Fridges in room

[SHS]

Hullo , wanting to know if there is a fridge in the rooms?

[Matt]

It's a mini fridge that's more of a cooler than a fridge, but yes, they should have one.

[smokeybandit]

Just note that if you rely on something to be at a typical fridge temp of 38F or less, these coolers will not do that.

If you just want to keep drinks cool, they're fine.

[fireclan]

Our ocean view room on Enchantment didn't have a cooler/fridge.  Do the older ships not have them?

[smokeybandit]

2 minutes ago, fireclan said:

Our ocean view room on Enchantment didn't have a cooler/fridge.  Do the older ships not have them?

I believe only certain cabins on the older ships have them.

[Doug_Texas]

These “coolers” were always close to worthless.  Beverages cooled barely above room temperature.  I don’t know what happened but all of a sudden our cabins over the last 2 years have had these units cooling to full refrigerator temperature.  Thanks RCL!  I don’t know how or why we have experienced this but we love it.

[OCSC Mike]

12 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

I believe only certain cabins on the older ships have them.

Only balcony and above I believe.

[OCSC Mike]

5 minutes ago, Doug_Texas said:

These “coolers” were always close to worthless.  Beverages cooled barely above room temperature.  I don’t know what happened but all of a sudden our cabins over the last 2 years have had these units cooling to full refrigerator temperature.  Thanks RCL!  I don’t know how or why we have experienced this but we love it.

It has always varied greatly in my experience. My cooler on Allure last week was useless. We put one water bottle in it and left one on the counter overnight... couldn't tell which was which in the morning.

I feel like more often than not they have at least cooled beverages enough to serve their purpose but I haven't exactly kept stats.

[ScottD]

50 minutes ago, Doug_Texas said:

These “coolers” were always close to worthless.  Beverages cooled barely above room temperature.  I don’t know what happened but all of a sudden our cabins over the last 2 years have had these units cooling to full refrigerator temperature.  Thanks RCL!  I don’t know how or why we have experienced this but we love it.

Yeah, ours on Oasis got room temp waters to petty cold, enough to give them a little sweat on the bottles. So not cold, but definitely chilled. I kept a 6 pack of N\A beers in there for a few days and they were cold enough to enjoy after 2-3 days

[WAAAYTOOO]

Shockingly, the fridge in our Panoramic Ocean View room on Mariner last week was really cold !  I think it's b/c those rooms forward on deck 12 are new and are likely to have newer coolers.  This was definitely an anomaly though....they are usually coolish at best.

[Jolly Ogre]

I always get an ice bucket for things I want colder like beer, Champaign and the like.

[jbrinkm]

31 minutes ago, Jolly Ogre said:

I always get an ice bucket for things I want colder like beer, Champaign and the like.

Putting the ice bucket into the cooler works pretty well, as long as you rearrange the shelving so you can close the door all of the way. Using that method got our water bottles fairly cold after putting them in at room temp.

[USFFrank]

I've never tried this (at least I don't remember), but if one wants to be adventuress, try pulling the "cooler" out and see if there's an adjustment dial somewhere.

[Ampurp85]

12 minutes ago, jbrinkm said:

Putting the ice bucket into the cooler works pretty well, as long as you rearrange the shelving so you can close the door all of the way. Using that method got our water bottles fairly cold after putting them in at room temp.

This only works if the cooler is on the larger size or the ice bucket is small. On Allure our cooler could only hold the 1L Evian bottle in regard to width.

[jbrinkm]

2 minutes ago, Ampurp85 said:

This only works if the cooler is on the larger size or the ice bucket is small. On Allure our cooler could only hold the 1L Evian bottle in regard to width.

Ah, yes, we only had the smaller plastic bottles from the bars (refreshment package). I can't remember - do the ice buckets also have those plastic bag liners? I wonder if you could pull that out for size flexibility? It wouldn't last as long but might help a bit?

[DJnKy]

7 hours ago, smokeybandit said:

I believe only certain cabins on the older ships have them.

Oceanview on Grandeur did not have one. Read somewhere balcony and up do have one.