Door Decorations on Cruise
 

I understand that we can decorate the doors to our cabins on our cruise so we can find it (provided we get off on the correct deck). A easy to remove door decoration. Not a sticker, but they make a removable cling. Does anyone know where I get one of these? What am I looking for (name) ? Are there otherways to decorate our cabin doors? What do other cruisers do? Thanks.

We have never decoragted our door and find that only a tiny number of cruisers do - I think it is reserved for those who expect to find themselves too drunk to return to the correct cabin. But this is from someone who has to remember each spring to take down the Christmas wreath at home.

Ah, ParrotMom...you must have been the person who took my festive magnets from my cabin door!!! I put them on the door so our friends can find our cabin.

Seriously, I usually decorate my cabin door on RCI with magnets. The doors are metal and the magnets will hold up a sign or decoration. I leave for a Mexico cruise this week end and had to buy new magnets as all of my others were taken when we cruised the Caribbean in January.

I am with ParrotMom on this one. Door signs are tacky ... unless it is to signify a special occasasion or something. Do you decorate your hotel room door when you stay at a hotel?

Unless you have a suite, friends comes by and visit will have hardly any places to sit anyway. Also, consdering the potential noise level and what how it might affect your next door neighbor when it is late at night.

Much better way to visit is to go to a public area. There are plenty of public area that you can chat and laugh out loud all night without affecting other people. We don't visit inside a cabin, we make plans to meet on deck.

For me, there is nothing worst than being kept awake all night from loud laughter and chatters from the cabin next door or being forced to hear other people's personal challenges that is really too personal and in the "too much information" category.

BarbAnn....not me.. I normally don't cruise the Caribbean.. I don't have objections if the cabin is being decorated by the line for birthdays or anniversaries. As for entertaining...Eschew is right, either in a lounge or the deck... I certainly wouldn't appreciate a party next door..and fortunately it's never happened. We have been invited to suites for cocktail hour.. complete with butler though

I think you are missing the point of the OP's question. Whether to decorate your cabin door is a personal matter. I like to have have fun and create a festive atmosphere on our cruises so I tend to decorate the door.

As for me being a party animal, DH & I are usually in bed reading by 10PM, so I'm with you on not liking loud parties in the next cabin.

You are right, I don't decorate a hotel room door. I don't compare a cruise with a hotel stay. I go on a cruise to meet new people (many have become wonderful friends), visit great ports and have fun.

I have never decorated my cabin door, nor has it ever occurred to me to. I have seen a few cabin doors (not a lot) with stickers placed on them, but I really didn't pay too much attention to it. In my experience decorated doors are not that common.

As "tacky" as a door sign might appear, I do think it is tackier to remove a sign that someone has placed on their door. Is it that hard to walk by and ignore it?

We saw a family that did it at a Disney resort. Not something I would do nor something I would consider as I do think it's tacky. But, you paid your money so do what you wish.

I believe this family had young kids and they hung pictures the kids made and cut-out shapes of Disney characters.

BTW, as silly as I think doing that is, I think it's equally silly for someone like ParrotMom to yank your sign down. It's not her money or her ship. Why care?

BarbAnn...Oftej cruise or a land resort I have decorated our room INSIDE with stick on gels cut out figures, flowers, words, to celebrate birthdays, Valentines day, anniversaries and other holiday and usually do it on the mirrors. Walking by and taking off a sign .guess the "devil made me do it" Alot of the signs I see are printed from a cruise board. Ryan... I understand it being done at Disney, but I feel the lines we cruise are NOT party lines and on just consider it tacky outside unless its a paid decoration by the cruise line

Oh yes and as snobby as this sounds, the line we cruise on now and the two week demograpic is for all sakes a well traveled and how shall I put this..more sophisticated and do not need to decorate Now you can all come after me.lol

Oh yes,.. we had a cruise last y ear and outside our door our names were printed, I took that down several times and told the room Steward I didn't want my name "out there" it was a Princess ship.

