We knew cruise mutinies were in for 2008! The latest is happening now on board the Carnival Miracle, which has detoured more than 1,000 miles to make a stop in Newport, Rhode Island instead of the Caribbean. Tropical Storm Hanna is to blame, but passengers, it seems, would rather plow ahead into the squall.
Says one Cruise Critic message boarder who dashed off a note titled "Mutiny on the Miracle":
I'm currently sailing on the Miracle [which] has had three itinerary changes in the last four days. Now I understand the hurricane changes things and they reserve the right to do so, but the attitude of the captain has caused passengers to [go] ballistic. People lined up for hours protesting the only way they know how: adjusting their gratuities down to zero! There was a lawyer oraganizing the melee...
People starting chanting REFUND, REFUND!
Interestingly, the message board thread has been removed. But like all undesirable news on the web, it lives on in the Google cache.
Update: We asked Cruise Critic for comment before posting this item, and the site's community manager just sent us a reply:
Nothing sinister going on; simply a thread that denegrated into namecalling, harassment and general off-topic nonsense.
So it was a mutiny on the mutiny thread? Trendy!
Related Stories:
· Hanna-Caused Detour Prompts "Mutiny" [USA Today]
· Cruise Travel: Mutinies Are in for 2008 [Jaunted]
· Cruise coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo of the Carnival Miracle in happier times: Wikimedia]]]>
