Posted January 11th, 2018, 05:43 PM
Here is a post I did several years ago that you might find interesting. Not sure if the pictures will come across as I just cut and pasted.
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Posted September 24th, 2013, 04:16 PM
Here is a little info from the past cabin crawls I have participated in.
I've done several cabin crawls but the ones on the Oasis of the Seas, NCL Epic, Celebrity Summit and Holland America Westerdam stand out the most. We have always just gone in and gone out of each cabin in five minutes or less (unless alcohol is involved). Have two door stops so the first person can prop the door open with one of the stoppers. The last person out the door removes the door stopper, so on and so on. You don't want to be the person stuck holding the door for everyone so having a door stop is crucial.
Plan the route logically so you don't go back and forth from one end of the ship to the other or up and down floors. Print up the route and distribute at your meet and greet etc. or post the route on the roll call and have participants print themselves. This is important as you will invariably lose people during the crawl and they need to know where to go. For example, if some cannot do stairs, they will take the elevator and become separated from the group. It happens.
You always want to get a variety of cabins -- you don't need four balconies or three insides unless they are vastly different like an obstructed view or an aft balcony.
Be prepared for those that say they are going to host and then they don't. Have had this happen on the Summit, the Epic and the Westerdam. We all stood there in the hallway while someone knocked and knocked on the door. We finally left.
I have even had people who were not part of Cruise Critic or our roll call join in on the crawl. They saw the big group of people moving along the hallways and decided to see what was going on.
The Summit and Westerdam cabin crawls were very memorable and different from the others. On the Summit, each cabin host provided a drink/food item from their home state. I did "Big Blue Margaritas" in honor of my beloved University of Kentucky Wildcats. Another Kentuckian served mint juleps.
Some provided souveniers including engraved pencils with "Summit Cabin Crawl, April 2011." We used the pencils to write down our answers for the "Name the Island Where this Sand Came From" contest. The winner received a bottle of wine.
It was a very port intensive beachy cruise with only one sea day and that was the last day of the cruise. It was a lot of fun. We also played poker getting one card as you exited the cabin. Great way to see a lot of cabins in a short amount of time.
On our Westerdam cruise, we did the same thing with serving drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. I had cabernet sauvignon as well as some Kentucky bourbon candy and chocolates and held a raffle for some personalized cruise items that I had ordered from Vistaprint.com like a T-shirt, tote bag etc. Had our younger participants draw the names out of a cup.
We had some nice smoked jerky from Montana and salmon from British Columbia.
Several of us changed our dinner plans that evening as we had so much fun and just kept talking and drinking!
Cabin crawls/Poker crawls are great fun!
Linda
Here are some photos from the Summit poker/cabin crawl.
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