There was a cruise ship Mutiny on the Bounty via Twitter reported on the Weather Network on the weekend. The ship had missed its fifth scheduled port of call in a two-week vacation to Iceland, Amsterdam, Norway and Ireland due to bad weather.
This would be a scenario from hell. Passengers board the cruise ship with the expectation of luxury and pampering that they consider they've paid for, and end up roughing it with the toilets out of order and confined to a floating hotel with few or no stops. The staged protests with signs that said "Refund! Refund! Refund!"
There have been far worse cruise ship experiences. Perhaps the passenger twitter reports made this one distinct, along with the organized protests and angry confrontations sent out via twitter regularly.
Guinness Book of Records doesn't have records for the worst vacations or cruise ship incidents. It has the worst roads, longest journey by car, barefoot, wheelchair, all the continents, skateboard journeys, and so on. The usual strange variations on travel.
To find out the worst cruise ship experiences/incidents, we go to one of the sensationalist articles - a good example is HERE.
Today's picture is a close-up of a carved wooden sculpture in the RBG gardens.
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