Carnival Cruise Line went viral (once again) over the past weekend, both for redefining guidelines for passenger safety and behavior and for a brawl on one of its ships caught on camera. The latter instance was reported by Doug Parker for Cruise News Today on Tuesday (June 10).
According to the reporting, the fight began at 5:30 p.m., Saturday (June 7), aboard the Carnival Sunrise shortly after its departure from Half Moon Cay, the line’s private island in the Bahamas. The ship was halfway through its four-day excursion from Miami, having sailed from there on June 5. The fight occurred on the Lido deck, with bystanders capturing it on video, showing the participants hurling chairs at each other before security officers rushed in and broke it up.
One passenger shared that one of the fighting passengers was being detained in their cabin. “I’m staying a couple of doors away from him. The man is locked up in his room with security outside 24/7,” Priscilla Nivia Delgado wrote on Facebook, sharing a photo of a security officer sitting outside the unruly passenger’s room. The Carnival Code of Conduct states that “…disruptive behavior is not tolerated and any guest whose conduct affects the comfort, enjoyment, safety, or well-being of other guests or crew will be disembarked at their own expense and banned from sailing on Carnival in the future.”
The brawl comes a week after Carnival Cruise Lines reminded passengers of their guidelines in a letter. The letter is an update of the “Have Fun, Be Safe” guidelines, and is there in each cabin to review after boarding. “We routinely share this letter with our guests through various touch points on each of our sailings,” Carnival Cruise Line spokesman Matt Lupoli said to Travel Pulse, noting the update for the busy summer cruise season. “It reminds guests about some of the guidelines we have in place to support a safe, friendly, and fun environment on board.”
Carnival has been cracking down on unruly passengers lately. One person shared on TikTok how she and her travel partner smuggled liquor on board the Carnival Conquest. “Def waited until after I got home to post this! Hahahaha but it worked,” Caroline Murley wrote. Her glee was short-lived, as she posted another video detailing a letter she got from the cruise line telling her she was banned after executives from Carnival got wind of her initial TikTok.
