Carnival Cruise Lines has banned registered sex offenders from cruising aboard its ships. A move that we maintained is unnecessarily discriminatory and has caused families to miss out on vacations.
But more often than any incident caused by a registered person on one of Carnival’s ships is the occurrence of passengers finding hidden cameras in their rooms.
This FoxNews Report describes one couple’s experience aboard a Carnival Cruise, but apparently the problem is not isolated!
Perhaps Carnival needs to stop masking the problem by pointing fingers at the boogeyman and start looking in the mirror?
Hmm. Seems like people with contagious diseases like flu and coronavirus are potentially way more dangerous than so called sex offenders. Just saying.
Does anyone know how Carnival gets its info? I’m a RSO not on the federal or state websites. Booked a cruise for next year that leaves and enters the same port so I dont need a passport. I’ll let my registering officer know before the 21 days, but I’d rather not notify carnival. If they go off public notifications, i wont be listed, therefore may not be flagged. Just wondering if anyone has any info. Thanks.
The US Marshals will send a notice to the cruise line.
me and my wife just came back off a 7 day western carribbean cruise with carnival cruise line from 11/30/2019 to 12/07/2019 we went to grandcayman island, hondrus ,belize and cozumel mexico had no problems getting off at any ports.until i came back was pulled out of line taken to custom bags was search and was on my was process took about 5 minutes officers was very nice polite and respectful.
Davis,
Glad you a great time and allowed on! Was your offense minor related, do you have to register currently, and did you notify authorities ahead of time regarding international travel? Seems every case is s hit as mad miss.
My partner, who is an RSO, and I are scheduled to cruise out of Fort Lauderdale on Holland America with no issue. This will be our second Year in a row cruising with them.
Regarding Royal Caribbean, I read a few months ago on one of the cruise boards that I am on, that a man got a letter from the security department of Royal stating he was Not going to be allowed to board and that a refund was going to be provided to him. Apparently he is on the registry as well.
update: we just returned from a cruise on Holland America out of FLL. There were no issues at all during any part of this vacation. He went on Grand Turk, Half Moon, St. Thomas and San Juan needing nothing more than his license and ships card to leave and return to ship from each island.
what if you a rso and just take a chance and go on a cruise wat r your chances of sailing
Seriously? You want to go back to prison because you trying to get over on the system. Few months ago I would have said go for it and some other crazy thing because I feel certain people should be more punished than others.and would have laugh if you went to jail. But remembering something about a divided house will fall. Honestly, you are an adult, your decisions to make I rather suffer on the streets than suffer behide the walls. if you want to chance it it is your freedom you playing with. I wouldn’t chance it at all.
Cruise line will not allow RSO to board, IF policies of that cruise line bar RSOs. Security team will match passenger name to registry prior to departure. Hopefully they will notify the RSO prior to departure so they don’t waste a trip. Passengers’ names will be listed on manifest.
Yes, they will. I still have all the email correspondence that was sent to me by a one-cruse liner. Yes, they did issue me a refund, but the overall discrimination that I suffered was humiliating and emotionally exhausting. The ironing of the complete registry system is that the registrants on the system are not the ones harming citizens, it’s the ones that aren’t on the list.
Amen to that!
I don’t believe you will even have the opportunity to “take a chance”. they do registry checks,not full background checks. You can have a felony and cruise (obviously as long as there is no warrant on you) but you cannot be a RSO misdemeanor or felon, there is no difference to them.
My wife is a RSO from many years back, got into a bad situation with her ex husband and here we are. We have taken 3 cruises with Carnival with no issues until this year, she has been placed on the no sail list. She is classified as low risk and for the most part can go anywhere including the school where our youngest daughter attends. I applaud the cruise lines for their commitment to passenger safety but I believe if they find a RSO on their list they should look to see what class they are and decide what to do then. To many good people are loosing out over this
Can a registered sex offender sail
Not on certain ships
I called Carnival this morning and she told me no to sex offender’s.
Does anyone know if there are any cruise lines that a registered offender is able to sail on without a problem?
