DShep

11 hours ago, clojacks said:

Where did I say there were 800k deaths among vaccinated. My point was 800k deaths makes this extremely different from what we know as influenza.

Yes, different than today's infuenza. But when the Spanish Flu (also a coronavirus) hit the world 100 years ago it was far worse than COVID 19. 500,000 deaths in the US with a population 1/3 of today's.  What will COVID be like in 100 years?

2 minutes ago, dchod001 said:

 

Well, this news is devastating, cause we're not going to st. Maarten 

So what port are you going to stop at on your next cruise? 😊

14 minutes ago, dchod001 said:

Well rats--honestly wasn't expecting much, but was hoping to grab a few bottles of Blantons (just the original really) for some local buddies. I guess you never know. 

 

It's funny, I haven't really even seen any NCL itineraries with St. Maarten in the last few years. We had a great time there.

We went to St Maarten on Celebrity in 2018. Picked up Blantons Straight From The Barrel, Gold, and Special Reserve as well as Wild Turkey 13 yr old. Wife got a few of rums.  7 bottles total and customs just waived us through.

I haven't seen anything on board a Norwegian ship that I can't get on Ohio. Looks like your 2 ports are in Mexico so you probably won't find any hard to find bourbons there either.  Now if you were going to Phillipsburg, Sint Maarten...

3 hours ago, parmus said:

I just received in the mail a nice 38 page NCL brochure where pages 8-15 are their 2020 Asian cruises on the Spirit. July, August, September, November and December....

You do realize that these were printed long before coronavirus "exploded."

We were in 8740 on the Bliss this spring.  No noise at all from Food Republic.  In the evenings you could here the piano guy while walking in the hallway but not in our room.  And we only heard music from the theater (below us) a couple of times.  

I had Elijah Craig at Maltings on the Bliss last spring

I've picked up all the versions of Blantons at Golmuhar's.  Last year it was $10 cheaper than I've paid in the States. Brought home 6 bottles of liquor on that cruise and didn't pay a penny in duties in Miami. 

I also picked up a bottle of Wild Turkey 13 year old at Gomuhar's.

I brought 6 bottles (750 ml)  through customs in Miami and paid zero taxes or duties. Bought them on St. Martin.  But if you go through Galveston you will have to pay the Texas state tax on each bottle. But you do get a nifty Texas tax stamp that they tell you that you must put it on the bottle.

On 10/28/2018 at 3:10 PM, Socalev said:

View of an angled balcony on deck 10 Bliss.  We were in deck 9 B8 connecting cabin which extends out and could see into the balconies above us (and they could see us as well).  We could not see into the cabins!

Whst cabin number?

Wife and I had cabin 15196 on the Seaside last week. You really can't help but to see into the balconies on deck 9 if you look down towards the water. And as a bonus, you get to see into the jacuzzi's in the whirlpool suites. : )

Our cabin was under the pool deck overhang and noise really only bothered me twice. The first morning when someone decided he had to run a couple of miles at 6AM. Fortunately his enthusiasm waned after the first day. The second time was when the crew was cleaning up after White night. Sounded like they were having a deck chair throwing contest at 1:30AM.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner times you can hear the people eating outside on deck 8 but it was more like background noise and not really a bother.