Moving "reserved" towels?

[Laurabearz]

This thread got me thinking... I have a colapsable crate that I might bring to toss our our stuff poolside, when we are not in need of chairs... do you think they would allow such a thing... it's about 1 1/2 feet X 1 foot brightly colored.. It's kind of like this one....

http://www.stacksandstacks.com/html/80017_collapsible-crate--folding-file-container.htm

 

[mmouse37]

I can't see you having a problem....it is a good idea!!! Look, if people can bring blow up baby pools with them and set them up on deck....I can't see them giving you a hard time about a crate!!!

 

[Billinaz]

 

[scottishwee35]

We Brits have long been the sufferers of such antics by the German tourists around Europe and the Med vacation resorts. This advert was produced to show how to beat them at their own game, not very PC but funny all the same and mean't in good humour. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIJqF8av6I

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Hi

Our kids was when they watched the video of youtube.

Scottishwee35

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

So the chairs say EXTENDED periods.. that answers that debate doesn't it!

Sounds like a great idea...but..I can still see the same selfish people stashing their stuff in cubbies all day while they roam the ship...leaving the people at the pools with no choice but to put their stuff on the deck and still end up with it soaking wet!

Well whoever would do that is a fool, IMO. Their stuff could be stolen if they left it there all day! That's just asking for things to be stolen...

I also don't think that everyone in a family needs a chair. If the kids are playing in the pool most of the time, they don't need a chair held for them just so they can rest for a short while (shouldn't rest in the sun anyway, it's draining not restful in my doctor's opinion) or grab a quick snack. They can sit on the end of mom or dad's chair for that. There just are too few chairs to "call" them.

I agree. Most of the time my husband used one chair and the kids swam. If they came up to him for a bit or if they ate near the pool- he sat up on the lounger and our UP TO 3 children at a time sat all around on that one lounger. And it wasn't even because there weren't other seats available- there were. When I would come around (occasionally LOL I'm not much of a sunbather!) I'd sit on the chair next to them and we all shared 2 seats- but we didn't leave anything on that extra chair when I left- it was open for anyone to use.

We are a family of 6 and we only took 1 or 2 chairs at any given time.

Ditto. Our family of 5 only used a max of 2 chairs at a time- but usually it was everyone minus me (=4) that used only one chair- the kids were in the pools the majority of the time.

I am usually just a lurker but the last post infuriated me. "We don't care if you are in the pool, bathroom etc...." What would give someone the right if I was cooling off in the pool for 2 minutes to touch my bag containing my ipod, camera, videocam and other stuff. For the poster to imply that my butt literally has to be in the chair at all times, is just ridiculous. There is a big difference between saving a chair and using a chair.

That bothers me too- considering we have children who are different ages and my husband was only using ONE chair for all 4 of them, of which he was usually there with his butt planted in it- however he did get up occasionally to go check the goofy pool to make sure our older two (or one when the middle child was over at the mickey pool too) were still there and occasionally to get them some food to come back and all of them eat in the same chair- one chair! That's not reserving for "extended periods" like the chairs state on them.

I "Did you see a lot of attempted chair saving on your Magic Cruise?"
Just thinking!

I have only cruised on Magic and my answer would be no, I didn't see a lot of chair saving or attempted chair saving. But then we only needed one chair for all of the other 4 in my family... we weren't trying to get 2-4 chairs near one another. We may have had more problems trying to do that.

Clearly this is a sensitive topic, but it seems to me, as a previous poster noted, that "reserving" a chair (per DCL's wording) is completely different than being in a chair and using it, but having to go to the bathroom or wanting to cool off in the pool for a few minutes. Surely, DCL does not intend for people to pounce on and occupy chairs that are only temporarily empty because of the aforesaid and similar reasons. Can't there be agreement among us on even this seemingly obvious distinction? Some of the previous comments indicating that an even momentary absence validates taking someone else's chair are very distressing, particularly on this board.

I agree. If you see a chair unoccupied and things are in the chair- by all means watch it for a bit and assume control of the chair if no one is using it for "extended periods" (like the chairs say) but if someone is in the chair and leaves to take a young child to the bathroom (especially when they still have other children there, for goodness sakes! MOST people would be coming back if they left stuff. I for one would not leave stuff at the pool for extended periods of time just asking for it to be stolen, or pushed off in water to get ruined/wet/etc.) or to take the children to get food to then eat at that chair/etc. then you need to leave it alone. The signs do not say you must be sitting in the chair at all times or else lose it!

