{"id":120935,"date":"2026-08-20T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latecruisenews.com\/?p=120935"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:59:31","slug":"another-cruise-line-is-cracking-down-on-a-popular-passenger-tradition-and-says-its-become-a-safety-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/2026\/08\/20\/another-cruise-line-is-cracking-down-on-a-popular-passenger-tradition-and-says-its-become-a-safety-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Cruise Line Is Cracking Down on a Popular Passenger Tradition\u2014and Says It\u2019s Become a Safety Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cybercruises.com\/images\/Marella_Logo_May18.jpg\" title=\"Marella Cruises (Logo)\"  alt=\"Marella Cruises (Logo)\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" Width=\"200\"\/> Marella Cruises is asking guests to leave rubber ducks at home and refrain from decorating cabin doors with magnets, flags, and other items.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> Another cruise line is asking vacationers to leave the rubber ducks at home. <\/p>\n<p>British cruise operator Marella Cruises asked its guests not to engage in the quirky game of rubber duck hide-and-seek on board. The company primarily sails in Europe and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p><em>\u201cAs much as we love a bit of personality, the ducks have started to drive us quackers,\u201d<\/em> the cruise line wrote in an onboard newsletter, according to a Facebook post from earlier this month, adding, <em>\u201cWe kindly ask that toys, novelty items and other personal bits aren\u2019t left or hidden around the ship or at our destinations.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Full story  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/cruise-line-asks-guests-to-stop-hiding-rubber-ducks-12062223\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Another Cruise Line Is Cracking Down on a Popular Passenger Tradition\u2014and Says It\u2019s Become a Safety Issue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marella Cruises is asking guests to leave rubber ducks at home and refrain from decorating cabin doors with magnets, flags, and other items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-120935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-marella-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcidemo.it\/latecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}