alfaeric

Just posted about the vision, but given they are also consistently the cheapest cruises, they are not the highest demand ships. Think what you want, but when we see that they are the cheapest cruse AND the times we have sailed are not the fullest, yea. Maybe really close to full, but given the price per night, nowhere near the relative demand for mega ships.

No, they don't. We were just on her for 2 cruises, and the second one had +400 fewer people.

Right- our only issue with the Icon is the price. So hopefully Star will relieve some pressure to even out the demand. But we love all the ships- all of them have their space in our cruising. I *hope* that they can continue to cruise out of Baltimore, but if not, so be it.

Another thing I find amusing is how people extrapolate their opinions of icon and oasis to everyone. Even though the large ships are getting premium fares and are selling full but the small ships are the lowest fares and don’t always sail full.

Again, the ships this is being most touted on are vision and radiance class ships out of ports that can’t handle voyager ships. That’s where the confusion is coming from. Especially for Baltimore cruisers who really want to keep a ship at that port. So much so that the vision won ship of the year.

Would need a retractable deck to fit into Baltimore and Tampa.

Talks about a 3-4k class has been going around a lot. We heard the same. But, IMHO, the ships it’s most announced on are 2k ships with pretty specific height limits. Which this new class won’t likely meet. So I don’t really understand why it’s made such a big deal on the ships from Baltimore and Tampa.

12 nights carry on is easy for us. Heck, just sailed 20 nights w/o needing to do laundry.

Then try not to get so offended when people add to your posts, then. You don't need to react to everyone quoting you.

So sorry to post an optimistic post that progress is being made. Terrible of me. And worse that adding to your post means that I'm arguing with you.

But it does mean that they are on the proposed recovery schedule. Meaning the whole channel should be open to shipping sometime near the end of May. Roughly when the Vision gets back out of dry dock. Which is really good. Cruising is the least of their worries, but if they can get big container ships and car ships in and out "normally", then the couple of cruise ships will be easy.

If they keep on the scheduled clean up time, it will end up being near the end of May that the full channel should be available. The team seems to be progressing well. It will be interesting to see how they take off the remaining bridge off the Dali, and how she reacts to that weight taken off. It was in 2022 that another container ship went aground in the Chesapeake, so they have local experience.

Marmalade is great, but the food isn't Puerto Rican. It's more fusion than pure Boriquen. Riaces is a good choice. And even though it's more commercial than the smaller ones next to it, the quality is really good.

People over reacting isn't a bad thing sometimes.

"One basket" suggests that the ships are ONLY family friendly. They appeal to more people than just families, otherwise there would not be people well over 50 on the big ships. We've never had kids, but love the big ships. Maybe the big ships are not appealing to you, but you can't extrapolate that to everyone. Let alone, it's working in a massive way right now in their favor. There are plenty of small ships in competition, so Royal doesn't have to rush into this.