Our Cruise Had a Fire
By Loretta
@noni1959 (9887)
United States
September 5, 2022 9:42pm CST
We ported in Ketchikan two days in and that was a fun experience going on a crab boat and then all you can eat crab, salad and cheesecake. We got back onboard after having a fun day and headed to Juneau.
About 8:30 pm, we were watching the Jeff Nease comedy and saw a few employees on phones running backstage. Then from the speaker heard Bravo, Bravo Bravo, kilo kilo kilo, and as we filed out of the theater, all the crew from the aft came running forward. A few seconds later, an announcement came there was a fire onboard.
Everyone was kept in the forward area and the steel fire walls came down blocking off the back and middle of the ship. Seeing crew with life jackets on was a bit alarming especially when ours were located in the muster station, blocked by the doors.
The fire was put out within an hour and by 10 pm, we could go to our rooms or where we wanted to.
You can google the fire (Quantum of The Seas fire), but keep in mind, the comments will have different accounts with some exaggeration. Quite a few were very drunk that night so that could explain some of their accounts. Of course, a lawyer wrote a piece about it and you probably guessing right if you think he's going to begin a class action for those affected.
We arrived back in Seattle at 6 am this morning and was able to disembark at 8 am. One thing I wish cruises did was not port until later, but they have another cruise leaving just a few hours later so have to get us off to finish sanitizing and prepping for the new arrivals.
This was an "interesting" cruise. We were informed once out to sea we would not be going through the glaciers due to one engine still needing repairs, so to reach ports on time, we had to change.
I'll catch up soon. I'm very tired and going to rest from my vacation.
Have you been on a cruise?
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@Deepizzaguy (94295)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
6 Sep 22
The closest I have been on a cruise was when my relatives and myself got aboard the steamship Cristobal from Colon Panama to New Orleans in the 1970s before the Cristobal went to Texas to be sold for scrap.
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@1creekgirl (40424)
• United States
6 Sep 22
Oh my, I'm sure that was really frightening! We're supposed to leave on a cruise in about a week. Hope no "excitement" like that.
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@1creekgirl (40424)
• United States
12 Sep 22
@noni1959 We had to cancel yesterday because I have a ruptured tendon in my toe. There's no way I could walk that much.
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@noni1959 (9887)
• United States
12 Sep 22
@1creekgirl I'm so sorry to hear this. Did you get to reschedule?
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@allen0187 (58438)
• Philippines
6 Sep 22
Not a fan of cruises.
Took one though in Manila Bay but that was a relatively short one - six hours if I remember correctly. It was a company event in my previous work.
'Interesting' doesn't begin to describe your cruise.
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@allen0187 (58438)
• Philippines
12 Sep 22
@noni1959 I wouldn't want to be stuck in a long cruise myself.
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@noni1959 (9887)
• United States
12 Sep 22
@allen0187 If we were to see many ports it would have been great but with the engine issues, our intinary changed and we only do so much on the ship. I'd love to go on a 10-day island hopping cruise to hawaii.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
6 Sep 22
No, and I've heard bad things about them.
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@noni1959 (9887)
• United States
13 Sep 22
@LadyDuck Many are and I have sent contact info many times and no answer yet so will call again today. Their customer service for this is awful. Maybe they are trying to get advice from their lawyers first. I just want them to acknowledge what was wrong with this situation and refund our Wi-Fi that didn't work.
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@shaggin (71659)
• United States
13 Sep 22
I would have skipped all the other stuff and just ate all you can eat cheesecake the whole time 
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That would be so scary you not have a life jacket on when the fire started. How neat there is steel fire doors!
I’ve never been on a cruise. Could take it or leave it not something I really look forward to doing but could be fun.
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That would be so scary you not have a life jacket on when the fire started. How neat there is steel fire doors!
I’ve never been on a cruise. Could take it or leave it not something I really look forward to doing but could be fun.
@RebeccasFarm (86520)
• United States
17 Sep 22
I have not but sorry I missed this discussion Loretta.
Oh my glad you were not hurt in a fire on the cruise though.
@noni1959 (9887)
• United States
11 Sep 22
Nope. Seems something drama follows me often. When we left Seattle, we headed to my son's in Prosser, WA. I think it was a three-hour trip but can't remember the highways. I stayed the night there and from his house, I went to mine on the 30, 97, 84, 205 and I-5 until Salem to hit the 22. I probably got some of those out of order. Be nice someday to say hi in person. I'm very rural Scio and Seattle is about four hours.
@JESSY3236 (18885)
• United States
13 Sep 22
I have never been on a cruise. My mother once talked about doing one, but we didn't.
@MarieCoyle (28245)
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12 Sep 22
When I was small, my Dad worked as an engine mechanic for some time. He must have been good at it, someone in Ketchikan heard of his work and he was hired to rebuild engines on two huge fishing boats. He packed us up and we lived there for some months. He loved being in Alaska, and I think he would have just stayed there, but he was married to my mother at the time and she hated it. I thought it was really a neat place to live, but I was just a kid.
Yes, I have been on numerous cruises. They are always enjoyable, we have been fortunate in that we've not encountered weather problems too often on the cruises. However, we went on one about 5 years ago (before Covid) that got hit with Norovirus, and we all came home so sick. We thought that was a fluke. My daughter went on a cruise with her husband and children about 2 months ago, and they came home sick, too. Again, not Covid. I think they just pack too many people on some of those boats. I like cruises, they are fun. But I don't desire to go again, I would rather go somewhere on land and see things I've not seen before. I am interested in a river cruise sometime, but they are extremely pricey, so I doubt that will happen. I'm sure sorry to hear about the fire, that must have been extremely scary.
