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temple1

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  • Location
    Myrtle Beach
  • Interests
    Relaxing on the beach
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    RCCL
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Anywhere the ship will take me.

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  1. From how quickly they cleaned up and repaired the mess in Philadelphia recently, I think they will not be waiting around for the lowest bid to start clearing the channel once they have completed recovery efforts. They will be looking for the best expertise and speed.
  2. They will probably have to take 695 around the west of Baltimore. Longer route but not tunnels.
  3. If I recall the Norfolk port was used a few years back as a temporary port.
  4. I've been on Indy and Freedom. Other than artwork, not much difference.
  5. We had 12:30 check in time for our November Independence cruise. When we arrived at the port there were 3 lines for 3 different boarding times. Once we were inside the building the 3 lines merged and no one ever looked at our assigned time.
  6. We used off site parking. The one we used was about a mile from the port and provided shuttle service to and from.
  7. I didn't watch the TikTok but read some of the article at the link below. Seems some people don't know there are different types of cabins on ships. Wait until she finds out what other perks frequent Royal cruisers receive, perhaps she'll leave the cruise. 😉 https://www.dailydot.com/news/royal-caribbean-9-month-cruise-special-treatment/ ‘Clacissm? On MY elite world cruise?’: Passengers on 9-month Royal Caribbean cruise say they booked the same experience–but some people are getting special treatment 'You can't convince me that this isn't a social experiment.'
  8. Vicariously enjoying the trip from home. I have seen several of the TikTok posts on my phone. It is amazing that someone who has never been on a cruise ship (or out of their home) is supposedly on a world cruise. They are putting out so much disinformation it is very sad that their articles are what potential cruisers see about the trip.
  9. On Independence last month they had 3 lines and sent you to the appropriate line on arriving at the terminal. Sounds great, all 3 lines moved at the same pace and once at the door, everyone was clumped together.
  10. The luggage was on 2 separate carousels and they were much longer than the ones in most airports.
  11. The luggage was in zones based on your number.
  12. It was always annoying wading through all the luggage, a suitcase here, duffle there then getting them all together. With the carousel my luggage comes to me. It also seems to be quicker and less chaotic.
  13. We rarely cruised out of Miami and we're recently returned from our first cruise since 2018, sailing out of Miami. I don't know if this is something just in terminal G, or is being added all over, but ........ Why did it take so long for them to adopt luggage carousels like at airports? What a pleasant surprise, almost better than the new immigration and customs process. Do you have an "it's about time" item?
  14. Our group lunch was in the main dining room and started at 11:30.
  15. We took a B2B on Independence, our first cruise since 2018. Since memory is a little fuzzy on anything that long before Covid, it is difficult to compare. It is also difficult to compare a 4 night cruise to the 7 night cruises we used to take. Our biggest disappointment was the Windjammer. Very repetitious in their offerings. I do tend to over analyze things, so going through 2 musters close together and listening to the count down of the hundreds of cruisers who had not yet stopped at their muster station I have to wonder why the staffer welcoming us aboard does not specifically tell you to go to your muster station? Following up on that, we were in Schooner over hearing someone giving their first time cruiser friend completely incorrect info.
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