All the cruises lines are starting to do this, not just RCCL.So if they are increasing the number of rooms they are responsible for, when you read between the lines it seems that they are either cutting staff or adding to their duties and using them elsewhere as well. There will be three of us in our cabin, one will require the sofa bed to be made up every evening. So does that mean either we have unmade beds all day and put away the sofa bed ourselves until they come in the evening to set up bed things or will we get beds made but have to deal with the pullout sofa bed ourselves? Or will they make beds but set up sofa so we have no couch all day? Unless they are going to make an exception for allowing time to adjust the extra bedding in rooms that have them this is not acceptable. Not good, RCCL!
Nah.. for what they get paid, I actually give them extra, they work 10 plus hours a day, 7 days a week. Keep the gratuities where they are at.Im ok with cut backs, maybe they can cut their gratuities in half while they're at it.
While I am not ok with the cut-backs, I would NEVER cut what I tip the crew(in fact we usually give them an extra tip in cash ).Nah.. for what they get paid, I actually give them extra, they work 10 plus hours a day, 7 days a week. Keep the gratuities where they are at.
Well to each their own, having a room cleaned only once a day isn't really a big deal. Housekeeping at many hotel rooms is only once a day. I still tipped the room steward just as much as if he cleaned it twice.While I am not ok with the cut-backs, I would NEVER cut what I tip the crew(in fact we usually give them an extra tip in cash ).
These decisions are not their doing and I agree they work very hard!
Housekeeping at many hotel rooms is once every 4-5 days.Well to each their own, having a room cleaned only once a day isn't really a big deal. Housekeeping at many hotel rooms is only once a day. I still tipped the room steward just as much as if he cleaned it twice.
That's kinda my point with the whole thing, having a room cleaned once a day instead of 2 times really isn't a big deal.Housekeeping at many hotel rooms is once every 4-5 days.
I've brought that up on CC and was told a cruise room is different than a hotel room. I don't understand that argument. I mean, yes, you're travelling while on the cruise, but as it concerns the relationship between the passenger and room attendant, I don't.That's kinda my point with the whole thing, having a room cleaned once a day instead of 2 times really isn't a big deal.
Do people think this is strictly a cost cutting measure by cruise lines, or is it possible a way to make do with fewer crew (because they can't get enough help, not because they're intentionally cutting crew)?
On our past cruises, we've done auto grats and then given extra to room steward and wait staff. We will probably still do the same, but the amount we give "extra" may decrease. Of course, we're 16 months from our next cruise, so who knows what will happen.
Please let us know how it goes!We are on Oasis next week and heard that we are their first cruise where they are switching to just 1x per day. Not a big deal for us, but definitely a pain for those who need pullmans pulled down or sofa beds opened at night/closed during the day. Think I'd prefer just the morning over night then...but then the downside is no more towel animals.
Are you still seeing that often? DH also travels for work. The vast majority of hotels we've stayed in this year have offered daily housekeeping. I agree that wasn't the case last year. Most hotels in 2020 would clean your room every 3 or 4 days, or allow you to sign up the night before, if you wanted your room cleaned the next day. Technically, you could have signed up every evening for housekeeping the next day, but we never bothered.Housekeeping at many hotel rooms is once every 4-5 days.
On our last cruise they left the couch as a bed for the whole cruise, it was very inconvienentHere’s what I don’t get. If they service your room once in the morning, and you have a family and need the pull out, will they come just take out the bed in the evening, or is your only choice to leave the bed out all day or pull it out yourself?
I would much prefer it if they offered an incentive to decline a second service, like OBC or additional status points points to decline.
They left our coach a bed on Mardi Gras in December and our Couch a bed on Adventure of the seas. in August Seems to happen on all ships now.I know NCL and Carnival are down to once a day cleaning as well, there appears to be staffing issues post Covid.