Reach out to Paul at RegistrantTAG.org
he has his pulse on registrant travel issues.
I tried to reach out to him at that email address but it was sent back saying the address was not correct
Hmmm… there’s a contact form and a phone number on the site.
http://registranttag.org/contact/
Herein lies the problem. What Federal law or Constitutional Right does providing truthful information of a felony conviction to a foreign government by the US Government infringe or violate?
Then, it must be asked, does this sovereign foreign Government have the lawful right to deny the convicted felon from entering their Country?
Further, can a foreign Government then deny a Cruise ship port privileges if after being notified by the US Government a RSO on is board? or detain a RSO debarking a plane?
Personally I believe this extraordinary step, basically a warning by the USA about dangerous individual traveling to said foreign Country, does violate due process. But so far no Court of law agrees so.
NCL doesn’t check but Royal and Carnival does
Is this good Information or just from what you’ve heard ?
My husband is a registered sex offender and we were able to travel this past January 2018 on a Carnival Cruise ship from Miami along with my two teenage boys. He is a Tier 1 from PA but living in Florida since January 2017. Coming back to Miami he was held up as a “random” security check where they went thru his luggage and cell phone pics.
Before traveling I tried doing my own research and decided to just take the risk. I was able to speak to someone at Carnival who explained to me “off the record” that yes Carnival is banning RSO’s from traveling however, it depends on the crime “she thought” and that all passenger names are run thru an outsourced security system and that if I haven’t been called that I might have a chance to get on. It was a very stressful couple of months but luckily we traveled with no problems.
Ma’am I am also a RSO and I have been on 2 cryises since this law was put into play and never had a problem till today. My wifr tried to book us for our 7th cruise and we were denied because of my RSO. I committed my offense when I was 18 and now I am 46 and I know without a shadow of a doubt I am not that kind of a person. Cruising is like medicine to me and it allows me to feel like I belong in society. Don’t get me wrong I applaud Canival and Royal Caribbean for making sure passengers are safe but I wish they would do it by a case by case because all of RSO are not a violent as others. I made a mistake in life, paid the crime and feel like I should be able to enjoy my family by vacationing on cruises.
I totally agree with this. Murderers are among everyone and don’t get singled out. And no registration needed.
Yes, that’s true!
1500 bucks takes you off. That is avg lawyer fee ones done no more issues i was denyed and took care of it..good luck
Do you have the name or phone number, of the person you used?
$1500 is definitely not a lot of money for such a life-changing thing
I’d also like to know Tee who this attorney is that gets you off the registry for $1500???
I would also like to know
Are you able to help share information to this lawyer please ty
What is the name of this atty?
This is simply NOT TRUE.
$1500 is definitely a false statement.
I have been told by numerous different attorneys that my case is a perfect opportunity for the Romeo & Juliet law.
After being told that, they inform me that it will be a MINIMUM of $7500 and still no guarantees to get my name removed
In which county are you?
Yes. Holland America. I went with my partner who is a RSO. No problems on the ship nor any of the islands. This was in December of 2018 out of Fort Lauderdale.
Just called Norwegian Cruise Lines for a Mediterranean cruise and the rep asked her supervisor and got the answer: if name is on http://www.nsopw.gov , travelerer will not be allowed to cruise.
Yes, holland America. They do not check the registry. My partner is an RSO and we are going on our third Cruise with this cruise line out of Fort Lauderdale.
I know that Royal Caribbean is on a case by case.
They have you submit a letter explaining what your charge was and the situation around it.
They then make a determination from there.
I also think that MSC allows RSO on
Yes I do believe MSC and Holland America are the two cruise lines that will not check the registry however I believe you have to leave from a Us Port. I do not believe that Royal Caribbean gives any consideration to people on the registry from my understanding.
Deb,
Have you checked this lately? Is it still the same?
