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Originally Posted by billethkid
It used to be nice to go on a cruise and see no cell phones.
Now some cruise lines, like Princess, require everything on or about your cruise is done via their app, hence everybody has their face in their phone 24/7....
Convenience certainly could not be the goal as the app is slow and not the most user friendly and totally ridiculous that ALL transactions go through their app.
We will choose cruise lines that still do without the phone......if there are any left.
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Fondly remember those days ! ! Started in the 60's with parents while still in school. NO cell phones, NO plated meals, ordered preferred veggies, preferred potato, etc. HUGE shrimp cocktail and caviar with all the condiments with every meal, ice carvings (on RCL/RCCL Santa, full size sleigh, and SIX full sized reindeer in the middle of the dining room on Christmas day !), and what did we do without internet ??? Incredible on board lecturers who held interactive lectures on art, philosophy, music/composers/genre, great literature, etc. and port lectures (culture, history, economics, etc. NOT SHOPPING talks and "special" coupons !) before every port ! And of course.... midnight buffets ! Actually, is USED to be wonderful to go to a golf tournament with no cell phones, to a movie without people talking, texting, and shining the bright light from a screen in your direction, even meals in a "nice" (meaning sit down) restaurant without trying to listen to the soft music in the back ground while the family of 4, or 6, at the next table ALL talk into their cell phones and try to eat with one hand... ? Too old to really get the point I guess, we so enjoy a meal AWAY from our cell phones, and also a day at the beach with the cell phones left in the glove box of the car ! Every try to read a book at a pool in the villages ? ? And, might as well add, WHY do people feel it necessary to literally scream into their cell phones when the pool lounges are so close together ? Guess this will just be read as "old folks complaining", but gee it was nice "once upon a time" to go to a nice steak house with NO cells.... ! Friend told me about a country club in their community (out of Florida) where NO cell phones are permitted in the dining room. Medical doctors, with proper ID may keep them if they are on vibrate, all others must check them or leave at home, in automobiles, or in golf carts. The are permitted in the snack bar "restaurant" of the country club.