Poll- Your Pet peeves

[llachance]

Just wanted to know what my fellow cruisers pet peeves are?

One of my pet peeves is people not using hand sanitizers.

Is people that complain that people don't use hand sanitizers. It doesn't mean that they don't wash their hands. I am allergic to a lot of different kinds of cleansers and don't want to take a chance - of having a rash - while on vacation.

 

[MillauFr]

This may have been posted already, but those who can't follow a simple rule. Like a dress code. And Disney not only not enforcing it but changing it so the few can be accommodated. As an example 3 years ago it was no shorts in the mdrs. But people not only wore them anyway but blatantly said we don't dress up at home so were not doing it on vacation. What did Disney do? They looked the other way and now pretty much anything goes. Is it really that hard to put on a nice pair of pants and shirt for a few hours? There's another thread about Palos. Even Palos is looking the other way for some things.

I think Disney was just adjusting the guidelines to stay competitive. I don't believe any of the mass market cruise lines have strict dress codes.

 

[stitchlovestink]

This may have been posted already, but those who can't follow a simple rule. Like a dress code. And Disney not only not enforcing it but changing it so the few can be accommodated. As an example 3 years ago it was no shorts in the mdrs. But people not only wore them anyway but blatantly said we don't dress up at home so were not doing it on vacation. What did Disney do? They looked the other way and now pretty much anything goes. Is it really that hard to put on a nice pair of pants and shirt for a few hours? There's another thread about Palos. Even Palos is looking the other way for some things.

I think they were following the desires of the MAJORITY of THEIR cruisers. Is it really that hard for you to ignore what other people are wearing? Does it really cause that much turmoil to your vacation? I am not saying this to be snarky but really why is it such a concern as to what other people wear unless it is offensive or they are scantily clad? I have seen many people in shorts and shirts that are much nicer looking than some of the skimpy dresses I saw. But frankly, I really am too busy worrying about my own vacation to be bothered with what those around me are wearing unless I am seeing foul language on clothing or body parts that really should be covered.

 

[truck1]

I think Disney was just adjusting the guidelines to stay competitive. I don't believe any of the mass market cruise lines have strict dress codes.

With the exception of Carnival, and the freestyle dining on NCL all of the other lines I looked at, Princess, Royal, Celebrity, and Holland all have a smart casual which is pants collapsed shirts and dresses. All explicitly say no shorts t shirts bathing suits etc in the dining rooms. Disney is bowing to the few.

 

[RedSox68]

My biggest pet peeve is the hectic final morning. It just ends the trip on...I don't want to say a sour note...but a far from relaxing experience. I know they have to prepare for the next group of passengers, and everyone wants to be on the ship as soon as possible. However, I would be in favor of not letting anyone board the ship until 2 or 3pm, if it would allow an extra an hour or two on the other end for the last morning.


I also agree with many of the others listed by PPs including the diapers in the pool, parents of young kids who think they are on vaction from being a parent, guests who treat CMs rudely, and chair/lounge hogs.

We stopped going to breakfast in the dining rooms on final morning. It was not only hectic, but we found our servers to be "unfriendly" in their hurry to get you moved out, which made for a really lousy last impression So we just go to the buffet and get stuff to go, and eat in our room while we get ready to leave. Makes for a much more relaxing morning, a last chance to enjoy our room and the ability to stay in our room until they start clearing the ship. This has become our favorite way to enjoy our last morning.

 

[RedSox68]

My biggest one is the people in the terminal who don't sit. Everyone stands by the entrance and blocks it. We had a number one and took us to number three to get past all the people crowded around the entrance. Crazy!! Just relax and have a seat until your number is called.

This is a BIG pet peeve of ours. A ridiculous situation that can easily be remedied by Disney. These people should not be allowed to stand and block the whole entranceway. On the other cruises we have been on (Carnival and Holland America), their terminals are sooooo much more organized. Once you check in, they have a CM take you to a sitting area and they seat you in arrival order row by row. Then they take one row at a time and let you board. It is incredibly organized, less stressful and tiring. You don't get onboard any faster by hanging by the entrance, you're just an annoyance!! The last time we cruise DCL, and they called our number, the people WOULD NOT move out of the way to let us through. It was an unnecessarily stressful way to start your trip!

 

[RedSox68]

Can I also have this list, for "research" purposes




I mean this with no disrespect, I am sure you are a lovely person, but I honestly do not understand how the dress of others has an affect on your enjoyment of the cruise. I do not even notice others in the dining room, unless they are acting foolishly, or it is a woman who insists on wearing a low cut shirt in my line of site (very offensive, but I must look to verify)

Your post was very respectful, so the following peeve is NOT directed at you. I swear.

