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You are the best bob. I am a lurker here and you are FAST and ALWAYS RIGHT.

Subject says it all - when do the new itineraries come out?

Here’s something for a bean counter reader to calculate – approximately how much money was saved by giving passengers only half cup of juice instead of full cup?

 

So take 4,200+ passengers for the Indy as an example. Assume for simplicity sake, 1,200 or so passengers daily does not eat at WJ for breakfast as they prefer in cabin breakfast/MDR/café promenade. That means 3,000 will file into WJ. Further assume only half of the people drink the juice being offered as the other half drink tea/coffee/water/booze for breakfast. That gets us to 1,500 people.

 

Now assume by serving half cup, the cruise line saves 4 ounces of juice per person. That would mean 6,000 ounces would be saved each and every day.

 

Then if someone can find/estimate the average cost of cheap generic juice the cruise buys by bulk, multiply that cost by 6,000 ounces by twenty something ships and 365 days a year, you should get a ball park figure.

 

Of course, that person is free to adjust any of my assumptions to do the math. I just started down the path but by no means is my assumption correct.

Hello sir.

Based upon your assumptions, 6,000 oz are saved each day. Let's talk annually. At 365 days a year, we're up to 2,190,000 oz of orange juice saved.

Now let's look at the cost of orange juice. 59 oz bottle available from Walmart for $3.33. Dividing $3.33 by 59 oz yields us $0.056 per ounce. But, we know Royal Caribbean isn't paying that much for OJ.... they're a large company so there are likely economies of scale at play here which allow them to get a better deal from a distributor. Let's say they get it at $0.04/oz (perhaps even cheaper? maybe someone in food distribution business can share).

For the grand finale, let's see how much they're saving. $0.04/oz times 2,190,000 oz gets us $87,600 in savings. Cool. If they implement this across all of their ships, we're talking millions of dollars here (of course, we must scale the calculations by the number of passengers on the ship).

But, there are hidden costs that you accountants often forget about but we economists freaking love: opportunity costs. By carrying 80 fewer tons of orange juice, Royal Caribbean is saving money in a lot of ways. The first is the cost of fuel required to transport 80 tons of orange juice several thousand miles. The next is the opportunity cost of the worker's time; workers have 80 fewer tons to load and unload each year; 80 fewer tons of stock and expiration dates to manage. There are also consumption effects (not worth delving into) that show that having to take two cups will decrease the amount consumed (this is more behavioral than it is economic, so I'll stay out of this, but it does have to do with the idea that eating off of a smaller plate will cause you to eat less food).

Even if RCCL didn't think about all of this, it's a wise move to implement this as a fleet-wide policy. So who wants some OJ?

Thanks! Links to specific live reviews would be great

Thanks! How can I find these?

I'm a HUGE fan of the LIVE threads that so many cruisers do.

However, I noticed that there isn't a list of these, so I wanted to see if anyone can chime in with a list of great live threads worth viewing. I've seen a lot of them like Gambee and Cheapo dad and they are just amazing! :)

Harry - I'm an Engineer. (snipped out the rest)

I'm an economist. Love the graph!

But..what does that even MEAN?

 

If that were in English...perhaps we'd be of more help?

Poor connectivity, high latency. In other words the internet connectivity is not as fast as described/advertised.

Sorry, but no one here can help you with that. Go down to guest relations and tell them?

You should try to get one on the hump but a few away from the centrum as it is common to hear people complain of the noise bleed.

Boarding should not be a problem, there are rarely problems at that fort

Even having a post weight watchers appetite hurts their feelings.

 

Had a heck of a time on Adventure recently with them bringing plate after plate of special-made vegetarian food to us despite us being in obvious distress at how full we already were and the fact that we would not be able to touch the food.

 

Even my 12 year old boy was bursting. And they were still bringing food. And were disappointed when we didn't order dessert.

 

Mystifying.

Diet + exercise baby

Very sad news!

What a terrible experience. I would be angry at them.

We are wondering if Royal Caribbean would suit our needs and if it would be a good fit for us. I have been on 4 Royal Caribbean cruises about 7-10 years ago when I was younger, but we stopped cruising after a bad experience.

I am 20 now and am planning a potential cruise with my girlfriend. When we go on vacation, we stay in 5 star hotels and from time to time eat at Michelin-starred restaurants, so I am left wondering if Royal Caribbean would be the line to meet our needs.

I liked Royal Caribbean as a kid and am still amazed by their beautiful ships today, but I am wondering if the service aspect will meet our needs.

We would definitely go for a suite and go on a Voyager-, Freedom- (probably Owner's suite), or Oasis- class (probably Star class) ship.

So, would Royal Caribbean suit our needs? We are not trying to be arrogant, but we do want to get a vacation experience that is worth our money. When we go on vacation, we like to be pampered :)