Griffo
Contributor
I'm curios to hear peoples opinions on whether they would ask for a credit or refund in the following situation. My fellow live-aboard guests were very divided according to their backgrounds.
Long story short - I just got off a 7 day liveaboard. While I have absolutely no complaints about the ship or crew or such, the problem started when we boarded. The dives guides were sick with some kind of flu/cold. They battled on throughout the cruise, sometimes with one or the other taking days off and staying in bed, or you would see them rugged up fighting fevers between the dives, and taking copious amounts of drugs. Full credit to their work ethic in what must have been miserable circumstances for them.
The problem was that on day 3 I woke up with their flu, did one dive, and sat out the rest of the trip being either laid up with a bad fever, coughing up a lung, or just being unable to equalise. So I managed 7 out of the 22 dives on offer.
While sickness is no excuse for a refund, the fact that the ship sailed with a sick crew who then passed it onto me just plain sucks. It's low season there, so i'm sure a dive guide or two could have been found fairly easily - even if the other guides remained to stay in charge, but were kept away from the guests. Other guests got sick too but luckily only on the last day, I was the only one who succumbed so early.
Long story short - I just got off a 7 day liveaboard. While I have absolutely no complaints about the ship or crew or such, the problem started when we boarded. The dives guides were sick with some kind of flu/cold. They battled on throughout the cruise, sometimes with one or the other taking days off and staying in bed, or you would see them rugged up fighting fevers between the dives, and taking copious amounts of drugs. Full credit to their work ethic in what must have been miserable circumstances for them.
The problem was that on day 3 I woke up with their flu, did one dive, and sat out the rest of the trip being either laid up with a bad fever, coughing up a lung, or just being unable to equalise. So I managed 7 out of the 22 dives on offer.
While sickness is no excuse for a refund, the fact that the ship sailed with a sick crew who then passed it onto me just plain sucks. It's low season there, so i'm sure a dive guide or two could have been found fairly easily - even if the other guides remained to stay in charge, but were kept away from the guests. Other guests got sick too but luckily only on the last day, I was the only one who succumbed so early.