Another DQ Question

Closet??? We don' neeeed no stinkin' closets!!
I forget which room you're in, in our "F" class cabin, the pullman rack was over my bed, it was a good place to put my hat, and I hung a few shirts on it, the rest of the hanging clothes were hung on the hook by the front door that the life vests were on when we arrived (and were promptly put under our beds--but don't tell the Coast Guard that!). Everything else went into the dresser drawers.
Remember; it's not about the clothes (unless you're Diamond Dave), but about the boat and the fun! 🙂
Trust me, you'll have a GRAND, WOWZIERS time!
S'
David D.
And if Bruno thinks he's too far from brown water, I sure ain't any closer!! 🙂

David...I knew I could count on you....I guess thats why they put a iron in the rooms..well at least I won't get shocked when we walk into are cat "D" room.
Did you know that when Crystle Cruise lines first came out with the "Harmony" The staterooms did not have closets...The reason is that Japaneese don't use closets..They stack their close...After a few years when the ship did their first dry dock...They put in closets, as they also did on all their new ships..
Sandy...A Jeans and Tshirt Lady

Sandy, Deb and I have been in most of the classes of staterooms on the DQ and we don't ever remember having a closet in any of them, could be senior memory and all that. When you go up into the fancy-schmancy staterooms the chest of drawer and night stand storage sizes go up, though. "F's" just have the single chest of drawers, nice sized ones though, with four drawers if I remember.

Deb always brings about about 12 hangers to the boat. Typically it seems that the boat supplies about 8 to 10 nice wood hangers most with clips for slacks, so each hanger can do double duty.

David summed it up pretty good. The only thing I'd add is that there are hooks everywhere for hanging the loose non-wrinkle stuff. There are multiple hooks in the bathroom on the wall, on the bathroom door and on the bottom rung of the Pullman rack...

Bruno Krause;5035 wrote:

David summed it up pretty good. The only thing I'd add is that there are hooks everywhere for hanging the loose non-wrinkle stuff. There are multiple hooks in the bathroom on the wall, on the bathroom door and on the bottom rung of the Pullman rack...

Sandy,

I'm not sure if it's still part of the CD's "welcoming" speech, but we were careful to remind DQ passengers NOT to hang clothes on that convenient little metal "thingy" in the overhead with the circular piece of metal and what looked like a sprinkler head. People have been known to mistake that for a place to hang clothes. Not a grand idea.

:O)

Paul

pat traynor

We've always just asked our cabin attendent or the purser's office for more hangers, and always receive as many as we want very promptly - leave the hangers home, Deb, and lighten your luggage a bit! I'll sure miss you guys on this trip - why don't you come to Mud Island and stow away?

Now see, that's one of the reasons we like you so much Pat, you have all the smarts!
Mud Island?...Stow away? You know if we could we'd be there with you gals in a flash. Have a safe flight and a GREAT time and say hi to all...

Two very green New Yorkers

OH, YES!! Very much included! Don't want any waterfalls INSIDE the boat!
Sandy, don't even THINK of hanging something on the sprinkler!
S'
David D.

Hi Pat
I would snore very quietly under the bed! 🙂
S'
David

Sandy,
I've been watching your postings and think I recall you saying you will be in room 323 on the DQ. We have had one cruise on the AQ and 16 on the MQ, but our first on the old girl will be May 24. We are also booked in room 323 so I'll be interested in hearing what you find. ( By the way..They sure have closets on the MQ and I've roomed in lots of them) It never bothers us, what is important is being on that wonderful river. Can't wait...this is the first trip since the new regime (prices finally got where we could afford them). Have a glorious trip!
Judy Nichols

Hi Judy...I will make sure I get you all the details...and try to get some good pictures..
Sandy

Judy Nichols;5063 wrote: Sandy,
( By the way..They sure have closets on the MQ and I've roomed in lots of them)

Judy,

Which staterooms have you been in on the MQ?? We´ve been in 3 insides on two different decks and non of them had a closet. Just that mentioned pullman rack with hangers and if you were lucky there was a curtain. There was also a metal chest of drawers between the beds. I´ve also seen a couple of outside balcony rooms and they didn´t have a closet either.

Carmen

Carmen,
If I get Judy's drift correctly, she's calling her "staterooms" closets!
S'
David D.

David,

You´re right! I´m still suffering from the jetlag.

