My wife and I spent many hours enjoying our time on “The Retreat” during our first-ever Holland America cruise on the Eurodam. I will be covering this upcharge private space soon in my review of the cruise but for this post know it is toward the forward of the ship and our cabin was an aft balcony one.
The result of this was that we got some of our required/suggested many steps in each day walking back and forth either to get to The Retreat or when I forgot something in our cabin and had to make the round trip again.
One of the things I enjoyed on these many walks was the door decorations different guests came up with to make their cabin stand out (yes, this is a thing for Frequent Floaters if you did not know). Also, you may or may not know that most of the walls on cruise ships are metal so you can stick magnets just about anywhere you want including the outside of the door.
For example, on our door, I put up a magnet to show off the blog and to quickly be able to see I am trying to open the right cabin door (they do all look alike after all – well, other than the number clearly).
One of the doors we passed had a really funny magnet. It was a red crab magnet (sorta like this one) and I smiled each time I walked past it that was until one day when it was gone and halfway through the cruise.
What replaced it for the rest of the cruise was this sad note taped to the door. How very pathetic that someone would steal a guest’s door decoration.
Most cruise lines have cameras in the corridors but I did not personally see any on the Eurodam (not to say they were not there I just missed them) but if there was film one would think someone could identify just who made off with the crab.
I guess my biggest disappointment in this is I always think of cruisers as a step above the rest. Oh sure, there are exceptions (like these fools who used stolen credit cards to pay for a cruise) but internally I just think of my fellow passengers as really good folks – this has kinda chipped away at that feeling and it bothers me.
Even though we were not the one who took the crab, we did look around when out shopping to see if we could find a somewhat similar magnet in the ports and hoped to just surprise the guest and say something like “we are sorry someone did this to you” but we had no success in finding one. – René
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That was not nice but probably someone who had too much to drink and forgot where he got it?
As someone who just took a cruise on that ship, I am as disappointed as you are. However, I will also note that one sea morning walking back from the Front stage program, I rounded the corner to my corridor to find a woman going through the mailbox for my room. Not sure what she was trying to do (it was the a.m. the stewards put out the tiles), but the moment she saw someone in the hall she dashed away a few doors down on the other side of the corridor. She clearly knew how to find her room, so doubt it was a “mistake”.