If there’s one thing you don’t want to see first thing in the morning while on a luxury cruise, it’s water creeping into your cabin from under the door.
That’s exactly what happened to a group of travelers on a recent Carnival Vista cruise, with footage showing an entire floor swollen with water.
The Titanic-like scene, fortunately, was not the result of a ship sinking, but a plumbing problem that saw the ceiling cave in and a cabin fill with water.
The sheer volume of water, according to a guest who shared the footage on TikTok, caused the cabin door to open and a river to flow down the hall.
According to the traveler, the ordeal unfolded on the sixth floor before descending to the fifth floor.
They reported it was caused by a “broken pipe” which saw her group wake up to a flood of water higher than their ankles.
There were “Titanic tremors for about five minutes”, she said.
The TikTok user shared two videos, with the first one being viewed more than 11 million times.
“Woke up to water rushing into our cabin … our lives flashed before our eyes,” she captioned the clip, which showed the hallway carpet being submerged.
A group of people appeared standing in the corridor as water lapped at their feet.
In a follow-up video, the same passenger clarified that she wasn’t “trashing” the cruise line, just “documenting a scary experience that turned out to be funny.”
“We actually woke up to this flood and water above our ankles,” she wrote.
In response to one comment, she claimed that “the room was filled to capacity and then she slammed the door.”
“The ceiling collapsed and filled this room … eventually it came through the door and filled our room and others,” she said in another.
Despite the drama, the group “still had a blast,” the traveler wrote.
Carnival has been contacted by news.com.au for comment.
