![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/John-Honeywell-400.jpg\" "\\"John")
<\/a>Now this information comes from another John (Honeywell), aka Captain Greybeard<\/a>. Since there have to be some privileges in being a greybeard, even if I’m neither a Captain nor a John, using the popular cruisaholic from The Mirror in London<\/a> as a source is surely acceptable.<\/p>\nCaptain Greybeard was feeling sorry for Carnival’s<\/a> chief cruise director, who’s also a regular cruise blogger. Here are some of the reasons John Heald<\/a> was deserving of a little sympathy\u2026<\/p>\n Case No. 2:<\/strong> Case No. 3:<\/strong> Yes, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Truth is almost always stranger than fiction. John Heald, who can be so outrageously funny that some may accuse him of thriving on fiction, has had a big-time dose of reality-cum-fiction this month. Now this information comes from another John (Honeywell), aka Captain Greybeard. Since there have to be some privileges in being a greybeard,… Continue reading The Bizarre World of Cruising's Johns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,36,15],"tags":[539,154,391,138,86,35,273,638],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-reviews","category-stories","tag-captain-greybeard","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-magic","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-john-heald","tag-rome","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/John-Heald-2081-e1308630756192.jpg\" "\\"John")
<\/a>Case No. 1:<\/strong>
\nA passenger was upset with Carnival because the ship she was on did not dock in Rome, and she was told it would be within walking distance of the Vatican<\/a>. Rome’s cruise-ship terminal is in Civitavecchia, about 50 miles away. It’s a long walk. She wanted to know what Mr. Heald was going to do about it. Really?<\/p>\n
\nAn irate guest blamed John Heald because he said to be aware of pick pockets in Rome<\/a>. As a result, she and her son took no cash ashore and were surprised to find they had to pay to get into the Colosseum and the Vatican. Having taken a Rome On Your Own<\/em> tour, they saw nothing and demanded compensation from Carnival. Or Heald. Really?<\/p>\n
\nA female passenger complained when she found herself on the Carnival Magic<\/a> after her travel agent sold her the wrong information by telling her she would be on a Celebrity<\/a> ship. She wanted to disembark from the Magic in Monaco and receive a full refund from the Cruise Director. Really?<\/p>\n