Mistakes! They're not mistakes. When my wife returned to the cabin after her $300 make over in the ship's beauty parlour I asked her if she had cancelled her appointment. Now that was a mistake!!
My wife & I bought photos from a session on a Carnival cruise. She was very careful to carry the folder with the pictures separately on disembarkation day so they wouldn’t get bent inside our luggage. After we disembarked, she realized she left the folder where we were staged waiting for our number to be called. She was devastated. She notified lost & found and they said we would be contacted if they were turned in. She also emailed the photographer to see if she could repurchase the photos. After hearing the story, the photographer offered to replace the pictures free of charged. The exact package we purchased was mailed to us a few weeks later. Kudos to the photographer and Carnival for their understanding & great customer service!
Im a former cruise ship musician and I have a funny story: we docked somewhere in Spain (I cant for the life of me remember where!) and the port was basically right downtown, in the heart of the city. You could disembark and walk to the town centre in minutes. So I did just that. A couple hours later, I was walking in the town square-which was kind of parallel with the water-and I look over and see something that made my heart stop...OUR SHIP PULLING AWAY, BACK INTO THE OCEAN! I was freaking out, losing my mind...did I miss All-Aboard time? I didn’t think so, as I still had a couple of hours left in port. I was very confused, but I started running towards the port anyway, in a panic! I was totally convinced I was going to be stranded in Spain, with no passport or luggage...and lose my job! As I was racing back to the port, I ran into a co-worker who saw my panic and was alarmed “Why are you running? What’s wrong?’ I pointed to the ship, pulling out of port, and my co-worker chuckled and said ‘Oh, don’t worry, they are just pulling out and repositioning to make room for another ship-they’ll be coming right back in to port!’ Well, you should have seen my face-dying of embarrassment. He laughed a little and said not to worry, it was a common mistake. I was just soooo glad I hadn’t missed All-Aboard time, and my emotions ranged from sheer relief to anger that we weren’t for-warned about it. Relief won. What an adventure, either way 😂
Using the loo and forgetting my phone was definitely a mistake! However, the biggest mistake I ever made on a cruise was being too trusting by handing over way too much information when purchasing a Pandora charm in a shop in St. John's, Antigua. Now that was a huge mistake, because the sales lady took down all this extra wonderful information I was giving her and started purchasing a ton of stuff with my credit card. Thankfully, my husband goes over all our purchases (credit card statements) and asked why I bought two tickets on a German train?
I am so glad I found your channel. I don't cruise, will never cruise due to illness and lack of funds but you make such wonderful videos. You are so out going, effervescent, fun, knowledgeable and just the person I would want to cruise with if I could. You truly are lovely, Emma. I've seen some of the videos where you speak of trolls and I can't wrap my head around the abuse. I enjoy your videos so much. And, as an American I get most of your Briticisms. I have a few UK friends on Twitter. Thank you for inviting me into your passion, your world. Life without you would be a horrible place. Much love to you, Hudson and your family. .
On embarkation day, I was so excited to show my travel mates the ship that we began our exploration before we even went to our cabins. I had a very expensive purse with $2000, my cell phone, a camera, all my credit cards, a wallet that my sons had given to me and my ID with me. We stopped midway on our tour at the Lido bar to have a drink. YES!!!! I left my purse sitting right there. We continued our tour for about 30 minutes before I realized what I had done. I left everyone standing there without an explanation and ran to the pool as fast as I could. A VERY sweet lady was standing there with my purse. She had used my phone to call my father to let him know that she was holding it for me. That was before phones locked. My father then called my husband who had no idea why I suddenly ran away and told him what was going on. Everything was in my purse and all was good. I couldn’t quit hugging the nice lady.
Emma Cruises I was in the casino. The worst part of the story was that the purse was unzipped and you could literally see all of my money! That moment I realized how kind and honest fellow cruisers could be. Needless to say, my husband now carries the money in his pocket.
I think my two biggest cruise screw-ups were when I forgot to reapply sunscreen after snorkelling or swimming. One time, seriously sunburnt back, the other time, seriously sunburnt feet. I did almost miss a ship’s behind-the-scenes tour until someone else amongst the group of singles I was travelling with reminded me of it.
I love that you are so unashamedly British. I also love the idea you were originally so stressed about becoming a ‘real cruise UA-camr’ And here you are, one of the biggest on UA-cam! ❤
Late September 2019 I was traveling with a friend from Southern California to Barcelona for a 9 days cruise to Rome. While sitting in the Airport waiting for our first flight of the trip I realized two things. The credit card that I had booked my trip on was not in my wallet and my iPad mini, which was loaded with movies and ebooks for my trip, was not in its case. The night before I had ran to the store to buy a few last minute items and had put my credit card in my jacket pocket. By the way, the same jacket was in the trunk of my car parked at the airport, not that I realized that at the time. My iPad was on my bedside table where I had been charging it. How I packed an empty case without noticing it was weightless is beyond me.
Best tip is to take a copy of the daily itinerary if you are going off the ship. It will have details of the ship's agent in the port of call. Should you get into any sort of trouble, e.g. miss the sailing, are taken ill, have a fall, are robbed or assaulted, contact the agent for help. And ALWAYS double check the time the ship will depart and write it down! They do not wait for you.
RE: #3; always have a wristwatch set to ship's time. Your phone's time can vary depending on where it's signal is from, a (non-radio-synched, so no "atomic time") watch stays set to a time zone once you set it. That way you don't get messed up with time differences.
I love how you see the silver lining in these mistakes. A positive attitude and to find humor in an otherwise bad situation is a wonderful thing. Keep on smiling 😀
I used to lay everything out on my bed before packing my suitcase for good measure but its so stressful to misplace an item when traveling and I have done it now and again, so you are not alone. I thought this quote was good from my friend: "The only mistake you make in life that matters is the one that kills you." Thanks again for sharing - Liked.
My sister also had a panic upon boarding: the announcement said that all of the luggage had been placed by our cabins, but while my big suitcase was there outside our cabin door, her suitcase wasn't there and she started looking around for it. She had put a tracking device on her suitcase that said it was nearby, but she still looked up and down. It wasn't until we opened our cabin door that she discovered that her suitcase was placed INSIDE the door rather than OUTSIDE. The relief on her face was palpable!
We overslept on embarkation day. No sleep on the red eye to Barcelona. Stayed up as late as we could that night. Very effective room darkening draperies. Woke up at half past noon. Still made it with time to spare, but what a shock to sleep 16 hours! As a result, I am now much more diligent about setting alarms that I don’t think I’ll need.
My worst cruise mistake happened on the final night. Came back to our cabin after a few late night drinks, had to pack and put our suitcases outside the door to be collected and taken off the ship by crew in preparation for disembarkation. The next morning our suit cases had been collected (great).....I had a shower and got dressed,.....ermmm...... Where are my clothes??? !!! I had actually pack my all the clothes I needed to wear and my suitcase had already been taken off the ship. Oh no....Panic !!!! Luckily I had kept my evening suit to carry off separately. So I had to wear that to breakfast and walk off the ship to collect my bags dressed in my posh get up. I did get a few strange looks. Lesson: I now always keep my "travel clothes" separate once on board and put them aside to avoid making the same mistake again.
I worked on a cruise ship for a short while and we had a shuttle that took us to the local mall when we ported in Florida twice a week. The first couple of times I had been with other people so I just followed them back. However, one time I went solo and though I knew how long i could stay until final boarding. Turns out I had MISSED the last crew shuttle back to the ship and had to get a taxi back. All the security were furious with me and I got a severe telling off from my manager AND the cruise director. I never stayed that late at the mall ever again.
I've done that before and I was embarrassed as you! But luckily, have never lost the item forgotten - extremely fortunate & LUCKY to have kind people (strangers) remind me humanity is good and loving!
I love that map! I appreciate that Canada is broken up into pieces ( almost provinces ) instead of just lumped together in most maps. You are human Emma, no worries. 😀
Thank you for sharing this. It points out how insecure TSA's procedures are. Nobody was watching what trays belong to what person. One time one of my trays was taken by TSA over to a different screening station, while I was being told to stay where I was, and not to follow the agent who had one of my 2 trays. Of course, professional thieves are always on the lookout for opportunities like this. It probably would have been no problem for anyone else to snatch the laptop. I'm just sayin'.
A few years ago I lost cruise photos. I was sure I had placed them in my bag. I had a really beat up suitcase that a friend gave me and said to just throw it out after the cruise. I had to get someone to unlock the dumpster area only find the photos weren’t there. About a week later they were tucked inside a magazine that I had purchased but never read. I was about to throw it out and realized I should just read it. And there they were!
@@EmmaCruises Yes, I infer that the original commenter was suggesting or joking that maybe your photos went overboard, floated away, sank and eventually caught on some coral. Then Dory might spot your photo, feel a shared sense of loss, and work tirelessly to reunite you and your lost photos and end your suffering. Clearly, you should try to meet her half way by booking a flight to Australia and a cruise out of Sydney so as to be closer to her. Well, once that's again possible, of course. Oh, and swim over/around the jellyfish filled waters, not through them.
