Iron

[court1683]

Just Wondering if Liberty of the Seas offers irons in there rooms? If not can one be brought to the room? Just thinking about how we will prepare for our formal nights. How do most people pack their formal attire?

[cb at sea]

No irons in the room or allowed to be brought on. Pack your formalwear in a drycleaning bag. Or, use tissue paper to allow the garments to "slide" a bit. Fold only once, if possible.

Hubby's tux never wrinkles that way, and I don't bring gowns of "wrinkely" material...no taffeta or satin....

Our suitcase has a "garment bag" built into the top...so I can leave our formalwear on hangers, in dry cleaning bags....no problem!

 

If you do have wrinkles enough to worry about, send them out for pressing on the 1st night...they will be back the next afternoon, just in time for your 1st formal night.

[livingstone]

Two reasons Irons are not alowed, first one is that if you could iron your own clothes what would the bloke in the ships laundry do all day. second is safety, I dont know why it is these days, becaue most irons auto cut off after a few minitues, but hey, when you own a trillion dollar cruise ship you have to reduce the risks and keep the profits high.

[Ocean Boy]

Irons are fire hazards and are not allowed. Of all the things that RCI does not allow you to bring aboard I find it pretty hard to argue against this one.

[EVALUATOR]

Irons are fire hazards and are not allowed. Of all the things that RCI does not allow you to bring aboard I find it pretty hard to argue against this one.

 

And they are not just fire hazards.:eek::D

[Wilda]

No irons allowed on RCI. I do wish they would follow Princess and put then on every other deck. Heck I would be willing to pay for it (a coin-op iron):)

[KYGal112]

I as well, thought I would really need an iron. I packed along a My Little Steamer Go Mini that I purchased on Ebay. It worked perfect!! Try it.

[mom2NnB]

Does anyone have the price list?

[NorbertsNiece]

Does anyone have the price list?

 

Price list is here

Alternatively type laundry prices into the search bar on the RCCL home page.

[Queen of Oakville]

I am a slave to my steamer at home (and in lieue will use an iron). I purchased a little baby steamer from Wal-mart (Salton) for about $22. It only holds about 8 oz. of water but man, I'd say it produces as hot of a steam as my professional jiffy garment steamer. We packed for a 4 nt cruise in a carry-on, and did this by rolling all of our clothes and sealing in zippy bags. They were WRINKLED. It took me about 3 fills of the steam to steam through all of the clothese that we had both packed.

 

I'm NEVER leaving on a holiday again without this thing.

[2010Cruiser]

Iron smuggling definitely frowned upon HOWEVER alcohol smuggling is highly encouraged.

[NorbertsNiece]

Iron smuggling definitely frowned upon HOWEVER alcohol smuggling is highly encouraged.

In your opinion ;)

[2010Cruiser]

Not just in my opinion, but by the number of threads on the topic. It is my opinion though that just like you should not break the rules by smuggling an iron and PAY to have your clothing pressed, you should NOT smuggle alcohol and just PAY for your drinks.....

[Ocean Boy]

Not just in my opinion, but by the number of threads on the topic. It is my opinion though that just like you should not break the rules by smuggling an iron and PAY to have your clothing pressed, you should NOT smuggle alcohol and just PAY for your drinks.....

 

One subject is about RCI's bottom line. The other is about fire at sea. These are not even close to comparable issues.

[2010Cruiser]

We would all like to pick and choose the rules we follow...

[reeran]

We never brought an iron aboard however we used to bring a steamer. On our 15 day circle Hawaii cruise out of LA they confiscated my steamer (I got it back at the end). I don't know if it was safety related because we were at sea in the middle of the Pacific for a total of 7 days or if it was just policy. We never brought one again.

[Queen of Oakville]

While I totally get the "fire" issue. What about all the smokers lighting up? Isn't that a fire hazzard? I guess its okay to mitigate fire risk from irons, but they might lose money if they turn away all the smokers.

 

Sorry, I just inhalded a few packs of smokes while sitting at the tables on Grandeaur. I wish smoking in the casinos were not allowed.

[lovcruzing]

I noticed a table full of irons when disembarking the ship. So they found irons and took them giving them back at the end of the cruise.

