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- Feb 20, 2017
I was going to just pack a carry on for each of us and do laundry midway like I did a WDW but after reading this I may reconsider.
The problem is, the Magic does those longer cruises, as well as the cruises that people may travel before or after their cruise and will have more laundry to be done than on the shorter cruises or cruises where people are only doing a cruise (not other travel connected).I, too, have had worse luck with laundry on the smaller ships than the bigger ones. We did a Magic B2B in Europe in 2015 and, boy oh boy, the things we saw going on in those laundry rooms - people taking other people's clothes out, never returning for their clothes, a fight breaking out and one person taking someone else's laundry altogether. It was ugly, ugly, ugly and I felt SO bad for the people whose staterooms were right across from the laundry rooms - it could not have been pleasant. On our last trip on the Fantasy, it was a different story. I did our laundry on a sea day and had zero issues.
I, too, have had worse luck with laundry on the smaller ships than the bigger ones. We did a Magic B2B in Europe in 2015 and, boy oh boy, the things we saw going on in those laundry rooms - people taking other people's clothes out, never returning for their clothes, a fight breaking out and one person taking someone else's laundry altogether. It was ugly, ugly, ugly and I felt SO bad for the people whose staterooms were right across from the laundry rooms - it could not have been pleasant. On our last trip on the Fantasy, it was a different story. I did our laundry on a sea day and had zero issues.
I, too, have had worse luck with laundry on the smaller ships than the bigger ones. We did a Magic B2B in Europe in 2015 and, boy oh boy, the things we saw going on in those laundry rooms - people taking other people's clothes out, never returning for their clothes, a fight breaking out and one person taking someone else's laundry altogether. It was ugly, ugly, ugly and I felt SO bad for the people whose staterooms were right across from the laundry rooms - it could not have been pleasant. On our last trip on the Fantasy, it was a different story. I did our laundry on a sea day and had zero issues.
Usually 24/7, but on the Wonder for this year’s WBPC cruise, the laundry room on deck 6 had a hand-lettered sign on the door the morning I arrived about 5:30 am to do laundry. The sign noted a 6 am opening time in consideration of guests in nearby staterooms. Door was locked. I headed to the deck 7 location to do my load of laundry, since I found it was open. I suspect that someone in a nearby stateroom on deck 6 had complained to Guest Services, leading to the room being locked sometime during the night. I noted that the door was unlocked as promised and the washers quickly filled up. This was just over halfway through the cruise, on a sea day after the canal transit, so lots of demand on this 14-night cruise.What are the laundry room hours? Is 6 am the earliest?
Depends on the cruise. Getting a washer on the Med was a challenge. On my Bermuda trip last week I got a washer any time I needed one with no wait.We've done other DCL cruises but never tried doing laundry on board. This time, we will need to. How hard will it be to get machines when we aren't in port? How much of a pain is it to do laundry on board? I don't want to pay to send it out.
I was on that cruise and walking to my stateroom on deck 6 , a couple of staterooms before the laundry room your could hear where the laundry room was. I will never book a room close to the laundry room after this experience. Due to the loud noice of the machines, people who are nicely waiting for their load to finish, tend to speak quite loud.Usually 24/7, but on the Wonder for this year’s WBPC cruise, the laundry room on deck 6 had a hand-lettered sign on the door the morning I arrived about 5:30 am to do laundry. The sign noted a 6 am opening time in consideration of guests in nearby staterooms. Door was locked. I headed to the deck 7 location to do my load of laundry, since I found it was open. I suspect that someone in a nearby stateroom on deck 6 had complained to Guest Services, leading to the room being locked sometime during the night. I noted that the door was unlocked as promised and the washers quickly filled up. This was just over halfway through the cruise, on a sea day after the canal transit, so lots of demand on this 14-night cruise.