Chair Hogs!

[StillPooh]

Many of those chair holder items may not even be from chair hogs, but from people who have nowhere else to put their stuff when they are in the pool, eating lunch near the pool, etc.

If those people come back in less than half an hour, nobody is going to move their stuff. More than that= chair hoggery, and their crap is fair game.

[Rock_Dr]

Celebrity now has "official chair police". They place a small card on the chair that says you cannot keep a chiar for more then 30 minutes if you are not there. Thay put a time stamp on it and then walk around and remove items after 30 minutes. I have not cruise with this new program but other seem to love it.

 

Dave

[cdamion]

I have seen so many gripe about this... yet last year on our cruise not once did I ever see the deck so full that there were literally no seats. Is this a legitimate complaint? How stupid to get worked up over a chair! There are hundreds of chairs. Pick an empty seat. Wow, what a concept!

 

I was on Destiny in the spring and it had NO chairs that i could find on a sea day. Other than that, there have always seemed to be chairs somewhere away from the pool.

[Snorkel2Much]

I have seen so many gripe about this... yet last year on our cruise not once did I ever see the deck so full that there were literally no seats. Is this a legitimate complaint? How stupid to get worked up over a chair! There are hundreds of chairs. Pick an empty seat. Wow, what a concept!

Based on your signature, you cruised in September, one of the least crowded periods for cruising. Try a cruise when most public schools are on holiday and you may gain a better appreciation of this phenomenon. ;)

[hancogran]

The worst case of chair hogging I've ever seen.... Two women had a pair of chairs next to us in the shade with towels on them BUT they were sitting on two chairs in the sun! When they needed to get out of the sun for awhile, they sat in the shade chairs and put towels on the sun chairs. There was nothing else available in the shade. DROVE ME NUTS to see people walking around looking for chairs to sit in. I was going to offer THEIR empty chairs to someone walking by but my wife held me back....

 

This is exactly what we observed on our Pride cruise this past May! :eek: With 4 sea days, the pool area and Lido deck were always packed and it was hard to find a chair but one couple we watched, had the loungers saved in the sun and were sitting in the shade at a table next to where we were sitting. A man came over and removed a towel so he could sit down on one of "their" loungers, and the woman rushed over telling him those were her chairs. She waited a minute till he left then headed back to the shade area to sit down! Unbelievable.. I just bit my tongue!:rolleyes: We sat at that table for over an hour and they never ventured back to "their" loungers all the time we were there. :confused:

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

Just call staff over to remove there stough

[repo-cruiser]

Why not just get up real early and put your stuff on the chair? Me thinks you party all night and are to lazy to get up at 6 am and expect to walk up by the pool at noon and grab a chair or throw someones stuff off if they are swimming or at the restroom. One man removed my daughters and my stuff while I escorted her to the bathroom and trust me he will never remove others belongings again. Be careful of whose stuff you touch, you might be better off asking a employee to remove it. So get up early , early riser catches the worm(chair).;)

[cruzn buckeye]

Why not just get up real early and put your stuff on the chair? Me thinks you party all night and are to lazy to get up at 6 am and expect to walk up by the pool at noon and grab a chair or throw someones stuff off if they are swimming or at the restroom. One man removed my daughters and my stuff while I escorted her to the bathroom and trust me he will never remove others belongings again. Be careful of whose stuff you touch, you might be better off asking a employee to remove it. So get up early , early riser catches the worm(chair).;)

 

I am an early bird, up very early, go to Lido deck to relax before it gets crowded around 6:30-7:00 am on the Inspiration. I like to get in the hot tub, early before it gets full.. and if I am up and others are still in bed, why shouldnt I be able to have a lounge chair near the hot tub?? Both sides of the deck, chair hogs had already staked out their chairs... No one in them.... I think they do it late at night... or perhaps set an alarm... save their chairs and go back to bed... that is just wrong...

[Havingfun2010]

I would simply find another chair. :) A newspaper or magazine is different than someone's personal items which I feel are private. I wouldn't want someone touching my stuff and will respect their stuff the same.

