Originally posted by ragdoll
DH is always first off the ship and gets us a hammock on the adult beach. We do use it a lot. We also tell whoever is sitting near us that they are welcome to use it when we are in the water or eating lunch. In four cruises, no one has ever taken us up on our offer. Guess they just must feel awkward about it.
I really feel a that Disney could help this situation by getting more hammocks. If I'm not mistaken there are only four of them on the adult beach. Not nearly enough.
Yes, sad enough - the chair hogs from the ship migrate to island.
That is a joke..... let's not now debate the difference between the ship's pool chair hoggers and the hammock hoggers - it is not fair to make such a wide judgemental assumption on any kind of chair hoggers! I'm just yoking with ya all! You should see my kitchen...... my kids are the biggest "best TV watching chair while I eat dinner hoggers" I've ever seen!
But don't let that scare you off. Grab a chair and take it to water!
We knew from the our last
DCL cruise that we would enjoy a hammock if we were to get one. We also knew that it would not be used the entire time. We would always be in the water!
We offered everyone around us - we said - hey, if we are not in it - help yourselves! No one did. But we also used it alot but in no way were we using it the entire time! I think families should share - all the families around the hammock should share it. They are pretty cool.
Also, if you stick around - at about 2pm....... there are a lot of empty hammocks and it gets quiet and it's a great snooze time.
I don't know if the OP was on the 5/8 cruise, but I saw a man, sitting on a chair next to a hammock - never saw anyone in it. He was guarding it - but he could have been laying in it. I'm sure everyone was in the water!
It's fun when you share! You get to talk to other families and that is one of the best things - to get to know other people. I loved it when I would be taking a picture and someone would come up to offer to take one for us!
We originally had enough chairs saved for our family of 5 - we were way far down passed the jungle gym - and as we saw families come up later that morning I said - "here take ours - my kids are in the water!" Like my 11 year old is really going to lounge on a lounger! NOT! Like any of my kids will get out of the water to sun!
It's hard to imagine moving someone's stuff in a hammock and just sitting down in it. Because the hammock is usually grouped together with loungers and chairs. With all the family's stuff around it. So you could indeed move the stuff and lay in the hammock and you would THISCLOSE to the loungers and chairs with it. The hammocks don't move. That is why you can see the family who is using it or not.
Maybe they should consider isolating the hammocks like they did on a beach in Cozumel. It was mentioned that there would be hammocks on the beach in Cozumel and there were. But they were lined up at the back of the beach - in a row - no room for loungers, chairs, etc.
We had fun sharing everything around us (the umbrella is something also you can share, especially with people who may come late and have small babies). When the waiter came around and announced 2 for 1 Conk Coolers! We were all together on that deal! Not until then did a couple sit together on the hammock and they were swinging and talking to us and we got to know each other! We were sad that we had to leave!
Share and make friends! It's fun!
Why do people think they own the hammock all day because they use it for a while?
