Two Questions

[pbr]

We are going on our first HAL cruise next week. Yeah! I have a couple questions that may seem silly but - is there some staff member on the ship that will punch a hole in your room card so you can put in on a lanyard? Are the outside of the cabin doors metal so we can use magnets to post notes for friends?

 

Thank you very much.

 

PBR

[Topsham]

We are going on our first HAL cruise next week. Yeah! I have a couple questions that may seem silly but - is there some staff member on the ship that will punch a hole in your room card so you can put in on a lanyard? Are the outside of the cabin doors metal so we can use magnets to post notes for friends?

 

Thank you very much.

 

PBR

 

 

Easiest way to get a message is either leave on their phone or write a note and put in an envelope and put it under their door or in the mail box at the side of the door.

 

I don't think the doors will work. Easily the magnets knocked off.

I would never leave a message on my door. Anyone can read your message. :eek:

 

Phone or envelope is best.

 

Re Cards.... Front Desk will punch them for you.

[catl331]

The doors will not hold a magnet, but the door frames will.

 

You didn't say what ship you will be on, but if it's the Koningsdam you can not get your key card punched because of the RFID chip inside. :) On that ship you would have to use a pouch on a lanyard.

[RMLincoln]

I have often put a decorative 3" x 4" magnet on the outside of our cabin door, never had a problem with it but I used to help me find the room easier not for messages. m--

[IRL_Joanie]

We are going on our first HAL cruise next week. Yeah! I have a couple questions that may seem silly but - is there some staff member on the ship that will punch a hole in your room card so you can put in on a lanyard? Are the outside of the cabin doors metal so we can use magnets to post notes for friends?

 

Thank you very much.

 

PBR

 

PBR, you can get the room card punched by the Front Desk staff or Neptune Lounge Concierge if you have a Neptune or Pinnacle Suite.

 

While the doors might not be metallic, the mailboxes are and you can use that for the notes.

 

Have a blast on your first DAM cruise:)

 

Joanie

[jakkojakko]

The doors will not hold a magnet, but the door frames will.

 

You didn't say what ship you will be on, but if it's the Koningsdam you can not get your key card punched because of the RFID chip inside. :) On that ship you would have to use a pouch on a lanyard.

 

Surely the rfid chip is small enough to allow a hole in another part of the card?

[dmcfad2]

Surely the rfid chip is small enough to allow a hole in another part of the card?

 

 

One would think so, but we were on it recently and they would not punch a hole in the card for that precise reason.

[jtl513]

Surely the rfid chip is small enough to allow a hole in another part of the card?

It appears the bar code is at one end and the chip at the other, and they don't want a hole in either? I haven't been on the ship yet, but if the bar code is still used to scan people off and on at the gangway, and that is the end that could be punched, then having a lot of people presenting the wrong end to be scanned would be a nuisance.

 

Edited May 27, 2016 by jtl513

[andlil]

Normally you can shine a strong flashlight through the card and see where the rfid-antenna is located.

[Krazy Kruizers]

OP is on the Noordam -- they can get a hole punched in their ID card at the front desk.

[pbr]

Thanks everyone for the responses.

 

pbr

[sail7seas]

Front office wiilll punch a hole inyhour card. if you ask.

Edited May 27, 2016 by sail7seas

[sapper1]

I always pack a hole punch in my carry on and punch my own card.

[Boytjie]

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Edited May 28, 2016 by Boytjie

[Copper10-8]

The Fidelio system scanners (at the gangway) as well as the ship's I.D. cards issued to the pax on the thirteen "other" dam ships are of an older generation than the scanners and I.D. cards being used on the new ship KODM!

 

Instead of the security guard using a 'pistol-like' scanner to scan the I.D. after the pax is asked to display that I.D. at the gangway, thereby placing the person being scanned in, or out, of the system, on the KODM the person is being asked to place his/her I.D. card into a scanner/reader unit positioned on top of the podium

[EZ2CY]

 

You didn't say what ship you will be on, but if it's the Koningsdam you can not get your key card punched because of the RFID chip inside. :) On that ship you would have to use a pouch on a lanyard.

 

Really good to know. Hadn't realized that. Thanks for the info!!