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  1. im so very sorry for your loss.

    I was onboard Enchantment in January, and specifically wanted to buy one for a friend to use. I asked the rep, and she told me to buy it in my name and then when my friend was ready to use it, all I had to do was transfer it into her name.

  2. The answer is over the last 10-15 years as cruising for the big companies has moved from a niche vacation to a mass market vacation. The clientelle is obviously different and so too is the target audience of the companies (RCCL, Carnival, Princess, Norwegian, etc.).

     

    Frankly, the vacation you are looking for -- cruising of the 1980s, is no longer the business RCCL is in. Prices, adjusted for inflation, are dramatically lower, and the target audience is now families -- not the older and wealthier demographic of yore. If that is still the vacation YOU are looking for, then it is time to say goodbye to RCCL and their relatively low prices and pay for something like Crystal/Silversea, which, when adjusted for inflation, is practically the same price.

     

    It is also time to face facts that you are or are soon to be the minority. You can complain that there is no longer a dress code and you miss the good old days. But in the good old days Song of America was the biggest cruise ship in the industry and the target audience was vastly, vastly different. The fake nostalgia of fancy Atlantic crossings doesn't appeal to families and RCCL is adjusting itself to the (not so) new target audience. Most vacations don't have formal nights. Why should cruising? Because it used to? Seems like a silly answer when you think about it...

     

    this!

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