megs1954

On 11/11/2018 at 6:13 AM, Hlitner said:

You would think that?   But why did Princess put a sensor in each cabin bathroom, in addition to the sensor on the cabin ceiling.  Perhaps they will "push" Pepto Bismol ads to those who spend a lot of time on the toilet😊

We put our cards and medallions on the counter when we enter a cabin. We had an OM cabin in August. I'm sure it looked like we never went to the bathroom in our cabin since we don't take them in there. I doubt Princess cares how many OMs are in a public restroom even if of the opposite sex. Maybe we should leave our OMs in the bathroom overnight.

The link to Ocean Compass is:

 

https://compass.ocean.com/compass

This link is what I was never able to get to work for August cruise on Regal.

Quite some time ago--over a year, I think--an Ocean Medallion roll-out schedule was published by Princess, and that schedule showed the Ruby Princess as getting the system late 2018 or early 2019. So, it is apparent to me that the plan was to install the infrastructure during this dry dock.

 

 

 

However, with the delays of the deployment--it is not fully deployed on any ship, I would be very surprised if the Ruby Princess Ocean Medallion implementation is still on that schedule from over a year ago.

 

 

 

I am booked on two upcoming cruises on the Ruby Princess--one in December and one in April. If I am wrong, and I am given medallions, it will be fun to check it out. I have to say, though, that I would prefer not to have to carry around both a medallion and a key card.

Princess gave us a free lanyard to carry around the medallion and the card. I don’t know if they’re still giving them out. That is the only time we have ever used a lanyard. It was much easier that way.

Quick update on Ocean Compass/Ocean Access. I have been trying to add my reservation to Ocean Compass for over a month (sailing on regal 11-11-2018 with the medallion) without success. I have called support about once a week trying to get it fixed and I am always told that they will send my information to tech support and someone will get back to me in a few days to correct the problem. No one has ever contacted me.

 

 

 

I called again today, and spent a lot of time on hold and being transferred to the wrong department. The person I finally talked to put me on hold while she contacted tech support (again). She came back on the line and told me that the tech had a question and needed some additional information which I had to give to her and she then put me on hold while she gave the information to tech support. After all of this effort I was told (not by the tech directly but by the agent I was talking to) that OCEAN does not work. It has not worked, and they have no idea when or if it will work. IF they get it to work then they will notify the passengers.

Are you talking about one of the apps that are supposed to work with ocean medallion? I never got mine to work for the cruise I took in August in an ocean medallion cabin.

We will be on Regal first two weeks of December. Made final payment on Monday. Our confirmation states "Medallion Class." I'm not sure what that means. (Cabin is C605). Princess site still shows this cruise as "Medallion Preview."

C605 was not an ocean medallion cabin on the August 6 cruise. They may have it updated by then.

I would agree that the Medallion may have man overboard capability but, can you absolutely verify that a person going overboard is going to have the medallion on them since there is no real mandate to use it, and since the medallion is an electrical device -- just like a cell phone -- has it been tested as being water proof?

There were pictures of kids swimming with them.

Any updates on *****?

so we may be accounted for name by name

What’s the status now?

That's been the problem with the Medallion all along. RFID chips have no dial-a-range functionality.

 

Manufacture one with 2' range, and it won't squawk at the 10' range the door-open functionality needs

 

or the 100' range the deliver-the-drink-in-the-theater needs.

Interesting. Maybe they could put three different chips inside each medallion that would each register to the needed device at the right range. That would cost more and may not work, but I wonder if it might.

If I understand your question...

 

 

 

When you pay with a Medallion, the clerk or bartender has an array of faces in the neighborhood

 

on his tablet and, AIUI, basically presses your image.

 

 

 

Dunno what the error rate is going to be. It will be ...Interesting if he mis-presses and you need to

 

challenge it at the end of the cruise. "I swear it wasn't me who ordered that drink on Tuesday"?!?

That was my question. Thanks.

I may be forgetting something, but it works for cabin entry, for paying in the shops and bars, and for wagering in the casino. More features will be added in the coming weeks.

When you pay for a drink in the bar, what do you do to pay with the medallion?

I can see how ***** can speed up Muster Drill: "Computer? What Medallions are not at the matching

 

Muster Stations?"

 

 

 

I hope they stick with sea cards for boarding: Scan-the-card-check-the-face takes less time (and is

 

less likely to be gundecked) than is-this-guy's-face-among-the-23-currently-showing-on-my-tablet.

I would think they should be able to make it so that your medallion has to be within 2 feet of the iPad for the face to show up. That way when you enter or leave the ship or go to muster, it will only show the faces that are right within range of the employee with the iPad. Less faces to look at and compare that way.

Currently on the Caribbean Princess at check in you receive both a Medallion and a cruise card. You still need to use the cruise for getting on and off the ship and for muster drill scanning. That will be changing in the coming weeks where you won't need the card. But not yet.