Or maybe you book a cruise out of Dover on the Disney Magic and one night at dinner in Animator's Pallet restaurant you ask Crush to ask Dory if she happened to find your photos, and if so, please post them to you or have some fish bring them to you at the beach or something. ;) Then again, that might just confuse Crush. Anyway, just trying to give you some rationale for booking another cruise. ;)
Once I went to a funeral Home to pay my respects to a coworkers grandfather, so I went there and said how sorry I was for the loss, prayed over the casket and meet more of the family, at that moment I knew something was wrong, I was at the wrong Funeral Home. Thanks for reminding of that embarrassing moment, got the hell out of there fast! :-)
Thank you Emma for the video. My biggest mistake, which I made twice, is visiting friends in port relying on them to get me back to port. They are overconfident about how much time it will take to get to the port. They may know where it is, but they do not go there. I have had to be pa pier runner twice because of friends. I did enjoy our visit, but tell them that you have to be back at least a half hour before you actually have to back.
I have always relied on my phone for alarm calls but, in view of what happened to you, I have just ordered a little £2 travel alarm clock as back up just in case I mix up the time setting at a very important moment. Thanks.
Photos taken on a cruise are always a disaster for me. Formal night, photographer roaming around the dining room. I had just taken a bite of a roll I just buttered when the photographer decides to take a picture of my husband and I. My husband stands up behind me and the photographer says to me, “you have crumbs on your dress” so I brushed them off and doing so it revealed my bra strap peeking out a little which the photographer also pointed out so I fixed that. Well, evidently I had also managed to get butter on my hand because the next thing the photographer said to me was “you have butter in your hair” . I’m not comfortable getting my picture taken either. Even more so after that event. I refused to go to the kiosk to see how that one came out. It’s funny now but not so much when it was happening.
Those photos in the dining room are always tricky because there is so.much going on. We once got a great photo at dinner except for one thing... The server station was in the background, and it looked like there was a stack of plates on my brother's head. 😄
Took my first cruise last Jan. I found it intrusive, rude and tacky to have a roaming photographer on the main dining room. He seemed a bit too pushy so had to be stern and tell him no as he was ready to start clicking his flash. They should have a service you could order from the app to your table or set up or system where you can ask the waiter to get the photographer to your table if you want. But some guy roaming around the dining area asking people while eating if they want photos is awkward and tacky.
We used to do a few photos on Princess and Cunard and did them on formal nightts. We avoided the ones where they want to take your photo as you return to the ship after a four hour walking excursion. The best deal we had as with a Viking River cruise where one of the staff was the official videographer and went on all the excursions and was all over the boat and at the end of the 14 days he sold us a dvd of the trip for like $25. Great price and we then had memories of places and new friends.
Haha!! Those are often not the most flattering photos... I usually just pull a funny face as they're funny to see later, but haven't ever bought one like that. 😅❤ That sounds SO GOOD! Was it the actual trip? Not just a generic trip?
@@EmmaCruises he did the actual trip and followed everyone and on most every excursion and evening entertainment and lectures, etc. By watching it later at home we could re-live our entire cruise. That's the only time we had this on a Viling River Cruise and it was wonderful.
It happens! Couldn’t have been worse then leaving our entire families passports at checkin before boarding a plane to a Cruise. Then scrambling to get family to fax/scan birth certificates to the Cruise line and getting on the ship 10 minutes before departure. Talk about panic!!! They found our passports a month later sitting in someone’s office at the airport!
If you ever decide to get photos done again, might I suggest a shirt the same color as the one you are wearing here? That color looks fabulous on you and makes your eye color POP! 👍🏻
Ugh, first one reminds me of when I had a seperate backpack I had under my train chair, it had my laptop and passport and I realized at the cruise terminal it was gone, 100% panic mode that I was going to be left behind while my family cruises but thankfully it was a domestic cruise and the guy at the terminal let me on with an expired drivers licence, also the bag was at lost and found when I returned
I had something similar like your first story happen to me but it was on my flight to America. My first flight alone, so I was super nervous. Security went through my bag and checked on everything and off I went. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that they had pulled out my MP3 player, so when I was finally on my seat, relaxing bc I survived that long... I couldn't listen to my music. On an 11 hour flight. It was hell
WoW 😮 At times like this, I am grateful I’m not a type A... If these are your worst experiences of mistakes then you are golden!! I bet those UA-cam videos of people missing their ship are like True Nightmares for someone like you.
NCL has always been really lax about disembarking times. I’ve been late to leave according to my official disembarkation time on more than a few occasions and I have never had anything more than a simple reminder from our cabin stewardess. I’ve adapted a method of tipping my cabin stewardess first thing upon waking up on disembarkation day. Buys me some leeway time.
I used the professional photographer to propose to my then partner, Did the normal 3 pics then asked if I could do one more, the photographer asked what would I like and it was then I when down on one knee and got the ring out of my pocket, The photo is such a great moment in time and yes she said yes
Oh that feeling of panic in your gut and weakness when you cant find something. Then the looking in your backpack 3 more times in hopes that it magically appeared. Not that its evere happened to me before 😉
@@EmmaCruises since you asked. Kinda the same thing couldn't find my laptop that belongs to the Government. Yeah so i was looking all over an office i was visiting looking in my bag in case i magically appears. Nothing the freak out OMG my career is over was starting to hit when the guard asked me if i was okay. I told him and he said that when he was helping me take out stuff in my SUV he took it too. Ohhhhhh the relief when i saw it..... oh and I left my kiddo at the security checkpoint at an airport but that nothing we have to discuss lol
Hi Emma! I had something similar happen to me with photos... but I found them A YEAR LATER, in somewhere that seemed obvious in a bag that I should have looked! So, somehow, maybe there is still hope! ❤
Emma, I love your channel, I’m new here, used to be a cruise only travel agent, been on over 200 cruises, but when you post click bate saying “Left behind” and there is not a subsequent story of you being left behind on a shore trip, but rather your laptop” can I just say your channel is good enough without it.
Emma i think you have just proved your human like the rest of us, who has not done daft things like this even though its hard not to get stressed about. I watched your blog on p&o to Norway wouldn't have guessed what happened, and regarding the last one about time always pay to have a watch on you can can change yourself, dont trust the phone only.
Ive been watching quite a few cruise channels, and a few of them do recommend getting a cheap watch you can set to ship time, one where it wont update time depending on where you are in the world. Helps for when you are doing shore excursions as you may be on shore time not land time and prevents you getting back late
It’s wonderful and that that you go on so many cruises with a different combination of relatives and friends. As you said who is the loss of a good friend life is short make sure you spell the flowers as you go along.
It's nice to know that things can work out. I am a planner too and I get upset when things just do not go the way I planned. I am wondering that the reason why they say to be out of the cabin by 8am is because they know people for one reason or another might not make that time. So sorry you lost your photos and on your leaving your computer that may of been a blessing in disguise. Thanks for sharing!
Reading some of these makes me not feel so badly. I purchased a new ski jacket for my Alaska cruise. I usually leave everything out in plain view the night before disembarking so as to not forget anything. My dear husband trying to tidy up the cabin placed the jacket in the closet. So you know, of course I forgot it. I remembered when we were boarding the shuttle, but I was not allowed to return to the ship to get it. I let the port people know and they said they called the ship, but they never found it. So sad that the room steward or the next passenger never turned it in.
I wouldn’t blame the room steward, they can lose their jobs over accusations of theft. They are so busy turning rooms they surely aren’t busy looking in the closets to rectify the mistakes of others
I nearly had heart failure during a trip to Cleveland, OH from the UK years ago. I was picked up from the airport by a friend and we decided to grab something to eat not far from the airport. I had a black nylon travel doc wallet I used to carry my passport, tickets, insurance docs, and a lot of travellers' cheques (back when they were still a thing) which I took into the restaurant with me, putting it right next to me on the seat. After the meal we headed back to the car, busily catching up, and had driven about five mins down the road when I suddenly realised I had left the wallet lying there on the seat... We dashed back to the restaurant and discovered it was still there on the seat where I had left it. Even worse... When heading for a train from Reading to Gatwick on my way to visit my future hubby here in the States a couple of years later. I had that same wallet and, on that occasion it also contained a $1000 USD tip given to me by my Saudi employer (I was a female bodyguard back then, yes really). So anyway, I had lugged my bags up some stairs to cross over a platform and was hurrying across the bridge to get to the right platform when I heard someone behind me shout, "Hey! You dropped something!" Although I was on a mission to not miss the train I turned to look, as you do, and the guy was holding up that wallet... I still thank God for that honest person with such a loud voice! I think it took me about half an hour for my pulse to get back to normal on that train. I have stopped using that wallet... :D
I've only been on one cruise in my life. No one warned me about the lifeboat muster or whatever it is, and the call came while I was in the shower. Well, I wasn't going to run out with shampoo in my hair and all wet, so I missed it. My mother was so wide-eyed and shocked when she came back, "You aren't supposed to skip the muster!" They must have scolded her.
I never had this on my cruise (been only once). Just took one with Carnival last Dec and didn’t know what Muster was until we disembarked. Had no idea. Our embarkation from New Orleans Port was chaos. Everyone got on late. Never had a safety talk or anything g about Muster stations. Once finally in boat I was in room to drop off bags and at bar and hot tub within 15 minutes of entering ship Lmfao. I figured if there was an emergency just play it by ear. Trying to get from one end of ship to other to find muster station on an emergency with no elevators and no light is probably not realistic anyway!!!!!!
