As all eyes were focused on Oasis of the Seas as it emerged from the shipyard in Finland and set off on across the Atlantic to its new home in Fort Lauderdale, a small comment went unnoticed on Royal Caribbean Cruises chairman and CEO Richard Fain's blog - almost.
He mentioned Royal Caribbean president and CEO Adam Goldstein insists the rooms in which passengers sleep be called "staterooms" and not "cabins" and says he doesn't understand Adam's "obsession" with which term is used.
I so agree. I have been pulled up many times by cruise lines for calling a spade a spade, or in this case a cabin a cabin. "They are staterooms," I am told. Really? Rooms of state? Inhabited by kings, queens, presidents and other persons of state?
Of course stateroom does make a cabin sound so much grander, which is why cruise lines prefer it, and I do use it now and then as it's a useful alternative to the "c" word.
What do you call the room in which passengers sleep? Why not let me know.
Jane Archer
Comments (1)
Stateroom is silly, pretentious, and indicative of big guys who think words are more imporant than acts.. Most pax are very put of by pretension and phony language. It's a room or cabin - that's what pax call them and there is nothing wrong with that. A room of 300 square feet is not a stateroom, when a CEO or a Bishop says it is. The generations who will be spenders starting now are proven as hating advertising, dislikeing corporate trash, and making decisions for buying based on peer referral and transparency of supplier, not old men making silly terms try to stick. The RCL guy who is beating this up should be kept out of public eye until he understands who his customers are - they are not fools and they will not respond to phony crap.
Posted by John Bradford | December 10, 2009 4:05 AM
Posted on December 10, 2009 04:05