Please Get a Diaper Genie...

[inkkognito]

...rather than just bagging up your used diapers and tossing them outside your stateroom door. Yep, that's what our neighbors did on our last cruise. They were rather...um, interesting...their verandah was also festooned with flapping clothes for the duration of the trip. I was waiting for some socks or a pair of undies to come flying over on the windy days. It was kind of icky passing a Winnie the Poo bag on the way to our room. Maybe they were clueless about the Diaper Genie (DCL still offers 'em, right?), but that was a first for me to see!

 

[TiaMaria]

...rather than just bagging up your used diapers and tossing them outside your stateroom door. Yep, that's what our neighbors did on our last cruise. They were rather...um, interesting...their verandah was also festooned with flapping clothes for the duration of the trip. I was waiting for some socks or a pair of undies to come flying over on the windy days. It was kind of icky passing a Winnie the Poo bag on the way to our room. Maybe they were clueless about the Diaper Genie (DCL still offers 'em, right?), but that was a first for me to see!

Odd....I wonder why their room steward, after picking up a couple of poopy bags, didn't just give them one?

 

[Olga]

Surprised that the stateroom host didn't remedy this by providing a diaper genie and removing items from the verandah.

 

[inkkognito]

I'm wondering if he did eventually give them a Genie, as we saw the bags a couple of times in the first two days but not by the end of the cruise (thank goodness). The festooned verandah remained for the duration. I'm not sure if they were swimming and bathing in their clothes or what else they might have been doing to create such a need to hang 'em out there...or maybe they didn't have quarters for the dryer? Oh well, it was cause for amusement to see what was out there each day (they stored one of their two strollers out there too and kept the second one out in the hall...seemed weird to have two strollers for one kid, but hey, what do I know?).

 

[CarsFans]

Sometimes the diaper genies are a bit smelly... Make sure to get a fresh smelling one or your room will smell.

 

[CRSNDSNY]

Eeew, that's gross.

 

[Tony94]

Eeew, that's gross.

Lol! I agree but its kinda funny!

 

[disneylove69]

I work in retail and people will leave dirty diapers under the racks and in the aisles.

 

[trimix]

You just can't escape the Clampetts...

I hope Jed and the family didn't disrupt anybody else's enjoyment of the cruise.

 

[inkkognito]

You just can't escape the Clampetts...

LOL, we think alike! I kept thinking that it was the Bodines next door. Fortunately they were relatively quiet neighbors, other than occasional bouts of the kid crying. I dunno if they created disruptions elsewhere, but our area was nice and peaceful overall.

 

[sbell111]

You know, they could have actually requested a diaper genie and had it not show up timely. Given that, the stateroom host may actually have suggested that they 'hall' the pooh bags.

Also, I can't imagine why I would care if someone left stuff on their veranda.

 

[lbgraves]

The verandah is more a matter of it being a rule that things are not to be hung out there. Usually the hosts will take whatever is out there and put it in the stateroom with a note/letter from the ship explaining those rules. Besides that, it is tacky IMO to have things on the verandah especially in port. Somewhere out there is a picture of a neighboring verandah that had a line filled with drawers hanging up. Can you imagine looking over at the ship from another cruise ship and seeing that?

 

[DisneyMom1976]

I cannot believe that a parent would actually leave dirty diapers in the hall. I was blessed to have my oldest daughter potty trained by 2 so I didn't have a problem with her. My youngest is turning 3 and almost there. We cruise on June 7 and I promise my fellow passengers on Deck 5 that I will NOT throw her pull ups in the hall. I already planned to take plastic ziploc bags and place anything I can't get down the "flush" into the bag and ask the roomkeeper what the best option is. I did talk to a Mom on my last cruise that said her roomkeeper told her to place diapers in ziplocks and place them in the public restrooms on her floor because those are cleaned and checked every hour. I don't know about that. Also, it drives me nuts when people hang stuff over their railing- It is my business if I'm trying to take a picture of my family in front of the wonder in port and all I see is someone's laundry in my pic. DISAPPOINTING

 

[princess aleya]

I have to agree that's pretty disgusting.

 

[suzyqn]

I just don't understand why someone would put a dirty diaper in the hallway. (I hate to put my dirty dishes out there).

Maybe kids all poop differently but I always flush any poop from the diaper. I then roll up the diaper and put it in the trash. Since the stateroom trash was emptied twice daily it was never a problem. We did not see our stateroom host at all the first day so I didn't even remember to ask for one but I am convinced that they sometimes make things smell worse.

(I know breast-feeding poop is a whole different story and may not apply

 

[zachnsamsmommy]

As a parent of a toddler, who will not be potty trained when we go on this trip....how can you NOT get a diaper genie....EWWW. We will be requesting one the MOMENT we get on the boat.

We cloth diaper at home, and don't use a diaper genie (we dump the diapers)...but I couldn't imagine being confined in that small of a room without one.

And as for the clothes on the verandah...sounds kinda Jed Clampett to me as well. (I do hang my clothes at home...try to reduce my utility bills). But I wouldn't do it on a cruise.

 

[inkkognito]

Also, I can't imagine why I would care if someone left stuff on their veranda.

Are you familiar with the Princess Cruise Line fire and how it started?

 

[Aurora's Mommy]

Sometimes the diaper genies are a bit smelly... Make sure to get a fresh smelling one or your room will smell.

Not to get too OT, but I actually got a used diaper genie for my baby shower. It wasn't my friends fault, she bought it off the shelf in that condition (there have always been rumors that this particular chain takes back anything, and now I now its true).

When I opened it, it didn't smell right (OK, it smelled downright bad), and the first insert, which is usually included, wasn't there. DH insisted we return it before I had the baby, he didn't want anybody to think we would use it and return it in that condition . I still can't believe someone did that! And I doubt they even tried spraying it with Lysol before doing so.

Back to the topic, clothes hanging on the verandah next door would annoy me, but I tend to have a low "peeve-threshhold," so I would try to not let it bother me. BUT, I did not know that hanging clothes had anything to do with Princess fire, do tell. Would I have a legitimate peeve here?

 

[inkkognito]

Princess wasn't clothes specifically but rather flammables in general on the verandah. Someone tossed a cigarette down that ignited something flammable on a verandah below. That is why all cruise lines, DCL included, have made changes like going to less flammable furniture and why the stateroom hosts often remove items left out on verandahs. The clothes next door didn't bother me so much as amuse me, but Princess was in the back of my mind, especially since the room was on the starboard (smoking) side. I sure don't want the Wonder to end up looking like this:

 

[justmestace]

Here is the "infamous" photo. It was at DCL's first-ever stop in St Kitts, so there were all sorts of people from St Kitts out there to greet the ship and take photos. Dignitaries, media....you name it.
Not only is it against ship rules, but also pretty bad for Disney, if you ask me.