Elevator etiquette

[GHDPeter]

Try the stairs to avoid all the elevator problems and use up some calories at the same time. :D

 

On my recent NYE cruise we noticed that quite often after dinner the stairs between the restaurant on deck 6 and the Theatre on deck 7 appeared to be broken. Well that was the only reason we could think of as to why so many able bodied and relatively fit people would take the elevators up one floor.

[MTL=CRUISEFAMILY]

My wife informed me that it was not our last cruise (Celebrity..Phew!!) but our Norwegian cruise, the previous year.

 

We can all sigh in relief, the perps are on other lines and not Celebrity.:D

 

In fact I have to say that Celebrity so impressed us with the type of passengers and attitude, that it contributed to booking our upcoming cruise to Hawaii in March

 

Still minus 30 in Montreal this morning, no break in sight :eek:

[$hip$hape]

I wish that were the case. The last 3 buildings in which I've worked were 30, 60 and now 52 floors. People here are equally stupid. :D

 

They always look surprised when they attempt to board and there's someone exiting - as if they'd been expecting their own private car. As a larger mammal, I've taken to standing right up against the door when preparing to exit. If they try to hop on without looking as soon as the doors open, they bounce off me. Usually with a satisfying look of embarassment. :D

 

If people have no condition which would preclude them from doing so, I can't imagine why they'd want to stand and wait rather than taking the stairs. You're wasting valuable cocktail time. ;)

WE may be the ones who looked surprised, when waiting for an elevator. The doors open with the only two people in the elevator, standing right up against the door. Wait a few seconds; they don't exit, and mental telepathy does not always work. Doors close.

[rbsmithpaige]

WE may be the ones who looked surprised, when waiting for an elevator. The doors open with the only two people in the elevator, standing right up against the door. Wait a few seconds; they don't exit, and mental telepathy does not always work. Doors close.

 

I should have been more clear. I do this when I'm exiting on the ground floor, not trying to prevent someone from boarding on an upper floor. If the car stops at an intermediate floor, those in it should already be at the back, and I am.

[spammie]

I also love when we are waiting for an elevator and people will walk up and stand near us waiting for the elevator. The doors open and naturally we wait for the people to exit the elevator and the people who were standing also waiting for the elevator (who arrived after us) push there way onto the elevator. That is when I open my big mouth and say "excuse me, we were here first and were letting the people off of the elevator". This has happened on more than one occassion. Some people are just plain rude and have the mentality that it is "their vacation" and that it is all about them.

[Nebr.cruiser]

Try the stairs to avoid all the elevator problems and use up some calories at the same time. :D

 

Yep, that's my plan. I only use the elevator if wearing really high heels or maybe if going from say, deck 3 to Lido; even then I usually walk up.

 

I feel lucky that I can do this at 67. I notice that if I use the stairs religiously I do not gain weight, and believe me, I eat way more on a cruise than I should.

[cruisemom42]

My bad elevator etiquette experience:

 

After a long, full-day excursion on a Med cruise, we all get off the bus and head to the ship. An older couple were right in front of me in the elevator queue, which (as usual when excursions are returning) was rather long.

 

The next elevator arrived and car filled up, but these two, who were the next in line to board, tried to shove their way on -- to no avail. There really was not an inch of extra space. So they ungraciously removed their elbows and feet from the car and awaited the next one.

 

When the next elevator arrived, empty, they piled in. And as I started to board (being only the THIRD person in), they shoved me back out and barked, "We are taking this elevator straight to our floor! We're really tired. You can wait."

 

I didn't want to cause a confrontation, so I stepped back and let them go. I have tried to excuse them in my mind -- perhaps they had a medical issue to attend to or a desperate need for a restroom. But still, a little niceness would've gone a long way. I'm polite -- you don't have to shove me nor yell at me. If you REALLY have a reason to commandeer the elevator, let me know. But be polite about it.

[A Sixth?]

My wife informed me that it was not our last cruise (Celebrity..Phew!!) but our Norwegian cruise, the previous year.

 

We can all sigh in relief, the perps are on other lines and not Celebrity.:D

 

In fact I have to say that Celebrity so impressed us with the type of passengers and attitude, that it contributed to booking our upcoming cruise to Hawaii in March

 

Still minus 30 in Montreal this morning, no break in sight :eek:

 

I biked into work today. :eek: Was a tad nippy. :p

[wwcruisers]

We've seen plenty of rude and otherwise strange behavior on cruise ship elevators -- but my experience in a hotel in Vegas tops any of them. It was a quiet afternoon, and I got on an empty elevator to go from the lobby to my room. As the door started to close, I heard a woman shouting "Hold the elevator!" I quickly pushed the "door open" button for the woman, who was in a wheelchair -- and then I stepped back, to let them on. The woman's escort immediately positioned her wheelchair at the very front and center of the elevator. When we got to my floor -- it was still just the three of us -- I quietly said "excuse me, this is my floor". The woman turned around in her chair and snarled "Well, what's your problem, then?!" The man pushing her chair refused to move an inch, so I had to slide sideways around them, just to get off the elevator. Moral of the story: jerks are everywhere -- they don't just congregate on cruise ships! :rolleyes:

[Cougsie]

When the next elevator arrived, empty, they piled in. And as I started to board (being only the THIRD person in), they shoved me back out and barked, "We are taking this elevator straight to our floor! We're really tired. You can wait."

 

I didn't want to cause a confrontation, so I stepped back and let them go. I have tried to excuse them in my mind -- perhaps they had a medical issue to attend to.

 

Yikes! If it was a medical emergency, I hope there weren't other people trying to get on the elevator on say, every other floor between there and their stateroom. If it WASN'T a medical emergency, I hope there were people on EVERY floor needing to get on the elevator and forcing them to stop anyway :eek:

[UpcountryTravelers]

My pet peeve is when people crowd around the entrance and won't let those of us pass who want to get off. Happens everywhere there's a crowd, not just cruise ships. There's more room for YOU on the elevator if you let US off! >duh<