Having been on 22 cruises, I am a self professed cruise addict. I worked with a cruise agent for the 1st 10 years of my cruise life and befriended her. We still remain closely in touch. I visit many cruise boards and keep up with the latest and greatest, in addition to what my cruise agent friend knows. Holland and MSC appear to still be the only possibilities of sailing out of a United States port. I cruise with my RSO next month on Holland and will be trying MSC next fall.
Has anything ever contacted these cruise lines and asked if someone who was convicted of drug smuggling or a convicted burglar/thief are allow to travel. Then print the results with the media pointing out the recidivism rates and what type of crimes and situations can place you on registration. Who is more dangerous the dope dealer or the SO who had sex with his underage girlfriend only to be married to her later.
My partner of 10 years is a sexual offender from 17 years ago, also because of photos and communication with someone via text message that he believed to be over 16. We had been on several cruises with Carnival until Nov 2017. We were scheduled for my 60th BD cruise to leave after Thanksgiving. We were notified 4 days prior that his reservation was canceled. We were both given a full refund, but the point remains, why was it ok until then? Now we wait until he hits the 25 year mark and he can request he be removed from the list. RIDICULOUS!!
Donna – contact Paul at Registrant Travel Action Group. (http://registranttag.org/)
Thank you. I accidentally found the FL Action Committee. What can Registrant Travel do for us? I did post my experience.
At this point, nothing can be done, when hundreds of individuals get together, something.
25 years in what state? Has anyone in Florida been removed
Unfortunately companies like Carnival, Disney and Facebook will always be “in the right” so long as there is a public registry. So long as the government provides a list of “dangerous persons” then any company can at almost no cost take what appears to be a common sense solution to sexual assault. It’s all a matter of due diligence. So long as the government is allowed to claim you are a risk of any sort to anyone and they make that information free then plenty of businesses will use it to try and look like they took every precaution. And in most scenarios that’s probably what we’d all like them to do.
The problem is always 100% at the feet of the government who with no restraint is free to decide arbitrary risk levels and publish them.
Carnival unfortunately is doing the same thing as any store keeper who chases off known shoplifters.
Seems to me that it CAN’T be a sex offender that is on the cruise…If they did place the secret camera, how would they watch it once they left the ship? It has to be a ship employee that has constant surveillance of the device…
So, if youre an so thats not in florida and lets say in ny and you fall off the register, you can cruise? I would be a former so if it werent for florida but since i touched this state im an rso everywhere. How is that fair they can discriminate like that? Im the same person but just because whee i visited im now an rso
Yes that is how I understand it also. If a state law removes you from the registry you can cruise, but since FL is for life, you will never get to go.
Also, I have read that it is maybe not the cruise line that is boycotting SO’s, but places that have no entry for travel by SO’s.
for instance Mexico will not let an SO enter, but IF one is on a cruise ship the country will not let the ship port making it impossible for the ship to go to that destination. If that is the truth, the cruise ship companies are also pawns in this macabre dance.
its the cruise line
I honestly believe in what a representative of Carnival explained to me
I was informed that it wasn’t Carnivals choice rather they receive notice from Various Countries in the Caribbean, Mexico and Honduras etc, they would not allow too port any ship with a RSO on board.
Funny isn’t it that the Cruise lines didn’t start banning RSO until after IML? As I stated in a prior post, the wife and I have accumulated more than 100 sea days aboard Carnival. Our first red flag was on our return to the Port of Miami in May of 2015 when I was detained by CPB for the very first time. In November of 2015 We book another Cruise for May 16 2016. On Feb 11 2015 I received a cancellation notice from carnival.
Speaking with a very pleasant and I believe sincere customer service rep she explained that Carnival had received notices from various Caribbean Countries, Mexico and Honduras, that they will not allow ships with RSO to port. She did apologize and thanked me for being such a loyal customer over the years.
Royal Caribbean also bans Regestered Sex Offenders. I was booked on a transposition cruise to Spain during the school year. Just before the cruise they informed me that I could board any of their ships. I told them that I was convicted of having one picture, unshared, on my computer 10 years ago and I was traveling with my girlfriend and we were in our 70’s. It didn’t matter to them we were unwelcome.