We have booked another cruise!

[Sparky74]

1 hour ago, ceeceeDee said:

Please let us know what the crew had to say later this month. I'd be interested to know.

I’ll be on the Pacific Encounter in 9 days. 😁

[ceeceeDee]

1 hour ago, Sparky74 said:

I’ll be on the Pacific Encounter in 9 days. 😁

There you go, Sparky. Please report back as well. Particularly interested in Encounter as we are on her in December. We had a great time July last year, so will be interesting to see how she is now particularly with the upcoming changeover to Carnival and whether or not that has affected anything, especially the crew.

[Sparky74]

1 hour ago, ceeceeDee said:

There you go, Sparky. Please report back as well. Particularly interested in Encounter as we are on her in December. We had a great time July last year, so will be interesting to see how she is now particularly with the upcoming changeover to Carnival and whether or not that has affected anything, especially the crew.

We were on the Pacific Encounter last month for a short 3 night comedy cruise.
We ate dinner in each of the restaurants. Service was abysmal on the first night in Angelo’s. The other two nights in Dragon Lady and the Waterfront service was prompt enough but lacked the usual friendliness.

Food in the restaurants and buffet was acceptable but felt like it was massed produced to a price. 

Our stateroom was serviced twice a day but the stewards never even introduced themselves.

Things just felt a little “off”. Nothing we could really put our finger on but the crew seemed to lack the usual “sparkle”. We wondered if it was because of the impending brand change of maybe because it was such a short cruise. 
When we disembarked in Brisbane we noticed quite a number of new staff members waiting to board so that may have had something to do with it. 🤷‍♂️

It will be interesting to compare it to next week’s cruise which is 10 nights to PNG. 

[ceeceeDee]

17 hours ago, Sparky74 said:

We were on the Pacific Encounter last month for a short 3 night comedy cruise.
We ate dinner in each of the restaurants. Service was abysmal on the first night in Angelo’s. The other two nights in Dragon Lady and the Waterfront service was prompt enough but lacked the usual friendliness.

Food in the restaurants and buffet was acceptable but felt like it was massed produced to a price. 

Our stateroom was serviced twice a day but the stewards never even introduced themselves.

Things just felt a little “off”. Nothing we could really put our finger on but the crew seemed to lack the usual “sparkle”. We wondered if it was because of the impending brand change of maybe because it was such a short cruise. 
When we disembarked in Brisbane we noticed quite a number of new staff members waiting to board so that may have had something to do with it. 🤷‍♂️

It will be interesting to compare it to next week’s cruise which is 10 nights to PNG. 

Of course the length of the cruise shouldn't matter, but who knows? Your 3 nighter did sound a little disappointing. We'll be on board for 10 nights also so now I'm really interested in hearing about your upcoming 10 nights. Hopefully it will be a much better experience. Can't believe your room stewards didn't introduce themselves. In our experience they are always hovering in the hallway on embarkation day to welcome us aboard. Even when we went to another deck looking for our friends' cabin, the stewards on that deck were eager to assist us. And the service in Angelos was outstanding.

[Sparky74]

3 hours ago, ceeceeDee said:

Of course the length of the cruise shouldn't matter, but who knows? Your 3 nighter did sound a little disappointing. We'll be on board for 10 nights also so now I'm really interested in hearing about your upcoming 10 nights. Hopefully it will be a much better experience. Can't believe your room stewards didn't introduce themselves. In our experience they are always hovering in the hallway on embarkation day to welcome us aboard. Even when we went to another deck looking for our friends' cabin, the stewards on that deck were eager to assist us. And the service in Angelos was outstanding.

Yes. In 2022 we did a 3 night

comedy cruise as part of our “Are We Mad” trip and were very impressed with both the food and the service in Angelo’s. So much so that we asked to talk to the Head Waiter and we told him how impressed we were. 
 

This last cruise the crew just seemed to be going through the motions but if it was the end of contract for many of them they may have been in wind down mode. 

Anyway, it was still a good break. And I’m looking forward to this next one next week. 

[ceeceeDee]

10 minutes ago, Sparky74 said:

Yes. In 2022 we did a 3 night

comedy cruise as part of our “Are We Mad” trip and were very impressed with both the food and the service in Angelo’s. So much so that we asked to talk to the Head Waiter and we told him how impressed we were. 
 

This last cruise the crew just seemed to be going through the motions but if it was the end of contract for many of them they may have been in wind down mode. 

Anyway, it was still a good break. And I’m looking forward to this next one next week. 

Great attitude, Sparky