I've done worse. One day I thought our shore excursion that day started at 11:00. It was really 9:00. So no tour, blew all that money, didn't see Rhodes. Another time my daughter and I got into what I thought was the line (queue, you'd say) for our St. Petersburg tour. I eventually learned that it was the line for people who WEREN'T taking any shore excursions. Rather than just going back to the ship in defeat, my daughter and I illegally took a cab into St. Petersburg and started touring on our own. We eventually ran into another Norwegian Cruise Line tour in (our cruise line and ship) at one of the museums. They made some calls and let us join their tour. I ultimately filed a refund request, and they ended up refunding half our money for the shore excursion, which was quite reasonable. Moral: if you're not sure you're in the right line, ASK! We had another major travel blunder that was not cruise-related. My wife, daughter, and I were going to be flying to Australia. My wife thought the flight left about 9:00 p.m. It was 2:00 p.m. and we were merrily packing our suitcases. Then my wife decided to actually look at the tickets, and oops, our flight was in an hour and a half!!! Extreme panic! Luckily the flight ended up leaving a couple of hours late, so we actually made it. Moral: don't think you know the time you're leaving, check and make sure! Kind of obvious, I know . . . Actually, this moral applies equally well to the first debacle I related. Live and learn.
I made a similar mistake a few years ago. When driving with my young son to an event a couple of thousand miles away we stopped at a hotel to sleep for. A few hours. I ended up leaving my new MacBook Pro in the room. I didn’t notice until we were several hours down the road and 2 states away. I called the hotel who held it for me for a week until we came back by there. In the meantime we stopped at a store and I bought an iPad and some dongles to fill in for the week. It all worked out fine but was very stressful for an hour or so.
I made a big mistake on the way to our cruise 30+ night cruise from Dubai to Hongkong on the NCL Star. I left a bag with all the money, tickets, bookings, and all electronics on the train to the airport. Off course it left before I realized it. Only because we were 3 hours early to the airport, we could manage to get the bag taken out at the next station and get it from there with the next train and back to the airport. We made it on time on that plane with all items. I never was more happy to be on a plane.
@@EmmaCruises yes, stressful - but because I'm always early to the airport it worked out very well - One time is enough, and it will never happen again, believe me :-)
The pictures you lost are not REMOTELY as good as the one from the river cruise. That one's terrific: you look elegant and fun at the same time. Well, and hot too.
'your brittishism week is gutted' I absolutely love your videos been hooked on them for a few days now, never been on a cruise or even thought about it before watching your videos but I definitely want try them out now 😃
My son left his backpack with his tablet and most treasured stuffed bear on a bus in New York and we only discovered after we boarded the ship. Called the company expecting it was gone, but they had it and held it at the airport till we returned. Was so happy to get it back, but it was a long two weeks without.
Thank you for the explanation of gutted. I was starting to figure it out. I have always wondered if y'all ( texas saying 😁) who do the youtube blogging ever spend too much time recording everything and not enjoy the cruise. At least something positive came from it. Excellent job 👏👏
When you started to tell that last story, I thought you were going to say you missed the ship because of the one hour difference! PHEW!! Glad you didn't. Everything else was just an "oh well" moment but if you had said you missed the ship in a port, as you say, I just have no words!!
I remember losing a $100 casino chip in my cabin during my first cruise. I didn't make much of it but I was a bit sad because I would of have been $100 up with it. I came even and I had a great time
I had a similar issue, but it involved the US Air Force and I told my entire team deployed with me the wrong showtime to be AT the aircraft. The US military is rather strict with launch times. It was the worst three hour panic of my career finding everyone (waking most up) and getting to the flight line!
I literally fid the exact same thing with a laptop id just been given for my new job. I left the training, went to the airport and exactly the same thing happened. Airport security staff removed it from the bag and placed it in a seperate container. Such a feeling of dread.
In the US we can use our birth certificates instead of a passport. The only cruise I've been on, with my friend group, we were about 15 people away from security when I realized I needed my certificate to get through security. It was in my bag, already stowed on the ship. Luckily with my very vague description and where I was standing in line, the head baggage guy was able to locate my bag and I was able to get the certificate. It was pretty embarrassing to be the only person out of a group of 30 to not know this, but I was also the only person who had never cruised before.
I don’t cruise and I love your channel! I hope you branch out into All Inclusive resorts!!! You have great advice and a calm, interesting way of telling your stories. Well done! :-)
We were sailing from Southampton for a Baltic cruise. I thought I was very clever and thrifty to book tickets on the National Express bus from London’s Victoria Station. We got a taxi from the hotel to the station with loads of time to spare. My husband was chatting with someone while we were waiting and suddenly felt for his bag with our passports. Not there. We raced to the information desk to see if anyone found it. No. Maybe it was in the taxi? The clerk called the hotel to see if they could tell us which taxi. “Oh, a little green bag? It’s here in the lobby.” We asked her to call a taxi and have him bring it to us. My husband paced in front of the station while I tried to get tickets to the next bus. He found the bag, then found me and told me our original bus was running late because of traffic. We got on the bus, raced from the bus terminal in Southampton, took a taxi to the port. We were one of the last to board but we made it.
My sister's big mistake was at Embarkation, where she forgot about this metal object she accidentally packed in her bag: needle nose pliers, a couple of tiny blades and a bottle opener, all attached to a BUTTERFLY KNIFE handle!! How embarrassing for her!
So we're just walking up to the port entrance on embarkation day. My friend says he's going to grab his boarding documents from his luggage. He then passes passes me a set of boarding documents while he finishes closing up his luggage again. I was suprised he handed me my documents even though I had already printed a set of my own. He stands up and then proceeds to ask me to hand him his documents. I was suprised at his request and told him I printed my own and that he just handed me documents with my name on it, not his. He proceeds to say he handed me his own documents. I told him again you only handed me my documents, not your own. He then insists he handed me his documents. I give him the same answer. He then asks to me to stop joking and give him his boarding docs he earlier gave me. I again explain he never handed me his docs. So he starts getting angry/cursing and I explained I don't kid around travel documents. Now I'm getting angry and start to curse several times again,. So I finally said since we had mine, they can look up our account and to confirm he's paid up and who he is. Getting on was a breeze, no issues, even though he never had his documents. But that certainly was not a happy start to our cruise.
When cruising my husband always leaves everything up to me, which in itself can get frustrating. So much rides on my shoulders that even the smallest of mistakes on my part appears huge. On one cruise in 2016, my brother and sister-in-law came along. I planned everything down to a science. Not only was I planning our cruise, but also theirs. They were coming from Ohio and we were coming from Florida at different times (dates), taking different excursions, renting cars and selling off the remaining seats to other passengers on the ship, however, we were all staying at the same hotel in Spain before we boarding the NCL Spirit. We finally made it on the ship and discovered only on our reservation and such was messed up. The only thing that helped us was the fact I keep current copies (printouts) of everything purchased before getting on the ship. I nearly had a nervous breakdown until this was all resolved, since I did pour my whole life into the planning process for over several months to make all this work. In my opinion, it wasn't until that moment my husband truly saw the work and rewards into all I do in putting together such a big adventure. The crew (someone in charge, but don't remember their name or status) sent their apologizes a few days later and we were given a bottle of wine, fresh chocolate covered strawberries and a cheese plate, as well as a short apologetic note.
They say that one thing traveling does in general is improve your confidence, because no matter what you are doing you are going to make mistakes and overcoming them makes you realize things are usually not that bad.
We had a similar problem with my son's laptop but on a land holiday. He had left it in the motorhome at the end of our holiday. We'd got into the hotel we were staying at that day and realised the laptop was missing. We had to get the motorhome company to transport the laptop to the hotel at a cost of $16. The stress is terrible!!!
My husband accidentally packed his disembarkation trousers on our last night and realised this after the case had been out outside our cabin and taken away. I had to put on my luckily cruise supplied robe and locate the suitcase room (which involved an awful lot of up and down decks whilst wearing a robe in a ship full of people in evening dress) and then I had to trawl through all the piles of cases, find his case and get them back again. Good thing it was a small ship. On our next cruise unknown to me he packed his folding penknife in his case as I was always forgetting to cut labels out of my clothes before I packed and some of them had very strong string. Shortly after we arrived in our cabin he had a call to go back to the terminal as they had a query about the contents of his case. He is disabled so they had to send a wheelchair for him and when he got there he found the penknife had shown up in x-ray. He was allowed to keep it.
As a professional mariner. Its very common for phones to automatically change to the respective time zone when you cross over. Us sailors are encouraged to manually change it as somtimes well skip multiple time zones a day but well observe only one or well split a time zone so were not all out of wack schedule and sleep wise.
I love your British-isms. My parents are English and always use them, I came to Australia when I was 3. They are very similar to Australianism. Except my mum and dad calls a truck a lorry. It’s a truck in Australia
My biggest mistake on my first cruise was that is I was more intent on doing certain things and forgetting to enjoy the moments on board which I plan to do next cruise have a couple of things extra to enjoy
@@EmmaCruises I am going to treat myself to a paid dinner on board also a go on the zip line too got that one planned for my P&O Australia Day Cruise next January and on the Royal Caribbean cruise going to Tasmania in February going to go on the North Star and take in a view also have another paid meal on board but most of all enjoy the moments and of course both ships that I will be on
Sorry you left your MacBook behind....glad you had time to really enjoy the cruise. Maybe the time for editing is after the cruise, when the experience has settled into your mind and you have had time to collect your thoughts over the whole experience.
I like to have a schedule, but I always have LOTS of slack time built in. And I usually don't have a problem oversleeping, because if I know I have to get up by a certain time, I wake up way early.
@@EmmaCruises I would probably be awake by 5! Not because I wanted to, but because getting up was on my mind and I probably hadn't slept that well either. It's really kind of irritating!
As a young Airman we had to do an exercise in the Middle of the Iranian crisis. We had to change planes in Denver and we had a special officer who was responsible for getting us young airman back on the plane. When we changed planes he had herded all of us on the plane. Then we pulled out and took off. Half way through the flight our senior officer noticed our special officer was missing. Turned out he went to make a call after getting us young people on the plane and he missed the flight. Typical government
Don’t be perfect. Don’t worry about being proper. Just be yourself. You’re awesome. Most people don’t love being photographed. I once to,d my daughter some day when your older and look at the photos and you wonder where I am, I’m behind the camera.
