Cruise ship officer reveals horrible truth about ship cabins – could you put up with this?

Herring recalled an episode when two women asked to be upgraded when checking in at the embarkation terminal. 

He wrote: “‘I’m sorry but the ship is fully booked,’ the embarkation woman said. ‘You can check with the purser’s desk after the ship sails to see if there are any cabins available.’

“Any time the ship was fully booked, the only way to get an upgrade was if there were no shows,” he said, “as in passengers that paid for the cruise but didn’t show up to take it, and the pursers didn’t know if there were any no-shows until the ship sailed.

“This wasn’t good enough for these two women. So before they even boarded the ship, they made a scene until the embarkation manager was called over.

“They were rude and argued for fifteen minutes before giving up and boarding. I stood there as the embarkation told the chief purser about it. ‘Those passengers in cabin E96 were total b*****s,’ the embarkation manager said.

“’Do not give them a cabin upgrade even if you can.’ ‘You got it,’ the chief purser said without hesitation.’”