Biggest Waste of Time on a Cruise Ship...

For us it would be eating in the main dining room for breakfast or lunch. It takes forever to get through the meal. We have much better things to do with our time than wait to be served our food. We are grab-and-go kinds of people for those two meals and just consider them time wasters. We know some folks that want to be served every meal while on vacation and that's great...for them:)

What are your biggest time wasters?

For us it would be eating in the main dining room for breakfast or lunch. It takes forever to get through the meal. We have much better things to do with our time than wait to be served our food. We are grab-and-go kinds of people for those two meals and just consider them time wasters. We know some folks that want to be served every meal while on vacation and that's great...for them:)

 

What are your biggest time wasters?

As far as we're concerned there is no such a thing as "wastes of time" on a vacation or a ship.

Waiting in line at Guest Services. Waiting for the tender to fill up.

Reading posts like this:D As far as we're concerned there are no "wastes of time" on a vacation.

Ha ha ha !!!! That made me laugh out loud !

Bingo

Waiting in line at Guest Services. Waiting for the tender to fill up.

Add to your list - the " shopping program" held in the theatre. Hyper "game show host" pushing their $25 book of coupons. Never want you to examine either the book or "bonus" prize you get for buying.

Waiting for everyone to show up for the obligatory safety muster. It is the worst when it is hot and we are on an outside deck standing in tight, crowded lines. It was even worse when we had to wear the life vests.

Now at least we often can sit comfortably inside and not wear life vests. Still, I wish folks could show up in a more timely manner and not keep so many people waiting.

I know the muster is a vital part of the cruise experience. But I wish some folks would take it more seriously and arrive on time, so we can all get on with the fun parts of the cruise.

Searching for a table for lunch in the windjammer on a sea day. MDR so much more relaxing

Standing in line to get off the ship. Because I know that I'm just going to run home, book another cruise (or three) and get back onboard that ship (or another one) as soon as I possibly can! :p

Spending part of the last day packing. :(

Sleeping late.

Waiting for the damn elevators.

Nothing really bugs me on a cruise, but I am with the OP in that I would never in a million years do a sit down breakfast/lunch. On our 3 night cruises we eat in the WJ for dinner most nights. On longer cruises we do go to the diningroom for dinner, but food is probably the least important thing on a cruise for me, so not wasting a lot of time with it.

Waiting for everyone to show up for the obligatory safety muster. It is the worst when it is hot and we are on an outside deck standing in tight, crowded lines.

Agree. We had a muster drill on an outside deck in December in New Jersey...just brutal.

Bingo

One of the biggest wastes of money too.

Standing in line to get off the ship. Because I know that I'm just going to run home, book another cruise (or three) and get back onboard that ship (or another one) as soon as I possibly can! :p

agree

Waiting for your number to be called when getting off the ship at the end of the cruise, only to have guests with higher number tags getting off before they are supposed to and messing the whole debarkation system up. Not that there is a system, but it makes it worse.....:mad: I don't know why people just can't seem to follow rules.:rolleyes:

Gwen :)

Anything "Art" related...including the waste of paper left in each cabin about this.

Bingo

One of the biggest wastes of money too.

Agree with both statements!

The coupon books they put in your stateroom...have never used it!

The coupon books they put in your stateroom...have never used it!

Well, at least those are gone now, replaced by electronic coupons.

The 25 minutes I spent this morning waiting for my order to be taken at breakfast in the main dining room on Enchantment.

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I'm on vacation. Nothing is a waste of time.

For us it would be eating in the main dining room for breakfast or lunch. It takes forever to get through the meal. We have much better things to do with our time than wait to be served our food. We are grab-and-go kinds of people for those two meals and just consider them time wasters. We know some folks that want to be served every meal while on vacation and that's great...for them:)

 

What are your biggest time wasters?

We love to go to the MDR for lunch just for their salad bar! It's so much better than the one in the WJ.

One of the biggest wastes of money too.

Bingo-Not for the cruise company LOL

Waiting for everyone to show up for the obligatory safety muster. It is the worst when it is hot and we are on an outside deck standing in tight, crowded lines. It was even worse when we had to wear the life vests.

 

 

 

Now at least we often can sit comfortably inside and not wear life vests. Still, I wish folks could show up in a more timely manner and not keep so many people waiting.

 

 

 

I know the muster is a vital part of the cruise experience. But I wish some folks would take it more seriously and arrive on time, so we can all get on with the fun parts of the cruise.

I so agree - everyone knows it's going to happen, just get your butt down there as soon as possible so that everyone can get on with their vacation!

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