I'm going on a cruise on this ship and was watching YT reviews when I came across this character - Travels With Josh. He's got a girlfriend, but travels everywhere with his business partner (also in the video). But he flames, hard.

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by Anonymous

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March 22, 2023 1:37 AM

He doesn't and then does. If he did in my presence, I'd run. He chews with his mouth open and can't pronounce sachertorte.

Oh, and that's a shit cruise line.

by Anonymous

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March 21, 2023 10:45 PM

I watched the first 3 seconds of the freak eating - humans should not eat like that, nor speak while chewing. Let's hope he's not gay. Let the straights keep him.

by Anonymous

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March 21, 2023 10:49 PM

I wouldn't know because I don't use the word "ping" in this manner.

by Anonymous

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March 21, 2023 10:50 PM

R4 what does that have to do with anything?

by Anonymous

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March 21, 2023 11:22 PM

R2 what was your experience with the ship that you disliked?

by Anonymous

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March 21, 2023 11:23 PM

He’s chewing with his mouth open, the ill-mannered cunt.

by Anonymous

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March 21, 2023 11:42 PM

He could use some whitestrips. One tooth is whiter than the others.

by Anonymous

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March 21, 2023 11:42 PM

His name is Josh Hocum? Is it a stage name?

by Anonymous

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March 22, 2023 12:31 AM

Maybe he's like that Todd Chrisley character who just went to prison.

by Anonymous

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March 22, 2023 12:52 AM

R6 Tiny cabins, shitty food (so much pasta! pasta is cheap!) unless you pay extra to eat in one of the specialty restaurants and their weird pricing: bare-bones (like the cheapest airline ticket: no frills and only a guarantee cabin, so it's like not having a reserved seat on a plane except that it's a cruise for a week or more, not 6 hours on a plane) and you don't even get room service. They have a mid-line pricing point called Fantastica for some of the better cabins and you get room service. They also have a high line pricing set-up for the suites which makes the initial lead-in cheap fares sound ridiculous. Bottom line: it'll cost double (or more) the cruise fare you've already paid.

The announcements on the tannoy are interminable and depending on how many Europeans/South Americans are on board, they're in five or six languages all fucking day. And of course, when lots of Euros and Brazilians are onboard, you can't talk to half the passengers if English is your only language. I speak Spanish and a bit of Portuguese, and I've heard what some of 'em say about us, thinking we don't understand. These are not for the most part your friends because cheap tacky Euros can be even cheaper and tackier than cheap tacky Americans. It's not universal, of course, but this isn't a luxury line and cheaper cruises attract cheaper passengers. Plus, given the number of people on board, there are lines for everything. Long lines. Vegas hotel style lines. Airport chaos type lines. I don't like lines: I'm a guest: they're supposed to come to me, not the other way around.

Shall I go on? The waitstaff are dour, not at all like the almost-maniacally-smiling Indonesian and Asian staff you see on most ships. On every other line I've been on the crews were a lot more engaging. The service is OK but not crisp - you get the food and that's it - there's not much personality on offer. And once, anyway, I didn't even get the food right: a chicken entree does not come with rice and a potato anywhere else. And our server seemed put out that I wanted the sides listed. The crew/passenger ratio is greater than on any line I've been on: 3 to 1 on the big ships, 4 to 1 on the newest biggest ones. The industry average is about 2 to 1 and some of the premium lines have an almost 1 to 1 ratio. Why would you care? Not as many waiters, not as many cabin attendants, not as many cocktail servers. And unless you're the kind of loon in the video who's taping his dinner while we watch him masticate, you wouldn't want someone like that next to you at dinner, would you?

Then there's the seamanship. One of their ships, the Melody, was attacked by pirates near the Seychelles in 2009. The passengers had to repel them by tossing deck chairs and tables over the side at them until their security team (who should have been on alert given where they were) could get their shit together to repel them. Nor would I have wanted to be on the MSC Concordia where the captain deliberately wanted to "salute" someone on shore and so took the ship out of the channel onto a rock where it sank. Killing a couple of dozen passengers with reports of the crew headed for the lifeboats before the passengers. As the ship was sinking with 4200 people on board AND NO EMERGENCY ORDERED, the captain was on the bridge asking for tugboats. Cruise ships aren't 737's, but Captain Sully he wasn't.

It's a cheap cruise. You get what you pay for.

by Anonymous

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March 22, 2023 1:37 AM