Gunther1

Sea days = heaven to me. I can slowly walk miles and miles on the promenade deck…..with occasional stops for naps on the same :).

Currently on the Eurodam…this was in our mailbox last night. is this new …..or have I never noticed it in the daily deluge of paper we get ? Edit: apologies for the last picture being upside down. Despite multiple attempts, I can’t post it correctly.

No HAL ships have it anymore.

Their IT department will get right on it 😏.

For the mathematical geeks among us, that comes to $.88 extra an hour per person for a verandah. If you only count 16 waking hours, it comes to $1.33 an hour. Personally, I’d say that’s worth it, but I’m not you :).

I absolutely detest dynamic pricing. It’s now spreading to restaurants.

I read somewhere else that they can be requested at the Dive-in? Is that correct, or is he hallucinating? If correct, I’m one happy man.

I see that this room is directly next to the glass elevators…..and from experience , I know that the riders of said elevator have a direct view into the balcony for this stateroom. Any suggestions for how this passive prying could be mitigated….short of placing the balcony chairs as close to the wall that is next to the elevator as possible ?

We booked it as one 28 day cruise…….

It’s the Eurodam on Apr 6

We embark on a 28 day cruise out of FLL in 13 days. As I always do, we book a guaranteed interior room and roll the dice, hoping for a paid upgrade. It has worked well over 90% of the HAL cruises we’ve been on. Looks like the dice went against us this time. I’ve been calling the paid upgrade number (888 628-8107) daily for the past two weeks…..and had no luck. I’ve received no emails offering one, but experience has taught me that it’s worth it to call. The last time I called (yesterday, Friday), we were told that the ship is 100% balanced and there will most likely not be any option to get a paid upgrade. We can live with that. We will still be on a cruise :). My question: If that is in fact true, why don’t we have a room assignment yet ? The optimist in me is hoping that they are still offering some upgrades. Is my logic incorrect ?

Does anybody know if the Indian or vegetarian menu in the MDR has to be requested the day before wanting it ? On our last voyage, we got different answers from different people in there.

Google is your friend 😏.

It was recently on a 7 day cruise I enjoyed. Personally , I wouldnt call it a “Cake Party”….. it was a bunch of wonderfully decorated cakes behind the counter. Curiously, very few people were in line to enjoy them.

From my experience, the freestyle machines usually are not in working order….based on “out of order” signs I always see on them.