Cruising
7 of the funniest cruise complaints you’ll ever hear
Cruise travel agency BonVoyage.co.uk has released a list of the funniest cruise complaints they’ve received. The complaints range from a woman grumbling that the ocean was "too loud" to a couple wanting compensation after spending "a lot more money than planned" on staff tips due to the excellent service.
Here are some of the other gems:
- A husband on a two-week honeymoon cruise complained that the staff did not decorate the cabin in white, did not scatter rose petals everywhere each morning, and did not deliver champagne and strawberries via a private butler. The man requested no special service; he just expected cruise employees to "know."
- A couple claimed the captain was "rude" because he did not wait two hours for them at a port, even though they had left him a note earlier that they had "too much to do."
- A woman had heard that British singer Gary Barlow once took the same cruise, so she demanded to know why he wasn't on the same cruise again.
- A man on a cruise around Alaska requested compensation for the warmer clothes he had to buy after failing to "get an impressive tan" and being unable to "swim in the swimming pool each day."
- A first-time cruise passenger blamed the captain for not warning him that he could get seasick, and asked for a schedule of cruises in which he wouldn't get seasick.
- A pair expressed disappointment that their ship didn't look like the Titanic, and that its dissimilarity to the doomed ship should have been made clear.
- A female traveller, having booked an inside cabin, complained about not having a view of the sea and asked for a window to be installed.
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