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<\/p>\nThink you are having a bad day? It can’t be as bad as these unlucky passengers who embarrassingly missed their cruise ship departure time.<\/p>\n
Over the years clips have been shared of so-called ‘pier runners’, who are jeered on by thousands of other passengers as they make the long, awkward journey down the jetty.<\/p>\n
From this to being sarcastically waved goodbye by crew members as they leave them on dry land, some holidaymakers were left kicking themselves for their poor time keeping.<\/p>\n
MailOnline has rounded up some of the most humiliating moments for late cruise passengers caught on camera.<\/p>\n
Last week hilarious footage showed\u00a0a tourist couple on a quayside screaming and begging for a cruise ship captain to wait for them as fellow passengers watched on.<\/p>\n
The two travellers at the port of Bari in south-eastern Italy\u00a0as the MSC Splendida was departing for its nine-day tour of the Mediterranean on August 15.<\/p>\n
The couple missed the scheduled departure time and when they arrived at quay 11 the gangway of the 1,100ft ship had already been removed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man was heard repeatedly shouting and pleading: ‘Is the captain there, please?’ He later added: ‘Captain, wait for us, please.\u00a0You can do it if you want to.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the more than 4,000 passengers on board filmed the scene and could be heard chuckling in the background.<\/p>\n
Bari #crociera #msc <\/p>\n
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The couple (pictured) missed the scheduled departure time and when they arrived at quay 11 the gangway of the 1,100ft ship had already been removed<\/p>\n
The woman filming said to another passenger: ‘What is he saying? What does it mean? Oh maybe he missed the cruise.’<\/p>\n
A British guest on board, who said her family had spent \u00a38,000 for the cruise, slammed the ship’s crew for abandoning the couple.<\/p>\n
She told MailOnline: ‘I was on that cruise with my family when it happened. We were at lunch when they made only one announcement for two Italian-sounding names and then nothing further.<\/p>\n
‘The cruise didn’t leave even a minute over time. We felt there was little to no effort to find those people whether they were there or not.’<\/p>\n
Back in 2019 a\u00a0hapless couple were caught on camera desperately chasing a Royal Caribbean cruise ship as it sailed without them while they were on their honeymoon.<\/p>\n
Maria Gonzalez Roesch and Alessandro Di Palma ended up stranded when they arrived just minutes after their ship\u00a0Symphony of the Seas left\u00a0Nassau, Bahamas, on February 15.<\/p>\n
Mrs Gonzalez Roesch, a famous TV actress in their home country of Costa Rica, spoke of the ‘nightmare’ moment they realised the ship was leaving without them – with their money and passports on board.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They even claimed that the ship’s crew were mocking as they ran alongside the huge vessel.<\/p>\n
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A person from a neighbouring ship caught the newlyweds on camera waving frantically as the Symphony of the Seas left them behind\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘There was a platform with two crew members and they were mad with us. We started yelling to them “please, please let us on the cruise is still here”.<\/p>\n
‘But the guys said “you are not going to be so lucky and we are closing the doors and leaving”,’ the 26-year-old told The Sun.<\/p>\n
She told the news website they had started to panic once they realised their\u00a0\u00a0passport, visas, and credit cards remained on board the ship.<\/p>\n
However these were retrieved by a smaller boat which had been guiding the large ship out of the harbour.<\/p>\n
The pair had been enjoying their honeymoon after marrying in late January.<\/p>\n
According to a person who shot the video from the deck of the nearby Norwegian Bliss, the all-aboard call came at 3.30pm.<\/p>\n
At 4.15pm, workers began removing the gangway and closing the hatch.<\/p>\n
About five minutes later, the clueless couple showed up, arms laden with shopping bags from their excursion on shore.<\/p>\n
At first frantic and waving, the couple quickly sink into dejection as the ship’s propellers begin to churn the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other passengers on the Symphony of the Seas can be seen looking on complacently from their balconies as the ship pulls away from the stranded couple.<\/p>\n
Mrs Gonzalez Roesch and her husband are seen speaking to several dockworkers as the ship pulls away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Forlorn, the couple walk down the pier as the ship pulls away, looking across the water after it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
