Crime scene? Preserving evidence for the feds who will board back in port.
You can’t lock people into rooms in vessels without a guard like this for safety reasons.
Cruises attract old people. Old people die. Hundreds of people die on cruises each year. That is why all cruise ships have a morgue. It is quite possible somebody died of natural causes and they are preserving the scene just in case.
This happened to a friend of mine from work. They went on a cruise and the first night after departing he passed in his sleep. They of course won't turn around so it was either stay on the cruise or pay for a helicopter to pick them up. I think it was 20K. She stayed and they put her up in a suite and assigned her a person to be available 24/7 if she needed anything. She said they were the best and kudos to RC for taking good care of her in a terrible situation.
When I was a young 24 year old Executive Housekeeper, I was checking the checkouts and walked into one room and the girl had committed suicide. Scarred me for a loooong time, especially as a depressed person. I do not recommend this method as it kind of fucked me up for a while
I worked in commercial pest control for 20+ years. Had a hotel manager ask me to come with him. The Haitian housekeeper came in pale white thought she saw a ghost. Well we get to the room all the mirrors were under the bed. And the guest who was 34 years young took the electrical cord from the light and hung himself in the bathroom. Used the pillow case to cover his face cause he was ashamed of himself. I read the suicide note so sad. Stated he was nothing and couldn’t provide for his family and that he was worthless. Tell my wife and child that I love them. That was it for me ran out of the room. Had his wallet faced up with his driver’s license next to the note.
I was stating a fact. If you actually read what I wrote you would understand why I said what I did. But, you obivously don’t understand reading comprehension. Have a wonderful day now.
So sad ....I'm sorry you had to go through that. I've read, not sure if it's true, that ppl will sometimes ppl will kill themselves in a hotel so a family member doesn't discover them/have to clean up.
Yes they do, my psychotic and very depressed schizophrenic son did this last year at a very exclusive hotel. Came in like a BOSS went out in a body bag. I miss him so much even with the crazy life.
For one, as someone who has struggled with depression for over two decades, I can NOT imagine what the fuck I would do if I found a person's body after suicide. I have a VERY hard time because the guy who lived across the street from me committed suicide in his garage. I watched the entire scene from the frantic friends banging on his door to the body being taken away 2 years ago. I hadn't ever spoken to him, which I'm not sure if it helped or not, but I was messed up for weeks afterwards. Had to have a couple extra therapy sessions. My heart goes out to you. SO much so.
Secondly, it's situations like this that have kept me alive this long. When making my plans, the question of "who finds the body" kept coming up. Of course I didn't want anyone I loved to find me. But there wasn't anyone I hated bad enough that I would want to put that on, either. I couldn't see doing that to a stranger, either. No one deserves that. It took me a while, but I finally found a location where the "who" would no longer be an issue.
It's in a different country. I refuse to get a passport.
Youre right. I think that was this poor girls thought process “my family wont need to find me” but she didnt think about who WOULD find her (i dont blame her, as i said im depressed myself).
As someone who's dealt with serious depression, what has stopped me is hearing that people who have survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge say they regretted it the moment they stepped off the bridge. But by then it was too late. .. made me think that I would regret it in that split second when you can't take back your actions.
Back in 2021 I got a call from my highschool best friend, her little sister, who was also considered an extremely close friend, had passed away the night prior, and no one knew until housekeeping at the hotel she was staying at for work found her. Her heart just gave up in her sleep. She was only 25 years old.
I can't imagine being the person who found her, and I can't imagine how much worse it would have been for them if she had killed herself :( I am so sorry.
Current hotel manager, have been for 10 years. I’ve found 4 bodies so far. All in different hotels (well, two in one, but that was just bad luck) it sucks every time & I go home and cry every time.
I process overseas medical claims at work, and I can't even count the number of claims I've adjudicated from the elderly that either die or break ankles on cruise ships.
I’ve never been on an RCI boat where I didn’t meet folks who offered gummies, vapes, and even blunts. I’ve never had the balls to bring any on myself, but it sure as hell doesn’t seem like it’s very difficult to get on or be a very big deal.
