Carnival Cruise Fights Feature Fades on The High Seas, And In Port

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Cruise vacations offer relaxing fun on the high seas en route to visiting exotic destinations with hopes of creating vivid memories. Until the fights break out.

It’s not like the occasional argument that escalates into fisticuffs is relegated to one particular cruise line—and there are plenty, from Disney Cruise Line to Royal Caribbean International to Norwegian Cruise Line, and so and so forth. But oftentimes, at least according to footage on the Internets, when there is momentary anarchy onboard a ship, it usually goes down during a Carnival cruise. Respectfully.

Case in point, recently, footage made it online of passengers from a certain cruise line throwing hands and feet. Newsweek reported that “dozens” of particants in a brawl found themselves banned on a “do not sail” list with the Carnival cruise line. Apparently, the universal beatdown occurred at the disembarkation point in Galveston, Texas. A couple of men in white seem to be the main combatants but then others join in. At one point, one man hits the floor and proceeds to get stomped out while security comes in to intervene—but really, it looked like the dudes doing the kicking just got tired.

On April 26, 2025, a nasty fight broke out at the Galveston cruise terminal after the Carnival Jubilee returned from a week-long Western Caribbean trip. It started in the baggage claim area, where a big group of passengers went wild, knocking over barriers and signs while chasing… pic.twitter.com/P81MfoZqGL

— Laszlo Varga (@LaszloRealtor) April 30, 2025

But that’s right, folk caught the beats after the trip was over and they were on their way home. Talk about a welcome back.

Where they won’t ever be back, is on a Carnival Cruise. “So many of you wrote to me about an incident in the terminal building at the Port of Galveston involving a group of despicable, deplorable people,” said Carnival Cruise Line Brand Ambassador John Heald in a statement online. “The people involved will, like anyone who is involved in any physical altercation with other guests, or our crew, never, ever be allowed to cruise with us again.”

With this in mind, check out more infamous Carnival beatdowns in the gallery.