Softservekid1 Posted July 9 #1 Share Posted July 9 How does Muster work on this ship?. Last cruise I was on (2014) Muster was mandatory at your designated meeting place outside. They wouldn't start till EVERYONE was accounted for. It was after you got in your cabin cuz you had to bring your life jacket with you to Muster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Journey11 Posted July 9 #2 Share Posted July 9 You can immediately go to your muster station as soon as you board the ship. Once there you check in, listen to Carnival rep for about 2 minutes and you’re done. Don’t have to wait on others. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRVEGAS711 Posted July 9 #3 Share Posted July 9 Yeah, Muster, sadly, doesn't even last 2 minutes. About 35 people died on the Concordia. If that happened today, maybe hundreds. Its in one ear, out the other muster. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrate13 Posted July 9 #4 Share Posted July 9 Sorry, but I completely disagree. With the old muster style, I found most people standing in the crowd with us just wanted to get it over with and get out of the heat or get back to drinking/partying, etc, and paid little, to no, attention to the crew member giving instructions or the announcements. So, I doubt the current method makes any difference at all. JMHO 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mz-s Posted July 9 #5 Share Posted July 9 Just now, Pyrate13 said: Sorry, but I completely disagree. With the old muster style, I found most people standing in the crowd with us just wanted to get it over with and get out of the heat or get back to drinking/partying, etc, and paid little, to no, attention to the crew member giving instructions or the announcements. So, I doubt the current method makes any difference at all. JMHO We won't know until it's truly put to the test of course. Prayerfully, it never will be. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasRed Posted July 9 #6 Share Posted July 9 Now you'll do your muster as soon as you get onboard, go to your station and get your boarding pass scanned. No lifejackets in the room, they will be at the stations in case of an emergency. You do have some time to do your muster if you choose to wait a bit, but if you don't do it they will stop bar service about 3pm for EVERYONE until everyone has done it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsglow Posted July 9 #7 Share Posted July 9 15 minutes ago, TexasRed said: Now you'll do your muster as soon as you get onboard, go to your station and get your boarding pass scanned. No lifejackets in the room, they will be at the stations in case of an emergency. You do have some time to do your muster if you choose to wait a bit, but if you don't do it they will stop bar service about 3pm for EVERYONE until everyone has done it. That's entirely incorrect. There absolutely MUST be sufficient lifejackets in each stateroom for the guests assigned to that room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare dctravel Posted July 9 #8 Share Posted July 9 5 minutes ago, jsglow said: That's entirely incorrect. There absolutely MUST be sufficient lifejackets in each stateroom for the guests assigned to that room. It actually isn’t. In the new Xcel ships, they are at the muster stations: https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2554/~/life-jackets 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike45LC Posted July 10 #9 Share Posted July 10 It seems that the only purpose of the present muster drill is so that every passenger will know (momentarily at least) where his/her muster station is. My last two muster stations were in the theater, and I still remember! So in the event of emergency, I knew where to assemble. With or without my life jacket, depending on where I was when the emergency was declared. But there are also emergency drill videos playing in the cabin as I unpack. Those are educational for newbies. The ship does try to make them entertaining so the passengers will pay attention. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Beach Bum Posted July 10 #10 Share Posted July 10 22 hours ago, TexasRed said: but if you don't do it they will stop bar service about 3pm for EVERYONE until everyone has done it. They always stop bar service about this time so they can do the official briefing no mater if all have completed or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chengkp75 Posted July 10 #11 Share Posted July 10 On 7/9/2024 at 12:20 PM, Pyrate13 said: Sorry, but I completely disagree. With the old muster style, I found most people standing in the crowd with us just wanted to get it over with and get out of the heat or get back to drinking/partying, etc, and paid little, to no, attention to the crew member giving instructions or the announcements. So, I doubt the current method makes any difference at all. JMHO And, in fact, most of the "instructions" given during the drill were to fill the time, so whether or not anyone paid attention was of little consequence. And, in an actual emergency, those same people would be bitching about "getting this over with". The old muster drill format gave