Carmen

Sandy and Carmen, even Room 402 on the MQ doesn't have a closet...

Hi Carmen,
Guess I'd better explain myself. You are absolutely right about the rack & the curtains. The word closets should have been in quotes.
I was referring to the size of some of the rooms we have had which were no bigger than a closet. Can't remember the numbers, there were lots of them. One inside one was especially tiny. However they never bothered us, we preferred little staterooms and more trips.
I'm glad you asked...probably others thought I meant real closets as well.
Have a great day, Judy

Judy Nichols;5082 wrote: I was referring to the size of some of the rooms we have had which were no bigger than a closet.

To steal a couple of lines from Bob Schad, "I'll bet you didn't realize that the brochure pictures of your cabin were actual size. And be careful when you insert the key, you might break the bathroom mirror"

:O)

Paul

Paul....LOL:) At least I won't expect the unexpected..
Sandy

I was on the phone with MAL Customer Service asking about the furnishings in our room. When we finished with that issue, I moved on to a new topic, Dinner Seatings. This was because I wanted to be sure all of the members of my family were cross referenced in their database, so the crew would know we were together.

She asked how many there were, and I said "eight"

There was a very long pause. When I asked if there was a problem, I discovered that she thought I meant eight people expecting to share one cabin. From what I have read here, I think the two groups of two in tiny cabins will have more elbow room than the four of us in the big suite.

Bruce...I went back and read most of your posts...Will you be on the DQ next week?

Sandy

Bruce MacCullagh;5094 wrote:
There was a very long pause. When I asked if there was a problem, I discovered that she thought I meant eight people expecting to share one cabin. From what I have read here, I think the two groups of two in tiny cabins will have more elbow room than the four of us in the big suite.

Hi Bruce,

No, that would be a crew cabin. :O)

Actually, not so far fetched. In 2004, on the Empress, the whole band (4 people) was in the same cabin. That's changed but I think that's still the case for other non-musician crew. Talk about "togetherness"!

Paul

Hi Judy,

I knew exactly what you meant and was laughing. But what is even funnier for me is the advertisement for closet organizers that is on the right hand side of my computer screen. Now, that's a real closet- Wow : )

Besides Bob Schad's comments, I also loved the passenger who kept telling me that everything was done by "Dollhouses R Us"

Trust me the time spent inside your room will be minimal compared to the lure of the river. Even if the weather is bad (and I hope it isn't)- people are still not in their rooms. They are on deck, in the public areas, and just having the time of their lives.

Also, take heart as small your rooms are- crew rooms are even smaller if you can imagine that. One of the silly questions used to be if the crew lived aboard. Yes, they are kept in "closets."

Cheers
Elaine

Ok. Deb's doing her "Nyahh, nyahh, nyahh" routine... "you're WRONG, Bruno"...she just showed me our pictures of the DQ room 119 closet, it does truly exist. She also insists that room 402 on the MQ does indeed have a closet, though we have no proof, and I, of course, think she's wrong...

Now the fact that we don't remember any of this without photographic proof suggests that my buddy David is right: "We don't neeeed no stinkin' closets"...

And, despite our two first staterooms having closets, never did Deb and I walk into a stateroom after those first two cruises, and go "what, no closets?"

I just got an email from a fellow cruiser and good friend. He informed me that I am in error (twice in one night!) about the lack of closets in the DQ staterooms. He said there is also a large cubby area with a long clothes rod and shelf in each of the 311 through 316 staterooms on the DQ, think of them as large closets without doors.

Of course, our friend is right. As soon as I read the email out loud to Deb..."Oh, Yeah...". The scary thing about this is that Deb and I were in stateroom 315 less than 5 months ago, and we would not of remembered this little bit of past luxury without the mental prodding. Thanks, John.

Which only goes to prove that you spent so little time in your "closet" that you really don't know what room you were in- right?

I have been too busy at home to keep up with the board but after reading the postings- I am wondering what it would take for me to convince my 87 year old that of course he needs to go steamboatin'. He keeps resisting the idea. He also won't fly because he had flown from Boston to Orlando on 9/9/01 and his PalmPilot had the memory wiped out and he refuses to fly ever again. He gives me lots of other excuses about why he won't go as well. He lives with a steamboat addict and doesn't understand the addiction.

But enough on me--- I will be expecting some photos of the kite flying contest among other things. Have a fantastic time!!!!