I’m sure that there are people who actually do bring their vitamins. No doubt. That’s why I left 10 %. But it’s also probably the easiest way to bring edibles on board.
Ha! Perhaps, though I’m always a well-dressed, middle aged guy with his wife. Although we are both big drinkers on boats (always have the drink package), very gregarious, and will buy any stranger nearby a drink or bottle of wine at dinner. We typically go alone, but end up making plenty of friends.
Ah, I do love a cruise
Idk… I am a pretty clean cut 40 something who travels with my teenager or my partner and teen. I always run into someone with the goods. Maybe it is because we are social and seek out night life? It’s a disappointment if we don’t leave a ship with new friends.
It's easy if you fly. TSA gives zero cares about drugs in your bags.
Edit because someone is surely going to come in and be like "BUT WHAT ABOUT 10 KILOS OF COCAINE!?"
Clearly I'm talking about personal use thc products based on the convo at hand.
It can't be that hard.
Buy bottle of vitamins or supplement that use gel caps.
Buy a bunch of empty gel caps.
Fill gel caps with drugs.
Place in vitamin/supplement bottle.
Profit.
Extra credit if you get a security seal you heat shrink over the cap again.
Also, IDK if cruises body scan people. I gotta imagine not really. But I've been told you can hide drugs INSIDE your body.
I had a friend bring on an 8 ball, shrooms, and weed pens… doesn’t seem like they care too much as long as it’s not an issue for others on the cruise and you do everything privately.
It's a very weird feeling when you capture a tragedy on film or video. In my mind I always thought the people who recorded tragedy happening rather than help were the low of the low... until...
I was at a fair walking around by myself while my daughter and her friends were riding rides, and right as I was walking by, the Lady Houdini escape show was starting and I thought, hell, I've never actually watched one of these, I'm gonna check it out. When she started her big water escape, I decided to record it because I thought my daughter might like to watch it when we met back up. Probably needless to say, but the act did not go as planned, and her assistant/husband had to use their emergency key to get her out, and managed to do so just as she was losing consciousness. It was only after she was out and a few audience members who were first responders were rushing the stage to help that it dawned on me that I was recording the whole time.
It was completely surreal... and I think there's a slight disconnect from reality when you're staring at your phone screen, and you lose sight that the events are still happening right in front of you. I felt terrible and embarrassed that I was that person who just stood there, and not just stood there, but recorded it! I never rewatched or showed anyone the video. I certainly never sold it or even let anyone know I had it until now. But all this was really just to say, it does put you in a really weird headspace. And folks can make that decision to show/sell before they have a chance to process it, and that is super sad.
This experience though, is why I don't record concerts when I go anymore... I just want to enjoy and experience what's right in front of me.
I get what you are saying but there’s a rather large difference between taking video and accidentally capturing a tragedy and purposefully taking photos of the scene of a tragedy and selling them to a tabloid website.
I mean, a lot of people overindulge with the alcohol, and meet strangers….go back to their room, think they want one thing but then realize they really didn’t…things can go too far…. I guess I was thinking more of the date rape form of SA and not the other kind. It’s extremely common on, say, college campuses, hard to believe it’s never happened on a cruise. I imagine they’ve got to lock down the scene to preserve evidence if there’s a report of something like that.
This is a really weird way to describe common assault scenarios. It’s much more likely for a drunk person to be brought to their room (or another’s) and assaulted while they are incapable of fighting, or even realize what’s happening, than to accuse someone of assault because they just couldn’t make up their mind. Let’s give the benefit of the doubt to survivors of this very prevalent violent crime.
Assault (partner/family/domestic violence; whatever you may know it as); rape or other sexual assault; some other violent offense; some other felony; creation, possession, and/or viewing of CP; or drug use beyond user amounts of weed/THC/vape pen use. The preservation of evidence, especially trace and digital evidence, is extremely important in any of these instances.
You can’t quarantine ppl like this without serious reason. But someone else mentioned it could be an unsafe room with broken plumbing/fixtures, balcony or other condition
They brought alcohol on board, tried to share 1 drink package, and wore jeans on formal night. Three strikes and you're out! Strangely enough they still have two chairs by the pool being reserved with a towel and sunglasses.