everyone the experience of what an actual muster would be like, with everyone moving to the stations at one time, and tended to make that route a bit more "sticky" in people's minds. I recall a post from an RCI cruise about a year after the restart, where they had an actual muster (I believe it was for a man overboard situation), and the poster mentioned the chaos because most people didn't remember what deck their muster station was on, let alone where it was. And the justification for this from the poster was that "it was nearly a week ago that we boarded and went to our stations". Around the same time, NCL briefly went back to the old muster, and a poster commented on the chaos here as well, since the crew had not been training with actually mustering all the passengers at once. God help us in an actual emergency. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Saint Greg Posted July 10 #12 Share Posted July 10 My last jubilee was the quickest. On most they show you how to put on a life jacket and that's it. Last time on Jubilee they just wanted me to know where the life jackets were stored. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsglow Posted July 10 #13 Share Posted July 10 23 hours ago, dctravel said: It actually isn’t. In the new Xcel ships, they are at the muster stations: https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2554/~/life-jackets So there are ZERO life jackets in Excel staterooms? News to me. TY. (Never sailed on one.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare dctravel Posted July 11 #14 Share Posted July 11 14 hours ago, jsglow said: So there are ZERO life jackets in Excel staterooms? News to me. TY. (Never sailed on one.) Yeah, the Jubilee was our first cruise since the restart and we were quite surprised. No life jackets in the cabin, but lockers full of them in the muster station (ours was just a few decks below up in the dining room). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasRed Posted July 12 #15 Share Posted July 12 On 7/10/2024 at 4:27 PM, jsglow said: So there are ZERO life jackets in Excel staterooms? News to me. TY. (Never sailed on one.) Correct. Jubilee, Mardi Gras and Celebration do not have life jackets in the room, they tell you in the event of an emergency to go straight to your muster station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasvegascruising Posted July 13 #16 Share Posted July 13 I am booked on the Jubliee deck 16 forward. Where will the muster station be located? I cruised on the Firenze in September and found the muster station info here on cruise critic. As soon as we boarded, I told the hubby that we could do muster right then and since I knew exactly where to go (via intel from reading on cruise critic), we did. It was so easy. Thanks to those here on CC that helped us out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike45LC Posted July 13 #17 Share Posted July 13 @lasvegascruising, there is no rush to muster. Your muster station‘s location is clearly set forth on the inside of your cabin door and on your sail and sip (or whatever it’s called) key card. I normally drop off my carry-on baggage in the cabin (priority benefit) and grab my cards, have lunch at the Buffet and check in at the muster station around 2 PM. Plenty of time, the muster takes about 5 to 10 minutes, and all is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasRed Posted July 14 #18 Share Posted July 14 22 hours ago, lasvegascruising said: I am booked on the Jubliee deck 16 forward. Where will the muster station be located? I cruised on the Firenze in September and found the muster station info here on cruise critic. As soon as we boarded, I told the hubby that we could do muster right then and since I knew exactly where to go (via intel from reading on cruise critic), we did. It was so easy. Thanks to those here on CC that helped us out! It will be on your boarding pass, there will be crew available to point you in the right direction if you want to do it as soon as you board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelkel2 Posted July 20 #19 Share Posted July 20 On 7/12/2024 at 11:21 PM, lasvegascruising said: I am booked on the Jubliee deck 16 forward. Where will the muster station be located? I cruised on the Firenze in September and found the muster station info here on cruise critic. As soon as we boarded, I told the hubby that we could do muster right then and since I knew exactly where to go (via intel from reading on cruise critic), we did. It was so easy. Thanks to those here on CC that helped us out! I was in 16279 and we mustered at ChiBang. So I’m assuming yours will be there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lasvegascruising Posted July 20 #20 Share Posted July 20 Thank you kelkel2, this is the info I was looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelkel2 Posted July 22 #21 Share Posted July 22 On 7/20/2024 at 1:24 PM, lasvegascruising said: Thank you kelkel2, this is the info I was looking for. Not a problem! I’ll try to answer any other jubilee questions you have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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