grandgeezer

If people are that gullible, they deserve what they get. When you price a cruise on line, you are asked if you want to include gratuities now. Right there yo know the difference, it stops looking better and you move on one way or the other. As far as the drink price deal mentioned, I don’t have a comment except anything over free is too much. You can fool some of the people all of the time.

Looks better? The only one you’re fooling is yourself. A person could book the $1,000 p.p. and remove the grats at the front desk at the end of the cruise like they are currently doing. Your example gains nothing.

I’ve been on these boards for over twenty years, and the tipping situation has been a subject the whole while. It seems like an easy fix, just roll them into the total price, so why hasn’t it been done? I’m betting it has something to do with $$$$ in the cruise lines bottom line, what it is I couldn’t even guess. Until then nothing is going to change. Can anybody say, with certainty that the cruise price dropped when the prepaid gratuities was taken off the AI and suites and passed on to the customer? Why not? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count.

Who would write yoy, this year? That makes it this year only. Where did I say I watch every single stock on the stock market? If I find one I might be interested in, I do a deep dive, and it confirms my feeling I buy, if not I pass. This strategy has worked very well over the past 35 years. It allowed me to retire at 55. I’ve not paid a penny interest on anything since 1985, and my mrd from my 401k, investment income is almost double the total of my pension and my wife’s and mine social security. And we lived the “life of Riley” the whole time, we have everything we want and did everything we wanted to do. Amazing!

What’s yoy? I’ve been active in the stock market for over 35 years, and with all the due diligence I’ve done, yoy has never shown up. ?

The way I understand it, a courtesy hold is just that. Normally it’s 24 hours, then if nothing happens it just goes away. We’ve done several and never had to put down a deposit. Maybe things changed since our last cruise in October 2019.

One of my favorite quotes, “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

I have as much right to post my opinion on this board as anybody. Just because they don’t jive with all the other ones doesn’t make we wrong. The cherry on top of the cake is irritating know it alls that can’t accept that someone feels different than they do.

I doubt a high ranking officer in the military and a cruise ship captain have much in common. He has his right to his opinion but that’s all it is.

It sounds like a mechanical issue on the container ship, height wouldn’t make a difference. They have had ships going in and out of the port for years.

The number is the minimum amount you have to withdraw without paying a penalty of 30% of the shortcoming. I agree, you are far from being an expert.

What makes you think I have $2,000,000 in my 401k? Not even close. The RMD is based on your age and account balance at the close of business on 12/31 of the previous year. Last year it was only $47,000. I have never owned RCL stock and never will, even when it dropped below $20. I’ve been doing stocks for over 35 and have been successful far better than I ever imagined. For me to buy a stock, it has to be a product I believe in and the management team has past experience in fairly treating their employees and customers, RCL is O for 2.

I don’t know, but we are Elite+ on Celebrity and we sort of like the two bags of free laundry, and 240 minutes of internet, per cruise, is nice.

We never get the drink package. We are Diamond on RCL and Elite+ on Celebrity so we get more drinks, for free, than we normally drink. It’ll be a cold day in h - ll before we change our habits just to get “our moneys worth”.

Potato chips just went up to $2.99 recently, it had been $1.99 for years. The weight is down to 8.5 ounces. Still not fine dining in my book. This is in Phoenix.