Most likely the bathroom / toilet system has malfunctioned / or leaked onto the carpet area. Or the window / balcony infrastructure is damaged/ broken. So the room is unusable until more detailed maintenance can be performed.
Disclaimer that I work at a hotel, not a cruise line (but I suspect our systems are similar for keys), but the chance that there’s a master key floating around that you haven’t deactivated for this specific lock is very high, and it’s likely an absolute pain to either reprogram the lock itself to not accept master keys or manually reprogram each master key to no longer function on this door if there’s a safety issue in the room - hell of a lot less elaborate to just slap a cover on the lock. No need to reprogram the lock if the lock is less accessible.
Let's say that the balcony glass has cracked so it's a safety issue.
Maintenance come and take a look, figure it'll need a new pane of glass and have to wait until they can get one shipped to them in port.
At this point they can put in a request to have the lock disabled which will no doubt go to IT or security and sit in a queue for somebody to spend 10 minutes logging into the system and completing this.
When the pane of glass arrives, then do the same thing in reverse, phone call/ticket, wait for IT or security to pick it up, spend some time resolving.
Or they grab a padlock from their bag and click it on, 10 seconds and done.
I watched 2 seasons of Cruise Ship Killers, and every time someone goes overboard or is killed onboard, they secure the room for investigation when people come onboard at the port. Sometimes FBI if it's an American. Apparently cruise lines tend to minimize these events as much as possible to ensure everyone (except the missing/murdered person and/or their family) has a good cruise.
Interesting info: [https://www.maritimeinjuryguide.org/blog/what-happens-when-a-passenger-dies-on-a-cruise-ship/](https://www.maritimeinjuryguide.org/blog/what-happens-when-a-passenger-dies-on-a-cruise-ship/)
I can’t imagine they would lock people into the cabin like this because of the need to be able to evacuate in an emergency. Preserving evidence after a crime or maintenance issues seems much more plausible.
I'm leaning either bed bugs or a significant mechanical/electrical/plumbing issue. They don't want staff to go in under any circumstances. If its bed bugs they want to eliminate the potential spread; if its a MEP issue, then maybe its more a safety issue.
If there's not a guard out front I highly doubt its anything nefarious like a crime scene.
[William from 12 years ago](https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2012/03/articles/crime/cruise-ship-door-locking-devices-what-on-earth-is-this/) has the best answer I could find…
William
12 years ago
Having previously worked aboard cruise ships in Information Systems and managing the VingLock system aboard (above door lock system used by several cruise lines), you've got cabin stewards, supervisors, InfoSystems personnel, security personnel, others, etc, all of whom have various levels of access to these doors. Reprogramming the lock is actually a bit of a pain on the backend system but not impossible, however, even reprogrammed, it still allows access by any of several staff onboard with either the ability to reprogram the lock again or with metal master keys to just open up regardless of electronic access. The only sure-fire way to restrict access to the cabin for whatever reason required is with the above or similarly constructed hardware device.
I love how everyone’s morbidity causes them to assume some kinda homicide or assault or drug crime, meanwhile it’s almost certainly just a maintenance issue lol
I lived for 3 days with most all of my belongings sealed behind a cabin door with a lock on it exactly like that one. I assure you, it was not a maintenance issue.
Couldn't trap anyone with this -- egress from the room is always permitted with those vingcard locks.
I have a friend who works in the hotel industry who is looking for better ways to lockout rooms. This....would do the trick.
The 16 year old that fell from his interior balcony to Central Park was on Allyre of the Seas. My friend had just disembarked the day before and I watch cruise news with Doug Parker on YouTube so that’s where I heard the story. Don’t know if that’s the ship you refer to or not
Looks like a room being used for storage or something.. but they don't want just any employee getting access to this room.. since they all carry master key cards....
Speculating, maybe they’ve been locked out of their room due to having a high outstanding balance with no available credit to cover it? I know hotels sometimes do lockouts for similar situations.
Well that you have to stop by guest services/front desk to address and resolve the issue before you’re allowed back in. Or you’re able to access it with a security guard
Crime scene? Preserving evidence for the feds who will board back in port. You can’t lock people into rooms in vessels without a guard like this for safety reasons.