@@EmmaCruises You’re welcome. You just kind of bring me along on the cruise. I don’t drink so that would be wasted. The one cruise I went on when I was 15, after I recovered being sea sick, it had the best food ever. I went down below and smoked weed with the crew lol. I snuck in the tiny casino and put a quarter in a slot and got 4 back. So I thought okay quit when you’re ahead. I went on a date with a cabin boy who took me to a topless beach. That was unexpected. I kept my top on. Again, only 15 lol
Oh, and I totally agree, posing for photos with the professional photographers is not fun. Luckily my family all agree so we just skip their setups and don't worry about it! :) Granted, every now and then they happen to catch a great candid photo that is totally worth buying, but that is rare.
I would have been gutted in all three off those too....lol. Once on a clipper cruise, we were touring the island of elbe, hubby and a few friends wanted to get pizza and bring it back....we knew the time the ship was departing, but I'm always nervous when it's close...but they had changed it too earlier...and we didn't look at the sign as you get off, and missed the announcement. They luckily waited 20 min...a friend ran off the ship when she saw us it the end of the pier to yell they're leaving. We ran full speed to not be left behind.....lol. The captain greeted us it the top of the gangway....I was GUTTED!!! I've never not looked at that sign getting off again...lol. 😆😱😁
I have always paid attention to the time chages on our cruises, especially when we did Australia and was 16 hours in the future and then vice versa. What I do is wear two watches and one is always set to the local time and the other to what the time will be at the next port or the debarkation port. I know that my phone shoudld change the time automatically, but, sometime there is a lag at sea.
@@EmmaCruises It is super easy to get times confused while on a cruise, especially if you're in Europe and going from one port to the next overnight with a tome change and an early morninig shore excursion. That is when you make sure you get up very early and make sure you know the correct time.
@@EmmaCruises I’m divorced! I actually liked being married, just didn’t like who I was married to....She was Irish....Being from England I know you understand the pain I went through lol 🏴 ! I haven’t given up, maybe again, someday ! If you look on air B and B in New Orleans, look up keyword “chalmette” my property is called “chalmette mini suite” there you will find a picture of me...Chalmette is actually the last place America defeated the British in the battle of New Orleans, the finale of the war of 1812, the British were always are allies after that battle! I live close to the battlefield (it’s right on the mighty Mississippi River)...
@@EmmaCruises one more thing you should know about me...I love cats lol I have two boys, Crockett and Tubbs named after my favorite tv cops from Miami vice (fantastic 80s series very popular in England btw) love your kitty handsome boy Hudson is !
On my wedding day I got my three adult bridesmaids dresses out, I had altered them myself (I can sew) I had shortened the smallest dress but I had actually shortened the wrong dress! So my slightly chubbier but tallest bridesmaid had to wear the small dress that had *not* been shortened. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ my friend spent ages trying to hand stitch the by now too long dress for the tinier bridesmaid but she had done a not so good job and the dress hem came apart as soon as tiny BM stepped out.
@@JulieWallis1963 lol that’s kinda funny! At my wedding here in New Orleans I got married at the end of September and it was HOTTER than hell, after we were pronounced man and wife as we were walking down the aisle our minister passed out from heat exhaustion, and he hit the ground like a ton of bricks everyone gasped and rushed to his aid, a pre-cursor to my marriage for sure !!!
Biggest mistake I've made on a cruise was not backing up photos from the Cruise on Queen Victoria to Norway in 2012. I managed to get Day 1 sorted but forgot to do the first Sea Day, Stavanger, Flaam, Geiranger and Olden. When we got back to the ship, the memory card packed up and had to switch to a new card for the rest of the cruise. Gutted didn't even begin to cover it. Also like you I planned content for the Sapphire Princess cruise by making videos of all the ships we'd see in the ports as I hoped they'd all leave before we did. That wasn't the case, especially with Southampton as we ended up leaving before Aurora and Independence OTS. Managed to get Aurora in Geiranger but Zenith didn't leave before us in Stavanger and I was too late to catch the arrival of Seabourn Quest into Bergen. Did manage the bonus of Le Boreal though in Stavanger and Geiranger which kind of made up for it. Also by catching Britannia (which you were on), Norwegian Jade and MSC Orchestra passing in the night.
aww that's a pity with the photos, they were really nice! When I got home from a holiday, I noticed I missed a giant postcard I had bought to hang on my wall, but couldn't find it, only weeks later when I flicked through the holiday broschure I had brought home, I found it in there. Maybe your pictures are in a magazine or something like that, because you didn't want them to get damaged?
Don't be too hard on yourself...we all do these things...I left our passports on the scanner at Seattle airport and headed to the departure lounge for our flight to New York. A kind guard brought them to us just before we boarded. We were very lucky.
I did exactly the same thing on a return trip from Europe at LaGuardia airport in New York. My laptop was in one tray going through security and my other personal stuff in a separate tray. The security folks dropped my personal articles all over the floor and would not let me come in and pick them up, they picked them ip and put them back in the tray with my laptop valise. I got through and then when I landed in Charleston SC, I picked up my valise and realized that I did not have the laptop. PANIC!! I went to the TSA security folks at Charleston and they called TSA new York and they had my laptop and shipped it to me the next day via Fedex, which I, of course, paid for. What an experince. YIKES, that's an American term for YIKES !!!!
Mistakes! They're not mistakes. When my wife returned to the cabin after her $300 make over in the ship's beauty parlour I asked her if she had cancelled her appointment. Now that was a mistake!!
Oh my goodness me :')
Now that's a mistake!
uh oh lol
No , you’re male. I’d expect that.
Did you enjoy the rest of your cruise ?😂😂😂
Big mistake, big, huge 😀😀
My wife & I bought photos from a session on a Carnival cruise. She was very careful to carry the folder with the pictures separately on disembarkation day so they wouldn’t get bent inside our luggage. After we disembarked, she realized she left the folder where we were staged waiting for our number to be called. She was devastated. She notified lost & found and they said we would be contacted if they were turned in. She also emailed the photographer to see if she could repurchase the photos. After hearing the story, the photographer offered to replace the pictures free of charged. The exact package we purchased was mailed to us a few weeks later. Kudos to the photographer and Carnival for their understanding & great customer service!
That’s so good! This was right before Covid for me and so it wasn’t a priority for anybody haha 😂❤️
... see there ARE good people around ...
Im a former cruise ship musician and I have a funny story: we docked somewhere in Spain (I cant for the life of me remember where!) and the port was basically right downtown, in the heart of the city. You could disembark and walk to the town centre in minutes. So I did just that. A couple hours later, I was walking in the town square-which was kind of parallel with the water-and I look over and see something that made my heart stop...OUR SHIP PULLING AWAY, BACK INTO THE OCEAN! I was freaking out, losing my mind...did I miss All-Aboard time? I didn’t think so, as I still had a couple of hours left in port. I was very confused, but I started running towards the port anyway, in a panic! I was totally convinced I was going to be stranded in Spain, with no passport or luggage...and lose my job! As I was racing back to the port, I ran into a co-worker who saw my panic and was alarmed “Why are you running? What’s wrong?’ I pointed to the ship, pulling out of port, and my co-worker chuckled and said ‘Oh, don’t worry, they are just pulling out and repositioning to make room for another ship-they’ll be coming right back in to port!’ Well, you should have seen my face-dying of embarrassment. He laughed a little and said not to worry, it was a common mistake. I was just soooo glad I hadn’t missed All-Aboard time, and my emotions ranged from sheer relief to anger that we weren’t for-warned about it. Relief won.
What an adventure, either way 😂
I would have pooped myself! lol
Ok
You handled that better than I would have.
Using the loo and forgetting my phone was definitely a mistake! However, the biggest mistake I ever made on a cruise was being too trusting by handing over way too much information when purchasing a Pandora charm in a shop in St. John's, Antigua. Now that was a huge mistake, because the sales lady took down all this extra wonderful information I was giving her and started purchasing a ton of stuff with my credit card. Thankfully, my husband goes over all our purchases (credit card statements) and asked why I bought two tickets on a German train?
Oh goodness!!! 😂
I am so glad I found your channel. I don't cruise, will never cruise due to illness and lack of funds but you make such wonderful videos. You are so out going, effervescent, fun, knowledgeable and just the person I would want to cruise with if I could. You truly are lovely, Emma. I've seen some of the videos where you speak of trolls and I can't wrap my head around the abuse. I enjoy your videos so much. And, as an American I get most of your Briticisms. I have a few UK friends on Twitter. Thank you for inviting me into your passion, your world. Life without you would be a horrible place. Much love to you, Hudson and your family. .
Thanks so much 🥹❤️
@@EmmaCruises You're welcome1
On embarkation day, I was so excited to show my travel mates the ship that we began our exploration before we even went to our cabins. I had a very expensive purse with $2000, my cell phone, a camera, all my credit cards, a wallet that my sons had given to me and my ID with me. We stopped midway on our tour at the Lido bar to have a drink. YES!!!! I left my purse sitting right there. We continued our tour for about 30 minutes before I realized what I had done. I left everyone standing there without an explanation and ran to the pool as fast as I could. A VERY sweet lady was standing there with my purse. She had used my phone to call my father to let him know that she was holding it for me. That was before phones locked. My father then called my husband who had no idea why I suddenly ran away and told him what was going on. Everything was in my purse and all was good. I couldn’t quit hugging the nice lady.
