Kauai, Maui, Big Iceland: casual clothes, casual etiquette - a cruise through paradise, love it, especially as Americans.

Suddenly, Europeans no longer know the cabin number. This is the first day, when the Pride of Aloha, the American all-you-can-eat steamers, has filed in Honolulu. The cases were so thick that men carry strict on board, they said, and check the card fits into a particular slot next to the cabin with the number, so how is that for?

The Europeans and the other invitees have drunk two minutes ago or a gin and tonic at the Atrium Bar, because the Europeans have said, I'll bring my quick press materials in the cabin.

And now everything is suddenly like Edgar Allen Poe's The cabin is gone, he has the card almost everywhere reingesteckt, no light on the thousands of door locks will be green, and suggested the Europeans that it is a conspiracy of in-flight service by The passenger list has been swept.

He is now a stowaway. In his cabin sits an old American couple and their peels nectarines and passion fruit. And if he would insist that his cabin had been allocated, they would look at him with bleary eyes and ask: "How can you prove that?"

She laughs, he is embarrassed

Again and again he goes over the pale blue carpet with the painted fish shoals that swim as if drawn by an unknown suction through the swinging motion. He has the mentality of an intruder, everywhere he tries to open door locks. Nothing works.

It is behavior problems: Now comes a big friendly young woman and asks how he is. Americans are always asking how to do it one. They never ask, they have a problem that would be rude. "I like my room anymore."

She laughs and says that's no problem, and the Europeans would be welcomed. This is already what. It opens up a room, radiant, he says "thank you", she says, "Welcome." It's the wrong room. The embarrassment is so great that he would not ask again.

Three black ladies are entering a cab, one screams, "What the fuck is that?" He goes on to the lift to deck eleven.

For an hour, the Pride of Aloha is now on its way. In Honolulu and started rocking hard on the road through the Hawaiian archipelago, Kauai, Maui, Big Iceland - Islands in the Sea opalblauen, colorful fish and turtles. Everyone has to get either a shell necklace or hung a wreath of flowers around his neck before he went on board.

And everyone had to empty his pockets, so no one gets the idea to keep the captain a nail scissors to the carotid artery and to kidnap the Pride of Aloha.

One of the passengers - all he had noticed before that as heavily bearable wiseacres - had to give up his brand new Swiss Army knife with the Securities. Sweet Schadenfreude!

Fused to the narrow horizon line

For the Europeans - and he is one of the few on this ship - the holiday begins with an orientation phase. The Pride of Aloha is a great thing, five decks and a lot of bars, restaurants and shops.

Europeans constantly faces the colorful sketches of plans about how to get from the atrium in Captain Cook's Bar or in the Internet corner. But the Americans, and they are the real guests of the Pride of Aloha, have already settled before the coast of Oahu is fused to the narrow horizon line. As if they were brought up on this ship.