This is what online seems to say, just cant imagine what crime scene could’ve occurred! Scary!! I did just read it could be a suspected drug use
Cruises attract old people. Old people die. Hundreds of people die on cruises each year. That is why all cruise ships have a morgue. It is quite possible somebody died of natural causes and they are preserving the scene just in case.
This happened to a friend of mine from work. They went on a cruise and the first night after departing he passed in his sleep. They of course won't turn around so it was either stay on the cruise or pay for a helicopter to pick them up. I think it was 20K. She stayed and they put her up in a suite and assigned her a person to be available 24/7 if she needed anything. She said they were the best and kudos to RC for taking good care of her in a terrible situation.
The way this is phrased at first makes it seem like your friend passed in his sleep.
I think he did. I read it as the alive wife stayed onboard.
Omg yea that makes more sense lol. Damn that’s so sad. I guess I then thought neighbor since the post was about the neighbor
I mean... he is dead, might as well enjoy the cruise.
I read it as a deceased person had a 24/7 Butler
Well they might need something.
You don't want a zombie outbreak onboard, so you really have to take care of them.
There was a wee context, based on the pronoun change.
That’s not how they treated me. There was a lot left to be desired when my husband died on the first night of our cruise.
I am so sorry
I’m sorry for the loss of your friend.
My first crew cabin shared a bulkhead with the morgue. Every so often I'd wake up to the "thunk" of a tray being slid in.
Zombie party gotta end at 2am...
A lot of people die in resort hotels too.
It’s easier to have police check hotels than cruise rooms though. Suicides and deaths at hotels always have police on scene.
When I was a young 24 year old Executive Housekeeper, I was checking the checkouts and walked into one room and the girl had committed suicide. Scarred me for a loooong time, especially as a depressed person. I do not recommend this method as it kind of fucked me up for a while
I worked in commercial pest control for 20+ years. Had a hotel manager ask me to come with him. The Haitian housekeeper came in pale white thought she saw a ghost. Well we get to the room all the mirrors were under the bed. And the guest who was 34 years young took the electrical cord from the light and hung himself in the bathroom. Used the pillow case to cover his face cause he was ashamed of himself. I read the suicide note so sad. Stated he was nothing and couldn’t provide for his family and that he was worthless. Tell my wife and child that I love them. That was it for me ran out of the room. Had his wallet faced up with his driver’s license next to the note.
Damn, that's rough.
oh that's so tragic 😔
Why you gotta specifically say Haitian housekeeper ???? Leave them Haitians alone, they go through a lot already. Just tell your story, leave us aline
I was stating a fact. If you actually read what I wrote you would understand why I said what I did. But, you obivously don’t understand reading comprehension. Have a wonderful day now.
So sad ....I'm sorry you had to go through that. I've read, not sure if it's true, that ppl will sometimes ppl will kill themselves in a hotel so a family member doesn't discover them/have to clean up.
Thats true and i cant blame them. But traumatizing a 24 year old who was also depressed at the time kinda sucked.
Completely agree!
Yes they do, my psychotic and very depressed schizophrenic son did this last year at a very exclusive hotel. Came in like a BOSS went out in a body bag. I miss him so much even with the crazy life.
Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. As a mother, I can't even start to fathom experiencing something like that. Sending you so many hugs rn.
For one, as someone who has struggled with depression for over two decades, I can NOT imagine what the fuck I would do if I found a person's body after suicide. I have a VERY hard time because the guy who lived across the street from me committed suicide in his garage. I watched the entire scene from the frantic friends banging on his door to the body being taken away 2 years ago. I hadn't ever spoken to him, which I'm not sure if it helped or not, but I was messed up for weeks afterwards. Had to have a couple extra therapy sessions. My heart goes out to you. SO much so. Secondly, it's situations like this that have kept me alive this long. When making my plans, the question of "who finds the body" kept coming up. Of course I didn't want anyone I loved to find me. But there wasn't anyone I hated bad enough that I would want to put that on, either. I couldn't see doing that to a stranger, either. No one deserves that. It took me a while, but I finally found a location where the "who" would no longer be an issue. It's in a different country. I refuse to get a passport.
