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While the bridge reconstruction will take years, I cannot see any reason that the port will be closed more than a few sailings.

FTTF came before offering it as a perk. It is a revenue driver (whoever thought of it should have got promoted). If they dropped it from a loyalty perk, it would continue as FTTF. When half the ship has it as a perk (from a loyalty persective), it simple cannot be done in the time constraints.. There are options, and I love the perks, just stating the reality of the situation. IMHO, the easiest way would be keep the same things (more or less) but cruisers wold have to aintain some level of persistency (like cruise X times within X period of time, or they drop off.

All you said is true, in regards to past efforts. The problem with that is if they protected all those at the same level, the problem does not go away. The problem is (big part of the problem anyways) that the volume of people that qualify for the loyalty levels has grown to a level that is becoming unsustainable. What started as a few on a sailing grew to 10’s then 100’s and approaching 1,000’s. Simply unsustainable.

There has been much discussion here over the years on this topic. One thing floated out was the ability to have a menu, your level in loyalty gave you access to select things off the menu (not all levels could select all things that were important to them.

It was a fantastic trip, certainly top 3 for us (and we have cruised a lot). Laid back, very informative interactice sessions with senior staff, and way more. Highly recommend it.

Agree with most all of what you say. My comment of the smokers was really how many ignored the rules. I have never seen (smelled) so many balcony smokers, it was commented on by many. Journeys outside Florida had less, but still and issue. HArd to stay away from that. Did it ruin the cruise? No way. Just worth commenting on.

Might get your wish, but it will take some time.

How quickly some forget what 30 billion in the hole is…..

Bingo

I would suggest that any changes will be on the qualifying of the benefits vs what the benefits are (or change), but just my guess. The facts strongly suggest that way to many people qualify vs what the costs of the perks are to the company.

Seen a lot of them and one appears to lose it at least twice. It will be interesting to see how the investigation unfolds. Sometimes Murphys law is just not pretty to watch.

I am not aware of any ship that cannot clear VNB, even QM II can fit. Venezia fits as well. I am not sure New York (year round anyway) can draw enough to make the beards do this. Seasonal, is another issue. Iteneraries are the drawbacks from my view....

Seems to be the new baseline for issues.

I bet you are right on in regards to the amount of people that drive to the port. It will be interesting to see how long the temp arrangement is and how they come up with plan to mitigate the issue. Your cruise is fairly unique in nature.

That is a lot of thought into that....I agree in the Glory and Conquest.

I would bet very low. Pretty sure that home port has the highest persistency.

according to mr Google it is 232 miles between ports. That is one long bus ride....

S0 I lied. I thought, and was pretty sure, that you could search all your history, but I cannot go more than 183 pages (know that seems like a lot) of data. that gets me back to 2022, wanted to link to a 2019 Journey cruise..... sorry.

I can and will when I get to a pc.

Makes sense. Love it when a plan comes together….quickly.

bingo

I had heard you were mainly over on the Royal thread, what is your take on how the financials will rollout.

Sorry, I was not trying to be funny or coy. You are correct, like many things China holds most of the cards. There is absolutely no cause for optimism. I did not view it as sarcasm, and was not meant to be, but more like dismay. It certainly will not be a help to an already dismal situation. All that said, hope remains supreme.

We were on one on the Breeze in 2019. Of the 3,600 (more of less, cannot remember the specifics), all but around 350 were diamond and plats.

Been on 4 Journey cruises, highly recommend them. Som much better than a B2B I will not even do the compare. In terms of the loyalty perks, there certainly are concessions in regards to the number of diamonds and plats, just part of the equation. I would never not do one because of this. For us, the drawback (and it is minor) is the number of power scooters and smokers.... I can point you to some of my reviews if it would help. Lastly, DO IT