ALWAYS CRUZIN Posted January 25, 2020 #26 Share Posted January 25, 2020 1 minute ago, SJSULIBRARIAN said: Glad someone else notice this. Recently on the Royal Princess and luckily my cabin was on deck 8 so could use stairs to decks 5-7. Seldom went above deck 8 because I couldn't get an elevator. Couldn't get an elevator? Really! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJSULIBRARIAN Posted January 25, 2020 #27 Share Posted January 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, twodaywonder said: Couldn't get an elevator? Really! Let me rephrase that. The wait for elevators was longer than I cared to wait - often 5 minutes or so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voljeep Posted January 25, 2020 #28 Share Posted January 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, SJSULIBRARIAN said: Let me rephrase that. The wait for elevators was longer than I cared to wait - often 5 minutes or so. wow - just wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReidRGetALife Posted January 25, 2020 #29 Share Posted January 25, 2020 On the Regal now and have waited as long as 10 minutes and give up and take the stairs. All the while watching car after car go past your floor and never stop. Worst elevators I've ever seen on a cruise ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrak Posted January 25, 2020 #30 Share Posted January 25, 2020 43 minutes ago, riffatsea said: BTW I don't really care about elevators doing what these new ones can do. We walk a lot on each cruise so the old fashioned elevators are fine with me Totally agree. Sadly, we can't use the stairs as much as we used to - knees and back aren't what they used to be - but we do still use the stairs and do a lot of walking. "Regular" elevators work well enough for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS CRUZIN Posted January 25, 2020 #31 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Want to go up or down. Push both buttons. Whatever shows up, get on it. Much faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kywildcatfanone Posted January 25, 2020 #32 Share Posted January 25, 2020 8 hours ago, skynight said: Get the pattern more passengers, more decks, no extra elevators As soon as they figure out how to monetize elevators, you will see more on ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kywildcatfanone Posted January 25, 2020 #33 Share Posted January 25, 2020 And my biggest peeve about elevators on the ship is the people who are perfectly capable of walking up or down one flight of stairs, who don't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffybunny22 Posted January 25, 2020 #34 Share Posted January 25, 2020 They have elevators like this at my husband's office. The problem is the touch screen doesn't ask how many people there are so the elevators get full when there are groups of people traveling together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS CRUZIN Posted January 25, 2020 #35 Share Posted January 25, 2020 26 minutes ago, kywildcatfanone said: And my biggest peeve about elevators on the ship is the people who are perfectly capable of walking up or down one flight of stairs, who don't. Agree. We see so many go up or down one darn deck that have no problem walking. We have bad knees and we still will go down at least two 1-3 and up at least one. Sometimes two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrak Posted January 25, 2020 #36 Share Posted January 25, 2020 28 minutes ago, kywildcatfanone said: And my biggest peeve about elevators on the ship is the people who are perfectly capable of walking up or down one flight of stairs, who don't. I have to admit I am often surprised to find people taking the elevator to go just one deck - especially going down. I do understand that sometimes knees or hips may preclude use of stairs but most of the time it appears to just be simple laziness. We did use the elevator to go just one deck on our last cruise but we had been talking and not paying attention to what we were doing. The elevator opened and we got in and then realized we were on a different deck than we had been thinking and it was only one deck to ride the elevator. To make it more embarrassing we were going down. Taking the elevator down one deck instead of just using the stairs made us feel pretty dorky. Heck, the stairs are almost always faster than the elevator when only going a few decks either way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susancruzs Posted January 25, 2020 #37 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Reading the elevator issues makes me glad I rarely use them. I book a cabin on Emerald deck for Royal class and pretty much stay on decks 5, 6 and 7. I don't eat at the buffet, cruises I take I'm not using swimming pools. I will take an elevator for a show on MUTS if I'm interested. I can do 4 or 5 decks usually but not 8 or 9 decks of stairs. I'm blessed to be in my 70's with good health, sore lower back now and then but walking does me good. I really like Emerald deck when coming back from shore, where so many are always waiting for elevators, I just walk up to my cabin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare MrSchwump Posted January 25, 2020 #38 Share Posted January 25, 2020 When the Regal first rolled out the Medallion a couple of years ago, after we all boarded and if all were going to the same floor(e.g. Deck 17) I would loudly say “express”. As my fellow elevator mates were looking at me like I was an idiot, I would explain that this was a new feature of the Medallion there were testing. It worked about 3/4 of the time. I was hoping it would catch on but I never saw anyone else using the express feature. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunk Posted January 25, 2020 #39 Share Posted January 25, 2020 I just got off the Carnival Panorama, which had this system (the technical term is destination dispatch elevators). At first, it was chaotic. They would have been wise to hand out a flyer at check in with how they work, but they didn't--or, they should have had a crew member by the elevators the first few hours to explain. After that, though, it worked great. Because it is such a more efficient system, elevators were often empty when the doors opened. One mistake folks made though, was looking at the reader board to see each car's destination--and if it matched theirs, they wouldn't enter it too. That defeats the purpose, as it tracks how many requests are made for each floor, and reacts accordingly. I loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getting older slowly Posted January 26, 2020 #40 Share Posted January 26, 2020 4 hours ago, kywildcatfanone said: And my biggest peeve about elevators on the ship is the people who are perfectly capable of walking up or down one flight of stairs, who don't. I would have to agreed with this... ( particularly younger people ) will uses elevator to go 14 to 9 with plates in hands.... or 9 to17 for canapés but for a couple floors walk Cheers Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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