No power on Empress

[FLACRUISER99]

Empress of the seas has no power. On her at the POM.

[Clarea]

Good luck, at least you are not at sea. 

 

Maybe it's some sort of unscheduled maintenance they are doing that requires the power to be off.

[FLACRUISER99]

It just has been restored. I don't think it was planned as it was in the middle of boarding.

[DallasGuy75219]

Checked in and been waiting in the terminal to board for almost an hour because they can't scan passengers onto the ship.

[DallasGuy75219]

Backup plan is paper boarding passes and wristbands to get people onboard🙄

[FLACRUISER99]

Only the center of the ship has power. Elevators are not working. I am very fortunate I do have power.

[FLACRUISER99]

Are you on board or in the terminal?

Edited November 1, 2018 by FLACRUISER99
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[DallasGuy75219]

In terminal waiting almost 3 hours to board.  I'm checked in but there are a substantial number of people still waiting to check in.  

 

They started the process to board people manually.

Edited November 1, 2018 by DallasGuy75219

[FLACRUISER99]

So I guess muster will be delayed more then the half hour the said. Muster was supposed to be at 3:30

[Biker19]

10 minutes ago, DallasGuy75219 said:

In terminal waiting almost 3 hours to board.  I'm checked in but there are a substantial number of people still waiting to check in.  

 

They started the process to board people manually.

Consider yourself lucky this happened on the smallest ship in the fleet - imagine if this happened on say, Mariner.

Edited November 1, 2018 by Biker19

[FLACRUISER99]

Elevators are now working.

[DallasGuy75219]

Just now eating "lunch" in the Windjammer.

 

By the time they finally get everyone checked in and boarded and sort through the paper boarding cards to create a final manifest, I expect we won't l be leaving until 7 or 8 pm.

[FLACRUISER99]

I just love the way they keep everyone updated.As I was typing the Captain announced that we would sailing about 6pm.

[FLACRUISER99]

Everyone is on board and we are having the muster drill at 6pm. The on board computers (cash registers) are still down.

[DallasGuy75219]

1 hour ago, FLACRUISER99 said:

I just love the way they keep everyone updated.As I was typing the Captain announced that we would sailing about 6pm.

Just more lies.... after the muster drill the CD announced the problem still isn't fixed. No revised departure time announced.

[Sloppy Sue]

We were on Empress last week so I am super curious to know what ended up happening with your trip...

[FLACRUISER99]

On 11/3/2018 at 9:09 AM, Sloppy Sue said:

We were on Empress last week so I am super curious to know what ended up happening with your trip...

Finally sailed around 11pm was 1.5 hrs late arriving at Nassau. Only RCI TV working no Satellite TV on entire trip.  

[OC SeaPA]

12 hours ago, FLACRUISER99 said:

Finally sailed around 11pm was 1.5 hrs late arriving at Nassau. Only RCI TV working no Satellite TV on entire trip.  

We are on the empress on Nov 19th.  Do you think we will be sailing, or will they pull it for maintenance?  Have you heard anaything? 

 

 

[FLACRUISER99]

1 hour ago, OC SeaPA said:

We are on the empress on Nov 19th.  Do you think we will be sailing, or will they pull it for maintenance?  Have you heard anaything? 

 

 

You will sail, don't worry.

[OC SeaPA]

2 hours ago, FLACRUISER99 said:

You will sail, don't worry.

Thanks.  I hope the rest of the cruise was good.  Was it?  Was it only the first day that was messed up?  In the old days when something like that happened they would open the bar up- I guess they don't do anything for "inconvenience" anymore.  Started cruising in 1978- sure is different now!  

[Dennis#1]

17 hours ago, FLACRUISER99 said:

Finally sailed around 11pm was 1.5 hrs late arriving at Nassau. Only RCI TV working no Satellite TV on entire trip.  

At least the Empress departed.  Have a great cruise.   Bet lots of cruisers were disappointed because they did not have FNC or other TV channels.

[Scyl]

Having been in charge of passing informations to people, I am very sure no one lied on purpose. There is no way for anyone, even the people working on the repair to know how long it will take, everyone is making best estimates and can only tell you what they are told. 

Seem like the biggest problem you had was having to wait 3 hours, so not the end of the world.

[broberts]

On 11/1/2018 at 6:43 PM, DallasGuy75219 said:

Just more lies.... after the muster drill the CD announced the problem still isn't fixed. No revised departure time announced.

 

Comments like this are part of the reason that companies prefer not to keep passengers updated during a situation.

 

Lies are intentionally false statements. Not good faith statements that later prove to be untrue.

Edited November 16, 2018 by broberts