Cruise Etiquette

[George K]

https://www.cnn.com/travel/cruise-ship-etiquette-bad-behaviors-avoid/index.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

You’re on a cruise in the buffet line. You’re politely waiting your turn to access a sumptuous bowl of fresh fruit. In front of you is a fellow passenger picking out certain berries — with their fingers!

The ultraselective and handsy fruit looter who committed this cruising faux paus did it in front of none other than Nick Leighton, a frequent traveler and host of the weekly etiquette podcast “Were You Raised By Wolves?”

It can get worse. Angel Wilson, travel advisor and owner of Dream Journeys, LLC, witnessed a cruising incident that makes the fruit bowl breach seem benign. She recently told CNN Travel via email about an unsettling incident:

“A group of us were sitting at a long table in one of the bar venues on a ship and an intoxicated Scotsman came up to us and asked if we’d like to see what ‘real Scots wear under their kilts.’ He then proceeded to flash us, from the front,” said Wilson, who is a cruise specialist.

When it comes to uncouth, uncultured and downright unacceptable behavior on ships, experts in travel etiquette and cruising have seen it all. Below they share plenty of bad behaviors for passengers to avoid (and good ones they should emulate).

[Doctor Phibes]

A group of us were sitting at a long table in one of the bar venues on a ship and an intoxicated Scotsman came up to us and...

That sentence is never going to end well

[89th]

I'm not sure why they had to be redundant about the intoxicated Scotsman, either.

[bachophile]

Could be worse. He could have picked up the berries with his Johnson.

[George K]

You could have just said “your mother’s lipstick. “

[LuFins Dad]

Cruise culture is one of the most ridiculous ideas in the world to me. I've been on two (Caribbean) but don't plan on being on any other with the very possible exception of an adventure cruise to Alaska, around the tip of South America, or possibly one of those cruises where you help sail one of the old 3 masters... But Carnival/Royal Caribbean/Disney/etc...? Not a chance.

[LuFins Dad]

And I would be offended if the drunken Scotsman weren't flashing people...

[Doctor Phibes]

I hope you're not implying that these seafaring adventures aren't the height of sophistication, engaged in by the jet-setting upper classes?

Because the people I know personally who swear by cruises, also own specially adopted cases which enable them to smuggle their own booze on board to avoid paying for high-priced cocktails. And it doesn't get much more sophisticated than that!

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Cruise Etiquette:

smuggle their own booze

You're kidding...

At least on Amtrak, in a sleeper, you can BYOB.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Cruise Etiquette:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Cruise Etiquette:

smuggle their own booze

You're kidding...

At least on Amtrak, in a sleeper, you can BYOB.

Yeah, but you don’t get flashed by drunken Scots, so it kind of balances out