Cruise ship slash hotel workers of Reddit. What is something you aren't allowed to tell us?

Odds are, someone died on your cruise. Think about all the old folks you see get onto the boat.

For a lot of them, this is their retirement home and cheaper than a lot of other retirement homes.

They are literally taking cruises until they die and we eventually find them in their cabins.

Get a free fridge in your room.

Say it is a medical need for medication.

HIPAA laws mean they can't pressure details out of you.

May not work for smaller motels slash hotels,

but should for most larger hotels or cruises.

Vegas hotel worker here.

It works.

If it's not for meds, I'm supposed to charge you,

but I don't, because I don't get paid

enough. May you use this in the future. I am diabetic and am supposed to keep insulin refrigerated.

I currently work as a housekeeper for seasonal slash summer. People leave anything and everything behind.

Forget your curling iron? We probably have one. Need a charger? Yep. Toys for your child?

You got it. If you ask, while we're in between rooms or cleaning a common area, we'd love to

help you out. No one really asks. These occurrences slash policies may not be the case at every hotel.

The staff on most all cruise lines are not trained nearly well enough to handle an abandoned ship

situation. It will be chaos if it enough to handle an abandoned ship situation.

It will be chaos if it were to happen on a large vessel. The safety briefing you go to is just

theater, and we want to be there even less than you do. Norovirus is way more common on ships

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