You know, Anne, that brings a good point up when We are A group! And even groups within our group even affect our own group!

People are paying thousands of dollars to take a cruise. While we are a group, we also are not a group. The dynamic is that we need to be mindful and considerate that we can also off-put those who may be on board and yet aren't LCT and let's face it, we can be rowdy.

While PIP was smaller, MUSH will be much bigger. I think from the people I met and the people I know will actually end up being a few groups of fun but with different interests. If we are 100 or even more of 700 on the Mariner, how will we affect the others? How did it affect the others on MINT? I wasn't part of that bigger group cruise.

I've been on two RSSC cruises where the big groups did impact the cruise. On the Panama Canal there was a cooking expert who had some private affairs on the ship but her people were like us, they were not part of a company, just radio fans of her cooking show (she's in Los Angeles)and she takes a group once or twice a year. They mixed and mingled with the rest of us.
On the Bermuda cruise there was a close knit group of Texans who all belonged to a food Charity through a well know magazine and they also cruised regularly and socialized all the time. They tended to exclude the regular passengers and did take over some areas of the ship, like Kareoke. If you weren't part of their group, you wre not going to be a part of the Kareoke. And there was no room on Navigator to dance because they had the area cornered and no room for anyone else! We danced on the carpet on the other side of the bar.

None of that every bothered us because we were not affected by those groups, generally. But, I'd love to hear the viewpoint of the others.