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Pool Towels on Cruise Ships - Please Help!
Well, here is a sad example of the good passengers being hurt by the bad
ones [you can't please everyone]! Yes, having to be responsible for my towel is a pain ... but you can't believe that having passengers responsible for towels is being done as a cost savings for the cruise line [they will still give you fresh ones, etc. as a replacement]! However, this procedure does help somewhat to resolve the ridiculous/unfair habit by some passengers of getting up at the crack of dawn to save deck chairs. I get up very early at sea to enjoy the outdoors in a peaceful setting ... but find that there already are lots of towels out on deck chairs. I see people reserving one set in the sun and one set in the shade ... I later on in the day see that some or none of those saved deck chairs were ever used. So, now, with issued towels, deck chair saving will be minimalized for the good of ALL! Don't complain to the cruise lines ... they are trying to respond to concerns voiced by MANY OF YOU! Do you have a better idea that will not cost the cruise lines $ by requiring more help or having their help involved in arguments with the unpleasant deck chair savers when their free towels are pulled by the help? Remember, there have been many threads here about the deck chair saving problem! |
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Pool Towels on Cruise Ships - Please Help!
Richard Whitlock wrote: Hi: There are plusses and minus's of the towels being issued to the cabin (with a $25 fee if they aren't turned in at the end of the cruise) Plus: people don't want to leave those $25 towels unattended (saving lounges) for long so I have seen less lounge saving. Minus: As Howard said, keeping up with them, i.e., hauling them around. I just got back from a land tour at the Mayan Palace in Acapulco which was almost like a cruise without leaving the dock as they had many planned activities (but no free eats darn it). Anyway, what they did was issue you a card and when you checked out a towel(s) pool side, they marked it down on the card. When you were finished with the towel, you turned it in and they took it off the card. If you had no towels out, they gave you back the card. If you didn't turn your towel in, you got hit for $3 (keep in mind, this is Mexico). If you wanted a fresh towel, you just took your wet one and exchanged it. This might work on a cruise ship but it would require an "attendant" there all the time. Hi Owen....... We just got back from a six day all inclusive at a resort in Puerto Plata. And yes.......food was included. Too much of it! grin. When we checked in we were given 2 towel cards. We exchanged these cards for clean beach/pool towels and when we returned dirty towels got new cards. They didn't keep any kind of who's who record.......you give them a towel, they give you a card. Worked very well. Upon checkout you return your cards to the desk. If not......$18.00 per. Arlene Tucker in Texas Howard Garland wrote: In an earlier thread, I asked experienced rtc'ers to list those things they would eliminate from today's mass-market cruise experience. One of the respondants wrote: Towels, on every lounge ,even though there are only three people in the pool! BILL To which I responded: " This comes from a practice first introduced by the Princess line many years ago. They issue pool towels in your stateroom and provide no fresh towels by the pool, thus making pax responsible for carrying around their own towel. I complained like hell on my first Princess cruise ... to no avail. Many years later, Carnival introduced the same practice, which has continued despite my complaints to them. I feel so strongly about this (because it does result in lots of empty but reserved deck chairs) that I encourage all of you who are bothered by this to write to the cruise lines about the practice and include complaints on your comment cards. RCCL, Celebrity, and HAL have not yet followed suit but I really think they unless they hear from repeat pax. Although these lines still provide fresh towels and pull towels from empty chairs, I have noticed on my last few cruises, that there are more and more empty towel bins out on deck these days." Pam responded to my post with the following: "On my RCCL cruise, last week on the Enchantment... Towels were issued in the stateroom. Same on Explorer, in March..." I would like ask those of you who enjoy laying out around a cruise ship pool (in or out of the sun), if you would be willing to paticipate in an organized attempt (perhaps an e-mail campaign to the guest relations depts. of all the majors) to get the lines to either change or refrain from this cost-cutting practice. Howard T |
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Pool Towels on Cruise Ships - Please Help!
That's what I remember. And, I think it sucks!
Charles wrote: In article , Howard Garland wrote: But can you get another towel by the pool, if you dont want to bring the one from your room? As I remember (it's been over a year since I cruised Princess), my trick was to get my towels from the gym on Princess ships. No you can't. You have to get the replacement from the cabin steward. So I always request and get an extra towel from them the first day. I like your trick though. |
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Pool Towels on Cruise Ships - Please Help!
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wrote: So, now, with issued towels, deck chair saving will be minimalized for the good of ALL! But it does not really work that way. The chair savers put their "issued" towel and a book on a chair and there are no attendents to remove them. With pool towels on deck the attendents could just remove them from "saved" chairs every so often. It varies by ship but on Summit they did a very good job of it. On other ships they were less aggressive. With issued towels they don't remove them at all. -- Charles |
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Pool Towels on Cruise Ships - Please Help!
"Tom & Linda" wrote in message ... On the Zenith they implemented an enhanced alternative. They DO say that they will charge you if you don't return the big logo towel... but I'm not sure that they do... for example coming back from Shelly Bay in Bermuda, we left with 4 towels and returned with 5. Our group had about 15-20 people, so one of the cabins came back one short (while we came back one extra). I don't think anybody got charged for being one short. But yet again, Tom, you have no way of knowing if that fifth towel was charged to the person's account who left it behind. I think the huge amount of laundry to be done on a ship may be one reason that they limit towels. On one Princess cruise,we were shorted a towel and our cabin steward said they were short and would have it there as soon as the laundry sent more towels up. The loss of those nice large and thick towels can also be costly. --Jean |
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Pool Towels on Cruise Ships - Please Help!
It was our friends George and Rita, and Maria and her gang. They'd have
let all hell broke loose if they were charged for the towel. Our group didn't really come home with an extra towel... an extra one ended up being returned out of our cabin. --Tom Jean O'Boyle wrote: "Tom & Linda" wrote in message ... On the Zenith they implemented an enhanced alternative. They DO say that they will charge you if you don't return the big logo towel... but I'm not sure that they do... for example coming back from Shelly Bay in Bermuda, we left with 4 towels and returned with 5. Our group had about 15-20 people, so one of the cabins came back one short (while we came back one extra). I don't think anybody got charged for being one short. But yet again, Tom, you have no way of knowing if that fifth towel was charged to the person's account who left it behind. I think the huge amount of laundry to be done on a ship may be one reason that they limit towels. On one Princess cruise,we were shorted a towel and our cabin steward said they were short and would have it there as soon as the laundry sent more towels up. The loss of those nice large and thick towels can also be costly. --Jean |
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Pool Towels on Cruise Ships - Please Help!
Charles wrote in message id...
In article , Howard Garland wrote: On those Celeb and RCCL where they still provide towels at the pool, deckhands pull the towels periodically from empty chairs. And on the Celebrity Summit last December that worked out well, there were lots of chair saver types, but the attendents did remove the towels, and there were plenty of towels available. What if you leave your towel for a quick dip in the pool? or have just dashed inside to the rest room? or to the Lido for an iced tea? I'd sure hate to come dripping back from a swim to find my towel gone and someone in my chair! Helen |
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Pool Towels on Cruise Ships - Please Help!
In article , Helen
wrote: What if you leave your towel for a quick dip in the pool? or have just dashed inside to the rest room? or to the Lido for an iced tea? I'd sure hate to come dripping back from a swim to find my towel gone and someone in my chair! Helen They did not pick up the towels that fast. They still did remove them as fast as they should be removed. There were a lot of chair hogs on that cruise. If someone goes to breakfast, lunch or bingo, the chair should be freed up and not hogged. In any case there were bins with plenty of clean towels if anyone needed a new or dry towel. -- Charles |
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