Not anymore. The table number is in the app, now. No more dinner info on the room keys.
That is good to know. Look at all of the ink that they are saving. LOL
I could not remember my table # on our second night (did not know it was in the app so thanks for that info) but thankfully I saw our assistant server in line near the door. I walked up to him and loudly announced "I am going with Mayuresh" which resulted in a loud cheer from the rest of the servers.
Correct. To solve that problem I bring a black fine sharpie with me and I write our table number and dining rotation on the front of the KTTW card. Makes it easy and keeps me off the app for one thing.
The official excuse is that it saves time because they don't have to reprint cards when someone changes their dining rotation or table number. When the crew size was reduced and they wanted to keep the lines short for physical distancing reasons, saving time made sense. But, I can't imagine that this was really taking much time.
what about people not wanting someone to be able to know when they are in the dining room if they lose their card? Having it in the app on your phone is much safer than having it on a random card that you could lose somewhere and anyone could pick up. Personally, I think they started putting too much information on them, like why do they put the castaway club number on it.
No i was thinking that someone might worry about being stocked by someone. I was using that as an example of why having information on the card is a bad idea for some people. Or if they happen to be on the same cruise as someone who they might not want to spend all of the time with or they don't want them to know what their dinning table or rotation is. There are many privacy reasons why having dinning information on the room key is a bad idea.
If there is a stalker after you on the same cruise, your only option is to jump overboard. There are lots of options for someone to find you aside from dinner. At dinner, even if they don’t know your table, it would be pretty easy to see you by just walking through the dining area or sometimes by just looking in from outside the restaurant. Poor logic.
This is the case with early seating. And it can be this way if you choose for late seating. But our late seating dinners usually lasted 2 to 2.5 hours. Everything is much more relaxed at late seating, so you don't have to rush so they can set up for the next seating like happens with early seating.
whatever I'm just trying to give an example of why having any information on the card is bad. I honestly don't see why people are so against this that they aren't going to go back to it nor are they going back to printed navigators. If it's a problem for you then stop cruising DCL won't care either way if you comply with them about how things used to be done and aren't done anymore or if you never get on a DCL ship again unless they change it.
This logic is faulty. Are you suggesting that we should never express our preferences or that we should never ask or hope for something to change? Because that's a pretty terrible way to look at things.
For the people who it matters to that you have to have your dinning information printed on your card or have a paper navigator everyday those days area gone all cruise lines are going away from it. I really don't see why complaining about it on a forum or to someone at guest services who can't do anything about is going to change that. Society in general is going away from using paper as much as possible now or printing individual key cards as well. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they add being able to open your stateroom to the app at some point even.
The card is also used for making purchases, verifying that you're 21+ when buying alcoholic drinks, for identification when exiting and reentering the ship, and for turning on the lights. The cards aren't going anywhere.