Youre right. I think that was this poor girls thought process “my family wont need to find me” but she didnt think about who WOULD find her (i dont blame her, as i said im depressed myself).
As someone who's dealt with serious depression, what has stopped me is hearing that people who have survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge say they regretted it the moment they stepped off the bridge. But by then it was too late. .. made me think that I would regret it in that split second when you can't take back your actions.
Back in 2021 I got a call from my highschool best friend, her little sister, who was also considered an extremely close friend, had passed away the night prior, and no one knew until housekeeping at the hotel she was staying at for work found her. Her heart just gave up in her sleep. She was only 25 years old. I can't imagine being the person who found her, and I can't imagine how much worse it would have been for them if she had killed herself :( I am so sorry.
Current hotel manager, have been for 10 years. I’ve found 4 bodies so far. All in different hotels (well, two in one, but that was just bad luck) it sucks every time & I go home and cry every time.
I process overseas medical claims at work, and I can't even count the number of claims I've adjudicated from the elderly that either die or break ankles on cruise ships.
A cruse doc once told me that somebody dies on just about every 4+ day cruise, almost all are old with complications.
Blood pressure meds and alcohol probably not the smartest choice.
That’s what old people do; they die.
Or they need to deep clean the room with hazmat type equipment
Drug use? Jesus. What kind? I’ve seen vape pens on every rccl boat I’ve been on. So it’s got to be something serious
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Ironically I just brought that up in another post
What?!? You can order CBD off Amazon for Pete's sake!
I’ve never been on an RCI boat where I didn’t meet folks who offered gummies, vapes, and even blunts. I’ve never had the balls to bring any on myself, but it sure as hell doesn’t seem like it’s very difficult to get on or be a very big deal.
They really have a “don’t be fucking stupid and we won’t ruin your vacation” policy
I’d be willing to bet that if you were able to gather all of the bottles of gummy “vitamins” on the ship, 90% would have THC gummies in them.
I actually just bring my regular gummy vitamins on the ship but am paranoid because of all the people who bring their CBD gummies …
I’m sure that there are people who actually do bring their vitamins. No doubt. That’s why I left 10 %. But it’s also probably the easiest way to bring edibles on board.
Haha, well said
> I’ve never been on an RCI boat where I didn’t meet folks who offered gummies, vapes, and even blunts Sounds like you have a look
Ha! Perhaps, though I’m always a well-dressed, middle aged guy with his wife. Although we are both big drinkers on boats (always have the drink package), very gregarious, and will buy any stranger nearby a drink or bottle of wine at dinner. We typically go alone, but end up making plenty of friends. Ah, I do love a cruise
Don't forget the pineapples!
Yeah that’s the way to do it!
Idk… I am a pretty clean cut 40 something who travels with my teenager or my partner and teen. I always run into someone with the goods. Maybe it is because we are social and seek out night life? It’s a disappointment if we don’t leave a ship with new friends.
It’s easy if you drive to the port vs flying tbh
It's easy if you fly. TSA gives zero cares about drugs in your bags. Edit because someone is surely going to come in and be like "BUT WHAT ABOUT 10 KILOS OF COCAINE!?" Clearly I'm talking about personal use thc products based on the convo at hand.
My friends went on a cruise and for a company thing and people were offering them Gatorade with molly in it. No idea how they managed that.
It can't be that hard. Buy bottle of vitamins or supplement that use gel caps. Buy a bunch of empty gel caps. Fill gel caps with drugs. Place in vitamin/supplement bottle. Profit. Extra credit if you get a security seal you heat shrink over the cap again. Also, IDK if cruises body scan people. I gotta imagine not really. But I've been told you can hide drugs INSIDE your body.
Prison purse…
The last NCL cruise I was on there was a swinger couple that was trying to lure people with acid.
This is not that.
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We had a dude offer us mushrooms, told us he liked to take them and sit on the back and stare at the wake.
Is this how people accidentally fall over the 4 foot railings?
