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Published: 01:29 EDT, March 18, 2024 | Updated: 01:29 EDT, March 18, 2024

What does a trip on one of America’s cheapest cruises look like?

Well, in an attempt to quell people’s intrigues, YouTuber Lucas Cruikshank booked a two night trip with Margaritaville At Sea from Miami to the Bahamas.

Rates on the cruise line – which has a ‘poor’ to ‘average’ rating on Tripadvisor – start from just $25 per person per night, as there are several ‘buy one, get one free’ offers throughout the year.

Lucas paid $200 for himself and his friend Jacob for a two-night trip, but he said once additional fees were added, it came to $400, so $100 per person per night.

The avid traveler opted for an ocean view room, which bumped up the price, and he also bought himself an unlimited soft drink package.

From start to finish, Lucas documented his budget voyage at sea, which also marked his very first cruise.

For starters, he said he didn’t know what to expect and found the scathing online reviews a bit off-putting.

He explains: ‘Margaritaville at Sea Paradise has pretty low reviews, but we all know people with one-star reviews are dramatic.

“Like people are constantly in a bad mood and posting it on these review websites, so I need to test if this ship actually deserves the low rating it has.”

He said a review he found equated the ship – which was built in 1991 – to a “floating Super 8 hotel,” while others had said it “smelled like poop.”

But once Lucas and Jacob board the ship, they seem pleasantly surprised by what they have found.

Lucas told viewers, “WI got on board and I was impressed.

‘Even though this ship is more than thirty years old, they recreated it. Maybe we’ll see some cracks in that later, but for the most part I was okay with it.”

After boarding the ship, the duo ventured out for lunch. Despite many reviewers ‘despising’ the food, Lucas said the offering was good.

Instead of the buffet he opted for a ham panini, some pigs in a blanket and an apple. His only complaint was that there was no ketchup for his pigs in a blanket and he had to make do with mustard.

On what the buffet offering was like, he added: “Yes, the buffet was fine. I mean, it wasn’t Michelin star food… But [I got] BOGO… like why are you complaining!

‘I’ve been to gross buffets, this wasn’t one of them. It looked like a mediocre buffet.’

On the beverage side, Jacob noted that his water tasted like chlorine, but said it was “fine” and drinkable.

Once their cabin was ready, the two cruise-goers went down to check it out and were pleased with what they found.

Lucas exclaimed, “Oh my god, it’s bigger than I expected. Naturally, we paid for an ocean display.’

They filmed a short tour of the bathroom, highlighting the artificial marble countertop and the ‘cozy’ walk-in shower.

While reviewers said the rooms were outdated and in need of renovation, and leaky portlights were another complaint, Lucas and Jacob didn’t find much wrong with their cabin.

Their only complaints included a stray hair on the bedside table and several damaged cabinets.

Another area the ship reviewers complained about was the public toilets.

Lucas said people were grumbling about the doors being stuck, not locking and that it was “a mess.”

Although he had no problems with the public toilets, Jacob was at one point locked in a stall, but he eventually escaped.

In terms of food offerings, the Paradise ship has six restaurants, three of which are free and three with additional costs.

Lucas and Jacob stuck to the free dining spots included in their package.

On both nights they checked in at Fins Dining.

Of all the dishes they tried, Lucas said the pumpkin soup was “bland,” while a bowl of macaroni that looked “yucky” was actually “yummy.”

His only complaint was that the entrees were “tasty” but small and when they tried to order an additional dish, the server warned that another portion would be charged $8.

When they reached Freeport, Bahamas, Lucas and Jacob opted to have a drink on the shore at Senor Frogs.

Back on the ship, they explored the casino, nightclub, bingo hall and hot tub, among other things.

After spending just over 48 hours on America’s cheapest cruise ship, Lucas delivered his verdict.

While some critics of the ship said the “best part of the cruise was getting off,” Lucas said that while he was “excited” to get off, he enjoyed his time at sea.

“I think two days is perfect,” he mused.

Passengers on board a plane that fell from the sky, injuring 50 people, are furious at the way they were treated by the airline after they were given a small meal in compensation.