AAHHH!!!!!! Lisa! That's so stressful :') You were SO lucky my goodness. Where were you at the time??
Emma Cruises I was in the casino. The worst part of the story was that the purse was unzipped and you could literally see all of my money! That moment I realized how kind and honest fellow cruisers could be. Needless to say, my husband now carries the money in his pocket.
@@lisacottle7308 Ahhh!! My goodness. I did drop £50 once and a nice lady gave it back, that's the closest I've come. Haha!
@@EmmaCruises you are very pretty, don't avoid photos
I think my two biggest cruise screw-ups were when I forgot to reapply sunscreen after snorkelling or swimming. One time, seriously sunburnt back, the other time, seriously sunburnt feet. I did almost miss a ship’s behind-the-scenes tour until someone else amongst the group of singles I was travelling with reminded me of it.
Uh oh!! Ouch!
I love that you are so unashamedly British.
I also love the idea you were originally so stressed about becoming a ‘real cruise UA-camr’
And here you are, one of the biggest on UA-cam! ❤
Thank you! 🥹
Late September 2019 I was traveling with a friend from Southern California to Barcelona for a 9 days cruise to Rome. While sitting in the Airport waiting for our first flight of the trip I realized two things. The credit card that I had booked my trip on was not in my wallet and my iPad mini, which was loaded with movies and ebooks for my trip, was not in its case. The night before I had ran to the store to buy a few last minute items and had put my credit card in my jacket pocket. By the way, the same jacket was in the trunk of my car parked at the airport, not that I realized that at the time. My iPad was on my bedside table where I had been charging it. How I packed an empty case without noticing it was weightless is beyond me.
I love how you throughout this video really shows how the saying "It's not mistakes, it's learning experiences" can be used in every situation!
Absolutely 😊❤️
Best tip is to take a copy of the daily itinerary if you are going off the ship. It will have details of the ship's agent in the port of call. Should you get into any sort of trouble, e.g. miss the sailing, are taken ill, have a fall, are robbed or assaulted, contact the agent for help. And ALWAYS double check the time the ship will depart and write it down! They do not wait for you.
Yesss!! Perfect 😀👏🏼❤️
RE: #3; always have a wristwatch set to ship's time. Your phone's time can vary depending on where it's signal is from, a (non-radio-synched, so no "atomic time") watch stays set to a time zone once you set it. That way you don't get messed up with time differences.
Most modern phones allow you to set several clocks.
My phone is set to not change I drive truck and cross time zones often
Love your natural way of vlogging. Its like you're talking directly to me and not through youtube. Oh and you have fabulous eyes by the way
Surprise! She actually broadcasts from your living room.
I love how you see the silver lining in these mistakes. A positive attitude and to find humor in an otherwise bad situation is a wonderful thing. Keep on smiling 😀
I used to lay everything out on my bed before packing my suitcase for good measure but its so stressful to misplace an item when traveling and I have done it now and again, so you are not alone. I thought this quote was good from my friend: "The only mistake you make in life that matters is the one that kills you."
Thanks again for sharing - Liked.
My sister also had a panic upon boarding: the announcement said that all of the luggage had been placed by our cabins, but while my big suitcase was there outside our cabin door, her suitcase wasn't there and she started looking around for it. She had put a tracking device on her suitcase that said it was nearby, but she still looked up and down. It wasn't until we opened our cabin door that she discovered that her suitcase was placed INSIDE the door rather than OUTSIDE. The relief on her face was palpable!
We overslept on embarkation day. No sleep on the red eye to Barcelona. Stayed up as late as we could that night. Very effective room darkening draperies. Woke up at half past noon. Still made it with time to spare, but what a shock to sleep 16 hours! As a result, I am now much more diligent about setting alarms that I don’t think I’ll need.
My worst cruise mistake happened on the final night. Came back to our cabin after a few late night drinks, had to pack and put our suitcases outside the door to be collected and taken off the ship by crew in preparation for disembarkation. The next morning our suit cases had been collected (great).....I had a shower and got dressed,.....ermmm...... Where are my clothes??? !!! I had actually pack my all the clothes I needed to wear and my suitcase had already been taken off the ship. Oh no....Panic !!!! Luckily I had kept my evening suit to carry off separately. So I had to wear that to breakfast and walk off the ship to collect my bags dressed in my posh get up. I did get a few strange looks. Lesson: I now always keep my "travel clothes" separate once on board and put them aside to avoid making the same mistake again.
Ooo la la!! Always better to be overdressed than underdressed right :')
A friend of mine walked off in her robe so don't feel bad.
@@y0ubetcham0m Ha Ha..... Classic, I'm quite normal then 👍
...tip ....some cruise lines rent formalwear ... that way you do not have to pack it ....
Totally sounds like something I'd do!
I worked on a cruise ship for a short while and we had a shuttle that took us to the local mall when we ported in Florida twice a week. The first couple of times I had been with other people so I just followed them back. However, one time I went solo and though I knew how long i could stay until final boarding. Turns out I had MISSED the last crew shuttle back to the ship and had to get a taxi back. All the security were furious with me and I got a severe telling off from my manager AND the cruise director. I never stayed that late at the mall ever again.
I've done that before and I was embarrassed as you! But luckily, have never lost the item forgotten - extremely fortunate & LUCKY to have kind people (strangers) remind me humanity is good and loving!
I love that map! I appreciate that Canada is broken up into pieces ( almost provinces ) instead of just lumped together in most maps. You are human Emma, no worries. 😀
Haha! Yes it’s great for Geography! 😀💕
Thank you for sharing this. It points out how insecure TSA's procedures are. Nobody was watching what trays belong to what person. One time one of my trays was taken by TSA over to a different screening station, while I was being told to stay where I was, and not to follow the agent who had one of my 2 trays. Of course, professional thieves are always on the lookout for opportunities like this. It probably would have been no problem for anyone else to snatch the laptop. I'm just sayin'.
Yeah so true! Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼
The reflection of the circle light in your eyes always trips me out!! Great job!
Hey Bacon Dad!! I'm a robot don't you see?? haha!!
@@EmmaCruises a Cruisin' Robot!!!!!
@@EmmaCruises - are you going to be serving drinks on a cruise ship near you before long? 😂
A few years ago I lost cruise photos. I was sure I had placed them in my bag. I had a really beat up suitcase that a friend gave me and said to just throw it out after the cruise. I had to get someone to unlock the dumpster area only find the photos weren’t there. About a week later they were tucked inside a magazine that I had purchased but never read. I was about to throw it out and realized I should just read it. And there they were!
Oh my goodness you were so lucky!! I haven't found the photos yet... maybe I still will, one day! ;)
@@EmmaCruises yes I was!
Have you ever made any silly cruise mistakes?! Leave me a comment and let me know so I don't feel so silly ;)
Yes! Too much clothing!
Ahh that's so annoying, carrying it all the way there... around on the cruise then home. Doh! 😅❤
Somewhere Dory is looking at a picture snagged on a piece of coral waiting for her next adventure to find the lost woman in red.
What? 🤣
@@EmmaCruises It appears you need to watch the films "Finding Nemo" and "Finding Dory" using your Disney+ account.
@@ccm1767 Oh like, dory will see my photo cos it's in the sea?
@@EmmaCruises Yes, I infer that the original commenter was suggesting or joking that maybe your photos went overboard, floated away, sank and eventually caught on some coral. Then Dory might spot your photo, feel a shared sense of loss, and work tirelessly to reunite you and your lost photos and end your suffering.
Clearly, you should try to meet her half way by booking a flight to Australia and a cruise out of Sydney so as to be closer to her. Well, once that's again possible, of course. Oh, and swim over/around the jellyfish filled waters, not through them.
Or maybe you book a cruise out of Dover on the Disney Magic and one night at dinner in Animator's Pallet restaurant you ask Crush to ask Dory if she happened to find your photos, and if so, please post them to you or have some fish bring them to you at the beach or something. ;) Then again, that might just confuse Crush.
Anyway, just trying to give you some rationale for booking another cruise. ;)
One time I left my kid at a funeral parlor all day. He was OK. You know, once he started talking again.
Once I went to a funeral Home to pay my respects to a coworkers grandfather, so I went there and said how sorry I was for the loss, prayed over the casket and meet more of the family, at that moment I knew something was wrong, I was at the wrong Funeral Home. Thanks for reminding of that embarrassing moment, got the hell out of there fast! :-)
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This sounds exactly like the story the trumpet guy tells in Home Alone... 😉
Thank you Emma for the video. My biggest mistake, which I made twice, is visiting friends in port relying on them to get me back to port. They are overconfident about how much time it will take to get to the port. They may know where it is, but they do not go there. I have had to be pa pier runner twice because of friends. I did enjoy our visit, but tell them that you have to be back at least a half hour before you actually have to back.
Ahhhh!!!! Too stressful!!! 😂💕😂💕
@@EmmaCruises Agreed
Inconsiderate friends.!!!!
I have always relied on my phone for alarm calls but, in view of what happened to you, I have just ordered a little £2 travel alarm clock as back up just in case I mix up the time setting at a very important moment. Thanks.
Photos taken on a cruise are always a disaster for me. Formal night, photographer roaming around the dining room. I had just taken a bite of a roll I just buttered when the photographer decides to take a picture of my husband and I. My husband stands up behind me and the photographer says to me, “you have crumbs on your dress” so I brushed them off and doing so it revealed my bra strap peeking out a little which the photographer also pointed out so I fixed that. Well, evidently I had also managed to get butter on my hand because the next thing the photographer said to me was “you have butter in your hair” . I’m not comfortable getting my picture taken either. Even more so after that event. I refused to go to the kiosk to see how that one came out. It’s funny now but not so much when it was happening.
