Looks like no room privacy now.

[Lilsia]

This is a sad world we are living in now that we are all treated like criminals.

 

[squirk]

This is a sad world we are living in now that we are all treated like criminals.

Because of a door tag on a cruise ship? I think you need to visit a few more countries to see what "guilty until proven innocent" really looks like.

 

[cruiser21]

i didn't think technically there WERE supposed to be minors in rooms with no adults. In practice people sleep wherever, but I thought there is supposed to be an adult registered in every room.

Several years ago when my oldest son was 9 he left dinner early and went to the room. He fell asleep on our bed. The room host didn't make up the room. He told us he came in and saw the child sleeping and left. He kept apologizing over and over he said he wasn't supposed to enter the room when a child is alone in there. Fast forward to the last cruise. I came back from the gym my youngest son who is now 13 was sitting on the chair while the host was making up the room. The door was propped open, but I was surprised because I thought that was against the rules.

 

[Ravenne]

I don't know for sure, but I would highly doubt every Tom, Dick & Harry on the ship has the tools, skill and knowledge to open a safe. I would bet that only a very small subset of people (security staff?) can actually do that, and I would equally bet that they would be required to have a second person escort them to prevent the possibility of any shenanigans.

I mean, DCL is not in the "snooping" business. They are in the "making sure you have a fun and safe vacation" business.

Well no, just like they're not going to to start squatting in your cabin either LOL. But suffice to say, people do think they paid for the room, so they can do whatever they want. I'm just saying, DCL reserves the right to enter your room, just like they do with the safes IF they feel it is necessary.

 

[cheribelle]

Was there ever "privacy" like the olden days of hotels on DCL though? Stateroom hosts have always entered rooms at least 1x a day, usually 2x a day regardless.

I'm curious what their policy is now with minors in the room with no adults...if that's changed at all.

I always let me teens (14, 17) sleep in on the cruise. We have connecting rooms and they don’t get up until lunch time. I explain this to the stateroom host prior to let him know to make up their room later on.
Wonder if I should worry that they will walk in on them anyway?

 

[cruiser21]

The doors do have a dead bolt. I use it whenever I'm showering or getting dressed. I use because I don't want my teen boys barging in on me. I always figured the door hanger would keep the room host out. I guess I need that dead bolt for the host too.

 

[Ralph&Pam]

I have a question regarding the door hanger itself. The old ones had “Please Service Room” or some such on the reverse side. We found it to be a convenient way to let our room host know we would be out of the room for a while. Particularly on longer cruises, the host learned our breakfast pattern and made it a point to service the room while we’re off eating. Is the revised hanger the same on both sides, like the “Room Occupied” signs at WDW?

 

[YawningDodo]

Like others who have commented, I think it's extremely unlikely that this change to the text of the door hangers heralds an actual change in policy or in stateroom host behavior. The understood meaning of the guest's intent in hanging it is still the same ("room is occupied -- do not enter unless there's a very good reason along the lines of an Actual Emergency"), and I'm confused as to whether I've actually sailed on the same ship as the posters who have assumed that the stateroom hosts will suddenly be barging into the rooms for spot checks day and night, as that sounds entirely out of character with the service I received on my Disney cruise.

 

[Billinaz]

Following Las Vegas, this is coming to every hotel and cruise ship. Just give it some time.

The Las Vegas wacko didnt have to go through a metal detector or have his bags x-rayed.

 

[Billinaz]

I don't know for sure, but I would highly doubt every Tom, Dick & Harry on the ship has the tools, skill and knowledge to open a safe.

Its actually not that difficult.

 

[Billinaz]

Problem Solved.

https://www.amazon.com/DoorJammer-P...20653134&sr=8-7&keywords=hotel+room+door+lock

 

[DCSWO]

Quickly coming to the list of banned items near you!

 

[lanejudy]

I don’t think anything is changing other than the sign. The vast majority of guests have a stateroom host entering the room a couple times a day already. And security boarding a ship is very different than at a hotel. I see this as simply Disney going with uniformity of the door tag wording.

 

[vertigo235]

Following Las Vegas, this is coming to every hotel and cruise ship. Just give it some time.

Hotels are one thing but it's pretty hard to bring weapons onto the ship.

 

[YawningDodo]

I'm very confused as to why one would cruise with DCL if one thinks a minor change like the wording on a door hanger would be enough to lead to crew members constantly invading one's privacy and/or letting themselves into one's safe to rifle through one's possessions. If the crew members are so ill-behaved that the only thing stopping them from depriving passengers of any semblance of privacy was the phrasing on a door hanger, why on earth would you ever have wanted to sail with them in the first place?

 

[vertigo235]

Just to be clear this doesn't bother me one bit.

 

[bumbershoot]

Nice relaxing vacation as they come knocking on your door just to "check" on you as if you are a criminal. I don't like it and it does nothing.

Agreed.

You really think that's what they are going to do - just breeze into your stateroom at any time for no reason just for a random spot-check?

You haven’t been on the Resorts board recently, have you?

Also, these door hangers have been in place for several months at the resorts.

Not *several* months.

And you should go check out all the threads on Resorts about what’s been going on.

Hmm. I hope you reported that. I would bet that is not how Disney wanted that to be handled.

Disney has been doing nothing about aggressive behavior with the room checks. Asking for housekeeping to come back later is resulting in an immediate sensing up of a security check person. Who isn’t taking “no”
for an answer.

The Las Vegas wacko didnt have to go through a metal detector or have his bags x-rayed.

He also had multiple contacts with housekeeping and staff. Who noticed nothing.

 

[Shanti]

You really think that's what they are going to do - just breeze into your stateroom at any time for no reason just for a random spot-check?...Also, these door hangers have been in place for several months at the resorts. I've yet to see a news article about staff starting to just indiscreetly and indiscriminately bust into rooms while people are sleeping or showering.

You need to read the WDW resort board. There have actually been multiple reports of this happening. A WDW customer service issue is unlikely to make it into a news article, btw. That's one reason why people come to the boards to post & receive info.

Hmm. I hope you reported that. I would bet that is not how Disney wanted that to be handled.

This kind of thing has been reported numerous times on the resort boards. It isn't something that only happened to the poster you responded to. It's now part of WDW policy, apparently. That's why some people are so concerned about the practice spreading to DCL.

 

[Shanti]

I'm very confused as to why one would cruise with DCL if one thinks a minor change like the wording on a door hanger would be enough to lead to crew members constantly invading one's privacy and/or letting themselves into one's safe to rifle through one's possessions. If the crew members are so ill-behaved that the only thing stopping them from depriving passengers of any semblance of privacy was the phrasing on a door hanger, why on earth would you ever have wanted to sail with them in the first place?

I wouldn't have expected that of DCL before reading about what's been going on at WDW resorts after they changed their door signs. I think some people are freaked out by the prospect of DCL changing policy and starting to do that, like WDW has. I wouldn't have expected to be treated that way at a deluxe WDW resort, either, but there are numerous reports on the WDW resorts board of this aggressive barging in occurring, at every level of resort.

This is not a theoretical possibility someone is just imagining. This is a new policy/problem at WDW, and we're concerned that it might be spreading to DCL.

 

[mousefan73]

Just to be clear this doesn't bother me one bit.

Me too!