{"id":23871,"date":"2015-04-13T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=23871"},"modified":"2015-04-13T01:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:00:56","slug":"monday-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=23871","title":{"rendered":"The Curse Of The Lounge Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a problem to which there is no solution…<\/p>\n

Loungers.<\/p>\n

The problem isn’t so much the loungers as the towels. People drape towels on pool-side lounge chairs like “reserved” signs, and you dare not remove a towel, in case it’s owner is watching. The problem is that the towel can sit on the lounger for hours, all day even, and \"hotel<\/a>never be touched. It’s there, of course, because the people who make the deposits want to reserve that chaisse lounge for when they want to sit there…if they want to sit there.<\/p>\n

What you often have is a long ling of lounge chairs covered in towels, many with no people.<\/p>\n

People on cruise ships have long complained about this. Other than posting a sign warning people that uninhabited chairs can only remain so for an hour, as some cruise lines do, there is no solution. To hire lounge police is too costly and a waste of crew time.<\/p>\n

But it’s not just on cruise ships. In fact, there’s a warning for the cruise industry.<\/p>\n

During our recent visit to an all-inclusive resort — you’ll read more about that next week — we discovered the sight you see in the photo. We saw people emerging from their rooms at the crack of dawn, draping a towel on a pool-side lounge chair, and disappearing. While we didn’t keep score, in many cases it seemed the chairs were inhabited only by towels for hours on end.<\/p>\n

And if you look carefully at the photo, you’ll see large “towel pins” being used to hold the “reservations.” When you have something that’s designed specifically for holding towels on vacant loungers, you really do have a problem.<\/p>\n

Is there a solution to these devices of bad manners?<\/p>\n

If you know of one, many people would like to hear it.<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Anthem of the Seas officially Royal Caribbean's<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\t7 nights
\n\tMay 2, 2015
\n\tLos Angeles<\/a>, Santa Barbara<\/a>, San Francisco<\/a>, Astoria<\/a>, Victoria<\/a>, Vancouver<\/a>
\n\tInside: $399
\n\tCost per day: $57<\/strong>
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Here’s a problem to which there is no solution… Loungers. The problem isn’t so much the loungers as the towels. People drape towels on pool-side lounge chairs like “reserved” signs, and you dare not remove a towel, in case it’s owner is watching. The problem is that the towel can sit on the lounger for… Continue reading The Curse Of The Lounge Chairs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,19,15],"tags":[912,72,927,35,1036,547,1037,1202,651,623,26,27,957],"class_list":["post-23871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-passengers","tag-cruises","tag-deck-chairs-and-loungers","tag-golden-princess","tag-pacific-coast-cruises","tag-passenger-rights","tag-passenger-space","tag-passengers","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}