Cruise lines want you to have a good time and offer lots of activities and events to make that happen. They talk a lot about how this is “your cruise” and want you to do whatever you want to in order to enjoy it.
There are limits though.
Don’t just go visit the bridge: It was New Years Eve when Alex Sokolov, a passenger on Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas supposedly wandered on to the bridge, a restricted high security area and ended up being thrown off the ship. “He was accused of violating safety rules, and for that he was held for days in detention in the cabin, and then left on the shore in the Athenian harbor of Piraeus.” reports the Royal Caribbean blog Bridge tours can be arranged and are often a part of special celebration packages. Just stopping by? Not so much.
Don’t do it in the hot tub: Surveillance cameras cover pretty much all public areas of the ship, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Need I say more?
Flickr photo by Bruce Tuten