What's in your shell?

[cowgrlkirby]

So over the years I have seen the amenities bowl in the bathroom go from "Oooohh, I'm gonna buy this when I get home" to..."A coupon...really!!" :confused: I hear from some cruisers that they got a basket full of stuff and then to "the tumble weed got a paper cut on the stack of coupons that were stacked in the bowl":eek: So on your last cruise what was in your shell basket?

[irishnyc]

A breathe right strip and a single serve whitening toothpaste sample.

[kevin_ga]

Nada. It was empty for us last week on Freedom.

[SMSACE6]

There was a sample of arm and hammer toothpaste, two breathe right strips, several packages of dental floss/plaquers, and three wrapped bar soaps.

[sanmarcosman]

A one use flosser/pick and breathe right strips.

[SadieN]

On the Miracle to Hawaii in October--

 

Breathe Right x2

Toothpaste

Dental pick

Unburn (sunburn relief)

Extra bar soap.

 

Bonus-- it was refilled mid cruise so we got doubles. Wonder if that's normal on a 15 day cruise?

 

Does anybody use the Breath Right strips? They don't work for us.

Edited November 30, 2014 by SadieN

[Sauer-kraut]

On the BREEZE in October:

 

Packets of Breathe Right Strips and packets of after sun "Unburn" which we didn't need to use because it wasn't a very sunny sailing *sigh*

[PresDuLac]

On Elation in November '14:

4 pkgs of those horrible round soaps that will take the bark right off of you if you don't know any better and use one :eek:

2 pkgs with a single dental pick in each

[pghsteelerfan]

All we had on our last cruise (Liberty, April 2014) was the Arm and Hammer toothpaste sample.

[PortSideCruzan]

 

Hi Cowgrlkirby :)

 

During our last Carnival cruise our amenities basket had breathe right

strips and dental floss in it.

 

When I met our cabin steward on the 1st day I asked him to remove the

refrigerator contents, as many passengers do, so we could put our own

drinks in it.

 

At that time I asked him if he had any other items he could place into

our amenities basket.

 

When we arrived to our cabin later that day; advil, toothpaste, razors,

cough-drops and more breathe right strips were added.

 

It never hurts to ask..

 

Have a wonderful day!

 

 

 

:)

[cowgrlkirby]

 

Hi Cowgrlkirby :)

 

During our last Carnival cruise our amenities basket had breathe right

strips and dental floss in it.

 

When I met our cabin steward on the 1st day I asked him to remove the

refrigerator contents, as many passengers do, so we could put our own

drinks in it.

 

At that time I asked him if he had any other items he could place into

our amenities basket.

 

When we arrived to our cabin later that day; advil, toothpaste, razors,

cough-drops and more breathe right strips were added.

 

It never hurts to ask..

 

Have a wonderful day!

 

 

 

:)

 

I suppose it never hurts...lol! I will have to keep that in mind. I always walk by the cart and see stuff and I'm like " Hey...I didn't get that" :rolleyes: lol If only I could make off with the big bowl of chocolates I may be OK with only a tube of toothpaste :D

[My6Dogs]

On our cruise on The Dream... we got nada, nothing, zip & zilch... :eek:

 

Did we miss the "stuff"? Not at all!!!

 

Mike

[misterchatter]

As the others have mentioned, JUNK!:eek:

[bradboy]

On Dream in Jan and Sensation October we got Gold Bond men's lotion, breathe right, and advil

 

 

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[EpcotBill]

My last Carnival cruise was June 2014 on Liberty. We not only had nothing in the shell, we didn't have the shell.

[springs741]

Magic, Sept 2014, toothpaste and a drink mix that made 2 qts. Don't know where I was to mix that and I really didn't care to bring it home.

[SkyMaster]

On my last cruise, aboard "Liberty", we didn't even have a shell. :confused: GGEEEZZZEEEE, I hate when that happens! :mad:

 

"SKY"

[dizkid]

We were on the Glory a couple weeks back. It wasn't until mid cruise that we (DW & I) were talking about cut backs. It was then we realize there was no "Shell Bowl" in the bathroom. Didn't miss it tho. Rarely has anything we'd use.

[YorN]

We were on the Glory a couple weeks back. It wasn't until mid cruise that we (DW & I) were talking about cut backs. It was then we realize there was no "Shell Bowl" in the bathroom. Didn't miss it tho. Rarely has anything we'd use.

 

Those are not Carnival cutbacks, especially since Carnival did not pay anything for those items. Items that ended up in the shells are samples that companies like Unilever and Johnson & Johnson sent to Carnival to be placed in the cabins in hopes you would try them and purchase them when you got back home.

 

Companies have cut back on this practice the past couple of years, which is why you now see no or very limited samples.

[KPfromCT]

I don't recall having anything in our "shell" on the Breeze, in July:eek:

Then again, I don't go on a cruise looking for a Breathe Right strip, or toothpaste.:rolleyes:

Doesn't make or break my cruise.:D:D

[unionville3]

Just off the Sunshine - no actual "shell" in our Spa Balcony cabin

 

We did have a sample of breathe strips and some type of sunburn relief - we left both in the cabin when we left.

[rjhollan]

Just off the Glory... nothing, including the shell. No shell, no freebies. :(

[mommom of 7]

Some one else's PUBIC hair !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

I threw a bloody fit, went to GS & then to housekeeping management.

I know what some one will say & no I didn't even think to tell our steward. But what would I tell him wash the shell now & then. Not my job :confused:

Char

[coltsmama]

Last february on the Magic, a bunch of toothpaste and breathe right strips and I think a package of floss. I think my last cruise before that had the same, plus a razor

 

 

Edited December 1, 2014 by coltsmama

[cowgrlkirby]

Some one else's PUBIC hair !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

I threw a bloody fit, went to GS & then to housekeeping management.

I know what some one will say & no I didn't even think to tell our steward. But what would I tell him wash the shell now & then. Not my job :confused:

Char

 

Ahhh... Gross!!!!:eek: I would have freaked out myself... Makes my skin crawl. I know they clean after every sailing but my commercial strength clorox wipes always travel with me just for this reason.

 

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