The Royal Caribbean "Security Photo" Conundrum

[CruiseKeeper]

17 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Close enough?

 

 

Thanks, I intend to save this in my contacts under RCCL.   Now when they call me, this photo will be displayed !  

[AlanF65]

1 hour ago, Host Clarea said:

Someone needs to create a perfectly formatted photo of the president of RC, post it here, and then we can all use that photo to get past the check-in issue.

Security will "raid" every cabin looking for the identity thieves

[johnjen]

'kayso, I centered in on the face.....IT TOOK THIS. I'm leaving it up there!

[katiel53]

Whenever I've had pictures taken at home, the check-in agents re-take the picture so now I don't even bother.  It takes about 2 seconds for the agent to do it, so not anything to give another thought.

[molsonschooner]

11 minutes ago, katiel53 said:

Whenever I've had pictures taken at home, the check-in agents re-take the picture so now I don't even bother.  It takes about 2 seconds for the agent to do it, so not anything to give another thought.

it seems like the agents have fun taking the pictures. They were laughing with us as they showed us the pictures, saying comments like "ohh, that's a good one.

[vacationlover_mn]

3 hours ago, not-enough-cruising said:

Just have them take the picture at check in, it takes 2 seconds 

Agree- this is what we do

[TravisP]

Like others have said, I took photos of my wife and i and uploaded them. Just let the RCI website crop them for me. If they like them, awesome. If they retake them, no problem with me. It is not like it took much time to do any of it anyway. 

[bouhunter]

4 hours ago, Biker19 said:

Use this one instead - the last one was not the right size.

 

I have confirmed that this will work - I used it for my Ovation sailing check in photo for next month.

 

 

That is too funny! 

[AlanF65]

I think I will use an avatar and see if they notice

 

[Clarea]

Just now, AlanF65 said:

I think I will use an avatar and see if they notice

 

 

Please report back, very curious.🙂

[2Long2NxtCrz]

Y'all are funny!  I'm sure the upload software could easily be confounded with any properly centered photo.

 

We just took selfies and they uploaded just fine.  Not great photos, but neither are our passport photos.  And definitely not our driver's licenses.  A friend was having trouble with their photos.  They were rotated and she couldn't get them fixed.  So I did it for her, resized them and sent them back and then she was able to upload properly.  It can be a fiddly process, if you're having trouble, just do it at the pier.

[AlanF65]

48 minutes ago, Host Clarea said:

 

Please report back, very curious.🙂

I doubt I will be able to report back, I will probably be in the dog pokey

[Mikew0805]

We uploaded a photo once, and it was taken. We used the same photo a month and a half later. 🙂 Will recycle the photos so I do not have to keep taking them. 

[John&LaLa]

2 hours ago, AlanF65 said:

I think I will use an avatar and see if they notice

 

 

Does not meet the requirements

[John&LaLa]

8 hours ago, Biker19 said:

Use this one instead - the last one was not the right size.

 

I have confirmed that this will work - I used it for my Ovation sailing check in photo for next month.

 

 

 

My avatar meets the requirements. 

Should know something in 18 days. 

 

[Sanz]

6 hours ago, molsonschooner said:

it seems like the agents have fun taking the pictures. They were laughing with us as they showed us the pictures, saying comments like "ohh, that's a good one.

In 2016 the agent rejected our photo and took new ones in a a couple of seconds.  I think that she was bored.  We were early and at that time the agent greeted us at the elevator in the parking garage at Cape Liberty.  There weren't many cars parked yet, in the relatively new garage, at the level that we were parked.  We used our original photos for our next three cruises, from the same port, without any problem.  🙄  We'll easily upload the pictures again for our upcoming cruise in May (hopefully an easy upload on the - it's down./not functioning properly,  RC website).  If they don't like them ----  it will  take a couple of seconds at the port.....

Edited April 9, 2019 by Sanz

[SakeDad]

Does no one here use cell phone apps??? There is a GREAT free app called Passport Booth for Apple and Android. Extremely easy to use and formats it into passport size then you either share it or email to yourself. I have used this many many times without a single problem.

You're welcome.

[Btank]

12 hours ago, johnjen said:

I've tried scanning or re-taking our original passport photos with no success.

 

You might try putting your scanned passport photos through on of the online photo resizers, such as ResizeImage.net.

 

     --bruce T.

 

[HappyCruiserettu]

13 hours ago, Biker19 said:

Close enough?

 

Note the blue background.

 

[johnjen]

16 hours ago, Btank said:

 

You might try putting your scanned passport photos through on of the online photo resizers, such as ResizeImage.net.

 

     --bruce T.

 

Thanks Bruce!