One passenger said his friends joshed him for choosing Carnival after their Triumphant failure, and he responded “What are the odds of it happening to two ships in such a short period of time?” and then added wryly, “Look what happened now.”
“We are not allowed off the boat,” said another passenger, Jonathan Evans of Reidsville, North Carolina, “despite the fact that we have no way to use the restrooms on board. The cruise director is giving passengers very limited information and tons of empty promises. What was supposed to take an hour has turned into 7-plus hours.”
Gregg Stark, another traveler accompanied by wife and two young children, told CNN “There’s human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they’re overflowing — and in the state rooms. The elevators have not been working. They’ve been turning them on and off, on and off.”
So Triumph was a triumphant disaster, and the Dream is more like a nightmare. But that doesn’t mean Carnival is failing, right? But then there’s the 100 Royal Caribbean passengers who got hit with gastrointestinal virus. Going on a cruise sounds much less tempting than it once did. Why not schedule a gentle staycation where the toilets work and the passengers aren’t getting violently ill all around you?