Dry erase boards on your door.

[Etchdreams]

Will be going on the Liberty in Dec. with 11 other family members. We all have been thinking about getting one of the dry erase boards for the doors to leave notes for each others. For the ones that have tried this can you give the "Pros and Cons"

 

Thanks,

Jim

 

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[seeing this world]

pro they will do the job

con other people will write messages on it or some kids will wipe the messages away

 

we always use posted notes and have them put up on top right hand corner of door, that way most people miss those message but the ones they are intended for ;-)

[GottaLuvCruising]

I'd be concerned that stupid people without a life will mess with you, erasing or changing messages - or even stealing the board. We also use post-its.

[beachbum53]

On our last, someone a few cabins down the hall from us had put a small dry erase board on their door. It lasted one day. So many obscene messages appeared on the board that the board was taken down after the first day and was never put back up. So go ahead and put one up, but be prepared for the inevitable.

[sailor_jimc]

I also say to use post it notes. much easier to carry, everyone can grab a stack off of one pad and they can be put in the mailbox out of sight (if you are on a ship with boxes, or put in a less conspicuous place on the door.

 

A white board is just an invitation for idiots to mess around. AND is much harder to get to stay in place on the door.

[thomarvin]

I had one and it worked great....till it got stolen. I suggest the sticky notes.

get keys to each others cabins (if they are your kids) and leave the note on the mirrors in the cabin.

[BigEasyCC]

A friend on our last cruise put one on their cabin door and it was rarely written on and not stolen. They were in an aft balcony. That was probably the reason. Very little foot traffic.

 

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[nunuc2000]

We've seen them before, and we've seen some obscene writing on them. :(

 

Last fall we had a neighbor a couple doors down who had one, and we would add comments too, but they were funny and not a bad thing. i.e.

 

original comment: "At aft pool getting sun"

we responded with "don't forget to reapply the sunscreen often!:)"

 

original comment "At the casino, back at 10pm"

our response: "Hope you won!!"

 

That kind of stuff... we actually really had fun with it and hope that the owners of the board weren't miffed. :o

[Stacy_C]

We used a dry erase board one time. We came back to the room and saw that someone had used our marker to draw a GIANT penis on our cabin door...not on the board...on the actual door! I took it down after that. Jerks.

 

Now, we use post-its and just hope no one takes them down.

Edited October 6, 2014 by Stacy_C

[fmrlkr]

We have used a dry erase board with a group of 11 and it worked great. Never had any problems. We would write on the board where we were or what time we were all meeting for dinner. Bought it at the Dollar Tree.

[kelkel2]

We came back to our cabin one evening to our neighbors in the hallway who were visibly upset and asking everyone in the halls if they had seen who stole their eraser board. Now no we hadn't but I don't know why interrogating everyone in the hall helps either. It's an eraser board. It's gone. Sorry... I felt bad for them but what they were doing wasn't going to bring it back. Point being, if it's something you care about don't leave it outside the door.

My memory doesn't really serve me, doesn't carnival have those little mail boxes outside the door where they put stuff in? Or is it Princess that does that? I can't remember what ship we were on that had that.

Either way if I were on a group cruise I would bring post it notes and a pen. That way you can leave them outside the door or even slide them under the door.

[roberooski]

I agree with other posters that it's hard to control whether those messages that you intend for your friends and family will actually be there when they are looking for them. Even with Post It notes, people can take them down. Why people do things like this is beyond me.

 

If you want to try the dry erase board - why not just remove the marker from the equation and leave it in your room. That way it's really no different than the Post Its (message could be removed).

 

Another idea - with regard to the mailboxes - is to put a note to your own group in your OWN mailbox for them to find. That's less likely to be tampered with.

 

Just a thought! I love this idea as we're traveling with a large group in March and we've employed other methods similar to this on other cruises when traveling with family, etc.

 

I'm also wondering when they'll come up with an App for That. LOL! Thinking that the proverbial "they" will come up with a texting option for smartphones that works on their own WiFi network rather than needing your cell provider (which won't work at sea anyways).

 

Either way, don't let anything ruin your cruise (should someone tamper with your messages, etc)! You invest too much money and take time away from work to enjoy this. Don't let unnamed, unknown others do anything to take away from that!

[092306]

You can also use the little mailbox on the side of the door so that the post its don't fall off or get removed.

[landlady1952]

Sometimes you get some not so nice pictures drawn on them. That happened to us. No more board for us. We just pin post it notes now

[Etchdreams]

Thanks for all of the input. We had thought about just the notes, and also using the mailbox. We knew that the Dream had them, but did not know if the Liberty had them as well.

You're right some people can just be jerks, others will add a nice comment to add some fun, nothing wrong with that.

Will probably just make use of the mail box..

 

Thanks,