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earlydiner

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  • Location
    Everson, WA
  • Interests
    Cruising, sitting in our oceanfront condo, family.
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Princess, Royal, Celebrity, and Holland America
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Panama

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  1. We are on the Solstice 9/16/22 Pacific Coast and it has about 225 cabins still available (mostly veranda and concierge cabins). I have been counting cabins for a couple of weeks and the numbers haven't changed very much.
  2. When I get stuck on a technology issue I use my grandkids or kids. What I can do in two hours, takes my grand daughter about two minutes.
  3. Raspberry Fizz is very sweet but delicious. Had one every night before dinner in the MDR on the Summit.
  4. We are at 30 days to go and not yet open on the Solstice September 16th out of Vancouver.
  5. We have always checked in at 45 days on Celebrity but here we are 33 days to go and they are "Not quite ready for you". Maybe at 30 days.
  6. On our Summit cruise in June, if they didn't have diet Coke, they would have Coke Zero. We couldn't tell the difference.
  7. I might expect this in the Oceanview but just looking at the menus on our September cruise on the Solstice and saw that the same is true in the MDR. Meals are more meatloaf and chicken and less steak and lobster. On our last cruise a couple of months ago on the Summit, the New York strip steak was about 1/2 inch thick. I ordered it only once.
  8. Just our opinion, but we feel that the "around the ship" music is much better on Princess than Celebrity. Theater both are excellent.
  9. We were on the Summit a couple of weeks ago and there was always a long line on deck 4 Select Dining. I got reservations several months before the cruise online. We chose 5:30 dining (thus the Earlydiner name) each night. After them showing us our table on night one, we loved our waiter and assistant waiter. On our way out of the dining room that night, we locked in that table for the remainder of the cruise. So we ignored the lines and proceeded directly to our table each night. Most nights, our waiter was waiting for us at the dining room door and escorted us to the table. Yes, you get some dirty looks but that beats waiting for 30 minutes in line.
  10. I had the 4oz filet from the kid's menu on the Summit 10 days ago.
  11. Posted it under "Reviews" on last Saturday, however they review it before it appears.
  12. I had the kid's filet on the Summit last week. Small but delicious. Much better than the New York steaks on the regular menu.
  13. In Bermuda we did the island wrap around tour with Juanita. Booked it through Trip Advisor. It was a 5 hour tour but turned out to be closer to 6 hours. We took it on the day we were in port all day so it was great. I believe the cost was $85. Well worth it. She grew up on Bermuda and knows the island well. Everywhere we stopped, she seemed to know all the locals. We also took the ships tour to NYC ending at EWR. Very good tour guide and driver. Four hours long and I believe it was $99.
  14. I had the kid's filet on the Summit last week. Small but delicious. Much better than the New York steaks on the regular menu.
  15. I wrote a full review on our cruise but wanted to share that on Memorial Day, Cruise Director Rich Clesen hosted a service in the Sky Lounge that was really great. Rich spoke, then a couple of veterans shared and prayed. The tear jerker was when the Summit orchestra trumpeter played TAPS. Beautiful service. Big thanks go to Rich.
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