Club orange blanket?

[Sea Hag]

We're on our first cruise with HAL, and we have CO. We didn't get the famous and undoubtedly fabulous tote bag, but there was an obviously new HAL colored and logoed small blanket in a zipper bag. My husband likes it and wants it. Is it ours to keep instead of the famous tote bag? Anyone know?

[Torquer]

No...definitely not yours to keep.  If you do, you will get charged for it.  Depending on how much you like it, that might be OK.  On our first HAL cruise many years ago, we liked the bathrobes, talked to the Neptune lounge concierge, and they billed our room for two robes.  Actually they then delivered two brand new robes for us to take home and we continued to use the ones in our suite for the remainder of the cruise.  We still have them.  I forget how much they were.  I seem to remember seeing a price list for HAL items like this, but maybe I am wrong about that.

[Sea Hag]

2 minutes ago, Torquer said:

No...definitely not yours to keep.  If you do, you will get charged for it.  Depending on how much you like it, that might be OK.  On our first HAL cruise many years ago, we liked the bathrobes, talked to the Neptune lounge concierge, and they billed our room for two robes.  Actually they then delivered two brand new robes for us to take home and we continued to use the ones in our suite for the remainder of the cruise.  We still have them.  I forget how much they were.  I seem to remember seeing a price list for HAL items like this, but maybe I am wrong about that.

Yeah, I knew about the bathrobes. I'll rain on hubby's parade about the blanket.🤣

[kazu]

Ask your cabin steward or your CO guest services about the tote bag.

 

Mine was high up and I honestly didn’t see it. 

they might not have any on board but it might also have been an oversight or hiding from you in a closet 😉 

[Sea Hag]

4 minutes ago, kazu said:

Ask your cabin steward or your CO guest services about the tote bag.

 

Mine was high up and I honestly didn’t see it. 

they might not have any on board but it might also have been an oversight or hiding from you in a closet 😉 

The tote bag may be lurking around. We plan to ask about the blanket. Hubby says he'll buy it if it's reasonable. Guess he really likes it. 😃

[triiip42]

Do you have a verandah/balcony? Those sound like the HAL blankets in clear zippered cover's that they provide for your use outside or actually wherever you choose.

Nice blankets...

[cbr663]

Are you sailing in a Neptune Suite?  Your description sounds very much like the lap blanket that we had during our Alaska cruise in a NS.  When I asked my room steward about it he told me that it was  the lap blanket for suite passengers instead of the traditional wool blanket.  

 

 

Edited September 18, 2023 by cbr663

[habenicd]

We came across those blankets in the library on Rotterdam last year.  We went to the front desk and asked for one to purchase as my DW loved it.  One was delivered to our stateroom and added to our onboard account.  It was very reasonably priced although I do not remember how much at this point in time.

 

[TiogaCruiser]

1 hour ago, habenicd said:

We came across those blankets in the library on Rotterdam last year.  We went to the front desk and asked for one to purchase as my DW loved it.  One was delivered to our stateroom and added to our onboard account.  It was very reasonably priced although I do not remember how much at this point in time.

 

We did the same with the HAL logo towels. I requested to purchase one and DH decided he wanted one too.

[Blackduck59]

We had the blankets in our Vista Suite on Zaandam, they are very cool. I would have bought one but my lovely wife wasn't that enthusiastic, oh well, maybe next time.

[3rdGenCunarder]

There's usually a tactful little note on the things that you can't take home. Something like "Enjoy this during your cruise and if you want one to take home ($xx.xx), ask you steward for one."

[YourWorldWithBill]

3 hours ago, Torquer said:

We still have them.  I forget how much they were.  I seem to remember seeing a price list for HAL items like this, but maybe I am wrong about that.

Although I haven't worn a bathrobe since I was a kid, I liked the one in our Neptune suite so much that I bought one and now I wear it at home every night.

[Ready2go11]

We also purchased the Neptune cabin robes on a prior cruise. Maybe because we asked early in the cruise about purchase, the Neptune concierge asked if we wanted them monogrammed. A few days later, we received the new robes packaged up with our initials. Unnecessary of course, but I smile when I wear it remembering the cruise. 😁

[Nodakboiler]

We bought a fleece HAL blanket with leftover OBC a few years ago. It was $35.

[kazu]

13 hours ago, YourWorldWithBill said:

Although I haven't worn a bathrobe since I was a kid, I liked the one in our Neptune suite so much that I bought one and now I wear it at home every night.

 

The bathrobes provided for those in Club Orange (and not in suites) are the same type.  

[horseymike]

4 hours ago, kazu said:

 

The bathrobes provided for those in Club Orange (and not in suites) are the same type.  

You mean they are not orange 🍊 🤣

[kazu]

4 minutes ago, horseymike said:

You mean they are not orange 🍊 🤣

 

There is an orange stipe on them - since in the Neptune suites.  It’s HAL after all 😉 

 

[cruising sister]

I had to ask my cabin steward for my CO bag. Thanks to the suggestion from CC members.