New Style Seapass Cards (two different ones for suites)

[jwlane]

8 minutes ago, Host Anne said:

vertical instead of horizontal. 

My horizontal was back in August---the others since the restart were vertical.

[Schmoe38]

3 minutes ago, Tom-n-Cheryl said:

John approached us yesterday evening in Michael's to ask if we wanted our Seapass cards from the prior sailing back. After a bit of discussion, he asked if we'd like to have him print the new style cards for our collection.

 

Our butler was Regine. We only had drinks a few times in Michael's, the bartender was an older Jamaican gentleman, but I didn't get his name.

 

Tom

Tom

 

Was Cranston your Bar Server in Michael’s?

 

Randy

[kwokpot]

2 minutes ago, jelayne said:

We had the vertical cards on the Beyond in October.  Boarded the Solstice yesterday and the cards are horizontal .  The change I noticed on the Suite cards was the lettering seems larger and letters are a very shiny silver on the dark grey background.

At first I thought the vertical design was only for E-Class but the first post in this thread proves that wrong. 

[Beachlover1989]

On Summit and Infinity in a Suite in June and November, we still had Horizontal cards.

[Tom-n-Cheryl]

1 minute ago, Schmoe38 said:

Tom

 

Was Cranston your Bar Server in Michael’s?

 

Randy

That rings a bell 🔔 !

 

Someone waiting for debarkation this morning mentioned that he was changing ships today. Not sure if that's accurate or not

 

Tom

[Jim_Iain]

7 hours ago, jelayne said:

We had the vertical cards on the Beyond in October.  Boarded the Solstice yesterday and the cards are horizontal .  The change I noticed on the Suite cards was the lettering seems larger and letters are a very shiny silver on the dark grey background.

 

Horizontal cards on Solstice

[mahdnc]

Horizontal last month for our Constellation cruise (blue cards for our balcony cabin).

[SusieAV8R]

8 hours ago, Bo1953 said:

What is wrong with having ones last name on their sea pass???

 

bon voyage

I've just checked all our X sea pass cards, from 2008 to 2022 (21 plastic cards 🙂. ) and every one has our full name on them.

[jwlane]

Upon further review, I note the landscape cards (Solstice) still have a mag strip (swipe at purchase points) and bar codes (scan embark/debark ship) on the back (and must be entered into cabin door to unlock), where as the portrait orientation cards (Apex & Silly) lack the strip & bar codes (RFID embedded).

[kwokpot]

15 minutes ago, jwlane said:

Upon further review, I note the landscape cards (Solstice) still have a mag strip (swipe at purchase points) and bar codes (scan embark/debark ship) on the back (and must be entered into cabin door to unlock), where as the portrait orientation cards (Apex & Silly) lack the strip & bar codes (RFID embedded).

I thought you were onto something so I checked my cards and I have a Landscape card fromt he Reflections which didn't have a magnetic stripe, so that has no bearing which type of card. 

[groryjm]

These are all RS and PH from post pandemic. We first got the purple strip in April this year but in  Aug last year they did put a sort of X sticker on . On Reflection in July we had the old landscape ones. 

 

 

There are, after all, only 10 or 13 upper suits on S Class and 14 on E Class so it seems a bit unnecesary. They used to have a printed sheet with photos in luminae and Michaels. 

[Bill Miller]

Card Envy. The struggle is real.

[davekathy]

I'm more surprised at the number of people that save their old Seapass cards rather than the revolutionized cards. 

Edited December 6, 2022 by davekathy

[jwlane]

11 hours ago, kwokpot said:

 didn't have a magnetic stripe

Bar codes?

[Tom-n-Cheryl]

8 minutes ago, davekathy said:

I'm more surprised at the number of people that save their old Seapass cards rather than the revolutionized cards. 

 

At least we stopped getting/purchasing the embarkation/port photos eons ago, lol

 

The souvenir ship cards are  just another thing that our children will have to throw away one day...  😉 

 

Tom

[Tulsacoker]

On 12/4/2022 at 10:56 AM, Bo1953 said:

What is wrong with having ones last name on their sea pass???

 

bon voyage

with a last name of Dahmer ... some people tend to keep their distance 

Edited December 6, 2022 by Tulsacoker

[Tom-n-Cheryl]

The card we had the week of 11/20 already utilized a chip (RFID), as did the new style card. It was definitely more easily read @ security points than the older bar codes.

 

Tom

[kwokpot]

11 minutes ago, jwlane said:

Bar codes?

Nope. My March 5, 2022 Reflection cruise card has RFID.

[Tom-n-Cheryl]

6 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

Nope. My March 5, 2022 Reflection cruise card has RFID.

 

Interesting. I'll have to go back and look, but I REALLY don't recall the 2/26/22 Reflection using that (the prior sailing). I'm guessing they must have though!

 

Since yours does not list the Package Type, it was a casino promo - w/out the additional perks? It's hard to keep track of what's included and what's not !

[Jeremiah1212]

Reflection was the first ship in the fleet to get RFID cards back when it had a refresh in 2018. 

[jwlane]

21 minutes ago, Tom-n-Cheryl said:

it was a casino promo - w/out the additional perks?

Do you mean "was it a casino promo"?  Regardless, suite includes premium bev---package type not necessary?

[kwokpot]

49 minutes ago, davekathy said:

I'm more surprised at the number of people that save their old Seapass cards rather than the revolutionized cards. 

I have 94 keycards of 101 cruises taken. Souvenirs.  The first few on NCL back in 2001 didn't have keycards and a couple of times the cards were confiscated when we downlined and disembarked early.  

[kwokpot]

26 minutes ago, Tom-n-Cheryl said:

 

Interesting. I'll have to go back and look, but I REALLY don't recall the 2/26/22 Reflection using that (the prior sailing). I'm guessing they must have though!

 

Since yours does not list the Package Type, it was a casino promo - w/out the additional perks? It's hard to keep track of what's included and what's not !

Good eye. Yes, we've been cruising almost exclusively on casino comped cruises for the past 8-9 years, maybe more. My husband is the gambler so he has the casino tier status and drinks package that goes along with it. 

[cruisestitch]

The cards are being renamed as well as redesigned.  From now on they will be known as “opaque infinite verandahs”🤪

Edited December 6, 2022 by cruisestitch

[go.without.you]

On 12/4/2022 at 12:02 PM, Schmoe38 said:

Tom

 

Was Cranston your Bar Server in Michael’s?

 

Randy

Cranston is the best! He was always singing. I would love to see him on Silhouette at the end of the month.