Shampoo, conditioner ... Dispensers?

[g_ppetto]

I suppose you could, but if they offend you that bad, just stick them under the sink on the shelf.

Thanks, I thought they were secured to the shelf.

 

[ctechbob]

Thanks, I thought they were secured to the shelf.

Nope, just regular little pump bottles sitting there. You can move them around at will.

 

[NMK62303]

What about the hand cream? I love being able to have that in my bag when we go on excursions. Do you still get those?

Nope, all pump bottles.

So the lotion is there - just in a bottle? Just double checking to see if we need to bring our own - I too love being able to take the portable bottles with me around the ship but want to be sure that we do have some in the room. Thanks.

 

[emilymad]

Even my DH who is the least germaphobe person is disgusted by this. We will definitely be bring our own products. There is nothing sanitary about this process.

They are using those same refill bottles from the hallway to top off multiple staterooms. I doubt those bottles are being cleaned between each stateroom.

 

[darnheather]

Even my DH who is the least germaphobe person is disgusted by this. We will definitely be bring our own products. There is nothing sanitary about this process.

They are using those same refill bottles from the hallway to top off multiple staterooms. I doubt those bottles are being cleaned between each stateroom.

I lived in Korea for 2.5 years. Hotels there have been doing this for many many years. No one has died or become ill. I can tell you it is completely sanitary.

 

[Van Houten]

BTW, the so called "tamper proof" stickers are anything but. Between our two cabins (4 and 4 bottles), we had 4 with stickers which became unglued, and another 4 which just went missing (this was on Fantasy last week).
I also found the shower gel pump to be an inconvenience - you need to press that a couple of dozen times to get a decent amount of gel out... just a waste of time. With a tube, you could quickly get the right amount out quickly. Maybe this works for the lotion and shampoo, but they need a different pump for shower gel.
We stayed at WDW renovated room pre-cruise (also pumps, but those are locked in a special holder, so no tampering issue) - however, over there the shower gel pump did not survive our one-night stay, as our daughter tried to get some out, and broke off the metal tip in the process. It's quite flimsy.

 

[ctechbob]

So the lotion is there - just in a bottle? Just double checking to see if we need to bring our own - I too love being able to take the portable bottles with me around the ship but want to be sure that we do have some in the room. Thanks.

Yes, still there.

 

[Doingitagain]

The dispenser aren’t nearly as bad as the time I checked into a small town hotel and there was a used bar of soap in the shower for us.

I have stayed at hotels that have used dispensers like this before, but they generally were designed to have them and are permanently on the wall.

 

[Cruising Engineer]

I lived in Korea for 2.5 years. Hotels there have been doing this for many many years. No one has died or become ill. I can tell you it is completely sanitary.

Stationed in Uijeongu for a year and no problem with dispensers in the hotels or quarters. Even the meat hanging at the front of the butcher shop was never a problem.

 

[mmmears]

If you don't like this, please send DCL a message (link on page 2 or 3). I did, and got the whole "we don't want waste" and "it's all cleaned and sanitized" pat response. I don't trust that they are sanitizing anything.

 

[soniam]

Maybe they are sanitizing them. We know that DCL walks around wiping surfaces on the ship for germs to cut down on Norovirus. Maybe they realize that this is as likely to have problems as other surfaces They have one of the better track records in the industry. I'm just not going down the road of thinking what's on everything on the cruise ship. I would just have to never leave the house and start cleaning it with toothbrush and bleach. I come from long line of people with medically diagnosed OCD, especially for cleanliness. For me, what hasn't killed me, makes me stronger. For those with weakened immunity, I hope these don't become a problem. I know people with weak immune systems, ie my mother, a neighbor who has CF.

 

[FigmentSpark]

Realistically, I wonder how many people actually use their products? We always bring our own everywhere. That way, I'm guaranteed something I like and enjoy using. So if only a portion of travellers are using their products, they might really be making a killing on the cost savings. So much product walked off the ship before.

But yeah, hand lotion. I admit I forget that one on many trips.