Oh my gosh!!! Butter in your hair, ha ha!! :')
Those photos in the dining room are always tricky because there is so.much going on. We once got a great photo at dinner except for one thing... The server station was in the background, and it looked like there was a stack of plates on my brother's head. 😄
Took my first cruise last Jan. I found it intrusive, rude and tacky to have a roaming photographer on the main dining room. He seemed a bit too pushy so had to be stern and tell him no as he was ready to start clicking his flash. They should have a service you could order from the app to your table or set up or system where you can ask the waiter to get the photographer to your table if you want. But some guy roaming around the dining area asking people while eating if they want photos is awkward and tacky.
We used to do a few photos on Princess and Cunard and did them on formal nightts. We avoided the ones where they want to take your photo as you return to the ship after a four hour walking excursion. The best deal we had as with a Viking River cruise where one of the staff was the official videographer and went on all the excursions and was all over the boat and at the end of the 14 days he sold us a dvd of the trip for like $25. Great price and we then had memories of places and new friends.
Haha!! Those are often not the most flattering photos... I usually just pull a funny face as they're funny to see later, but haven't ever bought one like that. 😅❤
That sounds SO GOOD! Was it the actual trip? Not just a generic trip?
@@EmmaCruises he did the actual trip and followed everyone and on most every excursion and evening entertainment and lectures, etc. By watching it later at home we could re-live our entire cruise. That's the only time we had this on a Viling River Cruise and it was wonderful.
you could have contacted Norwegian and asked them for copies - they may send them to you digitally.
My very very first cruise I over slept on disembarkation day lol the room attendant woke me up lol 😆
It happens! Couldn’t have been worse then leaving our entire families passports at checkin before boarding a plane to a Cruise. Then scrambling to get family to fax/scan birth certificates to the Cruise line and getting on the ship 10 minutes before departure. Talk about panic!!! They found our passports a month later sitting in someone’s office at the airport!
Oh my GOODNESS ME!!! That sounds, so, scary. Bleh!! So glad you got it all sorted out in the end :D
If you ever decide to get photos done again, might I suggest a shirt the same color as the one you are wearing here? That color
looks fabulous on you and makes your eye color POP! 👍🏻
Wow Emma - you had me welling up at the end of some of those stories. Could feel your frustrations.
Thanks for watching Bill! ❤️❤️
As a former crewmember... look at the cabin phone for "the time". Turning on the TV takes an extra step :)
That is smart Yep! In this situation I’m sure I checked everything 😂🤣🤣
Ugh, first one reminds me of when I had a seperate backpack I had under my train chair, it had my laptop and passport and I realized at the cruise terminal it was gone, 100% panic mode that I was going to be left behind while my family cruises but thankfully it was a domestic cruise and the guy at the terminal let me on with an expired drivers licence, also the bag was at lost and found when I returned
Noooo!!! 😭😭😭😭
I had something similar like your first story happen to me but it was on my flight to America. My first flight alone, so I was super nervous. Security went through my bag and checked on everything and off I went. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that they had pulled out my MP3 player, so when I was finally on my seat, relaxing bc I survived that long... I couldn't listen to my music. On an 11 hour flight. It was hell
Nooo!!!!!!!! That sounds awful! 😀💕
Thank you for posting your cruising so we don't have to leave home.
Cheers Emma.
WoW 😮
At times like this, I am grateful I’m not a type A...
If these are your worst experiences of mistakes then you are golden!!
I bet those UA-cam videos of people missing their ship are like True Nightmares for someone like you.
Haha!! Yes so much. 😂
NCL has always been really lax about disembarking times. I’ve been late to leave according to my official disembarkation time on more than a few occasions and I have never had anything more than a simple reminder from our cabin stewardess.
I’ve adapted a method of tipping my cabin stewardess first thing upon waking up on disembarkation day. Buys me some leeway time.
I used the professional photographer to propose to my then partner, Did the normal 3 pics then asked if I could do one more, the photographer asked what would I like and it was then I when down on one knee and got the ring out of my pocket, The photo is such a great moment in time and yes she said yes
Awwwwh lovely! 😀💕
My husband just took all the photos from the walls on Princess. He thought they were free. I didn’t know until later 😮😮😮
Oh noo!! 😂😂
Oh that feeling of panic in your gut and weakness when you cant find something. Then the looking in your backpack 3 more times in hopes that it magically appeared. Not that its evere happened to me before 😉
Haha!! This doesn't sound like it's from experience AT ALL! Come on Francisco, what did you do ;)
@@EmmaCruises since you asked. Kinda the same thing couldn't find my laptop that belongs to the Government. Yeah so i was looking all over an office i was visiting looking in my bag in case i magically appears. Nothing the freak out OMG my career is over was starting to hit when the guard asked me if i was okay. I told him and he said that when he was helping me take out stuff in my SUV he took it too. Ohhhhhh the relief when i saw it..... oh and I left my kiddo at the security checkpoint at an airport but that nothing we have to discuss lol
@@cisco365 Oh my goodness me!! :')
Hi Emma! I had something similar happen to me with photos... but I found them A YEAR LATER, in somewhere that seemed obvious in a bag that I should have looked! So, somehow, maybe there is still hope! ❤
Ha ha, still waiting! 🤣
I was going to say, you look fantastic for having just committed Seppuku.
Emma, I love your channel, I’m new here, used to be a cruise only travel agent, been on over 200 cruises, but when you post click bate saying “Left behind” and there is not a subsequent story of you being left behind on a shore trip, but rather your laptop” can I just say your channel is good enough without it.
Emma i think you have just proved your human like the rest of us, who has not done daft things like this even though its hard not to get stressed about. I watched your blog on p&o to Norway wouldn't have guessed what happened, and regarding the last one about time always pay to have a watch on you can can change yourself, dont trust the phone only.
Haha! I told you ;) I should take an alarm really, don't think the watch will wake me up. 😂 Thanks for watching those early videos!
@@EmmaCruises You can buy good ones with alarms on just tie it to your ear when you go to bed.
Ive been watching quite a few cruise channels, and a few of them do recommend getting a cheap watch you can set to ship time, one where it wont update time depending on where you are in the world. Helps for when you are doing shore excursions as you may be on shore time not land time and prevents you getting back late
It’s wonderful and that that you go on so many cruises with a different combination of relatives and friends. As you said who is the loss of a good friend life is short make sure you spell the flowers as you go along.
It's nice to know that things can work out. I am a planner too and I get upset when things just do not go the way I planned. I am wondering that the reason why they say to be out of the cabin by 8am is because they know people for one reason or another might not make that time. So sorry you lost your photos and on your leaving your computer that may of been a blessing in disguise. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah probably! I just hate to be a problem for anybody else ever. Always worrying 🤣💕
Reading some of these makes me not feel so badly. I purchased a new ski jacket for my Alaska cruise. I usually leave everything out in plain view the night before disembarking so as to not forget anything. My dear husband trying to tidy up the cabin placed the jacket in the closet. So you know, of course I forgot it. I remembered when we were boarding the shuttle, but I was not allowed to return to the ship to get it. I let the port people know and they said they called the ship, but they never found it. So sad that the room steward or the next passenger never turned it in.
I wouldn’t blame the room steward, they can lose their jobs over accusations of theft. They are so busy turning rooms they surely aren’t busy looking in the closets to rectify the mistakes of others
I nearly had heart failure during a trip to Cleveland, OH from the UK years ago. I was picked up from the airport by a friend and we decided to grab something to eat not far from the airport. I had a black nylon travel doc wallet I used to carry my passport, tickets, insurance docs, and a lot of travellers' cheques (back when they were still a thing) which I took into the restaurant with me, putting it right next to me on the seat. After the meal we headed back to the car, busily catching up, and had driven about five mins down the road when I suddenly realised I had left the wallet lying there on the seat... We dashed back to the restaurant and discovered it was still there on the seat where I had left it.
Even worse... When heading for a train from Reading to Gatwick on my way to visit my future hubby here in the States a couple of years later. I had that same wallet and, on that occasion it also contained a $1000 USD tip given to me by my Saudi employer (I was a female bodyguard back then, yes really). So anyway, I had lugged my bags up some stairs to cross over a platform and was hurrying across the bridge to get to the right platform when I heard someone behind me shout, "Hey! You dropped something!" Although I was on a mission to not miss the train I turned to look, as you do, and the guy was holding up that wallet... I still thank God for that honest person with such a loud voice! I think it took me about half an hour for my pulse to get back to normal on that train.
I have stopped using that wallet... :D
My only question is, you came all the way from the UK to visit CLEVELAND? 😂
Time change on RC happened to us too. Our friends called us to see if were on our way down
Ahhh! You were lucky! Did you make it out on time without drama? :')
We took some engagement pictures on our last cruise in November 2019 and paid for them and forgot them in our room, we were really sad :(
Nooo!! Heartbreaking 🥲❤️
I've only been on one cruise in my life. No one warned me about the lifeboat muster or whatever it is, and the call came while I was in the shower. Well, I wasn't going to run out with shampoo in my hair and all wet, so I missed it. My mother was so wide-eyed and shocked when she came back, "You aren't supposed to skip the muster!" They must have scolded her.
