I thought I wouldn't miss 2x a day room cleaning... I was wrong.

[BND]

10 minutes ago, Scottdalfonso said:

SAME! First thing we do when we get in the room is unpack, put everything in a home and plug in any chargers neatly. I use the little shelves and magazine rack things for and smaller items that we may need here and there, but otherwise everything is away. suitcase under the bed and dirty clothes either go into a small pile on the floor of the closet or we will use one of the smaller bags we used to bring stuff in. I don't get those rooms that look like a bomb went off

I have a pop up hamper for dirty clothes.

[cello56]

Here is a shocking concept! 

When I am on a cruise ..... I am not at home! 

At home, I make my own bed, we hang and reuse towels, we eat the food that is served and don't expect elaborate meals. 

On a cruise, someone else makes my bed and cleans my bathroom and provides me with clean DRY towels as often as I need them. 

If I wanted to be making my own bed, cleaning my own bathroom and reusing towels I would have stayed home instead of going on vacation! There is simply no rationale to say "you don't expect this at home" when it comes to being pampered and taken care of. I am paying a lot of money - and recently a lot of money since prices have increased - to be on vacation with someone else doing all the work.

[patattack]

On 7/6/2023 at 12:02 PM, lovesthebeach2 said:

I have never noticed when they changed the sheets. 😳

they never changed the sheets on my 8 day Explorer as the same stain was in the exact place all week.  

 

Pat

[not-enough-cruising]

28 minutes ago, patattack said:

they never changed the sheets on my 8 day Explorer as the same stain was in the exact place all week.  

 

Pat

They would have been changing the sheets on embarkation day if it were me

[AdoraBelle]

I remember when I started cruising in 2015, I already felt like I had missed the 'golden era' of cruising by a mile. (Midnight feasts, lobster, better food, free room service, champagne sail-away, fewer lines, etc.) I guess now I get to be someone who is grateful to have gotten to sail during the days of 2 x a day room servicing.

 

I fall into the category of people who keep the room tidy, and I get all my personal stuff out of the way when I know a cleaning is due, but I absolutely love coming back to a room where someone has made the bed, vacuumed a bit (I have short but thick hair and it gets everywhere when I blowdry it), and given me fresh towels and washcloths. Coming back to the room at night after dinner/drinks/entertainment and taking a shower in a nice clean room with clean towels is such a relaxing thing to me that I can just picture it and feel some of that relaxation. 

 

Needless to say, I've done way too much housework in my time on this planet.

[TravelGirlinDallas]

3 hours ago, cello56 said:

Here is a shocking concept! 

When I am on a cruise ..... I am not at home! 

At home, I make my own bed, we hang and reuse towels, we eat the food that is served and don't expect elaborate meals. 

On a cruise, someone else makes my bed and cleans my bathroom and provides me with clean DRY towels as often as I need them. 

If I wanted to be making my own bed, cleaning my own bathroom and reusing towels I would have stayed home instead of going on vacation! There is simply no rationale to say "you don't expect this at home" when it comes to being pampered and taken care of. I am paying a lot of money - and recently a lot of money since prices have increased - to be on vacation with someone else doing all the work.

100% agree!!

[pilot]

3 hours ago, cello56 said:

Here is a shocking concept! 

When I am on a cruise ..... I am not at home! 

At home, I make my own bed, we hang and reuse towels, we eat the food that is served and don't expect elaborate meals. 

On a cruise, someone else makes my bed and cleans my bathroom and provides me with clean DRY towels as often as I need them. 

If I wanted to be making my own bed, cleaning my own bathroom and reusing towels I would have stayed home instead of going on vacation! There is simply no rationale to say "you don't expect this at home" when it comes to being pampered and taken care of. I am paying a lot of money - and recently a lot of money since prices have increased - to be on vacation with someone else doing all the work.

Well said!

[reallyitsmema]

4 hours ago, cello56 said:

Here is a shocking concept! 

When I am on a cruise ..... I am not at home! 

At home, I make my own bed, we hang and reuse towels, we eat the food that is served and don't expect elaborate meals. 

On a cruise, someone else makes my bed and cleans my bathroom and provides me with clean DRY towels as often as I need them. 

If I wanted to be making my own bed, cleaning my own bathroom and reusing towels I would have stayed home instead of going on vacation! There is simply no rationale to say "you don't expect this at home" when it comes to being pampered and taken care of. I am paying a lot of money - and recently a lot of money since prices have increased - to be on vacation with someone else doing all the work.