Multiple emergency vehicles rushed to Auckland International Airport on Monday after a Latam Airlines flight from Sydney to Auckland lost altitude and threw passengers against the ceiling.

The St. John ambulance treated the injured and transported thirteen of them to hospital, while the remaining passengers were given a single McDonald’s cheeseburger while they waited to find out what would happen next.

The ‘traumatized’ travelers on flight LA800, a Boeing 787-9, did not receive a meal again until Tuesday morning.

Thais Iwamoto, 26, from Sydney, said Latam’s lack of support and poor communication is “something I want to talk to them about because it’s not OK.” It’s just not fair.

“Accidents happen, but the way they treat us is not what it should be,” she told police. New Zealand herald.

Clara Azevedo, a 28-year-old Brisbane woman who was also on the flight, said that although she was not injured herself, she had spent the entire night in a hospital translating for an elderly woman who broke two ribs and left her injured his shoulder and didn’t speak English.

‘We are all traumatized and we had to find strength to help people. But this is not our responsibility, it is Latam’s – but they have done nothing. That is very frustrating,” Ms. Azevedo said.

Another Australian passenger, Jacob Thompson, 33, hit his head in what Latam calls a “strong jolt” while his partner was “thrown down the aisle.”

“We didn’t know if we were going to make the landing,” he said, adding that what happened “didn’t feel like turbulence” and that he had never felt anything like it.

The passengers who were not taken to hospital were taken to a hotel in Auckland around 2am on Tuesday morning.

Breakfast there was the first meal they had since the cheeseburger at the airport.

Ms. Azevedo and the injured woman for whom she spent the night translating must catch the rescheduled flight to Santiago, Chile, the final destination of flight LA800, at 8 p.m. tonight.

She said she is “terrified” and hopes to get something to help her sleep throughout the trip to South America.

As of Tuesday evening, four passengers are being treated at Middlemore Hospital for ‘significant’ injuries.

Latam said the injured passengers were from Brazil, France, Australia, Chile and New Zealand.

A spokesperson said the airline is “working in coordination with the respective authorities to support the investigation into the incident” and that it has “provided food, accommodation and transportation to affected passengers due to the flight cancellation.”

New Zealand’s Transport Accident Investigation Commission said Chile is responsible for investigating the incident as it occurred in international airspace.

A terrified passenger on board a LATAM Airways Boeing jet described experiencing “the worst turbulence you can imagine” after dozens of people were thrown from their seats mid-flight.

The pilot, Lucas Ellwood, said “everyone was terrified” on board the flight from Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand on Monday, the latest catastrophe that saw Boeing send at least 10 people to hospital.

“There were people wailing everywhere, there were people hurt everywhere,” he told Good Morning America. “Everyone just hit the roof and fell to the ground.”

Others compared the chaotic scenes as reminiscent of something from ‘The Exorcist’ as reports indicate as many as 50 people were injured in the incident.

It is the latest in a series of aircraft malfunctions and in-flight errors involving Boeing jets that have wiped tens of billions off the company’s market value after incidents such as the blowing out of an emergency door from an Alaska Airlines plane in January.

The exact reason for the massive turbulence is still unclear, with LATAM Airways saying in a statement only that it came after a ‘technical event’.

Passengers reportedly suffered head and neck injuries, as well as several broken bones, and the aircraft said seven passengers and three cabin crew were hospitalized.

Although no one is believed to have been seriously injured, passengers described how the flight went from calm to panic in a flash.

Many had taken off their seat belts as the journey was uneventful, before the journey suddenly dipped and shook with turbulence, sending many flying into the ceiling.

“It was like the worst kind of turbulence you could imagine,” Ellwood said afterward.

Others described it as something out of a ‘horror movie’ and felt like a roller coaster crashing without warning.

Despite the alarming incident, the Boeing 737-9 Dreamliner continued its journey as planned, landing in Auckland approximately 2 hours and 42 minutes after take-off.

LATAM Airways confirmed in a statement that “some passengers and cabin crew were affected,” but did not elaborate on the cause of the incident.

“They received immediate assistance and, if necessary, were evaluated or treated by medical personnel at the airport,” the statement continued.

“LATAM regrets the inconvenience and harm this situation may have caused to its passengers, and reiterates its commitment to safety as a priority within the framework of its operational standards.”

