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Ok, I'll help you. The single piano player concept tends to be more of a sing a long concept. I dislike the concept and based on the lack of crowds it appears that many others avoid the single player performances. I'm not sure why you are having difficulty with the concept that if people don't enjoy the performance, they won't attend. And yes, I don't enjoy listening to the people around me sing. I attend to listen to the performers.

Would you care to offer your thoughts on why this is a problem on cruise ships and isn’t something that we experience in every day life?

The greeter said there was nothing she could do. So I had to join the call by standing behind the person and talking to the other person until he hung up. It’s outrageous that it had came to this. His name was Carl and he was from Germany. Are there no standards for decent behavior?

Where are you! We are down at BillBoard waiting for you

What do you do when the person in the specialty restaurant has a FaceTime call? Last night in Canelletos a guest had a FaceTime call with a friend during your dinner. What should you do? It was really annoying. AiTAH?

Thanks to everyone for the great recommendations on the tours. Thank you

Sounds like a lot of bad design features that should be improved. The local officials need to remember that the cruise lines and the passengers are their customers and they should do everything to make the experience better. Add some Passport control officers. If they aren’t interested, then maybe the cruise lines should move the cruise origin to more friendly port.

We now have people complaining about people complaining.😉

2 piano players the room is packed. 1 piano player the room has many empty seats. I think it’s apparent which is more popular, I’m hoping HAL reverses this budget cut. You are correct about one thing, I’m sure everyone would enjoy a Billy Joel performance. What people don’t enjoy is listening to, is the drunk guy next to me singing Billy Joel songs.

After many years on Celebrity, I have jumped ship and moved over to HAL. HAL is simply a better value proposition for us and HAL has longer more interesting itineraries. There are two features about Celebrity that I miss. First, Celebrity does not allow smoking inside on any ship, period. There is never any second hand smoke drifting through the ship. Second, all Celebrity ships have a Solarium, an indoor, adults only pool area. This area is always quiet and is a great place to read, relax or take a nap. HAL doesn’t have anything even close.

I’m not sure why it would be chaos in Southampton if it works ok in all of the other ports around the world. Sometimes you may have a little wait but it certainly isn’t chaos.

Seems to be a problem with 1 or 2 performers

My favorite MDR experience with kids was on a RCCL cruise several years ago. There were 3 or 4 couples, all with younger children. Instead of mixing in the kids with adults they made one large adult table and one large kid’s table. They actually had another table between the 2 tables, but the result was that the rest of us had to deal with this unruly table of children

HAL isn’t just grabbing people off the street and putting them onboard ships. These are people that HAL has recruited, tested and trained. HAL has a training session with the piano players where they learn how HAL wants the performances.

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Actually it has been 2 cruises with two different performers and every time I went by

My limit was 5 minutes. The conversation was in German, so I didn’t understand the conversation. After 5 minutes I told him that a lot of us don’t want to be part of the conversation. He left without saying anything. AITAH?

I gave him the Stink Eye after about 4 minutes and he lowered the volume but continued the call.

And it should drive the prices down until it gets to the point the cruise lines stop sailing from California

Ok I think this close enough to be on topic. The guy sitting next to me in the Crows Nest just answered a FaceTime call and is on the speaker. It’s annoying to me and others in the area. What should I do?

Maybe only in San Diego

Going to lunch makes you a chair hog.

Yep, just ignore it. most everyone just boards when it is convenient for them.

Maybe there were some people that didn’t like it, but the piano lounge was always packed. Not so with just one performer.

It’s not a no-win situation, it’s a situation where the staff just needs to do the right thing.