Insofar as the way this was handled by the other board, it does boil down to a trust & disclosure issue. The other board seems to have known alot more than they were prepared to admit to and those who were chosen as RC's have been brought into a scheme that they assumed was legitimate and directly connected with RCI, when infact it was initially something from a PR firm acting on behalf of RCI.

The cruise line and the PR firm both made a mess of this and it has come back to haunt them. Add in the other board and all 3 parties should have handled this better from day one, as it stands now people are always going to doubt the honesty of cruise reviews of RCI ships/itineraries and a seed of doubt has been planted which need not have been the case had the 3 parties been open and honest from the start.

Any damage limitation done now will inevitably be greeted with an understandable amount of distrust that could have been avoided quite easily.