AyerJ003 Posted September 26, 2016 Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 Hello Everyone - Does anyone know if they have begun using WOW Bands - RFID on the Allure of the Seas? Xobertlab 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLA Posted September 26, 2016 Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 As far as I am aware, no. This is only on Quantum ships + Harmony. monorailmedic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monorailmedic Posted September 26, 2016 Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 Unless something has changed in the last day or so, Kayla is correct. I'm not aware of any immidiate plans to expand the use of WOW Bands. I'm sure it will happen at some point, but haven't heard rumors of plans or testing. KLA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerel Posted September 26, 2016 Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 On a side not I'd like to see them go ferther with this technology. Maybe tracking the movements of all cruisers to see what areas of the ship are utilized and what ones arnt, or analyze how well crowds disperse after a show. I think a no brainer would be to be able to track if someone went overboard, and if so being able to track them in the ocean would help find them. I think cruising is safe but the possibility of these bracelets making it safer is there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monorailmedic Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 On a side not I'd like to see them go ferther with this technology. Maybe tracking the movements of all cruisers to see what areas of the ship are utilized and what ones arnt, or analyze how well crowds disperse after a show. I think a no brainer would be to be able to track if someone went overboard, and if so being able to track them in the ocean would help find them. I think cruising is safe but the possibility of these bracelets making it safer is there. If the bands have only NFC they need to be too close to transponders to know who is in what areas of the ship. I'm not sure the technology behind them. In Walt Disney World for example, Magic Bands have both NFC and longer range transponders (like toll systems use), and I'm confident they do watch crowd movements in that way. As far as MOB uses go, these technologies wouldn't be able to locate someone in that way. The basic idea with these systems is that if a given transponder is within range of a given station that is all it knows (in other words, your band is in the MDR because the MDR station sees it. Jerel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocLC Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 I'm not sure what kind of bands they were using on the kids on the Disney ships, but they were able to pinpoint which room within the clubs, which were all interconnected, the children were located in when going to pick them up. In addition, they were useful in locating lost children. How accurate they were, though, I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monorailmedic Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 I'm not sure what kind of bands they were using on the kids on the Disney ships, but they were able to pinpoint which room within the clubs, which were all interconnected, the children were located in when going to pick them up. In addition, they were useful in locating lost children. How accurate they were, though, I don't know. The bands DCL uses appear to be identical to the Magic Bands used in WDW. I'd very much like to get ahold of one and tie it to my WDW Annual Pass. Alas, they don't sell them, and look at you strangely when you ask. DocLC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyerJ003 Posted September 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 I wish the Allure of the Seas had the WOW Bands to buy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLA Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 I'm looking forward to this being rolled out to more ships! I hope there are plans to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monorailmedic Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 I'm looking forward to this being rolled out to more ships! I hope there are plans to do so. Apple Watches, WOW bands...you just like wrist decorations. KLA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 I'm looking forward to this being rolled out to more ships! I hope there are plans to do so. I'll ask on Harmony, but last I heard, they were focusing on new builds for WOWbands, Royal Connect app and other new innovations. KLA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jticarruthers Posted September 28, 2016 Report Share Posted September 28, 2016 I would imagine its fairly infrastructure intensive, all new locks on all the doors, tracking stations all over the ship, electrical connections, computer connections, etc. so probably not high on the list of items to add to an existing build vs. incorporate from scratch on a new build, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 28, 2016 Report Share Posted September 28, 2016 I would imagine its fairly infrastructure intensive, all new locks on all the doors, tracking stations all over the ship, electrical connections, computer connections, etc. so probably not high on the list of items to add to an existing build vs. incorporate from scratch on a new build, Good point. Door locks are all completely different, as are the SeaPass card readers because they are also RFID based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLA Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 I just realized I have an Anthem cruise booked and that I'll actually be able to try the WOW Bands! DocLC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arebee Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 I just realized I have an Anthem cruise booked and that I'll actually be able to try the WOW Bands! Wow................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLA Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 Wow................ HAHA! :) Booking Anthem was kind of a last minute decision so I don't know that it's all hit me quite yet ! Didn't think I'd be able to do this trip until well after my wedding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arebee Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 HAHA! :) Booking Anthem was kind of a last minute decision so I don't know that it's all hit me quite yet ! Didn't think I'd be able to do this trip until well after my wedding. I'll wait until it comes to Port Canaveral or Tampa (doubt this one). I don't even want to drive to Ft. Lauderdale anymore... Have fun and tell us all about it... KLA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jticarruthers Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 I'm with you on that, I was interested in Anthem back when it was meant to be in Florida but I am not flying up to the northeast to cruise back to Florida, then back to the northeast and then fly back to Florida .... DocLC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLA Posted September 30, 2016 Report Share Posted September 30, 2016 Being in Ohio, flying to get to either Florida or New Jersey is all the same to me... so Anthem it is! arebee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donalk Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 On Anthem at the moment, most people don't have Wow Bands, and staff seem to hate them, particularly in bars and at the pool deck (yes Anthem, in Canada and New England, is still insisting on checking towels in and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 On Anthem at the moment, most people don't have Wow Bands, and staff seem to hate them, particularly in bars and at the pool deck (yes Anthem, in Canada and New England, is still insisting on checking towels in and out. They're essentially "hidden" and I bet most guests don't even know it's an option. Charging for them never made sense to me. Also, the checking in/out of towels seems to have returned fleet-wide with a vengeance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted October 14, 2016 Report Share Posted October 14, 2016 I had heard somewhere (can't remember where) that the towel checkin/out is a sham....that they didn't really assign responsibility for the towel to you. They pretend to charge your seapass card but it's a meaningless scan. I guess they would do this to 'scare' you into bringing the towel(s) back. I didn't give it another though until this past June when we were on Freedom. We took 2 towels off the ship for an excursion and the bag, in which the towels were located, was inadvertently left in the cab (along with my water shoes and the sun screen...thank goodness that's all that was in there !). We worried and plotted on how to get 2 replacement towels so that we wouldn't be charged. Dan said he was going to go to the spa and get 2 and bring them back to the room. In the end, we couldn't bring ourselves to cheat so we decided just to suffer the consequences and let them charge us for the towels. To our great surprise - nada - nunca. So, either the tale about the towel checkin/out being a sham is true, or they just took pity on us and didn't charge us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandboxer Posted October 15, 2016 Report Share Posted October 15, 2016 On Navigator September last they wrote down your cabin number when you collected your towels and again when you returned them. Would they marry the two entries up at the end of the day to see who has or who has not handed them back? I doubt it. However, having said that why then put the guy with the clip board there anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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