OMG who has a cruise this week and can check if this is true?!?!this is what I got when I emailed about this:
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for the email, great question we are not able to sent the information ahead of time but for dining they have paper menus and quest services can give you a print out of the navigator for the day.
I hope this information has been helpful. If you require further assistance with any other inquiries, please feel free to contact us.
Have a Magical Day!
OMG who has a cruise this week and can check if this is true?!?!
this is what I got when I emailed about this:
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for the email, great question we are not able to sent the information ahead of time but for dining they have paper menus and quest services can give you a print out of the navigator for the day.
I hope this information has been helpful. If you require further assistance with any other inquiries, please feel free to contact us.
Have a Magical Day!
Virtue signaling?
I personally can care less if people know (I never tell people). I would prefer single use products/packaging be avoided as much as possible. I am simply stating why I personally will not support bringing back mass printing of navigators.
Additionally from Disney's view paper has been on the out for a while (along with many other companies). There has been a general push to remove single use where ever possible and everyone already has digital devices and they will be serving all information up digitally regardless.
The big issue right now is the UI/UX designers for DCL are not the greatest. If they produced a more digestible app there would be even fewer people complaining.
Luxury in my mind means they should be even more capable of removing as much waste and pollution as possible. Heck DCL is built on the concept these days that it is more environmentally friendly than other cruise lines.
I just got off the Dream on Sept 27th and I saw tables getting paper menus to look at when they asked on our sailing. I can’t help with asking for a Navigator.
At least we have Kennywood!Or people prefer a simple piece of paper over the greatest app ever built.
We need to bring that uproar back. Everyone who dislikes the lack of paper navigators needs to comment on it when we cruise, or even before, by emailing DCL.And I believe there was even a short period where the navigators were not available at guest services. It took a bit of an uproar to bring them back in that capacity.
I will definitely test this when I sail the Magic in two weeks. I will also request paper menus at dinner, just like I do at Disney World.this is what I got when I emailed about this:
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for the email, great question we are not able to sent the information ahead of time but for dining they have paper menus and quest services can give you a print out of the navigator for the day.
• I would finish one event, realize there was something fun that I could make in the next 15 minutes…BUT what I don’t realize… it would NOT END before the thing I really wanted to not miss before dinner. We would never find a seat together if I go late or find my parents in the crowd. Of course I often realize this midway through and don’t want appear rude and walk out of somebody’s program.
Without the paper it makes it more difficult for diverging interests. Without the paper(color-coded highlighters of yellow, orange, green for different people) it was so disappointing because we kept missing stuff for someone. There’s no easy long-range view on the phone. And forgot about color coding for different people. And sometimes you need to read description…ugh, how do I get back to that last screen? Hold on it’s still downloading…
We need to bring that uproar back. Everyone who dislikes the lack of paper navigators needs to comment on it when we cruise, or even before, by emailing DCL.
To each his own, but I thought the Navigator app was far easier to use than the old paper ones. My complaint about the app was that the messaging was so unreliable. Sometimes we wouldn't get notifications for hours, so there is no way on board to reach someone right away.
Based on conversations I had, it seemed to be a broad problem. I got notifications for upcoming activities pretty much every time. It was just the messenger portion of the app.Best of luck with that... People have been trying that ever since they took them away. You can make as much of an "uproar" as you want but it seems like they are content with the decision not to have them. I will say that the new version on the TV's is far more similar to the paper navigator than the app is.
The notifications came through immediately for messaging on the app when we were on board last month on the Fantasy. Cant say that's the same for all of the ships but it was much better than before. Maybe check your notification settings?
Based on conversations I had, it seemed to be a broad problem. I got notifications for upcoming activities pretty much every time. It was just the messenger portion of the app.
Somehow your "best of luck" comment seems insincere...Best of luck with that... People have been trying that ever since they took them away. You can make as much of an "uproar" as you want but it seems like they are content with the decision not to have them. I will say that the new version on the TV's is far more similar to the paper navigator than the app is.
Somehow your "best of luck" comment seems insincere...
They've only been sailing for two months since Covid. Pre-Covid, they did provide the paper navigators at the front desk. And the PP got an email from DCL saying they would still be available at the front desk. It doesn't seem like the lost cause you assume it to be.