Reply To: JCCC4: Post Mortem (Feedback Thread)
I had a great time this year– thanks to everyone who made that happen. 🙂
Please consider addressing
- I think the Alhambra bar staff may have been misunderstanding or pushing what constituted “start of show” time for whatever no-blending arrangement was established. There was still blending going on during morning announcements and introduction time. It usually stopped within a minute of the actual show. I would really have appreciated no loud blender action as soon as someone was talking into a microphone. This was never a long-term problem at a single show; once it stopped it stopped. But it was frustrating to try to hear over the WHRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrRRRRRR (wh-arrrrrrrRRR?) as management was talking.
- It appears there are very mixed feelings on the “no recording” request. I did not mind this at all and appreciated what I perceived to be the intent (be here, be now!) and REALLY appreciated that there were no screens with random levels of glow popping up or staying up in the audience for that time. As someone who loves going back to watch performance videos it would be extremely hypocritical to ask that no one record any show ever, but I wonder if it’s possible to set up a row or couple of rows for people who want to take pictures during the performances? Maybe in the center before the jump in seating levels? In several cases, the light from screens taking pictures or recording from the audience or checking Twit-arr was distracting during shows.
- The sound from Celebrity Artemis was louder than the participants’ voices.
- I didn’t see (admittedly, might have missed) any vegetarian snack options at the opening reception. I can’t offer a reasonable solution for labeling what’s what on the trays, but some kind of indicative cards would be helpful.
- While the wood CAH-sponsored badges were neat, they were difficult to read without getting pretty close. Any emphasis that can be made on the name on similar future badges would be great.
- It felt great to share the live band karaoke stage with Ciarraí. This seems like a very special, one-time thing, and I was surprised to see people who had been chosen to sing last year up on stage again. I think the previously offered suggestion of having a couple of people go up for each JoCo Band karaoke song is worth considering.
Yay! Thank you very much!
- Did not expect the Fort Lauderdale departure to be a good experience… but it was! Quick process in the terminal with nice RCI reps, and we got our bags pretty quickly.
- This year’s selection of musicians and presenters was phenomenal. I think of this as a music cruise (with a few exceptions every year) but I really enjoyed the spread of performances and presentations this time around. And I loved the talented and funny new musicians and presenters.
- I had no problems with the staff on the Freedom last year, but I felt like the Independence crew were on another level, taking-care-of-us-wise. MDR, Windjammer, Guest Relations, the staff at all the bars… Blenders aside, I felt like everyone with a gold nametag was trying to make my vacation as nice as possible.
- The placement of snacks and drinks during the receptions was MUCH better this year than last (no one reaching over/skipping food lines).
- The swag bags were extra fun this year, loved looking over everything. Inclusion of sunglasses– woo!