 

Another shocking concept is that it is just not that important to some of us.  If I can get clean towels everyday and replenishment of anything else we need (tp, tissues, etc), we are fine.  We go on vacation to relax and I am not going to get all worked up about this new policy.  If we have issues, we will talk to our cabin steward, if that doesn't work, we will talk to the housekeeping supervisor and/or guest services.  

[TravelGirlinDallas]

49 minutes ago, reallyitsmema said:

Another shocking concept is that it is just not that important to some of us. 

One day, the cuts will involve something that IS important to you. A little understanding for others goes a long way.

[reallyitsmema]

23 minutes ago, TravelGirlinDallas said:

One day, the cuts will involve something that IS important to you. A little understanding for others goes a long way.

 

Understanding goes both ways...

[Cruise a holic]

We sail in suites, but occasionally balcony cabins.  I would miss the service of two times a day.  I find it great when I leave in the cabin in the morning and come back, the bed is made and the room is clean.  Like the bathroom to also be cleaned.  When we leave for the evening, like to come back to a welcoming clean and neat cabin.  The little towel animals were a treat as was fresh ice and a clean neat bathroom with fresh towels.  Another reason we will mix up our vacations with AI resorts.  

Edited July 8, 2023 by Cruise a holic

[parrotfeathers]

22 hours ago, AdoraBelle said:

I remember when I started cruising in 2015, I already felt like I had missed the 'golden era' of cruising by a mile. (Midnight feasts, lobster, better food, free room service, champagne sail-away, fewer lines, etc.)

Oh yes, those were the days my friend.   Good memories for sure.

 

[RoyalC]

23 hours ago, patattack said:

they never changed the sheets on my 8 day Explorer as the same stain was in the exact place all week.  

 

Pat

Last cruise steward told me to put sheet on ground next to bed and they will change it.

[sgmn]

On 7/4/2023 at 12:43 PM, bouhunter said:

I thought the same thing, what does one accumulate on a ship that would have the trash cans "overflowing"  🙂

 

 

Empty drink can and water bottles. 

 

Paper or packaging from items or presents purchased in port, (our last cruise only had one sea day and very long days in port, we usually bought souvenirs or presents ashore).

 

All the masses of paper flyers the cruise company puts in your room.

 

If sailing from UK where there's a coffee/tea machine in your room, all the debris that goes with that. 

 

Not sure if RC have a separate way of dealing with baby nappies, but that could be an issue too if you have little ones in the room

 

The rubbish bin is small, doesn't take much to fill it. 

 

Edited July 9, 2023 by sgmn

[BND]

On 7/7/2023 at 5:36 PM, TravelGirlinDallas said:

One day, the cuts will involve something that IS important to you. A little understanding for others goes a long way.

We're talking about changing out towels and emptying trash here, not something life or death.  No one "has" to understand how someone else feels about it lol.   Does it really affect your life if someone on the internet understands how you feel about room cleaning?  

[Mikamarii]

19 minutes ago, BND said:

We're talking about changing out towels and emptying trash here, not something life or death.

To further your point...I don't think they have put a hard cap on how many towels a room gets. They'll still get a refresh everyday, if one needs more than that you just have to ask....mild inconvenience at best....

 

I know I know...slippery slope and all......increasing prices.....degrading service.....what's next?? will I have to ask for a mattress!?

[VegasVic14]

On 7/3/2023 at 9:44 PM, Sunshine3601 said:

We like once a day.  We have asked for evening.   We ask for 530ish if they could and enjoyed having everything done along with our nightly towel animal and paper compass being in the cabin when we returned from dinner for bathrooms.

For the last couple of years we usually ask for once a day anyway.

How did the 5:30 request actually work out? I've been thinking about doing this as it coincides with our early dining.

[VegasVic14]

On 7/7/2023 at 12:37 PM, cello56 said:

Here is a shocking concept! 

When I am on a cruise ..... I am not at home! 

At home, I make my own bed, we hang and reuse towels, we eat the food that is served and don't expect elaborate meals. 

On a cruise, someone else makes my bed and cleans my bathroom and provides me with clean DRY towels as often as I need them. 

If I wanted to be making my own bed, cleaning my own bathroom and reusing towels I would have stayed home instead of going on vacation! There is simply no rationale to say "you don't expect this at home" when it comes to being pampered and taken care of. I am paying a lot of money - and recently a lot of money since prices have increased - to be on vacation with someone else doing all the work.

When we're on vacation (cruise or land based), we don't turn into slobs. Good habits used at home stay with us regardless of the "We now have paid for it" mentality.