 

If a person's personal items are left behind, than the saying finder's keepers take affect. But honestly, I wouldn't find another chair, but the items would find another chair. They usually don't take up too much space and I find chair hogs possessions usually don't mind sharing another chair.

[StillPooh]

Why not just get up real early and put your stuff on the chair?

Because if it is not your butt in that chair, only your stuff, then YOU are a chair hog and are violating the ship's rules. :rolleyes:

[CruisePimp101]

Because if it is not your butt in that chair, only your stuff, then YOU are a chair hog and are violating the ship's rules. :rolleyes:

 

What if I am in the pool or hot tub? :rolleyes:

[novinha]

I love a post I read a while back about this subject. It went something like...those towels-shoes-books-etc. didn't pay for a cruise. cruise chairs are for "people" who paid for the cruise. good thing my husband cares nothing about this subject. i'm sure he'd find a way to embarrass those chair hogs...and me too!

[StillPooh]

What if I am in the pool or hot tub? :rolleyes:

Don't stay in for more than 30 minutes at a stretch and it's all good.

[cruisenanny]

Why not just get up real early and put your stuff on the chair? Me thinks you party all night and are to lazy to get up at 6 am and expect to walk up by the pool at noon and grab a chair or throw someones stuff off if they are swimming or at the restroom. One man removed my daughters and my stuff while I escorted her to the bathroom and trust me he will never remove others belongings again. Be careful of whose stuff you touch, you might be better off asking a employee to remove it. So get up early , early riser catches the worm(chair).;)

 

You know, if you hadn't been gone for more than 30 minutes then he shouldn't have touched your stuff. If you were gone for more than 30 minutes then he had every right to take your stuff to the towel counter & use the chair for himself..

Either way, I do take comfort in the fact that people with attitudes similar to yours always run into a bigger fish sooner or later:D

[TexasRon]

You can argue until you are blue in the face about why it is just peachy that you hog chairs, but the facts are pretty simple:

 

--The rules say that you can't be absent from your chair more than 30 minutes.

 

--You decided that you are more important than the rules and than your fellow cruisers.

 

I was taught better than that. If they are listed as "rules"...follow them!!

[LitchfieldParkCruisers]

Traveling with my wife and 6 year old..it's a sea day...we get up around 7:30..I am ready for anything within minutes, the wife and son need a bit to get ready...I roll up to the lido deck, find 3 chairs "close" to the pool(not front row, maybe second or third) I pull the chairs close to each other, I put towels on all 3 and sit in one for a few minutes to relax. I engage someone working nearby so they see me and see where I am sitting. I swing by the buffet for some grub and coffee and back to my chair in 10 minutes. The wife and son come by, drop whatever items they bring, then head to buffet for food and bring it back to the chairs. It could be 30-45 minutes from the time I first sit to the time the wife and son settle in, but I am in one of the chairs for at east half the time.

So the question is asked...

Hog, or Not Hog????

[StillPooh]

Traveling with my wife and 6 year old..it's a sea day...we get up around 7:30..I am ready for anything within minutes, the wife and son need a bit to get ready...I roll up to the lido deck, find 3 chairs "close" to the pool(not front row, maybe second or third) I pull the chairs close to each other, I put towels on all 3 and sit in one for a few minutes to relax. I engage someone working nearby so they see me and see where I am sitting. I swing by the buffet for some grub and coffee and back to my chair in 10 minutes. The wife and son come by, drop whatever items they bring, then head to buffet for food and bring it back to the chairs. It could be 30-45 minutes from the time I first sit to the time the wife and son settle in, but I am in one of the chairs for at east half the time.

So the question is asked...

Hog, or Not Hog????

IMO, "not hog"

 

"Hog" if you parked your things on those 3 chairs at 7:30 and didn't come back till 10:00.

