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Now airlines are getting more strict with regard to the size of carryon AND charging for checked baggage. sigh. Oh the joys of travel.

I am glad the airlines are enforcing their own size requirements for carryons. Why have size requirements if they're not going to enforce them?

I am tired of people bringing four bags on the plane when the rules state one carry-on piece and one personal item. Yes, ladies, additional shopping bags ARE items!

And . . . zing.

I have many pieces of Travelers, especially black bottoms and tops that match with black. Some of the my older pieces are heavy, as is a pair of palazzos I recently bought (there's a lot of fabric). But I don't travel with just a carryon ;), so that doesn't matter to me. What matters is that they fit me well and I can mix and match tops with bottoms.

And I don't find them warm. I don't wear them on excursions; I wear them on the boat in air-conditioning.

This is so ridiculous... why can't they just wait until the series is finished filming before broadcasting it? This way it doesn't matter if the contestants are seen in public because no one knows who they are yet. It seems unnecessarily demanding to make these eliminated contestants have to endure traveling around with those still in the running for the sake of secrecy when they could just time the broadcasting differently. If it only takes 32 days to film a season that they spend 12 weeks broadcasting then it wouldn't be that long of a wait to air the show.

I am sure the contestants are fully aware of the requirement to remain with the production until the winner is chosen, and it's probably in some sort of agreement they sign before they can be on the show. The same happens with Survivor contestants, only they are kept at the remote location (in somewhat better conditions) where the show films. Now that would get boring.

Coffee is listed on this page from U.S. Customs and Border Protection about bringing in food for personal use:

https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/82/kw/what%20to%20declare%20coffee/session/L3RpbWUvMTQxMzAzMTc2NC9zaWQva2o1bUVCNG0%3D/suggested/1

Interesting that they are opening a store in Jacksonville; they just closed the one in Orlando (in August). It was a smaller store and didn't have the fabulous shoe dept. I've seen in larger Nordstroms.

I like the Rack for shoes and accessories such as sunglasses. The clothes appear shopworn to me, especially if they are on a clearance rack. And the Rack near me also has a lot of "junior" stuff, or maybe as I age, everything looks junior. :rolleyes:

How much coffee (beans) are you allowed to bring back to the US?

 

DaveOKC

Don't know if there's a limit. We took a 10-day Southern Caribbean cruise on Princess a few years ago and bought coffee at several stops (hubby likes coffee!), so we probably had 7 or 8 bags. We put it on the form, were asked what kind of food we had, answered, and were sent on our way. They didn't ask to inspect. That was at Port Everglades.

Of course, if your coffee purchases put you over your family's allowed duty-free amount, you'll pay duty for going over. But that would be a lot of coffee. :)

Yes, you can bring back coffee. You should declare that you have food (there's a box to check on the declaration form), and the agent will probably ask you what kind of food you have. But that's it. :)

At airports, I sometimes get sent over to the agricultural line for a second screening regardless of the kind of food I have, but I have never had that happen returning from a cruise.

Bingo. Unless that poster has X-ray vision or (rudely) interrogates the 'offending' passengers as to their health, they are making an assumption about if they meet his/her own criteria to use the elevator.

It's pretty clear no one has to interrogate anyone based on the willingness of people to share their medical histories on this thread.

In any event, I am on the stairs not caring who is taking the elevator and why. I was merely trying to point out to those who made the assumption that the poster who originally noted that it's rude for able-bodied people to take the elevator one flight was really talking about non-able-bodied people.

I'm out.

I read on another thread that you are only allowed to bring onboard 1 bottle of wine each and as much soda as you like, so who is right? I am getting so confused!!!!! Marlster

This thread originally began in 2010, when passengers could bring on as much wine as they liked. The policy has since changed.

I've never considered seeing able-bodied folk at the elevators as rude. My first two cruises, I'd chuckle underneath my breathe and secretly call them lazy but certainly didn't see them as rude. I was then "educated" on two particular events: one where I was walking by the elevators and heard a comment from an individual speaking to his wife about how badly his knee felt. He looked able-bodied to me. Is he lazy? Certainly not. The other was when I was at the elevator bank having a conversation with...you guessed it...an older couple and realized that I could potentially refer to myself as lazy if I was just a passing soul with no perspective as to what was occurring.

I didn't use the word lazy, and the original complaint was about able-bodied people not taking the stairs to go up or down one deck.

You can take them or not. I don't care. I take the stairs, and people probably look at me and think I should be in an elevator. But, hey, I don't really care what people think in that case, and nor should anyone with an invisible health problem.

You have good points. However, I would like to clarify the stair issue. I personally look able body to use stairs. Yet, when I use them they cause me great pain so whenever possible I do not use them. So. That able body you think can do stairs may not due to bad knees and would be in pain the remainder of there cruise.

Again, if you are NOT able bodied, you don't fit the described rude behavior.

Take the elevator, take the stairs. Whatever. Just don't push people out of the way in either case.