[Another_Critic]

1 hour ago, VegasVic14 said:

When we're on vacation (cruise or land based), we don't turn into slobs. Good habits used at home stay with us regardless of the "We now have paid for it" mentality.

I'm much neater on vacation than I am at home. 

 

I really need to convince myself [now that I'm retired] that I am on vacation ... even when I'm at home.  😁

[Sunshine3601]

2 hours ago, VegasVic14 said:

How did the 5:30 request actually work out? I've been thinking about doing this as it coincides with our early dining.

Worked perfect.    Our dining time was 5:30 on nights we ate in the MDR.    When we would leave our cabin we would see normally see our room steward nearby and he knew we were gone and he could enter to clean.   

On nights that we ate at a specialty restaurant with a later reservation time we would simply leave by 5:15/5:30 and go have a drink or two before dinner so that we would not mess up the schedule room steward set for himself.    

[DebJ14]

On 7/3/2023 at 3:37 PM, karena1 said:

We are fine with it, hotels/resorts are the same.  We do morning service.  Just leave me towels and I am good.  I make sure my room is clean every morning, I don't leave stuff all  over the place.  I pick up and make sure our cabin is pretty clean before we leave in the morning.  So totally okay with morning service and done.

The hotels we stay in both in the US and Mexico provide full service every day and evening turndown that includes fresh towels, ice and emptying the trash cans.  

We tried once daily service on another line and hated it.  Never got the extra towels we asked for.  Hubby showers twice daily, just as he does at home so I always lost my washcloth.  We also never got the second bucket of ice that we requested multiple times.. They filled the ice bucket in the morning and after a long day out and about,  I need to ice my ankle that has chronic tendinitis.  Kinda hard to do with a bucket of water.  (I bring an icebag from home).

Guess we will continue to book a category with twice daily service, even if the cost of the cruise is double.  We'll just go much less often, so they won't make as much money on the specialty restaurants, casino, excursions etc.

Edited July 9, 2023 by DebJ14

[cello56]

15 hours ago, VegasVic14 said:

When we're on vacation (cruise or land based), we don't turn into slobs. Good habits used at home stay with us regardless of the "We now have paid for it" mentality.

WOAH!!!!  Slow down there with the implied assumptions about me! Nowhere in my post did I say that we were slobs on a cruise. In fact our cabin is kept in pretty much perfect order for the entire cruise. Our belongings are put away, dirty clothes are stored in a suitcase,trash is always put in the trash can. We make things as easy as possible for our cabin attendant to do their job. Wet towels are placed on the bathroom floor because that is where they go when you want them replaced. Yes I expect the cabin attendant to make my bed each day. That is their job! Yes I expect them to vacuum the rug as needed. Again that is their job. Cleaning the bathroom? Again, their job, however I make sure that we leave the bathroom in proper order. If the toilet needs scrubbing after I use it - I scrub it! 

There is no 'mentality' issue with expecting to receive what we paid for. These services are part of the cost of the cruise. If others are happy to make your own bed, good for you. If you don't mind towels that are not dry for that second shower of the day, again, that is up to you. I'm just not going to pay for services that I want and then be ok with them not being provided. 

[RedIguana]

On 7/9/2023 at 7:58 AM, Mikamarii said:

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[Tatka]

I thought I'd miss, but I do not.

We actually have more freedom.

We now use only one service in the morning and this is completely enough.

 

• We are rarely in our room, but if we are it is for a short nap. Then we always tried to leave our room tidy, Now we do not need to think about our bed being unmade or our clothes being in wrong places.
• I definitely do not need interactions with room stewards. Polite "Hi! How are you?" in halls is plenty enough for us. They are not our friends or anyone we are interesting in interactions. They clean our room.
• I love cruising WAY more than A/I or any other hotel vacation, but only 1 cleaning per day was never a problem in hotels. Frankly, we never needed it every day too.
• Our garbage bins usually hardly have anything to remove, so this is also not a problem
• We need ice, but apparently getting it once a day in the morning is enough too
• If we do not have enough towel, or ice, or shower gel we have no issue finding our steward and asking to get it for us.

 

 

Edited July 11, 2023 by Tatka

[chiguy67]

We were on Brilliance in May and did not have a problem with the once a day cabin service. Our cabin stewart came around 11am every day we had no problems. We are not in our cabin much anyway.

 

if we needed additional towels or ice they would bring it.

 

Go and enjoy your vacation.

Edited July 11, 2023 by chiguy67