Straw in soda cup

[The Viking]

Do you still get a plastic straw with your soda cup or should I bring my own?

[torbs]

nope.... bring your own

all straws are now cardboard

[deepcman]

And yet the ketchup and mustard are still in those little plastic packets. Go figure.

[Allura_317]

11 minutes ago, torbs said:

nope.... bring your own

all straws are now cardboard

Yes, they no longer have the straws available upon request policy and all straws are cardboard.  

[matj2000]

I was on the Oasis just 1 month ago and straw were everywhere available.

 

 And they were not the cardboard type...

[Merion_Mom]

9 minutes ago, matj2000 said:

I was on the Oasis just 1 month ago and straw were everywhere available.

 

 And they were not the cardboard type...

 

The rollout is gradual, as they use up existing stock. 

[The Viking]

Thank you all of you.

[matj2000]

Bring one of these and pass them out...….

[whitshel]

We're on liberty right now and no plastic straws

[ONECRUISER]

1 hour ago, matj2000 said:

Bring one of these and pass them out...….

Be careful item will be on the Banned list, suitcase will end up in Naughty Room

[FireEMT978]

Why not just bring 1 for yourself. For the entire cruise? I'm not a tree hugger. But, it should last the entire time.

 

[Dennis#1]

Grandeur had plastic straws on our Dec. 1, 2018 cruise.

[SRF]

10 hours ago, deepcman said:

And yet the ketchup and mustard are still in those little plastic packets. Go figure.

 

Because the environmental geeks went crazy on straws, and did not consider anything else.

 

 

[catou2428]

so no straws for frozen drinks?

[bouhunter]

2 hours ago, SRF said:

 

Because the environmental geeks went crazy on straws, and did not consider anything else.

 

 

Yep.  Now that they're winning the straw battle, they'll come up with something else to declare war on.

[paulh84]

2 hours ago, SRF said:

 

Because the environmental geeks went crazy on straws, and did not consider anything else.

 

 

 

Not quite. Heinz is in the process of overhauling all of their single serve packaging. Straws already had viable replacement options available. 

[SausPud]

I bought some metal straws as I hate the feel and taste of a cardboard straw.

[Biker19]

13 hours ago, matj2000 said:

I was on the Oasis just 1 month ago and straw were everywhere available.

 

 And they were not the cardboard type...

All gone - paper ones now. 

[FireEMT978]

1 hour ago, catou2428 said:

so no straws for frozen drinks?

Not on our New Years Navigator cruise.

I got a couple of frozen drinks. By the time they handed them to me, the end of the straws had completely plugged themselves closed.

 

[SailorJeff66]

Just back from Brilliance. At first all the drinks came with paper straws. About day 2 or 3, plastic....

[Max and Ruby]

So you cannot bring a few plastic straws on board? Had planned on doing that for kids. I used a metal straw with rubber tip for my cruise without the kids.  I just don’t know if kids will clean their metal straws like I did each time.

[Keri's Cruisin']

7 hours ago, FireEMT978 said:

Not on our New Years Navigator cruise.

I got a couple of frozen drinks. By the time they handed them to me, the end of the straws had completely plugged themselves closed.

 

YUCK.  I was in Florida on vacation last May and all the bars there had already switched to paper straws. They are awful. I will be bringing a stash of my own straws on NOS this May....

[matj2000]

22 minutes ago, Max and Ruby said:

So you cannot bring a few plastic straws on board? Had planned on doing that for kids. 

Who said you cannot bring plastic straws?

 

If so, how would they even know if you did?

 

What are they going to do, rip it out of your drink?

 

Think it though...…..

[Max and Ruby]

36 minutes ago, matj2000 said:

Who said you cannot bring plastic straws?

 

If so, how would they even know if you did?

 

What are they going to do, rip it out of your drink?

 

Think it though...…..

Someone joked about bringing a large pack of straws and having them confiscated from your luggage. Since I haven’t been following I did not know if this was a real thing or a joke.

[cruisegirl1]

We had several drink on our cruise last week.    We were given a straw with each  tall or frozen drink. Never even asked.    Had several frozen drinks and had no problem using the paper type straw.  Sorry don't understand the big deal with the paper straws or why the cruise line  cares if you want to  bother bringing some plastic  straws. 

 

I would  hate to get a drink and then run back to the cabin to get a plastic straw.  Or,  plan my drinking around my straw availability, or carry some straws  with me, or wash out  the metal straws! 

 

Yikes......

M