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Translation: the contract says we can do this, so shut up and take it.

Royal Caribbean has free lobster night on night 6 of the cruise. Can be purchased any night for $16.99.

Get ready to have the cheerleaders tell you to look forward to your next cruise, forget the past.

Saw a woman on one cruise wear the same polka dot dress every day. It always seemed clean. I saw her leave the last day with no luggage, I figured she probably had a portable tooth brush, washed and hung her dress up to dry overnight. I dubbed her the Jack Reacher of cruising.

Fictional characters can do anything they like

So your admitted ignorance precludes you from comparing NCL to any other cruise lines.

Also if you book the first two days of the cruise you get put into a drawing for additional obc. I never win, they never announce the winner.

Just to drop off our carryon stuff, hate to take that stuff with us to lunch. The last thing I want to do is carry luggage to lunch. Wonder if I am in the minority on that one.

Just did two cruises with Royal Caribbean, larger ships than Dawn, on both cruises our cabin was clean and ready at 1:15 PM on day one.

Would you be shocked to learn that people who gamble enough in the casino get invited back on free cruises?

Closer than 0 feet away? Hard to picture that.

In the Air was also well done. In 1979 I was asked to join DREAD, Detroit Rockers Engaged in the Abolishion of Disco. Their membership card had a clever smashing a disco record, below it was printed Saturday Night Clever. Usually try to avoid disco, hardrocker myself. Heard mixed reviews from those who went, some said could not compare to the movie.

Our day in Bermuda started out cool and wet, first rain we saw in many weeks. Been to Bermuda several times, once for 3 days, so we just walked around the docks, got wet got back on the ship. The next two days heading south to Labadee were very refreshing to start the days walking the decks and feeling the warm winds. Labadee was a great day at the beach, complete with lunch being served right there. The food choices were limited, mostly burgers, hot dogs and fries. It was nice to get an umbrella and two loungers for free, would have cost $30 in Florida. There were some nice zip lines and better housing available for a price. It just did not appear to be a foreign country, I don't feel like I was ever in Haiti. It was a great, relaxing day. La Romana was our only shore excursion, it was a short trip. We booked the chu chu trolley and and toured through town for about an hour with police escort. Prerecorded audio pointed out the highlights, many had something to do with the sugar business, and we did see a baseball team in uniforms walking to a local park. Perhaps next to sugar, professional baseball players could be the Dominican Republic's largest export. It was very hot and humid, reminded me of when we were stuck in the Philippines in June 2020. I would advise going to DR sometime November to March, still good swimming weather, but not quite as hot and humid. Met some good folks at friends of Bill W meetings in the deck 15 chapel, as I did on Explorer TA. All members of any 12 step program are welcome. Enjoyed the cruise and am looking forward to doing a quicky on Spectrum out of Singapore next March and then the 4/28/24 TA on Anthem with live Queen music.

We enjoyed most of the entertainment we saw in the theatre and around the ship. Nashville Tenors were 3 guys who sang mostly country songs with backup from the ship's orchestra, who did very well in a variety of other performances with all kinds of music. I would recommend Nashville Tenors just because they did it so well, I don't usually go hear country music. The ice skating was also done quite well,, started out west End and classical, but made it to Elvis by way of the Rolling Stones and Elton John. The 40 minutes went fast, always enjoy the ice shows onships, the only time I see such shows. Would also recommend the ice show on Explorer, starts with symphony orchestra Moody Blues, my favorite. We missed the magician and juggler, seen enough of them. The comedian was funny enough. The least entertaining was a comedian who did musical mimicking, some was funny, some just not funny. Did a few jokes based on the fact that Elvis is dead. He looked at the audience and said "Don't you get it?" I got it, just was not funny. Played a lot of trivia and name that tune. They announced on the second day that prizes would only be awarded at morning trivia (10AM) and evening trivia (5PM) general knowledge . I did win the brain teaser trivia, getting 14 out of 15, probably because I had heard them before. I did not really want one of their cheap prizes, for many years I have had more key chains than keys. It just seems cheap on their part to save a couple bucks that way. Met some good people at the games and generally enjoyed learning some new things. Sometimes the most challenging thing is understanding the English as a second language staff hosts. Twice on Explorer and twice on Liberty for general knowledge trivia heard the question. "Who was the youngest USA president." I got there at the end of a Madona name that tune. Was surprised that two guys who did not appear to be 30 years old won by naming all 20 songs. I knew 3 of them, glad I got there late.

We arrived at Cape Liberty with noon boarding time, it was 11:10 AM, and we got waived right in, no one checking the times. It was the fastest check in ever, they took our picture, looked at our passports, asked the usual health questions, believed everything we said, asked no proof of vaccination, and we were on deck 4 by 11:30 AM. Went to c-12 and they asked us if we watched the safety film. My wife said "Not yet". I quickly explained she meant this trip, but we saw thd film 3 weeks ago on another cruise, my wife nodded and so did the crew member. Time for windjammer. We had been on Explorer recently, so the ship lzyout was very familiar to us. 1:15 our cabin was accessible and we got our first look at the Orange Morgan being driven by two bears out on the promenade. We had deck 6 inside cabin with a good view of the parades. First time we had such a cabin since our first cruise on Mariner back in 2006. We had booked last minute, as inside GTY, and got stuck with 5:30 PM dining on deck 5. The menu was very similar to the TA Explorer in April and May. Every night there was one vegan starter, one vegan main course, and one vegan dessert. Made ordering for me easy, but eventually boring,too much asparagus. The waiters were very friendly, but often got the orders mixed up, and there were only 4 of us at the table. Twice they told us how important it was for them to get 10's when we reviewed their performance. Told them I understood, gave them 7's, and dimed them out on additional comments. The food in Windjammer was good enough, ate breakfast and lunch there every day, good selections and veggie burgers available upon request.

Have not released Asia after April 2024. It will be a long time until you see Asia after April 2025.

Perhaps no one should be allowed to stare at phones during dinner, since I never do.

Said your Oasis booking will be your last RCI booking, now you are saying you will book with them again. Appears to be a contradiction.

So with whom will you be cruising?

We stopped taking the short cruises out of New York, and NCL has cut back on some of the cruises out of NYC. We had our worst cruise on 7 days to the Bahamas when way too many people took advantage of the "free" drinking package. Unlimited drinking is a terrible spectator sport, and a few jerks even interrupted the Second City improv classes. We now only take 10 day or longer cruises, a lot less insolent drunks.

That would include your post.

I'm guessing Jack Reacher would not have a problem cruising, since he has no middle name.

Does this mean I will get no crown and anchor points?

Looking forward to booking Empress ASAP, glad we were reminded of what a fine ship she is.

Royal Caribbean just fired their meteorologist. Perhaps Carnival could use his services.