Reply To: Ideas for helping new cruisers acclimate?
Sorry if this has been thrown out there already, but I just had a few minutes to attempt to contribute. I was a new Sea Monkey this year, and I’ll echo that I thought a lot of things were done very successfully. I never really felt awkward from castoff to docking back in FLL.
I did think of a couple things that might be worth considering for next year:
1) Game tables in the conference center were genius and provided a spot where I knew I could always find other Sea Monkeys should I have a question. It was also a great place to meet folks in a quieter and more relaxed environment. I think an idea for next year might be to designate a table with an ambassadorial sort of function. Maybe stick a sign on it, or just announce it or something. Play games that go quickly or if we can find something that players can join mid-game maybe. The idea being that it’d be a good spot for folks to get a game in while waiting for another to open up, ask questions, and meet people.
2) Assigned POC… When I was in the Army, when we were to change to a new duty station, someone at our gaining station would contact us and be our contact for smoothing the transition. Maybe we should do something like that? When people register, if they mark down that they’re new to the cruises, kick that over to have them randomly assigned a JCCC veteran, or maybe just give them an option to check a box for it or something. That way, you’d have someone you could exchange emails with and knew as you hit the ground. Worked well for me in the past and seems like something that’d be good here as well.
That is all. Carry on. =)