Yesterday there were multiple news accounts of the sentencing of Carnival cruise passenger, Robert McGill, to life in jail for the brutal murder of his wife aboard the Elation cruise ship.
The crime occurred after McGill reportedly drank a half bottle of Mezcal and seven or eight beers while ashore in Cabo San Lucas. The Southwest
The Miami New Times published a disturbing article this afternoon "Royal Caribbean Sued After 17-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Raped by Cruise Singer."
The article by Michael Miller involves an encounter between a 17 year old passenger ("Jane Doe") and a 31 year old Royal Caribbean crew member employed as a singer in a band on the unidentified
We receive a lot of weird emails and telephone inquiries from cruise passengers about all types of things. Can we get our money back because the waiter was rude? Can we get a free cruise because the weather was bad and we missed a port, etc . . . etc. . . . etc.
I’ll be honest. I hate
Last year I wrote a blog entitled "Cruise Ship Brawls – A Problem that Will Get Bigger with Bigger Ships" addressing the increasing violence on cruise ships. I posted the following comments and questions:
"Complicating matters is the huge amount of alcohol which the cruise lines sell to the passengers, which often leads to drunken
The San Diego Union Tribune reports that federal prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty against a passenger who is charged with beating his wife to death while on a Carnival cruise last summer.
The newspaper reports that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego charged Robert John McGill with first-degree murder and kidnapping of his wife, Shirley.
Paul Ash, who writes columns for the Times Live in Johannesburg under the name “The Wanderer,” addresses the issue of violence by cruise passengers in an interesting article entitled “Punch-Ups and Brawls on Cruise Ships: Whose Fault is it Anyway?”
The article mentions what is described as a “mini-rampage” on the P&O cruise