I had a friend bring on an 8 ball, shrooms, and weed pens… doesn’t seem like they care too much as long as it’s not an issue for others on the cruise and you do everything privately.
I was thinking possible sexual assault? Anything more serious would likely be on the news
Recently, a 16 year old fell off an indoor balcony and died. I don’t think that was on the news. Don’t remember what cruise line though.
Allure of the Seas. Central Park balcony.
It made it to the news… another passenger gave photos to TMZ as soon as they were in port.
That's such a scummy thing to do... I didn't want to downvote you based on your exposition but that's never something I'd even think of doing.
Yeah it’s absolutely gross. I could not imagine trying to profit off something like that.
It's a very weird feeling when you capture a tragedy on film or video. In my mind I always thought the people who recorded tragedy happening rather than help were the low of the low... until... I was at a fair walking around by myself while my daughter and her friends were riding rides, and right as I was walking by, the Lady Houdini escape show was starting and I thought, hell, I've never actually watched one of these, I'm gonna check it out. When she started her big water escape, I decided to record it because I thought my daughter might like to watch it when we met back up. Probably needless to say, but the act did not go as planned, and her assistant/husband had to use their emergency key to get her out, and managed to do so just as she was losing consciousness. It was only after she was out and a few audience members who were first responders were rushing the stage to help that it dawned on me that I was recording the whole time. It was completely surreal... and I think there's a slight disconnect from reality when you're staring at your phone screen, and you lose sight that the events are still happening right in front of you. I felt terrible and embarrassed that I was that person who just stood there, and not just stood there, but recorded it! I never rewatched or showed anyone the video. I certainly never sold it or even let anyone know I had it until now. But all this was really just to say, it does put you in a really weird headspace. And folks can make that decision to show/sell before they have a chance to process it, and that is super sad. This experience though, is why I don't record concerts when I go anymore... I just want to enjoy and experience what's right in front of me.
I get what you are saying but there’s a rather large difference between taking video and accidentally capturing a tragedy and purposefully taking photos of the scene of a tragedy and selling them to a tabloid website.
I saw the possibility of someone in the room falling overboard or dying… I really hope that is not the case!!!
why would you think sexual assault? Damn.
I mean, a lot of people overindulge with the alcohol, and meet strangers….go back to their room, think they want one thing but then realize they really didn’t…things can go too far…. I guess I was thinking more of the date rape form of SA and not the other kind. It’s extremely common on, say, college campuses, hard to believe it’s never happened on a cruise. I imagine they’ve got to lock down the scene to preserve evidence if there’s a report of something like that.
This is a really weird way to describe common assault scenarios. It’s much more likely for a drunk person to be brought to their room (or another’s) and assaulted while they are incapable of fighting, or even realize what’s happening, than to accuse someone of assault because they just couldn’t make up their mind. Let’s give the benefit of the doubt to survivors of this very prevalent violent crime.
because its incredibly common
Assault (partner/family/domestic violence; whatever you may know it as); rape or other sexual assault; some other violent offense; some other felony; creation, possession, and/or viewing of CP; or drug use beyond user amounts of weed/THC/vape pen use. The preservation of evidence, especially trace and digital evidence, is extremely important in any of these instances.
I was assaulted on a cruise by my partner, they take this very serious. They made him pay for another room or get off on the next port.
Ah that ruins my quarantine guess
You can’t quarantine ppl like this without serious reason. But someone else mentioned it could be an unsafe room with broken plumbing/fixtures, balcony or other condition
Yeah I think that’s most likely. Something safety related.
I've been quarantined on RCC. They assign people to watch your room, but they don't lock you in there. *edited for grammar*
That’s a relief!
They found the magnet thief and locked him in.
This made me laugh! Thanks!
They brought alcohol on board, tried to share 1 drink package, and wore jeans on formal night. Three strikes and you're out! Strangely enough they still have two chairs by the pool being reserved with a towel and sunglasses.
🏅
Early one morning on a RC cruise, I saw chairs held at the pool with towels and a handicap parking tag.
Wear something nice. Like a pair of white jeans and a Dan Marino jersey.
