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I am not so concerned about details NOW but will want them as we had them in the past. I won't be guessing anything at this point, it's all too up in the air for me to blindly book something, not knowing anything about what the expected on board experience might be. Crystal could give us some idea.

Well he admitted to taking SS intellectual property. That’s pretty serious.

This is a stupid move on both Crystal's and Lira's parts. IMHO

They don't have to be specific, they just need to be up front about what they will have. It's tough navigating in the dark! And actually, people on this board have been asking. Does nobody at Crystal monitor it anymore?

Then why don't they tell someone besides you? Put it on the web site maybe? so people will know what to expect?

Most people know if they sign a noncompete and what it means.

I think there were people who were trying it out to see how far they could go....

3 are great, no experience with 1. Good news.

We were on Serenity shortly after AI was instituted and there were indeed more drunk guests than we had seen since our first Crystal cruise in 1995! And drunk VERY early in the day too!

We hope.

I'm not so concerned about details of enrichment, etc, I just want to know it will be there. I'm with you on the web site, we're 2 weeks in and it's still not complete!

Azuka2 unnder NYK.

I hear you but it should have been right day 1 for bookings, with complete and correct information on rooms and locations and prices. And at least some idea of the plan. Manfredi has been wanting to buy Crystal for a couple of years, surely he knew what he was buying and what it offered in the past that people loved. That's why we're holding off - will there be similar enrichment with lectures? theme cruises? headline entertainers? Surely there are some plans in the works even if not solidified. I would hate to get on board and have nothing to do but a jigsaw puzzle.

Dancing was a huge draw on Crystal, what's the point of eliminating it?

That's fine. DH has a business and when they have a "roll out" it better be right day 1 minute 1, a carryover from his corporate days! And he's just a small business person, you would think that with the vast resources of A&K they could figure this out. Maybe their resource aren't so vast after all.🙄

Why is it so difficult to get it right on day 1?

Interesting because Manfredi bought Crystal because he loved it (or so we were told). If he loved it so much, why so many changes or omissions? Why not give Crystal cruisers what they want, what he "loved" about Crystal? We're getting more turned off by the day...

I looked at a few itineraries last night and found that now they do indeed show a price difference within categories. Maybe not for all itins, but they do show prices for mid ship, forward, and aft, the mid and aft being higher than forward. Just FYI. Still a work in progress that should have been ready to go on day one.🙄

Then it was ‘08. We were on board both years. Nobu was there to crack the sake bottle! The space was renovated between LA and HK and the ceremony was right after we left HK.

Around '07 or '08

The reason we need walk in closets on a ship is that we always bring too much stuff!🤣 We've scaled down every time we cruise, we're down from 4 suitcases plus 2 carry-ons to 2 suitcases and 1 carry-on, and we still go home with clothes we never wore!

Never assume, especially with a new company, which Crystal is.😎

I believe you are mistaken, both ships show a walk-in closet on their aquamarine floor plans.

Those rooms used to have wonderful storage, we used to stay in those and even for 2 months we have enough room for all our clothes and all our "stuff" and the books we used to bring with us. Shame that they took them out.

Sorry to say, but wouldn't it be appropriate for Crystal to post ACCURATE stateroom info? We were told there are no bathtubs below Jr CP yet renderings show tubs in some PH/PS (Aquamarine/Sapphire) but the floor plans do not. It takes a TA hours on the phone to sort this out with inexperienced/not knowledgeable reservation agents; simply posting the correct information on their web site would save TAs and their reservations people hundred of hours of time on hold and asking questions to which no one seems to have an answer. Kind of like going to a nice restaurant and asking the source of the seafood or if it is fresh or frozen, the servers tend to be just that, servers, not people knowledgable of any detail, there to sell food and that's all. And my pet peeve, "it's fresh frozen" - it can't be both! But I digress, sorry. We wouldn't have to consider former room numbers if the actual and correct room info was on the web. It's very frustrating and if your TA has not been on the ships, it makes it doubly hard for them to get the right answer. We are withholding any reservations until this is all sorted out. We thought A&K would be on top of the game but apparently they are not, IMO.