Carnival Cruise Line answers key question on power outlets, plugs

As recently as some years ago, a mixture of no longer all and sundry having a smartphone and lousy cyber web at sea made keeping your devices charged on a cruise a minor problem. Cruise ships often offered a single American and a single European outlet on the desk area.

This became sufficient to use a hair dryer or keep whatever limited devices passengers had charged. Cruise ships were no longer designed, as a minimum until recently, for all and sundry within the family to have a phone as well to perchance a tablet, a Kindle, and maybe a laptop.

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A family of four on a cruise ship on the total has greater than four devices and keeping them charged is highly important. It truly is because many cruise lines now use QR codes for menus and put their every day schedules on their apps.

Both Carnival Cruise Line (CCL) and Royal Caribbean (RCL) even have messaging services and products that allow families to maintain up a correspondence while at sea. Keeping devices charged will likely be a challenge on older ships that have limited outlets and USB ports.

Most folk make up for the by bringing multi-plug devices with added USB and USB-C ports. That solves the issue, but Royal Caribbean recently shockingly banned any device that turns an outlet right into a pair of outlets. It also banned adapters that turn the European outlet into an American one.

You're ready to never use power strips with surge protectors on cruise ships — those are a hearth hazard due to how cruise ship electrical systems work — but regular multi-plug devices was once allowed.

Now, Royal Caribbean only permits devices that offer you with extra USB and/or USB-C ports off a single outlet.

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Carnival has some angry passengers

Carnival Brand Ambassador John Heald takes a couple of abuse from angry passengers. He's often held to blame for decisions that he has no regulate over and sometimes, problems that don't seem to be real.

He recently shared one angry passenger's letter and his response on his Facebook page.

"Very infrequently do I get as angry as I am as of late Heald. Carnival Cruise Line have banned us from bringing on power strips and chargers. There has been no warning. I would no longer have known this if I had no longer been a member of the Carnival VIP Facebook group. Carnival has given us no advance warning. I am driving the following day to New Orleans to get on the Liberty. I am Platinum and am angry enough to cancel this cruise and take the hit," they wrote.

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Canceling seems extreme for a passenger driving to their cruise, on condition that any gas station would sell outlets that meet the Royal Caribbean same old for no longer adding plugs. The passenger also had a tenet for a mode Carnival should fix this perceived problem.

"Why doesn’t Carnival do like ---- are doing and provide a standardized power strip in each stateroom or not it can possibly be appropriate to the cruise line with four charge units and USB outlets? My wife and son and me have four devices that need charging each night. That's insane," the passenger added.

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Carnival sets the record straight

"Thank you and any other time this infamous Facebook page has provided you with the wrong information, no shock there. Anyway, that you just may bring an influence strip. We now have not from now on changed our rules and, providing it does no longer have a surge protector and is in superb working condition, then poop it into your carry on, mate, and produce it on board. I am sharing this with all and sundry in case anyone is misled by reading what is posted on that Facebook page," Heald wrote.

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The Brand Ambassador also poked a little bit fun on the passenger's extreme stance and threat to cancel.

"And to cancel a cruise because you should be angry, well or not it can possibly be an exceedingly high level of anger. I guess I don’t have in mind that at all. If I've an argument with my wife Heidi the worst thing I do is open a bottle of some condiment or sauce or packet of biscuits when there’s already one open," he added.

Many of Heald's followers jumped to Carnival's defense.

"If people would only no longer jump to conclusions and as a replacement ask questions. It became RC that banned the facility strip. The article went on to give a proof for the explanation and offered one more. It even said Carnival became NOT going to follow RC but became still ALLOWING the strip," shared Missi Brown.

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Over 1,000 people commented on the post and a couple of worried in regards to the mental health of the poster.

"LMAO 'I will cancel my cruise due to power strips' is WILD. I guarantee this person gets road rage as a minimum 15 times a week," added Michele Briggs Allen.

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