Last straw on Cut backs

[terrierjohn]

1 hour ago, jeanlyon said:

Do people really changed their towels every day at home?  I certainly don't.  Ours last much longer than that.  What's the difference on a cruise?

Why is everyone stressing about towels, they are the least important bit of the nightly service, if ours can be re-used then I will already have hung them neatly on the rails to dry overnight. We normally leave any towels for changing during the morning service.  We always shower before we leave the cabin in the evening, and as our bathroom is a wet room the shower area is wet, and also sometimes the floor, and I like that the bathroom is cleaned and dried during the evening service, otherwise they quickly start showing signs of mould.

Finally I like that the steward removes the daytime bedding and stores it away, as well as drawing the curtains and leaving bedside lights on for our return. Its these little touches that help to make our cruise holidays special.

[newbie cruissy]

On 4/7/2022 at 12:05 PM, Cruisemeister2002 said:

Also I noted on the last couple of cruises there was no little sweets in a dish

Well I was going to pay my remaining balance tomorrow. Not so sure now 😡

[Windsurfboy]

11 hours ago, Snow Hill said:

I have stayed in high end hotels, towels were never changed twice a day. 

 

Depends where  and how high .  Norm at high end resorts in Asia, Indian ocean, Latam. Happens in some UK hotels.

[grapau27]

I read on another Carnival site(HAL) yesterday that basic onboard gratuities are going up on May 1st to $14.50 from $13.99 and Suite passengers $16.50 from $15.99.

P&O gratuities as we all know are included in the price.

Well done P&O.

 

Edited April 9, 2022 by grapau27

[Fionboard]

16 hours ago, majortom10 said:

Always use towels for shower/bath only once but do use hand towels again. Would never dream of using a towel after bath/shower that had been used before.

Very environmentally friendly!!

[Fionboard]

15 hours ago, newbie cruissy said:

Well I was going to pay my remaining balance tomorrow. Not so sure now 😡

Sweets have been gone for ages.  Thank goodness - always sticky and dusty, yuk!

[Eglesbrech]

39 minutes ago, Fionboard said:

Sweets have been gone for ages.  Thank goodness - always sticky and dusty, yuk!

Never had them either sticky or indeed dusty, you must have been very unlucky if they were “ always” that way.

[molecrochip]

53 minutes ago, Fionboard said:

Sweets have been gone for ages.  Thank goodness - always sticky and dusty, yuk!

I don't expect the sweets to return. General feedback was that they were not eaten and were a high risk touch point for transmission of germs.

 

Regarding gratuities: I believe a lot of cruise lines have/are increased their gratuities recently heading into the summer season.

 

The nightly turndown service will be back once ships return to full manning/stop Covid protocols. Their numbers are still slightly reduced/used in different functions at present. 

[majortom10]

1 hour ago, Fionboard said:

Very environmentally friendly!!

Using a towel that you have already used once before for either a shower/bath is very unhygienic.

[Megabear2]

Molecrochip, are P&O making a note of all these little things which clearly mean a lot to some of their passengers?  If so perhaps they could use their social media channels more efficiently to acknowledge they know people are missing these things but reassure they'll be back as soon as circumstances allow. 

 

It is very much a case that other lines who are following the same protocols and problems but it seems able to offer the little treats and perks their guests like.  

Edited April 9, 2022 by Megabear2

[terrierjohn]

1 hour ago, Fionboard said:

Sweets have been gone for ages.  Thank goodness - always sticky and dusty, yuk!

They always came in wrappers, so you could have blown the dust off.😇

[terrierjohn]

47 minutes ago, molecrochip said:

I don't expect the sweets to return. General feedback was that they were not eaten and were a high risk touch point for transmission of germs.

 

Regarding gratuities: I believe a lot of cruise lines have/are increased their gratuities recently heading into the summer season.

 

The nightly turndown service will be back once ships return to full manning/stop Covid protocols. Their numbers are still slightly reduced/used in different functions at present. 

Good to know the nightly turn down will be back, let's hope manning is back to normal by June.

[davecttr]

1 minute ago, majortom10 said:

Using a towel that you have already used once before for either a shower/bath is very unhygienic.

