ShakyBeef Posted March 25, 2019 #26 Share Posted March 25, 2019 3 minutes ago, ontheweb said: This has to be the ultimate in nickel and diming. Why can't they just look at them as cheap advertising as others see you use one of their pens. The Carnival logo pencils are even cheaper advertising.🤑 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cushing985 Posted March 25, 2019 #27 Share Posted March 25, 2019 16 hours ago, Saint Greg said: Maybe we can get them to install the pens that are chained to the desk like they have in banks. I’d just like to fill out my luggage tags with something that can’t be erased. Here's an idea...fill out your baggage tags at home! You're welcome! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRockCruiser Posted March 25, 2019 #28 Share Posted March 25, 2019 4 minutes ago, Cushing985 said: Here's an idea...fill out your baggage tags at home! You're welcome! Um, you do know he was referring to the luggage tags they give you to debark, right? Which he wouldn't have at home prior to the cruise? 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted March 25, 2019 #29 Share Posted March 25, 2019 13 minutes ago, Cushing985 said: Here's an idea...fill out your baggage tags at home! You're welcome! The zone tags you get on the last day? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted March 25, 2019 #30 Share Posted March 25, 2019 11 hours ago, richstowe said: I came home with a few Carnival pens on my first cruise . Next thing you know I've got a (Carnival) beer stein filled with pens from the 6 cruise lines I've sailed . Odd yes but inexpensive ( actually free) mementos . You’re going on my list with these people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare richstowe Posted March 25, 2019 #31 Share Posted March 25, 2019 2 minutes ago, Saint Greg said: You’re going on my list with these people. Is it a good list or a bad list ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted March 25, 2019 #32 Share Posted March 25, 2019 (edited) 6 minutes ago, richstowe said: Is it a good list or a bad list ? Its just the list. I call it the list. But notice I no longer have a pen. I no longer have a cruising sign. And I no longer have yellow cups for my lemonade. Blue, water. Yellow, lemonade. Not green everything. It’s madness! Edited March 25, 2019 by Saint Greg 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted March 25, 2019 #33 Share Posted March 25, 2019 I don’t know why people want that stuff though. All I can think about is how many people drank out of those cups. I’ve seen them used as spit cups as well. How many people stuck those pens in their mouth? Maybe their ear or nose...then their mouth. Maybe filled out their luggage tags on the toilet. As for the sign...the other side of it says ”snoozing.” No telling what people are in the middle of when they put that out. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amyracecar Posted March 25, 2019 #34 Share Posted March 25, 2019 12 hours ago, emoorehead said: Make sure you hang your pen from your lanyard.....then you can flaunt your pen AND annoy the lanyard haters. I might even bring my own tablecloth for non-formal nights. 😄 3 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggielover68 Posted March 25, 2019 #35 Share Posted March 25, 2019 I always have a pen in my purse, backpack, etc. While I do like the clicky top Carnival pens, I never take the free hotel pens. My entire house would be filled with crappy pens if I did that. I think I will survive this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maraprince Posted March 25, 2019 #36 Share Posted March 25, 2019 You do need a pen to fill out your Custom/Immigration form. Pencil is not acceptable. MARAPRINCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted March 25, 2019 #37 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Just now, Maraprince said: You do need a pen to fill out your Custom/Immigration form. Pencil is not acceptable. MARAPRINCE Haven’t had one the last few cruises...think they did away with it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplmac Posted March 25, 2019 #38 Share Posted March 25, 2019 2 hours ago, ontheweb said: This has to be the ultimate in nickel and diming. Why can't they just look at them as cheap advertising as others see you use one of their pens. . Part of me agrees with you and for a long time I've been saying that cost-cutting over the longer term ultimately results in an inferior product and then you've got to try hard to win-back your customer base, now lost. _______________________ On the other hand cruise lines are cutting down on wastage, much of it mindless wastage! Every cruise that departs has issued about 1,500 pens to about 1,500 cabins. One per cabin, sometimes two per cabin. Every cruise, every week. Room stewards have been feeding-back consumption figures to the bean-counters in Miami. Room stewards have an accurate idea of who appreciates the pens and takes them home - and how many broken ones end up in the cabin's rubbish-bin. (along with reams of silly paper-printed promotional stuff for Diamonds, etc.) Someone said you can still get a pen from Guest Services if you need one and I believe that applies to a pack of playing cards for sea days. Ask for one and it shall be given. No wastage there. __________________________________ Corporations have discovered how much wastage is a real factor and are trying to curb it, and