Chair Hogging crackdown

[Family of 14]

justcruzin85374 - Do you mean that you were getting ready to claim the chair when this lady came up!!!!!

 

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[justcruzin85374]

Family....YES....I was just about to ask the guy next to the empty chair if it was taken when she rudely came up behind me and threw her towel over my shoulder. I'm telling you she made a A** of herself and about 4 people around could not beleive what they just saw. She planted her big fat *** there and didn't bugde. Totally rude and obnoxious.

Me I'm too polite to agrue or say anything so I let her have the chair.

 

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[Chuck & Phyllis]

We bring our own chairs. They're real small reclining beach chairs. Sit anywhere we want. People always say "what a great idea" as they walk by. BTW we just about always sail out of NY and drive to the port. Once when we flew, we bought cheap chairs and just left them onboard. Never had a problem.

 

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[superjerryw]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by cruisingirls:

Ok...so I am a newbie, and will be taking my first cruise on May 9th. All this chair hogging talk has me a bit concerned! Is it really so difficult to get a chair by the pool-or is it just prime locations that are the problem?

 

- On sea days when the weather is nice it can be impossible to get a chair by the pool

 

Also-just my two cents-but if this is such a problem, why doesn't RCCL start a sign out program for a pool chair on a daily basis? The resort that we stayed at in Aruba did this with their beach chairs/umbrellas and seemed to work very well. It was on a first come first serve basis. When you were finished with your chair for the day you brought the reservation card back and picked up your sign out card (that you keep for your stay and use each day that you want to sign out a chair).

 

I don't think this would change anything. The chair hogs would sign out a chair first thing in the morning and then never use is as they do now.

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Donuts, is there anything they can't do....

[lscole]

I'm happy to hear that RCCL is FINALLY enforcing the chair policy. But like other posters I will be really annoyed if I go to the ladies room or take a dip in the pool to come back to find my stuff gone! I always leave pool stuff lotions mags on the chair while I'm gone so hopefully it won't be a problem. But often I'll ask the people next to me to keep and eye on my stuff.

 

Many years ago on the QE2 you picked out deck chairs paid a $2 fee per chair they put a tag on it with your name that was your chair the whole cruise. Since RCCL is charging for other things I won't object to a $5fee knowing that my chair would be there waiting for me always. Not having to eat brkfst fast then race to the pool. But I've now been sitting on deck 12 and usually not having a problem getting a chair. Better sun and easier to reposition your chair. It does get crowded on the pool deck. Have 3 cruise schedule for fall/winter so I can't wait to see what happens. Also on last two cruises had no problem getting extra pool towels from cabin steward.

 

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[Family of 14]

justcruzin85374 - That's a HOOT! I would have loved to have been there.

 

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[izzyvet]

Also glad RCI had finally decided to do a chair patrol. This is something that was done on my NCL cruises years ago. Any chair left alone for more than 1/2 hour or so was cleared off. We never had any problem finding lounge chairs on those cruises. I do think clearing chairs in 10 minutes is too short though. You should be able to get up to have a dip in the pool, go to the bar or restroom. 1/2 hour seems to be a good time limit to leave a chair unattended and certainly they should be cleared after an hour or more. Waiting to see what it's like on Explorer next month.

 

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[Guest OBAYbee]

Here's a solution!

Let's see some pool chairs with "Parking Meters" on it. You can use your Sea Pass. Then if you let it expire, the chair is available to the first person that comes by and wants it.

Unlike "Car parking meters" I don't think many good samaritans will use THEIR seapass to keep your chair from being taken up after it expired.

[abridalmaven]

How about you own egg timer? No, I guess someone might steal it or reset it. But some sort of timing system is a good idea. I guess I am glad I can find more things to do than lay out by the pool. Skin cancer is not fun for fair people like myself, besides, if I want a nap, the bed is so much more comfortable. And if I really wanted to lay outside, would get a balcony cabin.

 

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[skiiergirl]

cruisingirls....There are usually enough deck chairs that you will find somewhere to sit. It is just that the "premo" spots fill up fast. If you want to be right next to the pool then you may have to get there early and plan on staying in your chair all day. There are usually chairs around the pool and up on "pool balcony" for two or three decks. There are a few chairs in the shade, a few chairs with wind, a few chairs no wind, chairs near the bar, chairs away from the bar, chairs near the band, chairs away from the band, etc. (You get the picture.) Unless you specifically want to be right next to the pool you generally won't have trouble finding a chair to sit in....it just may not be in your first choice of location. Enjoy your cruise!