Really? I always rinse myself at the end of the shower so the towel is damp with water and a few skin fragments, oils and flora. The next day the worse that can happen is some of that oil and flora transfers back to where it belongs on my skin. Too many showers is bad for your skin so unless you strenuously exercise every couple of days or so should be OK which I do at home. On a cruise because of evening socialising I shower every day but alternate days it is just a rinse, no soap.

[terrierjohn]

10 minutes ago, majortom10 said:

Using a towel that you have already used once before for either a shower/bath is very unhygienic.

How many towels do you have in circulation, if you only use them once then put them to wash.  Or do you only consider shower or bath towels need to be treated this way?🤔

[Megabear2]

25 minutes ago, majortom10 said:

Using a towel that you have already used once before for either a shower/bath is very unhygienic.

Wouldn't like to be doing the washing in your house! On the other hand I'm buying shares in Unilever if we are all going to wash 14 bath towels a week ....

[lujaha]

14 minutes ago, Megabear2 said:

Wouldn't like to be doing the washing in your house! On the other hand I'm buying shares in Unilever if we are all going to wash 14 bath towels a week ....

There are six of us in our house, that's 42 towels to wash a week!  

[Son of Anarchy]

8 minutes ago, lujaha said:

There are six of us in our house, that's 42 towels to wash a week!  

Might have to buy shares in leccy providers as well as Unilever! 😀

[lincslady]

I can't imagine why anyone would only  use a towel at home once, assuming that they do as most of us do, and have a small one for our face and hands, and a large one for the rest, which are only used on bits of you which are clean.  Obviously, each pair of towels only used by one person.  And you have rinsed shower gel, soap etc. off presumably before using them.  I am lucky enough to have a large heated towel rail as the central heating in the bathroom, so they are always dry when you come back to them.  

 

 

[Jill85]

Ditto

[jeanlyon]

2 hours ago, majortom10 said:

Using a towel that you have already used once before for either a shower/bath is very unhygienic.

You are only drying your body for goodness sake.  You're clean, you just washed with soap?  Our towels at home last a week.  They go on a heated towel rail to dry.  You must be washing 7 towels a week!!

Edited April 9, 2022 by jeanlyon

[kalos]

I don't know about you lot but when I step out of a shower/bath I am drying 

a clean body that I hope is a bit more hygienic than when I stepped in .

Going on this logic if it were not true I would need to change my hand towel 

every time I washed my hands to stay hygienic 

Using a towel more than once will not kill you, possibly the Mrs would if I gave

her 7-9 towels a week to wash 

 

[zap99]

2 hours ago, majortom10 said:

Using a towel that you have already used once before for either a shower/bath is very unhygienic.

We use several towels to dry after a shower. One each for hands, a fresh towel for each foot and another for the body. We get dressed before we leave the shower cubicle, or at least the butler dresses us. He obviously wears gloves as he does when he squeezed the toothpaste out. Can't be too careful, don't you know.🛀

[kalos]

3 minutes ago, zap99 said:

Can't be too careful, don't you know.🛀

 

Too right ,I'm thinking of taking a distress flare in with me next time 

[Selbourne]

I am beginning to wonder how I have lived this long. I survived decades of doing things before they were all restricted due to ‘health and safety’. I picked up germs and developed some resistance before things such as ‘touch points’ were discovered. I have now discovered that I am at risk from our bath towels that we don’t change daily and, worst of all, I have discovered on another thread that my preference for beer at room temperature (not chilled) is a really bad thing.
 

The problem with all of this is that all these things will just make us live a few years longer but, as Billy Connelly used to say, these won’t be years when you are 35 doing all sorts of exciting things (he actually said something else 😂) , they will be years when we are sat in a chair dribbling and smelling of wee 😂 

Edited April 9, 2022 by Selbourne

[Harry Peterson]

2 hours ago, majortom10 said:

Using a towel that you have already used once before for either a shower/bath is very unhygienic.

 

Without wishing to be in any way indelicate, how exactly are you using your towels, and where did you pick up that information?

 

In a hospital setting, or if anyone has open wounds, maybe, but ordinarily?