Cruise ship holidays are full of entertainment, dazzling surroundings and a host of excursions when the ship enters port. Some holidaymakers on board will be seasoned cruisers, having gone on ship excursions many times. For others, it may be their first time mixing up a vacation spent on a boat and on land. Former cruise ship employee Joshua Kinser encountered many guests of varying characters and backgrounds during his time working in the ship’s band, and as the ship auctioneer.
He told of the most bizarre concern he had encountered on-board.
Detailing the very left-field worry in his book, Chronicles of a Cruise Ship Member, he wrote crew needed to have “a high tolerance for seasickness and the stupid questions that passengers ask.”
He cited the strangest question he had ever been posed during a cruise ship route, and put how one passenger quizzed: “If the ship sinks, will there be an ice cream machine on the lifeboat?”
It appears the passenger in question was more concerned about food sustenance than their potential survival.
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