Another question!

[Duffy Bear]

Sorry about this! It's a shame I can't think of all my questions at the same time but they just sneak up on me. Three weeks today we go on our first Disney cruise (after spending a week in Orlando off site) and there are so many things to think about! We are from the UK and have done some Mediterranean cruises and on most ships the time you can leave your sun lounger unattended is 45 minutes after which time your things can be removed to free it for other guests. We're quite happy with that and can manage lunch in that time. Just wonder if anything like that happens on Disney ships.

We will be using the adult pool area and are on Fantasy this time but have booked for Magic next May!!

Many thanks for any help you are able to give!

Gill X

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

Sorry about this! It's a shame I can't think of all my questions at the same time but they just sneak up on me. Three weeks today we go on our first Disney cruise (after spending a week in Orlando off site) and there are so many things to think about! We are from the UK and have done some Mediterranean cruises and on most ships the time you can leave your sun lounger unattended is 45 minutes after which time your things can be removed to free it for other guests. We're quite happy with that and can manage lunch in that time. Just wonder if anything like that happens on Disney ships.

We will be using the adult pool area and are on Fantasy this time but have booked for Magic next May!!

Many thanks for any help you are able to give!

Gill X

Hello no it doesn't really the only thing you can do is as a staff member of the crew to get you a bed and they may remove it.

People do hog sun chairs for long periods but actually done cruisers are terrible as well. On my recent Magic cruise from Dover, I went to Cove pool with my wife and daughter at around 9.30 now there were not three beds together but after a while someone left, just leaving DCL used towel on the bed.

So we cleaned it up, put new towels down, we all used all three, then the sun came out and my wife said get the sun cream.

Our room was just below on deck 8 midship, I was gone three minutes.

In that time whilst my wife and daughter were talking a lady dumped herself in the bed I had.

I came back and said what happened to my bed they said they were em raised to say anything. I made a comment to the lady about bring away for three minutes and she ignored me.

So cruisers can hog and dome steal both as bad as each other.

 

[sambycat]

its an ongoing course of unhappiness here on the boards in regards to the state of unattended loungers and whether or not CMs do anything about it! I don't think they enforce not saving them and clearing them off very well. typically, i can find loungers somewhere up until maybe 1 or 2, then event upper decks (where i like to go) fill up. At least for a little while. Chairs around the pool decks/in the sun (and the cool adult quiet cove chairs) are typically sat upon early in the morning and very difficult to come by. And empty and unattended appearing. While I don't move belongings, although I might eventually move a solitary discarded appearing towel after observing it a while, others might. IMHO 45 min is more than long enough to wait. I'd give it more like 20-long enough to get to a room to grab something and back or get through a long line at the cabanas. And i would leave more than a towel.

In any event, its a crap shoot as to availability and configuration of shares. And whether waiting is tolerated or not!

 

[Trera]

We always take out towels with us when we leave so there is no confusion

 

[squirk]

I don't know how the CMs can really enforce it, or at least, enforce it well. If they come across an unoccupied chair with just a towel on it, there's no way for them to know if that person gave up the chair, isn't coming back, and just neglected to take their towel with them vs. if the person just ran to the bathroom and will be back in two minutes.

I've found that leaving clothes or shoes on the chair, or at the foot of it, usually helps. Unlike a towel, no one leave their clothes or shoes behind, so people can't claim "Oh, I didn't know this chair was still being used". Plus, few people will want to handle someone else's shoes or clothing to move them off the chair.

That having been said, grabbing a chair does not mean you have a priority claim over it for the rest of the day. There are a lot of people who leave their chairs unattended for way too long, and then get mad when someone takes it. For example, I think it's really poor form to call dibs on a chair and then run to Cabanas for lunch.

Sadly, common courtesy isn't as common as it should be on these cruises.

 

[turtle27]

Just my personal opinion, BUT you should be in/near/around the pool area to have a lounger. I would feel bad about losing a chair after 5 minutes as a poster above did, this I would not do, had personal items been left, or I would have used this lovely mouth to ask the rest of the party if he/she was coming back.

Anyhow, just treat others like you would like to be treated. Typically when we go to the pool, we want to get in the pool, we may need a lounger/area to keep our towels warm and our belongings, but try to take up maybe 1 for 3 of us. What does tick me off is when people see us put our things down and then us get in the pool and then feel free to move our belongings. At least ask, and then respect the answer.

 

[Duffy Bear]

Thanks for all your replies. I just want to be able to get (hopefully!) two sun loungers, in the sun, in the adult area, and just lie there and read! Either I would send my partner for any food drink I want or, if he's asleep (very likely!) I would go. It would be nice if we could leave the chairs to go for lunch (45 minutes as I said before) leaving my book, hat, on the lounger so I could carry on where I left off!!

It could be that we end up being so busy we don't have much time for lying in the sun but I just wanted to get some advice from those who know - that's you!!

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

Thanks for all your replies. I just want to be able to get (hopefully!) two sun loungers, in the sun, in the adult area, and just lie there and read! Either I would send my partner for any food drink I want or, if he's asleep (very likely!) I would go. It would be nice if we could leave the chairs to go for lunch (45 minutes as I said before) leaving my book, hat, on the lounger so I could carry on where I left off!!

It could be that we end up being so busy we don't have much time for lying in the sun but I just wanted to get some advice from those who know - that's you!!

Enjoy it.

