jroyalfuture

I've followed the discussion regarding children in the Concierge Lounge, where it seems like the vast majority of posters think that children do not belong in the CL. I have young kids, ages 7, 7 and 3, and I wouldn't think to bring my kids into the CL unless I was running in quickly to ask the concierge a quick question and my wife was not around to watch the kids. I wouldn't think of bringing them in during the cocktail hours. There are simply times and places for certain things, and the cocktail hour isn't the time and place for kids.

 

Having said that, when we went on the Allure in March, we tried to reserve spots for my wife and me and our three young kids for the DreamWorks breakfast. We tried making the reservations shortly after reservations first opened up online. But we could only get space for my wife and our 7 year old daughter. Her twin brother and younger brother were out of luck--no character breakfast for them.

 

But at the breakfast, there were full tables of adults--and adults only. I'm sure those adults were simply trying to relive childhood memories. I like reliving childhood memories too. Yet, in a limited space situation, by whole tables of adults going to a children's breakfast and reliving childhood memories, they are robbing actual children of experiencing childhood memories in the first place.

 

The same goes for facepainting. The line for facepainting on Allure was very long, and there were adults (sans children) in line. Again, I get the desire to re-experience childhood, but when young children don't have the patience to wait in line for 55 minutes to get their faces painted, you are robbing children of experiencing childhood FOR THE FIRST TIME.

 

So I am curious if there are people on the board who agree BOTH that children don't belong in the concierge lounge (an adult area) and that adults don't belong in the DreamWorks breakfast, face-painting line, etc. (children's activities). I sure do.

 

So let's hear what you think.

I love kids, I really do. and my husband and I love to see families cruising together. We love to cruise with our grand-kids. but that said, I truly hate to be annoyed by children in the concierge lounge or the diamond lounge. There is no room for children in there and it certainly is no place for it.

As for the character breakfasts---folks pay an awful lot to take their families on these cruise so that their kids can have this experience, and certainly the kids really look forward to it. I definitely feel that it should be a kids only place and for parents with kids. It there is space left over, than folks without kids could be admitted. It could be sort of like access to the shows on board Oasis and Allure. It all the seats aren't full ten minutes before others can be admitted.

Step up RCCL or there is going to be a lot of unhappy parents on these cruises as adults hog all the space and your guests with kids loose out!!!!

Hi all,

I have to comment on the conversion from credits to points. Overall we were pleased, and we think that RCCL did a fine job. It was really very fair and the conversion was generous. That said, I have a complaint, and Crown and Anchor seems to be ignoring my emails about it.

We sailed on the Radiance on Jan 13th, and got off the ship on the 17th. So under the old system that was a credit. So we should have gotten the full benefit of the credit since the sailing was completed before the new system went into effect; however, since RCCL is so slow crediting to your account, this sailing was not posted by the 21st. So even though the sailing was completed under the old system, our credit (or now points) was applied under the new system. Not fair, I say. We are penalized because RCCL was so slow in applying credits. Even the literature mailed out says that the system went into effect on the 21st.

Come on Crown and Anchor, you need to be consistent and if the cruise was completed under the old system, these folks all need to have their credits converted to points under the system in place when they sailed.

RCCL and Crown and Anchor, we love you anyway, but this was not good. You tried so hard to be fair, but this is wrong. Why ruin a good thing by not following through and doing the correct conversion for those loyal folks who had already sailed.