Bright lights, no snoozing?

[albertiger]

Something I never thought to ask before and now it has me wondering?:confused:
I just changed my cabin on Ryndam, 12/05/10 to Cat. D #420. This is an aft facing outside cabin on Lower Promenade deck.
Has anyone been in this cabin that can tell me if the drapes were sufficient to keep the deck lighting out at night? I really need it to be dark to get to sleep!:eek:

[AZNative2000]

Something I never thought to ask before and now it has me wondering?:confused:
I just changed my cabin on Ryndam, 12/05/10 to Cat. D #420. This is an aft facing outside cabin on Lower Promenade deck.
Has anyone been in this cabin that can tell me if the drapes were sufficient to keep the deck lighting out at night? I really need it to be dark to get to sleep!:eek:

Thanks to some CC folks' advice, we took clothespins (big ones) on our first cruise to hold the curtains tightly shut. It kept out the (dusky) sunshine in Alaska at 4am.:p

[Essiesmom]

If you forget the clothespins, you can use one of the hangers with clips to do it. I have done that many times in hotels. EM

[sail7seas]

We find the closed curtains keep the room plenty dark.

Essiemom...... good idea about the clips on the hangers. :)

[catl331]

Clothespins even help keep out daylight in a non-promenade room if you are a late sleeper. I tend to exhaust myself on cruises but still wake up with the sun.:(

[trophy_23]

We were just on the Rotterdam and had a LP outside cabin, it was light, but as mentioned above we clipped the curtains shut and it was really dark!

[jtl513]

If you don't have clothespins at home potato-chip bag clips work well.

[TracieABD]

or "alligator clips" (really called Binder Clips). Most folks have them in their offices!:)