Ahhh! Did you have to do another to catch up? Ooops 😂
I never had this on my cruise (been only once). Just took one with Carnival last Dec and didn’t know what Muster was until we disembarked. Had no idea. Our embarkation from New Orleans Port was chaos. Everyone got on late. Never had a safety talk or anything g about Muster stations. Once finally in boat I was in room to drop off bags and at bar and hot tub within 15 minutes of entering ship Lmfao. I figured if there was an emergency just play it by ear. Trying to get from one end of ship to other to find muster station on an emergency with no elevators and no light is probably not realistic anyway!!!!!!
I've done worse. One day I thought our shore excursion that day started at 11:00. It was really 9:00. So no tour, blew all that money, didn't see Rhodes. Another time my daughter and I got into what I thought was the line (queue, you'd say) for our St. Petersburg tour. I eventually learned that it was the line for people who WEREN'T taking any shore excursions. Rather than just going back to the ship in defeat, my daughter and I illegally took a cab into St. Petersburg and started touring on our own. We eventually ran into another Norwegian Cruise Line tour in (our cruise line and ship) at one of the museums. They made some calls and let us join their tour. I ultimately filed a refund request, and they ended up refunding half our money for the shore excursion, which was quite reasonable. Moral: if you're not sure you're in the right line, ASK!
We had another major travel blunder that was not cruise-related. My wife, daughter, and I were going to be flying to Australia. My wife thought the flight left about 9:00 p.m. It was 2:00 p.m. and we were merrily packing our suitcases. Then my wife decided to actually look at the tickets, and oops, our flight was in an hour and a half!!! Extreme panic! Luckily the flight ended up leaving a couple of hours late, so we actually made it. Moral: don't think you know the time you're leaving, check and make sure! Kind of obvious, I know . . . Actually, this moral applies equally well to the first debacle I related. Live and learn.
Thanks for sharing! It’s nice to know that I haven’t been the only one to bumble! As you said, it is often a blessing in disguise!
I made a similar mistake a few years ago. When driving with my young son to an event a couple of thousand miles away we stopped at a hotel to sleep for. A few hours. I ended up leaving my new MacBook Pro in the room. I didn’t notice until we were several hours down the road and 2 states away. I called the hotel who held it for me for a week until we came back by there. In the meantime we stopped at a store and I bought an iPad and some dongles to fill in for the week. It all worked out fine but was very stressful for an hour or so.
I made a big mistake on the way to our cruise 30+ night cruise from Dubai to Hongkong on the NCL Star. I left a bag with all the money, tickets, bookings, and all electronics on the train to the airport. Off course it left before I realized it. Only because we were 3 hours early to the airport, we could manage to get the bag taken out at the next station and get it from there with the next train and back to the airport. We made it on time on that plane with all items. I never was more happy to be on a plane.
Oh my GOODNESS. That sounds so stressful!!!!! You were so lucky. Bet you haven't done anything like that since? :')
@@EmmaCruises yes, stressful - but because I'm always early to the airport it worked out very well - One time is enough, and it will never happen again, believe me :-)
This is so relatable, I lose stuff all of the time Emma xx
Haha! The best of us do 😎😂
The pictures you lost are not REMOTELY as good as the one from the river cruise. That one's terrific: you look elegant and fun at the same time. Well, and hot too.
'your brittishism week is gutted' I absolutely love your videos been hooked on them for a few days now, never been on a cruise or even thought about it before watching your videos but I definitely want try them out now 😃
Yay thanks so much Adem!!! Appreciate that 😀👏🏼
My son left his backpack with his tablet and most treasured stuffed bear on a bus in New York and we only discovered after we boarded the ship. Called the company expecting it was gone, but they had it and held it at the airport till we returned. Was so happy to get it back, but it was a long two weeks without.
Phew!!!!! 💕
@Max C Thanks, we were very grateful.
Thank you for the explanation of gutted. I was starting to figure it out. I have always wondered if y'all ( texas saying 😁) who do the youtube blogging ever spend too much time recording everything and not enjoy the cruise. At least something positive came from it. Excellent job 👏👏
When you started to tell that last story, I thought you were going to say you missed the ship because of the one hour difference! PHEW!! Glad you didn't. Everything else was just an "oh well" moment but if you had said you missed the ship in a port, as you say, I just have no words!!
Haha!!! Yes!! 🤣💕
Great stories Emma. Love your map. Your top is the same colour as the Philippines 😀
my heart skipped a beat when you said bag no macbook i bet you was so relieved to find out where it was and what ya done. lol
You will never be OK! You are the best!
I remember losing a $100 casino chip in my cabin during my first cruise. I didn't make much of it but I was a bit sad because I would of have been $100 up with it. I came even and I had a great time
Noooo sad!! 🥲❤️
I had a similar issue, but it involved the US Air Force and I told my entire team deployed with me the wrong showtime to be AT the aircraft. The US military is rather strict with launch times. It was the worst three hour panic of my career finding everyone (waking most up) and getting to the flight line!
Oh my goodness yes that sounds important 😂😂😂
I literally fid the exact same thing with a laptop id just been given for my new job. I left the training, went to the airport and exactly the same thing happened. Airport security staff removed it from the bag and placed it in a seperate container. Such a feeling of dread.
In the US we can use our birth certificates instead of a passport. The only cruise I've been on, with my friend group, we were about 15 people away from security when I realized I needed my certificate to get through security. It was in my bag, already stowed on the ship. Luckily with my very vague description and where I was standing in line, the head baggage guy was able to locate my bag and I was able to get the certificate.
It was pretty embarrassing to be the only person out of a group of 30 to not know this, but I was also the only person who had never cruised before.
I don’t cruise and I love your channel! I hope you branch out into All Inclusive resorts!!! You have great advice and a calm, interesting way of telling your stories. Well done! :-)
Thanks so much Rachel 😀❤️
We were sailing from Southampton for a Baltic cruise. I thought I was very clever and thrifty to book tickets on the National Express bus from London’s Victoria Station. We got a taxi from the hotel to the station with loads of time to spare. My husband was chatting with someone while we were waiting and suddenly felt for his bag with our passports. Not there. We raced to the information desk to see if anyone found it. No. Maybe it was in the taxi? The clerk called the hotel to see if they could tell us which taxi. “Oh, a little green bag? It’s here in the lobby.” We asked her to call a taxi and have him bring it to us. My husband paced in front of the station while I tried to get tickets to the next bus. He found the bag, then found me and told me our original bus was running late because of traffic. We got on the bus, raced from the bus terminal in Southampton, took a taxi to the port. We were one of the last to board but we made it.
Oh my goodness!!! You were so lucky!!! 💕
My sister's big mistake was at Embarkation, where she forgot about this metal object she accidentally packed in her bag: needle nose pliers, a couple of tiny blades and a bottle opener, all attached to a BUTTERFLY KNIFE handle!! How embarrassing for her!
So we're just walking up to the port entrance on embarkation day. My friend says he's going to grab his boarding documents from his luggage. He then passes passes me a set of boarding documents while he finishes closing up his luggage again. I was suprised he handed me my documents even though I had already printed a set of my own. He stands up and then proceeds to ask me to hand him his documents. I was suprised at his request and told him I printed my own and that he just handed me documents with my name on it, not his. He proceeds to say he handed me his own documents. I told him again you only handed me my documents, not your own. He then insists he handed me his documents. I give him the same answer. He then asks to me to stop joking and give him his boarding docs he earlier gave me. I again explain he never handed me his docs. So he starts getting angry/cursing and I explained I don't kid around travel documents. Now I'm getting angry and start to curse several times again,. So I finally said since we had mine, they can look up our account and to confirm he's paid up and who he is. Getting on was a breeze, no issues, even though he never had his documents. But that certainly was not a happy start to our cruise.
When cruising my husband always leaves everything up to me, which in itself can get frustrating. So much rides on my shoulders that even the smallest of mistakes on my part appears huge. On one cruise in 2016, my brother and sister-in-law came along. I planned everything down to a science. Not only was I planning our cruise, but also theirs. They were coming from Ohio and we were coming from Florida at different times (dates), taking different excursions, renting cars and selling off the remaining seats to other passengers on the ship, however, we were all staying at the same hotel in Spain before we boarding the NCL Spirit. We finally made it on the ship and discovered only on our reservation and such was messed up. The only thing that helped us was the fact I keep current copies (printouts) of everything purchased before getting on the ship. I nearly had a nervous breakdown until this was all resolved, since I did pour my whole life into the planning process for over several months to make all this work. In my opinion, it wasn't until that moment my husband truly saw the work and rewards into all I do in putting together such a big adventure. The crew (someone in charge, but don't remember their name or status) sent their apologizes a few days later and we were given a bottle of wine, fresh chocolate covered strawberries and a cheese plate, as well as a short apologetic note.
They say that one thing traveling does in general is improve your confidence, because no matter what you are doing you are going to make mistakes and overcoming them makes you realize things are usually not that bad.
Yep! So true 😂💕
We had a similar problem with my son's laptop but on a land holiday. He had left it in the motorhome at the end of our holiday. We'd got into the hotel we were staying at that day and realised the laptop was missing. We had to get the motorhome company to transport the laptop to the hotel at a cost of $16. The stress is terrible!!!
Ahhhh! So much! Especially since it’s a week long. 😂❤️
My husband accidentally packed his disembarkation trousers on our last night and realised this after the case had been out outside our cabin and taken away. I had to put on my luckily cruise supplied robe and locate the suitcase room (which involved an awful lot of up and down decks whilst wearing a robe in a ship full of people in evening dress) and then I had to trawl through all the piles of cases, find his case and get them back again. Good thing it was a small ship. On our next cruise unknown to me he packed his folding penknife in his case as I was always forgetting to cut labels out of my clothes before I packed and some of them had very strong string. Shortly after we arrived in our cabin he had a call to go back to the terminal as they had a query about the contents of his case. He is disabled so they had to send a wheelchair for him and when he got there he found the penknife had shown up in x-ray. He was allowed to keep it.
