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phissy

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3 hours ago, mscdivina2016 said:

I can tell you the seashore last month was a.plain rubber bracelet.

The one on Mera looks like an I watch or one of those tech wrist things.

Exactly right. Tech tracker with light when active.

We had to have it charged twice during our cruise.

Early in cruise, walking past Concierge, he stopped me and 

 asked for my bracelet.

Apparently, he was not able to “see me” in system as I walked by.  
He reprogrammed mine and sent me on my way.
After that, it seems I kept “forgetting “  to wear it when leaving cabin . 
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FrostyJoe

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2 minutes ago, phissy said:

Exactly right. Tech tracker with light when active.

We had to have it charged twice during our cruise.

Early in cruise, walking past Concierge, he stopped me and 

 asked for my bracelet.

Apparently, he was not able to “see me” in system as I walked by.  
He reprogrammed mine and sent me on my way.
After that, it seems I kept “forgetting “  to wear it when leaving cabin . 
😉😁

That is super urghh inducing......to know they're literally watching you....  I mean google does it, amazon does its, our government does it....other government does it on us...

 

But still weird that they're literally watching you in real time when they had no reason to at that particular time (to contract trace you)

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6 minutes ago, Seadweller001 said:

Wife and I were drinking at the Casino Bar on Deck 7 AFT.  A few hours later our Butler appears with a message.  We were dumbfounded.  He said he found us on the Concierges passenger tracking program.  Kind of eery but it is a reality.

Yea bizarre……eery as hell for sure. 
 

I think it’s really disgenous they’re using it like it. Especially since they’re not willing to proudly advertise this element of their Covid protocol on their website instead of just buried in legal fine prints….


Hell, they used to advertise this band as an Aurea perk I believe. But I don’t believe they used it as a tracker than. 
 

whats next? AI on their cameras to immediately quanratine anyone who coughs once? Or look tired? Or infrared camera to do the same with temp?

 

we have always been extremely careful but MSC and other lines along with most of knows there’s nothing stopping this omicron train….so something about this tracker ticks me off in a group of audience who paid to accept the risk of travel during Covid. 

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1 hour ago, FrostyJoe said:

I wonder what will happen if msc sees someone in the room that’s different from their room 🤔

Had a few words with YC desk tonight. Not happy!!!!!

 

Whole ship shut down at 11pm. They blamed Covid, so where is my Covid discount?

I asked why a band who plays on an elevated stage till "late" shuts down at 11? Makes no difference if they play till 12,1 or 2pm.

 

Next issue, we can't play in the casino because they can't exchange or break the older $100 notes I have,  $5000 worth. They only exchanged $200

Sent me to desk services. Could not even break $100

Sent me.to YC concierge and they also could not break anything. So YC called casino and ripped them a new one.

So how do we make our casino points if you can't take my $100 bills that don't have a colorful face with strip in them.

Bank of America gave them to me a few days ago.

They also took our over night at OC away and gave us a Sea day tomorrow, well today now.

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1 hour ago, mscdivina2016 said:

Had a few words with YC desk tonight. Not happy!!!!!

 

Whole ship shut down at 11pm. They blamed Covid, so where is my Covid discount?

I asked why a band who plays on an elevated stage till "late" shuts down at 11? Makes no difference if they play till 12,1 or 2pm.

 

Next issue, we can't play in the casino because they can't exchange or break the older $100 notes I have,  $5000 worth. They only exchanged $200

Sent me to desk services. Could not even break $100

Sent me.to YC concierge and they also could not break anything. So YC called casino and ripped them a new one.

So how do we make our casino points if you can't take my $100 bills that don't have a colorful face with strip in them.

Bank of America gave them to me a few days ago.

They also took our over night at OC away and gave us a Sea day tomorrow, well today now.

Wow about the no overnight at OC. That obviously is a cost saving measure….

