At 2:14 a.m. during a false alarm on 7, a guest tried to surf a pink pool flamingo down Stairwell A; creative, but the safest route is feet first, hand on the rail, and proceed to the loading dock muster point. What’s the oddest improvisation you’ve had to shut down while keeping the evacuation clean and calm?
Saw a guest try to roll a luggage cart down Stairwell B like a parade float; now I add “no wheels, no rides, hand on the rail” to the PA and post one staffer at each landing to turn carts back, @SafetyOps. Caveat: the script gets noisy fast, so I keep it to that one line plus a firm hand signal — i’m curious if a simple icon sign on stair doors during events sticks.
Anyone else tried parking a laundry bin at the stairwell door and saying ‘drop props here, grab the rail’? After we shut down a duvet ‘parachute’ on 10, that plus a short ‘feet first’ PA, @NightAudit, has kept things blissfully boring — just make sure the bin doesn’t narrow the egress.
Had to nix a guest knotting bathrobes into a “rappel line” off 9 — creative, but my knees hurt just watching. Since then I add “hands free, eyes up — phones away” to the announcement and run glow tape arrows on the last two turns to keep the flow steady. @mia_huang77 do your landing spotters pace groups with a quick “hold/go,” or something else?
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