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piplet

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geegee1

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21 minutes ago, piplet said:

Thanks! Is it something people have or just don't  bother with?! Don't want to look stupid! 😂

There's a decent amount. Personally I don't like having anything hanging off my neck, so I use a retractable ID holder that I clip to my pants

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Casino doesn't hole punch the card for you?  I've always found a lanyard the best way to carry the card, since I don't always have a pocket & don't want to carry a purse everywhere.  Before Carnival started pre-punching the hole in their cards, we would go to the casino & they would punch it for us.

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We did a Meet & Greet on our cruise last year and the person who organized it had arranged for NCL to get us personalized lanyards with the breakaway clip (no pun intended, we were on the Breakaway), and she had also brought a hole punch with her!!!  Great idea!  I believe you can also go to guest services to get it punched also.  Bringing the same one I had on that cruise, and hopefully will get it punched on board.

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hallux

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1 hour ago, dmdiver said:

Casino doesn't hole punch the card for you?

The Bliss uses RFID cards (well, hybrid as there's also a mag stripe).  If a hole is punched it has to be VERY carefully placed or the card is rendered useless.  A pouch on the lanyard is the best way to go, or no lanyard at all.

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Adding to the inquiry.....Lanyards are great, the pockets seem to be inconvenient if you can't punch your cards.  Do you have to take them out each time to swipe at the bar, or get into your room?  Also, I know a card needs to be placed to make the room lights work -- can it be any card that fits, or does it have to be magnetized?  I read somewhere that people use old casino cards, etc and just keep in the slot for the lights.

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hallux

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1 hour ago, parmus said:

Do you have to take them out each time to swipe at the bar, or get into your room

Bar?  Yes.  Restaurant?  Maybe, I think so.  Get into your room?  No.

1 hour ago, parmus said:

Also, I know a card needs to be placed to make the room lights work -- can it be any card that fits, or does it have to be magnetized?  I read somewhere that people use old casino cards, etc and just keep in the slot for the lights.

Any card would work.  Room key from your pre-cruise hotel stay would work fine.  Leaving it defeats the energy-saving purpose of those slots, but whatever...

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On 2/26/2020 at 8:12 AM, geegee1 said:

There's a decent amount. Personally I don't like having anything hanging off my neck, so I use a retractable ID holder that I clip to my pants

I hate things around my neck too.   I use my good old pocket and a rubber band.
I keep some cash for tips and my card together.    
 

but I don’t have a drink package so don’t have to use it at all but to get in room and on and off ship.      

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3 hours ago, parmus said:

Adding to the inquiry.....Lanyards are great, the pockets seem to be inconvenient if you can't punch your cards.  Do you have to take them out each time to swipe at the bar, or get into your room?  Also, I know a card needs to be placed to make the room lights work -- can it be any card that fits, or does it have to be magnetized?  I read somewhere that people use old casino cards, etc and just keep in the slot for the lights.

 

Room lock is RFID. The bars also have RFID on their pos. The restaurants however, at least as of last May, were still operating on old mag stripe so you have to take it out to eat. Also getting on/off the ship - though some scan the barcode so you didn't have to take it out got them. 

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11 hours ago, hallux said:

The Bliss uses RFID cards (well, hybrid as there's also a mag stripe).  If a hole is punched it has to be VERY carefully placed or the card is rendered useless.  A pouch on the lanyard is the best way to go, or no lanyard at all.

Learned this lesson the hard way.  I bring my own hole punch and had to go down to guest services to get new cards once on board, since I punched holes in the cards waiting to board the Bliss in January.

 

Mike

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On 2/26/2020 at 4:50 PM, piplet said:

Thanks! Is it something people have or just don't  bother with?! Don't want to look stupid! 😂

 

I think that it looks stupid but don't care about what I think! Lots of people use them so do that if you want to!

 

It's your cruise, not mine!

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JamieLogical "Live from...." Rare

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31 minutes ago, SouthLyonCruiser said:

Lanyards? What a waste of money. You need to carry almost nothing most of the time you are cruising, so, just stick it in your pocket.

 

You do realize that many clothes don't have pockets, right? I carry my card in my pocket most of the time, because I wear jeans, but when I wear a dress for dinner or go to the spa in just my swimsuit and cover-up, I don't have pockets, so I bring a lanyard for those occasions. Also, you can get a lanyard on amazon for about $2... So not exactly a huge waste of money.

 

To those of you who are talking about putting other cards in your light switch to keep the lights on, remember that having a card in there also indicates "At Home" on the board outside your door so the room steward may skip your room thinking you are in there when you aren't.

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1 hour ago, JamieLogical said:

To those of you who are talking about putting other cards in your light switch to keep the lights on, remember that having a card in there also indicates "At Home" on the board outside your door so the room steward may skip your room thinking you are in there when you aren't.

Excellent point!  I don't recall if it was my Studio or Balcony room but on one of my Bliss cruises last year I believe my cabin steward actually put in and left a card for me (possibly by accident)

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Does anyone know if you can buy a wrist watch type of card?  On another cruise line (RCCL) they offered for like $5 you could buy a watchlike thing that would have your keycard info on it so you did not have to carry a card (my son loses things out of his pockets all the time) or wear a lanyard (he hates things on his neck) so this was perfect.  It worked like a key card and he just tapped his "watch" against the cabin door to open it and at the bars etc.  He only had to have the actual "key card" when he left the ship.

 

Does Norwegian do this as it would be perfect for my 2 sons on the Bliss in about 2 weeks?

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