NFL Playoff Games

[RuthC]

For the NCAA championship game the entire area was packed. Unfortunately for the beginning of the game the shops which are located next to the mix were hosting a sale and drawing and it made hearing the game very difficult at the beginning. Once the free stuff was gone, so was the crowd and noise.

 

Later the issue became that the piano man complained to the cruise director that the tv was too loud so she had it turned down. He was thing singing over all of the game and people complained. There was 8 people listening to the piano and 40 watching the game. When someone said they were going back to their room to be able to be able to hear the announcers, the bar tenders saw sales evaporating and turned the tv back up.

That was only one (of many) unfortunate results of opening up the Piano Bars (S-ships), and Piano Lounges (R-ships). Not only did the Piano Bars lose their intimacy, but noise from other areas is no longer contained, and you have competing interests trying to share the same space.

 

It simply does not work well.

[TAD2005]

I agree totally with Ruth. The Billboard-Onboard Dueling Pianos is a wide open area, right next to the casino and the bar. So, instead of an intimate piano bar, you have many more venues competing with the noises of the casino and the TV's in the bar. Not a very bright move, but it's all about every square meter paying for itself. Small, intimate piano bars don't generate enough bar revenue to justify the space. So, they open them up, double the space, and contract with Billboard magazine to help subsidize the area.

 

Also, channel 39 or any channel number has no meaning on the renovated ships with the new TV's. Channel selection is done now by menu selection, and they have a limited number of channels for live TV. ESPN and ESPN-2 are dedicated to 24 hour sports, and they has a "Special Events" channel for whatever they feel is of general interest to the guests. No regular US or Canadian broadcast networks, just a bunch of news channels and BBC World Service.