New RCL points

In article , Bill
wrote:

On the RCI Facebook page there are lots of people complaining. The
biggest losers here are the people who were doing B2B 3/4 day cruises to
get extra credits (and had future cruises booked). Obviously the new
plan is designed to stop people from doing that.

Stopping that is a good thing in my opinion, the program should have
been the way they have made it now, by days sailed from the beginning.
The new way is fairer. It is not fair though not to let those who took
longer cruises in the past be at their actual level based on the days
they sailed. And it is likely not that many as the vast majority don't
take cruises of seven days or more.

--
Charles

On 1/22/2011 8:31 AM, Charles wrote:
In aweb.com, Janet
wrote:

Some how I wound up with 13 extra credits over the number of nights at
sea. I'm not complaining.

I got the 13 points, that is how they converted them for those with 8
or more cruises to make sure they were grandfathered in to the same
level. For me it is a wash since it would take about the same number of
additional cruises as before to move up to Diamond Plus.


I still would have been in the same level without the 13 points. Oh
well, I'm not going to complain. I doubt if we'll ever make the next
highest level in this life time.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On 1/22/2011 11:28 AM, Charles wrote:
In , Bill
wrote:

On the RCI Facebook page there are lots of people complaining. The
biggest losers here are the people who were doing B2B 3/4 day cruises to
get extra credits (and had future cruises booked). Obviously the new
plan is designed to stop people from doing that.

Stopping that is a good thing in my opinion, the program should have
been the way they have made it now, by days sailed from the beginning.
The new way is fairer. It is not fair though not to let those who took
longer cruises in the past be at their actual level based on the days
they sailed. And it is likely not that many as the vast majority don't
take cruises of seven days or more.


I agree with Charles. It isn't fair to those cruisers who don't live
within an hour's drive of a port where there are 3 and 4 day cruises.
There are just too many people with a high status that has been attained
that way or via taking cruises in suites to get double points. A 3 day
cruise in a grand suite probably costs less than a 7 day cruise in a
balcony cabin, yet the balcony cruiser gets 1 credit and the 3 day
cruiser in the suite gets 2.

We were on a Transatlantic where the Platinum people lost their benefits
because there were so many D and D+ passengers and there simply was not
enough room for them. That's just nor fair.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

In article om, Janet
Wilder wrote:

I still would have been in the same level without the 13 points. Oh
well, I'm not going to complain. I doubt if we'll ever make the next
highest level in this life time.

I am at the same level two ways, by the points on Royal Caribbean and
by being Elite on Celebrity by actual cruises. I am not complaining
either. I likely won't make Diamond Plus because while I do a lot of
cruises I don't do only one cruise line, they have been spread around
and that is not likely to change. The loyalty programs are nice but I
don't choose my cruises based on them.

--
Charles

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:24:40 +0100, peter wrote:

If RCL
wouldn't want people to take 3/4 day cruises, it would stop offering them.

Even in all their majesty, RCL doesn't think like that. Sure, they
prefer longer cruises for the additional onboard revenues but to think
so simply that they would turn away a significant part of their
market, handing it to another competitive line, is cat ********.
--
Ari Silverstein, C.T.A; C.T.A.S, FREE Cruise Travel Advisory Services
I never have nor ever will solicit or accept a booking.
http://www.cruisecompare.co.uk/ USA site due 1Q 2011.

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:28:00 -0500, Charles wrote:

Stopping that is a good thing in my opinion, the program should have
been the way they have made it now, by days sailed from the beginning.
The new way is fairer. It is not fair though not to let those who took
longer cruises in the past be at their actual level based on the days
they sailed. And it is likely not that many as the vast majority don't
take cruises of seven days or more.

I suppose in that mangled mess of prose they is a point. The only one
I can decrypt is the one "fairness. The RCL program is "fair" as RCL
decides it to be. Chuck, /your/ opinion of fair isn't worth spittle.
--
Ari Silverstein, C.T.A; C.T.A.S, FREE Cruise Travel Advisory Services
I never have nor ever will solicit or accept a booking.
http://www.cruisecompare.co.uk/ USA site due 1Q 2011.

On 1/22/2011 11:59 AM, Charles wrote:
In raweb.com, Janet
wrote:

I still would have been in the same level without the 13 points. Oh
well, I'm not going to complain. I doubt if we'll ever make the next
highest level in this life time.

I am at the same level two ways, by the points on Royal Caribbean and
by being Elite on Celebrity by actual cruises. I am not complaining
either. I likely won't make Diamond Plus because while I do a lot of
cruises I don't do only one cruise line, they have been spread around
and that is not likely to change. The loyalty programs are nice but I
don't choose my cruises based on them.


I'm taking my first Celebrity cruise in 2012 but I'm Elite in their
system because of Diamond status on Royal. I think that other than river
cruising, we'll do our cruising with RCI or X. I don't like the way
Carnival and their brands charge for distilled water for users of C-pap
machines. It's a medical necessity. RCI and X don't charge.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

In article om, Janet
Wilder wrote:

I'm taking my first Celebrity cruise in 2012 but I'm Elite in their
system because of Diamond status on Royal. I think that other than river
cruising, we'll do our cruising with RCI or X. I don't like the way
Carnival and their brands charge for distilled water for users of C-pap
machines. It's a medical necessity. RCI and X don't charge.

I did not know that. It is interesting that RCI and X don't charge. How
much do they charge for it on the Carnival brands? How much distilled
water do the CPAP machines use a day? Do you buy it at home or distill
it yourself?

--
Charles

On 1/22/2011 3:00 PM, Charles wrote:
In raweb.com, Janet
wrote:

I'm taking my first Celebrity cruise in 2012 but I'm Elite in their
system because of Diamond status on Royal. I think that other than river
cruising, we'll do our cruising with RCI or X. I don't like the way
Carnival and their brands charge for distilled water for users of C-pap
machines. It's a medical necessity. RCI and X don't charge.

I did not know that. It is interesting that RCI and X don't charge. How
much do they charge for it on the Carnival brands? How much distilled
water do the CPAP machines use a day? Do you buy it at home or distill
it yourself?


Carnival wanted $5 for a gallon jug. It isn't so much the money it's the
fact that they charge at all. on a 14 day cruise DH used maybe half the
one-gallon jug.

We buy it at home and it's about $1 a gallon jug. Even in Europe, it
didn't cost as much as Carnival charges.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

All he water on modern cruise ships is distilled.

Sea water is used to cool the engines and the steam produced is the
distilled water that is used for drinking, bathing, cooking etc on the
ship.

In the old days cruise ships had to buy water at the ports. Now cruise
ships make their own distilled water while they cool the engines.

If you need distilled water, just turn on your tap and get all you want.

It's been any years since the cruise ship would warn passengers not to
use too much water as they make all they need, distilled, pure, clean
and free!

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