I spent 5-nights on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas and seen some frequent cruise errors being dedicated that would have been simply averted.
There are lots of errors to keep away from on any cruise, and you do not have to be a cruise ship knowledgeable to find out about all of them.
Avoiding these errors will prevent time, cash, or sanity. Irrespective of how massive or small the financial savings, all of it provides up.
After a day or two, I picked up on the errors I noticed my fellow cruisers making, and I began to compile an inventory in my head. There might have been others, however these have been those I noticed.
Take this as a great reminder to not do any of those your self once you set sail.
Not shopping for add-ons earlier than the cruise
If you wish to save some huge cash, you’ll want to pre-buy all of the extras in your cruise within the weeks and months main as much as your crusing.Â
There have been staggering value variations for those who purchased it onboard versus earlier than the cruise started.
I noticed on embarkation day the marketed charge for Royal Caribbean’s limitless drink bundle was priced at $100 per individual, per day.Â
Had it been bought earlier than the cruise started, it was round $69.99 per individual, per day. Â I believe the upper value had it round $74.99 per day.
The floating cabanas on the Coco Seashore Membership had an enormous value drop earlier than the cruise started to about $1800 for a rental for as much as 8 visitors. However onboard the ship, they have been charging $4,000.
Royal Caribbean gives pre-cruise reductions on most of its widespread cruise add-ons. You possibly can at all times cancel and rebook it if there is a value drop.
Do not wait to guide these onboard the ship, since you’ll solely pay extra for it.
Not making use of sunscreen
I am unsure if it was as a result of January is not a extremely popular month within the Caribbean, however I noticed so many individuals strolling again onto the ship after a enjoyable day in Cozumel, Mexico utterly sunburned.
Forgetting to use sunscreen or re-apply it is without doubt one of the quickest methods to a depressing day or two as your physique heals.
Throughout our go to to Good Day at CocoCay, we had clouds for a few of the day, however the solar got here out later. I believe the clouds might have given some folks the false sense of safety that they could not get sunburned.
It is true that clouds do block some UV gentle. However greater than 90% of the solar’s UV radiation can nonetheless cross by clouds on calmly overcast days.
Once you’re on the seashore, pool, or strolling round outside within the Caribbean, you’ll want to get into the behavior of remembering to use sunscreen each couple of hours. It is annoying to should cease what you are doing to do it, however the discomfort from a foul sunburn is value taking a few minutes to do it.
Being impolite to crew members
This error infuriates me for the sheer lack of respect, however some passengers appear to assume the principles do not apply to them.
Whereas within the Windjammer a visitor was stopped by a crew member as a result of he had come from the pool deck and was not carrying footwear.
The crew member informed him he needed to put on footwear with the intention to go into the restaurant. He responded that nobody had informed him that the opposite day when he did the identical factor, after which proceeded to stroll previous the crew member and ignoring their instruction.
There are guidelines in place for a motive, however extra importantly, you do not get to select and select once you wish to adhere to directions given to you by crew members.
The crew members work onerous to make sure everybody has an incredible (and secure) cruise. All the time be respectful to them.
Forgetting their SeaPass card on disembarkation day
As I used to be strolling off Mariner of the Seas, I witnessed two totally different cruise errors inside about 10 minutes.
The primary was the household that held up the complete disembarkation course of as a result of they did not deliver their SeaPass playing cards with them to depart the ship.
When it is your time to disembark the ship, you may want your SeaPass card to depart. It is how Royal Caribbean is aware of you have left the ship.
If you do not have it, then the ship’s safety workforce must look you up manually and that slows down everybody.
You should definitely even have your journey paperwork for later once you undergo customs.
Disembarking earlier than baggage quantity known as
Royal Caribbean assigns every passenger a baggage tag quantity in order that for those who left your baggage on the ship to be delivered to the cruise terminal on the ultimate morning, it is there ready for you.
Nevertheless, each cruise there is a handful of passengers I see standing across the baggage space ready for his or her baggage, as a result of they disembarked too early.
For these folks, they’re going to have to attend for all the baggage of their quantity to be delivered and known as for them to have the ability to seize their baggage.
You are a lot better off ready onboard the ship in your quantity to known as so you’ll be able to keep away from standing across the terminal for no motive later.
