. There are another 1000 passengers boarding in Rio, so it needs to be on time. The passengers who have been inconvienced are getting a 50% discount!? They missed two stops! They don’t finish the cruise until Feburary 22th.
Half of 38 is 19, not two. I’d trade places with any of the whiners.
Tuckerfan, cruises today don’t have classes. The cheap seats are in the bottom of the boat, but everything else is the same for everyone.
Frank, the best part of a cruise are the days at sea. No obligations, except to make dinner on time. You can get a massage, go to a movie, gamble, run the track or just lie in the sun. yummy. There are lots of other things to do too, but they sound like too much work to me.
Well, yeah, but I was speaking about social classes more than anything else.
I’d stop their grog, damme if I wouldn’t! Give 'em all a taste of the cat, and hang the ringleaders from the yardarm, the damned scurvy lubbers! Only way to deal with mutineers.
Let me be the first to say it.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Avast, ye scurvy dogs! The passengers should rise up, kill the crew, and take 'er over as he GREATEST PIRATE SHIP t’ever sail the seven seas! Arrrrrrr!
Can you imagine a 150,000-ton pirate ship? Holy shit!
“Bill, that looks like the Queen Mary coming this way.”
“Well, geez, it does. What’s it doing here?”
“The passengers are all at the bow… are they waving cutlasses?”
“Hey, it’s flying the Jolly Roger!”
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKK!
(Ship’s foghorn deafens everyone)
It would be more fun if it were September 19th
And, of course, my grandparents just have to go on a cruise in a few days. frets