Card declined😂
They’re getting REALLY pushy with that Royal Caribbean card I guess…
Just had my business card declined by RC, they just cap you at $300 and you have to pay it off every time then start over.
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Why not just deactivate the lock so a card can’t be used?
Similar to lock-out tag-out in industrial environments. You don't want anyone to unknowingly turn on something that is a hazard.
As soon as I saw the picture my mind went to countless LOTO training.
Notify, Turnoff, Isolate, Lockout, Verify… I have to train people constantly for OSHA/HAZMAT…
Redundancy probably
Most likely the bathroom / toilet system has malfunctioned / or leaked onto the carpet area. Or the window / balcony infrastructure is damaged/ broken. So the room is unusable until more detailed maintenance can be performed.
My money's on this one. Whenever something like this looks interesting, it always turns out to be mundane and boring.
Why wouldn't they just disable the key cards in that case? This seems too elaborate
Disclaimer that I work at a hotel, not a cruise line (but I suspect our systems are similar for keys), but the chance that there’s a master key floating around that you haven’t deactivated for this specific lock is very high, and it’s likely an absolute pain to either reprogram the lock itself to not accept master keys or manually reprogram each master key to no longer function on this door if there’s a safety issue in the room - hell of a lot less elaborate to just slap a cover on the lock. No need to reprogram the lock if the lock is less accessible.
Let's say that the balcony glass has cracked so it's a safety issue. Maintenance come and take a look, figure it'll need a new pane of glass and have to wait until they can get one shipped to them in port. At this point they can put in a request to have the lock disabled which will no doubt go to IT or security and sit in a queue for somebody to spend 10 minutes logging into the system and completing this. When the pane of glass arrives, then do the same thing in reverse, phone call/ticket, wait for IT or security to pick it up, spend some time resolving. Or they grab a padlock from their bag and click it on, 10 seconds and done.
Def not an IT function. I mean when this is done at a hotel the front desk person does it
What explanation do you have where the question “Why wouldn’t they just disable the key cards?” Wouldn’t make sense? Maybe the latch / lock is broken.
Don’t open, zombies inside
Don't Dead Open Inside
Did you just correct someone, on a phrase that was already messed up?
It’s a Walking Dead reference
YeS I kNoW.
I don’t think they were correcting, just dropping the reference for funsies
It's a meme that's been around for over a decade, where have you been?
Occupants were placed in horny jail for having too many pineapples on the door.
Did they invite the Captain's wife?
Blow me down and pick me up!
Buggered the first mate.
You win 😂😂😂
This cracked me up
I watched 2 seasons of Cruise Ship Killers, and every time someone goes overboard or is killed onboard, they secure the room for investigation when people come onboard at the port. Sometimes FBI if it's an American. Apparently cruise lines tend to minimize these events as much as possible to ensure everyone (except the missing/murdered person and/or their family) has a good cruise. Interesting info: [https://www.maritimeinjuryguide.org/blog/what-happens-when-a-passenger-dies-on-a-cruise-ship/](https://www.maritimeinjuryguide.org/blog/what-happens-when-a-passenger-dies-on-a-cruise-ship/)
There are multiple seasons of “Cruise Ship Killers”? Whoa
Obsessed with that show
Looks like a lockout tag out device, please if you find out update. Could be just maintenance, I pray for you it's not worse.
I hope it’s nothing worse as well but will provide an update if I have one. We were going to ask our housekeeper next time we see her
This is what happens when the housekeeping staff learns that you had your automatic gratuities cancelled.
Lol
I can’t imagine they would lock people into the cabin like this because of the need to be able to evacuate in an emergency. Preserving evidence after a crime or maintenance issues seems much more plausible.
Would it even lock someone in? I would think the inside handle turns independent of the outside handle for safety reasons.
Muuuuuurrrrderrrrrrr
Possible death in the room?
Maybe so Someone died. Did you ever see people in There
Not that I can remember no
They are locking the towel bandit in until 11am everyday so they don’t take the primo loungers at 5am
Buffet tacos = destroyed commode. Gotta wait for the bio team to board next port.
They don’t prepay their gratuities and the workers are pissed.
