JoCo Cruise Crazy 4: The Basics
Although booking for JCCC4 is still only available to JCCC3 passengers, we thought we should at least publicly announce the ship, dates and itinerary for JCCC4, so that everyone else can at least start making plans accordingly:
JoCo Cruise Crazy 4
February 23 - March 1, 2014 (6 nights)
RCI's Independence of the Seas
Ft. Lauderdale, FL to Western Caribbean
(Georgetown, Grand Cayman; Falmouth, Jamaica; Labadee, Haiti)
REMINDER: you MUST book through JCCC to attend JCCC4 events; if you book through Royal Caribbean or a third party, you will be pointed at and laughed at, then required to rebook your sailing through JCCC.
Information re: general public booking for JCCC4 will be posted...SOON.
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Can someone send me the link again. I wrote it down while on the boat, but misplaced the sheet it was on.
Since it's all returning monkeys so far, I suppose it's a testament to how awesome JCCC3 was.
There was a JocoTel in Fort Lauderdale last year, the Radisson this year was much nicer though. The Springhill didn't have much in the way of facilities for gaming or booze. I'm sure we'll end up somewhere different next year, as we've got such bigger numbers.
I worry that in a few years JCCC will be an exclusive club that new people will struggle to get places on, yet at the same time I worry that there will be so many newcomers-turned-addicts that those who have been on the cruise but can't fit on the next one will destroy the world during that week in a nerd-crack-denial-fueled rampage. And the people on the ship will be the only survivors, and the world will be repopulated by sea monkeys.
If demand for JCCC eventually becomes to great for everyone to fit on the boat, it's going to be a stronger argument for having multiple events... maybe not all of them at sea.
I sympathize with that feeling. But from the other side of the fence, my wife and I are feeling a little left out while you JCCC3 folks are doing all this record-breaking early booking. We *loved* JCCC1 (I still strive to live up to the example that some of you folks set that week), and we would have been on 2 and 3 if they hadn't been scheduled on top of our semester. (It's tough to skip class when you're the one at the front of the room.) We've been used to thinking of ourselves as part of that "us" ever since, so waiting with the public at large this time stings a bit. And that makes me feel all the more sympathetic toward folks who have *wanted* to go from the start, but for whatever reasons haven't been able to.
Anyway, it's a tough balance to strike, I agree, and there really is something special about this cruise-based community-within-a-community. But maybe it's better to trust that the same factors that have brought so many awesome people together so far will continue to make it awesome, regardless of size.
(stealing Kate's line)
thanks,
Greg
@Reldan What?! Tell me moar!
They're usually on the Norwegian Pearl and it's pretty awesome to have the whole ship be nothing but a music festival. It would be amazing if JCCC got that big - it's a great "problem" to have.
That doesn't seem to be the way it works with Royal Caribbean. Based on what they've told us and how it worked on JCCC3, the Home Office gets a specific set of staterooms to use and assign, rather than the cruise line handling the stateroom assignments based on their own priorities.
Pro: We all get stateroom assignments further in advance (and, on JCCC3, those of us who made special requests got the chance to say "Yes that room is OK" or "No that room is not OK" ahead of time). Con: The upgrade thing.
Some of my frequent cruise friends have stories of being upgraded from an interior room to a veranda, unrelated to their status with the cruise lines, but a lot of the upgrades on HAL were minimal ... like an ocean view that sleeps two to an ocean view that is effectively the same but could sleep four.