Launderette upgrades on DCL fleet

[ladyofthetramp]

On the long European cruises washing clothes is a battle. There is always a wait for washers and dryers. If the laundry rooms are busy It’s very rude not to stay on top of when the cycle ends and be there. Yes people will remove clothes after a few minutes. No one wants to waste more time than necessary doing laundry.

I’m glad DCL starting offering the deals on laundry service that helps.

Oh yes- "May the odds ever be in your favor". We did laundry twice on 9 nt med- both through the ships service. Once it was a special, once because I needed to. Best money ever spent.

 

[mcd2745]

I’m glad DCL starting offering the deals on laundry service that helps.

Has it become a consistent, reliable offering? If it's hit-or-miss, people will still have to anticipate needing to use the laundrettes.

However, if guests can be confident that it will be offered, maybe they don't even consider using the laundrettes, making them less busy and freeing up machines.

 

[Sykes]

I think if clothes have been left 3 hours then by all means speak to guest services and have them move them. I don't think you should be touching other people's property.

I would absolutely not hesitate to move someone else's laundry if it has been sitting finished for an unreasonable amount of time. I've done it at laundromats, I've done it at my apartment building, and I'd do it on DCL. If the owner doesn't want their property to be touched then they shouldn't be a jerk and be there when their laundry finishes.

 

[Clarkson U]

Why should we waste guest services’ time moving laundry that has sat there for an hour (to say nothing of the time of the guest who just wants to do their laundry— why should they walk to guest services and wait in line instead of handling the laundry left in a machine?)?

Why would it be less objectionable for guest services to move it on top of a free space than a guest?

I don’t like the idea of strangers (guests or guest service CMs!) touching my clean laundry, but I can avoid it by setting a timer and returning to fetch my items when the cycle is complete. The machines are a shared community resource and they shouldn’t be tied up by people who can’t make it back to collect their belongings— I’m pretty sure the norm in every shared laundry facility is that people who don’t want their clothes set aside by strangers need to return and handle their own laundry in a timely fashion.

No need to set a timer. The app actually tells you what machine has started for you and when it ends it lets you know that as well.

 

[Flossbolna]

No need to set a timer. The app actually tells you what machine has started for you and when it ends it lets you know that as well.

But it doesn’t do reliably so. My alerts that the machine was done regularly came about 15-20 minutes later. So if you want to make sure no one takes out your stuff, set your own timer.