Looking for a way to stretch that one-week vacation into two or even more?  Why not book a Carnival cruise?

Remember how in February, an engine fire crippled the Triumph, turning what was supposed to be a four-day cruise into an eight-day public relations nightmare for Carnival?  They do, ’cause they were hit with a class action lawsuit!  CNN covered the story of the ship, which floated for five days in the Gulf of Mexico without power or working toilets, as an breaking-news event, taking live calls from passengers and calling the ship a “floating petri dish.”  The Triumph had more than 4,200 people on board, including crew and passengers.

Well, it’s déjà vu all over again!  The AP reports that another of Carnival’s ships is reporting equipment problems and a U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman in Miami said today that Carnival Dream’s captain “notified the agency of possible trouble with the ship’s propulsion system.”  And though the ship is docked, no one has been allowed to leave!  Swell times for all.  Read the CNN full story here.

“There’s human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms,” Gregg Stark told CNN late Wednesday. “The elevators have not been working. They’ve been turning them on and off, on and off.”