Hair dryer on the Dream?

[Mulan2]

Does anyone know yet if they finally got "real" hair dryers on the new Dream instead of those awful things that looked like vacuum cleaners?
They were the worst things on the ships!!!

 

[Cmbar]

Bumping- would love to know!

 

[tvguy]

Guess it depends what you have at home. No word on the Dream yet. The hair dryers on the Wonder and Magic are 1500 watt wall mounts, my DD's home hair dryer is only 1200 watts, so the ones on the ship were far more powerful than she was used to. I gather many folks have more powerful ones at home, but I suspect some have flame throwers at home if they think the ones on board the Magic and Wonder are weak.
And please, no offense, I'm just pulling your leg a bit. This is a valuable question for folks who have not cruised with Disney. They need to know that some found the hair dryers weak, others fine, others too powerful, so they can make an educuated decision on whether they need to bring their own.

 

[Cmbar]

Guess it depends what you have at home. No word on the Dream yet. The hair dryers on the Wonder and Magic are 1500 watt wall mounts, my DD's home hair dryer is only 1200 watts, so the ones on the ship were far more powerful than she was used to. I gather many folks have more powerful ones at home, but I suspect some have flame throwers at home if they think the ones on board the Magic and Wonder are weak.
And please, no offense, I'm just pulling your leg a bit. This is a valuable question for folks who have not cruised with Disney. They need to know that some found the hair dryers weak, others fine, others too powerful, so they can make an educuated decision on whether they need to bring their own.

I don't think it has anything to do with how powerful the hair dryers on the ship are. It has to do with they style of them. Most women do not blow dry their hair with a vacumn type hose which is what is on the ships. I have never seen a "blowdryer" that isn't a handheld appliance that is shaped in a "gun" fashion. I was really, really happy my sister brought a blow dryer on our first trip and I was able to borrow it! I never would have been able to style my hair for all those dress up nights!

 

[tvguy]

I don't think it has anything to do with how powerful the hair dryers on the ship are. It has to do with they style of them. Most women do not blow dry their hair with a vacumn type hose which is what is on the ships. I have never seen a "blowdryer" that isn't a handheld appliance that is shaped in a "gun" fashion. I was really, really happy my sister brought a blow dryer on our first trip and I was able to borrow it! I never would have been able to style my hair for all those dress up nights!

All personal preference. Something DW and I are always amused about on our cruises is the women the first night or two that work to style their hair, then give up when they realize that after 15 minutes in the humidity and wind, it will be all undone.

 

[dahuffy]

All personal preference. Something DW and I are always amused about on our cruises is the women the first night or two that work to style their hair, then give up when they realize that after 15 minutes in the humidity and wind, it will be all undone.

This is exactly why I wear mine so short. Think Mia Farrow/Natalie Portman.

 

[seaulater]

A family member of a cast member who was just on the Dream and got off Tuesday, stated that there were no hairdryers in the stateroom and you had to call concierge in order to get a hairdryer.

I have a few friends who are crusing on the Dream before we go on the Maiden Voyage on Jan. 26th.

They are checking into this and I'm sure will post the answer to the hairdryer question once they get off the ship.

 

[onecoolpilot]

Most women do not blow dry their hair with a vacumn type hose which is what is on the ships. I have never seen a "blowdryer" that isn't a handheld appliance that is shaped in a "gun" fashion.

To make sure I understand correctly, the "hair drier" was basically a hot(warm) air hose? Not the typical hair drier you would find in a hotel or on the shelf at walmart?

 

[HappyPeach]

The issue with the current hair dryers is not how hot / powerful / weak they are compared to what you use at home. It's the way they're designed. They have a very narrow opening compared to what a "normal" dryer has. It will get your hair dry but will not style it.

Not everyone gives up and adopts a shipwreck hairdo. I live in a humid area and the way my hair reacts at sea is not that different than what I experience during warm humid weather at home. So for those who do care about styling their hair, bring your own dryer.

 

[branv]

Guess it depends what you have at home. No word on the Dream yet. The hair dryers on the Wonder and Magic are 1500 watt wall mounts, my DD's home hair dryer is only 1200 watts, so the ones on the ship were far more powerful than she was used to. I gather many folks have more powerful ones at home, but I suspect some have flame throwers at home if they think the ones on board the Magic and Wonder are weak.
And please, no offense, I'm just pulling your leg a bit. This is a valuable question for folks who have not cruised with Disney. They need to know that some found the hair dryers weak, others fine, others too powerful, so they can make an educuated decision on whether they need to bring their own.

Well to be fair, my problem was air pressure more than heat. While my hair dryer is pushing out the air right next to my head, with the ship dryers, it had to travel a longer distance through a long ridged tube. Which I had assumed not only cools it down, but slows it down.

Then again, I was a liberal arts major.

 

[tvguy]

To make sure I understand correctly, the "hair drier" was basically a hot(warm) air hose? Not the typical hair drier you would find in a hotel or on the shelf at walmart?

This is what it is. It is not a hand held dryer like you use at home. Most of the newer hotels I've stayed at have switched to these, so that's not a good comparison.

 

[Mulan2]

TVGuy
Thanks for posting the picture of the "hair dryer/vacuum hose". I always found that the hose got so hot that it would burn your hand before you can get your hair dried.
We were recently on the Norwegian Gem(I know, I know, it WASN'T Disney) and they had the typical hairdryers and it made me wonder if Disney would get them on their new ships. It will just be one less piece of luggage to bring.

 

[ljm23]

So I went to look on the DCL website to see if they list a hairdryer as being in the stateroom and they do list it as being there. But then they also list what used to be the "chiller" as a refridgerator now which makes me wonder how accurate this information is.

 

[lds0191]

I also saw on the DCL website that hair dryers are listed in the descriptions of the staterooms on the Dream. Interesting............

 

[onecoolpilot]

Thank you TvGuy for clarifying that.

So I went to look on the DCL website to see if they list a hairdryer as being in the stateroom and they do list it as being there. But then they also list what used to be the "chiller" as a refridgerator now which makes me wonder how accurate this information is.

But the Dream (and Fantasy) will have actual refrigerators from what I read, or did I miss something recently?

 

[OrangeCountyCommuter]

There hairdryers are actually very common in a lot of European hotels. I am not a fan, but they aren't any worse then those things in most Disney hotels IMHO!