Missing Castaway Cay - Captain's Comments?

[two-foxes]

57 days til we,( WESTBOUND) Cruise ... Happy Spring Jill & mm37
Peter

Happy Spring to you both, too! And to the dogs as well! Hope your cruise is amazing, as I am sure it will be, no matter what! I am still kicking myself for cancelling the Eastbound...what was I thinking Send to all the cruistoberfest folks, please!

 

[izzinmac]

Over the past several months (and probably before that) there have been a number of threads started by folks who have been disappointed/frustrated by the inability of the Magic/Wonder to dock at Castaway Cay. Since that has not happened on the three crusies that I have been on, I can only imagine how disappointing that must be . In many of the threads there has been what I consider to be speculation about why the ship could not dock and what could be done to improve the odds. I have also seen at least one thread that included statistics suggesting that missing Castaway Cay is a rare occurance. I was wondering if there is a way we could persuade the Disney Captain(s) to provide some sort of commentary regarding the factors (not just the obvious ones) that impact the ability of the ship to dock and some statistics. In fact, I think it would be great to have commentary provided in many areas. A lot of DIS members consider this board to be an extension of the actual cruise experience and commentary level participation by appropriate CMs would enhance the experience.

1) Are there others out there who would be interested in this? Any opinions regarding a potential negative impact on the value of this board?

2) Any suggestions on how to go about making it happen? I know that several DIS members have access to high ranking DCL management and would welcome any assistance thay can provide. To those responsible for the management of these boards, is this a realistic possibility?

Thanks for reading this!

Anyone remember this? It was the original question(s). I got linked to this thread a long time ago by asking an individual a question. Been ignoring it since then, because it was of limited interest to me. But I keep seeing emails reminding me of new posts. So I thought I would revisit. Wow!

Seems to me, for what its worth (not much) the whole thing has degenerated to an "I am a master of the English language and I want to show it, and I'm not interested in whats going on here, and I could be misinterpreted, but I still will argue just to display my debating skills"

Gone for good this time!

 

[allears]

Actually my last post was more of a personal experiment. I pretty much expected that I would get the response I did from dwkwootton. It is apparent that she mostly enjoys the heat of a debate, though verbally treating others the way she is accused of being treated. Most of the responses are argumentative, condescending and tend to malign the previous posters, without giving them the same courtesy she expects for her opinion.

I’m out of this one two and will also try to avoid threads where agreeing to disagree really means agreeing with dwkwootton.

 

[dwkwootton]

Allears, I know I'm opinionated and stubborn. And I know that I don't always see how something I'm saying can be taken in a way that is hurtful to someone else. And I even know that sometimes in my effort to show that I didn't intend to be hurtful that my too many words can overshadow my good intentions.

But I also know that I'm not mean spirited. I would never make a deliberately inflammatory remark to conduct an experiment on or to set up another human being. And I wouldn't brag that I did something like that and then continue to do it and purposefully sucker punch that person some more.

I never really cared whether you or anyone else agreed with my thoughts on this topic. But I did care that since January it was stated as fact that having this opinion meant that a person was undoubedtly negative, ungrateful, greedy, the core problem of the American society, etc.

 

[cjsmith]

Maybe it's time this thread gets locked as it seems to be getting very personal.

 

[3DisneyNUTS]

two-foxes, there's rarely a clear right/wrong on objective matters as there is on subjective matters. We can all look at a spider and agree that its a spider but I'm doubtful the time will come that we can all agree how to feel about that spider.

If a poster words their comments in a way that you find annoying, perhaps leaves you feeling that a slap on the wrist is warranted, maybe its worth your consideration that the poster was feeling annoyed by a huge let down on a very costly and rare event. It sure sounds like you expect more from the other guy than you expect from yourself. Maybe when someone is in that initial keyed up stage is just the time to send that pixie dust their way.

I wasn't on every cruise that's missed CC in the last couple months. But my January Cruise (my 8th Disney Cruise) missed half the ports, had mostly poor weather the entire week, rough seas, and the staff was reduced by 1/3 due to illness. Without a backup plan on DCL's part (which I will maintain is THE problem) it left for not too many places to go, not much to do on deck, not much to do indoors. After 6 days, faux frog races in the atrium lobby and a free drink was not worthy of the entertainment giant. While the week was better than spending the week in the path of the tsunami, I'm not convinced that we should hold the bar quite that low.

Its been covered on previous threads that the hurricane cruisers had at least something to deal with. They had the common sense available to everyone that they were sailing during hurricane season. (C'mon guys, kids know that and seasoned Dis'ers and cruisers are still asking for the threads with the stats on missing CC).

They had a choice before boarding to take full compensation, were given a refund for the shortened days, and on top of that were given an additional bonus ~ a discount voucher to use on a future cruise. And didn't you get re-routed to find good weather and alternate ports?

Is it that the theory is that it is ok to take a voucher, just not ok to ask for a voucher?

If a person goes into a convenience store to buy a pack of gum, gives the cashier a $10 bill and receives change as though for a $20 bill, knowingly pockets the extra $10, did they steal $10 or did they get lucky?

I'll leave it to you guys to be annoyed at a disgruntled accountant, nurse, or whatever who believes that they are more qualified to steer the Magic than Captain Tom. Maybe, like me, you've heard people say that the boss at work is an idiot and they could do a better job. Maybe you've even said it yourself on bad day. I'm going to figure that the folks who said they could steer the Magic better than the Captain were probably just upset and doing some venting.

I'm not sure the Paris Peace Talks lasted this long. Hmm, I think I just aged myself right here in public ....

The problem here with this statement is that during a discussion people usually post to get others views and opionions. There are multiple threads about the exact same thing just slamming DCL. Some have formed their own websites in the attempt to "inform" the public about something that DCL already informs us of. When attacking a captain'd decision as if someone untrained knows better it is hard to be sypathetic for their situation.

AND Yes IMO if a cashier gives change for a $20 instead of a $10 it is stealingt and the person who keeps the money at the expense of the cashier's mistake is a clod. They are not getting lucky. If they wanted a chance at luck by a lotto ticket.