B2B Cruises and changing cabins

[Lane412000]

Has anyone been on a B2B cruise and had to change cabins after the first cruise?

 

What is the process for moving your clothing and personal items?

 

Do you have to remain on the cruise ship until your luggage and belongings are moved to the second cabin?

 

If the second cruise cabin is next door to the first cruise cabin, can we ask the cabin steward or butler to move our hanging clothes and other items we have packed in our luggage to the second cabin so that we can disembark for a private shore excursion?

 

The first cruise cabin is 11027 and the second cruise cabin is 11025.

 

TIA for any help

Edited January 5 by Lane412000

[shepherd really]

7 minutes ago, Lane412000 said:

Has anyone been on a B2B cruise and had to change cabins after the first cruise?

 

What is the process for moving your clothing and personal items?

 

Do you have to remain on the cruise ship until your luggage and belongings are moved to the second cabin?

 

If the second cruise cabin is next door to the first cruise cabin, can we ask the cabin steward or butler to move our hanging clothes and other items we have packed in our luggage to the second cabin so that we can disembark for a private shore excursion?

 

The first cruise cabin is 11027 and the second cruise cabin is 11025.

 

TIA for any help

A penthouse has a butler.  He'll make it happen if you ask, possibly even if you don't if he's good.

[rheasue38]

Hi!

 We changed cabins this summer on a b2b on Vista. The stewards brought in a clothes rack and they transferred all our hanging clothes to the new cabin.  We packed our toiletries and put some clothes in suitcases which they transferred. The whole process took less than one hour.

We were all unpacked by 9:00 and were free to get off the ship.

Rhea

 

[alcpa1]

Think also about moving the items in your safe. We were able to access the new cabin's safe immediately. The cabin steward, in our case, moved all the luggage and we were on our way off the ship.

You will meet staff who will handle the turn over process and issue new keys.

[azdrydock]

Did it last month.

Let your butler know.

Anything on hangers they moved for us (we asked for extra hangers) and they moved our luggage. They told us anything loose or in draws we would have to move ourselves so we packed everything into the luggage. This way they could  everything when we were ready to leave and did not have to wait for the new cabin to be cleaned and blessed. They suggested not to use the safe until we returned. since security some times checks the safe to see if anything was left  behind.

 

Guest services  told us we had to wait onboard until around 10:30 when they reset the system and could issue a new card other wise we risked being denied boarding.

 

Butler said it was BS, port security never checks the dates on your card and even if they did its an embarkation day so there is no problem getting on the ship. He also told us that  the cabin change is flagged and security will send us to guest services for a new card.

Previous guests vacated the cabin early; stewards and butler moved everything around 8:00 AM prior to the new cabin being ready and we were on our way. No problems reboarding.

 

I am sure the process is the same at every cabin level.

 

Edited January 6 by azdrydock
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[WildWanderers]

Hi @Lane412000,

 

We were on B2B requiring a change of room in both August and December, 2023, on the Insignia.

 

In both cases, the butler was kind enough to bring the clothes rack / trolley just before the time everyone is supposed to be out of their rooms on a disembarkation day (8 a.m. in August;  9:30 a.m. in December).  The room stewards knew without being told to coordinate is such a way as to ensure that the room you move to is first to be cleaned, and you can stay in your first room until the new one is ready.  

 

Since you have a trolley to load up, you can put some stuff into any bags (e.g., backpack, the complimentary Oceania one) to hang from the hooks on the trolley.  Clothes hang easily on the trolley.

 

You really want the butler and/or steward to move the trolley as it is a challenge to get it stably over the threshold of the door.  They will be on alert anyway for when your room is ready to move to.

 

When you leave your first room for the last time, one of you should go to reception to get the new keycards (it is possible the butler could do this, not sure), so that when you leave the second room for the first time, you can get back in.

 

By the time I got back to the room with the new keycards, the unpacking was almost done, as we packed in such a way that we kept things together the way they were in the drawers in the first room.  We did our own packing / unpacking.

 

You may see the financial records of the people who just left the room you move into on the online TV system, but their info will drop off sometime during the day. 

 

On the night before the move on the August B2B, the butler volunteered to move my pre-filled biologic syringes to a fridge somewhere, and to put them into the fridge of our new room the next day, just so they wouldn't get lost in the fray.

 

On the December cruise, while on the first of the two B2B, we changed our second room, to an available penthouse that is not right under the early morning trolley noise from the Terrace Café.  Unfortunately, a lot of the materials had been printed and prepared already for that second cruise, meaning that the people in the room we avoided got our complimentary red wine, invitations and destination services info.  It took time to unravel, and the confusion persisted during the second cruise.

 

Hope something in all of this helps.

 

Cheers,

Greg from the WildWanderers

[MEFIowa]

While on Riviera we went from an A3 on deck 9 to a B3 on deck 7 on 11/9/2023. A bit of a clusterfoxtrot for us. Weirdly the new cabin had a couple that was also doing the same thing. That complicated matters as we couldn't move into their room until they moved into the new cabin. Thankfully, they let me move some stuff into their room before they moved.

 

We had to go to reception to get new World Card, since we no longer had concierge cabin and lost access to those privileges.

 

IT is supposed to work with the room steward and attendant moving your things off hangers, etc. from your cabin to the next.

 

TELL your room steward and attendant about it before hand. Do what they say.

 

I had a lot of alcohol that I moved myself (beer, hard liquor, and wine).

 

We moved all of our sensitive materials from the safe by ourselves.

[HilsTas]

A couple of years ago we were meant to move to the cabin next door - staff told us not to bother, and they put the incoming guests into our 'new' room.  

Easy!