mnetop said:

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I took a cruise 20+ years ago and it was my first and last. It is not for me. So many people love cruising but not for me, for sure. I don't want to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with thousands of people for days at a time.

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Not all cruises are thousands of people. Some of them are just like 200 people.. some ust a few dozen.

You won't regret it. Especially if you've never seen that part of the country before. And yes, 90% of the trip you are cruising within a few hundred yards of land. I think it's that first day you might actually lose sight of land for a bit but it isn't long. So much to see just in that.

As far as feeling trapped - Day 1 you get on the boat. Days 2-6 you stop in 4 ports. Day 7 you get off the boat. There's only one day that you don't get off. We stopped in Juneau, Ketchikan, Skagway, and Victoria. Victoria is only a 4-5 hour pit stop in the evening but it's plenty of time to get a pint and some fish and chips and say you've been to Canada.

My son was 6 on the first trip and 11 on the second. Fantastic experience both times. The first time our excursions were geared more towards the littles (traveled with my sister and BIL and their 3 kids - 4, 8, 10). Second time we got to do some different, more adventurous options.

Just go ahead and cave.

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BadMoonRisin said:

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Is this the same series that did the one about Woodstock 99?

That one was very well done...I hate ****ty documentaries, but I'll probably check this one out tonight.

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The one on Travis Scott's Astroworld concert was a good watch as well

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I actually started that one and stopped halfway to go to sleep. Should start it up again. After the poop cruise episode it threw us on to the Rob Ford Mayor of Mayhem show.

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Watched the Astroworld one last night. That one was a tough watch. Very sad what happened to a bunch of kids just there to have a good time. Concert organizers completely ignored all the paramedics giving CPR around the stage and kept the concert going. Part of the crowd was even chanting "stop the show" over and over. Couple of young people even managed to get up on one of the camera stands and pleaded for them to stop the show. Very, very sad.

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Very sad. That's why I dont really like to be anywhere where large crowds are. Im not sure why.

Maybe it's because I was scarred as an 18 year old when I watched youtube videos of the Station Nightclub fire and have subconsciously been scared of large crowds in enclosed spaces ever since....it's just not my thing. Neither is live music, I suppose. Likely for the same reason.

In either case, I've been asked probably 5-6 times if I want to join people on a cruise and just noped out of it. I can see the appeal of it, and it looked fun in the documentary when things were "working", but the fear of things breaking down so suddenly and seeing how quickly people resort to acting instinctive and like animals is just too much for me.

I get that you get to "party", "be treated", "do and see a lot of things" and "travel" all in a compact 4-day itinerary, but...I can do all of those things with time between, likely cheaper than I can on a cruise, with zero fear of being stranded at sea, ankle deep in poo poo.

You'd have to snipe a food-grade plastic bucket with a lid from one of the galleys. Dump out what's in it and save the lid. Then rip a toilet seat out of a head, Cut the bottom out of a nice pool chair and attach the seat. Rig up some tarpaulin for some measure of privacy and put it out on deck.

After 7-days the interior of that ship probably looked like Chungking Mansions.

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easttexasaggie04 said:

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I'm watching this right now. Man, that must have suuuucked. It's streaming on Netflix. It's about the Carnival Triumph that was stuck out at sea with no power (or working toilets).

The chef talking about how the poop on the toilet was layered like "poop lasagna" was the chefs kiss.

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Ha my brother and his wife were on that cruise for their anniversary.

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My old assistant and her husband were on it, too.

Still #1 movie in America.

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Still #1 movie in America.

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Man, it must really suck to work in marketing/communications/IR for Carnival these days.

Between this documentary and all the viral videos, it's a losing battle for the brand's reputation. And I say that as a former Carnival customer and shareholder (bought at the bottom during Covid and thankfully sold with a big gain).

I've been on 3 cruises, and never again.

"You're playing Russian Roulette with these things." -From the attorney. (Who obviously was a class action guy, so…but…). You're not stranding me in an ocean for days without the ability to get an uber and go to the airport.

Apparently they settled for $500 and a FUTURE cruise. Who even signed that deal?!?!

The 2 most impressive things:

1)That Carnival somehow suppressed this from coming out after both the FyreFest docs, bc there was clearly a market for this.

2)That people's cell phone batteries still had charge on like day 3 to take footage.

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I got $750.

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You probably could have gotten more for appearing in the doc.

Did you take the future cruise, or trade that for the upgraded settlement over the $500?

Gave it to my now ex-wife so she could take a "friend" on a cruise.

big-ag said:

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Gave it to my now ex-wife so she could take a "friend" on a cruise.

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Re "Trainwreck: Poop Cruise," know that the ship's name has caused enormous stress and financial ramifications. I continue to seek reparations from Carnival in court, or so I am assured by Mr. Dershowitz, my long-time legal counsel and money pit.@teamcoco https://t.co/eI0SpNwAKe

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Trajan88 said:

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I read / hear about cruise ships and I think of this... why anyone would want to be stuck on a floating 6+ floor motel is a mystery.

Looks to be a prison, not a holiday/vacation.

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"Floating Las Vegas"

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I was on it. Haven't watched the documentary yet, but however bad it's made out to be, it was probably worse.

The balls of Crisco dipped in cocoa powder and sugar for lunch one day were exquisite.

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So basically, an Oreo cookie .

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loved how they got that blonde cruise worker to admit (for no real reason) that she was getting banged in some guys room the night before

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My hot take: the dorky dude with the glasses who was granted way too much screen time (prolly cuz he was the only one with POV footage) deserved it.

lol I can't imagine being on that cruise for my honeymoon and having to bang it out in a deck chair of the POOP CRUISE.

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Meh, I mean fish poop in the ocean, don't they?

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I was on a scuba diving excursion in Belize. We stopped on an a very small island to have lunch. There was one small house on the island where we ate lunch. No electricity or plumbing. Their toilet was a makeshift port-o-potty about 10 feet up and out over the water. When I looked down in the toilet, there were tons of fish there just waiting.

So I would say that fish would actually eat the poop.

TW:PC squirts through the weekend still at #1 on Netflix.

55-min show couldn't have cost much to make. Big payoff for Netflix here.

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loved how they got that blonde cruise worker to admit (for no real reason) that she was getting banged in some guys room the night before

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Yea I was wanting to hear a bit more about the behind the scenes antics going on!

The "poop lasagna" chef has his own Tik Tok. I stumbled across it last night.