Apparently you CAN reserve deck chairs all day long

[constansl]

Watch for a half hour.

 

Take towels off chair.

 

Relax.

 

Use towels so chair hog can't return and then gets charged.

 

If someone comes back hours later, shrug your shoulders and feign ignorance.

 

Laugh and enjoy your drink as the angry chair hog turns around and huffs away.

. I could never do this but I love it. My luck the one day my child spills something, spends way too long in the restroom and I forget something in the room is the day you move my towel—but I still support you

[SRF]

Sorry guys, but I can be in the hot tub or pool for more than 30 minutes.

 

Maybe an hour of no use.

 

Lounger is not like a parking lot. More like a shopping cart. So if I see your shopping cart without you, I can take out the things and take the cart?

 

But I actually like the lounge rental idea. You could rent the same lounger for the entire cruise. Know it is there waiting for you, same spot, every day. Or even better, make a reserved lounger a suite perk. You want a reserved lounger, book a suite.

[TCBFlash]

Watch for a half hour.

 

Take towels off chair.

 

Relax.

 

Use towels so chair hog can't return and then gets charged.

 

If someone comes back hours later, shrug your shoulders and feign ignorance.

 

Laugh and enjoy your drink as the angry chair hog turns around and huffs away.

 

LOVE LOVE LOVE this advice.

[Laurin612]

The whole "chair hog" thing reminds me of "Dibs" in Chicago, but with zero effort. (Although the chair hogs would probably argue that their effort is waking up at 6am to drop their towels, watch or towel clips on a chair to claim it as their own. )

 

I have lived my whole life in the Chicago area and am well acquainted with "Dibs," although thankfully I no longer live in the city and don't have to deal with it unless I am visiting someone in the city. When we lived in the city, we once had a neighbor from down the block angrily knock on our door on Christmas Eve when we had family over and ask if one of our guests had parked in "his" parking spot. Thankfully, they had not!

 

If you're not familiar with Dibs, in the city of Chicago it is when after a fairly heavy snow someone shovels out a parking spot for themselves and then marks their territory with old lawn chairs, saw horses, and really any manner of random stuff someone has in their garage and doesn't care too much about. It really is quite a sight to see an entire street littered with old lawn furniture, etc. :D

 

http://chicagodibs.tumblr.com/

[BillOh]

This is a new one for me...towel clips but nothing else "reserving" the lounger.

 

 

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That has to be the laziest chair hogs ever! I'd like they were complimentary and attach my towel:evilsmile:

Too bad we are not allowed to take pictures of actual chair hogs .

[obnurse]

Why would you need a chair if you’re in the hot tub for 30 minutes or longer? You simply need a spot to drop your stuff? You’re taking up a lounger that someone may only want for 30 minutes. You can’t park your body in more than one place at a time.

[Rala]

The whole "chair hog" thing reminds me of "Dibs" in Chicago, but with zero effort. (Although the chair hogs would probably argue that their effort is waking up at 6am to drop their towels, watch or towel clips on a chair to claim it as their own. )

 

I have lived my whole life in the Chicago area and am well acquainted with "Dibs," although thankfully I no longer live in the city and don't have to deal with it unless I am visiting someone in the city. When we lived in the city, we once had a neighbor from down the block angrily knock on our door on Christmas Eve when we had family over and ask if one of our guests had parked in "his" parking spot. Thankfully, they had not!

 

If you're not familiar with Dibs, in the city of Chicago it is when after a fairly heavy snow someone shovels out a parking spot for themselves and then marks their territory with old lawn chairs, saw horses, and really any manner of random stuff someone has in their garage and doesn't care too much about. It really is quite a sight to see an entire street littered with old lawn furniture, etc. :D

 

http://chicagodibs.tumblr.com/

 

I think Chicago stole this from Boston. Every winter it happens! We also say stuff like ."I got dibs on the front seat when going on a car trip! :D

[SRF]

Why would you need a chair if you’re in the hot tub for 30 minutes or longer? You simply need a spot to drop your stuff? You’re taking up a lounger that someone may only want for 30 minutes. You can’t park your body in more than one place at a time.

 

So you get up early, grab a lounger and lay on it for 3 hours.

 

Get up to go to the hot tub for 35 minutes, to come back the lounger for the next 3 hours, and you cannot hold it?

 

REALLY?

