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Eunice Gayle Needed a Blood Transfusion, So Why Wouldn't Princess Cruise Lines Let Her Off the Boat?

​What's a lady gotta do to get off a cruise ship? That's a question Eunice Gayle must have asked more than once, as she desperately tried to seek an emergency blood transfusion while aboard a Princess cruise line voyage through the Caribbean. Stricken with complications from sickle cell anemia, ... More >>

Mazatlan, Mexico Is Too Street for L.A. Disney Cruise Line (VIDEO)

bebebloom via IgoUgoMazatlan: Not as tourist-friendly as meets the eye?​OK, we admit, Mexico's kind of scary, what with all the drugs and guns and freaky brown people running around. But is Mazatlan -- one of the only luxury-cruise stops that actually feels a tad bit like a real city, as oppos ... More >>

Lawsuit: Woman Claims a Princess Cruise Line Employee with a History of Sexual Misconduct Assaulted Her

​Did Princess Cruise Lines have a serial sexual predator working aboard one of its ships? According to California resident Marisa Foppoli, who filed a lawsuit earlier this week in Los Angles Superior Court against the third largest cruise line in the world, the answer is yes. It was the wee hour ... More >>

Where's The Spam?: A Potential Board Game for Carnival Passengers, or Maybe the Navy

Flickr/dok 1​ You will perhaps remember the recent Carnival Cruise Lines fiasco, in which a cruise ship lost power and drifted for days off the coast of Baja California, the hungry passengers subsisting unhappily on a diet of Spam and croissants and Pop Tarts courtesy of the U.S. Navy. A Wal ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/8-11/12

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But if it's really not too much trouble, could we all declare a moratorium on implicit comparisons between spherical foods and the male anatomy? Thanks. It would mean a lot." A Food-Writing Misstep of Which I've Been Guilty ... More >>

Are The Carnival Cruise Victims The Next Chilean Miners?

Carnival Cruise LinesLuxury cruise ship? More like luxury hardship​The nation's finest yellow journalists were rabid to pin down as many Splendor passengers as possible for an interview this morning, just after the cruise liner was docked (hours ahead of schedule, thanks to six trusty tugboats ... More >>

4,400 Carnival Cruisers Stranded Off Mexico -- With 70,000 Pounds Of Bread On The Way

Wikipedia CommonsThe passengers of the good ship Splendor fight for their lives with no air conditioning​Updated after the jump: A Mexican tugboat named Chihuahua begins the Splendor's long tow of shame. Originally posted Tuesday morning. Update: The burning question: Can they keep drinking? ... More >>

Your Carnival Cruise Ship Emergency Diet: Pop Tarts, Croissants & Spam

So you're stranded on a giant cruise ship 200 miles off the coast of Baja California in the Pacific. Your 952-foot vessel is adrift; the AC and the toilets are not working. You and your fellow 4,500 passengers are running low on food while the Carnival Cruise Line tries to figure out whether to tow ... More >>

Italian Chef Disappears From Cruise Ship: No Michelin Stars Involved

The FBI has been called in to investigate the disappearance of an Italian chef who went missing from a cruise ship en route from Aruba to Cartagena, Columbia. The ship docked yesterday in Los Angeles. 31-year-old Angelo Faliva was last seen on the morning of November 26th on the deck of the Princes ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Taco Slay Arrests Two men and a woman have been arrested in connection with a Wednesday night rifle-shooting at a Lennox taco truck that left one man dead and five other people wounded, including two boys. Associated PressMission Accomplished? Three brothers from Hong Kong hoped their plans to expan ... More >>

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