 

Do the bars close at 11 too? Not that I’ll be going to bars but I’m just curious. Thanks 

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1 hour ago, mscdivina2016 said:

Next issue, we can't play in the casino because they can't exchange or break the older $100 notes I have,  $5000 worth. They only exchanged $200

Sent me to desk services. Could not even break $100

Sent me.to YC concierge and they also could not break anything. So YC called casino and ripped them a new one.

So how do we make our casino points if you can't take my $100 bills that don't have a colorful face with strip in them.

Bank of America gave them to me a few days ago.

They also took our over night at OC away and gave us a Sea day tomorrow, well today now.

 

Have you tried to insert the older $100 bills in a slot machine? Every land based casino I've visited recently, the slot bill validators would accept both the new bills and the older bills. If they do work, your could put a few in then visit the cashier and cash out the slot balance and they will give you new bills you can cash in at the tables.

Try a few different machines, especially the older ones, just in case it doesn't work in all of them.

 

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4 hours ago, FrostyJoe said:

Wow about the no overnight at OC. That obviously is a cost saving measure….

 

Do the bars close at 11 too? Not that I’ll be going to bars but I’m just curious. Thanks 

 

@mscdivina2016  What are the details about no overnight in OC?  (Weather? winds?  I know that ships couldn't dock at Nassau this week due to cross winds).  

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It sounds like we are confusing two or three ships.  Divina, no little smart tracker fit bit wrist band.  Mera, yes, and it did everything you needed except to exit or enter ship.  Like card, band sometimes fickle with scanning.  Just adjust angle and try again.  Not that hard.

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7 hours ago, FrostyJoe said:

Wow about the no overnight at OC. That obviously is a cost saving measure….

 

Do the bars close at 11 too? Not that I’ll be going to bars but I’m just curious. Thanks 

Yes they were closing it appeared.

YC is still 2 but all the.lights were turned on at 11 last night.

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7 hours ago, Netguru said:

 

Have you tried to insert the older $100 bills in a slot machine? Every land based casino I've visited recently, the slot bill validators would accept both the new bills and the older bills. If they do work, your could put a few in then visit the cashier and cash out the slot balance and they will give you new bills you can cash in at the tables.

Try a few different machines, especially the older ones, just in case it doesn't work in all of them.

 

I tried on at least a dozen machines. 

They are outright lying to me.

A casino does not have new hundreds or 50s? How about $20?

Will get to the bottom of that today as YC was on the phone with them last night as they could not believe it, but he found out it happened.

Wife not happy and is not interested now. Wow, what a loss for the casino.

We called the hard rock and they comped us a two night stay next week Tuesday to Thursday so we will not be staying on the ship.

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23 minutes ago, mscdivina2016 said:

They said weather. Looked great yesterday and today seems nice too at sea

Correction ....it's overcast and it looks.like it may have rained for 2 minutes. Railings all water droplets but floors and stuff dry.

Sun trying to peak out probably will lose.

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A cold front did come through Florida yesterday and it is quite windy here today so that might have been the reason for that.  I would think it is cheaper for the ship to stay docked all night than to burn fuel but I have no idea...  

 

 

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5 hours ago, mscdivina2016 said:

Correction ....it's overcast and it looks.like it may have rained for 2 minutes. Railings all water droplets but floors and stuff dry.

Sun trying to peak out probably will lose.

Actually sunny and overcast. Very nice overall. No rain

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11 minutes ago, mscdivina2016 said:

Actually sunny and overcast. Very nice overall. No rain

I'm not sure what the weather is now at OC but at Nassau I did see the wind symbol on the weather app earlier today.  Perhaps that's why they had to leave last night....

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14 minutes ago, Couplecruisers said:

Unrelated to weather question…we are sailing MSc for the first time on 1/30. In YC. Is veuve clicquot available by the glass anywhere? First world problems, I know haha.

We are also in the YC on the 30th. Looks like there won't be very many of us in there. Lots of cabins still available.

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