[griffy116]

I just don't understand the anxiety of not being able to do any sort of activity that remotely resembles laundry/ironing when on vacation. For less than the cost of one frozen drink, I can send it to be pressed if my bottle of Downey Wrinkle release doesn't do the trick. I can hang my clothes in the bathroom while I shower and it pretty much steams the H*ll out of them. If there's a nagging wrinkle I guess I would either ignore it or send it to be pressed. I cannot imagine ever going back to the days of ironing on vacation. This was one of the BEST things we discovered about cruising on RCI...no laundry facilities. We have learned a few tips (mostly from this forum) and our entire family has adapted. I purchase things that can be easily packed and don't wrinkle. If my khaki shorts have a few wrinkles, my rear end usually stretch those out during breakfast. I used to stay awake trying to coordinate my children's outfit for the next day with little hair accessories coordinated with socks, etc. After a trip to Disney World one year, we got back to the hotel that night only to discover that one of our daughters was missing a shoe. The other one had tossed it out of the stoller at some point in the park, along with both her shoes and one of her socks. We spent the first part of day two trying to find out where to purchase children's shoes. We have become much more flexible over the years. Don't sweat the iron or steamer. Have a great cruise. I've never heard anyone come back from a cruise and say it was ruined because the family at the table next to theirs had a couple of wrinkles in their clothes.

[smhogar]

Just back from the Enchancement. They took my steamer at the begining of the trip and returned it on the last day on the pier.

[Ksma23]

I always take a mini iron and have never had it taken. We just got back from our Met cruise on the Splendour last Saturday and we used our iron on several occasions. I am super cautious though always unplugging and we wait till it cools before storing it. I didn't even realize the iron policy on RCI until this most recent trip. I do think the smoking allowed on the ship presents a bigger fire hazard, but it's probably easier for RCI to take away passengers irons before their cigarettes.

[Queen of Oakville]

I just don't understand the anxiety of not being able to do any sort of activity that remotely resembles laundry/ironing when on vacation. For less than the cost of one frozen drink, I can send it to be pressed if my bottle of Downey Wrinkle release doesn't do the trick. I can hang my clothes in the bathroom while I shower and it pretty much steams the H*ll out of them. If there's a nagging wrinkle I guess I would either ignore it or send it to be pressed. I cannot imagine ever going back to the days of ironing on vacation. This was one of the BEST things we discovered about cruising on RCI...no laundry facilities. We have learned a few tips (mostly from this forum) and our entire family has adapted. I purchase things that can be easily packed and don't wrinkle. If my khaki shorts have a few wrinkles, my rear end usually stretch those out during breakfast. I used to stay awake trying to coordinate my children's outfit for the next day with little hair accessories coordinated with socks, etc. After a trip to Disney World one year, we got back to the hotel that night only to discover that one of our daughters was missing a shoe. The other one had tossed it out of the stoller at some point in the park, along with both her shoes and one of her socks. We spent the first part of day two trying to find out where to purchase children's shoes. We have become much more flexible over the years. Don't sweat the iron or steamer. Have a great cruise. I've never heard anyone come back from a cruise and say it was ruined because the family at the table next to theirs had a couple of wrinkles in their clothes.

 

 

Griffy, not sure how old your kid are now ... or if you are as anal as I am (lol - we also lost a croc on our last disney trip!). I found this trip on a disney board, and I always use it (Even for cruising). Every outfit gets assembled prior to leaving so it includes underwear, socks, hair clips, jewellery etc. I then roll and wrap the entire outfit in a zippy bag, being sure to take out all the air. I then label the bag with its contents or the day the outfit is to be worn. The same amount of clothes now fit into a smaller bag. I do this for the kids and for myself too.

 

Of course, with this - the clothes do get VERY wrinkled and you need that gold old steamer all the more!

[Queen of Oakville]

Just back from the Enchancement. They took my steamer at the begining of the trip and returned it on the last day on the pier.

 

 

Really? They took your steamer? But they aren't prohibitted? Why not take curling irons and flat irons too?

[jmraggs]

Really? They took your steamer? But they aren't prohibitted? Why not take curling irons and flat irons too?

 

We have never had an issue with taking our steamer. Once, since I always carry a small fan with us in my carryon, I was stopped by the port security in the terminal because of the fan. They went to a report that listed prohibited items and a fan was not on it, so they let us proceed.

 

I think sometimes they don't even look at the prohibited items sheet and just determine it themselves. If they did that to me with something I was taking on board and it wasn't listed as prohibited or dangerous, then I would ask them to show me why they are taking it.