How many CC members actually show up when finally on the ship??

[Tom-n-Cheryl]

It has been our experience that anywhere from 1/3 to 2/3 of those who post on ROLL CALLS actually are ever seen on the ship - after indicating they will meet..

Any other observations on this one??

Tom

Spring break Glory with the boys. March 20th, 2004
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Sensation - July 1st, 2004
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Inspiration - Dec. 2nd, 2004
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Miracle Spring Break, March 20th, 2005
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MIRACLE.......3/05
INSPIRATION..12/04
SENSATION.....7/04
GLORY.........3/04
SENSATION.....1/04
SENSATION....10/03
GLORY.........7/03
SENSATION.....7/03
INSPIRATION..11/02
PRIDE.........7/02
FANTASY......10/01
FANTASY......10/00
FANTASY.......8/00
SENSATION.....6/00
DOLPHIN IV....3/00
FANTASY.......9/99

[kristikae]

On our Conquestadors cruise we had over 100 there I believe. Sue would know the actual number. It was great to meet everyone!

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Fantasy 3/95, Fascination 12/01, Conquest 1/03, Glory 9/03, Conquest 1/04, Mariner 9/04, Miracle 2/05

[tef43]

On the Paradise, we had alomst 100% attendance, on the Triumph, zero.

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[VanessaC322]

On our March Paradise cruise, about 25 people showed up. Pretty much everyone from our roll call and we had met people that were on our independently booked excursions on the Port of Call section, so we knew a lot of people before we left. My husband thought it was a riot that people kept coming up to me and saying, "Are you Vanessa?". Apparently I had described myself pretty well!

Vanessa

Paradise 3/04

[eerbeek]

On Victory, pretty much all who were checking into the boards for the month before leaving showed up to the meet & greet. Maybe 20-30 of us. It was great to have such a nice turn out!

Lido Deck Linda



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Fantasy 2/6/2000
Victory 3/23/2003
Destiny 4/25/2004

[robcool]

That was my experiance on the Victory also. Everyone that was posting to the roll-call showed up at our meeting the first day.

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[AllenF]

Well It was nice to meet you and your wife Tom on the Glory along with the other 2 couples who showed up at your cabin for our meet and greet....too bad we did not get to spend more time with all of you after that

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[GinaDucey]

When we were on the Paradise on October - I think 100% of us showed up - and it was great to meet everyone! I was sorry that I was unable to meet with the group more - but due to illness - I could not get free.

Fantasy 11/91
Ecstasy 1/98
Fascination 11/99
Paradise 2/00
Imagination 4/02
Ecstasy 5/03
Paradise 10/03
Sovereign of the Seas 4/04


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[PTCruizer]

Almost if not all of the people I met on the boards showed up. We had a great time too. [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]

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Celebrity Century 10/04

Conquest 10/03
Holiday 10/02
Fascination 02/02

[CruiseFever]

On our last cruise we had everyone that posted on the roll call come. Like mentioned above it was nice to meet everyone and then see them throughout the week.

It made it just that much more fun to exchange port stories, dinner stories, etc.

Happy Cruising

Chris

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Carnival Spirit 12/04

[pungo3]

My experience has varied tremendously. On the Pride, we had at least 50 people show up. On the Conquest, only 6 and on the Legend, only 2. It is great to exchange information & to see friendly faces throughout the cruise. I highly recommend making the "roll call meet & greet" if at all possible. I still stay in touch, outside Cruisecritic, with some of the people I've met.

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Carnival Conquest 1/19/03
Carnival Legend 1/16/04
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[serene56]

Are most meet and greets held beofre the musters?

On our Victory we met very little people.
So when we took the VOyager I tried a different tactic. Meeting the first night after both dinners were done in a quiet lounge. We decided 10:30 was the perfect time.
People are so scrambled when they first get onboard with getting aqauinted with the ship and getting ready for the muster drill and dinner. 4:30 is a rather hectic time.

Before we left we set the first meeting for the first night but we also had stuff planned for during the week...like Royals Meet and Greet party on Monday. We also had enough people to do a cabin tour of very available category except the grand suites. So we also planned that too. It was nice running into people all week that you knew all about.

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Miracle, February 13, 2005
Legend, October 22,2004
Voyager August 31,2003
Victory September 22,2002
Regal Empress,June 2001
Sensation,August 2000

[Lyndac chap2b]

We just got off of the Mar 20th sailing of the Triumph--we called ourselves the 'spring flingers'....and I'd say we had about a 98% turnout of the 'regular posters' to the meet and greet. Of course--in the 4 months before cruising--we ended up filling over 70 pages of posts!

We booked excursions together---and ate lunches together as well...and oh, did we laugh together!

The thing that struck me---is how much everybody that regularly posted tended to have in common. There were 2 different age groups. The youngsters (in their 20's) and the oldsters but young at heart (in our 40's)and most of the 'oldsters' had kids around the same age.

Unfortunately--we're spread out all over the country--and it's not going to be easy to re-create this with the same, wonderful and warm people [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]....but wow, we sure had a great time for those 7 days...and the 4 months before weren't too shabby either.

