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It's starting to feel like we have a bunch of back seat drivers on this board(eyes rolling)

I just received an.email from Crystal reminding us that the deadline for the open booking deposit is this Sunday

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3 hours ago, suzeluvscruz said:

Qtr1 2023, by end of March

which means most likely not till Fall or later unfortunately 😞

Nice searching :)Looks like Iceland may be in my near future 🙂

43 minutes ago, Keith1010 said:

Just got the letter a few minutes ago.

 

I am sure they are being staggered over days as some got it the other day which makes a lot of sense.  The system worked very well but any system might be more challenged if lots of people are in at the same time.

 

Keith

 

It started with Dr Mr.  (my surname)

 

I see they do not mention  returning to Hawaii or South America or Mexico in their letter here 😞

6 minutes ago, BWIVince said:

 

I'd just write them back for verification...  I suspect there are links coded for each offer, and either the confirmation was miscoded for that link or the wrong link was promoted somewhere (which may not even have the current verbiage on the page).  Verifying the offer with them will also clue them in to the issue.

 

Vince

I just heard from my ta and she has been busy dealing with this.She texted me to confirm that I wanted to put down 2 deposits and I told her YES of course! >My birthday  was a week ago today.Thank you Crystal for the belated present of sorts 🙂

I find the pricing too high for me as a solo traveler.I am not pying over $8000 for just an inside cabin! The oceanwview at $11k.At those prices, i will tjust wait and take a Crystal cruise when they are back  in mid  2023

re OBC amount.Please keep in mind there are quite a few of us solo passengers and our OBC is only $250, The $500, as stated earlier above is if there are two guests in a stateroom

Bon voyage Roy!

7 hours ago, rafinmd said:

Today's sunrise is from a combination starting with 2013 B2B on Crystal Symphony from New York to Miami.  November 3 was a sea day from New York to our first port, Baltimore:

 

 

By the way I'm about to leave for a cruise, November 9-20 on Eurodam:

 

 

Roy

Bon Voyage Roy!

Solo traveler on  the Trans-Pacific cruise from Seattle to Yokohama, Japan,Oct 1-15, 2023

On 10/28/2022 at 1:33 PM, Pickalily, Wilts said:

- We like the mix of nationalities (although as Brits we're always in the minority - no problem for us).

- The ships are spotlessly clean, have an understated elegance, none of the hulls has been scribbled on by a child with crayons and the cabins are comfortable and well designed.

- We don't need to be entertained during the day, but the evening entertainment is varied and the addition of Rolling Stone Rock Rooms on Pinnacle ships is an inspired decision.  These and the BB King Blues Bands have helped to blow away the line's former reputation of being staid and boring.

- The food is good.

- Itineraries are interesting.

- There are many other good points, but above all the crew members are invariably dee-lite-full.

 

We've tried several other cruise lines, including some which call themselves 5*+, but we keep coming back to HAL.

I have just booked another HAL cruise but to be honest with you I do wish they hD Ore to do during the day.I am a solo traveler and I have not dfound enough to do during the day.I am doing another TransPacific to Japan next October, and the only other cruiselien I had to choose from that time of year is CELEBRITY,AND  I prefer HAL to Celebrity.I do wish they had paddle tennis courts like Crystal and Cunard have 😞

Thank you Mark Farris for your Christmas 2020 edition of Mark's Quarantine Cabaret! I have not finished watching it, but it has put a much needed smile on my face today! 🙂

https://fb.watch/2CfqxlZSZJ/

Ok folks in case you   do not follow Mark Ferris on FB, there is a new Thanksgiving episode scheduled to premier in just a few minutes,at 2pm PST or as it says on his webpage, 4pm CST.I can't wait.He always makes me smile and laugh, and miss listening to him  at the Avenue Saloon  very much 

3 hours ago, rafinmd said:

My penultimate photo from my 2010 Alaska cruise on Cruise West's Spirit of Columbia.  On September 8 we visited Petersburg:

 

 

Roy

I think I would like to hire Roy and Keith as my future travel  photographers  ❤️

Ok, Here is a WAY  off topic, off topic !!!

