weird question about life boat drill??

[mog]

Okay, I know I'm probably thinking WAY too much about this, but how are the life boat stations assigned? Is it strictly by cabin location, or do they take into account reservations that are linked for families in more than one cabin??
I'm asking because we are in an outside cabin with 2 of our kids and my parents will be in an inside cabin a few doors down with one of our kids booked in with them. They have never been on a cruise before and somehow I can't see them getting through the crowded halls in life vests with my 4 year old daughter in her life vest for the drill if they are not at the same muster station as us!
Anyone have any experience with this??

 

[SC Minnie]

The lifeboat station are assigned strictly by stateroom location. The letter that is on the life vest in your stateroom is the station you need to go to. At that station they have a list of all the passagers in the staterooms they cover and no one can leave until everyone is accounted for.

From what I could tell the sections where fairly large. You should be in the same section unless your rooms just happen to fall at the cutoff. The halls weren't that crowded for the drill when we sailed. There were CM's at every turn telling you which way to go.

I really wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

[CamColt]

Also, if there was a problem with different stations, you could start out a little early and help get your daughter to hers, and then she could just stand there with the grandparents, while you go to your station.
On our last cruise we started out to the drill around 5 minutes before 4:00. I surprised to see a lot of people were already there. I had thought it actually started at 4:00.

 

[mog]

Well, here's another thought - In the unlikely event of a real emergency, I can't see just saying to my 4 year old daughter..."the boat is sinking dear, you go with grandma and grandpa - good luck getting to your lifeboat, your dad and brothers and I hope to see you again on shore sometime!" Not going to happen! I'm keeping my family with me no matter what stateroom they are in if it is a real emergency - not just a drill. I imagine anyone else would feel the same, which is why I thought maybe they kept "linked" reservation people together. Can you imagine the chaos in an emergency if people were supposed to split their families up to go to different lifeboats!?

 

[JLSE50]

Good point MOG, but what would happen if the space in each life boat is figured out to the person and you take your kid so there is no room for my kid. Your kid could be with her grandparents in their life boat and my kid has no grandparents on the ship.....

Hopefully it will never come to that. But I bet they have rules about such things for good reasons.

Jan

 

[mog]

That was my whole point - that maybe they do assign them by family group instead of strictly cabin location to avoid such problems as I described above - having someone wanting to keep their family together in case of an emergency.
Actually, I am pretty sure they don't assign them completely full - I heard them say that at one of the drills one time. I am just thinking that lots of people on Disney end up splitting the family up into more than one cabin and I can't be the only one that would want to keep the family together in an emergency. I was just making the observation that I wonder if Disney takes that into account when assigning lifeboats.
I really am not obsessing over this - it was just a thought that popped into my head - that's why my subject said "weird" question about life boats!! It wasn't really a serious concern!