Correct me if I'm wrong, but the workers might take bags while the ship is still docked, right? So that guy may have just snuck off the boat and into the city.

I'm with 5. If the porter is fake, then why would he get on the boat? The guy will get caught. Sorry OP but you got screwed over big time.

Mr janglybits... My guess is you've never been on a cruise before. Clearly you have no understanding of the logistics of the boarding passenger process.

#1's comment reminds me of Titanic, where Cow says "It's a ship, there's only so many places they could be"

I also noticed that #1 and #3 both basically said the same thing. Somehow #1's comment is buried while #3's comment, at the time of this comment, is up there as one of the top comments.

23, who's Cow? I believe his name is Carl. If that was a joke, it went right over my head, lol

It's Cal although Dick would have been a more fitting name.

What #37 said. It's spelled Cal - I always thought it was Cow.

37, you are right, I don't know where I got Carl from, lol

Reminds me of the scene in the movie Dirty Deeds where the guy tipped the main character to steal his Ferrari!

Usually they take your stuff before you get on the ship though, so it may not do any good. Sucks OP.

The thief probably took all the valuable items from the bag and dumped the rest of it into the sea so he wouldn't be caught dead with the luggage. It's what I would've done anyway.

Porters take your bags before you board.

Water you trying to do here? This is no place for puns, I ashore you. I'll give you just this one stern warning, but from now on leave the puns to those of us who have amast a few more comments on this site. Poop deck.

I went on a cruise over the summer with Carnival. We dropped our bags at the pier and they went in a service entrance (deck 3 or 4) to be scanned, while passengers went up a ramp to deck 8. It seems entirely possible to me that a thief could show up and just look mildly official with a clipboard, tell people he'll handle their luggage, and then drive off with it. But hopefully it's still on-board and just got delivered to the wrong room!

In my experience you can buy some clothes but they're mostly souvenir t-shirts and the like. OP is out of luck in terms of basics like underwear and jeans. And everything's at a high mark-up too.

I'm not a grammar nazi, but seriously, this is bad. *Were there

This grammar reminds of the 2003 NYC blackout when this lady came on the radio referring to her children: "...they feet was hurting." Just terrible.

I think they'll be going nude! unless they buy the souvenir t shirts!