Are Disney ships the only ships with chlorine pools?

[mdsoccermom]

Carnival's latest ship cost in the neighborhood of $800 million to build; not so cheap.

Seabourne has salt water pools. I have no idea how much the ships cost to build but you might want to price their cruises....not so cheap.

Celebrity has salt water pools. Cunard has salt water pools. etc. etc.

MOST of the cruise industry has salt water pools.

Oasis of the Seas (RCI), the most expensive ship ever built, has saltwater pools:
http://www.royalcaribbean.com/findacruise/experience/html.do?exCode=599

Oceania and Regent also have saltwater pools. Not cheap by any stretch.

 

[MillauFr]

In my youth, I liked the salt water ones better. I get better tans with salt water. Never could get tanned when I do a chlorine pool tanning.

That make sense. Chlorine bleach will make you more white. Good for clothes not for skin. Even the salt water pools on the ships have some amount of chlorine in them they just have less than the fresh water pools.

 

[rosermama]

They are actually saltwater pools otherwise they would not be able to drain them directly into the sea per the waste guidelines on the cruise ships. Even the water from your bathroom cannot go directly back into the sea.

It is a type of saltwater from the sea which has been treated, I assume they use the same type of chemicals they use on land which is not cholorine based. There are many other types of pool chemicals which are less hazordous to use that clean as effectively and safer for the environment. I can't remeber the name off the top of my head of which one they use.

Also saltwater retains heat better then freshwater which is partially why people use it in the hot tubs.

Disney heats there pools on land to a even tempature, I assume they monitor this on the ship as well.

 

[ga9497]

Carnival's latest ship cost in the neighborhood of $800 million to build; not so cheap.

Seabourne has salt water pools. I have no idea how much the ships cost to build but you might want to price their cruises....not so cheap.

Celebrity has salt water pools. Cunard has salt water pools. etc. etc.

MOST of the cruise industry has salt water pools.

Oasis of the Seas (RCI), the most expensive ship ever built, has saltwater pools:
http://www.royalcaribbean.com/findacruise/experience/html.do?exCode=599

Oasis, Freedom and Allure have both salt and non salt water. Most of the regular passenger swimming pools are not salt water, the flow rider is not

 

[mhsjax]

I can't speak about the pools on a cruise ship, but I will tell you that the pool in my back yard is salt water and I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[Who's your Mickey?]

Many of the newer ships have salt water pools that are not straight sea water. They are desalinated sea water then treated with salt (like some of the newer backyard pools).

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Holland America has fresh water pools.

 

[Donna3271]

NCL uses salt (on the ships I have been on anyway). My eyes were burning out of my head within minutes. My kids were miserable!!! It was horrible!!!

 

[Amunet]

When we went on Mariner of the Seas (with RCI) it had saltwater pools

 

[MillauFr]

NCL uses salt (on the ships I have been on anyway). My eyes were burning out of my head within minutes. My kids were miserable!!! It was horrible!!!

Were your eyes burning from the salt or the chlorine? Chlorine is very harsh on your skin and eyes and can cause burning if they have the concentration too high.

 

[rosermama]

NCL uses salt (on the ships I have been on anyway). My eyes were burning out of my head within minutes. My kids were miserable!!! It was horrible!!!

Really I have been in many saltwater pools and I have not had this problem. Maybe they are using a concentration of salt that is too high or the wrong salt.

Don't give up on salt water give it another try

Maybe someone used table salt. cause they ran out of the correct salt to use

 

[DVC Jen]

I can't speak about the pools on a cruise ship, but I will tell you that the pool in my back yard is salt water and I wouldn't have it any other way.

ditto. We love our salt water pool.

 

[Zandy595]

They are actually saltwater pools otherwise they would not be able to drain them directly into the sea per the waste guidelines on the cruise ships. Even the water from your bathroom cannot go directly back into the sea.

It is a type of saltwater from the sea which has been treated, I assume they use the same type of chemicals they use on land which is not cholorine based. There are many other types of pool chemicals which are less hazordous to use that clean as effectively and safer for the environment. I can't remeber the name off the top of my head of which one they use.

Also saltwater retains heat better then freshwater which is partially why people use it in the hot tubs.

Disney heats there pools on land to a even tempature, I assume they monitor this on the ship as well.

The water in DCL pools might have come from the ocean, but by the time they are put in the pools they are no longer salt water.

The reason the water from the bathrooms cannot go directly back into the sea, probably isn't totally due to the fact that it isn't salt water. I would think that is has a lot to do with the things that are in the water when they go down the drain, like shampoo, soap, toothpaste and what goes in the toilet...

 

[Alexander]

Are DCL pools chlorinated or are the treated with bromine? It seems like when when we were on the Wonder a few years ago the water in the Mickey pool seemed to have been treated with bromine (which is a little salty). I honestly cannot remember!

No, the pools treated with chlorine would not be able to be put back into the ocean unless there is some process by which they remove the chemical before dumping. Even bromine for pools contains a good percentage of chlorine to act as the catalyst.

 

[Donna3271]

Were your eyes burning from the salt or the chlorine? Chlorine is very harsh on your skin and eyes and can cause burning if they have the concentration too high.

Hi,
It was DEFINITELY the salt. We have a pool at our home, as well as our shore house that we keep heavily chlorinated, as well as a hot tub that we use bromine in. It was the salt. It was on the All-Access Nick cruise. Other people in the pool were complaining as well. I have nothing else to compare it to, because I've cruised RCCL with freshwater, and DCL. Perhaps it was an isolated incident and they are all not that bad?

 

[Donna3271]

Really I have been in many saltwater pools and I have not had this problem. Maybe they are using a concentration of salt that is too high or the wrong salt.

Don't give up on salt water give it another try

Maybe someone used table salt. cause they ran out of the correct salt to use

Rosermama,
LOL!!! YES! It felt like table salt. Something was off. The other people in the pool had eye burning as well. Sounds like an isolated incident, and something was wrong. But, it made me love DCL all the more

 

[karl_nj]

Carnival's latest ship cost in the neighborhood of $800 million to build; not so cheap.

Seabourne has salt water pools. I have no idea how much the ships cost to build but you might want to price their cruises....not so cheap.

Celebrity has salt water pools. Cunard has salt water pools. etc. etc.

MOST of the cruise industry has salt water pools.

The QE2 might have had salt water pools, but I do know that the Queen Mary 2 has fresh water pools. So it would be incorrect to say Cunard has salt water pools.