Cruise conditions termed ‘horrific’

February 18, 2013, 10:00 pm by Lyn Odom

Finally returning from her ‘horrific’ cruise, Joey Carney of Llano dispels Carnival’s claims that all was well on board the adrift vessel, and says that the company severely downplayed the actual conditions of the 4,000 passengers on board.

"The living condition was horrific,” said Carney on Monday. "Carnival has put out so much misinformation. I am very frustrated with hearing on the news that it was an ‘inconvenience’ to the passengers. My friends and I did not eat one day and the next day we waited for four hours to eat. We were very concerned with food spoilage – in the beginning the ship would not ration food.”

Carney, the agency principle with All-Tex Insurance of Llano, and several friends on the Carnival Cruise ship, Triumph, departed Galveston Feb. 7 for a four-day cruise. On day four, Feb. 10, a fire in the engine room crippled the vessel’s main power source, leaving the ship without propulsion and limited electricity, stranded off the southern coast of the Yucatan peninsula, just 150 miles from the Mexico coast.

For the full story, see Tuesday's Highlander or Wednesday's Llano County Journal.