 

 

[ClarkGriswld]

On the Enchantment Easter Sunday, at 9:30 am every deck chair had been saved. Pool attendant didn't show up until 11. By then almost every one had come back from breakfast, church, towel folding class, etc. and just about every chair was filled. As far as leaving a sign, more than likely the pool attendant doesn't read English. I've got an idea: take along a bicycle lock and thread it through your chair closing the backrest down, then to the deck rail and the handle on your beach bag. By the time you get back from the bathroom your chair will still be there unoccupied.

[Sweetone]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Chuck & Phyllis:

We bring our own chairs. They're real small reclining beach chairs. Sit anywhere we want. People always say "what a great idea" as they walk by. BTW we just about always sail out of NY and drive to the port. Once when we flew, we bought cheap chairs and just left them onboard. Never had a problem.

 

Chuck & Phyllis

 

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Ohhh, I LIKE that idea! I'll have to remember that one next time! We have a couple of those chairs and they would be pretty easy to pack, too. We were on the Sovereign a couple of weeks ago and on our "sea day" there wasn't a chair to be found around the pool and no one was enforcing it. We did find some on another deck, but it was so windy and chilly, we couldn't sit there very long. I'll remember your idea, though, it sounds great!

 

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[thefish]

I wrote this in wordstar and I hope it come's out right in the post.

 

Years ago I saved up my coke bottle deposit money and bought a pair of X-ray vision glasses that I had found advertised in the back of a comic book that promised you could see through clothes. My adolescent disappointment was high when I discovered that they did not actually work. They had a flimsy plastic frame and cardboard lenses. In the middle of the lenses was a viewing hole that was covered with pantyhose material. I now know that this was pantyhose material because I get the same visual affects when I pull my wife’s pantyhose over my head when I get out of the shower and walk around singing the Hiawatha Love Song. This action also makes our tomcat Spencer hiss like an air matress with a hole in it.

I still have these gag glasses and take them on the cruise with me. I go up to the pool deck and find the gal (you know who you are) that sits by the pool in that Italian designer swim wear made out of dental floss. Nothing gives her the heebie jeebies more than a pot bellied middle aged man standing there looking at her with a pair of cardboard glasses with “X-ray Vision†written in bold letters across the front of them. After a while she will get up muttering something about your ancestors and leave you a vacant lounge chair. Make sure when you try this that her muscle beach boyfriend Burt is not around or he will pound your SPF 2000 buttered but into a pulp. I promise this hurts like heck.

Now that you have an empty chair lather yourself up in that Quaker States Suntan Lotion you brought. I know it’s hard not to keep sliding but I found by locking your arms around the edge of the lounge chair and intertwining your feet with the last few vinyl straps you can manage to hold on while pointing your white butt crack towards the sky like some droopy swim trunk offering to the sun gods.

I do like the idea of passing gas that was offered by a previous poster but I am afraid that unless you can conjure up one that will wake the people in the cabin below you that it will go unnoticed, wafting in the fumes from the ship’s smokestacks. I would save this for the crowded swimming pool so at least you can see the bubbles. This will not work in the hot tub because you will not know if the bubbles are coming from you, the hot tub or the guy sitting across from you.

I know that you are thinking that this is a great idea and you will try it on your next cruise but what about the chair hogs that leave their “reserved†lounge chair unattended for hours. There are several solutions that I can come up with that are logical, civilized and fair but let’s not go there.

Two words come to mind and I say them with tongue in cheek as opposed to tongue in teeth or tongue in top of mouth, “Public Executionâ€. Remember the good ole days when after a morning fire and brimstone sermon we would all meet at the Town Square for a picnic and a hangin. Well I really don’t remember this but that would have been the way I would have remembered if I did remember. I know that someone dancing at the end of a rope is just entertainment for the just and righteous but it may give pause to his fellow evil doers. They might reconsider and think that robbing banks, ignoring stop signs and cheating on the income tax is not such a good idea after all.

Wouldn’t it be a hoot if the Ship’s Captain came out in a Blackbeard outfit waving a cutlass above his head dispensing ARRRGGHH’s left and right while he sends some poor bloke to his demise at the end of a yard arm, or metric arm in Europe, or off a plank on the pool deck?

