Pool Towel Charge to Sail/Sign

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Alley

Guest
Hello Everyone...
I just sailed on the Carnival Pride November 2-9 to Mexico. When we arrived in our cabin we had two pool towels available to use. We used the towels in our room but after a few days use they felt damp. So... I decided to leave them on the balconey to dry out and went to the Lido deck and got a fresh towel on my sail and sign card. I was under the impression that as long as I returned the towel there would be no charge. WRONG!! Every time I went to the bar to get a fresh towel and returned it on that day I was charged $3.98 (per towel) to my sail and sign card!

Has anyone else experienced this?

Alley
 
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Cole617

Guest
are you serious????? They charge you for pool towels?? I don't ever remember getting charged for them. Maybe this is something new since i haven't cruised since 2000
 
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PEB

Guest
Our room steward on both the Victory and Paradise changed the pool towels in our room everytime we used them. We never had to get clean dry towels from anywhere else and never had a charge for towels.

Sounds to me like your room steward didn't do their job and you got stuck paying for their screw up.
 
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Moonglws4u

Guest
I was never charged for pool towels on either of the cruises. You usually could find huge bins of them out by the pools......... they didn't want you to take the actual bath towels down.
 
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Andrea A

Guest
On the Victory was they take your sign and sail card for the towels, but you are not charged unless you don't return it. The charge is like $22, which I agree with because I found people weren't soo willing to leave it on a pool chair unattended while they were running around the boat. Very easy to find a chair by the pool.. how often do you hear that??? I think it's a great policy.
 
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jester95008

Guest
its probably because they tell you NOT to take the towels from your state room to the decks.. Its a carnival sin basically! Hope you learned a lesson from them. wow! gotcha
 
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PEB

Guest
The Carnival ships I have been on put the pool towels in your room and exchanged them just like the bath towels. The pool towels were blue and white striped. I am assuming that is what the posters original towels were that they were talking about.
 
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jester95008

Guest
correct , the ones for outdoors they have available at the pool side. the ones you take a shower with are white and stay in the cabin or they charge. But its easy to see which ones go where because if you see everyone around the pool with a blue towel and yours is white then hey... they must have a couple blue ones for outside. As far as the towels in the cabing being recycled , that shouldn't be necessary. Just contact your cabin steward and ask for fresh towels and he'll bring them to you free of charge.
 
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marcia

Guest
I'm going to make a guess here. Perhaps Carnival has hopped on the environmental bandwagon, and only washes/replaces towels that are placed on the floor. If the original poster hung their towels to dry, the steward may have assumed they wanted to help conserve water usage, and did not want the towels replaced with fresh towels.
 
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Alley

Guest
Hmmm... the weird thing is that I used the blue/white striped pool towels that were left in my room.

I didn't take the bath towels to the pool.

Our room steward had nothing to do with the pool towel charge to my sail and sign card. What I can't figure out is why they would charge me to get a pool towel when I returned it after I was done using it. Our friends that sailed with us were also charged to use a pool towel if they go it on deck? Strange... I think it's just one more thing to charge us for! LOL

What do you think?

Alley...

Ps- Thanks for the input! :)
 
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marcia

Guest
My comments re: your room steward were suggesting why the pool towels in your room were damp after a few days. My understanding is that they weren't getting replaced with fresh towels. Therefore my recommendation would be to put the towels on the floor, so the room steward knows to replace them. That way you don't NEED to get towels from poolside, thereby eliminating any charges to your S&S.

I have no idea about charges for pool towels, as Carnival has apparently changed their policies since I cruised with them last. It seems as though the policy varies from ship to ship.
 
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