On May 8, 8:33=A0am, "Jr." wrote:
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> What we found out was that on the day the ship leaves, if you go down to t=
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> dining room you can speak with the maitre' d and generally get whatever
> changes you want.
My experience with the Maitre d on Crown Princess (10/07-11/07) was
that he had no interest at all in accommodating anything. When I
arrived at my traditional dining table on the first night to find I
had been placed at a table for two - alone - he didn't understand why
I wanted to move ("It's a nice table, you'll like it"). After
explaining why eating alone wasn't appealing ("you can talk to the
people at the next table"), he agreed to move me to a table for six -
with only myself for company at that one too. When I pointed out to
him that this wasn't an improvement ("That's the finest table I
have"), he said it would be impossible to seat me at any of the tables
that I saw on his chart that had empty seats because "they might all
be cruising together and might not want a stranger to join them." When
I suggested that he ask any of those tables if they would mind - he
said that would be impossible. He had no interest or intention of
graciously trying to seat me.
The following night I did manage to get seated at a table with actual
tablemates, and every one of them had a similar story. We dubbed our
table the Island of Misfit Passengers.
Everything to this man was "impossible." Same attitude at the
purser's desk.
Warren |