Interesting, discussing how well traveled the cruise you take is yet you resort to something petty like yanking down the sign of a complete stranger when that sign has zero impact on you.

I guess when one needs the reflected glory of a cruise ship brand to validate themselves they take things like what others do on their door quite seriously.

Reminds me of the writing of Joe Queenan when he talked about the absurdity of the dirty looks he got for wearing shorts to the Red Lobster.

A Fodorite sent me a Fodor's magnet - I kept it on the door on our last cruise - gave me a smile each time I came back to the cabin :)

Luckily, the Parrots were not on that cruise to steal my magnet!

You can bring a magnet to feel "at home", or type or print something on a piece of paper that a magnet will hold.

Sorry, this didn't answer your question about a cling. I'm sure if you Google "removable cling decorations" you will find an answer.

This is funny! Really a matter of taste. You know how some people have bumper stickers and others don't. How some fly flags from their homes for every holiday, season or occasion known to man. There are those who wear holiday earrings, with matching nail decor. The possibilities are endless.

I am trying to decide if I want to go on a cruise... can you tell me what percentage of the ship has decorated doors?

If you live in an area on the East Coast check out Xmas Tree shops..they have great sheets of stick on gel decorations. If we are away for Parrot Pops birthday or our anniversary I hide a packet (there is usually a pattern you can make already set up) of it along and decorate when he isnt around. As for the Parrots.. well Dayenu if it's not a favorite food or a piece of wood to chomp..they aren't interested. In all seriousness these gel decorations are very, very inexpensive...each set is probably under $2.00... one of the reasons I buy a set often is to put on a sliding glass door so we or visitors to our home don't try to walk through. It maybe tacky, but it's at least tacky in my home. What I did years ago...and haven't for a while is bring a sticky and if I'm looking for a new "friend" put the sticky on the cabin door telling them what I'm wearing and where I am. Then again..also I carry a large parrot bag, often wear parrot jewelry..

To save your fingers....www.thefind.com/office/info-gel-clings
Xmas Tree is much less $$.. we have used the Thanksgiving, Halloween, Spring.etc..

GGfinds - very few! Unless it's a group, once we saw maybe 20 doors in a row with the same letter-size poster on each.

Parrot, this is funny, my father did the same - walked through a glass balcony door - and told my aunt she keeps it too clean to notice :)

As for notes to somebody, isn't it safer to write on a regular paper and push under the door?

Dayenu...the entrance to our home is sliding glass doors and occasionally when I'm expecting company I certainly don't want anybody walking through. But more interesting right now with the screen door in...I've found a little magnetic black silhoutte butterfly that I've put at eye level...

Cabin doors are tight and there is no way to slip anything under the door.. Most cruise ships now have gadgets where they can leave envelope outside the door now.

Even my dogs have learned to sit outside the door and not to push out the screen... unfortunately, one day I did.lol

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But I certainly wouldn't pull your decor off your door.

Well, that makes it easy... my doors are not open to the street and can't offend anybody

Thank you everybody. Reading your replies has been very interesting and enlightening.

Cruise critics have their color flier posted on the website for everybody to print and display.

Magnets always work on every cruise we have been on. Ignore the Parrots, decorating your door is fun :)

Magnets work, as does dental floss.

As to the so-called "tackiness' of it...I've been on several cruises which had MANY door decorations and it wasn't at all about finding your way back...it was part of the fun.

Tacky: watching some fat, overweight man and woman emerging through some dreary, UNdecorated cabin door who are rushing up to stuff their face again on the way to the internet cafe so they can surf here.

<<Cabin doors are tight and there is no way to slip anything under the door.>>

Not true. Carnival has always slipped my statement for my online acct under the door at the end of the cruise.