This thread got me thinking... I have a colapsable crate that I might bring to toss our our stuff poolside, when we are not in need of chairs... do you think they would allow such a thing... it's about 1 1/2 feet X 1 foot brightly colored.. It's kind of like this one....

http://www.stacksandstacks.com/html/80017_collapsible-crate--folding-file-container.htm

That's a great idea really... you're very own portable cubby hole, so to speak!

 

[cruisinluver]

To be fair, there usually are more than one "reserved" chair by any pool. We would be more likely to move a shoe or one towel or book than an entire bag of stuff.

However, I have seen an entire bag of stuff spread out among five chairs as early as 7AM. You never know how "extended" a period of time someone has been gone. I happen to think passing by a chair twice in a 10-15 minute period with no one in it is more than extended when it comes to pool chairs.

Now when it comes to theatre seats, the only ones I care about being reserved are those for the deaf so they can have a view of the interpreters at the shows. And like a PP mentioned, I have seen an entire row attempted to be reserved by one kid at one end and one kid or adult at the other.

 

[Soccermom-Cheri]

I don't think that anyone would have an issue with taking a kid to the bathroom then sitting back in your seat.

Having seats "saved" with one shoe, one bottle of lotion, one towel that never get sat is what gets me unhappy. I gladly move them then sit down.

If you are going to luch inside beach blanket then returning to your seat 30 minutes later, dont expect it to be there.

If you are getting something from the counter serves there then returnign to your seat to eat it, that should be allowable.


Bottom line....................................................simple common courtesy.

On one cruise I was one of the first with my family of 5 into the Walt Theater. As I was almost to the front row a guy with a kid RAN past me and sat about 8 seats apart. When I sent to sit down, he said those seats were reserved.

I sat with my family and told him that you cannot reserve seats, especially with nobody there. His response was that his family was on the way. I told him that there was no way he could not do that as they announe it on the tv and its in every single navigator. He said that he nevver read the navigator... funny he knew the show schedule!

I told him to get in line earlier next time, and have everyone there. I was not moving and if he didnt like that to find a cast member to tell and they would tell him he could not do that.

The guy moves back a row and starts telling his kid that because of rude people he cannot with the rest of the family.

What a jerk.

Funny thing was that when his family got there 30 minutes later I heard his wife tell him that he could not save seats...........

good for you - and good for his wife.

 

[JenniferAtl]

This is no joke, on another cruise we saw a couple remove a man's prosthetic leg from a chair. He had it wrapped up neatly in towel and they tossed it aside. The leg went rolling out of the towel and scared the you know what out of them.

We only get a chair when we are actually using the pool - not going down to look at pictures or getting something to eat. I can't stand it when people come to the pool fully dressed, deposit some items in a chair and then disappear for 2 hours. We share one chair and my husband and I take turns getting in w/ our daughter. If both of us are in the pool, it is only for 10-15 mins and that is it.

 

[MaryKatesMom]

On a Wonder cruise in 2003 I was shocked by the number of people who saved chairs and never sat in them for HOURS.

We couldn't find a seat so I ended up reading at a table a distance from the pool while my DH took the girls in the pool. After awhile, the "pool dance" was more interesting then my book. People would come up to the pool and do a circle around looking for unoccupied seats and there wasn't one for quite awhile. We spent the afternoon at the pool and one family had 5 seats saved pool side without ever a back side in them.

I've never heard of any CM's moving stuff. Has anyone else?

 

[inkkognito]

We had that same front-row seat-saving insanity, but with one teenage kid who announced to me that he was saving the whole row! I plopped my butt down and informed him that seat saving was not allowed, and that he could go complain to a CM if he had a problem with that. He huffed off and I never saw him again, but a woman in the second row moved up next to me with her granddaughter. She thanked me for calling out the seat-saver; she said he told the same thing to her, and she thought that he must be a CM because she just couldn't imagine that someone would be that bold/rude!

 

[two-foxes]

The problem is, it is not HER chair. Secondly, rarely is a chair saved with an IPOD, videocamera, camera, bag. Usually it is a shoe, or a book, or even a bottle of suntan lotion.

Coming by, no one has any idea if someone has "just gotten into the pool" or "just run to the bathroom". I stand by my feelings. If you are not in the chair, it is free for anyone as no one else is using it.

Wow, if you would have taken my "saved-with-my-towel-and-magazine" lounger on our last cruise while I left it unoccupied while I went I one of my many bathroom breaks thanks to my soon-to-be-here bundle of joy , you would have come back to a very upset hormonal pregnant woman. It really would not have been a pretty sight!