<p>I heard that in addition to a refund, Carnival is offering each passenger who has endured the Cruise from Hell Complete with Excrement the sum of $500. I’m not a litigious person, but that seems like an inadequate sum for what they’ve been through. </p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>A full refund isn’t nearly enough to my mind. Maybe a full refund, an open airline ticket and an open voucher for a week’s stay at a prominent hotel chain ?</p>
<p>My guess is that if they take the $500, they probably will have to sign something waiving their right to sue. I started the week thinking Carnival would probably offer them a “voucher” for a future cruise… then as it sounded worse, I figured they would get their money back… now I think they are owed quite a bit more than that. $500 does not seem like enough.</p>
<p>We were on a Norwegian cruise from NYC to Bahamas over one Thanksgiving. The ship broke down around Virginia and couldn’t get the parts replaced. We were docked at Norfolk for 2 days with food/drinks, everything functional. We were on the ship for 5 out of 7 days. We got a full refund and 25% off for the next cruise we book. I never took them up on the offer of 25% off. Haven’t been back on a cruise since. </p>
<p>I think for what those poor people went through, Carnival is going to have to give more than 500. It sounded horrible.</p>
<p>Yea $500 is not going to cut it. Who is Carnival kidding? Has this ship finally been towed into port yet? At first they said Wednesday night Thursday morning, now they dispatched another tug boat yesterday. </p>
<p>As miserable as this is for the passengers, I can only imagine what conditions are like for the poor crew. Who make no money as it is and now I suspect they will be grounded until the ship is fixed.</p>
<p>I believe they’re getting:
a full refund
a free future cruise
$500 per person
reimbursement for all travel expenses between Mobile and home (food, transport, accommodations, incidentals, etc.)</p>
<p>Not sure if that’s adequate.</p>
<p>On NPR yesterday, the news program said all would receive a refund and a credit for another cruise.</p>
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<p>Anyone know what admiralty law would provide? There may be different laws, treaties, etc. that govern incidents on the high seas than if the same thing had happened in a resort on land. </p>
<p>Just another reason why I have no interest in a cruise, ever.</p>
<p>And… those people would WANT another cruise? Ever?? Um… pretty safe offer for Carnival to make, it won’t cost them much. Since I am guessing almost none of the passengers would take them up on it!</p>
<p>Agree… $500 and free cruise and reimbursement… insufficient.</p>
<p>I just read that the next 12 cruises aboard that ship have been cancelled. Feel bad for those people too… now they will have to scramble to make other Spring trip plans. :(</p>
<p>Life is NOT risk-free. I don’t think the company deserves to be bankrupted over this one incident unless they were seriously negligent. I did wonder after assisting a wheelchair-bound, partially-paralyzed man in a cruise ship restaurant what would happen to him if an emergency occurred. I’m sure someone was travelling with him, but they weren’t with him when I noticed him struggling to attempt to transport his food from the ordering spot to a table.</p>
<p>As someone pointed out, there WAS a life-threatening fire and no one was harmed. They were highly inconvenienced for a few days but it could have been much worse!</p>
<p>It was my understanding they were offered a full refund, plus a free cruise with an additional $500. My guess is the $500 would be an on board credit when they take the free cruise.</p>
<p>Y’all are right. I neglected to mention the free cruise part, thinking the idea of a future cruise, on Carnival, would be repellant to most.</p>
<p>And yes, the poor crew, too. I doubt that what they have had to do is in their job descriptions.</p>
<p>I have a friend who’s graduation present is a cruise trip across the gulf of mexico and around the carribeans. It would be absolutely hilarious if he were on that boat. HAHA</p>
<p>From msn.com:
http: // news.msn.com/us/carnival-adds-dollar500-to-compensation-for-cruise-ship-passengers</p>
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<p>What a bout dropping some food and porta-potties on that huge deck?</p>
<p>Can’t believe that nothing really proactive was done!</p>
<p>I do feel much sorrier for the staff who are dealing with pitiful wages and very grumpy passengers. I also can’t understand why they don’t do drops of food to the ship. If tugboats can get out to it, can’t other boats carrying supplies?</p>
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<p>How about 2 incidents? The Costa Concordia, where 32 people lost their lives, is owned by the same company.</p>
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<p>or build a simple contraption where the dung would be channeled to the ocean. Get rid of the smell AND feed the fishes. Two birds one stone. honestly though. They probably do have space. They’re just reserving it for the ladies, who would have a hell of a problem without something to sit on.</p>
<p>Yes, D2 and I were discussing this yesterday. We could understand why 3,000 passengers can’t be transported OFF the ship. But we could not understand why they could not helicopter some porta-potties onto the deck!</p>