Carnival Cruise Line’s Ban on Sex Offenders does Little to Protect Passengers
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?
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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.
Chris, what is IML?
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.