Flyertalk folks considering a trip on Carnival Cruise Line's HOLIDAY out of Mobile Alabama to Cozumel and Progresso Mexico should take a look at NBC Channel 15's report titled "Ship of Doom" or Fox 10 News report 'Broken cruise ship upsets passengers."

In a nutshell, Carnival has been sending out their cruise ship Holiday with a broken engine. The remaining good engine doesn't have the power to get the ship to their scheduled ports of call. Stops are being cancelled. Passengers are missing their flights home because the ship is late returning to port. No time for shore excursions, etc.

The ship has been scheduled to go into drydock in Mobile on Feb. 28th. for nine days of annual maintainance. But instead of cancelling the cruises schedule till then, Carnival continues to let the ship limp along ... and the passengers get burned.