So sad...and disturbing, for relative newcomers to RSSC like my wife and I. On our first cruise, the PG in early '04, we met and became good friends with two other couples, and the six of us had such a fantastic time that we vowed to get together on Radisson for years to come. Our first reunion was in March on the Mariner Panama Canal. We all did an onboard booking for still another cruise, which we had planned to "roll over" into the '06 schedule (which wasn't out at the time). Now it looks like the universe is changing on us. Price increases per se don't disturb me as much as the disarray, the changing of rules, the disregard for return customers, the possible erosion of services (see thread on shake-up of the PG officers and maintenance staff), and so on. AT A VERY MINIMUM RSSC management should be communicating directly with every past cruiser, reassuring and explaining in detail what "the plan" is, and why we should not move on to other cruise lines in this category. Leaving it to rumor and speculation, and the trickle of bad news, is a deadly PR formula.
Tim