Once a day Cleaning Morning or Evening?

[Morecruisesplz]

8 minutes ago, Lorey2007 said:

If we request morning will they leave the next days compass then?

Compass is now on the app.

[cruisegirl1]

6 minutes ago, Lorey2007 said:

If we request morning will they leave the next days compass then?

Likely won’t be ready in the morning, but the cabin attendant can leave it outside your cabin in the evening. 
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[Lorey2007]

1 hour ago, fredmdcruisers said:

Compass is now on the app.

I don't carry my phone with me while on the ship.

[Lorey2007]

1 hour ago, cruisegirl1 said:

Likely won’t be ready in the morning, but the cabin attendant can leave it outside your cabin in the evening. 
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I hope so.

[John&LaLa]

3 hours ago, RCCL Fan said:

Does anyone have info on how this works with kids in the room?

 

We usually have the sofa turned into a bed for the kids to sleep on,  at night with lots of pillows and blankets, and then turned back into the sofa so we have a place to sleep during the day.

 

Do you have to leave it a bed 24/7 now??

 

Close it yourself, they'll reassemble it at night

[John&LaLa]

FWIW, seems like more income for staff

Edited February 21, 2023 by John&LaLa

[Spurschick]

16 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

Ypu know it takes about two minutes to put that bed away. Toss bedding in corner. Steward will put it back all nice and tidy at night

True unfortunately dd has ocd so that doesn’t help. Plus my back issues and arthritis make it hard for me to do it. Unfortunately I feel like I’m falling apart at the seams! 

Edited February 21, 2023 by Spurschick

[island lady]

On 2/19/2023 at 5:44 PM, taglovestocruise said:

Ditto, nice to come back after dinner to a clean fresh room.  Hate to come back from a late breakfast and see the cart outside our door. 

 

Exactly how I feel.  If given the choice, it will be evening for us.  We are out for a longer time in the evening.  

[island lady]

On 2/20/2023 at 1:04 PM, John&LaLa said:

 

Seems to me they'll get more money since they are getting more cabins to clean

 

You would not believe the line at GS on Voyager the last few weeks out of PR of pax removing their gratuities.  They justify this by stating "I only eat in the WJ".   They are probably the ones that you walk by their open cabin door and notice it looks like a bomb went off in there.   I have asked cabin attendants "how do you clean around that mess"?  😮 

[island lady]

22 hours ago, FamilyCruiserUK said:

Just off a B2B on Oasis and had our fab room steward sort room x2 a day. 

 

If we had to pick i would go for a morning slot. But dau would still want the towel animals.

 

We never received one single towel animal on the B2B2B Voyager we just disembarked from...did not bother me.  

 

That ship was still on twice daily cleaning, but was to change next month.  

[davekathy]

Hate to choose. But if we had to, mornings for us. IMO, piss poor decision on RC part!! 🤬

[island lady]

21 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

Towel animals is a cruise tradition that may soon disappear. 

 

Replaced by those stupid ducks 😉

 

I liked not having towel animals on Voyager, and did not miss it.  IMHO, it's a waste of their already frenzied time to clean the cabin, and with going to once daily and more cabins....yikes. 

 

 

[island lady]

20 hours ago, cruisegirl1 said:

Once on board, guest services can remove the gratuities to all the ship staff and crew. 
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And it happens more often than most think.  😞 

[island lady]

4 minutes ago, davekathy said:

Hate to choose. But if we had to, mornings for us. IMO, piss poor decision on RC part!! 🤬

 

Cabin attendants don't like it either.  

[davekathy]

Just now, island lady said:

 

Cabin attendants don't like it either.  

I blame the bean counters at RCG. Three things we have always requested on the first day when we first meet our cabin attendant.  Extra hangers (never enough for us especially doing B2Bs), ice twice a day and no towel critters. Going forward we'll add, extra towels and the Cruise Compass. We always keep our cabin tidy. Agree with your post about those that don't. The cabin attendants don't get paid enough for those cabins and that's where they have to spend most of their time. 

[DJLDRUMS]

Perhaps I missed something, has this taken effect on all the RCI fleet? Or specifically the Voyager and Adventure that's coming up.

[taglovestocruise]

16 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

And it happens more often than most think.  😞 

Hopefully it gets to the point that cruise fares are bumped up and gratuities are included. 

[davekathy]

1 minute ago, DJLDRUMS said:

Perhaps I missed something, has this taken effect on all the RCI fleet? Or specifically the Voyager and Adventure that's coming up.

I've seen it mentioned in a couple of threads, going fleetwide. 

[island lady]

30 minutes ago, davekathy said:

I blame the bean counters at RCG. Three things we have always requested on the first day when we first meet our cabin attendant.  Extra hangers (never enough for us especially doing B2Bs), ice twice a day and no towel critters. Going forward we'll add, extra towels and the Cruise Compass. We always keep our cabin tidy. Agree with your post about those that don't. The cabin attendants don't get paid enough for those cabins and that's where they have to spend most of their time. 

 

I have given up trying to find someone for the extra hangers.  I like hanging my clothes as soon as I get the bags.  A dozen or so light weight plastic hangers gets tossed into both of our bags, and I even take pants hangers now.  

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 21, 2023 by island lady

[time4u2go]

55 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

Exactly how I feel.  If given the choice, it will be evening for us.  We are out for a longer time in the evening.  

Just the opposite for us. We are usually out for many hours on shore during the day but come and go during the evening.

 

Edited February 21, 2023 by time4u2go

[island lady]

27 minutes ago, DJLDRUMS said:

Perhaps I missed something, has this taken effect on all the RCI fleet? Or specifically the Voyager and Adventure that's coming up.

 

Not yet on Voyager we just disembarked from on Sunday, but cabin attendant told me it was to start next month.  

[Morecruisesplz]

52 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

You would not believe the line at GS on Voyager the last few weeks out of PR of pax removing their gratuities.  They justify this by stating "I only eat in the WJ".   They are probably the ones that you walk by their open cabin door and notice it looks like a bomb went off in there.   I have asked cabin attendants "how do you clean around that mess"?  😮 

No one knows what the people in line are there for. You are making assumptions that quite possibly are unfounded.

[DJLDRUMS]

Just now, island lady said:

 

Not yet on Voyager we just disembarked from on Sunday, but cabin attendant told me it was to start next month.  

OH boy!!!! that's good information to know Island lady seeing that we'll be doing that 7 nighter from San Juan the middle of March.  lots of posts to read up on here . Thanks for your reply.

 

[island lady]

1 minute ago, time4u2go said:

Just the opposite for us. We are usually out for many hours on shore but come and go during the evening.

 

I don't like coming back to the cabin after breakfast and having to find a place to sit somewhere while with the attendant in there.  It happens more often than not.  

 

We don't leave the ship until well after the masses do.  

 

 

 

 

[Morecruisesplz]

49 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

Cabin attendants don't like it either.  

So they say. Who wouldn't like higher pay?