On my first Princess cruise, I was exploring the ship when I noticed a small crowd near the Retreat entrance by the elevators. Just as I was wondering what was happening, a guy walked by from the sun deck—barefoot!
He didn’t seem to notice the crowd and was headed straight for the Retreat when someone suddenly stopped him. He was about to step right into a pile of poo! Luckily, another guest saved him from that unfortunate mess.
The staff had just started cleaning it up. I’ve never seen anything like that on a cruise before.
I guess the moral of the story is to watch your step on a ship!
On my cruises, the only places I don’t have television on are in my cabin and while I’m walking from the chair to the pool. However, even in that case, I dislike walking about the pool deck barefoot since my feet get too hot.
On one cruise ship, I have only ever seen poop. I thought it was from an assistance dog that didn’t quite make it to the relieving area because it was on the outdoor promenade deck, but I’m not sure now. An owner of a service dog should have cleaned it up, in my opinion. It was obviously trodden on by someone who didn’t notice and left traces behind.
@Candy I also thought it might be from a service dog, but typically the owners clean up after them or the dogs are better trained. In addition, I haven’t yet seen one on the ship.
A crazy 14-year-old boy was wandering about by the pool with a piece of shit stuck on a toilet brush when I was on the allure of the ocean. After throwing it at a different set of children, he started to run. Luckily, it struck the floor and no one was hurt. The workers cleaned it up quite fast, but I never found out what happened to the brat who tossed it.
Really, people, poop. This is utterly absurd for people of any age. Who would just crap in a public place like that? I can accept it if someone has an accident and some excrement, but not completely formed crap, goes down their leg. On a cruise, I regrettably caused a biohazard clean up by puking in front of an elevator. I nearly reached the restrooms. Very embarrassing because, not even as a small child, I have never puked like that. I apologize to the other passengers on that voyage.
I was in the adult pool section on an MSC trip. I saw a woman glance at me, then cast a scared glance over my head. When I looked around, I noticed a massive turd floating in the pool—no, it wasn’t a baby ruth.
Everyone hastily left the pool, and the pool’s maintenance staff roped it off and emptied it. I spent that day learning how to say “not my job” in at least seven different languages by watching all of the pool attendants.
Luckily, another guest saved him from that unfortunate mess.
