WAAAYTOOO Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 What's up with the Cruise Itinerary Notices that are now popping up when you use "Find a Cruise" to do a mock booking ? They normally only pop up when the itinerary has somehow changed since its original publication but it's popping up on almost all of my cruise itineraries lately. For the life of me, I cannot find a single change on any of the itineraries from what I originally booked. The old itins are identical to the supposed "new" itin popping up. If they have somehow changed the time in port on one or more of the ports of call, it would not show up in that Cruise Itinerary Notice anyway since port times aren't included in those notices. I'm totally perplexed about what has changed on the itinerary that warrants the pop-up. Hoski, RCIfan1912 and Mrs. Thomas 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 I have yet to figure it out either. I wonder if it tracks cruises you look at, and then alerts you cruise B you are looking at is different than cruise A? I have no idea if that's really the case or not. Mrs. Thomas and RCIfan1912 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGTLH Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 Think is has to do when a discrepancy occurs between what is posted on the "Visiting" part vs the actual order. Example here is for a Nov 13, 2020 sailing on Navigator Clicking to book... This is what also causes a lot on the three ship at CocoCay panic. Most of the calendars showing when ships are in port are going by the "Visiting" information vs what the system spits out as the actual order when looking at the booking. RCIfan1912 and Hoski 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted June 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 Thanks @CGTLH. At least that makes some sense. I never noticed that before. Kinda silly, really....but at least it looks like a reasonable explanation. I will check that out the next time I'm on Find a Cruise. RCIfan1912 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk8erguy1978 Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 @CGTLH Yours makes sense. I just looked at my (probably not) upcoming September cruise and it is exactly the same from when we booked a year ago - order - times - etc. Wonder if it was a faster implementation to just let it pop up for all sailings. RCIfan1912 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaMG Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 I've been stalking Anthem's TA in April next year for some time now and have seen the new notices too, but I can't see any changes at all in the itinerary from when I first started eyeing this cruise. WAAAYTOOO and RCIfan1912 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGTLH Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 minute ago, FionaMG said: I've been stalking Anthem's TA in April next year for some time now and have seen the new notices too, but I can't see any changes at all in the itinerary from when I first started eyeing this cruise. Meet lazy programming??? My guess is the system doesn't understand multi-day "Cruising" segments or trying to bring awareness that "Cruising" isn't one day between ports. WAAAYTOOO and RCIfan1912 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted June 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 The weird thing is though....these itins have been like this all along. Why adding the pop-up change now ? It's a mystery ! Baked Alaska, RCIfan1912 and Hoski 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk8erguy1978 Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 (edited) 15 minutes ago, CGTLH said: Meet lazy programming??? My guess is the system doesn't understand multi-day "Cruising" segments or trying to bring awareness that "Cruising" isn't one day between ports. DING DING DING! I just verified. If there is ANYTHING extra it flags it. IE: 5 day to Bermuda from NJ it catches it because of 2 Bermuda days... BUT, 4 day Bahamas & Perfect Day from FLL, it doesn't. Edited June 18, 2020 by sk8erguy1978 anything is one word! WAAAYTOOO, Neaxan and RCIfan1912 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anguillandelight Posted June 18, 2020 Report Share Posted June 18, 2020 My January 26 11 night Caribbean cruise has the itinerary basically the same except we set sail and cruise for 2 days before Puerto Rico, go to all the islands, then cruise for 3 days coming home. Makes me think this gives them a chance to rearrange. RCIfan1912 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsam Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 Maybe they just put it on every sailing, so that you get so used to seeing it that you simply click to get rid of it without actually reading. Then when they do actually slip a change of port or something important in there, nobody takes any notice and just carries on with their booking. Sort of a reverse psychology version of the boy who cried wolf? WAAAYTOOO and RCIfan1912 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neaxan Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 20 hours ago, sk8erguy1978 said: DING DING DING! I just verified. If there is ANYTHING extra it flags it. IE: 5 day to Bermuda from NJ it catches it because of 2 Bermuda days... BUT, 4 day Bahamas & Perfect Day from FLL, it doesn't. I think you're onto something. I got the notice when booking my Eastern Med cruise on Odyssey - hubby and me were comparing itineraries for 10 minutes and couldn't figure out what had changed. We have an overnight in Athens, so this most likely triggered the notice. sk8erguy1978, RCIfan1912 and WAAAYTOOO 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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