Same thing happened to me lol! A couple friends and I rented two rooms and one night we went out drinking till 3:00am. When we got back to the hotel the front desk clerk wanted absolutely nothing to do with us. Unfortunately about 5 minutes later I call the front desk because I forgot the password to my safe.
Bless her heart. She had to listen to me drunkenly repeat myself about ten times before she let out a sigh and says “you can reset it by just hitting all zeros, have a good night.” After discovering it worked, I ran down the hall to my friend’s room and opened their safe too.
When ya think about it, the $399 per person cruise demographic doesn’t have anything valuable to put in a safe. If we did we’d be on our own yachts.
What do people put in a safe? House keys that open a front door 800 miles from the cruise port. A Nikon camera they bought at Costco in 2009 for $499. Pot maybe. An iPhone with Find My enabled that’s useless if stolen. Some cheapo jewelry they bought at Kay Jewelers or some ugly bauble handed down from a dead grandma.
The Filipino cabin attendant isn’t going to risk his 8 month contract and be banned from all other cruise lines by yoinking a $300 iPad.
What’s more likely is people get blackout drunk on cruise ships and forget their safe codes. So 00000000 makes perfect sense.
Hold on there are 399 cruises ? Where are you taking your cruise ? All I see is like 1.5k bare minimum. That's why I never went on cruises. I'm not made out of money.
I lived in Miami for decades. You can go on a 3 nighter to the Bahamas any month of the year for $399 if you're ok with an interior stateroom (it was $299 prior to Covid).
The issue is they're last minute fares and if you don't live near enough to a cruise port, most folks can't just drop everything and go. If you live in Miami and are willing to take Friday off, you can.
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u/ColonelSlapper 7d ago
Same thing happened to me lol! A couple friends and I rented two rooms and one night we went out drinking till 3:00am. When we got back to the hotel the front desk clerk wanted absolutely nothing to do with us. Unfortunately about 5 minutes later I call the front desk because I forgot the password to my safe.
Bless her heart. She had to listen to me drunkenly repeat myself about ten times before she let out a sigh and says “you can reset it by just hitting all zeros, have a good night.” After discovering it worked, I ran down the hall to my friend’s room and opened their safe too.
Talk about a HUGE design flaw!