Rare brillohead Posted September 8, 2019 #26 Share Posted September 8, 2019 1 minute ago, Merion_Mom said: I just experienced this new way of doing it on the Adventure, and I am THRILLED. I detested memorizing that code of random letters and numbers. UGH. I am so happy!!!! You described it very well, too, and saved me the trouble of doing it - and not nearly as well. By the way, the instructions are on your interactive cabin TV. 😄 (I know that Majesty doesn't have this, but Adventure does. 🙂 ) FYI, since you do B2Bs and know others who do B2Bs, I'll give you the low-down on how it works with this new method, because it drove me bonkers and I had to go ask the Voom Dude for help. You have to actually do the "logoff.com" thing on turnaround day so the system thinks you're a new person. This will give you the "create an internet account" link on the sign-in page so you can start over again. If you don't logoff.com, it will just tell you that "your package has expired, here are your options to pay through the nose for more internet service" and not acknowledge your prepaid package (or the fact that you have freebies coming to you from Crown & Anchor). Spread the word! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiggaZagga17 Posted September 8, 2019 #27 Share Posted September 8, 2019 2 hours ago, mets123 said: Faster check in as well. Agents don't have to go to a central location to get your cards. You get onboard that much faster. This is how I see it! - pretty much the most time consuming aspect to checking in ( not that it's massively time consuming, but every little helps as they say! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted September 8, 2019 #28 Share Posted September 8, 2019 7 hours ago, brillohead said: FYI, since you do B2Bs and know others who do B2Bs, I'll give you the low-down on how it works with this new method, because it drove me bonkers and I had to go ask the Voom Dude for help. You have to actually do the "logoff.com" thing on turnaround day so the system thinks you're a new person. This will give you the "create an internet account" link on the sign-in page so you can start over again. If you don't logoff.com, it will just tell you that "your package has expired, here are your options to pay through the nose for more internet service" and not acknowledge your prepaid package (or the fact that you have freebies coming to you from Crown & Anchor). Spread the word! Here is something odd. On Empress, our account expired on day 7 of an 8 day cruise. I had to get GS to reset my account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted September 8, 2019 #29 Share Posted September 8, 2019 7 hours ago, Merion_Mom said: I just experienced this new way of doing it on the Adventure, and I am THRILLED. I detested memorizing that code of random letters and numbers. UGH. I am so happy!!!! You described it very well, too, and saved me the trouble of doing it - and not nearly as well. By the way, the instructions are on your interactive cabin TV. 😄 (I know that Majesty doesn't have this, but Adventure does. 🙂 ) Oh, and I should mention that Majesty JUST started doing this. I was on Majesty from July 31 to August 10, and we did it the old way with the stupid random codes. 😉 What's really nice is getting a second code when we sailed in a suite on Harmony. I could use phone and laptop at the same time. 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURNS1 Posted September 8, 2019 Author #30 Share Posted September 8, 2019 Thanks! I guess we can't put a hole in the card anymore then. I always have and put it on my wrist, on an coil keychain, shucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare brillohead Posted September 8, 2019 #31 Share Posted September 8, 2019 22 minutes ago, BURNS1 said: Thanks! I guess we can't put a hole in the card anymore then. I always have and put it on my wrist, on an coil keychain, shucks. You can put the card in a thin clear pocket and attach that to the coil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted September 8, 2019 #32 Share Posted September 8, 2019 4 minutes ago, brillohead said: You can put the card in a thin clear pocket and attach that to the coil. Or spend $5 on a WOW band 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURNS1 Posted September 8, 2019 Author #33 Share Posted September 8, 2019 2 hours ago, John&LaLa said: Or spend $5 on a WOW band What is a WOW band? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted September 9, 2019 #34 Share Posted September 9, 2019 47 minutes ago, BURNS1 said: What is a WOW band? https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/what-are-royal-caribbean-wow-bands 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigsCanFly Posted September 9, 2019 #35 Share Posted September 9, 2019 5 hours ago, BURNS1 said: Thanks! I guess we can't put a hole in the card anymore then. I always have and put it on my wrist, on an coil keychain, shucks. I go to the guest services and they are punch ready. They have a electronic punch that puts a rectangular slot is a safe area for the strip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken at the beach Posted September 9, 2019 #36 Share Posted September 9, 2019 6 minutes ago, PigsCanFly said: I go to the guest services and they are punch ready. They have a electronic punch that puts a rectangular slot is a safe area for the strip. Is that on cards with the rfid chip or the old magnetic strip cards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted