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I pre punch a hole in the luggage tags before leaving home. Then use a tiny ziptie to attach the luggage tag to the suitcase either at the hotel or before dropping off the luggage. No need to ask anyone if they have a stapler. I bought a pack of card stock paper by mistake. Makes a very good luggage tag.

Our cruise date is 26 Sept and will be picking up our Medallions at the pier. For this cruise, we have always been in the Green Lane and still there as of tonight. Have been picking up our Medallions at the pier since 2022 and has only taken a few extra minutes to get our Medallions.

OBC wasn't evenly distributed between DH and myself but had enough to book the excursion for my husband. Once on board, I booked the excursion for me and it was $25 more to book on board. I have noticed that some excursions do increase in price when it gets closer to the cruise date.

Wow, what 3 great cruises you have coming up. They are all in my dream bucket list.

It was mentioned I believe in Dec 2022 when they talked about the Plus going from $50 to $60 sometime in early Feb.

I did the same thing - bought the New Grounds Coffee package in Dec 2022 for our cruise 26 Sept 2023. There have been a couple of postings since Dec that said their coffee package was honored for the 15 specialty coffees. I didn't cancel my coffee package and will wait and see what happens once we are on board. If we get OBC, DH will just have prepaid for several drinks and still be happy..

Some T&C are for new bookings only. Possibly that is why you were told you had to rebook - cancel old booking and make a new booking with the lower fare.

Don't know if this covers any of your question or not. I normally never use my bank's debit (ATM) card outside of my US bank's ATM. Asked my bank how safe it is to used my card in a foreign bank's ATM or really any ATM. Two safety tips they gave me was not to have the debit/ATM card linked to both my checking and savings - Mine was but now it is not linked. Then they said they offer a "Lockit" option on their app that allows me to lock my ATM card right after using it. When I am ready to use the card again, I would unlock the card. Lockit can also be used with the bank's credit card..

We found that out when we ate at the Crown Grill while at the Boston port. Tax was added to the cost of the dinner.

We didn't see this on the Regal in March 2023 or June/July 2023 on the Sky.

2 tables sharing is $80 vs $160 if all 4 ate. Whatever floats your boat - go for it. Can’t hurt trying

CG would be losing $40 for every couple that wanted to share.

Pricing I couldn't see yesterday for the Regal May 2025 is now showing. Pricing is the same for the cruise we booked on Monday.

Thanks for posting about your EZair. I went to check our May flights for after the cruise and same flights were 10% lower. Not as good a sale as you got but I will take any savings.😃 This is 3rd refare on flights.

Wow. That's a big price increase from summer 2022. Maybe it was just the lobster roll and nothing else. I don't eat it but was looking at the menus to see what so many people were eating.

Stopped at Bar Harbor while on a NE cruise. Restaurants and cafes were standing room only with passengers wanting a lobster roll plate at $40/$45.

Anything you want can be ordered at the PES lounge.

For us, this was the second drink menu offered and never ordered anything off it. Nothing looked that good. I haven't even seen or asked for a menu after the pause was over..

The "special" drinks at one time were $6.50 and on a set drink menu of about 6 drinks. I can only remember 2 - Chairman of the Board and an El Mjor. DH enjoys going on the nights they have shrimp, salmon or tartare. Always had a variety of cheeses/crackers, fruits, veggies and dip, soft pretzels. and other things I didn't eat. There's a sign at the door saying this was the PES party so you would think people would know if they were to come in or not. If you consider yourself entitled, then you walk on in.

The times we have been in the theater for shows have never seen a drink delivered . We either sit way front in the middle or left side by lower stairs so drinks might have been delivered out of our sight. I was playing around once and tried to get something delivered to MDR on deck 5 when it was open for reading or playing games. App said that room wasn’t available for delivery service at that time. That was my only time to try ordering something since Medallions came out.

We also haven't seen bar waiters in the theater since the re start. We carry our on in now.

Got the day in Papeete already planned. At least we have been to Moorea.

The Grand had to do an overnight at Los Angeles to do a deep clean on the hull before going to New Zealand (Auckland). So they dropped Hilo and Moorea (was only a 9 hour stop) before an overnight in Papeete. They added Bay of Islands too. So several changes were made.

Wish the Grand was still stopping there. Had to give up our tour there

We had Moorea dropped from our Grand Princess cruise.