Cruise laundry issues cause grief

Some cruise lines provide self-service laundries but that in itself just provides some passengers with more chances to misbehave and piss off their fellow holidaymakers. 

How would you feel if someone emptied your soaking wet clothes from the washer mid-cycle so that they can wash their own?  Not happy I’m sure!

How about people who will remove your clothes from the dryer only to replace them with their own clothes?

Or worse still, on doing the above they also end up accidentally taking a few odd socks of yours too!

Laundry run-ins are par for the course for cruises that run over a week in duration and provide the self-service laundry. There is no way to avoid clashes with passengers other than by sitting in the laundry room and guarding your smalls until they are washed and dried.

Well, there is one other avenue for washing clothes whilst on board. Hand wash in your cabin basin and use the small washing line strung across your shower.

Then finally there are the low-lives who deliberately steal your clothes as they are washed and dried and brazenly challenge you to prove your ownership when you catch up with them wearing your outfit to dinner a few nights later!

Do you feel the blood pressure rising? I do!

Read more about life onboard a modern cruise ship in “Murder On Board” (available on pre-order from 5th February 2019). This is my latest novel. The ship left the harbour with 2,899 souls for a 50-day cruise but will be returning with significantly less. 

Could it be because the average age of the passengers is 73 and shit happens, old people die? 

Maybe it's because the ship is sailing 1,000 miles up the Amazon River with its precious cargo of geriatric guests placing them in an area of 100% humidity?

Or maybe it's because the Amazon River is home to the Zeka virus and the ship is sailing towards millions of female mosquitoes just waiting to attack its passengers?

Or is it simply because a killer is loose amongst them?  


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