Passengers on Royal Caribbean’s Ultimate World Cruise have shared videos on TikTok of the flooding on board, only three weeks into their nine-month-long trip.
The clips come less than a month after the ship departed from Miami, Florida, as travellers headed for their 274-night voyage to visit 11 “world wonders” and over 60 countries. The cruise will conclude in the United States on 10 September 2024, as it docks back in Miami after a day in the Bahamas.
In a video shared by one passenger, Adita, one deck of the ship could be seen with floods of water along the carpeted floors. The footage went on to show the large amounts of water that were coming from the outside deck of the ship, the Serenade of the Seas.
The traveller continued to walk through the floors of the ship amid the flood, before they went down a flight of carpeted stairs. The video was also posted during a cruise day, as the ship was heading to South America.
“Our first storm of the Ultimate [World Cruise], 60mph winds, flooding, forward elevators closed until further notice. We’re really swinging now,” Adita wrote in her caption.
The video of the Ultimate World Cruise has quickly gone viral, with more than one million views, as of 4 January. In the comments, many viewers poke fun at the flood, while also questioning if it could get worse as the trip continues.
“Now is it only the Premium players that get this experience or is it open to all?” one quipped.
“The Drake passage is gonna be ROUGH,” another wrote, referring to the body of water between South America and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
“Was ‘ship flooding’ on the bingo card?!?” a third commenter joked, referring to a viral TikTok video about all the things that could happen during the nine-month cruise.
In a follow-up video, Adita went to deck 12 and revealed that the flood on the boat had cleared up. She also noted that the carpet was entirely dry and that the deck did not smell like mildew.
“Everything is back to normal, elevators functional again, almost all dry, no smells! Royal Caribbean was definitely prepared and took care of everything quickly!” she wrote in the caption.
Another passenger, Nadine, also shared in a TikTok video from the cruise, she had to be temporarily moved to another room because her initial room was impacted by the flood.
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