Cruise ships often have more than 15 decks so guests may want to take the lift rather than the stairs if they’re travelling a long way up.
A cruise passenger wrote on Reddit: “So far, I’ve not been on a ship where the elevators are not jammed during certain times.”
They said the ship’s small elevators seemed like they were often packed with people and weren’t an adequate size.
Another guest said they thought the issue was often caused by people not knowing how the lifts worked.
They said: “A lot of people didn’t seem to be aware of how they worked, even several days into the cruise.
“Gaggles of people would just jump on the next open elevator when they weren’t the ones who called it to the floor, and it wasn’t going to their desired floor.
“Then they would jab at the touch screen inside the elevator to try to make it go where they wanted.”
Many cruise ships have a lift system where people press the button for their desired floor before entering the elevator.
A lift is then called for that person and should take them directly to their destination without the need of pushing the button inside.
However, inexperienced guests may get into the wrong lift which could cause chaos in the system.
One guest said: “The stairs always work. And have the added benefit of burning off a small amount of the excess calories we all take in.”
Another person said: “Small amount? If you stay dedicated to the stairs, you can put some serious work in.
“I’m an unavoidably early riser, I was putting in 10,000 steps every day, much of that on the stairs. Really got a good grasp on the layout of the boat and helped avoid that stuck on a boat in the ocean feeling.”
Taking the stairs could help guests to get to know the ship a little better and find new areas that they might otherwise have missed.
