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57 minutes ago, yorky said:

Slobs, snobs, miserable lives, on the verge of a breakdown. Ruining their holiday. My goodness you’ve tried to pack in a lot in this post. We simply miss the cruising tradition of dressing for dinner. We don’t hate and certainly don’t have our cruise ruined, we love our holidays and meeting new people and making new friends.

Well, I can’t take credit for the snobs and slobs, that was someone else’s take. 

I’m not saying everyone fits into one of those two categories. I’d say that perhaps you don’t fit into either one, but based on your response and the fact that you seem a bit offended it does appear that you lean a certain way. 

You can still dress for dinner, you know. What others wear doesn’t affect that. Times change. 

2 hours ago, mom says said:

I believe you are operating under a false equivagency. It's an illogical fallacy that all "slobs" are happy, comfortable and non judgemental in their life, just as it is illogical to assume that all "snobs" are angry, apoplectic, and constantly on the verge of some kind of breakdown. For some reason you are unable to separate a person's opinion about clothing from that person as a whole. I may not like what a person chooses to wear, but I do not base my opinion of him as a person on something so superficial. I know many wonderful people with whom I have long standing friendships who dress like the people of Walmart. But I have a least as many friends who have a more classic regard for their wardrobe,  yet somehow manage to be friendly, engaging, and enjoyable people. I don't judge books by their covers. But there is no law that says I can't judge the cover.

Okay, I think we’re done here, lol. I wasn’t talking about life in general, I said and was referring to vacation and the two camps on this specific cruise topic. You consistently  seem to be more concerned with sounding intelligent, superior and being “right” than taking the time to understand what the other person is saying, which is a losing combination for conversation. 

“Snobs” vs “slobs” isn’t literally people who dress poorly vs people who dress nicely. If that were the case I’d be calling myself a snob. It’s about attitudes and perceptions. Read blazerboy’s original comment again. 

Enjoy playing yourself by “judging the covers”. The only person that puts in a bad headspace and has a negative effect on is you, due to imagined slights. I’ll continue not worrying about how others dress on my vacations and being happy. 

Btw, the term you’re looking for is “logical fallacy” not “illogical fallacy”.

8 minutes ago, Blazerboy said:

A basic truism about dress code threads of any stripe:

 

You are called a snob if you tell me that I can't wear whatever I want- it's MY vacation, after all!

 

You are called a slob if you don't wear what I want you to wear, as it runs the ambiance for me, and it's my vacation, afterall. 

 

Two sides of the same coin (or, in this case, shoe).

 

(But I can never get enough of 'em.  Very entertaining.  I love the twists and turns of folks' justifications. Like a crime thriller with fashion police and fashion victims. .  I'm going to write a book someday! 😁 )

 

Is it truly two sides of the same coin though, as far as being equivalent?

In my experience the “slobs” are happily enjoying their vacation, minding their own business and being comfortable in what they choose to wear while not judging the choices of others. It’s the “snobs” that tend to become apoplectic and constantly on the verge of a breakdown, because others dare not conform to their standards. They ruin their own good time by becoming angry at things that are none of their business and don’t actually affect them.

I actually feel sorry for the “snobs” and how miserable it must be to live like that, but there’s definitely a sense of amusement for me as well, which draws me to these posts, lol. 

11 minutes ago, MISTER 67 said:

Winters in Vegas can be frosty with some snow, average high in Dec. and Jan is 54 degrees with average lows at 34 degrees. Florida is much warmer in winter but we have frost delays  once in awhile on the golf course I live on.

We hit the 30’s and can get a bit of frost in Central Florida as well, though that usually only happens a few days during the winter. But you’ll still see people in open toed shoes all the time, myself included. You know someone is a true Floridian when they are bundled up from toe to ankle, yet still wearing flip flops (or sandals-don’t want to get into that again!). 

Edit: Just saw you’re from Sebring. Thought you were in Vegas. 🙂

1 hour ago, mom says said:

Because I prefer the correct usage of a word, and differentiation between  flip flop and sandal,  I'm therefore a shoe snob? And where have I said no one should ever wear sandals? All I've said is that there is a difference between the 2, so a sandal is more appropriate for the MDR, given the current dress code.  So how about you stop calling people names?  By the way, however do you manage in cold weather? Isn't frostbite a concern since you can't wear a closed shoe? Or do you just add layers of socks with your sandals?

You do realize that not everyone lives in Canada, correct? Note that nona0541 lives in Las Vegas. She has about as much need for shoes that protect her from frostbite as I have here in Florida.

1 hour ago, bigbenboys said:

At least 1 person understood my post was a joke. Thanks

It was pretty obvious (and funny), IMO. Some people take things WAY too seriously here, to point of embarrassing themselves with their haughtiness. 

6 minutes ago, mom says said:

Well of course I knew the poster was being tongue in cheek. And so was my response. Next time I'll make sure to add sufficient. 😉😉😉😉😉 to erase any doubt. 🙄

Sure it was... 😉

10 hours ago, mom says said:

I believe you need a history refresher course. Wigs and powder were not in fashion during the period shown in your photos (appears to be sometime in the 1880s).  Likewise, cruise ships did not exist during the period depicted.  At best, it would have been a stream ship, an ocean liner intended as a means of transportation rather than for vacation purposes.

I wasn’t going to comment on this thread, due to all the insufferable snobbery, but I just have to ask this. Are you just teasing with this response, or do you really take everything so seriously that you felt the need to educate someone on what was quite clearly a joke? I’m kind of hoping it’s the latter, for sheer entertainment purposes. 

There is no formal night on 3 day cruise. Instead there is a Dress Your Best night, which is night 2. 

