Bar of soap

[Clay Clayton]

I hate shower gel. On some lines (NCL) you can request a bar of soap from your steward. Is that possible on Princess or should I pack my own?

TIA,

[Red Hat Cruise Cat]

Bar soap is in your bathroom.

[MAJPLO]

Our room had two of the small round bars. We probably could have gotten more if we had needed it.

[BridgeMates]

We always take a small bar of Dove soap, available in the sample aisle of WalMart.

[cnd crsr]

There should be at least one small bar of soap in your bathroom. The steward will supply more if you request it.

[Clay Clayton]

Thanks everyone!

[Kamloops50]

The steward has given us a new bar of soap about every five days on 15 day cruise.

 

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[cr8tiv1]

I like their soap. It isn't gritty and seems to lather well. They are just so small now (for the 3 day cruises).

[dorisis]

I like their soap. It isn't gritty and seems to lather well. They are just so small now (for the 3 day cruises).

 

They were small for our last 11 day cruise too and we were in a suite.

[beach_fever_4ever]

Did you notice the label on the small round soaps... Made in China. I am not knowingly going to put anything on my body from China. I wonder where the new bottles of shower gel and shampoo are from ? We always take our own.

[SKAGGS1234]

Do they have soap and shampoo dispensers in the shower?

[vickie_bernie]

my honey hates the small bars of soap - says he needs a big bar for showering so we always have to pick up a large bar of soap prior to cruising for him. If that is all that he needs I am happy to do it. He is rather easy to please.

[Wehwalt]

I'm on the Pacific Princess now (leeching off shoreside telecom). I wanted to have the steward remove the shampoo dispenser, as I don't use it (Head & Shoulders man, I am). He took it, but also left a bar soap in the shower, and I had him take the soap dispenser. Just talk with your steward.

[beach_fever_4ever]

Do they have soap and shampoo dispensers in the shower?

 

They had the dispensers in the shower last week on the Crown. Small bar of soap on the sink - made in China

[caribill]

Do they have soap and shampoo dispensers in the shower?

 

These have been recently installed on all Princess ships.

 

There have been many posts of people unhappy with the products in the dispensers: soap that does not lather....shampoo combined with conditioner that does not leave long hair in great shape. (I have yet to experience these products, so this is a summary of posts by others.)

[Mississippian]

I always try to travel with a bar of Ivory soap. Hotel soaps don't do the job, and shower gel surely doesn't.

[Occy]

Always take a bar of Dove and also my own shampoo & conditioner in small bottles. It doesn't take up much room.

[tothemall&beyond]

For the first time ever, in over 40 years of world travel and 25 years of cruising, I am now packing shampoo and conditioner, and some soap.

On our last two getaway cruises on the Ruby, we had trouble getting bars of soap, and when we did, we discovered that they have downsized the soaps to half the size they used to be.

Worse yet, on our last cruise, on the MORNING of the last sea day, our cabin steward removed the pump to the shampoo/conditioner (a product we detest to begin with) so that "it could be sanitized". Umm, that begs the questions: first, how were we supposed to use the shampoo? second, they sanitize the pump, but leave the contents exposed to bathroom germs because it was uncapped? third, why do they do it 24 hours before the current passenger disembarks? I was furious and let passenger services know it. I dumped the contents of the bottle so that they had to replace the entire bottle. But it took more than an hour, 3 phone calls and a visit to passenger services desk to get the situation resolved.This was time I would have preferred to be up on deck with my DH watching the NFL playoff pre-game show.

[CruisinFinsUp]

Worse yet, on our last cruise, on the MORNING of the last sea day, our cabin steward removed the pump to the shampoo/conditioner (a product we detest to begin with) so that "it could be sanitized". Umm, that begs the questions: first, how were we supposed to use the shampoo? second, they sanitize the pump, but leave the contents exposed to bathroom germs because it was uncapped? third, why do they do it 24 hours before the current passenger disembarks? I was furious and let passenger services know it. .

 

 

I'm really curious - what did passenger services say???? Did you receive another shampoo???

Have others experienced this oddly timed cleaning service???

 

So now we have to pack shampoo for at least the last 24 hours of the cruise??? Princess supplies shampoo / shower gel for only PART of the cruise???? OMG the questions !!!!! What silly person thought up all this nonsense???