Please Get a Diaper Genie...

[sbell111]

If you look on down the railing, there are people simply looking off their verandah, and one lady taking a picture. The panels between the verandahs are NOT privacy panels. You can quite easily see into the one next door without having to "peek around". Which is how my friends and I saw the undies in the first place. We were looking in the same direction as the people on down the way.....and you can't help but see the next verandah.

There is a rather large difference between getting a glance of other verandas and sticking your head (and camera) around the barrier to get a good view. Doing that, in my opinion, is the height of rudeness.

I don't feel the least bit bad about taking and posting this picture. Anyone who has any objection to it must be guilty of something.

I object to anyone that uses this argument. It is kind of the melding of "If you don't testify on your behalf, you must be guilty" and "Anyone that disagrees with me is wrong." It adds nothing to a discussion and insults the opinions of others.

 

[justmestace]

...I will admit that you have listed very very very valid points here that I also feel we should all take a cue from. 1) Yes, I do not want any Disney cruise ship looking like the above picture.
2) Yes, I too often wonder why smokers feel it is necessary to flick their cigerette buts wherever they feel. Whatever happened to the federal law of no ocean littering????
3) You also brought up an issue I haven't thought of......being next to people like that (who hang up their clothes on a clothes line) while on a cruise ship....EEEEWWWW.

One difference with DCL and Princess....the varandahs on Princess are "tiered" .....everything from above can very easily drop into the next one down below. Leaving port one day on Princess, the family above us was eating grapes. About every third or fourth grape fell down to our balcony.
Point being, it wouldn't happen quite that easily on DCL.
AND....no one knows if the cigarette in question was "flicked" on purpose, or if it had blown from a perfectly "legal" ashtray from above.

So please, let's don't take this thread someplace it wasn't intended to go.

 

[justmestace]

There is a rather large difference between getting a glance of other verandas and sticking your head (and camera) around the barrier to get a good view. Doing that, in my opinion, is the height of rudeness.I object to anyone that uses this argument. It is kind of the melding of "If you don't testify on your behalf, you must be guilty" and "Anyone that disagrees with me is wrong." It adds nothing to a discussion and insults the opinions of others.

Okay....it wasn't any of my business to take that picture. I admit that. But....think of all of the local photographers who were shooting the "Mickey Ship" for the very first time....and also got that same shot.
The picture was taken on purpose to bring back here and show people how incredibly tacky it is to hang your undies on the verandah. I admit it.

Now....imagine.....Mr. Tom McAlpin was on that cruise. Imagine he's standing down there with local dignitaries and he says "That LONG balcony up there is the Walt Disney Suite......and right next to the Walt Disney Suite is someone hanging out their drawers to dry"

That's more tacky than me taking the picture. And yes, we were in the Walt, and that was the room next door.

 

[BuzzLightyearInTampa]

If you look on down the railing, there are people simply looking off their verandah, and one lady taking a picture. The panels between the verandahs are NOT privacy panels. You can quite easily see into the one next door without having to "peek around". Which is how my friends and I saw the undies in the first place. We were looking in the same direction as the people on down the way.....and you can't help but see the next verandah.

I don't feel the least bit bad about taking and posting this picture. Anyone who has any objection to it must be guilty of something.

Wow, we've only cruised once so far (2001 Magic Eastern) and are going on the Western in October. I was considering the Veranda, but for an extra $200/day it doesn't hardly seem worth it if they aren't really private. So what exactly can one do on a "private" veranda that can't be done from deck 4, or the balcony on the back of the ship?

 

[brucechase]

So what exactly can one do on a "private" veranda that can't be done from deck 4, or the balcony on the back of the ship?

I know I shouldn't , but I can't resist:

On a "private" veranda (but not on the back of the boat), you can hang your underwear out to dry.

 

[cmash95]

one would think that disney has a list of cabins with children under three or even under four, so they could make sure the diaper genies are automatically in the rooms along with a checklist for any emergency supplies that might be needed throughout the cruise.

 

[justmestace]

I know I shouldn't , but I can't resist:

On a "private" veranda (but not on the back of the boat), you can hang your underwear out to dry.

People HAVE actually admitted to "discovering the Magic" on their verandahs.

There is also a space where the panel meets the wall of the ship that you can see right through to the next verandah. When we've had friends in the room next door, that's how I can tell if my friend is out there reading a book....I can see her sitting through the space.

 

[sbell111]

Okay....it wasn't any of my business to take that picture. I admit that. But....think of all of the local photographers who were shooting the "Mickey Ship" for the very first time....and also got that same shot.
The picture was taken on purpose to bring back here and show people how incredibly tacky it is to hang your undies on the verandah. I admit it.

Now....imagine.....Mr. Tom McAlpin was on that cruise. Imagine he's standing down there with local dignitaries and he says "That LONG balcony up there is the Walt Disney Suite......and right next to the Walt Disney Suite is someone hanging out their drawers to dry"

That's more tacky than me taking the picture. And yes, we were in the Walt, and that was the room next door.

