After returning from their Bahama’s cruise yesterday, my parents had many stories to tell – most of which involved tales of ridiculous questions asked on board by some incredibly special guests!
Question: “Where does your electricity come from? Surely you don’t generate it yourself?!”
Reply: There’s a long underwater extension cord plugged in at Miami!
Question: “Are these islands completely surrounded by water??”
Question: On having difficulty finding her way around the ship, one woman asked “Will this elevator take me to the front of the ship?”
Question: “What kind of water do you use in these toilets; salt or fresh??”
Reply: Why? Are you planning to drink it?
Question: “How high above sea level are we?” (asked while floating on the sea.)
Guest: “Excuse me sir, but we had pizza last night and went to heat it up in our microwave this morning but the microwave is not working”.
Reply: “I’m sorry sir but you don’t have a microwave in your cabins.”
Guest: “Yes we do…” guest proceeded to describe the in-room safe.
Impressed with the sheer amount of hard working crew members on board, a young lady asked “Where do the crew sleep?”
Reply: “A helicopter comes in at 2am each night to transport them home.”
Guest the next day complaining: “The helicopter last night woke me!”.
Question: “What kind of water do you fill the pool with — fresh water or sea water?”
Reply: “Sea water.”
Question: “Does that explain why the pool is so rough today?”
An hour into the cruise (after departure) a young woman realizes she has left her phone charger in her car and can’t understand why she can’t “quickly nick back to the dock”.
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BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Wow!
I can imagine all of those happening
Except for that sea level one
But then again…. Wow
Great Laugh
JR
Brilliant, I love them.
It does leave you wondering how can people who are so dumb be able to afford to go on a cruise?
Wow! Hilarious, my fav was the helicopter one. Thanks for the great laughs!
These are SO funny, Meg! I love the microwave one haha
I’m going on a Mexican cruise in January. I’ll keep my ears open for more ridiculous questions.
A good giggle here! Can’t believe people sometimes, but doesn’t it make for a great blog post ;)
Amazing questions…hard to believe how silly some people can be. I especially loved the one about the rough swimming pool. Classic!!
Funny as hell
Some of these are kind of understandable. Almost. If you’re feeling REALLY charitable.
. . . and then there’s the guy who couldn’t tell the difference between a microwave and a safe, and I just give up.
Love this! Laughing my head off, a good read first thing over breakfast! Happy travels! :)
Confusing a safe with a microwave? I think that is the best one. At least, these people are not running the ship.
Yes are funny if are just jokes but damn are true. Some people deserve a one way ticket to Mars :))
I am sure there are people who figure since they can travel to Hershey, to Charleston, to 5’th avenue (help me out here, running out of candy bar city/place names), that “Mars” is just another…
Question, if these Mars trips do happen, can I buy a ticket for my former boss?
JR
LOL! I feel bad for the crew members who must come across questions like these on a daily basis. I love the imagery of an extension cord stretching all the way to Miami — awesome reply!
Proving (yet again) why some people should really not be permitted to leave their own neighborhood :-)
All fabulous, but “Does that explain why the pool is so rough today?” had me in stitches.
Don’t forget, these people can vote ….
Lol we just finished a Caribbean cruise and now I feel ripped off that we didn’t hear any dumb questions. Unless you count the countless times we were asked where my daughters red hair comes from.
Do these stairs go up and down?
oh my goodness!!
Sometimes the lack of intelligence of the human race astounds me.
Thanks for the giggle :)
That’s awesome. To be honest half the time I like asking stupid questions simply to see what the response will be, ha.
I try not to be judgmental of people on cruises, but how can you not when they say stuff like this? Amazing.
Then again, I’ve asked some pretty stupid questions in my day (and by my day I mean all the time). At least it’s good entertainment value!
This cracked me up! Thanks for the laugh!
Loved this. We have been on a few cruises and these comments don’t surprise us at all. Although, we can’t talk, one of our nieces thought the Rod Stewart impersonator was THE Rod Stewart and asked if he was flown in by helicopter.
This does not encourage me to try cruising! (Unless all these questions were asked by the same people.) Wealth obviously does not guarantee intelligence.
My favorite is asking the ship’s photographer how do we find our pictures?
We’re coming up on our 60th cruise and we’ve heard some real winners.
One of our favorites was on a cruise island-hopping in Hawai’i. ‘If we want to spend an extra day on a particular island, will the ship come back and pick us up’.
No. The ship is called a liner because it runs a line. That means it goes from port to port on a set schedule. A vessel that carries 2000 passengers is not a water taxi.
There is also the story of the lady on a super luxury ship who told a crew member that she appreciated the heated safe because it made her fine jewellery comfortable to wear for dinner.
There was no such thing as a heated safe on the ship but the crew member figured out what the lady was talking about. The safe was positioned over the mini-bar and the exhaust from the fridge lightly warmed the safe.
I do understand the question about whether a certain bank of lifts goes the the ‘front of the ship’. Large ships with central, forward and aft elevator banks can be confusing for new pax. When the ship is in port it can be difficult to determine
Passenger: Captain, do these ships sink often?
Captain: No ma’am, only once!
I’m currently working on a cruise ship as a bartender and I am writing a book about my job and I included a lot of ridiculous questions asked by the guests at the bar you never heard of.