September 9, 2019 #37 Share Posted September 9, 2019 43 minutes ago, PigsCanFly said: I go to the guest services and they are punch ready. They have a electronic punch that puts a rectangular slot is a safe area for the strip. I've never seen that on Harmony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Teeara Posted September 9, 2019 #38 Share Posted September 9, 2019 11 hours ago, Host Clarea said: https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/what-are-royal-caribbean-wow-bands Thanks for the link. That was interesting to see. Any word on when these will roll out fleet wide? Wondering if they will be available on Allure next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted September 9, 2019 #39 Share Posted September 9, 2019 29 minutes ago, Teeara said: Thanks for the link. That was interesting to see. Any word on when these will roll out fleet wide? Wondering if they will be available on Allure next year. Highly unlikely to be rolled out fleetwide. So far, Royal has not retrofitted thousands of door locks on older ships to accommodate the wrist bands. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigsCanFly Posted September 9, 2019 #40 Share Posted September 9, 2019 10 hours ago, John&LaLa said: I've never seen that on Harmony hole punching has been available at guest services on any RCI ship that we asked for it. We have not been on Harmony (until Dec 2019), but hope it will be available. Perhaps it is just another way that RCI is managing income. I guess I might need to buy a landyard (or a hole punch)😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merion_Mom Posted September 9, 2019 #41 Share Posted September 9, 2019 20 minutes ago, PigsCanFly said: hole punching has been available at guest services on any RCI ship that we asked for it. We have not been on Harmony (until Dec 2019), but hope it will be available. Perhaps it is just another way that RCI is managing income. I guess I might need to buy a landyard (or a hole punch)😉 Harmony, Symphony, Quantum class ships. Have you been on any of those? Those are the ships that have RFID chips with the little antenna thingie in the card, which CANNOT be messed with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigsCanFly Posted September 9, 2019 #42 Share Posted September 9, 2019 1 hour ago, Merion_Mom said: Harmony, Symphony, Quantum class ships. Have you been on any of those? Those are the ships that have RFID chips with the little antenna thingie in the card, which CANNOT be messed with. We were on Anthem and they knew at guest services where to safely punch the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted September 9, 2019 #43 Share Posted September 9, 2019 28 minutes ago, PigsCanFly said: We were on Anthem and they knew at guest services where to safely punch the card. That’s the exception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdylady Posted September 9, 2019 #44 Share Posted September 9, 2019 18 hours ago, brillohead said: You can put the card in a thin clear pocket and attach that to the coil. 13 hours ago, PigsCanFly said: I go to the guest services and they are punch ready. They have a electronic punch that puts a rectangular slot is a safe area for the strip. We've always used a lanyard (hubby) and wrist coil. Do you know what Adventure and Serenade have? Thanx, Erika Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P8aTe24kDwkVf Posted September 9, 2019 #45 Share Posted September 9, 2019 1 hour ago, PigsCanFly said: We were on Anthem and they knew at guest services where to safely punch the card. We were just on Anthem and they had a guest services person standing next to the line just punching people's seapass cards. It was painless and seems to work much better than that plastic sleeve that makes it so hard to take the card out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiffymom Posted September 9, 2019 #46 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Funny I was just thinking if I should take a lanyard. Guess so ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbee524 Posted September 9, 2019 #47 Share Posted September 9, 2019 This was also used when we sailed from Copenhagen in June on the Serenade. Our seapass card were taped to the outside of our cabin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare brillohead Posted September 10, 2019 #48 Share Posted September 10, 2019 8 hours ago, P8aTe24kDwkVf said: We were just on Anthem and they had a guest services person standing next to the line just punching people's seapass cards. It was painless and seems to work much better than that plastic sleeve that makes it so hard to take the card out. If the plastic sleeve is thin enough, the RFID can transmit through the plastic -- no need to remove the card for scanning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiffin Posted September 11, 2019 #49 Share Posted September 11, 2019 On 9/7/2019 at 8:54 PM, philpcruiser said: What is the big advantage to this new system? We had this recently in Bayonne. It was the fastest check in we have ever been through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaskedTurtle Posted September 11, 2019 #50 Share Posted September 11, 2019 I've never gotten my card punched. Do all ships have the same punch? If it's the "slit", is it the standard size that would fit a regular badge holder clip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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