Meet n Greet help needed.

[ABC Cruisers]

Hi Chuck,

I have been to 2 meet & greets, last year on the Gem and the year prior on the Pearl. (and looking forward to meeting you next week on the Pearl). Each time NCL put out snacks and juice, coffee, tea, etc. and officers showed up both times. On the Pearl they also had a sign up sheet for anyone there who was interested in another get together later that week at Bliss for an hour of bowling & drinks. Everyone who signed up got an invite to that, which was a lot of fun. Neither time did we bring the officers gifts, but if you want to, we could all bring a little something like we are doing for the gift exchange and make up a little gift basket from all of us to give them as a group for taking time out of their schedules to spend with us.

Bev

[AFT_LOVER]

NCL does a great job with our meet & greets. I plan a lot of them & I send the message of how many 2 months befor the cruise. The Event Coordinator will tell me where & when. Then I post for everyone to read when & where the Meet & Greet will be at. Usually first dea day at 11AM in a bar for 20-30 folks. I have 100 on Jewel so we get the Azura dining room before lunch for our meeting & gift exchange. I get a kick out of the Captain & Officers who join in. I will get a box so I leave numbers to the names I was given. Then I draw numbers & those who gave presents get to pick one to take. Sometimes what a person got they want to exchange with someone who also wants to exchange so again new friends are created.

Last cruise we got a bridge tour for all of CC (25 of us). So I got notice out to all the room #'s I was given in the sign in sheet. Those who gave no number were not invited unless i saw them before. A nice gift from them was a portrait at the Captain's party of me with all of them. A great memoir. Then we had a casino party at a $5 slot machine where everyone put in a $20 bill, I kept a list of wins & we all split the profits. Got a $17 profit with $37 GIVEN TO EACH PERSON. Yes, we did all sign that we got money but no 1099 sent for $37 each. Over $1500 is the amount.

So have a great time on every NCL cruise you do. Visit Roll call for each crusie you book to get to know everyone, get M&G info, and then meet folks onboard. Some also have sailaway party that we will do on our cruise with 100 CC members to meet a day before at the Sky Bar after the Muster drill. So if you need help putting together a Meet & Greet just send me a note in the NCL area. Epic will be my next cruise after Jewel.

Originally Posted by rollie

I find it somewhat odd that NCL does not sponser the Meet and Mingle, like RCCL and Celebrity. On RCCL it is just a matter of 25 people signing up before the cruise and the get together is automaticly on. There is a click-on space right on the rollcall page. Very cool. When 25 are signed up they will leave a card in your cabin to let you know where and when.

Rollie

[philatiger]

Originally Posted by ABC Cruisers

Hi Chuck,

I have been to 2 meet & greets, last year on the Gem and the year prior on the Pearl. (and looking forward to meeting you next week on the Pearl). Each time NCL put out snacks and juice, coffee, tea, etc. and officers showed up both times. On the Pearl they also had a sign up sheet for anyone there who was interested in another get together later that week at Bliss for an hour of bowling & drinks. Everyone who signed up got an invite to that, which was a lot of fun. Neither time did we bring the officers gifts, but if you want to, we could all bring a little something like we are doing for the gift exchange and make up a little gift basket from all of us to give them as a group for taking time out of their schedules to spend with us.

Bev

Hi Bev,

that's what I was thinking...but was stumped on what to do.