Conwaycruiser Posted April 8, 2013 #1 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I have cruised since "becoming Platinum". I've known about priority boarding, debarking, tendering, etc. but did not know about being able to go to your room before 1:30. Since the doors in the halls leading to the staterooms are closed until 1:30, do you just open them and go on thru? I've never even tried to open them because I assumed they were locked. If you do just go on in, does your steward know you are platinum? I don't want to just appear annoying as if regular rules don't apply to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruizinman Posted April 8, 2013 #2 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I have cruised since "becoming Platinum". I've known about priority boarding, debarking, tendering, etc. but did not know about being able to go to your room before 1:30. Since the doors in the halls leading to the staterooms are closed until 1:30, do you just open them and go on thru? I've never even tried to open them because I assumed they were locked. If you do just go on in, does your steward know you are platinum? I don't want to just appear annoying as if regular rules don't apply to me! Yes ,he or she knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego7191 Posted April 8, 2013 #3 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Yes, they do know you're platinum. Just open the doors and slip through. Ours greeted us by name as we were coming down the hall for the first time. It was creepy but pretty cool at the same time. (We figured that we must have been the only platinums that he had on that trip and he was taking a chance that it was us that had slipped through the door.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiserBren Posted April 8, 2013 #4 Share Posted April 8, 2013 If you do just go on in, does your steward know you are platinum? Yes, they do! We did a family cruise in January with 4 rooms together. Mine was the only one ready when we boarded! So everyone's carryons were put in my room so they didn't have to carry them around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webehicks Posted April 8, 2013 #5 Share Posted April 8, 2013 There was small print on the sign that stated platinum and diamond guests could go to their rooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.Oceanlover Posted April 8, 2013 #6 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Even on ships that don't have FTTF? Bill Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mzloolue Posted April 8, 2013 #7 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Sometimes it is ready on the non-fttf ships. And sometimes it is not. Last year I thought that we were going to give the steward and some kind of steward manager fits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Kat Posted April 8, 2013 #8 Share Posted April 8, 2013 It's only supposed to be on ships that already have FTTF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbgd Posted April 8, 2013 #9 Share Posted April 8, 2013 It's only supposed to be on ships that already have FTTF. I agree with this even thou a certain sgt may disagree and say its always been this way;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFunInTheSun Posted April 8, 2013 #10 Share Posted April 8, 2013 As others have said its generally ships that offer Faster to the Fun. On the main doorway to the hallway to your cabin you'll see the below sign, simply open the door and walk to your cabin. Both cases for me the door was open to my room, but it was ready. Had all the welcome paper work on the counter and such. Simply placed my stuff away did a few things around the cabin and then went back out and about around the ship. Have a great cruise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiserBren Posted April 8, 2013 #11 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Even on ships that don't have FTTF? Bill Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk My cabin was ready on the Pride in Nov and Jan. It is a non-FTTF ship. The steward said, my room was ready but the others were not! I don't know about other ships, but you can ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.Oceanlover Posted April 8, 2013 #12 Share Posted April 8, 2013 My cabin was ready on the Pride in Nov and Jan. It is a non-FTTF ship. The steward said, my room was ready but the others were not! I don't know about other ships, but you can ask. Ok thank you for the reply. Bill Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbhcw Posted April 8, 2013 #13 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Carnival keeps changing the rules...I cannot keep up..but then we've always just kind of sneaked in anyway...before we were Platinum... I don't remember seeing the signs last November on the Dream...but will for sure be looking for them on the Glory in June:D Great info:):):) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfadj Posted April 8, 2013 #14 Share Posted April 8, 2013 For some time now they seem to do the platinum cabins first so we just go thru the doors and drop off our stuff and than go have lunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavarreCruiser Posted April 8, 2013 #15 Share Posted April 8, 2013 For some time now they seem to do the platinum cabins first so we just go thru the doors and drop off our stuff and than go have lunch. They actually do the Diamond cabins first, then the Platinums, then the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoriTX Posted April 8, 2013 #16 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Ours greeted us by name as we were coming down the hall for the first time. It was creepy but pretty cool at the same time. (We figured that we must have been the only platinums that he had on that trip and he was taking a chance that it was us that had slipped through the door.) Our room steward had a printout with our "photos" on it. I assumed they got the printout after we had our check in photo done!:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotelfixer Posted April 8, 2013 #17 Share Posted April 8, 2013 As others have said its generally ships that offer Faster to the Fun. On the main doorway to the hallway to your cabin you'll see the below sign, simply open the door and walk to your cabin. Both cases for me the door was open to my room, but it was ready. Had all the welcome paper work on the counter and such. Simply placed my stuff away did a few things around the cabin and then went back out and about around the ship. Have a great cruise! What a perfect answer! No debate, no arguing just straight up knowledge backed with photographic evidence..... so very rare for CC! Now all we need is 30 more post about how the sign is wrong :) ..... or lets get some IMHO answers ... I LOVE CC but sometimes ... really :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfadj Posted April 8, 2013 #18 Share Posted April 8, 2013 They actually do the Diamond cabins first, then the Platinums, then the rest. That would make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky2 Posted April 8, 2013 #19 Share Posted April 8, 2013 On our January 2013 cruise we did not even try to take our carry-ons to our cabin as they did not offer FTTF. This was our first Platinum cruise. However, the 2nd leg of our B2B, we went to our cabin after lunch and the doors were locked. We walked down the hallway to where there was an open door & went in. On an earlier cruise (2008 or 2009) we did go directly to our cabin even though we were not supposed to. However, my SO follows all rules so we haven't tried to do that since. We're looking forward to being able to go directly to our cabin on our 2014 cruises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lego7191 Posted April 8, 2013 #20 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Our room steward had a printout with our "photos" on it. I assumed they got the printout after we had our check in photo done!:D Well that makes sense then! We did stay up on the lido deck for a little bit (gotta get the first DOD before doing anything else! :)) before we headed down to drop off our carryon items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnj1 Posted April 8, 2013 #21 Share Posted April 8, 2013 With "priority" to you have priority when getting back on the ships at port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_duck Posted April 8, 2013 #22 Share Posted April 8, 2013 With "priority" to you have priority when getting back on the ships at port? Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnj1 Posted April 8, 2013 #23 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Nope. Darn, that would have been really nice. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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