Here we are looking for hope that, hey it s 6 o clock, it s going to get better, he said. And 6 o cl

I just had a crab sandwich with lobster for lunch because they are finishing off all the food, said Ed Buck, who was staying on an upper floor. Life is good. People are very excited right now. We re getting back. You know, I think the media s made a lot of made it sound real bad. It s not quite as bad as everybody says.
I don t know how much more we could have took, passenger Larry Poret said via cell phone. Poret was aboard with his 12-year-old daughter, Rebekah, who said the ordeal has been really, really cheap philippine hotels resorts difficult.
It s gotten a lot better, passenger Slyvester Davis said, adding that things improved once officials from the U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board announced they were coming aboard. It s sort of frustrating because it doesn t look now the way it looked and the way we ve been living.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, Coast Guard members and a Carnival team boarded the ship before it arrived in port to help speed efforts to get passengers off as quickly as possible, he said.
Some families gathered at the Alabama Cruise Terminal, far from where the ship was originally supposed to dock in Galveston, Texas. Marissa Jenks said her family reported they had a hot meal Thursday cheap philippine hotels resorts morning and crew members were trying to clean up the ship as it neared port.
Adam Buck, a spokesman for the city of Mobile, said about 75 people were waiting for their loved ones. Family members who spoke to CNN said they had come from Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas. Some had come in as early as Wednesday but the bulk of people arrived Thursday afternoon, with each hour bringing a few more cars.
Larry Poret confirmed reports of dire conditions aboard the ship, saying urine and feces streamed cheap philippine hotels resorts in the halls and down walls after toilet facilities failed, soaking cheap philippine hotels resorts the mattress of a friend of his who was sleeping in a hallway.
The Carnival Triumph, originally carrying 3,143 passengers and 1,086 crew members, was on its way home Sunday when a fire off the coast of Mexico left the vessel listing to the side and drifting in Gulf of Mexico currents. Since then, two passengers have been taken off the ship because of medical situations, including one woman who the Coast Guard said had a possible stroke.
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Carnival said it has reserved and arranged approximately 100 motor coaches, more than 1,500 New Orleans hotel rooms, multiple charter flights from New Orleans to Houston on Friday and transportation from Houston to the Port of Galveston so that guests may retrieve their cars if they drove to the port.
Carnival officials had initially planned to tow the ship to a Mexican port, but after Gulf currents pushed it farther north before cheap philippine hotels resorts tugboats could take control, and considering that 900 of the passengers do not have passports, the company decided to take the Carnival Triumph to Mobile instead, where it can be repaired.
The Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation into the cause of the engine room fire. Because the Carnival Triumph is a Bahamian-flagged vessel, the Bahamas Maritime Authority is the primary investigative agency.
The passengers on the ship aren t going to have a great deal of recourse when they get home, he said. Travel insurance really doesn t cover this sort of thing. Their trip wasn t interrupted and they aren t incurring extra expenses so they can t be compensated that way.
The fire is at least the second cheap philippine hotels resorts problem for the ship since late January, when it had an issue with its propulsion cheap philippine hotels resorts system, cheap philippine hotels resorts according to a notice posted on the website of Carnival senior cruise director John Heald.
In 2010, the Carnival cruise ship Splendor lost power after an engine room fire, leaving it drifting off the Pacific coast of Mexico. The USS Ronald Reagan ferried 60,000 pounds of supplies for the ship s passengers and crew as the ship was towed to San Diego.
After this ill-fated cruise, the Carnival Triumph won t host vacationing passengers until at least mid-April. Carnival has canceled a dozen voyages scheduled between February 21 and April 13. That makes a total of 14 scratched trips. The cruise line already had eliminated voyages slated for February 11 and February 16.