Reply To: Ideas for helping new cruisers acclimate?
I don’t know what the Official Monkey Count was, but before we left on the cruise there were 500+ people in the Facebook group. Given that not everyone does Facebook, that actually seems like a pretty good number to me. There was a pinned post at the top of the group directing everybody to the forums and the Wiki for months leading up to the cruise. As of right this minute there are 602. People have definitely come in post-cruise, but it’s not as though the majority of people on the cruise had never heard of the Facebook group.
I mentioned (somewhere? maybe not this thread) that I remember the Facebook group etc. being mentioned in an official Home Office email on an earlier cruise. I don’t think it was on this one. But, I think that would be useful. I also remember asking JoCo and Paul and Storm to tweet the links before, although I don’t remember if that was this specific year or not. Some of this may be tied to many of the most active forum/Facebook people also being multiple-year cruisers who have checked things in the mental “done” box even though those things were done for an earlier sailing.
The forums are linked up from the FAQ on the JCCC website.
All that said, no matter how much we put it out there, there are going to be people who do not know about the forums/Facebook group/whatever.