Thanks to my wonderful boyfriend, Mike, I had the pleasure of not only going on a 7 day cruise for spring break but, I was also given a private tour of the ship's laundry! We went on the Carnival Magic, one of Carnival's newest and largest ships that is less than a year old to Jamaica, Grand Caymen Island, and Cozumel, Mexico. My boyfriend sent a special request to the Captain asking about getting the tour and when the Captain approved it, Mike surprised me with it!
Bear with me as I have 23 photos to upload and I'll be explaining each one!
First up, a dry cleaning machine. Only weird thing about these is they are not actually dry cleaning as there is no solvent (not allowed on a ship, pollution) so I believe this is a wet cleaning process, notice how each washer has 8 chemical injectors.... There were two or three of these and I'm pretty sure they were made by Alliance judging from the doors.
There was a special wash and dry service they offered f you didn't want to do your own laundry while on the ship, but it was expensive and I don't trust anyone else with my clothes, but here are the machines! Sadly, in my excitement, I forgot to take a picture of the ONE washer they have for this service, a Cissell machine, I think it was 35lb capacity. Those have always fascinated me with their extremely tilted tubs! There were 3 dryers to go with this one washer, not sure if the dryers are slow, the washer is fast, or both...
I should also mention, I'm wearing the lime green shirt and standing next to me is the Laundry Manager.
One of five split-pocket 450lb capacity Braun washing machines. These are soft mount machines that can hold about 400 bath towels at once (200 in each pocket), are steam heated, and use about 560 gallons of water per cycle. Cycle time is 35 minutes and they reuse the rinse water from the first rinse to wash the next load.
Here is one of the washers with one of the pockets opened. They load/unload one side, shut the doors, rotate the drum 180 degrees then load/unload the other side. It's full of clean beach towels right now.
Chemicals used in the Braun washers. Solar Brite detergent, Chlorlite disinfectant, Neutralizer laundry sour, and So Fresh softener. The last three are the same chemicals the fitness center I work at uses.
One of five 250lb capacity dryers. Made by Vega and steam heated. The dryers run for about 20-25 minutes and dry at 180 degrees Fahrenheit or 190 degrees if they are running behind.
The controls... The Laundry Manager showed us how the controls work by cranking the speed all the way up from about 1.2 (a normal speed) to 3.7 (no units...) and lets us watch the two workers start to panic when they couldn't feed the sheets in fast enough...
