Banging closet doors and other annoying things...

[itutorfortravel]

with less than 3 months to go, i am now serious about getting my notes and things together for our cruise!

i have heard people complain about the banging hangers and doors on the closet in the cabin. i don't think we could take the hangers down since we'll be using them. think they'll be quieter with stuff on them?

also, i know at one point i heard a suggestion on how to keep the doors from banging. can someone refresh my memory?

any other minor annoyances that you can help me avoid by being prepared? thanks!

 

[Marla Hellwig]

Once I got the clothes hung up the hanger 'noise' stopped

I didn't notice closet doors banging

Though one night bathroom door was swinging - it did 'bang' shut before I could get up to put something down - I just used a pair of socks

 

[kcashner]

The closet doors have a sort of "almost closed" and a really tightly closed position. Make sure they are fully closed or they will bump around.

Never noticed hanger noises after clothing was on them.

 

[outahere]

We always take a roll of masking tape, just in case the closet doors don't want to stay closed. Just taping the door to the door frame, with a couple of short pieces, has worked every time.

We also use the tape to make sure that DW's contact cleanser bottle doesn't tip over.

 

[Laura22]

I thought the closet doors velcroed shut or something like that? I swear I read that here. I've never had a problem with them banging.

 

[kcashner]

THey do...and also with a sort thing that I don't know how to describe on the track. It is like you push it to a certain point and it is really solidly closed.

 

[nzdisneymom]

Once clothes are on the hangers, no more noise from them, but it is true that if you don't have the closet door closed completely, it may be noisy on a rough night. But just make sure to slide it completely closed before you go to bed.

As for the bathroom doors, we found it just as easy to go ahead and close them at bedtime, too, to keep them from slamming shut. We found that there was enough light coming in under the door from the hallway for "night light" in the room so we didn't have a need to leave the bathroom light on.

 

[Deb T.]

I am a very light sleeper, so banging hangers, rolling closet doors, and swinging bathroom doors always bother me. I've even heard these noises from cabins on either side of us.

Everyone is correct: once clothes are on the hangers you won't hear them anymore. On the last night, I usually wrap a towel around the empty hangers to keep them quiet. We always shut the tub side bathroom door and then wedge a hand towel under the toilet side bathroom door to keep it from swinging. The closet doors do have a velcro catch, but you have to shut them pretty hard to engage it.

Now.... if we could just solve the creaking, I'd be all set! I've wedged pieces of cardboard into every nook and cranny during all of my previous seven cruises... some of which I've forgotten to remove on the last morning. oops!

When all else fails, those little spongy earplugs from hardware stores do the trick!

 

[kcashner]

When you find a cure for the guy in the next cabin snoring (no, not kidding) or the tweens running up and down the halls at night, let me know.

You KNOW the kids are in trouble when my teenage daughter stops them and tells them that their behavior is "Not cool" and that if they don't stop, she will be calling guest services. They made fun of her and she called!

 

[nacho1337]

THey do...and also with a sort thing that I don't know how to describe on the track. It is like you push it to a certain point and it is really solidly closed.

They are held by Velcro. If they are banging all you have to do is call guest services and they will replace the Velcro so they hold.

 

[lavawalker]

Now.... if we could just solve the creaking, I'd be all set!

Maybe I'm just weird or something, but I kinda liked the creaking sound - reminded me that I'm on a cruise ship and made me happy On the other hand, on the first night of our Western last Thanksgiving, the door on that trunk looking thing kept swinging open! It's magnetic, so I wasn't sure what to do. Finally I just fell asleep and thought I'd call next time to see what they suggested. It ended up that was the only night it happened. The other nights were pretty smooth...

 

[lbgraves]

When you find a cure for the guy in the next cabin snoring (no, not kidding) or the tweens running up and down the halls at night, let me know.

Unfortunantly I have had that happend too. It woke me up a couple nights and I was close to tears. I banged on the wall. I was laying there figuring out what their room number was ... at 1:30 am one night deciding that I was going to call to wake them up to get them to stop but finally fell asleep from exhaustion.

 

[Deb T.]

Maybe I'm just weird or something, but I kinda liked the creaking sound - reminded me that I'm on a cruise ship and made me happy

There was something about the creaking that drove me crazy... like fingernails on a chalkboard! However, I do like the sound of waves, but that's about the only "sound" I can sleep through.

 

[nzdisneymom]

What's worse than the creaking is the rattling of the upper bunk's rail. We used packing tape to tape it into place one trip - wish we'd had duct tape then. We had duct tape on our last trip but didn't need it for the rattle.
I noticed a few days into the trip that we didn't have a rattle but I didn't want to say anything about it because I was afraid I would jinx it.

 

[zoill]

The doors latch shut, but sometimes they do not get closed all the way and if the boat rocks a certain way they slide open and bang.

 

[sftnslky]

Sadly on our last cruise..this past June to Mexico I WISH we only had the closet doors, or creaking to keep us awake at night. The family that had an inside cabin across the hall from us YELLED & FAUGHT night after night after night. The kids would cry, the wife would cry.. I know that many of us called guest services..and a few times DH saw security come and talk to them. One night it was so bad [would swear he started hitting all of them] that our kids started crying and begging DH to go and stop the man. DH thinks that security finally took him away after that, because we never saw or heard him again for the rest of the cruise, but we saw the wife. The sad part she knew that most of us knew what was going on..every time you would see her come out of the cabin or pass her in the hall she would put her head down to not make eye contact with you. I just wanted to hug her and tell her everything would be ok, but who knows if it really will. I will never forget them I kept thinking.. "this should be one of their happiest times in one of the happiest places but...."

 

[wdwwishes]

The creaking bothered me on our first cruise. I think I'll try the spongey ear plug tip this time. I don't remember any door issues but think I'll take along some masking tape, just in case. We were lucky and had no noisy neighbors on or first cruise. I guess the beauty is that whatever sleep you loose during the night can always be made up on deck or in a nice Castaway Cay hammock!

 

[swandiverpatt]

I'm very noise sensitive and have slept with earplugs for years (maybe it was my DH snoring that you heard ..... just kidding, but he does snore). One cruise, we had a cabin on the second deck near Wavebands and I didn't even hear the bass once I put the earplugs in.

My DH, on the other hand, loves to hear the ship creaking. The advice about putting a rolled towel in the doors is a good one -- it would work for the closet as well.