Another pet peeve is those who act like me wearing shorts to dinner somehow destroys their cruise / means I am a slob or uneducated / means I should cruise on Carnival / or makes them want to jump overboard. I think some people just enjoy judging others...or...I am not sure honestly. I have posted this many times before, but thinking of the handful of obnoxious folks I saw in a dining room on my half dozen cruises, all were very nicely dressed.

The shorts would not be a problem for me, it would be the TYPE of shorts. What is considered "appropriate" short-wear for dinner? Examples: Daisy Dukes would be inappropriate (to me) in any dinner environment in a nice setting. I don't know -- call me old-fashioned -- but somehow walking into a dining room and seeing people in shorts and tank tops and flip flops just does not scream dinner-wear. Sorry, having seen what I've seen in 15 cruises, I just think it is going to give people an excuse to become very lazy about dressing appropriately and inoffensively in the dining rooms. JMO.

On the other hand, there is also formal wear that could be in that same category. We had one woman who dressed soooo inappropriately on our 2007 Med cruise it was almost X-rated every night (no exaggeration). Keeping in mind that this is a family cruise with lots of kids, her attire was not appropriate. She got a LOT of looks and questions and comments, and always managed to show up 20 minutes late every single night so she could make an "entrance".

None of this in any way ruined our dinner experiences -- we enjoy watching the fallout

 

[twindaddy]

The shorts would not be a problem for me, it would be the TYPE of shorts. What is considered "appropriate" short-wear for dinner? Examples: Daisy Dukes would be inappropriate (to me) in any dinner environment in a nice setting. I don't know -- call me old-fashioned -- but somehow walking into a dining room and seeing people in shorts and tank tops and flip flops just does not scream dinner-wear. Sorry, having seen what I've seen in 15 cruises, I just think it is going to give people an excuse to become very lazy about dressing appropriately and inoffensively in the dining rooms. JMO.

On the other hand, there is also formal wear that could be in that same category. We had one woman who dressed soooo inappropriately on our 2007 Med cruise it was almost X-rated every night (no exaggeration). Keeping in mind that this is a family cruise with lots of kids, her attire was not appropriate. She got a LOT of looks and questions and comments, and always managed to show up 20 minutes late every single night so she could make an "entrance".

None of this in any way ruined our dinner experiences -- we enjoy watching the fallout

You make very good points! Agreed all around!

 

[matrixband]

Just scanning these posts and it seems 95% of the concerns are with fellow passengers. I suppose it goes with the territory. When you get a large number of people in one place there are a few that have bad manners. --and they cause a lot of problems. Society is producing more of them every generation.

I tend to find certain specific cruises have more problem cruisers than others. No rhyme or reason, mainly luck of the draw. I noticed more unruly behavior on the shorter cruises than the 7 day.

Trying to control others behavior is a virtually impossible task. The only one you can truly control is yourself. Being responsible for yourself and your own children is a task that takes most of our effort. Large crowds will have some impolite people. I don't have the answer, but you can imagine the frustration the crew members must have dealing with the offenders-- and the offended.

It's sort of like the physician saying "being a doctor would be great if it were not for all the sick people."

 

[mcd2745]

We stopped going to breakfast in the dining rooms on final morning. It was not only hectic, but we found our servers to be "unfriendly" in their hurry to get you moved out, which made for a really lousy last impression So we just go to the buffet and get stuff to go, and eat in our room while we get ready to leave. Makes for a much more relaxing morning, a last chance to enjoy our room and the ability to stay in our room until they start clearing the ship. This has become our favorite way to enjoy our last morning.

We learned very quickly (meaning: after one time), to not go to the MDR for that last breakfast. The servers were completely different people. They probably had 1,001 other things they needed to do and that they preferred to be getting done rather than serving us breakfast. So we just go to the buffet early for breakfast (I'm not a fan of eating in the room), then return to the stateroom until we basically have to be kicked out. Someone has to be the last guest off the ship, I would love it to be me (although I've yet to come close to pulling that off- I assume it is usually someone who can't pay their bill).

 

[Amy7979]

We learned very quickly (meaning: after one time), to not go to the MDR for that last breakfast. The servers were completely different people. They probably had 1,001 other things they needed to do and that they preferred to be getting done rather than serving us breakfast. So we just go to the buffet early for breakfast (I'm not a fan of eating in the room), then return to the stateroom until we basically have to be kicked out. Someone has to be the last guest off the ship, I would love it to be me (although I've yet to come close to pulling that off- I assume it is usually someone who can't pay their bill).

It was my group once! Nothing to do with our bill - my husband was in the medical center. They were noticeably panicky that there were still guests onboard (couldn't clear the ship) so they finally had me leave with his passport and when he was ready they brought him out. I knew he was coming when the medical center charge hit my debit card. ;-) We had missed our bus to WDW so they sent one just for us!

