Bionic Bar needs to GO....

[time4u2go]

29 minutes ago, swoopy2110 said:

Royal Caribbean have listened to your feedback and, despite installing it on multiple ships, they are currently pulling the Bionic Bar out at the moment 🙂

How do you know this?

[mcatmcat]

Once  people realize they can  share their  drink packages using the  bionic bar it might  go 

[xpcdoojk]

We were in Vegas over the Thanksgiving weekend, stayed at the Vdara, which is connected to the Aria and Cosmopolitan, one of those had the same robot bar.  So, it is not just RCI.

 

That said, I have never wasted my money buying a drink there, I can watch it do its thing (not all that well) without paying.😈

 

jc

[Showme72]

Spent a lot of time there on the Symphony.

 

It's great place to people watch. Kids were a hoot.

 

It makes refreshment package drinks as well. Roy Rodgers (cherry coke) for example.

 

You can customize to your taste any drink you order.

[Merion_Mom]

8 hours ago, not-enough-cruising said:

I’d like to know who came up with this theory of the 18% surcharge going to a “crew welfare fund”? That is laughable. 

 

Are you referring to ME?

 

The Hotel Director on the Quantum told me that.

[ShanB42]

12 hours ago, zooma said:

Does the drink package in fact work there?

Yes.

[ShanB42]

I was a 1 and done on Harmony. My drink was not that great and I waited a while for it. If I wasn't on the drinks package, I would have been bummed. I took a few sips and left it at the Schooner Bar.

[Docker123]

I’ve had robot surgery 🤖🤖 before. 

 

Not sure I would trust them on something more important like making my drinks.

 

 

[brillohead]

On Harmony last summer, it was rarely open, and when it was open, it would often break down and/or spill the drinks.  

It makes for a quiet indoor space to sit and relax and read my Kindle, though, if I need to kill some time... but totally not a worthwhile use of the space from an ROI perspective (IMO), given the limited actual time in use. 

[Mikew0805]

One and done for me. Also, I prefer to drink from a glass.

[vacationlover_mn]

23 hours ago, sparks1093 said:

I expect it will be one and done with us just for the novelty. We're likely to grab a drink and then take it elsewhere. (Provided that the drink package works there.)

The drink package does work there 🙂

[vacationlover_mn]

20 hours ago, rbschultz said:

You set the exact quantities of everything you want in your drink manually (or you can get a preset drink choice)

I’ve found that everything I’ve ordered (preset ones, and ones I’ve created on my own) are waaay too sweet.  It seems like they are all light on the booze, super heavy on the mixers...

[leisuretraveler223]

Maybe if it was part of something else it would be better.  But the space itself isn't even somewhere I would really want to congregate.  It feels more like watching a demonstration at a children's museum than a lounge where you want to sit and enjoy drinks.  As someone else said, maybe liven it up with music or a dj or something.

[ThirstyCruiser]

On 2/15/2019 at 9:36 AM, island lady said:

And really tough to have a nice heart to heart conversation with those bartenders also.  😮 

Yeah, but they're such good listeners.

[ThirstyCruiser]

On 2/15/2019 at 3:40 PM, Cruisegirl6 said:

I don't support a robot or computer that takes away people's jobs! 

Prepare to sell most of your worldly possessions.

 

By the way, a lot of peoples' jobs are to design, build, program, maintain and repair robots and computers. They need support too.

 

[ryguy2008]

The Bionic bar does have staff though. The machines make a giant mess because they rarely get all the liquid directly in the cup. Staff need to watch the iPads and continuously clean the serving area.

[zooma]

sounds like they need better programmers

[constable145]

On 2/15/2019 at 9:33 AM, leisuretraveler223 said:

First time experiencing Bionic Bar on Symphony last week.  Really a disappointment!

 

The room is nothing worth hanging out in.  You can watch the robot once and you've pretty much experienced everything.  Plastic cups for a martini?  No thanks!

 

But probably the dumbest thing is the extremely limited selection of liquors.  At first, it looks like a ton of bottles, until you realize that everything is repeated six or seven times.  So there really aren't many options at all.

 

I just can't see this thing lasting in the long term.

The first installation of the Bionic Bar was in 2014. Since then, it has been added to 5 more ships.

 

There is usually always a crowd of people waiting either to get their drinks or just to get the tablet to place an order.

 

It seems pretty successful to me. Sounds like there's now one less person who will be waiting in front of me.

 

[tinkr2]

On 2/15/2019 at 8:43 PM, mcatmcat said:

Once  people realize they can  share their  drink packages using the  bionic bar it might  go 

 

I do not understand. You can pass a drink at any bar. Why would the bionic be any different?

[constable145]

On 2/15/2019 at 7:53 PM, time4u2go said:

How do you know this?

I think they are being sarcastic...