This won't help you navigate a ship's complicated deck plan the first time you need to find your cabin aboard a cruise ship. sorry, can't help you there. However, this tip makes it a breeze to find the right stateroom each and every time you return to it during a cruise. (It's even fun for kids!)
Let's be real, all those stateroom doors look the same. Even once you have finally found the right passageway, it's easy to walk right past your cabin! (Been there, done that, felt like an idiot.) A few too many drinks can also make it hard to locate your stateroom... I mean, uh, being too tired from a shore excursion. (Yeah, I'm sure that's what I meant!)
Fear not, there's a simple solution that'll make you wonder why you didn't think of it sooner. Magnets are the well-sung heroes of a cruise ship. People use them for hanging things up in the room, of course. (See my other post about how to easily improve the efficiency and volume of your hanging and drying, too! Link below somewhere.)
One day while shopping, I stumbled upon some adorable black kitty-cat "stickers" that were actually paper-thin flat magnets. (And my wife loves black cats.) So, on our next cruise, I handed them to her as a small surprise, and suggested my wife stick them all over the OUTSIDE of our stateroom door to create a little display. (You can use any design you like, it doesn't have to be cats.)
Walking down the hallway, our stateroom stood out like a beacon. This trick would be a lifesaver for helping small kids find their room too! I remember at least once hearing about a group of kids accidentally entering someone else's stateroom.
But be a little careful with your design choices and don't bother others. Because the ones we use are totally flat, they can't "catch" on anything or anyone passing by the door, so the cruise line doesn't care. If I'd gone too fancy with "3D" shaped magnets, that might have gotten us a request to remove them. They're also politically neutral and non-offensive to nearly anyone.
Also, since they're magnets, we easily remove them at the end of the cruise and save them for next time. One more heads up—don't go for anything too fancy or someone might swipe them! May this idea reduce the number of people walking blindly down a cruise ship passageway with dozens of identical doors on each side, while wondering which room is theirs...
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