Carnival Magic A/C does NOT Cool

[S.S.Oceanlover]

I am naturally warm at night, and at home I rarely turn the heat on in winter. If it is -25C (brrr freaking cold in Fahrenheit). I find I am roasting under my thin quilt at home and kick it off during the night. On the ship I have the AC on high and within an hour or two I have kicked off the quilt and sleep with the sheet only and that is much better. Every spring my quilt goes away and I just sleep with the sheet only (loose, not tucked in)......I'm tempted to tell the room steward to take the quilt off and just leave a light blanket instead!!!!

 

Everyone's temperature tolerance is different, so if it isn't cold enough, bring a fan or sleep with the just the sheet only.

 

I have made a note to bring a fan as well as my tool belt as advised by another poster on another thread.

 

Halos,

 

LOL! on the menopause comment.:p

 

As see most people who live in hot climates think 74 is cold.

 

It's like the time I went to Disneyworl in Florida in January. The temps were in the high 50's. I had a light spring jacket on. The people operating the rides had on heavy parka coats with the hoods up and gloves.

 

I came from up north where the temps were in the 20's.:p

 

Bill

[Cruiser from MS]

I live in North Mississippi (just south of Memphis) and the temp is 100 degrees most of the summer. During the day 74 is fine but at night it is way to hot. I put my a/c on 68 or 67 and sleep very well. I cannot breath at night if it is hot. Every night we would wake up sweating. They told us that they had no fans and we were out of luck. I think they need to rethink that not everyone likes to sleep in a sauna and sweat all night. Who wants to go on a cruise and not able to get comfortable in your cabin to sleep. I was just disappointed in Carnival's response. All I wanted was to be able to sleep at night without sweating...

[cathyz]

We had a cabin temp problem on the Spirit once and didn't report it for a couple of days because it wasn't a big problem leaving from CA, but once we got into Mexico it was definitely getting warmer. They couldn't do enough for us, first they fixed the problem within a couple of hours, then they gave us some chocolate covered strawberries with a note from the a/c engineer guy, then they gave us OBC for partial costs for 2 days for both of us and a couple of phone calls to make sure all was still well. I'd say they bent over backwards and all we cared about was getting the a/c fixed. We were very happy.

[crusinpsychRN]

For the life of me those thermostats have a "mind" of their own. They are cold when you move it to warmer (in Alaska), warm when you want it cooler. Open balconies cause issues, not in just your own cabin. The maintenance guy was tight lipped not wanting to admit anything was wrong but he kept coming back to check it b/c he knew it was loopy.

[A2Mich]

I have made a note to bring a fan as well as my tool belt as advised by another poster on another thread.

 

Halos,

 

LOL! on the menopause comment.:p

 

As see most people who live in hot climates think 74 is cold.

 

It's like the time I went to Disneyworl in Florida in January. The temps were in the high 50's. I had a light spring jacket on. The people operating the rides had on heavy parka coats with the hoods up and gloves.

 

I came from up north where the temps were in the 20's.:p

 

Bill

 

That reminds me - I grew up in Florida. A lot of my High School classmates still live in or near Orlando. I remember last winter reading comments from them about how "cold" it was and that they were freezing to death. I'd check the weather and it was in the high 40's/low 50's. Freezing to death? Really? Try moving elsewhere where high temperatures may not break 0 and then tell me how cold Florida is! LOL. It was even funnier when I heard classmates say that it "snowed" in Orlando and they were worried about road conditions. Well the few times that I can remember it snowing in Orlando, it melted before it even hit the ground, and even IF it did make to the ground, the ground temperatures are too warm for snow to accumulate.

[falkcor]

I have a question...hope you can answer it.

I'm usually fine with cabin temps (sometimes, I'm too cold, but that is easily remedied). When I sailed RCI Explorer of The Seas, I ROASTED...not in my cabin (which happend to be an interior) but in all the public paces. The dining room was even an oven.

My thoughts on this were that this ship, which is absolutely gorgeous due to all the sea views from nearly everywhere, were the issue. All those windows just allow in all that sunlight; beautiful but creating heat. Do they take things like this into consideration when installing cooling systems on ships???? I swore I'd never sail that ship again because it was so hot everywhere on it.

 

i can't speak to the specific design of ships, and can't say i ever thought to take notice of it, but typically yes this is taken into design of hvac distribution systems.

 

in design of the hvac system, typically the air registers will be located close to windows, and in the case of directional registers, the air flow will be pointed toward the windows (heat source). this helps to combat the heat transfer, and is sometimes why windows will condensate as the cooler ambient temperature inside is in contact with the heat transfer. specifying ducts with greater air flow (size of ducts) in these areas is also another characteristic which may be designed to combat the heat transfer.

 

there are also other specifications which can affect the effectiveness of cooling in these areas. especially in areas with access to the outside, pressure must be taken into consideration. if there is negative pressure, such as in areas with openings to the outside, you will feel heat rush into the conditioned space. greater air flow needs to be provided to these spaces, to account for this, in which case there will be more a 'wall' of positive pressure, which will negate the unconditioned air from outside rushing in.

 

there are even more sophisticated and pro-active measures which can be taken, such as 'smart' mechanical dampers, which regulate the air flow based on what conditions are present and monitored via sensors, etc.

 

how well the hvac systems are designed surely does have a material and noticeable effect. how exactly the systems on ships are designed, and how much of this they employ, i don't know.

