When you go on a cruise, there are some things certain guests do that, if they’re not particularly embraced by the cruise line, they are at least tolerated.
A prime example of this is cruise ducks. Passengers will hide rubber ducks around the ship for others to find. When a fellow passenger comes upon one of these ducks, they can either take it as a souvenir, or leave it there for someone else to find.
Every cruise line has its passengers who enjoy the cruise duck experience (and some who detest it LOL!). And although one cruise line outright discourages the practice, while the rest appear to be relatively neutral about it; they don’t seem to embrace it, but they don’t say not to do it either.
Another guest-driving cruise activity is decorating their cabin door with streamers, photos, magnets, etc. In a long hallway that all looks the same, it admittedly makes “your” cabin easier to find. Again, although most cruise lines don’t encourage it, only one, Virgin Voyages, requests that people not decorate their cabin doors.
All that being said, one group of passengers, swingers use these decorations as something of a “code.”
OK, stop giggling.
In 2019, Psychology Today reported that about 4% of couples were in, or had tried open relationships. And when swingers are on a cruise and are looking for like-minded people, they sometimes up upside down pineapples on their cabin door, so others will know, and if you look on Amazon, there are plenty of places willing to sell upside-down pineapple magnets.
So yeah, they’re out there.
Meanwhile, changing topics for a moment, we’ve mentioned in the past that John Heald is the Brand Ambassador and senior cruise director of Carnival Cruise Lines, as well as a blogger for the cruise line.
Welp, the other day, John featured a question from a passenger who was going to be sailing solo; they wanted advice on how to meet other cruisers who were sailing by themselves.
The guest had asked, “Please can Carnival have an addition to their app that will give the opportunity for single cruisers to meet?” They then explained that they have a busy life and how online dating apps were too time-consuming.
Heald’s response was that the line used to have singles events onboard but they’re not as popular as they used to be.
In the comments to the post (there were well over 1,000 of them), one person made a joke about an upside pineapple doing the trick. John was quick to respond with confirmation that those are no longer allowed on Carnival ships.
Passenger: Upside down pineapple on your door will do the trick ma.
Heald: Thank-you for mentioning that, those are definitely no longer allowed on the ships and they will be removed from any cabin door. Thank you for reminding me to mention that. Hope all is well.
So it looked like upside-down pineapples on cabin doors on Carnival Cruise Lines were a thing of the past. Except that a couple of hours after the comment was posted, he deleted it.
So now it’s a big question mark – are upside-down pineapples allowed on cabin doors so swingers can meet like-minded people? Or are they actually banned? So far, there’s no definitive answer.
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