YUMA Online Registration UPDATE: females sold out, remaining males available 12p-6p today!

From YUMA:  Morning YUMAs! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. YUMA is now SOLD OUT online. The few male costumes left will be on sale from noon-6pm EST. Ensure all info entered into the system is accurate to avoid issues at collection. Those who registered online will receive payment confirmation emails when your cards are processed for 50% of your costume total (online deposit requirement). HUGS!

I posted in the previous YUMA update the remaining male sections (good thing I took that screenshot too because below is the screen that's up right now).  From the sounds of things there are not that many remaining in each section for the guys though!

The available males as of when I went in the system last night:

The screen now until around noon (please get on there and through the intro screen before noon so you can already be AT the costume registration section and have refreshed your screen at least once BY noon...): 

Again, LEO and TAURUS males are completely sold out online.  LEO and SCORPIO males are completely sold out in the MAS CAMP.  

DON'T FORGET YOU CAN STILL GO PHYSICALLY INTO OR SEND SOMEONE INTO OR FEDEX YOUR PAYMENT AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION INTO THE MAS CAMP! (I know my FedEx idea has worked for one person already, so call the mas camp and speak with someone who has the authority to receive male on behalf of the mas camp so you can confirm the address and when they have received it.)

Men let's go!  I want to see that Capricorn sold out! :)

2nd UPDATE: PRE-Review of La Calypso Guesthouse

From this blog post we know I had the free housing provider for my group headed to Trinidad Carnival cancel on us at what, for carnival housing purposes, might as well be called the last minute.  We also know I searched high and low to find the most affordable alternative located in the same location (Woodbrook) close to all the carnival activities and the all-important Savannah.  Next we learned that the rate was apparently mis-quoted by the desk clerk, and was a little over $100 per person higher according to the manager.

I wasn't happy about the price changing after two days of several calls between myself and the clerk, but what I am happy about is:

1. It still works out, even with the increase, to only about $30 per night, per person.  That is just unbeatable. I know, I tried! lol!

2. With true YUMA Vibe a fellow YUMA volunteered to go check out the place in person for me (great, because the place has no website and no camera readily available for the pictures I requested).  She finds the building too old for her liking, and the rooms way too small for her liking, but she did confirm the place is clean!  That's all we needed to hear baby! *does the jiggy dance*  All the affordable places were completely booked; she tried to look around for us today to see if she could find us something nicer but everything was very expensive.  Which I had a feeling was going to be the case, having looked high and low on my own already.  I am happy to have current confirmation on the cleanliness though because that is the main factor.  It is, according to her, in a "damn good" location. So that is the second requirement met!

3. The manager, perhaps sensing how wrong it is for me to swallow their error, insisted on calling me back to speak to me in person after we had already spoken today to confirm this new price and the payment details... even though I said I just wanted to give her my email address(es) to be sure she could reach me and I her WITHOUT the phone calls (calling Trinidad is not on my monthly package, lol!)  And what puts this little feat on my list? After all the rude money-hungry behaviour from many of the trini guesthouse managers and lack of phone etiquette to boot, she actually did call back, and after 8pm or 9pm at that, when I was sure she got busy and forgot me!  She talked, she thanked me/apologized for the runaround I got earlier today (took several calls to catch up with her)...and was even flexible on payment arrangements, which I think was her way of making up for us having to swallow their error.

4. Did I mention that even before this, she had been willing to go pick up the Western Union deposit payment herself and not force me to depend on what would be our third middleman for this year's carnival?

Customer service when I am spending my hardearned money IS one of those things I will pay a little more for...and show some loyalty for too!  When I saw the name of the guesthouse light up on my phone so LATE, I decided then and there that just for her giving a d-mn and keeping her word, she WILL be seeing our money for Carnival 2011!  And if that service and MANNERS keeps up while we are there I don't mind being a repeat customer, 'cause I do not go on vacations (of this kind) to park up in a fancy hotel and be spoiled to death!

If i want a hotel-focused getaway, it will be at a time where I have no intention of sweating or lifting a finger.  Or when I have LINKS.  And watch me have some before I leave Trinidad AND Tobago! ROFL

Reviews are in from YUMA's online registration process & REMAINING MALE SECTIONS ONLINE!

 I must say to YUMAS...CONGRATS, CONGRATS, CONGRATS, on a job well done. The online registration was seamless and well worth the wait and anticipation. The accuracy of registration with the section's availability and the ease of the entire registration process was ABSOLUTELY SUPERB!! We on the Road come 2K11.

WOW it seems most ppl got their desired sections and were happy with the online registration process.Big respect to all yuma crew that made this much anticipated event so positive for the masqueraders.

welcome all online yuma peeps.

I got into the section i wanted too but not sure if my heart could take another experience such as this one... Please have an area for suggestions so that you guys can work on improving registration for 'On-Line' individuals (notice i did not say foreign since i'm sure people in Trinidad used On-Line as well :-). But i am definitely looking forward to parading with YUMA on the road... Not a Taurus but cannot wait to get into my Front Line Taurus costume March 8th... Nuff Luv my feller YUMA peeps 

Hmmm...side note here... she got into what appears to be her first choice...no talk of glitches in registering...so what is it that needs improvement? lol It doesn't really get much better than that unless she means her heart couldn't take the wait til they opened up online. lol But the wait was to make it right and not be another TRIBE Online. Glad you got into what you wanted still!

wow.. Im very disappointed about the way this want down.. There was NO fl for most of the costumes...BTW.. I went online and so did my friend at 12noon on the dot.. 

Same thing here. FL sold out at 12:02pm? How many they had available? One? LOL. Still in Taurus same way. 

Aquarius FL and Scorpio FL were definitely there when I logge in. I think we have to remember that FLs aren't usually that plentiful. If you have 300 people in a section, 150 are not FL. Maybe 30? IDK. And out of that 30, maybe they sold half at in-house (or a third if some were allocated to committee registration). How many people logged in to register simultaneously? Hundreds? Everybody will not get if we all can log in at the same time. 

YUMA thank you for giving alot of us who are overseas the opportunity to register online....I think the registration process was easy. and i can appreciate the fact that you actually eliminate the sections as they sell out when you are registering and that you hold costumes until the credit card is approved.

Did YUMA pass its first online registration test?  I would say an overwhelming YES!  No glitches, no hitches, no stitches.  Great job YUMA.

Now get the males in there please cause Leo and Taurus males (the completely sold out male sections) cannot manage us ALL! ROFL

Here's the screenshot of remaining male costumes available for purchase online:

Only Sagittarius backline left for females! Males you are still in good shape but you know Leo was NOT going to last! Lol

YUMA online: all frontlines sold out! Leo males completely gone! Capricorn gone! More details at YUMA Vibe facebook page.