Handwashing

[CeCe0906]

While I will of course have hand sanitizer with me, trying to do my best to avoid noro, which needs the soap/water wash. Are there bathrooms or handwashing areas around the ship in the common areas? I mean I can wash my hands in my cabin, but you touch a hundred surfaces between there and the dining rooms. Say I've been on the pool deck awhile, or walked around the upper decks, up and down stairs and touching handrails and I decide on a snack at the quick service by the pools. Place to wash up anywhere? What about on Castaway? Do the cabanas have a place to wash hands?

 

[Marc D]

There are plenty of restrooms around the common areas all across the ships, usually no more than a minutes walk away from where you are eating or participating in an activity. They are continuously monitored and cleaned. In my experience, you always feel like you're the first guest to go in there after the attendant cleaned it.

I'm not sure if they added hand washing station during COVID at CC. If not, you need to go to the restrooms. They can be a treck from the beach, but they are next to the buffets. You have a shower at the cabana, but no sink or soap. You need to walk to the public restroom, a few minutes walk at the most, to wash your hands.

 

[ambula603]

I just have to add - the bathrooms on the ship are STUNNING and so pretty, so I love trying to find them all!

 

[Erica1016]

The Wish has a couple of handwashing stations near the quick-service food area as well, which was great!

 

[brentm77]

I just have to add - the bathrooms on the ship are STUNNING and so pretty, so I love trying to find them all!

Agreed. And so clean! It's one of the things I love about DCL. Seems small, but if I am spending a week somewhere, it is really nice to walk into any bathroom and always find it spotless. These little things really add up for me.

 

[CeCe0906]

There are plenty of restrooms around the common areas all across the ships, usually no more than a minutes walk away from where you are eating or participating in an activity. They are continuously monitored and cleaned. In my experience, you always feel like you're the first guest to go in there after the attendant cleaned it.

I'm not sure if they added hand washing station during COVID at CC. If not, you need to go to the restrooms. They can be a treck from the beach, but they are next to the buffets. You have a shower at the cabana, but no sink or soap. You need to walk to the public restroom, a few minutes walk at the most, to wash your hands.

Thanks, it's weird that they have the shower, but not a small sink, obviously the plumbing is there. Hopefully we will get one they look really nice. It would be nice to rinse sand off hands before a snack.

 

[Marc D]

Thanks, it's weird that they have the shower, but not a small sink, obviously the plumbing is there. Hopefully we will get one they look really nice. It would be nice to rinse sand off hands before a snack.

The showers are there to wash the salt and sand after your dip in the ocean. Before COVID, hand washing was obviously not such a big concern on the island.

I hope you're sailing Concierge because, if not, your odds of having a cabana are pretty much 0%

 

[CeCe0906]

The showers are there to wash the salt and sand after your dip in the ocean. Before COVID, hand washing was obviously not such a big concern on the island.

I hope you're sailing Concierge because, if not, your odds of having a cabana are pretty much 0%

We are doing concierge, but since there are so many concierge cabins, I'm not counting on it. There look really cool, and my gd and niece are old enough I could relax on the porch and watch from the shade. But the price tag ,oof! But ...so cool.

 

[tvguy]

. Before COVID, hand washing was obviously not such a big concern on the island.

We were on Castaway Cay in January 2004 during a norovirus outbreak and they had hand sanitizer stations all over the island. Surprised those still aren't there.

 

[lanejudy]

hand sanitizer stations

Hand sanitizer stations are different than hand washing stations.

 

[tvguy]

Hand sanitizer stations are different than hand washing stations.

Yes, but they serve the exact same purpose, to clean you hands. And plumbing Castaway Cay for hand washing stations is more work than the hand sanitizers

 

[Lolabear_la]

but they serve the exact same purpose, to clean you hands.

While that's true of most germs, op specifically stated concerns re: norovirus. Hand sanitizer isn't effective for that particular bug and requires soap/water.

 

[tvguy]

While that's true of most germs, op specifically stated concerns re: norovirus. Hand sanitizer isn't effective for that particular bug and requires soap/water.

True, but the Disney response when they had an outbreak on the Magic was to station crew members at every restaurant with jugs of hand sanitizer and the stands all over the ship.

 

[lanejudy]

True, but the Disney response when they had an outbreak on the Magic was to station crew members at every restaurant with jugs of hand sanitizer and the stands all over the ship.

That was in 2004. Last I was onboard CMs pass out hand-wipes at the entrance to MDRs (still not as good as hand-washing but more effective than sanitizer) and there are hand-washing stations at the entrance to Cabanas. I don't recall sanitizer stands all over the ship, could be that practice has ended since it isn't effective against noro.

 

[tvguy]

That was in 2004. Last I was onboard CMs pass out hand-wipes at the entrance to MDRs (still not as good as hand-washing but more effective than sanitizer) and there are hand-washing stations at the entrance to Cabanas. I don't recall sanitizer stands all over the ship, could be that practice has ended since it isn't effective against noro.

Last cruise I did was October 2019 on Celebrity, so pre-covid. They had the sanitizer stands outside the restaurants and all over the ship to help with preventing norovisus.

 

[lanejudy]

I thought we were talking about DCL?