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I’m like your wife, I never use all my vouchers, and on longer cruises, even DH can’t use them all, so I either use a couple for soda, water or better yet, we ask our room steward what they would like. Last time he wanted beer, so we ended up getting him enough cans of Fosters that he and his cabin mate could share.

We try - and I use that word with crossed fingers and a nice smile - to use our BOGOs for specialty dining for lunch, because we won’t have dinner those nights, especially me! Some ships allow it, others don’t. Congratulations on the D+!

How do you have dinner at 6pm in the MDR?

I also enjoy snacking, but if I did it before dinner, I won’t be hungry enough for that. I’ve always said I eat like an infant…small portions but all day 😁

We were booked on the Holy Land on Odyssey last year. Our cruise was starting October 15….. you know what happened. At such short notice they changed the whole cruise, changed the name of the cruise, took away 3 ports, gave us 4, got excursions online for us to book. It was amazing what they did. Although we never made it to Jerusalem of course, we had a fabulous time in spite of the whole reason for the cruise changed. The changes they made were just as ancient, but maybe not as “holy” as Israel would have been. Have a wonderful time and don’t miss Ephesus!

Maybe there won’t be as much excitement because some - like us - that love the smaller ships will have moved on to other lines and realized they didn’t know what they were missing.

There’s been talk of celebrity and royal merging some of the loyalty benefits. I’m hoping for the 5 drinks

Once we hit D+ 340, we still considered thinking about P status, but thenRoyal changed their focus, for us at least, and although we have enough cruises booked to reach 500, we realized P status won’t get us that much more than we need, so we’re now booking Celebrity and plan to look outside of the RCCL bubble.

We’ve noticed that the food can be awful on one ship, and good (but not great) on another. It seems some chefs aren’t good and some are. So, on the ships with lousy food, I mention it in my post cruise comments (as well as mention it while on the ship) and when it’s good I also mention it…..I’m not sure if that helps get rid of the lousy chefs, but it can’t hurt to try.

I haven’t read the responses which I’m sure will all be good advice, but I’ll add we always fly in 3 days ahead to acclimate to the time. And pickpockets are everywhere, I have a small belted pouch I keep tucked inside my pants to keep anything valuable from being seen.

Thats what I do and to add, I although I don’t have a clothes line, I hang them from the ceiling by the air vent which helps them dry faster.

Silversea also has self serve laundry from what I’ve read on their site.

It seems each new password works for a week or so, but then it makes me change it again.

About 30 days before sail date the docs will be available along with luggage tags.

We were able to get a cappuccino on Radiance in the morning of turnaround day.