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  1. And ME!!! We all love Roscoe ❤️ Missing you all.
  2. BB, I booked my cruise through Cunard and transferred it to Costco within the 21 day period to get the pre-existing condition waiver. GO BILLS!!!!!! (Today is January 15. 2024. ) 🙂
  3. Well, well, well, another Expos fan. Went to the second home game in 1969. Little did I know that my husband was there too but we did not meet until the end of June 1969. 🙂
  4. That is not how it works in Grills. You have a table for the duration of your voyage. It is up to the Maitre D to determine who gets the window table, based on when the cruise was booked and loyalty to Cunard.
  5. Dear Ross, My husband and I are much older than most people on these boards. We will be in Auckland for two days while on the Queen Anne Maiden World cruise. We have already been to Waiheke Island, although he is hell bent on returning and I can not find fault with that. Other than perhaps smuggling you onboard, if you are in the area, what would you suggest we do in Auckland? 😇 Evana
  6. Roscoe, very interesting about the lack of entertaining lecturers. I will be interested to see if this is remedied by July when I take the Iceland cruise. AND What were those interlopers even thinking? Forcing you to get up earlier and earlier to get the seat that you so carefully preserve! A curse on their staterooms. 🙂 Enjoy.....
  7. They have seemingly outsourced their live phone agents. Today I spoke with two agents regarding a drop in price of my booking and an increase in OBC. The first one told me I had a good price and what was my problem? Then the line disconnected. The second one went to speak to a Supervisor and never came back. I will try the live chat next. Thanks
  8. Thanks for that information. I am trying to be patient and not put too many irons in the fire at this point. We have multiple claims because we also dealt with Covid and isolation for three weeks. I have not made the Health claim with Aon yet. I have filed for missed hotels and prepaid trips through the trip interruption and am waiting for that as well. I did not file those with Chase and it would have been useless because we were unable to return home within the claim filing deadline.
  9. We had a Transatlantic cruise this past April. We purchased the cruise line insurance . I had two visits to the clinic onboard the ship and was sent to a hospital for treatment on one day. I paid for everything when I was billed. The total came to almost $1000. I returned home and submitted my bills to my United Health care Plan F claims department. That was on May 29. I have receipts for their arrival at the Insurance offices. I have been waiting since then for word as to how much will be reimbursed. Plan F supposedly pays 80% of foreign claims. I am waiting for this before I can file a claim with AON which insures Celebrity. I have been told that the claims are paid in the order that they are received and that they are getting to those for the month of May soon. They hope that they will resolve. this by the end of the month. Does this sound normal? As I paid for the hospital bill with my Chase Sapphire card am I better off trying to get reimbursement there? Thanks in advance.
  10. We booked the Emerald September 29/23 on June 17. Nobody at Princess mentioned anything. That is super strange. We want an M1 and are waitlisted for one .
  11. I just wanted to let you all know that Celebrity has done the right thing. We are getting a pro rated refund of the days which were missed on the Transatlantic due to testing positive for Covid. My husband was unable to enjoy any of the second week of the trip so that is fair. Thanks again for supporting me and hopefully learning from my experience. I am the kid your mother suggested you stay away from. Wierd things always happen around me. 🙃
  12. Mark. just wanted to let you know. I have been able to negotiate a fair settlement. I would have preferred the cruise we paid for, but that theoretical ship has sailed. Thanks for your support over the past few weeks.
  13. I am supposedly going to hear back this evening. I have a voice message from the Retreat person. Apparently she had to leave early yesterday due to something. She would be back at her desk at 12:30 today, Central time. I called at 3 EST. I was told she would call back at around 5-5:30. Dang I wish I had asked if that were Central or Eastern Standard. I will keep you posted. I am like gum on the bottom of a shoe (really I am more like dog excrement) but I am trying to be nicer these days.) I am hard to shake off.
  14. Well, they finally shook me off the line after an hour and three quarters. That was because I finally relented due to the impending arrival of my mini me 2 year old granddaughter We had not seen each other for two months and both of us were aching to spread chaos around the world like stardust. I was told that my booking was a "Group booking". They had no idea that a Transatlantic takes two weeks. They assumed that because our cruise originated in Port Everglades and my husband was Covid positive on Day 8 that he obviously was not on the ship at the time of diagnosis. If my husband was Positive for Covid, why would I be asking for pro rated as well? I told them that I was not permitted to eat in any dining room, sit down anywhere and take my mask off, and could only eat my meals and have a drink on my lap in my Suite. That seemed unbelievable to them. Trust me, we are on the same page. It was damn unbelievable. Nobody seems able to understand why this happened, or that it did indeed happen. (But we were told that if we disembarked, we were on our own. If we stayed on we were in Quarantine until we completed Italy's sadistic treatment of American hostages who stupidly cruised into an Italian port) Then I was told that it had to be taken care of by the Retreat team because we were Retreat guests. Then I was told that this had to be investigated further . I was passed on to a Retreat specialist. She then asked how I could have been in isolation if I was able to get off the ship for that exciting visit to the hospital in Palma De Mallorca. And then she asked if she could call me back once they had investigated further. Later, while my cell phone was charging and I was having a cuddle with my granddaughter some person named Erin called. I have the message saved. She apologized because her shift had ended at 5 (Am? PM? No clue) and that she had returned to the office (REALLY, come on, you have live roosters in your office?) to follow up on my questions. She would call me back when she was back to work. Sure. But there is no way I will be waiting for that call. I am up. I have been since 5 am. My circadian rhythm is off. I will keep you posted. They simply want to have us go away. Well, we tried that and look at what happened. We got stuck in Quarantine for a head cold, and a positive test for who knows what.
  15. When we were on the Edge for the Transatlantic I had a small pharmacy that I had packed, all except my much needed Omeprazole and Otc Levsin. That oversight cost me just over $1,000. I had two visits to the Medical center followed by an idiotic and totally unnecessary hospital trip. I had asked the concierge in the Retreat whether there might be basic medicines available and I was told that if I went to the Medical center and stated that I had a stomach problem I would be quarantined for 24 hours in case it was Noro. I was confined for 21 days due to my husband's and my subsequent Covid diagnosis. The idea that GERD might result in Quarantine is absolutely idiotic and another example of how the Medical personnel onboard are not to be taken seriously. If you cannot tell the difference between GERD and Noro, your Medical degree was given to you erroneously.
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