 

[ctechbob]

For any trip I take, be it to Disney or anywhere else, I always take my own, but if I like what I find when I get there, I'll use theirs. I really like the H2O Body wash on the ships, so I use it. I'm a healthy adult and work in a Jail, so anything that is on those bottles isn't going to bother me unless someone threw up on them before they left and they didn't get cleaned.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Realistically, I wonder how many people actually use their products?

The H2O products on DCL are the only ones I do use. The other cruiselines I've been on, I bring my own stuff as I don't like them.

 

[Starwind]

Maybe they are sanitizing them. We know that DCL walks around wiping surfaces on the ship for germs to cut down on Norovirus. Maybe they realize that this is as likely to have problems as other surfaces They have one of the better track records in the industry. I'm just not going down the road of thinking what's on everything on the cruise ship. I would just have to never leave the house and start cleaning it with toothbrush and bleach. I come from long line of people with medically diagnosed OCD, especially for cleanliness. For me, what hasn't killed me, makes me stronger. For those with weakened immunity, I hope these don't become a problem. I know people with weak immune systems, ie my mother, a neighbor who has CF.

They may wipe down the outside, but the other concern with refillable dispensers is contamination that gets inside the dispenser, including during the "topping off" process.

See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126420/ for one study looking at the issue in a different environment (contaminated refillable liquid soap in elementary school).

We are allergic to DCL's and the hotel's products anyway, so always bring our own. For DCL, we'll move the containers under the sink out of the way during the cruise.

SW

 

[cruisehopeful]

I read about these changes before I took a cruise over the weekend, so I wasn't surprised. The only thing that bothered me was that there was no bar of soap. I feel there should have been some type of hand soap in the toilet room. I didn't realize it until I already used the toilet and had to go to the shower to pump some gel to wash my hands. When the shops were open later, I bought a little bar of soap for $3.99. I will remember to bring my own cheaper bar next time.

I'm sure I could have gotten something from my stateroom host, but it was a 2 night cruise and I wasn't going to hang around to try to catch him to ask for soap. Maybe I could have left him a note. At any rate, just easier and more efficient to bring my own next time.

 

[FigmentSpark]

hah... you should have just gone up to Cabanas and used their sinks, exclaiming loudly that you'd rather wash your hands in your stateroom, but you'll go where the soap is.

 

[keaster]

I read about these changes before I took a cruise over the weekend, so I wasn't surprised. The only thing that bothered me was that there was no bar of soap. I feel there should have been some type of hand soap in the toilet room. I didn't realize it until I already used the toilet and had to go to the shower to pump some gel to wash my hands. When the shops were open later, I bought a little bar of soap for $3.99. I will remember to bring my own cheaper bar next time.

I'm sure I could have gotten something from my stateroom host, but it was a 2 night cruise and I wasn't going to hang around to try to catch him to ask for soap. Maybe I could have left him a note. At any rate, just easier and more efficient to bring my own next time.

We were just on the Dream beginning of April, they had bars of soap at the sinks in the bathrooms.

 

[Lisa F]

Not to start a 'that's not sanitary' war, but we're just off the Dream and as I was cruising down the hallways one afternoon I snapped a picture of part of the refill procedure, hint, its pretty basic. Personally, I've got no problem using the pumps (well, except that the nozzle fell off the body wash during a shower and I had to engineer it back together) but I know some people will have their own reasons why this bothers them.

Also, it may save plastic, but I don't think its going to save product. Our room (4 people) went through an entire bottle of the body wash on a 4 night trip.

Honestly I kind of wish that DCL would put these in the showers. how much fun to squeeze it on your head like it's ketchup?

 

[ctechbob]

I read about these changes before I took a cruise over the weekend, so I wasn't surprised. The only thing that bothered me was that there was no bar of soap. I feel there should have been some type of hand soap in the toilet room. I didn't realize it until I already used the toilet and had to go to the shower to pump some gel to wash my hands. When the shops were open later, I bought a little bar of soap for $3.99. I will remember to bring my own cheaper bar next time.

I'm sure I could have gotten something from my stateroom host, but it was a 2 night cruise and I wasn't going to hang around to try to catch him to ask for soap. Maybe I could have left him a note. At any rate, just easier and more efficient to bring my own next time.

Odd, had a bar in the toilet room on Dream. Stateroom host might have just forgotten it or something. Can't imagine them not putting one in there.