Jump to content

DebJ14

Members
  • Posts

    5,115
  • Joined

About Me

  • Location
    Sugar Land, Texas
  • Interests
    Travel, reading, wine
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Princess, MSC
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    W. Caribbean

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

DebJ14's Achievements

5,000+ Club

5,000+ Club (4/15)

  1. That was also our experience in Bermuda. We take our passport cards off the ship in ports. The Drivers Licenses stay in the safe along with the passport books
  2. Absolutely nailed it. We never heard a peep from the family in the connecting cabin, but the people on the non-connecting side ran their TV loudly all night long.
  3. The hotels we stay in both in the US and Mexico provide full service every day and evening turndown that includes fresh towels, ice and emptying the trash cans. We tried once daily service on another line and hated it. Never got the extra towels we asked for. Hubby showers twice daily, just as he does at home so I always lost my washcloth. We also never got the second bucket of ice that we requested multiple times.. They filled the ice bucket in the morning and after a long day out and about, I need to ice my ankle that has chronic tendinitis. Kinda hard to do with a bucket of water. (I bring an icebag from home). Guess we will continue to book a category with twice daily service, even if the cost of the cruise is double. We'll just go much less often, so they won't make as much money on the specialty restaurants, casino, excursions etc.
  4. M6 is also Reserve Class. On the Regal those are the forward cabins with the huge balconys. The M1 Reserve Class are more mid ship. M6 is cheaper than M1, but still Reserve Class.
  5. They should contact their Congressman. Ours sends out a weekly newsletter and says if anyone needs help getting a passport issued to please contact the Congressman's local office and the staff will assist you in getting appointments or if you have already applied, they can somehow speed up the process.
  6. I never said 3, and besides that was just from our last cruise. We have only traveled in a GS or above since 2012 and I can assure you that during bridge tours, backstage tours, and in the SL we were repeatedly told by Pinnacles ( wearing their badges) that a suite was a waste of money because they never spent any time in their cabin. I can assure you that if I was in an inside I would never spend any time in the cabin either. But in a GS, OS or PH suite on Princess we do spend lots of time in the cabin or on the balcony. Actually, we found the nicest group to be those in the Yacht Club on MSC, many of whom were former RCI and Celebrity cruisers.
  7. We did not decide until right around Christmas 2022 to book AD for Feb 2023. I don't call $3900 for 2 people for 5 nights in a GS cheap. But, we had not cruised at all since 2019, so the money we would have used on 3-4 cruises per year was still in the bank.
  8. We had several Pinnacles in our SL on our last cruise bragging that they were in the cheapest inside possible. They pretty much told us we were fools for paying for a full suite. Ah, but we do get double points and that is the only reason we made it to Diamond with so few RC cruises.
  9. Seems kind of crazy that just before the pandemic they were required to do away with all single use disposable items, including butter pats and straws because of that judge in Florida.. I would have thought that public health would have prevailed and allowed them to return to the more sanitary single use items. Sorry, but way too many times I have had to send drinking glasses and coffee cups back because they were dirty. No way am I drinking straight out of a glass. Those crocks of butter on the buffet are gross half way through lunch! I will bring my own individually wrapped plastic straws. Before they went to the candy straws they were using paper straws, but they were glued with wheat paste. As a celiac if I had not been forewarned by specila needs to avoid them, I would have been really ill.
  10. Hubby and I are both Diamond. Haven't seen any VIPF offers in years!
  11. Yes to all. Giovanni's Table was actually the most helpful as our waitress from Peru has a child back home with severe food allergies, so she went out of her way to get the chef to do things, as well as going out into Windjammer trying to find food I could have. My husband is also GF, but doesn't have any other issues, so he fared better than I did.
  12. I used a TA and applied a gift card to the deposit. We had to cancel the cruise. I received my deposit refunded as an E Gift card. It was emailed to me within a few days of canceling the cruise, and seemed much faster than any credit card refunds in the past.
  13. Royal Caribbean originally gave us an FCC with a book by April 2021 and sail by Dec. 2021. We figured it was money down the drain because hubby could not be vaccinated for medical reasons and the requirement was there in 2021. Out of the blue we got an email from Royal in 2022 stating that our FCC no longer had an expiration nor a sail by date, but that it would say 2049 because that is only how far out the computer would go. However, we were assured it had no expiration date. Thankfully, our TA had a record of it because I had long since deleted it and thrown out the hard copies. Of course being over 70 we will be probably be dead and buried before 2049 so we used it in February 2023.
  14. The whole problem stems from the fact that neither of you called Carnival to cancel prior to the sailing. She was a no show and telling Guest Services does not count. First you cancel with Carnival, then you call the insurance company to start the claims process. Had you called Carnival to cancel out your friend, they would have charged you the single supplement while they had you on the phone. Then, you would have received her cancellation notice, including penalty amounts. You would have received a new confirmation showing that you paid the single supplement. Then, you would have each filed separate insurance claims. If she was too ill to travel, she would need documentation from a physician to complete that claim based on canceling for medical reasons. You, would have to file a claim to get the single supplement refunded.
  15. I agree it is totally unacceptable. I have celiac disease and I am highly allergic to dairy, beef and yeast. Sadly, I have been glutened on 2 Carnival ships and on one Royal Caribbean ship. When it happens, I get the privilege of spending the night in the bathroom and feel awful for days after. In every case, I have missed ports and the cruise lines have refused to refund shore excursions. In once case I had a devil of a time convincing the medical center that I did not have noro because getting glutened causes the same symptoms. In the past they have always tried to be very accommodating. On my last RCI cruise in Feb. 2023 the word I heard all the time was NO. No GF pasta, no changes to any entree to make it gluten free, even when pre-ordering, no desserts that did not also contain dairy, and weirdly no Caesar salad, even without croutons.The only GF salad dressing was oil and vinegar. I know the poor waiter felt bad when he had to deliver the NO, NO, NO. Removing the GF designation from the menus makes the job much harder for the waiters as they have to continually ask the chef. I have until April 4 to pay a non refundable deposit (suite booking) or cancel in favor of another cruise line that I can count on to deliver meals that I can eat. Frankly, I was shocked after having had 9 great gluten free cruises on Royal to see things change so drastically.
×
×
  • Create New...