Rare the more ports the better Posted June 23, 2023 #1 Share Posted June 23, 2023 We are on Nautica July 19. Just about sold out ship. I booked a few great private tours. Typically, the roll call would be full of people looking to share tours but our roll call consists of a few people with one posting maybe once per month. We plan to take the booked tours by ourselves but it is always fun to meet new friends so a bit disappointing. I figured as we were getting closer to sailing it would get more active but no one has posted for quite awhile. Has anyone else been having this same experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMHuntFerry Posted June 23, 2023 #2 Share Posted June 23, 2023 1 hour ago, the more ports the better said: We are on Nautica July 19. Just about sold out ship. I booked a few great private tours. Typically, the roll call would be full of people looking to share tours but our roll call consists of a few people with one posting maybe once per month. We plan to take the booked tours by ourselves but it is always fun to meet new friends so a bit disappointing. I figured as we were getting closer to sailing it would get more active but no one has posted for quite awhile. Has anyone else been having this same experience? On our cruise last week, only about one-sixth of the passengers were repeaters. There was also a college alumni group that was pretty sizable (probably at least as large as the number of repeaters). If your cruise has a significant number of people in groups, that could explain it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyskie Posted June 24, 2023 #3 Share Posted June 24, 2023 We're on the 2 Sept Riviera. Ours was very quiet. It has picked up some but sharing tours is practically non-existent. We're longtime cruisers but this is our first on Oceania. I'm blaming the lack of participation on the pandemic and FB. Found this also on Princess & NCL 🤷♀️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the mice Posted June 24, 2023 #4 Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) Just back from cruise on Marina that ended about 10 days ago, Roll call wasn’t very active despite large number of repeat cruisers. But also a large number of 1st timers. Of the few posters, most were asking to hear if anyone had planned private excursions and were looking for others to join, but no one seemed to want to plan any themselves, It can be a lot of work and/or responsibility for the planner, so personally, having done it on more active roll calls, I am disinclined to do it again unless it is a very active roll call with engaged participants. For this particular itinerary, it was easy to DIY. And while we didn't do it on this cruise, we are also willing to pay for private tours for just the 2 of us ŵhen there is something we want to do on on our own timetable. I should add that low participation was also evident on our Azamara B2B in October, Usually AZ cruisers are active on roll calls, but this may have been a factor of AZ having promos with lots of OBC. The Simply More changes kick in on July 1. Perhaps people have booked O excursions and may drop them once the new program details are out. Edited June 24, 2023 by the mice Add info 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare LHT28 Posted June 24, 2023 #5 Share Posted June 24, 2023 With the cruise line cancelling or missing ports people seem to want to stick with ship's tours Also since the introduction of O LIFE people seem to book those When it first came out the roll calls wee pretty dead for sharing tours we would be luck to get enough to make it worthwhile JMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elaine Horowitz Posted June 30, 2023 #6 Share Posted June 30, 2023 On 6/23/2023 at 5:59 PM, the more ports the better said: We are on Nautica July 19. Just about sold out ship. I booked a few great private tours. Typically, the roll call would be full of people looking to share tours but our roll call consists of a few people with one posting maybe once per month. We plan to take the booked tours by ourselves but it is always fun to meet new friends so a bit disappointing. I figured as we were getting closer to sailing it would get more active but no one has posted for quite awhile. Has anyone else been having this same experience? I found the same thing and was surprised. Our last trip on the Oceania Riviera this March, we had over 60+ pages of postings. This time we booked our 4 per person tours with Oceania and the rest we are probably booking with Viator. Looking forward to this cruise even though we have been to all the ports except for Patmos Island and Trapani, Sicily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare the more ports the better Posted July 1, 2023 Author #7 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Hi Elaine, I will post a response on our roll call with our ideas if you want to follow up. We have the same thing going on. Our Riveria roll call in October is already pages long with all kinds of tours being planned. This one is almost non existent. Crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare pinotlover Posted July 1, 2023 #8 Share Posted July 1, 2023 A couple thoughts on the differences: 1. We had two large groups on our Vista cruise, both having several exclusive group only tours offered. 2. If it’s a longer cruise with a high geriatric count, the RC will be dead. Many only go where Momma Oceania leads them. 3. When I put forth the effort, organize a tour, put it out on the RC, I have always been able to fill the tours. Oftentimes having to turn people away. Sometimes a little initiative is all it takes to get things going. 4. After #3, I have then been invited to participate in other private tours not advertised on the RC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Harters Posted July 2, 2023 #9 Share Posted July 2, 2023 We're just back from Nautica. We only booked it a few weeks ago and I went straight to the roll call. It had been active when it was started last year but in the past months it had been very flat. Nothing of interest to me there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted July 3, 2023 #10 Share Posted July 3, 2023 My experience on cruise lines with included excursions is that roll calls lose their will to live... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
di T Posted July 4, 2023 #11 Share Posted July 4, 2023 On 7/2/2023 at 7:07 PM, Harters said: We're just back from Nautica. We only booked it a few weeks ago and I went straight to the roll call. It had been active when it was started last year but in the past months it had been very flat. Nothing of interest to me there. Hi, so what was your opinion of the cruise? We had a lovely time but not in a hurry to book Oceania again! Dianne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Harters Posted July 4, 2023 #12 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Dianne - just about to post my review to the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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