Were you given the lanyard along with the cruise card and the medallion on the Caribbean princess?

Any updates on decks?

Shortly after sail away on 9/1 sailing on Caribbean Princess the ***** was operational on the Caribe deck. Internet for Elite & Platinum is free and pretty fast

Are you in one of those cabins? How’s it going with the *****?

Recently off the Regal and had an ***** cabin. The screen began to recognize me about 8 feet from the cabin. It did not open the door at 8 feet from the cabin. Until I approached right at the door, the symbol of the door opening on the screen did not happen and the light was still red. Even if the door unlocked itself at 6 feet, I do not see this as an issue. People don’t actually lurk around waiting for someone to walk nearby so they can race into the cabin ahead of the cabin resident. I found that more often than not, the cabin door did not smoothly unlock and open. I had to stand in front of the door for a number of seconds before it went through its full process and the green light came on. A number of times I had to place the medallion or the card up against the screen. I was always able to get it to my cabin. The few times it worked perfectly, I was surprised.

Thank you -- I will refrain from commenting further on the medallion until I finish the Regal cruise in October. -- EBC

Do you know if you have an ***** cabin?

I had read previously on one of these threats that someone mentioned that if they left their medallion in their cabin and went on their way that the room steward would not make up their cabin because he thought they were in the cabin. Our steward used a regular card up against the screen to access our cabin. I never saw him use a medallion and did not ask him if he had one. I never saw him holding a reader device like an iPad either.

What was your experience walking by the hallway screens?

 

 

 

 

 

There are several posters in this thread with first-hand experience using medallions.

 

Hopefully, one of them can share their experience.

We only hallway screen that ever reacted to anything while I walked by with my ***** was our own cabin. It started reacting about 8 feet away and when I touched the handle or got extremely close, it went into its next mode, which was showing a handle on the screen and the light turning green.

I cannot provide the direct link at this moment, but it was in one of the medallion threads in the past 30 days here.

 

One poster said that she was startled that as she entered the MDR, the screen lit up with her name, photo, and cabin number. ( I believe it was a woman who stated this).

 

 

Another poster mentioned that when he or she entered one of the shops, the employee on duty called them by name, and she was thinking that the employee remembered him/ her from a former cruise. But, the employee explained that the guest's name and photo lit up on the video monitor near the cash register.

 

 

 

We are booked on the Regal with some friends of ours for the cruise on October 6. Our friends were just notified by Princess that their cabin will have the medallion. ( Our cabin does not).

 

So, I should be able to directly report here by the second week of October, how the medallion works in regards to lighting up the video screens in the corridors, bars, shops, MDR, art gallery, etc.

I got off the Regal a week ago and we had an ***** cabin. I never once saw my picture or name or cabin number appear on any big screen. I did see my tag a long while I was at some of the screens in the elevator area. It had no identification on it that said it was for me. The crew in the bars or the MDR or the shops may have had an iPad device that had our picture on it. The only place I saw that was at the Ocean Front where I go to check on problems with my medallion. That was only held in the workers hand, not on a wall.

Not sure if you bumped into this, but there is a I believe 6 (could be 10) second lockout on the door after it is closed before it will open again. This is to prevent someone stepping into the hall and turning around to find their door is not locked.

I tested our cabin door along this line and found it was just around five seconds. It can be easily overridden by putting the card or the medallion up to the screen itself.

We will be on the Regal in Feb in cabin M201 and wondering if we will be in the ***** group. I knw from sailing on her this past feb that they had the ***** in some of the forward cabins and thought we just might have them form for next year. Would appreciate it if some one on there now or lately could answer.

Thanks in advance

Molme

I'm home now and want to upload my photo of the cabin. However, I can't figure out how to upload a photo from my desktop. Anyone?

Here is what we got at check in today on Caribbean Princess.

 

When we were handed or ocean medallion at check in on the Regal Princess on August 1, our cruise card was already in the plastic sleeve for it. Did they hand you your separately?

My cruise was in March and it never popped out . When I received mine via FedEx it came with a lanyard / plastic holder and I bought the strap because for me it was more convenient that way . My biggest gripe is that little piece of rubber was not cheap.

 

BTW I just took the picture with the blue strap for the post on this thread.

 

 

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What is the rubber strap you mention?

We just debarked from Regal Princess from our ***** cabin. Overall, the medallion had little effect on our ship board life. It opened the cabin door and the only time I could tell that any crew used it to reference me was when I cashed out at the casino cage. She did not ask me to scan my card or medallion directly. It happened automatically. I did have to enter my pin. My cabin steward did not seem to be using the device to open doors, he put his card up against the screen. We enjoyed the cruise immensely and look forward to sailing that ship again.