The Gremlin

I went on an RCCL cruise in early February and I am sure I was told to go directly to the room to get the card and drop off luggage.  A bunch of people on another area are telling me (basically) that I was hallucinating and you can't go up before 1 or 2 (we were on by noon).  Was I wrong or was this a one-off that I just happened to catch? 

Do you have to have an appointment to do the proctored telemed test with BinaxNOW or can you just activate the app on the day you need it done? 

I took another pre-cruise look at travel documents section. After I looked closer, the picture of my passport doesn't show the entire picture and about half of the DOB and expiration data.  Is this likely to be a problem? Is there a way to retake the picture or do I need to nuke the passport entry and then redo it?  Any concerns that this action may screw up my Ocean-Ready? 

The video and other stuff on  Medallion Class says to put your cell on airplane mode and then restart the wifi. Because of my wife's 90 y/o mother, we like to keep our phones on because the ~$3.50 or so per minute charge is so much less than the Ship to Shore of nearly $10.  So, what happens (if anything) if we keep the phone active and on the Cell at Sea. 

35 minutes ago, Daniel A said:

 

 

Thanks for the responses.  I'm not concerned about me or DW remembering where our muster station is located.  My question is does Princess really expect thousands of PAX (most of whom are seniors) remembering the location of their station during an emergency?  Many don't carry a smart phone and just imagine the lines of PAX asking a crew member where their muster station is?  There has to be room on the Medallion to print the muster station like they did on the cards.

     Wonder if they have any problems with the drill. True, there isn't the urgency (although most of us urgently want to get it done so we go back to whatever we were doing- grin) associated with a real emergency, but it could give them a good idea as to what problems might exist.  If the Captain does a lecture, I may ask this question in a couple of weeks. 
    If I get the chance, I''ll let people know. 

I think there is still the notice on the back of your door. Also, remember where you went for the drill, and you should be good to go. 
     I would think that if something untoward happens, there will be bunches of people who could access the information from your Medallion enroute. Sorta like they can with the card. 

One of the people going with me on the Sky Princess would like to be able to talk to her husband. It looks like the Medallion app has a chat function, but I looked around and can't find if that would allow direct communication or if that is just the locator function. 
      

3 hours ago, Schoifmom said:

It looks like you asked a similar question in 2015.  If you leave your phone active on board, you will be hit with a large cell phone bill.  There are no cell towers at sea.  All cellular activity goes through satellites on board, for which you will be billed.  If you have wifi calling enabled on your phone, put your phone into airplane mode, enable the wifi, connect to your ship's wifi (there may be a charge, depending on your cruise line).  You will be able to send/receive calls through the wifi-enabled calling feature on your phone and bypass the cellular service.

That was for the general concern. I worked that out with Sprint finally. Unless I accept a call, I haven't gotten billed over the last 3 cruises on both RCCL and Princess. I have left it on multiple times since then with no hit. This was specific to voicemail. But thanks for the reply. 

Saw the Forbes article on how cell voicemail can be costly because (at least on ATT) the phone calls the voicemail. You don't pay the 
call to the ship, but ship to vm is billed. Does anyone know if this is normal (or specifically Sprint).  I like to keep my phone active on the ship because of elderly parents 
and health problems. However, I am 64 which means I am in the sweet spot for junk phone calls trying to get me to sign up for Medicare plans and they don't seem to understand the concept of the no-call list. Thanks for any help.

I am having some problems getting a straight answer from Sprint as to whether or not these would be free or not. Anyone have any actual experience?