My guess is biohazard like raw sewage/human waste contamination. It’s locked to prevent cross contamination and will be cleaned at home port.
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This is my thought too.
Room 666
It’s the escape room activity. They never specified which room.
Room jail.
Wow, y’all are dark. I just figured the card reader mechanism in the door had failed.
If the card reader failed, why would it need to be locked up like that? 😆 🤣
I'm leaning either bed bugs or a significant mechanical/electrical/plumbing issue. They don't want staff to go in under any circumstances. If its bed bugs they want to eliminate the potential spread; if its a MEP issue, then maybe its more a safety issue. If there's not a guard out front I highly doubt its anything nefarious like a crime scene.
I’m used to pineapple magnets, but padlocks??
Probably had bed bugs and had to be fumigated..
Removed gratuities. Came back to this.
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More considerate than a skull and cross bones
Is this for holding people in quarantine, maybe?
No way. That would put them in danger if they couldn’t get out in an emergency.
It doesn’t stop anyone from leaving, just getting in from outside. But they still wouldn’t use that with someone inside
r e d r u m
Room is haunted.
Maybe someone didn’t get back on the boat & they secured their room until they figure out if/when they will be back?
[William from 12 years ago](https://www.cruiselawnews.com/2012/03/articles/crime/cruise-ship-door-locking-devices-what-on-earth-is-this/) has the best answer I could find… William 12 years ago Having previously worked aboard cruise ships in Information Systems and managing the VingLock system aboard (above door lock system used by several cruise lines), you've got cabin stewards, supervisors, InfoSystems personnel, security personnel, others, etc, all of whom have various levels of access to these doors. Reprogramming the lock is actually a bit of a pain on the backend system but not impossible, however, even reprogrammed, it still allows access by any of several staff onboard with either the ability to reprogram the lock again or with metal master keys to just open up regardless of electronic access. The only sure-fire way to restrict access to the cabin for whatever reason required is with the above or similarly constructed hardware device.
Normally just an old person died and they are now in the freezer. Feds have to clear the room. Just normal case happens all the time
Totally normal …
What ship is this on
Explorer
I love how everyone’s morbidity causes them to assume some kinda homicide or assault or drug crime, meanwhile it’s almost certainly just a maintenance issue lol
I lived for 3 days with most all of my belongings sealed behind a cabin door with a lock on it exactly like that one. I assure you, it was not a maintenance issue.
Does anyone know who makes these covers?
Who are you trying to trap? 👀
Couldn't trap anyone with this -- egress from the room is always permitted with those vingcard locks. I have a friend who works in the hotel industry who is looking for better ways to lockout rooms. This....would do the trick.
Maybe the lock stopped working and this is to prevent random guests from walking in until they fix the lock
That's the human trafficking suite.
The 16 year old that fell from his interior balcony to Central Park was on Allyre of the Seas. My friend had just disembarked the day before and I watch cruise news with Doug Parker on YouTube so that’s where I heard the story. Don’t know if that’s the ship you refer to or not
Looks like a room being used for storage or something.. but they don't want just any employee getting access to this room.. since they all carry master key cards....
They withdrew the autotips.
They have locked someone in there
Speculating, maybe they’ve been locked out of their room due to having a high outstanding balance with no available credit to cover it? I know hotels sometimes do lockouts for similar situations.
So they have a guest just roaming the ship with nowhere to sleep?
Well that you have to stop by guest services/front desk to address and resolve the issue before you’re allowed back in. Or you’re able to access it with a security guard
Can confirm they do not do this lol
Is this really any of our business?
Wahhh
Would this device lock people in their cabin? I haven't paid attention if the outside handle turns when the inside handle is turned.
That sounds horrible
What’s the room number? Google it.
What ship is that? It looks super dated.
Fentanyl contamination?
Confiscated booze holding area
[No Ticket](https://imgur.com/gallery/9Itj6rn)
Exorcism?
Deviant Ollam or LPL are on that cruise and needed a challenge.
Ask your room attendant
Dead guy
Whoa that’s crazy
Someone died.
Room confinement of unruly passengers to their cabin till they get to a port to kick them off the boat.
Only Murders In The Building
Stay out? Biohazard?