Cruise secrets: Never do this noisy activity in a cabin – it’s not as private as you think

The cruise ship worker recalled a time when the woman in the cabin before said that the vibrations from the engine were so bad in the bedroom that she was made unwell.

“It’s awful. It gives me headaches and I couldn’t sleep,” Herring quotes her as saying.

“Then my tongue went numb, and that’s when I decided that I couldn’t stay here.”

She added: “I asked a guy in the cabin next to me why the thrusters were on when we were at sea.

“He said the thrusters weren’t on. Then I asked why the cabin was shaking so much. He said it always shake that much when the engines were running.” 

When Herring moved into the cabin he bought extra pieces of bed foam in a bid to mitigate the effects of the vibration on the cabin.

However, it was still unpleasant. “Everything rattled in my cabin and I started stuffing socks in between the problem areas… I kept my desk clear of noisemaking pencils and pens and coins,” he said.