    I just got my invite for the upcoming pro football season picks from KZOK Seattle/CBS for the CBS national pro football challenge( I listen to Danny Bonaduce in Seattle so have joined via their group and pay attention to their results)  .You just need to pick the winning team per week, with tiebreaker determined by your pre chosen scores  $$cash prize for grand prize winner I am no foot ball or sports follow for that matter, other than tennis, so I picked some who statistically look like they have a better chance of winning,  but also chose  some underdogs or  you have no chance in winning the overall  contest, as inevitably there are upsets in every "bracket" in basketball so I assume there would be here too !! And the most interesting thing to me is it is MOL an even playing field because there has not been any real training season  due to covid 19 and the stats shown are from last year and due to trades in off season, and lack of pre season(I assume) that those stats don't mean a hill of beans/diddly squat for 2020-21 LOL I am posting this contest,  for entertainment purposes of course,  as most of us are really in need of having something to look forward to until we can cruise again, and I find playing brackets(basketball college level) and now here with pro football, a way to do just that and enjoy some friendly rivalry/competition between   friends/cities etc I think you can replace the city name by your favorite team's city where it says Seattle-just check the CBS local website Good luck!!

https://seattleprofootballchallenge.cbslocal.com/#/registration/login

1 hour ago, almostretired said:

We were.  Quite a ride and a little excitement when my wife, an RN, saved a lady who was choking then had her heart stop right before the voyage ended --- on formal night no less.  The Captain invited us to join him as we sailed into Sydney Harbor pre-dawn.

Thank God your wife was there to help save a woman's life on that cruise. One does not like to hear the words "code blue" on a Crystal cruise:(  🙂 Did any of the dining room windows break on our cruise? It seems to me some  windows may have broken, as well as  pod(aakk) on my 2009 cruise from Auckland to Perth, after we left Melbourne. I had been forewarned by the friend of my dad's I had dinner with in Melbourne, about a pretty large storm coming in, but didn't think anything about it at the time.. I also had not previously known about the weather in the Australian bite being prone to bad weather since there was basically no land  to break  bad weather, waves etc  from Antarctica to the coast of Australia in the GAB 🙂

We were an entire day getting into Perth ate as poor Serenity had to limp along to Perth on 1 pod. Another memorable cruise, rocky ride ,some broken dishes I think , as well as a major item-the pod!  My dad had a PS and he and my sister got off in Melbourne and flew to Pert a few days early to spend some time with some dear old Rotary friends, and re-boarded in Perth. So I got to stay in the PS instead of my former  7036, for the rest of my trip, and boy do you feel movement so much  more in the upper decks    I did not know what to do with a butler  who was very nice but actually seemed a bit sad that I didn't have more for him to do LOL so I had him do  just a couple of things. The room attendants put my dad's computer, printer, wine bottles etc on the floor in his  closet and the bottles between the cushions of the sofa of the living room, to ride out the storm.. I am grateful he was not on the ship for this portion of the world cruise, as it got rough in some ways worse than # a year later, and likely would have fallen.bdown...

4 minutes ago, rafinmd said:

After 2 planned trips and 2 pandemics I've decided that my planning a round the world adventure is a sure jinx.

 

Roy

(((awwwww))  😞

These pictures are mainly for Roy, but also for anyone else who was  onboard the infamous #0205 in 2010.   Note the date and or time of day as we progressed from a nice day ,,to the first(?) of 2 cyclones between Fiji and Sydney(sorry not in order and my other pics are too similar to take up any more real estate in this thread LOL

14 hours ago, OzKiwiJJ said:

Is the third photo Tauranga NZ, but not a recent photo?

Actually it is Hakodate, island of Hokaido, Japan  🙂

Many of those cruises will not even be sailing so I wouldn't  even worry about any cruise  before Summer 2021 😞

6 minutes ago, 57redbird said:

I'm trying to book a cabin on the Volendam for a January, 2022 cruise.  When I get to the # of people in the cabin & click continue, the page just reloads.... any ideas how to get past this page?

Are you sure they are even taking bookings for 2020 yet?

9 minutes ago, rafinmd said:

I was trying to figure out when you got to Paris.  Sure looked like the Eiffel Tower to me.

 

Roy

That would have been  during  the  summer of 1977  for me-I have only been there once:)

2 minutes ago, BWIVince said:

Me too, nice shot!  I’ve mainly seen it at night, but I still recognized it from underneath.  I’m better with architecture than any other area.  🙂
 

Vince

I am no architechie, but I do find various structures, bridges etc very interesting when traveling:)

34 minutes ago, BWIVince said:

Is the fourth picture Tokyo Tower?

 

Vince

Yes !! Good job!    I loved the view -looking up inside it !

 Not your typical view of it 🙂