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A woman has shared how she and her fellow passengers on a three-week cruise to remote islands in the western South Pacific “voted” to kick off an annoying woman for her ‘entitled’ attitude
She took to Reddit to share the anecdote from her three-week trip with her mom to remote islands in the western South Pacific, where she said, “no white person had set foot [on them] in almost a decade”.
The Reddit user said issues with the entitled passenger started during a visit to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea – before they even boarded the ship.
When it was time for the group to leave, the woman got onto their minibus with loads of big bags of souvenirs.
This meant that her fellow passengers had to partly climb over her stuff to get further into the bus.
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The angry passenger added that the excessive purchases also meant she, who at 42 was the youngest of the group, and the rest of the group, all aged over 60, had to sit on “very uncomfortable” fold-down seats along with a few other passengers.
Later their cruise ship made a stop at Rabaul, New Britain, where a traditional fire dance called Baining was performed to welcome them.
She said the six dancers wore giant five-foot-high, three-foot-wide masks and another passenger asked whether they would be able to create more masks before their next performance to bring to the ship to be bought as souvenirs.
One of the performers later brought the masks to the ship in a truck and the entitled passenger bought three after waiting for them on the dock before the other passengers even knew the masks had made it to the ship.
After that, the passengers all virtually voted in favor of booting the woman off the ship but it was “obviously impossible to follow through on” because they couldn’t just leave her on one of the islands and sail away, or throw her and all her souvenirs overboard.
The Reddit user added: “That night her roommate was moved into an empty single cabin at no extra cost because there was literally no more room for her or her stuff in their cabin, and within a few more days housekeeping was unable to get into the cabin to clean.
“At the end of the trip, the cruise company offered to help people box up and weigh their packages of souvenirs to send home, and the entitled passenger had an absolute fit when she was told that they didn’t have the boxes or the staff to help her pack up her cabin-full of souvenirs, especially the masks.
“I have no idea how she managed to get all that stuff shipped back home after we landed.”
Despite being unable to physically force the entitled passenger off the cruise, the cruise company’s owner later told the poster’s mother she had been blacklisted.
The Reddit user said: “My mother had travelled with this company many times before with my father and there was always one owner of the company on every cruise, so they knew her pretty well and were all very open with her about stuff going on on the cruises.
“The owner on that one told my mother that entitled passenger was definitely blacklisted, and their staff back home had already been instructed that if she ever tried to book another trip with them again they were to tell her they were full.”