1. Fight With Other Guests or Crew Members
A few years ago, a senior couple from New York got into trouble while on Cunard Line’s Queen Mary. The reason for the fight? The wife screamed at a fellow passenger, and eventually everything turned into a shouting match.
According to the cruise line staff, this wasn’t the first incident involving the 82-year-old woman, as she had engaged in multiple episodes of disruptive and disrespectful behavior toward other guests and crew members.
In deference to their ages—her husband was 91—the captain decided to let the couple, who were on a 30-day, $20,000 cruise, stay onboard until the ship returned to New York. But the wife and husband were both confined to their cabin. They weren’t allowed to have any alcohol either.
There were also situations where passengers got into fistfights, forcing the plainclothes members of the ship’s security team to step in and put an end to the altercations. Those involved were hauled off to confinement.
Something similar happened in Australia a few years ago, when 16 passengers were removed from P&O Cruises’ Pacific Dawn for fighting.