A Boeing spokesperson told DailyMail.com: “We are working to gather more information about the flight and will provide any support our customers need.”

It is the latest in a series of terrifying incidents involving Boeing planes in recent months, including when a plug door panel burst from an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet on January 5.

In that incident, over Portland, Oregon, passengers’ phones and clothing were ripped off by the force of turbulence as the pilot made an emergency landing after frantically calling air traffic control.

Boeing’s market value fell by as much as $36 billion in the wake of the Alaska Airlines incident, while some passengers have filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the company.

And in the past week, Boeing has suffered a series of repeat accidents, putting its fleet of 737s under increasing criticism once again.

Last Monday, a United Airlines engine caught fire and burst into flames over Texas, with images of passengers showing white-hot flashes pouring out of the plane mid-flight.

The heartbreaking moment forced the pilot to make an emergency landing just minutes into the trip to Fort Myers, Florida.

As passengers saw flames coming from one side of the plane, a crew member admitted, “Ladies and gentlemen, we realized something was happening outside…”

The cause of the incident was bubble wrap stuck in the mechanics, but no injuries were reported.

On Thursday, a wheel fell from another jetliner shortly after takeoff in San Francisco, crushing several vehicles underneath in another near miss that left no injuries.

The 256-pound wheel severely damaged a number of cars in the San Francisco airport parking lot, although fortunately there were no people in the crash zone.

The next day, a United Airlines plane veered off the runway after landing in Houston, forcing an emergency evacuation to the tarmac.

The plane suffered what is believed to have been a form of equipment collapse as it left the runway at George Bush Airport, although the 160 passengers and six crew were not injured.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) also announced this month that it is investigating a separate incident in February in which a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet suffered a “stuck” rudder pedal.

The NTSB said in a preliminary report on the Feb. 6 flight that the plane taxied to the gate at Newark Airport without incident and that there were no injuries among the 161 passengers and crew.

It reported that the captain said that during the landing rollout, the rudder pedals did not move in response to the ‘normal’ application of foot pressure while attempting to maintain the runway centerline.

Passengers and crew on a Boeing 787-9 flight from Sydney to Auckland were thrown into the roof of the plane after a sudden loss of altitude on Monday afternoon.

Up to 50 people were injured due to a ‘technical problem’ on the Chilean Latam Airlines flight, with multiple emergency workers and vehicles involved in the response.

Passenger Brian Jokat said that two hours into the three-hour flight, “the plane suddenly fell out of the sky.”

“The plane then started to dive and I just thought, ‘Okay, this is it, we’re done,'” he told the Stuff news website.

Mr Jokat said there was no turbulence after the incident and after the flight landed in Auckland the pilot ended up in the back of the plane ‘shocked’.

‘I asked, “What happened?” and he said, ‘My gauges just went out, I lost all my ability to fly the plane.’

Another passenger on the flight, Priscilla Waller-Subritzky, said she was watching a movie when the plane suddenly fell and “a number of passengers and crew were thrown into the roof of the plane.”

“I went into fight mode and just started jumping and helping where I could because the crew was injured so they couldn’t help,” she told the New Zealand herald.

Thirteen patients, one of whom was in a serious condition, were taken to Middlemore Hospital, a St John ambulance spokesman said.

“Our ambulance crews assessed and treated approximately 50 patients, with one patient in a serious condition and the remainder in a moderate to mild condition.

“To date, 13 patients have been transported to Middlemore Hospital by ambulance,” they said in an update issued shortly after 7pm local time.

Previously, the spokesperson said: ‘We were notified at 3.58pm and are currently on scene with four ambulances, two operations managers, a major incident support team vehicle, a command unit and two rapid response vehicles.’

A woman who was on the LA800 Dreamliner service flight said she experienced a “quick little drop” during the flight.

“I was a flight attendant and this is the first time I’ve ever… the whole plane froze,” she said.

An Auckland Airport spokesperson said the emergency services team assisted St John following a request for medical support.

In a statement, Latam Airlines said the flight “had a technical problem during the flight that caused a strong movement,” but the plane landed as planned.

