| dd/mm/yy |
2008 |
Incident |
| 28.10.08 |
The company has cancelled its program of summer 2009 sailings from Dover. Instead, the ship will stay in Miami sailing to the Caribbean instead of re-positioning to Europe next summer as originally scheduled. The decision was based on "current market conditions, continued economic uncertainty and high air costs to Europe which impact US visitors wishing to cruise in Europe," a statement said. | Cancelation of 2009 program |
| 15.9.08 |
The Herald
Telegram in Saint Maarten reports the ship will
make a previously unscheduled port call there on September 24. The ship
was originally scheduled to stop in San Juan, PR on the 24th. The best
guess is that San Juan will be visited September 25th when it was
scheduled to stop at Turks and Caicos where the port facilities
suffered hurricane damage. |
Changed itinerary |
| 24.2.08 |
The ship's arrival in Port Everglades was delayed by more
than six hours because of a medical emergency requiring a diversion to
Grand Cayman for a 15 year old passenger. Instead of arriving in port
between 5:30 and 6:00 AM, it arrived after 11:30 AM. The ship was on an
8 day cruise of the western Caribbean. |
Delayed arrival & departure |
| 2.1.08 |
Ship was prevented from making its call at Ocho
Rios because of rough seas associated with a weather cold front. The
ships had a day at sea and continued on to their next port of call. See
Jamaica
Observer for the story. |
Canceled port call (Weather) |
| dd/mm/yy |
2007 |
Incident |
| 12.11.07 |
Two separate passengers reported that the ship apparently
had propulsion problems off the
coast Puerto Rico -- as one person said, the
ship is "parked in the ocean between Florida & San Juan" and
that it appears unlikely they will arrive in San Juan at 5PM as
scheduled." The ship did make it to San Juan,
about an hour or so late. If additiuonal details are received about the
problem it will be posted. The 8-day Eastern Caribbean cruise began
November 10 in Fort
Lauderdale. |
Engine problems |
| 26.8.07 |
A poster at Cruise
Critic describes her "cruise from hell" on the eight day cruise
ending today which embarked/disembarked from Fort Lauderdale. She
says there was a large group of
700-800 who over ran the ship and dominated
most of the public areas either by design or intimidation by their
behavior. My family never was able to use the Victoria lounge, the
disco, the teen disco, the arcade, a large portion
of the promenade deck. Carnival
allowed this group to have private access to the Victoria
Lounge every night, therefore denying use of this area to all other
passengers. The other
areas mentioned were off limits to the other passengers on
this trip because the behavior of the individuals who occupied it was
so terrifying that all other passengers avoided these areas. My teen
age daughters were so fearful of what went on this ship that after
dinner they spend it in their cabin watching movies. Some of the behaviors that I witnessed firsthand: drug sales; lying in wait in hall ways and
on
elevators and intimidating other passengers who wanted to use these
areas; running, shoving and
pushing fellow passengers on the promenade deck,
and on the stair case in the lobby (I was shoved down the stairs by a
group who were running down the spiral staircase -- After I fell they
turned back and laughed); standing
on furniture, placing chairs in front of doors in the teen disco and
“locking” other youngsters in; on
2 separate evenings, a full blown riot on the promenade deck,
involving at least 40-50 individuals who were fighting throwing
furniture, punches, filthy language and breaking a bottle to use a
weapon -- the entire security
staff was called, bar tenders left their stations, officers arrived to
break up the fight.; running
and screaming in the corridors at all hours of the night; and a group
of 10-20 individuals doing
laundry all night all while smoking and drinking, and laughing yelling
so loud I could hear every word in my bed. The staff of the Liberty was either unable
or unwilling to enforce any
limitations on the individuals in these groups. I spoke to a high
ranking crew member who informed me that these passengers paid for
their cruise and there was nothing they could do. NOTE: Group cruises are occasionally a