Given how low those clothes were hanging, they wouldn't even be seen from below if it was a 'white wall' veranda.

 

[MassDisLovers]

So what exactly can one do on a "private" veranda that can't be done from deck 4, or the balcony on the back of the ship?

On our December 2006 Christmas cruise the folks next door did LOTS of things on their veranda a LOT of the time. So many and so often in fact, that we were very uncomfortable even stepping out on ours! We assumed they must be honeymooners, but we finally saw them in the hall on the last night, they were both in their 60's at least........ So...... I guess you can do whatever you want on your verandah! (except hang your underwear of course!)

 

[justmestace]

Given how low those clothes were hanging, they wouldn't even be seen from below if it was a 'white wall' veranda.

It was plexiglass.....mid-ship next door to the Walt. And they were hanging high enough to see....at least the ones in the middle were.

 

[justmestace]

On our December 2006 Christmas cruise the folks next door did LOTS of things on their veranda a LOT of the time. So many and so often in fact, that we were very uncomfortable even stepping out on ours! We assumed they must be honeymooners, but we finally saw them in the hall on the last night, they were both in their 60's at least........ So...... I guess you can do whatever you want on your verandah! (except hang your underwear of course!)

Good for them! I guess....

 

[caitlinsdad]

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.

Now if we could stop the smoking on the verandahs that would have prevent the fire too.
Apearance aside, in some counties hanging clothing outside is perfectable normal, while at home we still a clothes line. On the ship we use the line in the shower. No clothing on the vernadah for us, heck I don't want to look at it, so I suspect others don't to

 

[justmestace]

Now if we could stop the smoking on the verandahs that would have prevent the fire too.
Apearance aside, in some counties hanging clothing outside is perfectable normal, while at home we still a clothes line. On the ship we use the line in the shower. No clothing on the vernadah for us, heck I don't want to look at it, so I suspect others don't to

You'd have to stop smoking on the ship entirely, since no one knows if the cigarette that caused the Princess fire was from another verandah, or up on deck.

 

[justmestace]

Since I'm a soon-to-be first time Grammy.....and Diaper Genies weren't around when my kids were little....I have a question. People have said that eventually they smell no matter what you do.
Is there any way to coat the inside, with (for example) vaseline or maybe something else, so that the smell wouldn't permeate the plastic container?

 

[CRSNDSNY]

That's a good question.
We were always very diligent with our diaper genie and after some time they just have a funk to them. So after our first, I gave up on the genie. By the time my son was born we just double bagged the nasty ones, flushed what we could and used regular trash for the garbage. Surprisingly enough, this has been working out much better overall.

Some people swear by them, though!

Since I'm a soon-to-be first time Grammy.....and Diaper Genies weren't around when my kids were little....I have a question. People have said that eventually they smell no matter what you do.
Is there any way to coat the inside, with (for example) vaseline or maybe something else, so that the smell wouldn't permeate the plastic container?

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

That's a good question.
We were always very diligent with our diaper genie and after some time they just have a funk to them. So after our first, I gave up on the genie. By the time my son was born we just double bagged the nasty ones, flushed what we could and used regular trash for the garbage. Surprisingly enough, this has been working out much better overall.

Some people swear by them, though!

ITA!! Flush, bag, dumpster. Repeat.

 

[justmestace]

That's a good question.
We were always very diligent with our diaper genie and after some time they just have a funk to them. So after our first, I gave up on the genie. By the time my son was born we just double bagged the nasty ones, flushed what we could and used regular trash for the garbage. Surprisingly enough, this has been working out much better overall.

Some people swear by them, though!

That's what we did, but we didn't have a choice. I know my daughter was looking at the Diaper Genie, but I'm not sure if she got one or not. If she did, I was hoping to be able to advise her on how to not have it smell eventually.

 

[CRSNDSNY]

I think most new Moms get it because they hear so much about them and it is "the thing to use." It's a bit of pressure when doing the baby registry. I've tried to advise other new mothers against them but most get it because, well, it's "a diaper genie!"

Stinky stinky stinky!

And when we had our kids on the cruise, we didn't get the genie. We followed the same steps we do at home. For the stinky stinky ones we had extra shopping bags with us and double bagged them and my husband took them to a public restroom on the ship to put in the trash. We figured they changed that garbage quite often so it'd be less offensive to put it in there.

I'm sure I'll be flamed for that...

 

[mla2177]

You can get diaper genies on the cruise? Do you have to be in a certain category?

 

[lbgraves]

No, anyone can request one. We never used one of them....mainly used cloth except when I could get the kids changed one last time before they drifted off to sleep and it wasn't worth waking them up to put on a Pamper. DS was 2 and DD 6 months before I started getting better deals on diapers and I switched full time but we used the deodorized baggies for the dirty diapers. The cloth diaper pail in the nursery never stunk up the room though.