 

[squirk]

Thanks for all your replies. I just want to be able to get (hopefully!) two sun loungers, in the sun, in the adult area, and just lie there and read! Either I would send my partner for any food drink I want or, if he's asleep (very likely!) I would go. It would be nice if we could leave the chairs to go for lunch (45 minutes as I said before) leaving my book, hat, on the lounger so I could carry on where I left off!!

It could be that we end up being so busy we don't have much time for lying in the sun but I just wanted to get some advice from those who know - that's you!!

Again, just my opinion, but 45 minutes in Cabanas is way too long to hold chairs if the deck is crowded and people are looking for seats.

If the deck is not crowded and there are more seats than people, then sure.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Just my opinion, but 45 minutes in Cabanas is way too long to hold chairs if the deck is crowded and people are looking for seats.

That's what I was thinking, also. If you actually leave the area for more than a few minutes (for whatever reason - lunch, getting something you forgot in your room), I think you should vacate the chair.

I agree with turtle27, if you are actually in the area (in the pool, talking to friends at another chair, getting a drink) the chair is still yours.

 

[sambycat]

agree. going to eat lunch elsewhere is a bit much. it is challenging to find chairs in the sun in the adult area near the pools. there are chairs, just in the sun there aren't a lot given the way the area is built. i always end up going to the deck above the pool because i like listening to the disney movies/music in the background and there is plenty of sun. you can be just a flight of stairs from the pool or aquaduck

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

Hello no it doesn't really the only thing you can do is as a staff member of the crew to get you a bed and they may remove it.

People do hog sun chairs for long periods but actually done cruisers are terrible as well. On my recent Magic cruise from Dover, I went to Cove pool with my wife and daughter at around 9.30 now there were not three beds together but after a while someone left, just leaving DCL used towel on the bed.

So we cleaned it up, put new towels down, we all used all three, then the sun came out and my wife said get the sun cream.

Our room was just below on deck 8 midship, I was gone three minutes.

In that time whilst my wife and daughter were talking a lady dumped herself in the bed I had.

I came back and said what happened to my bed they said they were em raised to say anything. I made a comment to the lady about bring away for three minutes and she ignored me.

So cruisers can hog and dome steal both as bad as each other.

That's what I was thinking, also. If you actually leave the area for more than a few minutes (for whatever reason - lunch, getting something you forgot in your room), I think you should vacate the chair.

I agree with turtle27, if you are actually in the area (in the pool, talking to friends at another chair, getting a drink) the chair is still yours.

So you say that if your gone three whole minutes to get sunscreen then you should vacate the chair??? Wow.

 

[over50visits]

So you say that if your gone three whole minutes to get sunscreen then you should vacate the chair??? Wow.

Someone said that? Doesn't make any sense. Problem is with people abusing chair saving so much that it becomes a big deal and you end up with ideas like you can't run to you room while your family is there sunning and waiting for you.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

Someone said that? Doesn't make any sense. Problem is with people abusing chair saving so much that it becomes a big deal and you end up with ideas like you can't run to you room while your family is there sunning and waiting for you.

Yes agree and that's a comment on a post above, I posted above I went three minutes my stateroom is midship deck 8 and got sunscreen and came back, the weather was overcast but brightened up, my chair with my towel was taken in that time. I agree you cant go 45 mins but some people think 3 minutes is wrong, so that's the time it takes to go to the restroom!!!!!!!

Sensible rules, not rules police!!!

 

[Mrs Green]

So you say that if your gone three whole minutes to get sunscreen then you should vacate the chair??? Wow.

You know what I re read it and now I don't know what she meant.

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

She didn't say that at all. She said if someone leaves for more than a couple minutes. She actually was defending you and thought what happened to you was wrong.

Doesnt read that way???????

If you actually leave the area for more than a few minutes (for whatever reason - lunch, getting something you forgot in your room), I think you should vacate the chair.

'if' I am wrong I apologize but if doesn't read that way to me!!!

 

[Mrs Green]

Doesnt read that way???????



'if' I am wrong I apologize but if doesn't read that way to me!!!

I also edited my post because I think I misread or misunderstood her, but I really don't even know at this point. I don't get how leaving for three minutes can be lumped together with leaving for lunch.

 

[Duffy Bear]

Sorry I asked now! I promise not to 'keep' any chair when I go for lunch - will take my things with me.

 

[mmouse37]

Thanks for all your replies. I just want to be able to get (hopefully!) two sun loungers, in the sun, in the adult area, and just lie there and read! Either I would send my partner for any food drink I want or, if he's asleep (very likely!) I would go. It would be nice if we could leave the chairs to go for lunch (45 minutes as I said before) leaving my book, hat, on the lounger so I could carry on where I left off!!

It could be that we end up being so busy we don't have much time for lying in the sun but I just wanted to get some advice from those who know - that's you!!

Your best bet to keep a chair in the sun is to head up to Satellite Falls on the Fantasy which is all the way forward on Deck 13. It is an adult only area with a water feature. You can grab sun beds there and should not have any problem keeping them for awhile. It is not usually too crowded up there.

I also don't feel if I run to my cabin to get something and I am coming right back that I should vacate my chair. That's sounds silly to me.


MJ

 

[squirk]

It sounds like you will be sailing when most of the U.S. is back in school, which should help with the crowds. I agree with mmouse37 - upper deck by Satellite Falls is your best bet. The real knife-fights for chairs occur by the main pools where parents need to sit by the pools to keep an eye on their kids.

Still, I maintain that if open chairs in your area are running low, it would be good form to give up your seats when you go to Cabanas for lunch.