 

[SeattleSuz]

The shorts would not be a problem for me, it would be the TYPE of shorts. What is considered "appropriate" short-wear for dinner? Examples: Daisy Dukes would be inappropriate (to me) in any dinner environment in a nice setting. I don't know -- call me old-fashioned -- but somehow walking into a dining room and seeing people in shorts and tank tops and flip flops just does not scream dinner-wear. Sorry, having seen what I've seen in 15 cruises, I just think it is going to give people an excuse to become very lazy about dressing appropriately and inoffensively in the dining rooms. JMO.

On the other hand, there is also formal wear that could be in that same category. We had one woman who dressed soooo inappropriately on our 2007 Med cruise it was almost X-rated every night (no exaggeration). Keeping in mind that this is a family cruise with lots of kids, her attire was not appropriate. She got a LOT of looks and questions and comments, and always managed to show up 20 minutes late every single night so she could make an "entrance".

None of this in any way ruined our dinner experiences -- we enjoy watching the fallout

This whole snooty dress code thing has me not wanting to book Palo or even go in the MDR. We don't dress up to go out to dinner, it's not something people in the Seattle area do, unless they are older folks. I keep reading about how you MUST dress up to go eat a meal and that's a HUGE turn off for me. It's just food and if I am wearing a casual dress and hubs is wearing a nice button up shirt with khaki shorts, it shouldn't affect how you enjoy your meal...

 

[mcd2745]

This whole snooty dress code thing has me not wanting to book Palo or even go in the MDR. We don't dress up to go out to dinner, it's not something people in the Seattle area do, unless they are older folks. I keep reading about how you MUST dress up to go eat a meal and that's a HUGE turn off for me. It's just food and if I am wearing a casual dress and hubs is wearing a nice button up shirt with khaki shorts, it shouldn't affect how you enjoy your meal...

I agree whole-heartedly. No worries, you'll be fine in the MDRs wearing what you described. IMO, there's a huuuuge distinction between what your husband would be wearing ("a nice button up shirt with khaki shorts" - what I generally like to wear, along with a pair of boat shoes) and someone with cut-off jean shorts or a bathing suit, a concert or Budweiser t-shirt, and flip flops. However, many here don't see any difference between those two. Fortunately, common sense has won out (it rarely does), and DCL doesn't have a problem with your choices for the MDRs. Palo is a little different, although it is trending the same way. Our last time in Palo, there were guys in jeans and a polo shirt. You probably would not have seen that 5-10 years ago.

 

[Tomlyger]

I agree whole-heartedly. No worries, you'll be fine in the MDRs wearing what you described. IMO, there's a huuuuge distinction between what your husband would be wearing ("a nice button up shirt with khaki shorts" - what I generally like to wear, along with a pair of boat shoes) and someone with cut-off jean shorts, a concert t-shirt, and flip flops. However, many here don't see any difference between those two. Fortunately, common sense has won out (it rarely does), and DCL doesn't have a problem with your choices for the MDRs. Palo is a little different, although it is trending the same way. Our last time in Palo, there were guys in jeans and a polo shirt. You probably would not have seen that 5-10 years ago.

I agree there is definitely a difference between nice shorts and a polo and booty shorts and a one direction tee.... I will most likely wear the first outfit to dinner most nights on my trip.... except formal and semi-formal night

 

[SeattleSuz]

I can see the convo now "So, yeah you know how we are going on this cruise and you are packing shorts and tanks and flops? Yeah well, if you want to eat dinner, you need to pack dressier shirts. And oh yeah, if you want to eat brunch at the fancy place, you need to pack additional shoes as well. Yeah I know, you'll only wear them once and the size 15s do take up a lot of room, but yeah, you have to. Cuz it might ruin someone else's meal to see your monstrous toes."

 

[Little c Travel]

People complaining about rude people. If someone is being a real Pinocchio on Pleasure Island I just tune them out. I refuse to let what I cannot control affect my vacation.

 

[RedSox68]

I agree there is definitely a difference between nice shorts and a polo and booty shorts and a one direction tee.... I will most likely wear the first outfit to dinner most nights on my trip.... except formal and semi-formal night

And that was my previous point in a nutshell! Well said. I never said you had to be "snootily dressed". I was just saying that there are shorts for dinner , and then there are shorts for dinner

 

[geoly1]

I can't think of one thing I have a pet peeve about but have truly enjoyed this thread!
I Don't let my kids run wild
Tip everyone, a lot, all the time dde00
Don't go in the pools or hot tubs... dressed or undressed...
Go early to shows, pirate night & show up on time for dinner ...
Take photos with the characters ...just one ...with the whole family!
Dress appropriately for MDR and palo
We are the perfect Disney family ..lol!
Do we win a free cruise ? Lmfaodde0a

 

[Tinkerbell1993]

Common courtesy, treat people the way you want to be treated.

 

[The Mad Doctor]

Yes. What ever happen to common courtesy. We were all taught as children to be polite to one another. Now it seems I have to be first for everything.The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.