Reply To: JCCC4: Post Mortem (Feedback Thread)
Random thoughts on previous topics:
I never noticed a smell in the game room. Hope that doesn’t mean I was part of the problem!
JCCC5: I don’t think they’ve sent out confirmations yet — the Home Office people were probably all on the cruise too, so I imagine they just haven’t gotten to it yet. I did get a charge on my credit card, though — standalone $250 charge from Royal Caribbean. It was not part of my JCCC4 stateroom bill. (I dropped my registration form in the box outside the game room.)
Monarch: I don’t care one way or the other if we have one; it was sometimes annoying to have to stand up and hum until they sat down on the previous cruises, but as they didn’t do that on JCCC4, it was just a cute tradition as far as I was concerned. I absolutely do NOT support election-style Monarch selection; I think a lot of us were turned off by this sort of popularity contest back in high school, and I, for one, am happy to have escaped that sort of thing in my adult life. So if we keep having a Monarch, I prefer the random drawing. But I could take it or leave it as a concept; doesn’t bother me either way.
From @Bry: “Just to say, not to dispute your point, but showing up to a packed
venue’s a little different from sitting in an empty venue that becomes
packed of a sudden. I did see Snorks who were already ensconced in the
Dog and Badger (who was it who called it the Dog and Pony Show? I liked
that) and had to flee in a panic as we overran their local.”
This happens on non-JoCo cruises as well. More than once we’ve settled down in a quiet place only to be kicked out or surrounded by noise as a ship event starts in the same place…so, we just go find somewhere else. So while I do sympathize with the snorks when this happens, I don’t think that should mean we don’t have the office hours or whatever in the public spaces on the ship — those spaces are fair game, and with a ship that size, there’s always somewhere else you can go.
Recording: I think the easy solution is just to let people know in advance which performers have requested no recordings by having that be noted on the schedule. Then people will know that if they don’t make it to the show, they’re SOL, so they can either make an extra effort to be there or at least make the decision with advance knowledge and not be disappointed later.