We’re at day 3 on our cruise and we’ve just realized that we’re trapped in Hell and have to be here for another 4+ days. Day 1 wasn’t horrid though our cruise director Butch, really his name is Butch, doesn’t know how to shut up on the PA system. He spoke for 32 minutes straight during the life boat demonstration!
Anyway, there is not a friendly employee on board and no one, I mean NO ONE is in a hurry to get anything done. It took me 45 minutes to get a $7 bottle of wine that I paid $30 for! A bottle of Berringer White Zinfandel for $30, stupid me…Anyway, Debbie and I went run yesterday (day 2) on the running track/pedway/old food storage path. After the run, we went and sat in the separate steam rooms for about 5 minutes. When Debbie came out, her Nike running shoes and Oakley sunglasses had been stolen from the bench outside the steam room. There was a Carnival employee in the locker room the entire time she was in the steam room but they saw nothing. Debbie’s mood was shattered, no running and less sun for the next 6 days made Debbie a sour person (rightly so) to be around for the rest of the day!
So this morning, we get up early to go to our manicure (her)/facial & shaving (me) at the spa. We get there and the lady behind the counter (the rude one who wasn’t concerned about Debbie’s shoes yesterday) tells us that our appointment was supposed to be yesterday and that she called us ‘all morning’ and we never answered. We had confirmed the appointments the day we got on board and there are no messages on our phone. Plus we had to give her our room number 17 times yesterday because we kept checking back to see if anyone had turned in Debbie’s shoes (maybe a fit of conscience). So we canceled everything! We had fitness evaluations and detoxifications scheduled, we canceled them all. Screw these people. If we could get off of the boat right now, we would.
We now understand why you pay $3,000 more for a Disney 7 day cruise, because it’s worth it to not have a comedy of errors and clowns who don’t know what the hell their doing ruining your vacation…
