Engineroom Snipe

Just three post into your CC membership and you ramp up personal attacks. Take it from someone who has been given timeouts by the moderator for much less. Your posts might get deleted and you will get a warning if you are lucky. People cannot read your opinion if it disappears.

I have looked at docking schedules at Coco Bay and I have not found many single cruise ship days. Let me know the cruise date of your cruise because I would like to plan for it.

Noticed that too. 🤔

Again, I have been on many Royal cruises and have never encountered a scooter blocking my passageway. Somehow they are handling this issue well because I would complain if I could. 😁

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@Den7Cruiser Do not give up yet. I am using the Android app. 1. start the app/ 2.Tap the center calendar at the top between the ship and person. 3. It should show a drop down of your cruise days. 4. At the very bottom, tap the "Change Ship/Dates" 5 It goes to "Your upcoming cruises." 6. Finger scroll to the bottom. 7. Select "Browse our ships". 8. Select your next cruise ship . 9. Select the earliest cruise date which will be a current cruise going on right now, today. 10. The menus and activities should appear as if you are on ship at the current moment. Let me know where this fails for you and I will try and give screenshots if needed.

You and I both agree on this. There are a few my wife works with who do a "Power Cruise" weekend. They barely make the ship from the airport, party hard and do a Red Eye flight to "work" on Monday morning. My wife says they are zombies who just exist making others work harder. It does not lend itself to good employee morale.

That is the twist to changing 7 day cruises into three day and four day cruises. What looks like a great three day money maker might be negated by four day midweek snoozers. I would love to be on those midweek cruises. Something for me to think about.

The competing cruise line must not want to do this. What do you think? Saving staff labor hours or trying to create a need to 'register scooters' and get an extra fee to do what you observed?

Darn, someone stole my idea before I could get it out of my head. There go my commissions! 😡🤣

Yes, we can enhance the "KEY" package to "KEY+". Leave your scooter behind as we provide pick-up and drop-off with Royal approved scooters. Tired at the end of a long day? Just tap the 'park' button outside your stateroom and we will have it charged and ready for the next day. Just use the "I am ready button" in the morning and it will appear within five minutes. There is a 50% 'gratuity' added because you expect superior service and that is what you will get.

Overall, I have not noticed scooters outside of cabins on Royal. Just a heads-up for those that need them.

@Den7Cruiser When you follow @lovesthebeach2 line by line instruction on post #10, be aware that it normally will not allow you to go to an earlier day of the cruise. It allows 'today's' menu or a future menu for the duration of that specific cruise. I.E., if it is the last night of the cruise, you will only see one menu and nothing else. Suggestion, use the instructions on post #10 late in the first day of the current cruise. This will allow you menu access for the complete cruise. It has always worded for me.

A small aside. These rooms might be getting more needed if Royal follows the new trend of a competitor cruise line. The competitor is now measuring the size of mobility scooters upon embarkation. If they cannot be moved and stored in the assigned cabin, the guest are being offered a full refund for all of their cruise purchases and being denied boarding while they are at the cruise terminal. The line is sending emails specifically about this policy enforcement to passengers. Not sure if the travel and hotel expenses are covered. One reason is the safety issue of having passageways blocked during normal usage and emergency usage. This has been discussed on CC on other threads to include passengers placing dishes and other items for pick-up by crew. Another thing to plan for as we cruise.

Exactly. You made the point better than I did. It is like a mining company that has mountains of previously processed gleanings that can now be extracted with new technology for a profit. They do not have to physically dig for new data which can be expensive. They just use a new process to get more value out of what they already have.

So yes, demand, is also a huge learning input with enough data points. Along with hundreds of other things, AI will predict your next cruise, how much you are willing to pay for the basic cruise, how much you are willing to pay for onboard packages and the list can go on forever. The most important factor for many companies is if they have to pay to get that personal data. Royal is getting it for free every time we make a purchase.

Completely agree with your view that the price is in ratio to the average cruise price of that particular voyage. Same day, two ships docked: large ship. $59.98, small ship $27.88. Dynamic pricing is an understatement. It will get worse with AI predictive modeling (which is, at its most basic function, the dynamic pricing scheme of algorithms programmed to obtain peak pricing). I will not go into my computer past because the last time I did, I was dressed down as being ignorant to the point of being an idiot. Not the first time I was called an idiot but I was programming in BASIC, FORTRAN, and COBOL when the dinosaurs were inventing the first microcomputers. I kept my feet moving and danced my way out of the the tar pits of programming extinction. I made a fortune when Y2K programs needed to be translated to newer SQL databases. AI modeling is going to squeeze every cent possible going forward as it picks apart your cruising history and cruise purchases. I might be an idiot, but I am well paid for my imbecile attempts when hitting the keyboard.

I think at this point, I will do the following to not get in trouble.......🤐

"I pity the fool..." (A-Team) that would try that with my wife. I have been on the wrong side of her intentions and I have known the 'Fear of God' in her eyes on only a few occasions. It would be similar to the scene from the Waterboy (1998) where Mama Boucher puts a whooping tackle on her husband who abandoned them when he tried to get money from Bobby Boucher's success. 😲

And it always seemed to be the picky, demanding, and overbearing ones that skipped that night. You could just tell by the flourish of the hands and pointing fingers at the food or the servers as they tended to have an elevated voice for those around them to hear.

Repeat and rinse the two previous answers. Since December of 2022, the prices normally are going up until the ship is full during the six months previous to embarkation.

Hence my earlier comment about using the bed as a trampoline for awhile and then taking him to medical when I was finished with "my work-out".

April 2023 on the Enchantment with a very similar experience to yours. The meals themselves where hit or miss. I appreciate someone else buying, cooking, presenting, and cleaning the dishes of any meal served to me. After the third day, we just went to Windjammer. The servers were understanding as they did not cook the food but somehow, they sensed what was coming on the second seating. They saw the reaction of the first seating and saw what food that was left on the plates. They were not strongly suggesting anything which led me to believe that it was just a very bad cruise dining experience they had no control over. I can cook and love great food but I am very forgiving on cruises considering the past few years of turmoil. I wanted the food to be good. It just was not.

I am not abandoning Royal but I am starting to look at other experiences. I will be cruising less with Royal but not abandoning it. New cruisers will replace me and Royal moves on. It does not invalidate many of the personal opinion complaints. In so many instances, companies do great until they do not do great. In the discretionary vacation business where Royal was so much cheaper than other experiences, one needs to keep a open mind to trends. The CEO recently stated during an interview that he believes there is another 30% price increase to most of the current cruise prices which would align Royal's pricing scheme to other comparable vacation experiences. If one adds 30% more to the basic cruise prices and also adds the Unlimited Drink Package, Unlimited Dining Package, Unlimited Wifi Package, etc., it will start to be the price per day of an all inclusive resort or an all inclusive cruise line. I keep an open mind and like to hear the pluses and minuses of fellow posters. In many cases, I know where they are coming from through my own experiences onboard. Time will tell. It will be interesting to see how the prices keep increasing and what will be the new normal.

More emphasis. 😱