I know what your thinking, “My God, are you suggesting that the cruise line execute a paying customer for hogging chairs? What about the lost bingo and casino profits? What if the cruise line feels that they have to compensate the surviving spouse with a free drink or onboard credit?†No no no, I am not suggesting something so drastic but there are a lot of crew members and one of them might be having a bad week, performing sub par so to speak.

All it would take is the Captain to shout, “This is what we do to chair hogging swill†before he tosses the poor chap into the foaming sea. This would not only take care of the chair hog problem for the rest of the cruise but it would also make the food in the dining room taste a heck of a lot better. I would only recommend that this be done once during the cruise, me being a non-violent person, especially violence from a muscle beach dude named Burt.

[DedeM]

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[cruzin2paradise]

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[SHELLLEYS]

I was on the same cruise as NorEaster last week...Serenade....Hubby and I and our friends saw several confrontations take place with cruisers and the "deck patrol" over their stuff being taken off chairs. One lady was literally yelling. We had 4 chairs and my hubby was up at 7:00 to get them....he called our room at 7:15 and told me I better get up there, as already "deck patrol" was taking towels off chairs. Our group stayed in our chairs all day, only leaving to get a plate of food or dip in the pool....one or two of us stayed with the chairs at all times, for fear of someone taking our chairs, it got pretty wild! I heard many people complaining about lack of chairs. By about 2:00 pm, things got a bit more relaxed and I didn't see much of the deck patrol.

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[BigDave]

Shellleys,

I was wondering when an unashamed chair hog would respond.

Seriously, with any shared resource you always get some who want the max and won't play fair.
I'm sure you don't agree with what’s 'fair' though.

"We had 4 chairs and my hubby was up at 7:00 to get them....he called our room at 7:15 and told me I better get up there, as already 'deck patrol' was taking towels off chairs."
15 minutes is a reasonable time, especially in the early morning when chairs are routinely held for folks that don't show up for a couple of hours.

"Our group stayed in our chairs all day, only leaving to get a plate of food or dip in the pool"
I'm sorry this upset you, but it really is the only fair way, use the chairs or let someone else have them.
This means if you're going to go away for a while someone else gets to use it.
You'll have a little less 'chair time' overall and it will be less than ideal (not always sitting with who you want), but overall there would be more folks getting sun time, and less towels getting sun time [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img].

Of course if you want to keep the chair all day and not let anyone else have a chance then I can't really feel bad about you feeling stressed over choosing to hog the chair with your body instead of a towel.
(Note: If you want to sit in the sun all day thats fine, but you clearly stated you just wanted your chair held all day and didn't like having to actually use it to hold it!)

BigDave

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[SHELLLEYS]

Pardon me, Big Dave, but obviously you misunderstood my message. We did stay in our chairs ALL DAY......only left for brief 5-10 minutes at a time to 1) take a dip in pool, 2) get a sandwich, 3) go wee-wee, or 4) turn-over! So I take offense that you would even dream of calling me a chair hog.....we got up early to get them and all of us stayed in them ALL DAY!! Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[SHELLLEYS]

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[bmgaritty]

We had 4 chairs and my hubby was up at 7:00 to get them....he called our room at 7:15 and told me I better get up there, as already "deck patrol" was taking towels off chairs.

Shelleys,
Dave can read - his post was quite appropriate!
Why wasn't your group in the chairs at 7, if you weren't part of the chair hog group? Was your hubby putting books, towels, etc on chairs to save them? Chair hog...chair hog chair hog...

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[BigDave]

In the context of your message it was 'Oh poor us, we were forced to actually stay rather than wandering back every once in a while.'

You might backtrack now, but the opening part where your husband was holding chairs for folks not there clearly shows intent, and I'm just interpreting attitude.

Heck in your reply you still seem miffed that you had to stay with your chairs all day.... and that’s what I was pointing out from the original message.

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Pardon me, Big Dave, but obviously you misunderstood my message. We did stay in our chairs ALL DAY......only left for brief 5-10 minutes at a time to 1) take a dip in pool, 2) get a sandwich, 3) go wee-wee, or 4) turn-over! So I take offense that you would even dream of calling me a chair hog.....we got up early to get them and all of us stayed in them ALL DAY!! Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[lauren0309]

You still don't get the point! You can not reserve chairs no matter how early you get there, even if the sun is not up yet! So don't say he was there at 7 to put your towels on the chair and hog them!

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[bmgaritty]

Laren and Dave,
Will she ever get it???

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