LOXAHATCHEE, FL -- Laura Plaza never really wanted to go on a cruise. She gets seasick.
Her husband of thirty years finally convinced her to take a three day Carnival cruise to the Bahamas, and she regrets it.
"This is the first time I’ve been on a cruise, first experience, and I think it's my last," says Plaza.
Plaza says she locked up her wedding ring, her engagement ring and other gold pieces in her stateroom safe so they could go to Atlantis for the day.
When she returned, she couldn't open the safe, and she called security who opened it with a master key.
She saw her jewelry box and thought nothing of it...until she got home and says four thousand dollars in jewelry was gone.
"We're going to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary, this year and those were our original wedding rings and we were kids when we got married and my husband worked three jobs to get the rings and they meant a lot to me."
Plaza says what was strange about the safe is that they were able to use both her husband's driver's license and the room keycard to open and close it.
Plaza has since written to carnival several times, to which they responded saying their employees are honest, courteous and professional.
"I don't think so, not if situations like this happen, and I know my jewelry was in there."
The hard part now for plaza is the missing spot on her ring finger.
She and her husband were married young, and he worked three jobs to pay for that wedding ring.
And she thought putting it in a safe, would keep it just that...
"If you have any personal items, don’t' take them. I learned the hard way", said Plaza.
Carnival cruise lines told us tonight there is little they can do because plaza didn't realize the jewelry was missing until she got home.
Nonetheless, she plans on getting an attorney and taking this case all the way if no other reason than to serve as a warning for other passengers.