problem -- there was one on Carnival including swingers and one on Royal Caribbean including bears that got considerable attention last year. |
Cruise from Hell |
| 2.7.07 |
The Coast Guard was alerted around 11:45 p.m. that a 29 year old man, appearing intoxicated, had fallen overboard. The ship was 50 miles off the coast of Boca Raton, Florida. A helicopter and rescue boats were sent out and a Coast Guard boat pulled the man from the water alive around 12:30 a.m. Subsequent reports say the man had been drinking with his three buddies since the ship had left Fort Lauderdale at about 4 PM. The group left the casino area after 11 PM. to go outside, where the man climbed into a lifeboat -- "He took the ax and started to chop at the ropes." The ship's assistant chief of security came out to get him to stop. He started climbing toward the man and told him to get down. "Then he jumped into the water." He was rescued within an hour. |
Jumped overboard
--
Rescued alive |
| 3.6.07 |
A group of passengers who had just disembarked and were
waiting to board a bus to the airport were slammed into by a Greyhound
bus that lurched toward them, hitting a concrete post first. Six
people were transported to hospital with injuries that were not life
threatening. See
the Sun -Sentinel for more details, and here
too. |
Accident onshore |
| 22.2.07 |
Three muggers attempting to rob a dozen seniors on a tour
bus (a privately arranged tour) in Limon (Costa Rica) were
foiled. A man, about 70 years of age, put one suspect into a head
lock and broke his clavicle -- he died of asphixiation; the other two
men armed with a knife and a gun fled after the other senior citizens
began defending themselves. In December, a passenger was shot
(not critically) in a robbery attempt while on a walk along a boardwalk
in a Limon city park. |
Pax Foil Robbery |
| dd/mm/yy |
2006 |
Incident |
| 15.11.06 |
It wasannounced to day that the cruise scheduled to depart
November 19th from Port Everglades will now depart on November 21 in
order to allow the company to throughly clean/sanitize the ship
following the current cruise where many passengers reported ill.
The new itinerary will be a four day cruise to Key West and
Cozumel. Passengers choosing to take the new itinerary will
receive a 50% refund on this cruise and a 50% discount on a future
cruise. Passengers can also choose to cancel the cruise and
receive a full refund which will be processed within two weeks. |
Itinerary Change |
| 22.3.06 |
There was a complete power failure that lasted approximately
1 hours (10 - 11PM) and it was another hour or so before everything
appeared "back to normal". Passengers report on this at Cruise
Critic. |
Power failure |
| dd/mm/yy |
2006 |
| 26.11.06 |
The
Miami Herald and other media report that some passengers complained
of gastrointestinal illness. The cruise line said it didn't know
how many were ill, but that it was fewer than 2 percent of the 3100
passengers onboard -- that'd be less than 62. He further said
that the number of illnesses on this voyage were in the normal range
for a vessel that size. |
| 13.11.06 |
The
ship reported that 116 of 1166 (9.94%)
crew and 429 of 2804 (15.3%) passengers had reported ill with one week
remaining in the cruise. The cruise begin in Civitavecchia on 3
November and ends in Port Everglades on 19 November.
Symptoms
were consistent with gastrointestinal illness (e.g., norovirus) .
Additional cleaning staff and staff from the Vessel Sanitation Program
of the CDC will board the ship in Phillipsburg (Sint Maarten) on 16
November. Revised numbers (according to Cruise Critic) 14 November: 154 of 1166 (13.2%) crew and 556 of 2804 (19.8%) pax |
| 19.5.06 |
According
to those onboard, many passengers (up to one-third) contracted
gastrointestinal illness during the cruise 12 day cruise ending today
in Civitavecchia. By the end of the cruise, all the
dishes and silverware had been removed from the buffets and
passengers had to be handed their plates with their food
selections by the kitchen staff. Half way through
the cruise, Carnival employees began scrubbing down all common
area surfaces such as outdoor furniture, decks and walls while wearing
masks and gloves. The crew all wore gloves to handle "sign
and sail" cards, etc. |