[platinum.wannabe]

Traveling with my wife and 6 year old..it's a sea day...we get up around 7:30..I am ready for anything within minutes, the wife and son need a bit to get ready...I roll up to the lido deck, find 3 chairs "close" to the pool(not front row, maybe second or third) I pull the chairs close to each other, I put towels on all 3 and sit in one for a few minutes to relax. I engage someone working nearby so they see me and see where I am sitting. I swing by the buffet for some grub and coffee and back to my chair in 10 minutes. The wife and son come by, drop whatever items they bring, then head to buffet for food and bring it back to the chairs. It could be 30-45 minutes from the time I first sit to the time the wife and son settle in, but I am in one of the chairs for at east half the time.

So the question is asked...

Hog, or Not Hog????

 

IMO, "not hog"

 

"Hog" if you parked your things on those 3 chairs at 7:30 and didn't come back till 10:00.

I agree, Not Hog.

[sail-a-bration]

Sorry Leroy P Bedwetter, but giving in to selfish rude people is not acceptable. Chair Hogs are the same people who sneak into the buffet lines, lie to get on a tender first, save seats in the theatre for family just in case they decide to come. They think Courtesy means getting something for free. :rolleyes:

[berwyn]

Traveling with my wife and 6 year old..it's a sea day...we get up around 7:30..I am ready for anything within minutes, the wife and son need a bit to get ready...I roll up to the lido deck, find 3 chairs "close" to the pool(not front row, maybe second or third) I pull the chairs close to each other, I put towels on all 3 and sit in one for a few minutes to relax. I engage someone working nearby so they see me and see where I am sitting. I swing by the buffet for some grub and coffee and back to my chair in 10 minutes. The wife and son come by, drop whatever items they bring, then head to buffet for food and bring it back to the chairs. It could be 30-45 minutes from the time I first sit to the time the wife and son settle in, but I am in one of the chairs for at east half the time.

So the question is asked...

Hog, or Not Hog????

So why don't you hit the buffet first and then save the chairs?

[SANDYJABS]

Traveling with my wife and 6 year old..it's a sea day...we get up around 7:30..I am ready for anything within minutes, the wife and son need a bit to get ready...I roll up to the lido deck, find 3 chairs "close" to the pool(not front row, maybe second or third) I pull the chairs close to each other, I put towels on all 3 and sit in one for a few minutes to relax. I engage someone working nearby so they see me and see where I am sitting. I swing by the buffet for some grub and coffee and back to my chair in 10 minutes. The wife and son come by, drop whatever items they bring, then head to buffet for food and bring it back to the chairs. It could be 30-45 minutes from the time I first sit to the time the wife and son settle in, but I am in one of the chairs for at east half the time.

So the question is asked...

Hog, or Not Hog????

I do this too. But it's just me and DH. I usually find our chairs- go grab a cup of coffee- come back and lounge while I sip on my coffee and read my book. DH takes a long time to do his business and I'd rather be absent from the cabin at this point :p

[Room Service!]

Thanks for sharing THAT!!!! :)

[SANDYJABS]

So why don't you hit the buffet first and then save the chairs?

I drop the stuff off first because I'm walking right by the pool chairs anyway and placing the stuff frees my hands.

[PA Dutchman]

Why do people need a chair next to the pool and never go in the pool ? 4 people in the pool and 27 chairs around the pool with nobody in them, where do the hogs go for 2 to 4 hrs ? does it take that long to slop. Now the hogs are starting to save chairs/tables, to put there junk on and go sit in a lounge chair.

[tracyanns]

I think before I go on my next cruise I am going to go to the store and have a CHAIR HOG POLICE shirt made up so when I start moving stuff people will know why...we also will leave for a few minutes and go and grab food and come back in the chairs and eat but we never leave at once and never for more than 15 minutes or so...I LOVE the people that send one person up to save 10 chairs at 6:00 AM and everyone else is still sleeping and they sleep until 10:00 and then go and graze until 11:00 and then come to the chairs...and EXPECT that all 10 chairs should still be there 5 hours later, for their enjoyment and convenience!