I feel like I developed quite a few life long friends with this CC and Triumph experience.

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[bjkeen]

We all had Mardi Gras bead on so it was easy to spot each other before we boarded the ship.

Becky
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May Eastern Caribbean Carnival Cruise 2006
Miracle 2004
Pride 2003
Regent Rainbow
Sensation 2000
Fantasy 1996, 2001

[pazooter]

On Jubilee, Inspiration and Fantasy, everyone who indicated they would meet us, actually did, though not at the appointed place and time. We even found a CC couple on Inspiration who recognized me and approached us. She called herself a "lurker". Hope she's participating more on CC now.

Bruce also laughed each time someone would come up and say, "Are you Cathy?"

Our upcoming Star cruise has a spreadsheet going of families and cabins. I'm sure we'll all meet, eventually. Cathy

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Until our **STAR** search
Seattle to Alaska on NCL Star
June 27, 2004

Fantasy 12/25/03
Inspiration 4/13/03
NCL Majesty 12/27/02
Jubilee 3/23/02
Norwegian Sea 11/23/01

[crusingchicks]

Hi Tom & Cheryl,
If I remember correctly we had a pretty good turnout for our Glory cruise in July 2003.
Matter of fact we were all there.
It was great to meet the people that we talked to for months right here on the boards.

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[Tom-n-Cheryl]

Yes cruising chicks...we did have a great turn out on the Glory summer 03, we still stay in touch with some of those people. One of our sensation groups was large also. Just in general, it seems there are more times where few show up than many! But hey.....we're still having fun!

cheryl

Spring break Glory with the boys. March 20th, 2004
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Sensation - July 1st, 2004
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Inspiration - Dec. 2nd, 2004
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Miracle Spring Break, March 20th, 2005
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MIRACLE.......3/05
INSPIRATION..12/04
SENSATION.....7/04
GLORY.........3/04
SENSATION.....1/04
SENSATION....10/03
GLORY.........7/03
SENSATION.....7/03
INSPIRATION..11/02
PRIDE.........7/02
FANTASY......10/01
FANTASY......10/00
FANTASY.......8/00
SENSATION.....6/00
DOLPHIN IV....3/00
FANTASY.......9/99

[oceantravel]

I was bummed not to meet our gropu!

ONE BIG SUGGESTION!!!!
Set up twqo meeting times for your group before you leave.

We were to meet after the muster drill, but found that we had early dinner. We went to our meeting place but no one was there yet. We had to leave for our 5:45 dinner so we missed them. If there would have been two meeting times set up in advance we would have had a second chance to meet up.

Patti

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[MrCruzeaddict]

We had over 60 signed up for our Mariner (I know...RCCL)cruise in late March. We had over 50 show up for the CC party. We met some great folks that we spent time with during the week.

Joe<---Conquest in Oct.!

Conquest (Sleazy III)10/31/04 My 25th !

[Missturie]

Tom-n-Cheryl

I somehow lost the paper that had your room number for the meet and greet after the muster drill on the Glory. We were disappointed that we didn't get a chance to meet everyone but I didn't know how else to locate you and other CC members. Wouldn't it be nice if they had a public bulletin board where passengers could post messages for other passengers?

We had a wonderful cruise despite the rocking. Actually, I kind of enjoyed the rocking and got a kick out of watching people try to walk around without bumping into each other. I even saw a guy fall off his bar stool in the casino bar when the ship rocked. It was pretty funny.

Pam

[Tom-n-Cheryl]

Pam.......just book yourself on the Legend for Thanksgiving and you can meet us then.:D

cheryl

[Izzy Bee]

We had 100% with our meet and greet on the Inspiration, but didn't do so good on the maiden voyage of the Conquest..(guess we all were too confused! (Right Luv2cruise8137!!) I hope our up and coming meet and greet on our Conquest 11/07/04 works out to be 100%...esp, since I booked most everyone with Soto's using my credit card!!! Yeah, you guys,...I have your cabin numbers!! Just kidding, we have a great CC group so far and hope it will grow...so far, EKelley, LoriAnn, BAB15317, Rdytocruise, Izzy Bee...

[Em6554]

We had about 75% show up on our recent voyage on the Conquest. There were three members from our roll call that didn't show up to the meeting, but one member was easy to pick out from the picture he had posted of himself. The rest of us had a great time and I really enjoyed getting to know everyone that I had been talking to for months before hand!

[selucrey]

[font=Arial Black][size=3][color=blue]We have had really good luck with people showing up for our onboard meet and greets. I Have met a few on Bourbon that I didn't remember the next day but it worked out. We lined up excursions before the cruise with people we had met on the boards and had a great time.Having two meeting times is really a good idea.[/color][/size][/font]

[hstrybuf]

We set up two meeting times on two different days on the Legend in April. The first day was before sailaway and I'd say a pretty good percentage of our group showed. At the second time, on a sea day, it was the same bunch minus a few. I did end up meeting one or two who had forgotten about the group and enjoyed meeting everyone!