One-way plane tickets from Nassau to Miami run about $180 apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the same year three passengers who held up an entire cruise ship were sarcastically cheered back on board after making an embarrassing run down a jetty.<\/p>\n
While preparing to leave from port in Bermuda earlier this month, a Norwegian Cruise ship was held up the straggling tourists, who were not on board for the original leaving time of 2.30pm.<\/p>\n
Unwilling to wait, the crew\u00a0announced the missing passengers’ names on the ship’s intercom, before pulling\u00a0up the gangway as they prepared to depart, according to a witness on board.<\/p>\n
However, footage then shows crew members go back on their decision, holding by the jetty in hope they would appear.<\/p>\n
About 20 minutes after the original departure time the trio sure enough appeared in the distance, one in front carrying bags and another two behind.<\/p>\n
Realising the hundreds of passengers already on board might be furious with them, the lagging pair begin to jog down the jetty.<\/p>\n
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Two passengers were seen jogging and a third strolling towards the cruise ship full of passengers who had waited 30 minutes past the original departure time for them to arrive<\/p>\n
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Panting, the the pair make it to the security desk where they appear to apologise and quickly explain their story as they are ushered to get on board<\/p>\n
All of a sudden passengers begin to cheer them on as they get closer, while one woman in front walks casually.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After what feels like a painful few minutes, the trio meet security in front of the ship.<\/p>\n
The jogging pair could be seen panting as they appear to make their apologies to staff at the gate before getting on board.<\/p>\n
Despite the warm cheers as they rushed to get on board, one passenger can be heard shouting ‘hurry up’ as they walk up the gangway and safety board the ship.<\/p>\n
In an embarrassing video families can be seen racing to catch their cruise ship before it leaves the port in Cozumel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Carnival Cruise passengers are sarcastically ushered down the jetty by crew members as the lyrics of The\u00a0Proclaimers sound ‘I would walk 500 miles’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A young girl clutches her swimming noodle and towel as her amused father runs behind her, recording the humiliating moment on his phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two crew members then give tired passengers piggy backs down the jetty and are jeered on by onlooking tourists.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pier runners in Cozumel running to the Carnival Celebration!#carnivalcelebration2023 #puertamaya #carnival #carnivalcelebration #pierrunner <\/p>\n
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The Carnival Cruise passengers can be seen racing down the jetty as crew members sarcastically usher them on<\/p>\n
These pier runner left hundreds of other passengers in hysterics as they raced down the jetty to get on to the cruise ship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A man can be seen running down the pier clutching onto two beach towels.<\/p>\n
As if things aren’t stressful enough, he then drops one of the towels and scrambles to retrieve it, much to the enjoyment of onlookers from the boat who cheer them on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He then triumphantly races down towards the ship holding the towels as if he is celebrating finishing the end of a marathon.<\/p>\n
Behind him are his wife and two children, who sprint away from her, with one amused passenger shouting down to them: ‘Leave mom behind!’<\/p>\n
They are then followed by other latecomers who appear exhausted from the long sprint.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Passengers Late for Cruise Ship!!! Mom Left Behind!!! #pier runner, #late for ship<\/p>\n
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A man triumphantly runs down the pier with two beach towels as he races to catch the cruise ship before it is too late<\/p>\n
In another video, tourists on a carnival cruise also sprint as if they are on an athletics track.<\/p>\n
Dozens of holidaymakers can be seen advancing towards the two ships while passengers cheer them on.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A crew member standing on the jetty even ushers the passengers on while on board customers whistle and jeer.<\/p>\n
Two passengers finally make their way onto the ship but there are dozens more behind them who still are yet to make it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Run run run! #precovid #carnivalcruise #crusing #ship<\/p>\n
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Dozens of latecomers are greeted by other passengers who cheer and whistle as they leg it down the pier towards the ships<\/p>\n