SAFE TO USE SAFE

[bencruzN]

If you can open the safe with any magnetic stip card, what is the use in using the safe anyway. I can have valuables in there and they are really not safe. Or do I have it all wrong?

 

Heading for my Destiny

[selucrey]

It's like the safe in most hotels.You "Program" it with your credit card and it can only be opened with that card.(The room steward can open it though) It's not the most secure system but that is all that is available.Another option for expensive jewelry etc. is to put it in the ship's safe.

 

Let's see what we can stir up!

SINSATION 10/23/04

CONQUEST 10/19/03

INSPIRATION 10/21/01

[InMN253]

I've left large (for me) amounts of cash and traveler's checks in the room safe. No problems.

 

Pat K.

[cruisinfanatic]

The room steward definitely cannot open the safe. If you are not able to open it for some reason, only security can open it.

 

Tropical 9/91

Ecstasy 9/93

Monarch 9/95

Sensation 9/96

Grandeur 9/97

Inspiration 9/98

Enchantment 9/99

Grandeur 9/00

Explorer 3/01

Grand 9/01.........Review!!

Victory 9/02........Review!!

Navigator 3/03....Review!!

Adventure 9/03....Review!!

Voyager 9/04

Email....Cruisinfanatic@AOL.COM

[tef43]

The safe may only be opened with the *same* mag stripe card that locked it.

 

And only Security can override it.

 

Eleven cruises so far. Up next:

Shhhh, it's a surprise!

Followed by:

Carnival Valor 10/30/05 CC Group

And then:

Carnival Spirit 12/10/05 Mexican Riviera

Perhaps something else as well. Watch this space.

 

Dance like it hurts, love like you need money, and work when somebody's watching.

[Sea Turtle]

I concur with the post above by cruisinfanatic. That has been my personal experience.

 

The safe is safe.

 

<img src=http://members.hometown.aol.com/bay2baygal/myhomepage/seaturtle.gif?mtbrand=AOL_US>

 

 

[selucrey]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tef43:

The safe may only be opened with the *same* mag stripe card that locked it.

 

And only Security can override it._<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

 

That's true (from experience).To clarify my earlier post....the room steward can HAVE it opened.I work with magnetics and flux-leakage devices.That's why I said it may not be the most secure device.

 

Let's see what we can stir up!

SINSATION 10/23/04

CONQUEST 10/19/03

INSPIRATION 10/21/01

[OhioBeachBum]

Ah, yes. The old flux-leakage device. I used to have flux-leakage but I got it fixed.

 

Carnival Miracle, April 04

 

'til my next cruise fix on the Victory!

 

[tef43]

Wasn't that the thing that broke on Marty McFly's DeLorean? No wait, that was the flux capacitor.

 

Eleven cruises so far. Up next:

Shhhh, it's a surprise!

Followed by:

Carnival Valor 10/30/05 CC Group

And then:

Carnival Spirit 12/10/05 Mexican Riviera

Perhaps something else as well. Watch this space.

 

Dance like it hurts, love like you need money, and work when somebody's watching.

[NAVY WIFE]

What about the Holiday. I hear they have a number pad. Where do we get that combination from and who else would know it?

 

Days till Holiday

 

[selucrey]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by OhioBeachBum:

Ah, yes. The old flux-leakage device. I used to have flux-leakage but I got it fixed.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

 

 

Ah! Buns Of Steel!

 

Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) is a method used to nondestructively inspect ferromagnetic materials like steel. A magnetic field is applied to steel to magnetically saturate it, so that it can't hold any additional field. In the presence of a flaw, some of the magnetic flux escapes or "leaks" into the surrounding environment, where magnetic sensors like Hall probes detect it and report a flaw signal

 

Let's see what we can stir up!

SINSATION 10/23/04

CONQUEST 10/19/03

INSPIRATION 10/21/01

[SallyMay]

Was on the Holiday. It has a 4 digit code. You make it up yourself. We used it with no problem. Only DH and I knew the code.

 

Sensation 4/23/05

 

Holiday 4/2004

Holiday 4/2003

[Cotton]

Navy wife, Sally's correct. The Holiday safes use a touch pad. You put in your own 4 number "code".

 

Now, just because I can get too much in a hurry at times, in trying to open the safe one day, I hit a wrong button. No way would that safe open. SO, I asked the room steward if he could open it. Nope, but he called somebody (assuming from security), and she used some kind of 'master key tool'.

 

I was more careful when touching in my numbers from then on.

 

Festivale 1987

Carnivale 1988

Mardi Gras 1989

Pacific Princess 1990

Norway 1994

Holiday 2001

Holiday 2002

Holiday 2003

 

[tankersbabe]

The Fantasy uses the four digit code, and the folks that left before us, locked it with their four digit code when they left, and we couldn't get the stupid thing open and had to call for help. Security came and opened it, not our room steward. I like that much better, as I locked my credit cards in there, no way was I keeping one out to open the safe...so what is the purpose! If they would just open with the sign and sail, that would be great.

 

Stef

 

Fantasy February 2004

Looking for my next cruise! WHOOO HOOO!

[cyn123]

They ask you not to use your Sail and Sign card. My husband had a Wal-mart gift card with about 3 bucks on it and that's what we used. That way we could lock up all our credit cards and not have to worry about having one with us at all times.

 

CYN123

[moxie99]

Hubby and I use our AAA cards - won't be needing automotive service at sea!

 

Faye, Ken and Brianna

Till the Legend Begins

 

 

Carnival Victory - 2/2003

Serenade of the Seas - 8/2003

Carnival Victory - 1/2004

Carnival Legend - 10/2004

[LizT]

We used our sail and sign cards all week. It didn't damage them at all.

 

Ectasy 3/01

Imagination 7/03

Glory 5/04

[hockeymom]

Another option for the expensive jewelry is to leave it at home!! Wear costume jewelry if you have to wear any at all. No one will care.

 

Judy

 

Carnival Pride - Mexico

 

Celebrity/Mercury - Alaska Aug 2000

Celebrity/Century back to back Caribbean Aug 2001

Celebrity Century Western Caribbean Feb 2002

Rented a villa in Jamaica Aug 2002

Norwegian Star Hawaii July 2003

Norwegian Sea Bermuda July 2003

 

 

 

[cruisinfanatic]

One reason you should not use your sail and sign card is if you lose it, a thief will not only have access to your cabin, but to the safe too. I've seen cards left in the door slots. Bad idea to use the card.

 

Tropical 9/91

Ecstasy 9/93

Monarch 9/95

Sensation 9/96

Grandeur 9/97

Inspiration 9/98

Enchantment 9/99

Grandeur 9/00

Explorer 3/01

Grand 9/01.........Review!!

Victory 9/02........Review!!

Navigator 3/03....Review!!

Adventure 9/03....Review!!

Voyager 9/04

Email....Cruisinfanatic@AOL.COM

[glrounds]

I used my local library card.

 

Have to echo the poster that said "Don't use your sign'n'sail card".

 

Live well, love much, laugh often.

 

Gary