ga1928

I'm astounded at how many people are giving the Quantum 5 stars, but commenting on this minor little matter that the service is horrendous and the food stinks. I'm glad someone mentioned the stock price, because that is what is solely behind EVERY change that has been instituted on the Quantum. I don't go on a cruise to play with bumper cars, so the line could stretch from NJ to Cancun for all I care. I cruise for the service, the food, and the friendliness, and unless fellow Diamond, Diamond Plus and Pinnacle members vote with their feet and avoid any ship with Dynamic Dining, RCI will never get the message that they made a mistake in attempting to institute it fleet-wide.

Having sailed on the 2 night preinaugural cruise in November, I have been most interested in the comments of those who have sailed since on the Quantum, and who have paid real dollars for what seems to be, in general, miserable vacations.

At the naming ceremony, it was interesting to heard Richard Fain talk about the ship in terms of attracting people who have not yet cruised. That seems to imply a new generation of millenials to whom RCI wants to introduce the whole concept of cruising. That was obviously the intent of EVERY technologic gimmic on the ship, right down to the dynamic dining tablets. The MBA's in marketing in Miami were certainly well-intentioned in their quest to change every paradigm of cruising, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater obviously has failed, as evidenced by the "delay" (read "elimination") of the planned DD rollout on the Oasis. Any adult at HQ in Miami should have the common sense at this point to realize that the superb wait staff throughout the fleet is simply not tech-savvy enough to handle tablets, and people can only be enthralled so long with a robot mixing a drink. Throw out your Quantum business plan, or better yet, have some of the execs see for themselves what a mess has been created on the Silicon of the Seas. At what point will Messieurs Fain and Goldstein realize that they have a New Coke problem on their hands, and go back to square one with this ship? If a millenial has not yet cruised, trust me, they are not going to, Quantum or no Quantum. Stop screwing things up for tens of thousans of the rest of us.