Canadian Karebear

They are only meant to hold in solids.. :) Ran out of diapers once and tried to use a swimmer I had and well ooops I had a wet floor.

Unfortunately they don't hold solids in that well either, I've seen it leaking all sorts of stuff. Nuff said. Eww. Gross.:(

We were on an MSC Cruise in February, and there were two toddlers that were nude almost the entire time they were around the deck. In the regular pool and even into the hot tub (although the littlest one didn't like the hot tub, dad encouraged him to get in!).:confused:

I thought this was so gross, I left the pool when the toddlers entered.:eek:

Yuk.

PS: Swim diapers don't hold back everything! Have seen lots of "leaking" out the sides..... ewwww

The crew cabins are very small and they really don't have much storage room.

 

If you want to actually give them something, a thank you note with the tip is quite appropriate.

What we did for our cabin steward, in addition to the normal tipping requirements, was leave a nice card with money in it on the bed with his name on it. We got to know him quite well, he was from Trinidad/Tobago and he was a family man with 4 children.

:D

He was very nice and we have lots of pictures of him as he was a part of our cruise adventure (and he always seemed to be in our room when we went there!). He even taught my son how to make towel origami, he didn't have to do that, he wanted to.

I added a photo to the card as well (there was film processing on board, this was in 2008!) with a thank you sentiment inside.

To me, it gave a more personal touch and he really appreciated it.

I work for a Bank and have done for more than 30 years and can tell you that card fraud is almost at epidemic levels. Bank's put there efforts in to detective and preventative controls like chip & PIN and running programmes that highlight unusual behaviour/suspicious transactions. There are also policy rules where cards will be delivered in a different manner (or not at all) to addresses identified as high risk. What we don't do, is identify who commits fraudulent transactions. If we detect a suspicious transaction or a customer confirms/reports it, we ask the merchant for evidence that our customer made the transaction. If they can't, our customer is refunded. It is the responsibility of the police to investigate card fraud but because of the volume & frequency of fraud, they can't investigate every isolated case. Instead they have to just record them and concentrate on looking at trends and identifying large scale card fraud fraud rings that are ran almost as a business.

 

On this basis, I would disput that the bank would know it was a MSC employee. If by chance they somehow worked this out, they would have passed the information to the police

This is possibly the reason why more people are reverting back to cash. I know that this has scared me a little, but I was cautious with my credit card to begin with. I usually called the credit card company to advise I was going to be on vacation and where I was going so that they were aware of my unusual purchases somewhere. But my friend's card information was stolen and lots of charges incurred.

I think perhaps cash is a better option but then you run the risk of being physically robbed.

I wonder what is better? Headaches of credit card fraud or the risk of being robbed?

*sigh*

Deck 8, be careful where your cabin is as the deck chairs are right above you on Deck 9 and at 7am the staff start moving the chairs to their "day" positions which causes alot of scraping on the floor (your ceiling).

Unless you get up at 7am,and go get breakfast, this is extremely bothersome (like nails on a chalkboard!).

:mad:

Still think it is too fishy. The company that sells the handbags would not be investigating that. Maybe the credit card company but the handbag people would not have the means or manpower to do that.

What would be their gain/loss? They declined the transaction. It's up to the credit card company to determine fraud.

Why would the handbag company even care.

Just doesn't add up to me. Not at all.

Doubt if the OP bothered calling MSC. They would probably think the same thing as most of us.

I once had my card "compromised" at a gas station near my house. I only learned this through my bank as they had others with the same problem. I don't think the store would actually know who was doing this, not sure how they could confirm it was traced back?

I will cruise and take a card that only has a few hundred on it. They will max out quickly and not be able to do anything with it.

What I also have done, is told the customer service people at the cruise line that I will pay cash at the end of the cruise for my gratuties and such, and they didn't charge my card anything. That's another good way to avoid your card from being compromised.

They hold your card just in case you don't show up, but don't put any charges through.