Back from VOYAGER OF THE SEAS - Review and photos

"Cruiseexpert" <cruise_expertm> wrote in message
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> I did find a few problems with disembarkation in Miami. They gave my
> entire group luggage tags to get off the ship at 11AM... many people
> in our group had 11:15 AM flights booked by Royal Caribbean. They did
> not pay any attention to the forms that were either turned in at the
> Purser's desk or on the TV screens. I spent a few hours on the last
> day getting the luggage tags changed for my group for people that
> needed to get off the ship early. We also seemed to have quite a few
> problems with their new luggage carousels instead of lining up the
> luggage by color. I was fortunate to find our 3 bags immediately when
> we got off the ship but other people in my group had to wait for
> almost 45 minutes for their bags to show up. The porters say that the
> new system has MANY problems. If a porter places a piece of luggage on
> a wrong carousel it takes forever to find it and take the time to put



Hi Bob,
We had some luggage problems as well during disembarkation. We were the
first color (white) called off the ship. Getting off and clearing
immigration was no problem. The problem was getting our luggage! We waited
almost an hour. The same pieces just kept going around and around .... then
one showed up ..... and then the final pieces almost an hour later. It
pretty much defeated the purpose of getting off the ship early. We had an
11:10am flight and as it turned out we made it no problem. I was getting
concerned though. A simple PA announcement stating what the problem was
would have put everyone's mind at ease. Obviously something was going on
behind the scenes that we didn't know about, but we were all left in the
dark and people were understandably getting upset. Since these Voyager
Class ships disembark in Miami week after week, I'm not sure why they were
not more organized. The luggage carousel system at RCI's Miami pier has
been used since the day VOYAGER was introduced. In fact it was designed
specifically for these ships so it's nothing new. Other than that snafu,
things on the cruise were great.

I'm glad you enjoyed yourself as well.

Ernie

Tom,

I agree except that it is prohibted for both safety and litigation reasons.
Safety, weight and handling of luggage on escalator is a problem in those
areas. The addition of elevators that go up to parking deck would be a major
improvment though allowing for people to take luggage up to parking area.

George in NY


"Tom & Linda" <tkanitra@> wrote in message
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>
>
> A simple solution (to help out) would be to allow people to bring up their
> luggage on the escalators to the roof top parking area and then they could
> just drive away. But they don't seem to like that idea.
>
> Guess it's too simple.
>
> --Tom
>

Hi Ernie,

We also had White tags and an 11:15 flight.
We also made our flight without any problem but they need to get their
act together on this. I have already voiced my opinion to the powers
taht be at RCI.
Bob
"E.k.R." <erollerYYY@peoplepc.com> wrote in message news:<S_Uhd.33548$Tq1.23982@bignews1. >...
> "Cruiseexpert" <cruise_expertm> wrote in message
> news:ed2e1e67.0411021500.421570fd@c om...
> > I did find a few problems with disembarkation in Miami. They gave my
> > entire group luggage tags to get off the ship at 11AM... many people
> > in our group had 11:15 AM flights booked by Royal Caribbean. They did
> > not pay any attention to the forms that were either turned in at the
> > Purser's desk or on the TV screens. I spent a few hours on the last
> > day getting the luggage tags changed for my group for people that
> > needed to get off the ship early. We also seemed to have quite a few
> > problems with their new luggage carousels instead of lining up the
> > luggage by color. I was fortunate to find our 3 bags immediately when
> > we got off the ship but other people in my group had to wait for
> > almost 45 minutes for their bags to show up. The porters say that the
> > new system has MANY problems. If a porter places a piece of luggage on
> > a wrong carousel it takes forever to find it and take the time to put
>
>
>
> Hi Bob,
> We had some luggage problems as well during disembarkation. We were the
> first color (white) called off the ship. Getting off and clearing
> immigration was no problem. The problem was getting our luggage! We waited
> almost an hour. The same pieces just kept going around and around .... then
> one showed up ..... and then the final pieces almost an hour later. It
> pretty much defeated the purpose of getting off the ship early. We had an
> 11:10am flight and as it turned out we made it no problem. I was getting
> concerned though. A simple PA announcement stating what the problem was
> would have put everyone's mind at ease. Obviously something was going on
> behind the scenes that we didn't know about, but we were all left in the
> dark and people were understandably getting upset. Since these Voyager
> Class ships disembark in Miami week after week, I'm not sure why they were
> not more organized. The luggage carousel system at RCI's Miami pier has
> been used since the day VOYAGER was introduced. In fact it was designed
> specifically for these ships so it's nothing new. Other than that snafu,
> things on the cruise were great.
>
> I'm glad you enjoyed yourself as well.
>
> Ernie