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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 02-24-2001 03:06 PM

I have just been reading some of the 'Readers Reviews' on this site. Occasionally someone writes something truly bizarre! I have just read an SS Norway review, but to save any embarrassment I will not name the contributor. Anyway, they said:

"Our stay was very satisfying. There was hardly any noise at all, except on a few occasions where a bunch of guys went running down the hall after an innocent girl".

Wow...now that's what I call entertainment! When I have cruised "chasing an innocent girl" has never been offered as an entertainment option? Maybe it's exclusively an NCL thing? From the quote it obviously took place on a "few" occasions on that particular cruise! Innocent girls are probably pretty difficult to find these days? Well done NCL!

Has anyone experience some unusual or poor shipboard entertainment i.e. bad singers or un-funny comedian's etc?

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ocngypz
First Class Passenger
Member # 1555

posted 02-24-2001 04:40 PM

Last summer we were on the Pacific Princess from NY to Bermuda. First night out was very rough courtesy of Hurricane Alberto. After first seating dinner, we went into the theater to watch the comedian. Poor guy... don't know if it was his set.... or the motion of the ocean.... but people were....... (you get the picture).....all over the theater. Rather hard to be funny under those circumstances.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 02-26-2001 01:40 PM

ocngypz, now that is funny, unless it happens to you!

I once saw an act where a Japanese lady played 'gypsy music'(?) on a violin. Now I am not anti-Japanese, but I hated it, the sound gave me a headache. The violin even had a Japanese accent!

Mind you lots of the older American passengers seemed to love it? Maybe it's an ageism thing? Maybe in a few decades I will grow to love such music?

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Ascendancy
First Class Passenger
Member # 840

posted 02-26-2001 02:29 PM

I saw some fool try to stop closing elevator doors with his two arms. The problem is he had full hot cups of coffee in both hands.

He stopped the doors, but it had to be painful.

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Blizzard54
First Class Passenger
Member # 1824

posted 02-26-2001 08:02 PM

Back in about 1982 I took a positioning cruise from LA to Vancouver BC aboard the Cunard Princess. The normal routine, and listed the ships daily planner, was to have lifeboat drill at 10am the first day out. During breakfast it was announced that 1 of the 4 engines had failed. They assured us that we were in no danger but, we would be late arriving at San Francisco. Then can the lifeboat drill... There was 1 woman that freaked! She was sure that the Ship was going down. After the drill was over she went to the Purser's office and informed them that she was getting off in San Francisco. They informed her that since we had not been to a non-US post she could not disembark. She did not like that answer and insisted that there must be a way. They told her that the only was would be for medical reasons. On to the Doctor. When she informed him that she wanted off he asked her what was problem. He them assured her that the ship was not in danger and that he could only write a letter to customs for medical reasons and she was not ill. She would not accept this and hounded him for some time. He finaly gave in. He stated in the letter to the customs officials that she was "mentaly unstable" and thus unable to continue on the voyage.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 02-28-2001 06:27 AM

Ascendancy, that's funny!

Sometimes the professional reviews of the budget cruise ships/lines suggest that the entertainment is amateurish?

Is this so?

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garrys
First Class Passenger
Member # 581

posted 02-28-2001 07:33 AM

Malcolm

The only complaint we had about our cruise on the Sunbird last year was the entertainment. Not Amaturish by any means just not varied. I for one do not really enjoy song & dance shows and that is all that seemed to be on offer except for a few comedians who seemed to share the same joke book!!

All in all I gave entertainment about 6 out of 10, but due to the content of the shows we seemed to spend extra time & money in the casino trying to show americans and canadians how to play British fruit machines.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 02-28-2001 03:39 PM

quote:
Originally posted by garrys:
...but due to the content of the shows we seemed to spend extra time & money in the casino trying to show americans and canadians how to play British fruit machines.

Thanks for the info Garrys. I would have thought that the Fruit Machines on Sunbird were American?

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tg_lindo
First Class Passenger
Member # 806

posted 02-28-2001 04:22 PM

I remember my first cruise when I was a teenager like it was last month, not twenty years ago.

One of the acts was a man and woman who did noisy Flamenco, which will blow your mind if you're a teen living in generic middle America. Then they did an even more ernest dance that seemed tribal in nature. The guy's butt was kind of hanging out and I thought that was really funny. So did my grandmother, by the quips she made.

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garrys
First Class Passenger
Member # 581

posted 03-01-2001 09:32 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Malcolm:
Thanks for the info Garrys. I would have thought that the Fruit Machines on Sunbird were American?

Malcolm

Yes they are mainly american but there must also be 20 or so British (proper!) fruit machines including one £1000 jackpot at 50p a go. During the cruise around the caribbean this is the only time that you use British money!!

Garry

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 03-01-2001 09:47 AM

Garry, did you pay for the Cruise with your winnings?

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garrys
First Class Passenger
Member # 581

posted 03-02-2001 02:13 AM

Malcolm

I got as close to winning the jackpot as Airtours is of buyinh VOTS!!

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 03-07-2001 08:25 AM

quote:
Originally posted by garrys:
Malcolm, I got as close to winning the jackpot as Airtours is of buyinh VOTS!!

Airtours might well buy VOTS...when she is 20 years old and considered a 'small' ship!

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911BOSS
First Class Passenger
Member # 1853

posted 03-08-2001 04:13 PM

A couple of years ago on the Star Princess out of Tahiti for Honolulu, we went to the show to see a Polyneisian Dance Show and one of the entertainers (beautiful young girl) ended up topless for about a 5 minute dance. I am not a prude and thoroughly enjoyed it but I wondered about families in the audience.

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