21 February 2024 , 11:37
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A holidaymaker has shared how every single passenger on her cruise "voted" to kick off an annoying woman for her "entitled" attitude. She explained how she embarked on a three-week trip with her mother to remote islands in the western South Pacific, saying "no white person had set foot [on them] in almost a decade".
But she says the saga began before they were even on the ship, with a group visit to an artisan shop in Port Moresby, New Guinea. When it was time for the group to leave, the woman, who she refers to as entitled passenger, got onto their minibus with several huge bags of souvenirs. This meant that her fellow passengers had to partly climb over her goods to get deeper into the bus.
Posting to Reddit, the raging passenger said it also meant she, who at 42 was the 'baby' of the group, the rest of which were all aged over 60, had to use "very uncomfortable" jump seats that folded down from the main seats along with a few other passengers. And the situation became progressively worse from there on in.
The ship stopped at Rabaul, New Britain, where there is a traditional fire dance performed called Baining. The performers dance through fire while wearing giant masks that are typically five-foot high and three foot wide. There were six dancers, so six masks and the women said that somebody asked if they would be able to make more in time for their next scheduled performance, and would be willing to bring these masks to the ship afterward so people could have a chance to buy them.
But, the woman told fellow posters, sometime after the dances were over one of the performers drove the masks in a truck to the ship, where entitled passenger had been waiting for them on the dock. She proceeded to buy three of the six masks while other passengers who had gone back to their cabins were still figuring out the masks had arrived and were making their way back down to the dock. The passengers all had a virtual vote about entitled passenger's presence and said they wanted her off the cruise. But it was "obviously impossible to follow through on", the woman said, because they couldn't just abandon her on one of the islands and go sailing off, or throw her and all her souvenirs overboard.
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The 42-year-old said: "That night her roommate was moved into an empty single cabin at no extra cost because there was literally no more room for her or her stuff in their cabin, and within a few more days housekeeping was unable to get into the cabin to clean. At the end of the trip the cruise company offered to help people box up and weigh their packages of souvenirs to send home, and entitled passenger had an absolute fit when she was told that they didn't have the boxes or the staff to help her pack up her cabin-full of souvenirs, especially the masks. I have no idea how she managed to get all that stuff shipped back home after we landed.
"My mother had traveled with this company many times before with my father and there was always one owner of the company on every cruise, so they knew her pretty well and were all very open with her about stuff going on on the cruises. The owner on that one told my mother that entitled passenger was definitely blacklisted, and their staff back home had already been instructed that if she ever tried to book another trip with them again they were to tell her they were full."
The woman's fellow posters said they had encountered people like entitled passenger before too and that "selfish, entitled people" such as this person were common on these trips. One person said: "I went to Japan with my mum on one of those tours that church groups go on and I've never seen such entitled selfish snobs in my life. So absolutely this happens all the time. The amount of times I would have to bite my cheeks not to say anything."
And another said: "What a great trip you took. I would have loved to travel like that. Glad you enjoyed it. You should have thrown entitled passenger off the ship and divided all her stuff among the passengers," while a third said: "I was hoping that after she bought everything she could get her greedy hands on, they told her she couldn't bring all the stuff through customs and made her leave it behind. It would have been even better for the local economy if they had gotten to sell all that s**t twice."