I have to disagree with the "able-bodied folks using an elevator for one floor".

 

I'm 44 and look perfectly healthy. You would look at me and consider me one of those able bodied folks. However, I've had 2 spinal fusion surgeries for a vertebra that slid forward 50%, a reconstructed knee, and surgical pins in both feet. Some days I'm fine and can hike for several miles or climb several flights of stairs with no problem (usually with pain meds and muscle relaxers). Then some days the pain is incredibly disabling and I can barely get around the grocery store. You can't judge a book by its cover and you shouldn't make assumptions about an individuals abilities.

The statement you quoted does not deserve your reply, or the ones from others listing their ailments. The statement didn't say, "People who look able-bodied, but aren't, using an elevator one floor." Relax. :rolleyes:

We can all agree (or maybe not) that people who ARE able-bodied should use the stairs and leave the elevators to those who need them.

Cabins are (usually) ready when you board, so this isn't a big deal. Put your drinks in a rolling bag, wheel them onboard, wheel them to the cabin--and you're done.

Bonus: You'll have extra space in the bag for souvenirs when you get off. Or just extra room for the same stuff; I find I am a better packer to get to the ship than to get home.

Come on people' date=' when you pay this much for a cruise, what's a few bucks for soda? I do bring on water when leaving from FLL ports <snip>[/quote']

 

What's a few bucks for water? :rolleyes:

 

Yesterday I bought a 12-pack of Diet Dr Pepper (which is not available on the ships) for $1.83. Twelve sodas on the ship would cost me more than 12 times that amount.

 

In any event, I'm allowed to bring soda, so I will to save the money and also, as someone mentioned, have soda at times when I can't get one on the ship.

In our experience, it is fairly typical of the line. I have also read others commenting on the general overall shabbiness on the line and poor service. I have also read others commenting on errors being found in the On Location publication.

Be glad you haven't spent time employed as a proofreader; the errors are plentiful and hard to overlook.

Saying they don't have a lot of time to proofread is nonsense. They reuse many of the articles for each sailing (e.g., the introduction of the captain and the cruise director) and could easily hire a freelancer to read those before they are used. (I'll do it! ;))

I rarely, if ever, find a mistake in the New York Times update, and they operate on a one-day turnaround as well.

There is currently some discussion on the HAL board about round-trip cruises that visit Costa Rica now requiring a passport despite the fact that they are closed-loop. OP, does your cruise include a stop in Costa Rica?

So theoretically, it's possible to miss posts that are both kind & gentle because they are on one's ignore list?

 

It is my hope that one would never have to ignore one's fellows. Such a sad sad state of affairs. :(

Just like in real life, there are people on CC with whom I don't care to have a relationship. Not sure why that's sad. It is what it is: I nurture the relationships I want, and I don't have a lot of extra time to spend on ones that aren't good for me.

I have probably 6 or 7 people on my ignore list, and they are not necessarily there because they aren't kind and gentle. :) Having them on my ignore list probably stops me from not being kind and gentle.

My question is, why wouldn't everyone take advantage of the ignore feature? It's there for a reason.

One would gently ask how, if someone is on a person's ignore list, that person would know that said ignored person is posting?

If someone is on one's ignore list, one can see that there was a post by that poster but cannot see the actual post. However, one can see the post if a poster not on the ignore list quotes it in his or her post.

There's also a Merle Norman that carries VB in Titusville near the Walmart.

I have tons of VB, and it's never fallen apart. Besides, VB has so many styles that Coach doesn't have an answer for or which would be way too heavy. A Vera Weekender is a nice bag for a carry-on; the same thing in leather would weigh a ton before you even put anything in it. And I can't imagine the scratching it would endure.

Actually, I get the feeling that hlitner tells it like it is, and sometimes that results in pointing out something negative rather than something positive about HAL. I'd rather have that than someone who is all sunshine and cotton candy.

While I'm not in favor of making pledges on a message board (the board managers have already set up rules we have, in theory, agreed to abide by), I will agree that the constant move by some posters to question each and every detail posted by other posters gets tiresome.

The OP's ID and reservation have the same name. She'll be fine. Whether she's married or not doesn't matter.

Women don't have to change their names when they get married, although many do.

Those threads on other boards on this site have turned into monstrosities of outdated or incorrect information. If the information were static AND we could count on it being correct for each HAL ship and each sailing, then it would be a worthwhile enterprise.

As of now, if I have a question, I'm going to ask it. i'm not going to weed through a lengthy thread to find the one piece of info I need, which may be wrong anyway.

Unfortunately, the women keep insisting on the men dressing up even in the Summer heat and humidity without even considering the discomfort.

I'm really not sure what summer heat and humidity have to do with eating in an air-conditioned dining room. Often, I feel as if I'm in a walk-in freezer in the MDR. I assure you, my clothes on any night are not "airy"--if they were, I'd turn blue.

HAL is indeed a business. And there's a difference between a business relationship and a personal relationship. I do not worry about hurting HAL's feelings.