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Is the formal wear requirements the same as the former Crystal?

I worked with financially troubled companies most of my employed life and many subs had no idea about the real financial issues with the parent company. Doesn't make sub management incompetent. There were contracts and bills paid by Genting handled a lot of what was included Crystal such as fuel bills etc. I don't know the exact details but I'm sure there was a lot that Crystal management didn't know. Even if they did what were they supposed to do - stop doing business to make sure all failed. There have been many, many discussions about this - let's move on. The NC is not the old Crystal and isn't responsible for what the old Crystal did or didn't do.

As someone else said - did anyone imagine that we'd have 3 and maybe more pages devoted to laundry ? maybe we need a thread about whether there will be toothpicks available at all dinning facilities. 😄

Looking at the map this am Serenity and Symphony have swapped places. I suspect Symphony drie dock about to start

No I don't se -

tells me page isn't available when I click on link

Not that I ever thought the ships looked old inside based on these pictures and descriptions the ships will look new and great. Nice to see beginning of the refit style

As long back as I remember they were always queens or 2 twins - wish they had been king size but they weren't

I found even with open dining after the first couple of dinners they knew where we wanted to sit ans as we approached they told the waiter to take is to table xx. Worked out great - we generally don't eat with others on cruises.

And when will NC become just Crystal here

I will hold it against you

Been on several cruises on Crystal where there were kids but you really wouldn't have know it - they tended to stay in the special kids play area and when they were in public they were well behaved. Probably make more difference in the parents and how they keep their kids in line than whether there were kids there. Of course there were never a lot of kids

Most Crystal cruise I can remember someone walked into the dining room on formal nights in jeans - I never saw anyone from Crystal go up to that person and not allow into dining room. Why would someone "violate" dress code like that?

Wonder if unlike OC they will enforce these rules

I also met and talked with Bruce McGill on the 2019 Tokyo to SF cruise - he was great to talk to and not at all like the character he played in Animal House A role i think he'd like to forget

It is encouraging, to me, to see this - shows a lot of the great things on the old Crystal will be on the New Crystal..

There are also times when several ships are in port and all the docks maybe taken so tenders may be required.

Reducing worked on Firefox on a Mac also - but what % of people would even think of doing this. Crystal needs to fix - so far the NC isn't better at web site than the OC was.

I certainly remember cruising on Harmony - then when I first did Symphony it was such an upgrade from Harmony. Wonder what it will look like after this refit.

May 27, 2019 Tour from Tokyo on first day of cruise

OK didn't read the full Explorer threads but it said cancelled - guess they just changed itineraries

Obviously not totally related but the new Explora Journey has cancelled a bunch of cruises this summer - sounds as if are having issues getting going.,

Just meant in Triest - again Symphony was switched to bow in a couple of months ago while Serenity was bow out - now a long with the announcement that Serenity is in dry dock they get their directions switched again. Maybe how those docks are set up

Saw that - interesting that it is in the same location/dock as before but now facing the opposite direction. At the same time - Symphony out of dock was switching facing direction. Symphony had this direction switch also a few months ago. So they dry dock when bow pointed in and aren't when bow facing sea.

Yup back docked but turned around.