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When we cruise Disney, we decorate our door. We put pictures up of our past trips with magnets. It's not to let us know where our room is, but to celebrate our trips with Disney. Personal choice. I have also seen people decorate their doors to mark birthdays, anniversaries, family reunions or graduations. If you feel like it, do it! It's your vacation.

I can understand Disney, NCL and Carnival, but does anybody who cruises on Costa, Princess, Celebrity, Oceania, Azamaru or Seabourn do it?

My husband has Alzheimer's and I think it will help him easily locate our room on our two week June cruise... For the first time, I think I will take some kind of decoration....50th anniversary..

Vacations are supposed to be fun. Decorate your door if you want. Don't let people detract you by saying it is tacky. Vacations are usually tacky anyway... I even have "cruise" clothes that I would only wear on a cruise... HAVE FUN. Decorate if you want!

Desertdids..After 50 years of marriage and now your husband has Alzheimers I can't think of a couple who (especially you) need a cruise more.. and whatever will help your husband and you to navigate around the ship... G-d Bless you.. Now, I wonder if there are serious suggestions from other cruisers to make it easier for you.. I'd think a lanyard with a bright neon card with his name and cabin # in case he get disoriented... We will be married 55 y ears in October and I'm finding it difficult

You can easily get a photo magnet at a Walmart or Walgreens and hang it on the outside of the door saying something like... "50 years together" with your picture of you both on it and it will look like a decoration and help with recognizing your cabin.

Better yet Desertduds-check out VistaPrint..they make large magnets that will fit on the side of a car and you can design one...with the picture of the two of you.. ParrotPop designs t-shirts for every cruise with them..

If you want to decorate your door, go for it! It's your vacation, a time to relax and have fun. If the cruise line didn't like it, they wouldn't allow it.
I've never decorated our door, but I have seen it done on a few doors in the last few years. Some are very creative and cute.

As for the people who rip the decorations down and take them, aka stealing, don't forget there are cameras in all the hallways.

In recent years there has been a rash of thefts of Christmas Decorations in the area where I live. I had assumed it was teenagers being mischevious. Perhaps I need to rethink that. Perhaps it's just people who have so little self-esteem as to be concerned about things that don't impact them one way or the other.

I've personally never viewed a vacation spot as validating my sense of self-worth. But, interesting to note that people like silviaeaston exist and the marekting people at the cruise lines have done their job. Now if they could just figure out how to get that stick of the a** of people so incapable of just enjoying their vacation without resorting to petty theft.

I had a small hanging vase that I kept outside on the apartment door with a fresh flower I'd change often. Once, after several years, found it stolen one day.

Who would want to deflower me, and old woman? :))

Some individuals steal all kind of things, and taking a magnet or a piece of paper off a door doesn't make you better then car thieves or money thieves, Silvia!

The topic and myself took an interesting turn...and your not paying attention.. Desertduds commented her husband has a case of dementia and was "talking" about how her husband could identy their cabin...suggestions for her would be helpful, dont you think..or are you all to y oung enough not to identify with somebody who has that problem.

Everyone's paying attention, ParrotMom. What people are commenting on is silviaeaston's comment about planning to steal door decorations on her December 2010 cruise. The comments also apply to your admission that you yourself have taken down door decorations on a past cruise.

Otherwise, generally people are saying though it may not be something they would do, they do not have a problem with door decorations and to go ahead and do it if you wish.

Interesting that you're attempting to chastise us when in your first post you said "Tacky, tacky, tacky... if you can't remember your cabin number...or have it written down...you don't deserve to cruise.."

Chepar: I agree. I guess they are saying it is okay to steal decorations unless the decorator (who paid for the cabin) had a REASON to decorate the door. So these thieves must be able to tell the difference between random door decorations and decorations with a legitimate purpose ... I wonder how they can tell the difference (thereby only stealing the useless decorations)?

So what, if I want to put a magnet on my door, I have to put a sign next to it "for Alzheimer's sufferer" so it won't get stolen?