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A family filed a lawsuit against a well-known cruise line after they say crewmembers overserved their mother prior to her fatal fall in October 2024.

The incident happened while 66-year-old Dulcie White, of Westmoreland, New York, was traveling on a Taylor Swift-themed cruise with her daughter, Megan Klewin. The lawsuit alleges that on Oct. 22, 2024, while 17 miles north of Nassau, White was intoxicated and fell off her balcony.

White had allegedly purchased an “unlimited alcoholic beverages” package. Her family claims that she was served seven alcoholic drinks in just over six hours, according to reporting from The New York Post.

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The body of an elderly cruise passenger was found Sunday, Oct. 26, on a Great Barrier Reef Island after she had been left behind by crew, according to national media outlets.

Suzanne Rees, 80, of Sydney, Australia, was hiking on Saturday, Oct. 25, with other passengers before she was separated from the group. She was feeling unwell earlier in the day during the hike, her daughter, Katherine Rees, told reporters, and was told to return to the ship on her own.

The ship left the island allegedly without “checking whether all passengers” had returned. Rees was reported missing, NBC News reported, and the ship returned to the island to begin a “large-scale” search.

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Royal Caribbean’s “townhouse suite,” complete with slide and various sitting areas will set families back a whopping six figures for a week-long vacation.

This extravagant, three-story cruise ship accommodation comes complete with a wraparound terrace, movie theater, slide, hot tub and multiple VIP perks. The suite can accommodate up to eight people and is located in the ship’s “surfside family neighborhood.”

Family and lifestyle vlogger and Tiktoker, @boredfarmfamily recently stayed in the suite with their family of six, recording a room tour for social media. The family alleges they spent $150,000 on their stay. The video has millions of views and thousands of comments, likes and shares since it was posted over the weekend.

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At least four cruise line crew members were removed from a ship in Baltimore on allegations that they possessed child sex abuse material, national media outlets recently reported.

Officers with Custom and Border Protection inspected the ship on Sept. 7 “based on intelligence” that the employees had the sex abuse material, according to USA TODAY reporting. It is unclear whether any criminal charges had been filed against the crew members involved.

In a statement to reporters, CBP officials said that they are “involved in ongoing cruise vessel operations where we enforce immigration law.”

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A 32-year-old cruise ship passenger died after falling off an Alaskan trail and sliding down a steep mountain while on a hike with at least one other person, according to media.

The body of Britain Pool, of Texas, was found off the Mount Roberts trail in Juneau around 8:10 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 16, by police.

Pool and at least one other cruise ship passenger were hiking when they fell off the trail and slid down the mountain. Rescuers were able to find the other passenger but could not locate Pool, who had slid further down the mountain.

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At least two people were taken to the hospital for injuries following a fight that broke out aboard a Royal Caribbean ship this week, according to national media outlets.

The incident happened Monday around 6:48 p.m. when Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies and local firefighters were called our to PortMiami for reports of a “dispute”, according to national media. Investigators later learned that an alleged verbal argument became physical aboard the ship, causing the captain to return to port.

The ship returned to port around 8:30 p.m.

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Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth will call Miami home, at least for a little while, a history-making move for the company.

After an “increasing demand from North American guests,” the ship will be making trips to the Caribbean from what many consider to be the cruising capital of the world, according to reporting from The Miami Herald.

The ship will be in Miami from mid-October until April 2026, making trips that range from nine to 28-night voyages to locations such as Jamaica, Mexico St. Thomas, St. Lucia, Honduras, Mexico, Barbados and Puerto Rico. After its departure in April of 2026, the ship will return to Miami next October until April 2027.

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Teetering waves and non-code-compliant stairs or railings are a dangerous combination — one that has caused painful injuries for many Leesfield & Partners clients.

While many may not think about the various ways in which they can be injured when they set out on a cruise ship vacation, it doesn’t mean that accidents still aren’t a possibility.

And serious injuries from falls aren’t just something that occurs to the elderly.  Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that falls occur across all age groups. Even so, the average age of passengers departing from PortMiami is 46.5 years old, according to Industry Reports from the Cruise Lines International Association, showing that relatively young individuals are still falling (no pun intended) prey to these incidents.

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Royal Caribbean is canceling approximately six months of visits to Labadee, a key cruise port location located on Haiti’s northern coast.

The private cruise destination is owned by Royal Caribbean and has been taken off of many itineraries due to ongoing civil unrest. Since November, gang activity has left locals fearing for their lives and homes. Port-au-Prince’s Delmas 30 neighborhood is a burned husk of its former self with buildings that survived the devastating January 2010 earthquake reduced to rubble following the attacks, according to reporting from The Miami Herald.

The country’s continued political instability has left locals plagued by the possibility of kidnappings, killings, arson and sexual attacks as they struggle with food insecurity, fuel and medicine shortages.

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A major power failure Monday left a cruise ship with thousands of passengers drifting for hours off the coast of Italy, according to Cruise News Today.

An electrical issue the ship’s engines caused the outage, though onboard services continued with little disruption The ship required help from the Italian Coast Guard and two tugboats that guided it into Naples. The ship later regained partial engine power, arriving hours after it was originally meant to. The cruise line is conducting a full inspection and said the ship is expected to resume its sailing schedule Tuesday.

While this power failure was quickly addressed and resulted in limited disruption to passengers’ vacations, other engine failure, mechanical issues and fires do occur aboard ships. If not swiftly dealt with, however, there can be bigger consequences. The passengers of a 2013 cruise ship that lost power know this better than most. In that case, which was explored in a recent Netflix documentary, passengers were stranded without power for days in a stifling ship with no working bathrooms, creating a recipe for disaster.

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