When a Safe is not safe

When is a safe not a safe. When it’s it Frank’s room.

Each stateroom cabin has a safe where you can keep your valuable as you stay on the ship. The only thing you really need on board is your Sea Pass which serves as a room key and a ship credit card. You don’t need to carry cash or other items. Therefore, you keep it in the safe which is located in the closet.

There is only one problem; the safe opens the wrong way. It’s hard to see where the items in the safe are. You end up feeling your way around the safe. We joked about it and it really wasn’t a big deal but when you have access to the Captain and the Hotel Manager like Frank, you might want to tell them how you really feel.

At the Captain’s reception for returning Royal Caribbean customers, Frank had an opportunity to voice his opinions about the safe opening the wrong way and about the bathroom light switch being on the outside unreachable from the inside. Frank was very good friends with the captain. Here’s Frank manning the bridge while the Captain sees to private business.

It pays to know someone! The next day, Frank had a new safe put in his room, one that opens the right way and also, he had a remote control bathroom light switch installed so he can turn the bathroom light on from anywhere on the ship and 2 miles inside port. Royal Caribbean is installing this new technology into it’s next generation of Sea Passes. It’ll be called the “Head-light” switch. Also, the new Curtachio safes will be ordered for all cabins in the fleet. These safes open downward and can be mounted on any wall in any closet.