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Is the ARTEMIS cruise ship still a rustbucket?
All I can say is that I was on the Royal Princess (now the Artemis) in
2000 and what I saw was: 1. Overflowing toilets 2. Plugged shower drains (overflowing showers) 3. Loose upper deck floorboards (tripping hazzard) 4. Washing machines that leaked- causing 8" of water in the laundry room: (with no water drain in the floor) a common occurance. The ship was made in Finland and some idiot there in charge decided that a laundry room has no need for a water drain in the floor. I guess he figured that every maintainance staff in the future would replace worn out water hoses in the washing machines in a timely manner! WRONG !!! 5. Leaking rusted water pipes in the ceiling corridors. 6. Food with no flavor. 7. Lint and paper trash (fire hazard) behind the clothes dryers in laundry rooms. 8. Every two or three days- the smell of sewer gas throughout the ship! 9. NO LIFEBUOYS ON UPPER 2 DECKS! No floatation devices, what-so-ever on those decks! If someone fell overboard from the ship or from another ship while at port- you have to run 400' to either end of the ship and dowm 2 flights of stairs to get to a lifebuoy or anything that might float! That's is just for starters. I sent photos and horror stories to the Coast Guard. Never heard back from them. Princess was and still is the "McDonalds" of cruises. Poor maintainance of EVERYTHING on the ship: water drains, decks, etc. They don't remove rust from deck rails and other metal parts on upper decks. THEY JUST PUT WHITE PAINT OVER THE RUST! I doubt things have improved on the Artemis! They advertised a $10 million refurbish but in my view: "once a rustbucket, always a rust bucket!" The safety staff, maintainance staff and crew accomodations officer- totally incompetent in 2000! I shudder to think that those people are still in charge of other ships. The passengers and the rest of the staff were great! |
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