Reserve Seat Policy?

[Donalds_best_pal]

I was reading the navigators and it says saving sun loungers and walt disney theater seats is not permitted. On our last cruise my family would always save sun loungers because if we went after breakfast there were none. Do people really folow this rule and is it really enforced. I know some people wont follow it and the people who do will have no seats.
Thanks
Matt(age 13)

 

[Gina]

The people who do follow it, like me, will just happily remove and fold nicely and put somewhere else any articles that have been left on a lounger with no one around for a good while to claim them. Or at the very least, I get a CM and show them and explain that someone has "claimed" a lounger and then abandoned it, and get *him* to un-claim it.

-gina-

 

[atigeg]

I agree with Gina...if I wanted a lounger and found all the spare ones "reserved," I would move the articles. If the person who had "claimed" it said anything to me, I would politely but firmly show them the line in the navigator that states saving is not allowed. I can understand wanting to save them, but imagine what a mess it would be if all of the other 2699 guests on board felt the same way.
Barb
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[Donalds_best_pal]

I agree with you to now. If later when I am ready to swim I will just move the people things.
Thanks for your feedback
Matt
P.S Love your website Barb

 

[mmouse37]

Last week on the 1/4 Magic many people has "reserved" sun lounges by the pools by 9:00 am. When we went out at 11:00, those same chairs had the same towels on them but had not been used (towels were still folded). We just moved the towels (they were DCL towels) and used the chairs.

MJ

 

[AnnMorin]

We never seem to get chairs near the pool as they always have shoes under them towels on them etc. It was a shame as DS wanted us to watch him in the pool but I felt uncomfortable moving someones stuff,, it was annoying because an hour later the stuff would still be there so it is not like they just got up to get a drink or something. Maybe I will be braver this time and move something-it would be my luck though the person's towel I moved would be an in your face type of person.. maybe the CM idea would work better.. don't want any confrentations, just wanna get some sun

 

[Tay N Evie's Mom]

We had an unfortunate situation with this on our last cruise. My family of 4 went to the Walt Disney Theatre for Hercules and saw a row of seats with no one in them. After we sat down the man behind us said the entire row (about 12 seats) was saved for a family. I informed him there was no saving of seats. He started making rude comments to us and even had the nerve to say "I can tell by your accent that you're from Chicago, no wonder you're so ignorant and don't have any manners." I informed DH that I was not going to subject my children to an obviously rude person and we moved. Every time I saw that person on our cruise after that I wanted to belt him.

 

[Jeanny]

I wouldn't have moved.... I would have found a CM and reported the jerk!! There's always one huh?? But you know he would have kept making rude remarks!!

There's no need to reserve 12 seats!!! If the family can't get there on time, then, they get whatever seats are left!!

 

[KimDisFan]

I would have waited for the family to arrive and had to find other seats, and then moved. But that would be the evil in me coming out.

Couple of ideas to help alleviate the issue:
As for the loungers, when we went I would sit by the pool, read and watch my DD. I had a couple of kids come by to swim (about 10), I asked them if they were going to be using the lounger they put their stuff. They said no, so I told them to put their shoes under my chair and keep the other chair freed up for someone who would use it. They were fine with that, and the open lounger was taken within minutes.

THe other thing we will do is take turns on the lounger. My BIL's girlfriend and I will rotate, since we are both fair skin we need to get out of the sun some. We would also eat lunch at different times also, that way the chair was always being used.

Also when my DD would get out of the pool, she would sit at the foot of the lounger, instead of getting her own. Usually she would eat a snack and be back in the pool within 15 minutes.

 

[atigeg]

We ran into a similar situation in the theater once. My husband arrived at the lefthand end of the front row just as another person arrived at the righthand side. As he sat down, the other person yelled down at him, "You can't sit there. I'm saving this whole row." Hubby just ignored him, and since we ARE from Chicago, I'm sure he would have spouted some choice words if the person had chosen to press the issue. (In the previous case of the rude 12-seat saver, I would have plopped my butt down and replied, "You're 100 percent right, I AM from Chicago! Thank goodness for that, since living in the city has taught me how to deal with rude, mannerless individuals like you."
Barb
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[FantasticDisFamily]

Oh Barb! You are TOOOO funny!

Thanks I needed a laugh. Now back to the grading so I can enjoy my cruise when it gets here without any guilt!

Deb

 

[MickeyB426]

The saving-seat issue has been the only sore point in my DCL memories (well, that and two other things)

One time we had to deal with a 12-seat-saver, only this time it was the father, operating commando-style with his walkie-talkie, talking to his son, who was in his cabin.

All I heard were things like, "We're on Deck 7, our ETA is 5 minutes", and "Copy that. When you reach the theater, we're at 6 o'clock, five rows left center" It was pathetic.

It reminded me of that moviehouse commercial, where the family does all the army-stuff to get to the ticket counter.

Another time someone saved about 15 seats for the "Who Wants to be a Mouseketeer" show, and the ramdom drawing got the one seat in the row that he DIDN'T save. Poetic justice.

I hate people like that.

 

[plutojudy]

Way to go, Barb. We are from Chicago, too.