This has to be the most annoying thing to ever happen on ships. It happens at the most inopportune time. It’s always scheduled at 11:00am. Its always the 2nd sea day. And its always the morning after a disco night for the crew. Ugh!! I mean the crew bar pres could switch up the disco night if he was nice. Lol Its like they challenge us to make sure we don’t drink that much. It definitely is a way to make sure people don’t get to crazy and get out of control…the thought will always cross your mind…oh yeah crew rounds… right, gotta get to bed earlier. It’s a way to control the masses of the ship. booo.
But some of you that may not know what crew rounds are- are probably like okay what is it and whats the big deal??
Well they do it every cruise. It’s to make sure our cabins don’t get out of hand dirty and messy and to check to see if there isn’t any unapproved electronic items that we shouldn’t have.
This is what happens:
You have to clean your room, make sure everything is tidy.
You have to put up the latter to the top bunk.
You have to hide anything that shouldn’t be in your cabin like food, glasses, laptop, flat irons, hair dyers, nail polish. Anything you shouldn’t have that you do have gets hidden.
You have to make your bed, which turns out to be that some people actually hate doing that.
You have to get your life jacket, guide hat, and Blue card on your bed, and leave the room before they come around.
They come around …now the people that come around can range from your asst managers, your manager, all the way up to the Hotel General Manager. This last crew rounds was my manager and the HGM. So I made sure EVERYTHING was put away. It looked like nothing was in my cabin. Lol.
Its funny cause you do all of this for them to only open the door, turn the light on, take a quit look, and close the door. The whole thing is weird to me. They don’t really look. And if they were serious about the checking to see if you possess anything you shouldn’t have they would be random checks. But they’re not.
It’s all very weird. It does however force people to clean their cabins…thats if they don’t normally clean.
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Hi, I am enjoying your blog as I am considering getting a job on a ship. But I am curious, why can't crew have a laptop in the cabin? Where can you keep it?
ReplyDeleteoh you can have them, you technically just cant use them in your cabin if they are not electronically approved and tested by the people on the ship. its these stupid rules. i guess its a safety issue. everyone has laptops and uses them. you just need to hide them at crew rounds.
ReplyDeletestupid i know. lol.