Door Decorating

[PammyHound]

Forgive me if this has been asked and answered..... I have a huge group going on the Mariner this fall and we want to have a door decorating contest but since I have only done Carnival in the past, I just thought I'd come to the experts and double check to make sure RCI doesn't have any rules against this. Thanks in advance for your help!

 

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[DMorris]

I was on the VOS last year for halloween. We decorated our cabin door with no problem. We used tacky stuff and tape. Was never told to take it down. Have a blast.

 

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[Truluv]

I haven't seen too many door decorations through the years (a few Cruise Critic or Travel Agency Bon Voyage signs here & there), although they're fun. We decorated one of our kid's cabin doors last summer for his birthday, to surprise him when he opened the door in the morning. At Christmas, we were on a Carnival ship and were surprised that only about 10-20% of people decorated doors.

 

We found on that Christmas cruise that a door decoration makes it much easier to spot our cabins - not only for our kids (youngest is 12), but for hubby & me too (hubby was just diagnosed with early stage Alzheimers). We'll therefore be bringing door decorations on our 7/04 Mariner cruise. A contest sounds like a great idea!!!

[kc320]

I've decorated my door on my past 4 Sovereign cruises & will be doing it again in 2 weeks! I have yet to see any other doors decorated except for the cruise line decorations but that doesn't slow me down any.

 

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[phat cruiser]

I was board so I though I would move it to the top for you Pammy. I saw very few door decorations on my previous RCCL cruises BUT so what. I always been a nonconformist. Consider my door decorated.

 

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[madforcruising]

Haven´t seen any door decorations other than the ones of the cruise line either so far. I couldn´t think of a rule against as long it doesn´t damage the door

 

But this thread remembered me of a "sort of door decoration" I saw last year on the Norwegian Dawn. The cruise line placed magnets to the door indicating and welcoming their repeater guests. And I think also indicating the different member status (not sure about this one but there have been differences).

I thought it was a nice idea and it was interesting to check out how many repeaters on the ship.

No big deal but I liked the idea.

Sorry for getting a little OT.

 

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[Cruise Miriam]

Pam, over the past few years, I've seen some doors decorated on RCI ships, mostly for special occassions.

 

On my last cruise, our Host Cruise, and the C&A member cruise, we had magnets from RCI and I had printed out door signs that had been made available here on Cruise Critic. I don't see why you couldn't have a contest. If in doubt, why don't you have your TA ask RCI directly?

 

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[PammyHound]

YES! Decorations make it much easier to spot your cabin when you're going down those long halls. On the Conquest this past January, my inlaws could never figure out which way to turn to get to their side of the ship until somebody decorated the door on the other side so they always knew to go the other way!

 

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[PammyHound]

That is interesting, they must be indicating to the crew members who their gold, platinum and diamond members are. So guess if I don't have a magnet on my door, does that mean I won't be getting the "royal" treatment say a Diamond member might?

 

Dennis! I'm glad to see you in the in the spirt of things! Can't wait to see your door!!

 

Miram, thanks for the info, I'll check with Debbie@Crucon and have her double check it with RCI. We have decorated our doors on several Carnival cruises so I'm hoping we can on RCI!

 

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[This message was edited by PammyHound on 04-16-04 at 02:55 PM.]

[madforcruising]

PammyHound:

It was on NCL where they had the door magnets indicating the member status.

Never saw them on RCCL. So don´t worry about the Service.

I just remembered this of the NCL cruise and thought it was a nice idea RCCL could think about.

 

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[PammyHound]

Whew! I'm glad to hear RCI doesn't have the past guest magnets since I'm a newbie this trip to town but next time... I'll be a full fledged past guest! This is cruise number 5 for me but being my first RCI one, I feel clueless all over again.

 

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[Cruise Miriam]

PammyHound, those magnets I referred to were for the special Crown & Anchor cruise. I've never seen it before.

 

If you want to know the truth, I've always had great service on RCI, but the absolute best was on my very first cruise with them. They have no idea if you've cruised with them before or not.

 

As for the ideas with the Bahama immigration forms and printable luggage tags, I made those suggestions to RCI. Maybe more people need to?

 

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[serene56]

the doors are differnt on a Roayl ship compared to a carnival ship. Also the hallway is a lot different then carnival also. I always had an aft cabin on carnival and the walk down those looonnnggg hallways were murder. But theway the ahllways are on ROyal where the bulge out is...the hallway looks curved so the walk isnt so bad. (you even get a small mailbox kinda thing outside your door where you get your reminders from the cabin steward.. (nice touch)

 

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[PammyHound]

Cheryl, all the new ships in Carnival's line have mailboxes too! It was a very nice addition.

 

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[Dzamma]

I decorated our door on our last cruise just for fun. No complaints from anyone. Other cruisers said it helped them to find their cabin too. I put sticky magnets on the back, so it wouldn't hurt the door.

 

 

 

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[Woodywoman]

We've decorated our door in the past. Once, we were told that it wasn't allowed by a room steward. The second time a theft came by and stole part of our decoration.

Good luck!

 

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[renee107]

Thanks for the idea!!! There's 20 of us going on the AOS Oct. 3rd. Decorating the doors will put some fun into cruising, especially if I do it without them knowing it!!! COOL!!!

 

 

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[PammyHound]

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[jkrislc]

I saw plenty of decorated doors on the Monarch this past weekend. There didn't seem to be a problem with them.

 

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[jburp]

Last year we decorated our door in Red White and Blue to show our patriotism. Brought garland and pasted it around the door frame. This year we had brightly colored paper garland for around the door and decorations of parrots on the door. No one ever told us to take it off.

[tamtot]

Any other decorating ideas?

The doors are magnetic? (If that's a stupid question, tell it to me gently!)

Thanks,

Tammy

 

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[jkrislc]

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

Any other decorating ideas?

The doors are magnetic? (If that's a stupid question, tell it to me gently!)

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

The doors are metal (like your refridgerator) so magnets will stick to them. If you are going to tape things up, bring tape that wont leave a residue or use that removeable gummy stuff by 3M.

 

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[sbgrace]

We cruised with a group of first-timers last year--my family were the only folks that had cruised before. We pasted used pictures of famous people to decorate the door--with the real person's name underneath. One couple, for example, were Maxwell Smart and Agent 99. Another couple were James Bond and Pussy Galore. Some of our friends thought this had been done by the room stewards and wondered how they got the personalities so accurate. LOL We heard our room stewards laughing at the joke--so they enjoyed it too.

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[PammyHound]

Oh that does sound fun! What a cute idea!

 

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