if you or I were running a business we'd be thinking along those same lines too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emoorehead Posted March 25, 2019 #39 Share Posted March 25, 2019 3 minutes ago, Aplmac said: . Part of me agrees with you and for a long time I've been saying that cost-cutting over the longer term ultimately results in an inferior product and then you've got to try hard to win-back your customer base, now lost. _______________________ On the other hand cruise lines are cutting down on wastage, much of it mindless wastage! Every cruise that departs has issued about 1,500 pens to about 1,500 cabins. One per cabin, sometimes two per cabin. Every cruise, every week. Room stewards have been feeding-back consumption figures to the bean-counters in Miami. Room stewards have an accurate idea of who appreciates the pens and takes them home - and how many broken ones end up in the cabin's rubbish-bin. (along with reams of silly paper-printed promotional stuff for Diamonds, etc.) Someone said you can still get a pen from Guest Services if you need one and I believe that applies to a pack of playing cards for sea days. Ask for one and it shall be given. No wastage there. __________________________________ Corporations have discovered how much wastage is a real factor and are trying to curb it, and if you or I were running a business we'd be thinking along those same lines too. This is very true. Funny how as consumers people feel it is ok to watch the bottom line by using cost cutting strategies such as coupons, loyalty programs, and being mindful of wasting products they paid for, but when I corporation tries to do the same thing they are seen as cheap. I'm not attacking anyone personally, just my general observation from working in the hospitality and medical industries for a number of years. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beffy1167 Posted March 25, 2019 #40 Share Posted March 25, 2019 One night, at my son's Boy Scout meeting, they needed pens/pencils for the troop. I dug through my purse and found 14 of them. If you ever cruise with me, find me and I'll happily donate a pen! 🙂 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare richstowe Posted March 25, 2019 #41 Share Posted March 25, 2019 25 minutes ago, Beffy1167 said: One night, at my son's Boy Scout meeting, they needed pens/pencils for the troop. I dug through my purse and found 14 of them. If you ever cruise with me, find me and I'll happily donate a pen! 🙂 According to some , 1 hour ago, Saint Greg said: How many people stuck those pens in their mouth? Maybe their ear or nose...then their mouth. Maybe filled out their luggage tags on the toilet. you may have inadvertently poisoned these sweet children . For shame . 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseRonJulie Posted March 25, 2019 #42 Share Posted March 25, 2019 I liked to use my Free Pen to write on the Table Clothes in the MDR. Then I would race down and have my gratuities removed. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcuchio24 Posted March 25, 2019 #43 Share Posted March 25, 2019 14 hours ago, Joebucks said: RIP pens. May you enjoy a peaceful eternal afterlife with tablecloths and pillow mints. Is there any reason to cruise anymore? OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH The Humanity!!!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jimbo5544 Posted March 25, 2019 #44 Share Posted March 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Saint Greg said: Haven’t had one the last few cruises...think they did away with it. You are correct and not just for cruises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafedumonde Posted March 25, 2019 #45 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Not cool, Carnival. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beffy1167 Posted March 25, 2019 #46 Share Posted March 25, 2019 1 hour ago, richstowe said: According to some , you may have inadvertently poisoned these sweet children . For shame . Who said it was inadvertent? ;) 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted March 25, 2019 #47 Share Posted March 25, 2019 16 hours ago, MeganGC1983 said: My last cruise, I was at Guest Services to reactivate a sail and sign that was not working, two ladies in front of me were there just to get pens. One said she needed “10 or so”. Oh, and each got their pack of cards. 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ 10 pens? That’s crazy. I had no idea people were using the ship as an office supply store. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachbum53 Posted March 25, 2019 Author #48 Share Posted March 25, 2019 11 minutes ago, fyree39 said: Of course they're gone. It's the Carnival way. No. Not gone. Just relocated to the gift shop with a price sticker on them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightCruiser210 Posted March 25, 2019 #49 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Hmm... just think of how many Vista Class cruise ships they will be able to build with the savings on pens alone. At least two, I would think. 🤑 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lottiegreen56 Posted March 25, 2019 #50 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Talked to one of my friends who are in management, she said more cutbacks are coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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