Flooding on Balcony of Cabin 6150

[mmouse37]

My intent is not to scare anyone, but to make you all aware of what happened to our friend on his recent 8/3 Magic cruise with us.

He had cabin 6150 which is aft and one of the "metal verandahs". On the Saturday we sailed, just before the deck party (which had to be cancelled) a huge rain storm blew in. Rain came down like cats and dogs. Our friend went to his cabin afterwards and noticed that the balony was flooded with about 2 inches of water. He could not stand out there because it was too deep. He thought it would naturally drain off, but it did not. It stayed that way and he finally had to call housekeeping and they brought in a wet-vac thing to pump off the balcony. He noticed that the cabins around him also had the same problem.

His balcony was rendered useless for quite a bit of time as whenever we had rain the balcony would flood, unless you wanted to take off your shoes and wade onto the balcony. Who wants to stand on their balcony with your feet underwater...Housekeeping was good about coming, but it was a pain to keep calling them to pump out the balcony.

I have never seen this mentioned before on the DIS, that is why I brought it up now.

He was also talking with people who had cabin 7119 and that cabin seemd to have bad ventilation, was very wam and had a mildew smell. After repeated complaints DCL moved them to another cabin (after they complained they were all getting irritated throats).

Again, not meant to scare, just to give a heads up....knowing is half the battle!

MJ

 

[MrsG]

We were in 7118 and when we checked in, our balcony had the same problem. There was too much water to soak up with a towel so we called housekeeping and they came right away. We don't know if this was a one-time thing because we had no rain on our 7 day. It really does make the balcony unusable.

 

[dis4me]

We did too in 6608 howerever I originally thought it was from them cleaning.After a few hours when it didn't clear up we called housekeeping too and they took care of it.It didn't rain after that so we didn't have a problem.
How unfortunate for your friends. Did it rain often?We sailed last Aug and I don't remember it raining at all.

 

[mmouse37]

It rained very heavily while we were about to leave Port Canaveral, and then once or twice during the night during the week. Nothing to keep us from enjoying the outdoors, but it did render his balcony useless until housekeeping came.

You would think if this was a continual problem that Disney could figure a way to make the balconies drain somehow.

MJ

 

[PiperG]

Did anyone of you posters have a plexiglass verandah, or was the problem limited to the metal verandahs?

Thanks for the info.

 

[KeenHo]

We had the same problem on our verandah in room 6634. It rained long and hard prior to our departure on June 22 in Florida. We asked the cabin steward (Chumpol) about it and he said they would send someone with a wet-vac. No one ever came. If they had, the water from the other aft/starboard verandahs would have drained back towards ours (the last verandah with the obstruction - you know the one).

The water eventually evaporated the second day. We didn't use the verandah much, if any, so the water didn't bother us too much. There was a drain on our verandah, but the water didn't reach it, it needed to be squeegeed (not sure of spelling on that one).

It must be fairly common. It seems as if the CM's are pretty good (in general) about coming to suck it up.

Howard

 

[aalan]

last march we cruised the 7 day in 6150 as well, and when we lst boarded the boat, there was water on the veranda from cleaning. our room host said it would evaporate, and eventually it did, like 2 1/2 days later. you dont get a ton of sunshine on the port side of the boat, especially that far back. it was a little dissapointing, but not a big deal. you'd think disney would have this problem figured out, there definately needs to be a drain on the verandas with the enclosed metal.

 

[inkkognito]

In 5650 on the Magic, we had occasional mini-floods on the verandah. It wasn't major, and our stateroom host would send someone to suck it up. But interestingly, this has never happened to us on the Wonder in the same stateroom...just the Magic. Must be a Magic "aft thing."
Barb
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[dis4me]

Ours was a plexiglas verandah.Once it was cleared though we didn't have any problems