“As a result of the incident, some passengers and cabin crew were affected. They received immediate assistance and, if necessary, were evaluated or treated by medical staff at the airport.

“Latam regrets any inconvenience and harm this situation may have caused to its passengers, and reiterates its commitment to safety as a priority within the framework of its operational standards.”

It was the second incident involving a plane that took off from Sydney International Airport on Monday.

Previously, United Airlines Flight 830 to San Francisco was forced to turn around after a mid-air emergency.

A leak was reportedly discovered on board the Boeing 777-300 aircraft and it landed back in Sydney at 2.34pm, just over two and a half hours en route.

Firefighters met the aircraft on the tarmac.

In a statement to Daily Mail Australia, United Airlines said the plane had been diverted to Sydney ‘due to a maintenance issue’.

“The aircraft landed safely and the passengers disembarked normally at the gate,” the report said.

‘We are offering passengers an overnight stay and rebooking them for San Francisco tomorrow.’

More to come…

By Madison Burgess

Published: 04:53 EST, March 9, 2024 | Updated: 05:03 EST, March 9, 2024

 

 

Leave fetish clothing at home and always sit on a towel; these are just some of the rules that apply when it comes to nude cruises.

Texas-based travel company Bare Necessities has been operating clothing-optional ship charters since 1990, and over the years has developed a set of rules to ensure that all passengers “enjoy a wonderful, stress-free, clothing-free experience.” ‘

Bare Necessities’ nude cruises were thrust into the spotlight this week when a 67-year-old man opened up about his experiences aboard one of the ships and answered a host of questions from fascinated Reddit users about what life was like aboard the ship is.

During his sensational Q&A, he mentioned several rules put in place to protect passenger privacy – and now DailyMail.com reveals the exact list of strict rules being implemented on board Bare Necessities trips to ensure safety comfort for everyone on board.

For all its excursions, it outlines nine key “rules of decorum,” the first being that all passengers must be dressed “throughout the ship, including balconies,” when the boat is docked at a port or while port authorities are busy. plate.

Only then can clothing be removed after announcement by the captain or another staff member.

The next rule concerns nudity while dining.

Depending on the ship, the rules regarding clothing and the different restaurants vary.

For example, for one of the excursions on Norwegian Pearl, Bare Necessities tells passengers that the self-serve buffet on the pool deck is a clothing-free area, but that “clothing is required for all meals consumed in the dining areas.”

For those unsure of what to wear, it states: ‘Bathrobes are not permitted in the dining room.

‘If you are unsure about what constitutes appropriate clothing, simply confirm that breasts, buttocks and genitals are fully covered by clothing that is not considered fetish wear or lingerie.’

The next line on the agenda reiterates that “lingerie, fetish wear and excessive genital jewelry are not appropriate at any time.”

For first-timers, the tour company’s next rule outlines a bit of “standard nudist etiquette” that must be “observed everywhere,” meaning they should “always” sit on a towel or a bare-bottomed garment or in a thong. or G string.”

To protect people’s privacy, no photos, videos or electronic images of anyone on the ship can be taken without their “express consent,” regardless of whether they are clothed or naked.

There are also ‘no photo zones’ around the ships’ swimming pools and dance venues, and violators will have their ‘photo capture device’ confiscated if caught breaking this rule.

Bare Necessities emphasizes in its marketing materials that its trips are not sexual and that its main purpose is to “dispel the misconception that travel is anything but natural and beautiful.”

It adds: ‘We have made progress in the acceptance of nude holidays and our wide range of cruise charters is testament to our success.’

As such, it warns guests that “fondling or inappropriate touching of personal body parts or those of another person, overt sexual activity or any form of solicitation of sexual acts is strictly prohibited.”

Finally, the tour company states that “dangerous or abusive behavior will not be tolerated at any time” and that passengers must comply with U.S. federal law regarding the possession or use of illegal substances.

If a passenger fails to adhere to the rules of decorum and etiquette, the company warns that he or she may be dismissed from a cruise without a refund and that transportation will not be provided from the port of disembarkation.

By Ted Thornhill, Mailonline travel editor

Published: 02:39 EST, March 7, 2024 | Updated: 03:25 EST, March 7, 2024