"This is your cruise director, we have run out of money, so unless you want to drift around in the ocean, everybody needs to chip in for some fuel"
-dave
Yeah! Exactly! We knew somebody who when the week before they went backrupt. They said there was no running water in many of the staterooms and you had to call the steward to pour a pail of water into the toilet to flush it. A lot of other stuff wasn't working, too.
I heard that the next week, they pulled into port in Canada (St. Johns, I think) unloaded everyone's luggage, handed them vouchers for plane tickets back to NYC, and said "bye bye, have a nice trip back". The crew was basically fired on the spot. Crew members were from all over the world (they made a big deal about bragging about this when we went, I remember). What the heck do they do now? I can't imagine that happening to me!
On our trip several weeks earlier, I remember one of the public bathrooms on an upper deck had no running water and there was a crew member running to the railing and dropping a bucket in the sea (not easy to do while the boat is moving) and flushing the toilets.
That night at like 3 AM, there was a loud banging in the maintenance shaftway which just happened to be next to our stateroom that went on and on for like an hour. After 10 minutes or so I got up and dressed and went to the desk to ask what the heck was going on. The crew that took care of the passengers hadn't been told anything. In fact they were going from stateroom to stateroom trying to find out, because they thought it was a passenger making the noise, and when they got to our stateroom and saw my empty bed (because I was up at the desk complaining) they said to my wife "Is one of your children missing, ma'am?", which of course made her shoot bolt upright in bed and say "WHAAAAAT!!!!?":ROFLOL:. It's funny to look back on now, but we weren't real happy at the time!
Sorry for the thread drift, but I thought it was a good story, anyway.