Someone posted a letter from RCI on another site yesterday saying that their mid September Allure sailing was affected by the propulsion issue and therefore their St. Thomas stop was being changed to San Juan. So it doesn’t look like it’s going to be fixed anytime soon. 

Unless the ship is larger than the Oasis class, the passenger count will make it one crowded vessel.

She’s going to be smaller than RCI’s Oasis class, at only 180,000 GT. For comparison, Symphony of the Seas is over 228,000 GT. Curious to see how this will pan out. Seems like it could be unpleasantly crowded.

Pretty sure it's hazelnut and French vanilla. I'm positive Italian sweet cream isn't available, as that's my favorite and I'd have been thrilled.

We did a submarine excursion in Cozumel last year that was awesome. You go down about 100 feet to the sea floor. We saw thousands of fish, some sharks, small rays and a big manta ray. I highly recommend it!

I haven’t been to Roatan yet, but everyone talks about the sloth sanctuary there.

awesome, will try. Thank You.

You’re welcome! :)

Will do, still nothing but they did say they put in a tech order. Still down and I emailed again today.

We figured out how to get past it. In the drop down menu where it asks how you plan to arrive at the port, choose “consecutive cruiser.” It won’t ask for an arrival time, so you’ll be able to proceed with check in.

I was finally able to complete my online check-in for my July 6 Adventure of the Seas cruise. Here is what I had to do.

 

Go to RCCL.COM, then click on ALREADY BOOKED and then click on ONLINE CHECK-IN. When you get to the area that asks how you will arrive at the pier, select CONSECUTIVE CRUISER. This is the only option that does not ask you to enter an expected arrival time (which is still not working). You can then continue through the rest on the check-in process and print your Set Sail pass.

 

Once they have the site working I will go back in to my reservation and fix the pier arrival information and reprint my Set Sail passes.

It worked. Thank you! The serial overplanner in me feels much better now!

It isn’t just Mariner. The current sale, which is an extra $300 off balcony rooms, is making a lot of balconies cheaper than OV and sometimes even cheaper than inside. Last week I booked a balcony on Mariner for cheaper than OV. Yesterday I booked a balcony on Symphony for cheaper than inside. Both cruises also came with $100 OBC.

I think the reason more people haven’t realized this is that it doesn’t show you the extra $300 off until after you start the booking and select the number of cabins and passengers.

You got me excited, but alas, mine still does not work.

Same here, I immediately went to check! No luck.

Having spent most of my adult life in IT, the users (employees) very rarely know what is going on with the system. Their management is given an answer which may or may not be vague and it gets filtered down. It may be vague because it can be complicated.

 

Upgrade to applications are not an easy thing for a major system. You have to have signoffs from multiple IT and user departments depending on the size and impact of the upgrade. You need to test it to make sure it works, does not create any more bugs, and does not affect anything else that isn't affected now. That usually means testing every function of the system for users, customers, and anyone else who uses the system. You also have to prepare a backout plan in case there is a problem with timelines. Depending on when the upgrade fails, there could be several backout plans.

 

Systems upgrades, unless it is an emergency which means the entire system is down, are typically performed on a scheduled maintenance date. It could be monthly or quarterly or even some other regular schedule..

 

In most shops, all upgrades must be tested, approved, and ready to go within a certain period prior to the upgrade. Depending on what is being upgraded, it can take hours to backup the system;s databases, install, bring the system backup, restore from the backup databases, verify functioning, and allow user access.

 

The 'down for maintenance' you see perhaps nightly or weekly are probably the daily and weekly data backups being done to the system. You can't access the information you are backing up.

I appreciate your perspective, but when a company of this size and caliber is notorious and constantly mocked for how glitchy, unresponsive and unintuitive their website is, there’s a problem. I don’t know of any other company where an issue like this would be allowed to remain for a month, especially considering it’s affecting multiple sailings. Nor do I know of a website for a major corporation that experiences issues and/or goes down as often.

Even still, it would be one thing if management was all told the same thing and therefore the info you got from the CSRs is at least a bit consistent, but answers are all over the map. If you can call 5 times in a row and receive 5 completely different answers (which you can, believe me) that’s unacceptable. It means that you can’t rely on any information you receive from RCI.

It is amazing that everyone who calls is told something different. I was told it would take two weeks (that was three weeks ago).

I know. I was originally told three weeks ago that it would take a week. Now it’s still a week. Three weeks from now it will most likely be a week. :')

Biker19 is right. Anytime I’ve had to contact them I get different answers. I’ve literally hung up, called right back to get a different rep and had them solve an issue the previous one could not, or do something another rep had said they couldn’t. I love cruising with RCI, but their website and customer service leave a lot to be desired.

I called today and was told that IT was aware and should have it fixed within a week. But they’ve known about the issue for at least a month. Typical RCI response, all over the place and different every time. You’d think it would be easier to just fix it, rather than field all the phone calls. I’ll just keep checking every few days.

Can't remember the click by click instructions, but it's on same page.

Don’t see it anywhere, and I’ve searched every page. I’ll try googling it.

NYhunter, please let me know if you find a solution and I’ll do the same. Thanks.

I had the same problem. I just chose Consecutive Cruiser.

Where can we find that option, please?

Yup, I have the same issue for my 6/22 cruise on Enchantment. I’ve called and also been told to keep checking, which I’ve been doing for over 2 weeks. I haven’t received any responses to my emails either. Which ship are you sailing on?

I believe reservations are available until 3 days prior to cruising.

Why not just call and ask? They can tell you if they are sold out, or make a reservation and accept payment if they aren’t.