I am so tired of hearing about all the crime etc happening on P&O cruises. Is this the only cruise company that has all these problems?
I don't think so.
I have been on these ships and never saw any of the things the Media is proclaiming. I believe the drug induced death that happened,but why can't they leave it alone. I feel it is like a feeding frenzy of piranas.
Doesn't all this drug and alcohol problem happen in.... Canberra,well known hotels and resorts etc ,we never hear about them ,but bet it happens on a regular basis.
Does any one else feel they are targeting this cruise liners company? Or am I presuming to much again...

Who cares?

Always the gentleman, Leigh

I think the problem on the P & O cruises is the lack of professionalism from many of the staff.

I went on a cruise when I was about 17 years old and I couldn't believe how the staff got themselves involved, in every which way, with those that were cruising on the ship. There was no supervision in relation to drugs or anything else for that matter. I am now 42-3 so it was quite some time ago but it seems to me that things havent changed.

There appears to be no guidelines or rules as to how staff should behave the only thing that they seem to understand is that there is a process they need to adhere to when things go wrong and that process is designed to protect the reputation of the company.

It is a shame that things are not run in a better manner because cruises can be so much fun. I know my son is very upset that the schoolies cruise is being cancelled as he was wanting to go on one.

Ah the Grumble case! the ultimate gender war vehicle

In the Blue corner we have some blokes of "Multi Cultural Appearance in cheap suits" who "went down to the sea in boats" to get pi$$ed, stoned and laid

In the Red corner we have a Ms Grumble of "Fat Old Cow Appearance" who "went down to the sea in boats" to get pi$$ed, stoned and laid

So this was never going to be bling bling Home & Away sex, rather it was always going to be "original sex", ie back to the very roots [no pun intended] of the Greer War where only the "visually impared" would agree to lay her without a bag on her head

Germaine wrote her famous revenge article "Lady Love Your C-word" and the rest is history

So blokes got laid, Ms Grumble got laid [but it seems overly laid] and P&O did the honourable thing and MIS-laid certain things which might have detracted from the good name of the Ship [ie a good place to get laid, but not fatally if possible].

So we expected the Greerites to do the "Poor Little Ms Grumble" bit, and of course they did - but after doing an "intellectually honest" retilting of the goldposts/windmills, do we simply say it was a 2 - 2 Draw and throw the whole thing overboard [being also a "Certain Maritine Incident", indeed]

Not at all Yer Honour! What has been conveniently forgotten [BY EVERYONE] is that the blokes in cheap suits were not using the cruise as part of a "contact visit" BUT Ms Grumble was the "Custodian" [as Howard still calls it] of a young child, and Ms Grumble had brought the child on the cruise and left the child alone in a cabin while she went off to get laid.

Now that just don't seem dang right to me, and at the very least makes a mockery of the "poor Lonely Parent Pensioner" theory of the Red corner mob, that Ms Grumble was actually able to afford such a trip - ah but I was forgetting child support.

Very droll, DD - at least the first couple of paras. However, I think this whole beat-up has been driven by the tabloid media, rather than the evil feminists. I doubt you'd find too many 'Greer-ites' in their ranks ;)