canderson

Not a prayer of moving anyone in MY family that fast! You chose well! 😁

I think I used "least common denominator" a few dozen pages back. We booked our first cruise with SS (for next month). If they slide to the mean, and the current differentiation is lost, other lines become equal or better options. Banking on garnering market share by regressing to "the mean" cuts both ways, especially for those with no previously loyalties. Could be that rather than a harbinger of the future of the entire line, a different tenor is being set on the new builds to capture a different part of the market on those ships.

It does (part of the ship-wide code), but if the point is to pair an evening at Murano with an "Evening Chic" night, that only happens once aboard (for most pax, anyway) - but it's at least easier than rolling the dice on a reservation 120 days out on which evening is which for a dress up night at La Dame. Much better chance of my getting a reservation at Murano for any given night on embarkation day, to be sure. So while neither is ideal, odds at making the match-up are better on Celebrity.

It's not ideal on any of the RCG lines, but SS certainly puts a twist on it by allowing pre-booking for dining for all cabins. On Celebrity, for example, you wouldn't know for certain where the 'bow ties' will land until you board, but neither would you be scrambling to make reservations for dinner 120 days ahead of time - you'd do it upon boarding.

I suspect the reason for the Google suggestion was because the answers may be found on a competitive site whose url, if posted here, would cause instant moderator 'consternation'.

This being our first SS cruise coming up next month, I had no point of reference, but at 120 days when I started reserving things, the bow ties were already in place for our cruise, and haven't moved.

Found my old post. Search on mobile is greatly limited in scope vs. full PC version! Yeah, in strange topic. See post #7 for sceen shot.

Use MySilversea, not Silversea. Look at each of your itinerary your days for bowties. On a phone or I'd repost the shot I did here a while back.

Argh. 'Sera' a bit of misdirection, then. As to the jigsaws, at least people were good enough to enumerate the count missing, with a date, in the lid of the box. Overzealous vacuuming around the tables was most often cited as the cause. Wouldn't surprise me if a few other game pieces occasionally get Hoovered as well.

The Syrah or Shiraz version??? As to the other, you'll have to be on the same cruise to find out, and you'll still be scratching your head!

When reduced to using a Pebble Beach ball marker for the King, you know you've got problems <g>. Another thing that we've often seen are jigsaw puzzles with a couple or five pieces missing.

Was this resolved for the Dawn build?

@ggo85 Sounds more like our experience with how upper suites are managed on Celebrity. Probably similar on RCL.

Ah. Had me going there with "useless". Our plan runs $1.39 a minute. There's a monthly fee, but that's a sunk cost whether we use it or not.

Iridium? On an open deck?

When you see all shorex starting concurrently, I've come to understand that these are only 'placeholders' and that all is subject to change. IMHO, SS shouldn't display those for booking, but that seems to be how they roll at SS IT.

This would probably be a good time to bring up using one's own phone for WiFi calling, and query those familiar with how it goes (or doesn't) on SS, being careful to specify which ship - since it does seem to matter. I do know that I've had good luck on Celebrity ships using WiFi calling provided I was on their upper tier data plan, but that was a year ago. @ggo85 You don't say where you'll be - what itinerary? If always more or less in sight of land, what you'll want is a cellular phone and plan to deal with GSM in Europe. At a minimum, you'll always be able to make calls while in port. Attempts to video conference are going to be a function of both what ports SS blocks on their shipboard network and the bandwidth available to you. There's some chance that with the right VPN, the upper tier data plan, and not too much competition for satellite time, you could make it work. If any of the above sounds foreign to you, either get your IT folks on this for you or consider not using video.

Tailoring? The way that jacket fits across the fronts of the shoulders, it's definitely not bespoke work. Yikes.

The praise is warranted for the proactive approach, regardless of whether SS is successful.

Appreciate it. If one can't trust the "Available" banner for 10 sec, the system should allow for the double booking for a minute or two to provide time to book one and then subsequently cancel the other.

Will give those a try.

What i meant was phone. I have the X shorex and shoreside concierge numbers available. But email for SS shorex sounds hopeful. Any address in particular?

The SS site has a nasty little IT trick that can hurt. I'm sure they meant well by making it impossible to book overlapping events, but ... Book an excursion. Go back later and attempt to book the same excursion, but at a slightly later time, and that shows as Available, NOT Waitlisted. Web site says cannot book the excursion at the later time because of conflict (overlap) between times for the two. Must therefore cancel first booking in order to make later booking. Immediately (and I mean within seconds) attempt to book the excursion at the later time. Web site now informs that the second booking is in fact NOT Available, but is Waitlisted. Now have no confirmed reservations for either time for that tour, and both are now shown as waitlisted. Annoyed. If the later schedule had shown as Waitlisted, I would have never touched my original reservation. Based upon what I've read, I assume, unlike other RCL lines, that SS allows no communication with the Shorex desk for customers using TAs for reservations?

Never mind my previous post. SS doesn't bid out upgrades using a 3rd party company the way Celebrity does. So the person I mentioned wouldn't have a role. Guarantees are a little more complicated there. Especially for more fully booked cruises, only after it becomes clearer about how the flow of the upgrade bidding process is moving and available inventory more clear would it be possible to assign guarantees. Too many years traveling on X needs to be unwound in my new SS brain!

Good question. RCL employs a "Manager, Hotel Finance, Onboard Revenue, and G&A". Could be that person has some say in final assignments.