Ahhh! You were so lucky you had that robe!!! What a lot of work for a little pen knife ha ha.
As a professional mariner. Its very common for phones to automatically change to the respective time zone when you cross over. Us sailors are encouraged to manually change it as somtimes well skip multiple time zones a day but well observe only one or well split a time zone so were not all out of wack schedule and sleep wise.
I love your British-isms. My parents are English and always use them, I came to Australia when I was 3. They are very similar to Australianism. Except my mum and dad calls a truck a lorry. It’s a truck in Australia
My biggest mistake on my first cruise was that is I was more intent on doing certain things and forgetting to enjoy the moments on board which I plan to do next cruise have a couple of things extra to enjoy
YES! It's so important to just let yourself enjoy the cruise. What are you going to treat yourself to next time? :D
@@EmmaCruises I am going to treat myself to a paid dinner on board also a go on the zip line too got that one planned for my P&O Australia Day Cruise next January and on the Royal Caribbean cruise going to Tasmania in February going to go on the North Star and take in a view also have another paid meal on board but most of all enjoy the moments and of course both ships that I will be on
Sorry you left your MacBook behind....glad you had time to really enjoy the cruise.
Maybe the time for editing is after the cruise, when the experience has settled into your mind and you have had time to collect your thoughts over the whole experience.
I like to have a schedule, but I always have LOTS of slack time built in. And I usually don't have a problem oversleeping, because if I know I have to get up by a certain time, I wake up way early.
I could sleep for EVEERRR! If you had to be out the cabin by 8am, what time would you get up?
@@EmmaCruises I would probably be awake by 5! Not because I wanted to, but because getting up was on my mind and I probably hadn't slept that well either. It's really kind of irritating!
As a young Airman we had to do an exercise in the Middle of the Iranian crisis. We had to change planes in Denver and we had a special officer who was responsible for getting us young airman back on the plane. When we changed planes he had herded all of us on the plane. Then we pulled out and took off. Half way through the flight our senior officer noticed our special officer was missing. Turned out he went to make a call after getting us young people on the plane and he missed the flight. Typical government
Don’t be perfect. Don’t worry about being proper. Just be yourself. You’re awesome. Most people don’t love being photographed. I once to,d my daughter some day when your older and look at the photos and you wonder where I am, I’m behind the camera.
Thanks so much Kelly! ❤️❤️
@@EmmaCruises You’re welcome. You just kind of bring me along on the cruise. I don’t drink so that would be wasted. The one cruise I went on when I was 15, after I recovered being sea sick, it had the best food ever. I went down below and smoked weed with the crew lol. I snuck in the tiny casino and put a quarter in a slot and got 4 back. So I thought okay quit when you’re ahead. I went on a date with a cabin boy who took me to a topless beach. That was unexpected. I kept my top on. Again, only 15 lol
Hi Emma! I haven't watched you in ages! My carnival stocks hit 88% return and got excited to watch cruise vids
Yasss!!’ Welcome back 😀💕
So relatable. You’ve convinced me that I need to watch more of your videos. 😊
Love it! Thank you! 😁❤️
Oh, and I totally agree, posing for photos with the professional photographers is not fun. Luckily my family all agree so we just skip their setups and don't worry about it! :)
Granted, every now and then they happen to catch a great candid photo that is totally worth buying, but that is rare.
Phew that’s good! 😅❤️
I would have been gutted in all three off those too....lol. Once on a clipper cruise, we were touring the island of elbe, hubby and a few friends wanted to get pizza and bring it back....we knew the time the ship was departing, but I'm always nervous when it's close...but they had changed it too earlier...and we didn't look at the sign as you get off, and missed the announcement. They luckily waited 20 min...a friend ran off the ship when she saw us it the end of the pier to yell they're leaving. We ran full speed to not be left behind.....lol. The captain greeted us it the top of the gangway....I was GUTTED!!! I've never not looked at that sign getting off again...lol. 😆😱😁
OH MY GOODNESS, this makes me feel stressed just reading this Ingrid!!!!!!! :') Thanks for watching this :D
@@EmmaCruises 😆😆😘
I have always paid attention to the time chages on our cruises, especially when we did Australia and was 16 hours in the future and then vice versa. What I do is wear two watches and one is always set to the local time and the other to what the time will be at the next port or the debarkation port. I know that my phone shoudld change the time automatically, but, sometime there is a lag at sea.
My goodness, 16 hours!! I usually set up two clocks on my phone, home time and away time. But I was in airplane mode which I think confused things :')
@@EmmaCruises It is super easy to get times confused while on a cruise, especially if you're in Europe and going from one port to the next overnight with a tome change and an early morninig shore excursion. That is when you make sure you get up very early and make sure you know the correct time.
It’s like getting married, the wedding never goes as planned, something always goes wrong!
Haha! I wouldn't know about that one. Are you married Jordan? 😂
@@EmmaCruises I’m divorced! I actually liked being married, just didn’t like who I was married to....She was Irish....Being from England I know you understand the pain I went through lol 🏴 ! I haven’t given up, maybe again, someday ! If you look on air B and B in New Orleans, look up keyword “chalmette” my property is called “chalmette mini suite” there you will find a picture of me...Chalmette is actually the last place America defeated the British in the battle of New Orleans, the finale of the war of 1812, the British were always are allies after that battle! I live close to the battlefield (it’s right on the mighty Mississippi River)...
@@EmmaCruises one more thing you should know about me...I love cats lol I have two boys, Crockett and Tubbs named after my favorite tv cops from Miami vice (fantastic 80s series very popular in England btw) love your kitty handsome boy Hudson is !
On my wedding day I got my three adult bridesmaids dresses out, I had altered them myself (I can sew) I had shortened the smallest dress but I had actually shortened the wrong dress! So my slightly chubbier but tallest bridesmaid had to wear the small dress that had *not* been shortened. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ my friend spent ages trying to hand stitch the by now too long dress for the tinier bridesmaid but she had done a not so good job and the dress hem came apart as soon as tiny BM stepped out.
@@JulieWallis1963 lol that’s kinda funny! At my wedding here in New Orleans I got married at the end of September and it was HOTTER than hell, after we were pronounced man and wife as we were walking down the aisle our minister passed out from heat exhaustion, and he hit the ground like a ton of bricks everyone gasped and rushed to his aid, a pre-cursor to my marriage for sure !!!
Biggest mistake I've made on a cruise was not backing up photos from the Cruise on Queen Victoria to Norway in 2012. I managed to get Day 1 sorted but forgot to do the first Sea Day, Stavanger, Flaam, Geiranger and Olden. When we got back to the ship, the memory card packed up and had to switch to a new card for the rest of the cruise. Gutted didn't even begin to cover it.
Also like you I planned content for the Sapphire Princess cruise by making videos of all the ships we'd see in the ports as I hoped they'd all leave before we did. That wasn't the case, especially with Southampton as we ended up leaving before Aurora and Independence OTS. Managed to get Aurora in Geiranger but Zenith didn't leave before us in Stavanger and I was too late to catch the arrival of Seabourn Quest into Bergen. Did manage the bonus of Le Boreal though in Stavanger and Geiranger which kind of made up for it. Also by catching Britannia (which you were on), Norwegian Jade and MSC Orchestra passing in the night.
Oh no!!! Awful. I did a similar thing when I lost all my go pro footage from one cruise, SO GUTTING. I remember you chasing me on that cruise!! :')
@@EmmaCruises Actually you were chasing us. ;-) You were a day behind us and went to Aalesund instead of Geiranger.
aww that's a pity with the photos, they were really nice! When I got home from a holiday, I noticed I missed a giant postcard I had bought to hang on my wall, but couldn't find it, only weeks later when I flicked through the holiday broschure I had brought home, I found it in there. Maybe your pictures are in a magazine or something like that, because you didn't want them to get damaged?
Don't be too hard on yourself...we all do these things...I left our passports on the scanner at Seattle airport and headed to the departure lounge for our flight to New York. A kind guard brought them to us just before we boarded. We were very lucky.
Oh my goodness!! You were so lucky. That is stressful indeed!! You made it all okay though yeah?
@@EmmaCruises we did indeed. From NYC onto the QM2 to Southhampton to visit the Queen !! Trip of a lifetime !!
@@michaelrennie4589 A-maazzing! I must do that one day, a bucket list trip for me for sure. :D
@@EmmaCruises You sure should. We really loved the ship !!
Some mistakes to avoid: poor choice of cabin mates (including family members 😂) & poor choice of cabin location.
Oh dear 😂😂😂
Really glad you just enjoy your cruises and be in the moment!
I do my best! :D
I did exactly the same thing on a return trip from Europe at LaGuardia airport in New York. My laptop was in one tray going through security and my other personal stuff in a separate tray. The security folks dropped my personal articles all over the floor and would not let me come in and pick them up, they picked them ip and put them back in the tray with my laptop valise. I got through and then when I landed in Charleston SC, I picked up my valise and realized that I did not have the laptop. PANIC!! I went to the TSA security folks at Charleston and they called TSA new York and they had my laptop and shipped it to me the next day via Fedex, which I, of course, paid for. What an experince. YIKES, that's an American term for YIKES !!!!
AAHHHH!!!!!! YIKES INDEED!!!!!