Good Question-----no, no final decisions have been made.....although I've organized lanyards a few times for cruises and I've always done it pretty similarly...so I imagine I'll do it that way this trip, too. I always bring the name badges in a box rubberbanded together by traveling party and in alphabetical order by DIS name. I then also bring a printout of the list sorted in sequential order by stateroom #.
The basics of how I've passed out lanyards in the past is:
1.) I've usually arrived at the port early and set up shop to distribute them while we wait to board. With the new system, though, I don't know that this will work that well. We're traveling with gold cruisers who got an 11am check-in time....but we're platinum, so I think that means we can board as soon as they open the ship----so there may be a short window of time that we can pass them out in the port, but not sure.
2.) If there is some kind of DIS meet aboard (like we've been on cruises that decide to do a meet in the Promenade Lounge at like 2:30 or 3pm so it's after lunch but before muster drill). If something like that gets set up, then we'll claim a table and hang out during that party and encourage folks to at least stop by and pick up their lanyards.
3.) We'll set up shot during the sail-away party, as well...up on Deck 10 overlooking the Goofy pool and it will be either me or Jason (if I decide I want to dance with the cruise staff!
) passing them out up there.
4.) We usually carry all the lanyards that haven't been picked up around in a backpack on embarkation day.....so folks are always welcome if they see us out and about on the ship (we look very much like we do in our signature pics...and we'll have OUR lanyards on, obviously)---or even come by our room----and just say "Hey! Do you have our lanyards?!?!"
5.) And then everyone who has not picked them up by the end of second seating on embarkation day will get them delivered to their room late that night. Before we go to bed, Jason and I walk the halls checking out fish extenders and hanging remaining lanyards on people's fish...or putting them into their fish extenders. (NOTE: This is why it is absolutely critical that people make sure that there is at least ONE accurate stateroom # for every traveling party...because the room on my list is where the lanyards will get left.
Our goal is usually to try to be rid of all the lanyards before we go to bed that first night....so that we can start really enjoying the cruise!!
I am sure I'll post more specific instructions (as if you needed more specifics than the above!
) as it gets closer.
