The Band

[Lustate]

How many people managed to get The Band which was customised? I really miss that from each Voyage. 

Has anyone found any good third-party cords that the band's "pill" can attach to?

 

[Wildcatllamas]

I have two since I did a back to back. I would love to be able to reuse them.

[neverendingcruising]

We have personalized bands and even got the purple cord to replace the red with for being Sea Blazers. We have been able to reuse them once. The checkin person was very confused and found a supervisor of some sort that said give it a shot and see what happens. Seemed to work no problem. 

[Lustate]

10 hours ago, neverendingcruising said:

We have personalized bands and even got the purple cord to replace the red with for being Sea Blazers. 

we love our Sea Blazer bands and hope they keep them on in the new reward program. Different colours you can collect and work through. 

[Wildcatllamas]

I love the Sea Blazer band. 

[martylouie]

The likely reason for not making the bands reusable is the unpredictable nature of battery life.  Rather than having the band fail (and as Murphy's Law corollary states at the worst possible moment), management chose to make them disposable.  It just wouldn't do to be sitting poolside and the server can't find you, or worse being locked out of your room and having to run down to Sailor Services in less than full attire. 

Edited August 14, 2023 by martylouie
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[Lustate]

17 minutes ago, martylouie said:

The likely reason for not making the bands reusable is the unpredictable nature of battery life.  

 

Now someone might know better than me, but I think they do not have a battery anymore. I think they took them out and now it's like the NFC chip on your contactless credit cards. The ship locates you by your mobile phone for things like Ship Eats and Shake for Champaign as that does have blue tooth active when using the app and they know which wifi transponder you're near. 

[Sherry84]

When we disembarked the Scarlet Lady yesterday, they had bins asking people to recycle the bands. Wonder if they will be reused or just made into something else? 

[cantgetin]

My daughter took them home and made necklaces out of them.

 

[jaxcruisinguy]

I’ve re-used the one with my name on it. It’s just an NFC chip with a unique code assigned.