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Did an interior guarantee on Anthem a few years back. They gave us 13631 - a larger interior, kind of in a weird spot off by itself. We were worried about noise because it was directly underneath the kids pool, but we didn't hear a thing. The "virtual balcony" was neat.

Semi-tangent, how does the on-board internet cafe work? Say, for example, all I want to do is log in for 5 minutes and keep my Duolingo streak alive, but beyond that I have no desire to have wireless internet or anything.

I just had an idea. The cruise line could zip-tie little 30 minute kitchen timers to every lounger - you know, the mechanical ones where all you do is twist the knob and they start counting down. (For this purpose, though, they should probably be silent, like those hot tub safety control things.) Anyway, so if you have a lounger, and you need to get up, turn the timer to start a 30 minute countdown. If you are looking for a lounger, and the timer is running, then you know they really were just here and just got up to go re-beverage, or de-beverage, or whatever. And if the timer is off, then you know that person isn't coming back any time soon and you can move their stuff.

On Grandeur next week. We just wanted to do something small and cheap that we could drive to. This is our first "small" ship, and the first time we've gone without a drink package (which would have been more than the cruise itself!). And it's our first oceanview, after having just done NCL Haven a few months ago. I'm kinda scared. 😶

We went to Victoria in May, the ship told us to have our ArriveCan apps out, and then when we actually got off the ship, nobody even looked at them, we just walked straight into town.

I see the beverage package just went from 70/day to 65... For a 5 day sailing with 2 port days, I'm thinking this might be the first time ever we go without a beverage package. I'm kinda scared.

We are in Seattle for the Encore today, but we happened to walk by the pier while the Bliss was docked yesterday, and there were NCL reps on the sidewalk handing out letters to anybody that walked by, basically saying something about more than 2% of guests reported "acute gastroenteritis symptoms" , we reported it to the CDC, we disinfected the whole ship, it's safe but you can cancel for FCC if you want, etc. Does not say norovirus specifically.

I'm not sure how that would even work, since you book the cruise first, and then contact them and say "hey, here's my reservation number, gimme my 100$."