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Oh boy that’s awful! I ended up once getting something when I had a salad in a Key West many years ago and had runs for almost a month, but didn’t feel sick otherwise. Hubby asked why I didn’t go to the dr, but I said, maybe it will help me lose some weight…😁 I just looked at my “pharmacy bag” and I do carry Imodium, I had forgotten that. did you say what ship you were on?

What do you pack for the runs? I’d like to add it to my cruising pharmacy bag 😁

The sausages definitely look undercooked to me! And shame on the chef and staff for not acknowledging it. I hope others didn’t get sick. I always say nothing is a coincidence, and this is an example of that. I hope your husband has fully recovered. I would send the photos and your detailed comments to Michael Bayley. The chef needs to be spoken to, if for nothing else, for the rude way he treated you.

I’ve always loved the solarium on Radiance class ships! Looking forward to boarding in Ravenna!

We just noticed and came here to see…..

Im sitting here laughing because what seems like a century ago when we went on a cruise with friends and we brought a box of wine to share. Like you said, not a peep….and it was a Royal ship

Is that when it changed? That was more than just booze related…….

Thats what we remember too. That was before booze packages if I recall correctly.

That wouldn’t be in royals best interest. first, many do it and they know it, so by signaling someone out and letting others go doesn't look good for a company that turns their head away in many other situations. They would announce it on social media, and even though its wrong, many get away with it, Plus, that passenger may have spent much more money than the zero Royal would get if they were disallowed that person boarding. But I’m not saying it’s right to do, or would we do it and never have.

On the world cruise I guess you would need to keep track of all the ports missed, I guess it’s a hassle to me. On many cruises we’ve had to skip a port due to a multitude of reasons, and it’s not worth it to me, especially if they make it up with another port. Not sure my annual policy covers that anyway, although I’ve never looked at it in detail.

Delete, somehow this ended up in the wrong thread! Cruise critic error I guess

I agree with your post regarding Disney cruises. This is a food thread, so I was curious if his response was about their food. But what I’m seeing is that Royals market focus IS currently on families with very young children, for “weekend” cruises of 3 or 4 days. I think only 1 ship in Port Canaveral is doing 7 day cruises, the others are all doing the shorties geared towards families with young kids. Every commercial being shown on TV here in Florida are all for weekend family cruises of 3 or 4 nights showing very young kids sliding down the waterslide. Thats their market focus at this time. Thats why we’re moving on from cruising with Royal here. I’ll still cruise in Europe, but after the ones that are booked are done, I don’t want a ship full of kids running around like we saw on the NYE cruise we took. It was awful, even young kids were running around unsupervised, clogging the staircases, running up and down the halls being rude. I have a high tolerance for kids, but that cruise for what we paid on an old ship for NYE….never again.

Have you ever done this? When our Holy Land cruise last year got changed to remove Israel from our itinerary 1 week before our cruise, the last thing on my mind was calling my insurance company to try to get money back for the changed ports. Yes, we had to miss all of Israel, but gained beautiful ports that were never on our radar Do people do this?

I think so, but even if you don’t get it you’ll still be able to see the celebration at midnight from the promanade.

I’m curious why you wouldn’t cruise Disney, because although we’ve only taken a few - without kids - the food was way above in quality and taste to what Royal ever had, and I’m including years ago when Royals food was better compared to what they have now. We haven't done a Disney cruise in many years mostly because they’re so expensive.

In our community we have a farmers market on Mondays and Fridays and last week they had Pink Pineapple! I have never heard of it before. They sold it already cut in half so you could see it was pink…..we didn’t get it as I had already paid and didn’t want to stand in line again.

Great to hear! I hope they offer the Tutti salad when we board in June.

One of the best changes Royal made was the vouchers! I would love it even more if they did the same on Celebrity.

I’m curious how many would pay that! You have to drink ALOT, to even come close to that being better than just buying the drinks

To those who are doing the World Cruise, or even a large segment, I’m wondering if the dinner menus are the same as always which would be very boring by now? I looked at some of the menus on this current leg and it appears they are! I would think they would mix it up. According to the answer to a question in Captains Corner an out crew meals, they answered that their menu rotation is I think at least 3 weeks or more before they repeat the same old, same old. So are you all bored?

I forget, does Schooner on Oasis overlook the promenade? If so then it could be a possibility. We’ve been on 3 NYE cruises, but all on Radiance class ships, so the ones that paid for the “view” had small tables around the glass that overlooked the centrum. And tickets were bought on the ship. Actually on the Radiance ships it was kind of annoying because it was hard to walk around the tables and chairs they arranged for the ones that paid.

Where did you read that?

One of the suite concierges from our last cruise lives there and said that most of the sugar we get imported to the US is from there. It looks beautiful!

i had no idea that could be a thing….. so now that I’ve changed my Royal password..for possibly the 20th time, I should go see if the Celebrity one works that I created when we all had to do the update. Thanks!

It’s good that you get 4 drinks each day, so if you drink a bit more it’s not so bad. now I’m not saying we ever did this before….but a person could bring in 2 bottles because the spouse doesn’t want to carry it….then the spouse also may bring a bottle in their carry on. 😇