Keeping your cabin refrigerator cold

[grandmarnnurse]

We found that even keeping the cabinet door open was not enough to keep refrigerator cold, so we went old school and created an ice box. We had our room steward fill our ice bucket twice a day, and we filled an open container with ice that  we had brought with us, and placed it inside the refrigerator. Even with the cabinet door closed, we had ice cold beer!! 

[Doggielover68]

2 hours ago, grandmarnnurse said:

We found that even keeping the cabinet door open was not enough to keep refrigerator cold, so we went old school and created an ice box. We had our room steward fill our ice bucket twice a day, and we filled an open container with ice that  we had brought with us, and placed it inside the refrigerator. Even with the cabinet door closed, we had ice cold beer!! 

As far as I know, the mini fridges are actually beverage coolers and don't get as cold as regular fridges, making them unsuitable for food storage and drinks that aren't as cold as you may prefer. Good idea though to make it work for you!

[evandbob]

If it worked for you great!  I just use the cooler for water, and I scrunch up the plastic wrapping and use that to keep the wooden cabinet door open about 1".  Gets my water cooled nicely.

 

Note:  This hack doesn't work if you prop the cooler door open!

[mdin]

I filled the mini fridge with bottled water the first day and noticed it wasn't cooling. I removed some of the bottles from in front of the fan in the fridge and left the cabinet door open. The water was nice cold after that.

[louanne93]

I learned this hack of putting the ice bucket in the fridge on a Princess cruise from the cabin stewart. Do it on every cruise now!

[brookeq]

10 hours ago, louanne93 said:

I learned this hack of putting the ice bucket in the fridge on a Princess cruise from the cabin stewart. Do it on every cruise now!

i tried this on the conquest and it didn't fit 😞

[Aplmac]

1 hour ago, brookeq said:

i tried this on the conquest and it didn't fit 😞

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I was wondering that myself.

It would have to be a kiddy-sized ice bucket

 

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Thanks to the guy above too

who spoke about not-crowding the little fan in the fridge.

Again.. to boost efficiency.

Will def. be taking that into account, next cruise!

[grandmarnnurse]

11 hours ago, Aplmac said:

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I was wondering that myself.

It would have to be a kiddy-sized ice bucket

 

_________________________________

Thanks to the guy above too

who spoke about not-crowding the little fan in the fridge.

Again.. to boost efficiency.

Will def. be taking that into account, next cruise!

 

11 hours ago, Aplmac said:

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I was wondering that myself.

It would have to be a kiddy-sized ice bucket

 

_________________________________

Thanks to the guy above too

who spoke about not-crowding the little fan in the fridge.

Again.. to boost efficiency.

Will def. be taking that into account, next cruise!

First of all, the ice bucket did fit, but we used a small collapsible cooler, the size of a fanny pack, and left the top flap open to cool, and we NEVER blocked the fan either. The refrigerator was just terrible. This hack worked perfectly to keep our beer and water cold. I will definitely be doing this on next cruise (the Magic) if necessary.