Madam Carroll — Attraction in Indiana

My family went on the Madam Carroll this past weekend for our grandmother’s birthday. Upon boarding, the security guard disregarded me and my wife when we were introduced to him by my grandmother. Not a big deal. I’m a bigger person than that. Everyone was having a good time drinking and dancing until we entered the lake for the second time that evening. Besides myself, my brother and a small group of girls, everyone on the boat were predominantly white. The same security guard that dismissed me and my wife in the beginning of the night, made my brother exit the inside of the boat to tell him that he was told that my brother had “dope” and he was smoking it on the dance floor. My brother is a large Mexican man who also had on a flat brim White Sox hat. After my brother told the security, which we later found out was a previous police officer, that he does not do drugs, the guard made my brother empty all of his pockets and patted him down. Meanwhile, on the inside of the boat, the dance floor smelled of marijuana. I attempted to approach my brother and the guard to advise that someone is smoking inside while my brother was OUTSIDE, the guard began to scream into my face. Even after my brother’s pockets were emptied, he was standing outside and the dance floor still smelled of marijuana, the guard still did not believe my brother. This is 100% racial profiling. Once we told the guard that is was racial profiling, he began to scream in both of our faces that he was not racist. For how fast this man escalated his emotions, I’m assuming this is not the first time he has been called that. Not only did he racially profile me and my brother, he then continue to lose all control of his emotions, the atmosphere of the boat and also other people on the boat who began to scream and physically fight. After we called to speak with the owner of the boat, it was stated that he was onboard and was screaming in my face, as well as others, calling us “fat and racist b*tches.” I am certainly glad this boat will be ending their business journey. There is no room for this...

We liked our experience it was a first for us! What we did not like though was we were excepting to be able to watch a little of the band but the entire bottom deck was reserved for the locals. Which we thought was not fair. They shouldn't have the entire bottom deck to listen to the band. We wanted to listen to. So we go to the top. Which is spacious but you can not hear the band at all. Okay, we can't watch the band thats fine but why couldn't there be a speaker up there for us to listen to the band. Just seemed they took better care of the locals with money. Plus we thought it was very unprofessional to have children on a cruise that every single adult was drinking. There was a little boy on the cruise and someone asked him where his parents are and he said down stairs drinking. He looked bored out of his mind. Shame on you parents for not getting him...

When we ordered our $25 tickets for a cruise featuring Bruce Barker we were not made aware that we would have zero access to the lower deck where the entertainment was located. (Only private Madam Carrol club members could sit on the lower deck.) We had to sit on the upper deck where we could only see the bad on a poor quality display monitor about half the size of my home monitor. Worse yet, the sound levels were run way too high and what came out of the speakers was extremely distorted. I had seen Bruce Barker at another venue in the past and I had ridden on the Madame Carrol in the past as well. However, I doubt that I will do either again in the future. An extremely...