[Mxlady]

I live in Texas my thermostat is 70 during the day and 65 at night with a fan. I pay my electric bill and it is high but I also pay for my cruise and expect to be comfortable. I bring a large fan and ask for the ice bucket to be kept full. the rest of the ship is usually warmer than I like, so cruise only in December and bring my fan drink lots of ice tea and deal with it but the first time I don't have fun it is off to a land vacation where I will be comfortable.:eek:

[YadaYadaJodi]

Just off the Carnival Magic today, 8/11/13, definitely spotty a/c on the ship which surprises me because of its newness.

 

For the record, I am admittedly warm natured. My DD20 about "regular"-natured though she can get night sweats. Our observations:

 

Our Inside Cabin was comfortable with thermostat turned to coldest. However could be a little warm if comforter was used.

 

Showtime Theater was cold. I was okay but DD would get the shivers. She wished she had brought a sweater.

 

Other end of ship, Spotlight Theater was hot when house lights were up.

 

Was like that all over ship - hot spots and cool spots.

[aggieastrosfan]

Just off today as well, and I agree with the sportiness. There were some spots in the casino that were downright cold - others I was almost sweating, and I tend to get cold pretty easily.

 

For the most part we had no issues in our cabin. We did notice the A/C appeared to stop working completely, as after we took showers yesterday afternoon the cabin never cooled down and stayed really muggy. Propped the door open finally and it was much cooler in the hall. Felt no air coming from the vent. Happened to catch our neighbors outside and they said the same thing, so I called Guest Services. When they sent someone down to the cabin after about 10 minutes, the A/C had literally just started working again. Still, after having the door propped open for at least 15 minutes, when he checked the temp, it was still at 79. We were in 2321.

 

Spoke to someone in 2409 who said theirs went out for a while during the week for their whole section. Which I find very interesting, as I was in 2427 in May and we had a belt break in our area one day.

 

 

Meredith

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[Firechief84]

Also off the magic today and I believe the higher class cabin you have the better the a/c works. I love cold rooms when I sleep and was expecting the worse possible case. To my surprise our 12th floor spa balcony cabin froze me out every night. It was NEVER even slightly warm in our cabin. FYI we had cabin 12003 and our steward OKA was super awesome!!

[DebJ14]

Just off today as well, and I agree with the sportiness. There were some spots in the casino that were downright cold - others I was almost sweating, and I tend to get cold pretty easily.

 

For the most part we had no issues in our cabin. We did notice the A/C appeared to stop working completely, as after we took showers yesterday afternoon the cabin never cooled down and stayed really muggy. Propped the door open finally and it was much cooler in the hall. Felt no air coming from the vent. Happened to catch our neighbors outside and they said the same thing, so I called Guest Services. When they sent someone down to the cabin after about 10 minutes, the A/C had literally just started working again. Still, after having the door propped open for at least 15 minutes, when he checked the temp, it was still at 79. We were in 2321.

 

Spoke to someone in 2409 who said theirs went out for a while during the week for their whole section. Which I find very interesting, as I was in 2427 in May and we had a belt break in our area one day.

 

 

Meredith

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We got off today too.

We were in on deck 11 in a spa balcony and we had several days when the AC was out completely. When we came back from a long, hot day in Roatan the room was roasting even though it was set to the coldest. We were in a sweat getting ready for dinner. When we got back to the cabin about 10pm it had cooled off. The showroom was freezing cold. After the first freezing show I made sure I brought a sweater.

[mattcj89]

Room 2470 was very warm during the day and pretty uncomfortable at night, as I prefer to be able to cover up completely and not get too hot in bed. The only way to fall asleep would be to leave only the flat sheet covering me and even that was a bit warm.

 

Most public areas of the ship were cool if not cold, so assumed that being in the back corner of the ship caused the room to be hotter than others. I never got a reading of the temperature, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was a few degrees above 74 degrees and from someone who's hot-natured, that's way too hot!

 

Room 2470's ceiling also creaked and rattled the majority of the cruise so never again a aft OV on a lower level for me!

[IPlayWithString]

I have to tell you that just about everyone on the Magic was very friendly and did just about everything they could to make our Cruise enjoyable!!! But just because you are friendly does NOT solve problems!!!

 

HOWEVER: Be aware that when we were having problems with the Temperature in our Cabin (it was NOT cool) at 1:00am in the morning as my wife was very uncomfortable trying to sleep, the folks from Carnival came in with Meters and such and declared that it was cooling just fine because 74 deg F is 'their standard'!!! I explained that it was NOT my nor my wife's standard and we always sleep in a much cooler environment.

 

I build homes for living and understand A/C Units and the Carnival Magic was only cooling the Ambient Temp about 12.5 deg. A proper working A/C like in your home will cool 14 to 18 deg from Ambient to the Temp coming from the Outlet.

 

As they were telling me, after we returned, with my call to Customer Service to discuss about their "standard", I commented that they should put that Info on their WebSite so that persons that needed a cool environment so as to sleep comfortably could make a decision if they should go on Carnival or not. Yeah, I will be sure to hold my breath on seeing that on their WebSite!

 

So, if you like to sleep cool, go with another Cruise Line or ask questions that I never thought to ask before you pay your money. And for the record, the Thermostat does NOT keep up with the Temp in your Cabin, rather it is totally subjective and by turning it in the direction of being cooler, all it does is to open the dampner that allows more air to flow into the cabin, and the air is no cooler than anywhere else on board.

 

 

We had the opposite problem on the Fascination...we were FREEZING our butts off and couldn't reach the doohickey to shut the damper (or whatever it's called). DH and DS were fine, as they were in the bed cuddled up together but I was on a cot on the floor and ended up sleeping in a bathrobe each night to keep from being too cold.