[TCBFlash]

We're just off Allure and on the last sea day they FINALLY started removing towels that were left unattended. We were in our chairs at 7:30 (much earlier than I wanted to be on may last day of vacation) but it was kind of amusing to watch. One family returned after at least 3 hours of emptiness and were told by others who had been sitting there that the crew removed their stuff. The conversation between the teenager and her dad -

Teenager - Did someone steal our chairs again?

Dad - I guess the crew removed our towels.

Oh the nerve. The sad thing is that the entitled teenager actually had no issue with hogging those chairs for whenever she decide to roll out of bed to come and use them. It's an "all about me" world we live in.

 

I do wish the crew had done a better job of removing items in unattended chairs throughout the week. It's really not a hard thing to do when you see a row of chairs with only towels on them and not one person anywhere near them.

[fwacruiser]

I am fresh off the Freedom and witnessed an angry couple berating the poor towel guy when they apparently returned to "their" chairs and discovered their belongings missing on the last sea day (last Saturday). I was just swapping out two towels, so I didn't stick around to eavesdrop, but the couple's belongings were at the towel station, so either the crew had removed their stuff, or a passenger had done so and had the courtesy of dropping it off at the towel station.

 

They were p!ssed, that's for sure. Felt bad for the poor towel guy, who was either just doing his job or had absolutely nothing to do with the situation. Did not feel sorry for the angry couple.

[vacationlover_mn]

How many people have had luck tipping the pool crew $20 on the first day, to monitor for chair hogs? If so, who do I tip, and would it need to be more $ and/or more often? I specifically care about the Solarium area...

 

 

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[Baron Barracuda]

How many people have had luck tipping the pool crew $20 on the first day, to monitor for chair hogs? If so, who do I tip, and would it need to be more $ and/or more often? I specifically care about the Solarium area...

 

 

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Doubt that $20 would buy you a chair hog-free cruise. For a couple of bucks however they'd likely clear you a chair whenever you want one.

[shopnagain]

Lol,ive never ever seen one time sticker in all my cruises.

Ive never not found a chair either. Might not be where I want it but we always find chairs somewhere. I think you obviously let this get the best of you though. I wouldnt waste any time asking about that in guest services. Just enjoy your vacation. Dont sweat the small stuff

You are fortunate that you’ve never been on a full ship of 1400 children. I was on Navigator in January and EVERY day, they were patrolling for chair hogs with stickers. Allure in August-same. In fact, every recent cruise, they’ve patrolled even when it’s not necessary. I asked the pool attendant to please help me find ONE chair and he refused. At that point, no way was I tipping him.

[shopnagain]

If I were king of the world, and clearly I'm not :-), I would treat deck chairs like a parking lot. If your caboose is in the chair, it's yours for as long as you are sitting in it. If your caboose is not in the chair, it's for another guest to use. I simply can't remember a time when I had a great parking place at the grocery store but needed to go have lunch (or fill in the blank with whatever) so I reserved my great parking place for when I get back. It may be 29 minutes or it may be 3 hrs. Sounds ridiculous, right? Because it is ridiculous. If my car is not in the parking place, it simply isn't mine. As I watch around the crowded areas, people are coming and going quite frequently. If everyone would only use the chair when they were actually sitting in it there WOULD be enough to go around. The cruise lines would help by having a designated area where you could leave your beach bag and belongings while swimming. I've seen people stand around in the pool for a LONG time, walk over to their chair, grab their stuff and leave. Why tie up a chair for your bag/towel? My DH actually thought my idea was crazy until our last cruise when he actually watched the activity. So many people walking around looking for a place to sit, 15 people in the pool and 200 lounge chairs being held down by towels. The concept of leaving your chair for (fill in the blank with lunch, get a drink, go to the restroom) wouldn't be unreasonable, except that uncivilized people don't adhere to that, so......I would eliminate saving of loungers at all. I truly think it would actually work better than what we have now.

Perfect analogy! Best post yet!! :cool:

[momofmab]

If a pool and sunshine were so important, I can think of a lot better vacations than a cruise. Or at least sail on a ship like Oasis where this isn't an issue.

 

Apparently you haven't been on Oasis during spring break :')

 

By the last sea day on our recent cruise, people were coming up in the pitch black, pre-dawn hours to reserve chairs! The moon was still out and most of the loungers around the pools were "reserved".

