Gulf Coast Cruise Ship Breaks Boozy Record

(KMDL-FM) The cruise industry and its ever-changing landscape are often featured topics in the stories we publish for you. There is a large "cruise crowd" in Louisiana, Texas, and the entire Gulf South region, for that matter. The reason we like cruises? They're efficiently inexpensive, we don't have to do a lot of thinking, and they have unlimited drink packages.

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Now, don't take that last statement to mean I endorse the purchase of drink packages on cruise ships; I do not. I think they are a gross waste of your liver and your money. If you do the math, that unlimited drink package is not truly your best option when it comes to inebriation at sea.

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What is the Most Popular Activity on a Cruise Ship?

Over the past 30 years or so, I have not only been a part of dozens of personal cruise vacations, but I have also participated in several South Louisiana invitational cruise adventures, too.  I can confirm, people drank on those boats, too. It is the most popular pastime besides bitching about the buffet and why it always smells like fresh B.O.

But besides, the smell of sweaty folks in flip flops, folks do like to drink. In fact, on one cruise that I was booked aboard, which was scheduled to leave New Orleans, spend a day at sea, and then arrive in Cozumel, Mexico, the following day actually ran out of certain brands of beer.

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The ship's supply coordinator said that the folks from Louisiana literally drank the ship dry. Fortunately, the vessel was able to restock once it arrived in Mexico. Now, we don't know if this was an official record for alcohol consumption. But they, the cruise industry, do keep track of such things.

Which Cruise Ship Holds The Record For Most Margaritas Consumed in 8 Hours?

The monumental day was Mardi Gras, but the vessel in question was nowhere near Louisiana. In fact, the passengers and crew of the Regal Princess, a ship operated by Princess Cruise Lines, chose that day to enter their names in the hallowed ledger that is the Guinness Book of World Records.

And since the vessel departed on this record-setting cruise from the Port of Galveston in Texas, there is a good chance that the ship used some "Louisiana leverage" to break the margarita record.

By the way, guests on the Regal Princess will arrive back in Galveston on Sunday morning. They're making a stop in Roatan, Honduras, today.

You know how I love math, so let's do some noodling on the record and see if we can't bring that drinking record back to Louisiana. According to the Facebook post, the record was 3,410 margaritas in 8 hours.

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The Regal Princess can carry up to 4,200 guests. Let's assume they weren't totally sold out and go with 4,000 for our purposes. That means each guest only had to consume .85 margaritas. Not even a whole drink?

Dear Guinness World Records People, I have got 12 Cajuns in an oversized Jon Boat that we're going to set sail, with a sober captain and proper life-saving equipment on board. We are going to go out on the Basin near Henderson. I think we can break your record in six hours, four hours if the sun is out.

Just remember, while there is a lot of fun to be had on cruise ships, sometimes things happen that require explanation, unless you know someone who knows a thing or two because they have seen a thing or two.