Concierge to Stateroom??

[bumbershoot]

ended up having to make a formal complaint due to inappropriate behavior.

Yikes!

 

[Club Disney Chandler]

Geeze, I have heard of spoiled and entitled, but this remark takes the cake!
If you are fortunate enough to even be on a Disney cruise, you are blessed. The regular veranda staterooms on a Disney ship are much larger than staterooms on other cruise lines.

We LOVE our veranda stateroom, because we love the crew and the ship and the fact that we are blessed enough to be able to cruise at all. I cannot imagine what being around snooty people who think regular stateroom are "horrible" would be like. The air up there where you are must be very thin. Such lofty company would give me nosebleeds...

Enjoy what you have and don't think for a second that it is permanent. Everyone could lose everything and they might "have" to travel with the regular folks. Don't kid yourself. NO one is THAT special.

We could afford to do concierge every cruise, the 3 times a year we cruise, BUT we don't need to or have to and we LOVE cruising. (And we enjoy it, because it COULD all go away, just like that, we take nothing for granted!).

We get all kinds of special little magical moments all the time from the crew because we have cruised so many times and mainly because we treat the crew as equals, not servants or lesser people. They are equal people to us. They like to be treated as what they are, equal people who just may be working on the ship, but no lesser person than you are.

Oftentimes we are surprised in our room by some treat or gift just because we treat others as we want to be treated...We have many friends in the crew that we keep in touch with via Facebook and email and these are forever friends. It is not about the fancy staterooms or the special amenities, it is about meeting folks from all over the world, enjoying yourself, and the ship and if you need special treatment and fancy accoutrements to do that, I actually feel sorry for you.

Also, we don't "need" the special magical moments, but they are given of the heart and kindness of very wonderful crew members, so they are enjoyed that much more, but expected, no. We feel so grateful for any special treatment such as a fruit plate delivered by room service to say thank you for ordering from them all week, or a rose handed to me by my Palo server, or any gesture, it is amazing. I always bring little gifts with me, maybe special See's candy, or crystal pendants and I love to give gifts to our stateroom host/ess and the Spa girls, or even a crew member we make a friendship with. Their eyes just light up and they are so thankful and special to be remembered for any kindness received from them. Yep, I love me, my cruise ship crew! They quite literally have our lives in their capable hands.

Magic and joy are found in the simplest things. I feel blessed to even be able to cruise. And meeting the wonderful crew from all over the world is a special treat! One I cannot get here at home....the simple things of cruising, enjoy those quiet moments, that moment when a child sees Mickey for the first time, the amazing people you might meet, and the sheer joy of being blessed enough to even be on a beautiful ship at sea, well fed, with a warm room and bed and being cared for by some of the hardest working people you will ever meet.

(Just an aside: Did you know the Palo servers receive NO wage for their work? They only earn what tips people give them. This is 100% accurate, and should be illegal, but is not, because these ships do not fall under the jurisdiction of U.S. labor laws. Remember this, next time you tip your Palo waiters!)

So....horrible to stay in a non-concierge room?

Horrible? No, I do NOT believe so. But some guests are....

I love this post and love to read about people with an attitude of gratitude. Things in life seem to go so much better when you are grateful for what you have. I wish you many happy sailings and thank you for bringing a smile to my face this morning.

 

[DCLDVC1]

I don't think I could ever go back down, We do the 1 bedroom suite as well.

The lowest I think I could possible go is the "normal" conceriage level room that is a step below the 1 bedroom.

I can't imagine cruising in one of the regular rooms, it would be horrible.

It looks like you hooked a few.

 

[Pkltm]

We've sailed concierge and we've sailed steerage. We leave in 25 hours for another non-concierge cruise and cruise next Thanksgiving in concierge. We like both a lot. Then again, we are tshirt, beer and Fritos people, not Polo, Dom Perignon and Osetra folks.

You should try dom with fritos

 

[chimo2u]

Now that I've experienced a Cabana at CC, concierge is probably a must do for me so I can secure one of those!! We loved our concierge cruise and look forward to sailing again in 2017 / as 2 adults I really enjoy the quiet concierge areas and the pillow menu in my room, the cold drinks in my room and the lounge, just the little things make concierge worth it for me!

 

[arielchickenofthesea]

I love this post and love to read about people with an attitude of gratitude. Things in life seem to go so much better when you are grateful for what you have. I wish you many happy sailings and thank you for bringing a smile to my face this morning.

Thank you, my friend! I truly believe that we must be grateful for the good in life and learn from the negative...We have learned to appreciate everything that comes our way, good things AND the lessons from the bad or not-so-good. It is all about passing along the good and appreciating it in the now. It takes time to really learn it, for it to sink in. We go through lots of life experiences and we learn it that way.

Now, in retrospect, the post(s) from that particular poster seem to be trolling or pulling our leg, but I still believe what I believe. If we are blessed enough to be able to go on a cruise, we are blessed.

Many happy cruises to you and may life sprinkle pixie dust on your experiences!
May your life be filled with an abundance of blessings!