 

Royal should do what it is now doing in most Windjammers and escort guests to chairs, allowing no more than one additional chair to be saved. No more claiming 12 chairs that won't be occupied for 3 hours.

 

At least on Oasis, by the last sea day, the pool staff were walking around with clipboards and noting times for unoccupied chairs. After 30 minutes they would return with a security detail and remove items from unoccupied chairs. Protesters were forced to deal with security, versus being allowed to abuse the pool staff.

 

Its laughable to see people come back after more than 2 hours ("I just went to get breakfast!") and try to make a case for the 12 chairs that they tied together at the legs with towels, that are now occupied by someone else :')

[h20skibum]

Apparently you haven't been on Oasis during spring break :')

 

 

 

At least on Oasis, by the last sea day, the pool staff were walking around with clipboards and noting times for unoccupied chairs. After 30 minutes they would return with a security detail and remove items from unoccupied chairs. Protesters were forced to deal with security, versus being allowed to abuse the pool staff.

 

 

 

That didn’t happen at all on the Allure. Pool staff was doing nothing. We made a couple of rounds to all the outdoor pools, solarium, upper levels, and every chair was covered with a towel. That is the first time on an Oasis class ship we could not find even one chair. Over 2,000 kids onboard that week, so places were packed.

 

We just dropped our stuff by the pool while we were in it, then made a mad dash when we saw a chair open up.

 

 

 

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[TinkBellaMom]

I wish pool decks had cubbies poolside, where you could place your flip flops, towel, coverup, seapass, etc. without taking up a lounger while you're in the pool or hot tub. It would seem an efficient use of space.

We have often wished for this too. We live in Florida and get enough sun. Sometimes we would just like to sit on the edge of the pool deck or spend some time in the hot tub. We don't require a seat--but we have never been able to find a place to leave our belongings. If there are no spots we have asked if a friendly face if we might just park our stuff under their chair for a short time.

[nalatrixie74]

When my children were little i once tried taking a chair next to an older woman and she got snippy and said thats for my grandchildren! ok,i tried taking the next one, same woman, had 3 chairs...ok. i finally found one nearby and watched, not once did the grandchildren sit down before they all left. i just wanted to supervise my kids. now that they are older, i dont mind sitting far away from the pool, i just want to sit in the sun. i really dont understand the need to have a chair by the pool if you arent swimming or watching little ones. i also just dont understand reserving chairs that are hardly used... is it a hunting high, like hey thats right, got my very own chair all day if i want to sit!

[NateUpNorth]

I can't consciously recall......... is there signage around the pool in regards to the "30 minute" rule?

If not there should be.

[BillOh]

Why would you need a chair if you’re in the hot tub for 30 minutes or longer? You simply need a spot to drop your stuff? You’re taking up a lounger that someone may only want for 30 minutes. You can’t park your body in more than one place at a time.

 

 

This is why I always try to give Royal the idea of a Cubby for towels and shoes. Many times I go to the pool or hottub for only 30 minutes or so and have no need for a lounger. There is no perfect place for a towel and shoes.

[birdlord]

Every cruise I have been on they have never tagged nor patrolled for hogs (I wish they do!)......Perhaps they only do that during full capacity of if they get too many complaints that particular cruise?.

 

The only cruise I was ever on that patrolled was Celebrity. They did not hesitate to remove towels after it was clear it was hogging. On all my other cruises (RCI) I never saw a tag -- just learned about "tags" reading this post -- and never see patrolling.

[payitforward]

We have often wished for this too. We live in Florida and get enough sun. Sometimes we would just like to sit on the edge of the pool deck or spend some time in the hot tub. We don't require a seat--but we have never been able to find a place to leave our belongings. If there are no spots we have asked if a friendly face if we might just park our stuff under their chair for a short time.

 

What a great idea! I don't know if I would say "fortunately," but at least I now always have a place for my stuff because I ride a scooter while on the ship.

[momofmab]

I can't consciously recall......... is there signage around the pool in regards to the "30 minute" rule?

If not there should be.

 

 

 

Yes, there were signs on Oasis, and I noticed that the crew would them around to the most popular “chair hog” areas (the beach pool).

 

 

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[BillOh]

Perfect analogy! Best post yet!! :cool:

 

Not a perfect analogy. You don't have to be in your car to keep the spot.

[shopnagain]

Not a perfect analogy. You don't have to be in your car to keep the spot.

The car is the body. Car occupies parking spot as butt occupies chair.