(Can't seem to shut up today...) Y'know, all this talk of groups on cruises, and I had a sudden flash of memory...there was, in fact, a group on our cruise too, but it was only about 50 or 60 people, who were all friends, family and clients of a TA from Oklahoma City. While we did encounter them, it had absolutely no impact on our cruise. They took the same buses we did for excursions, and seemed to get no preferential treatment. They did book one of the public rooms for a cocktail party once, and they had one section of Compass Rose every night, but that's it. Of course, this was a much smaller fraction of the total passengers than the group on the PG.