Pearl--what if guests use employee laundry room?

[Silverspoon]

In past threads, I've read that people have used the employee self-service laundry rooms because the guest washers were full.

 

Would this still work?

[coilover88]

So you use the empty washer and dryer. Now, the employee with limited off from his/her long day comes in to do laundry and the machines are full because of your load. We have no intention of going into Joe the waiter's house and use his washer and dryer. It just isn't the civil or fair thing to do.

[smeyer418]

you know its a violation of homeland security regulations for non employees to be in an employee area unescorted...punishable by up to five years in jail.

[Silverspoon]

Personally, I have never used any employee-only area on any cruise ship.

 

What I'm wondering is, if by eliminating the passenger laundry rooms--some passengers will begin to use employee laundry rooms.

 

No doubt, many booked their NCL cruises a while back when they thought they'd have access to a laundry room, thus packing less clothing. They'll show up and surprise! No laundry room!

 

Wondering if NCL will have a problem keeping guests out of the employee laundry rooms--especially since guests were already using them on occasion.:rolleyes:

[DMH15]

Most hotels do not have laundry rooms. A cruise ship is a floating hotel.

[Stillfloatin']

It's your vacation, don't worry about doing laundry, just stuff it all in the $19.99 laundry bag special. It'll come back all nice and clean and pressed. No muss no fuss for hardly any money.:D

[ohioNCLcruiser]

It would be a security violation. Cameras would catch you and they would send someone to remove you back to your part of the ship. Plus you would have to find the wash rooms and I'm sure they would already be in use by crew. They are for the crew and crew only! It was hard enough finding a crew washing machine not in use when you needed it. The last thing a crew member wants to see is a passenger using their areas!

[galipemi]

It would be a security violation. Cameras would catch you and they would send someone to remove you back to your part of the ship. Plus you would have to find the wash rooms and I'm sure they would already be in use by crew. They are for the crew and crew only! It was hard enough finding a crew washing machine not in use when you needed it. The last thing a crew member wants to see is a passenger using their areas!

 

 

Not only would the cameras catch you but so would the crew!

 

If crew sees you wandering down in crew only areas and does not escort you out AND report it, they can be dismissed immediately. Of course the only way to really find a crew laundry area is normally to get crew to show you/direct you. Any crew member doing that on my ship would have been fired on the spot, no questions asked. When my mother sailed with me as a guest, she couldn't come and see my cabin without special permission and for a very limited time.

 

Bottom line, either take advantage of the onboard full service laundry or wait until you get home. While you might end up with a slap on the wrist, someone else might get into some real trouble.

[ketzelacruising]

I suppose this would be okay if you don't mind the crew showering in your cabin or having a smoke on your balcony....

[ohioNCLcruiser]

I suppose this would be okay if you don't mind the crew showering in your cabin or having a smoke on your balcony....

 

LOL so true!

[LovesCruising]

Wow - I can't believe this one!!

[BikerAl]

I suppose this would be okay if you don't mind the crew showering in your cabin or having a smoke on your balcony....

 

My vote for best post of the week.

 

Al

[OldBaldGuy]

The crew work long hours. I suspect that they have to do their laundry on their limited time off. I would feel like a real jerk if I were using their laundry facilities when they needed to do their stuff...

[terrymtex01]

I suppose this would be okay if you don't mind the crew showering in your cabin or having a smoke on your balcony....

 

Yep.. this gets my vote as the funniest posting of the week.. Good going..

 

As far as the original question... I don't know if I am more shocked at how fast someone came up with a way to get around the laundry room closing issue or the fact that anyone would ever even think to use a crew only laundry room (from the OP saying they have read where people used the crew only laundry room).

 

OP.. are you thinking of the other thread about the laundry room closings where someone said the laundry room looked like a crew only area? I can not even imagine how a pax would be able to find a crew only laundry room or get access to it.

[cruizinwithkids]

I suppose this would be okay if you don't mind the crew showering in your cabin or having a smoke on your balcony....

 

I think there would be many who would have no problem with this. Have you ever read the shipboard romance section of cruise critic.:D

[mbisson]

I suppose this would be okay if you don't mind the crew showering in your cabin ....

 

Fine by me-as long as she's Beau-Ti-Ful, but my wife may not agree ;)

[terrymtex01]

I think there would be many who would have no problem with this. Have you ever read the shipboard romance section of cruise critic.:D

 

LOL.. I have got to find that thread. I have a friend who worked on the QE2 and the stories I have heard from him and lonely women on the ship while their husbands were sitting at a black jack table..etc..LOL.. I have always thought he had to be exaggerating, but now I am going to have to find that thread and see if any of them wrote something about him. And trust me.. I don't doubt the ladies were all over him.. think Keanu Reeves with a british accent.

[ohioNCLcruiser]

LOL.. I have got to find that thread. I have a friend who worked on the QE2 and the stories I have heard from him and lonely women on the ship while their husbands were sitting at a black jack table..etc..LOL.. I have always thought he had to be exaggerating, but now I am going to have to find that thread and see if any of them wrote something about him. And trust me.. I don't doubt the ladies were all over him.. think Keanu Reeves with a british accent.

 

You will have to read my book once I'm finished working in the cruise industry forever..

[Stillfloatin']

You will have to read my book once I'm finished working in the cruise industry forever..

 

Can I put in an advance order? :D:D

[terrymtex01]

You will have to read my book once I'm finished working in the cruise industry forever..

 

Oh James.. PLEASE tell me I will get an advanced autographed copy. And, I want your ok when the book comes out to start the first offical OhioNCLCruiser fan club.. 8-).

[cruizinwithkids]

Oh James.. PLEASE tell me I will get an advanced autographed copy. And, I want your ok when the book comes out to start the first offical OhioNCLCruiser fan club.. 8-).

 

Whooooooaaaa, Terry. I have been James number one fan for longer than you. Stand in line.:D

[Arwenmark]

Speaking of the seamer side of things onboard, has anyone besides me read the book, If I Were Not Upon The Sea written by the wife of a captain, and a former cruise director if I remember right.

That is one interesting and funny book.

 

As for anyone using the crews amenities of any sort I would hope they would be caught and escorted off the ship at the next port.

[terrymtex01]

Whooooooaaaa, Terry. I have been James number one fan for longer than you. Stand in line.:D

 

Ok ok.. as long as I get the advanced autographed copy of the book..8-)

[zamboni_girl]

LOL.. I have got to find that thread. I have a friend who worked on the QE2 and the stories I have heard from him and lonely women on the ship while their husbands were sitting at a black jack table..etc..LOL.. I have always thought he had to be exaggerating, but now I am going to have to find that thread and see if any of them wrote something about him. And trust me.. I don't doubt the ladies were all over him.. think Keanu Reeves with a british accent.

 

You will have to read my book once I'm finished working in the cruise industry forever..

 

I think anyone that has worked in any sort of Tourism has a whole book load of stories. I think I will write a companion piece to James's book about Yellowstone.

 

On both the hilarity and the "are you friggen kidding me" end.

[flgirl]

Speaking of the seamer side of things onboard, has anyone besides me read the book, If I Were Not Upon The Sea written by the wife of a captain, and a former cruise director if I remember right.

That is one interesting and funny book.

 

 

I bought this book and met the author on a Celebrity ship. Boy does that book have some funny stories....and great stories about the good old days on ships.

 

The author is/was the wife of a captain, an american woman who married a greek captain. They had a little boy too. I picked them up at the Port a few weeks after the cruise and we all went out to a movie. She had an interesting life on the ship. But I know she was looking forward to her husband retiring so they could settle in one place with their son.