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I'm probably going to be slammed for this but isn't this copywrite infringement even though you are using them for personal use?

Thanks to the OP for this posting and all of their hard work doing it. As for us, we don't give a rat's behind what the category is. We book specific cabins on specific decks. What the category is makes no difference to us.

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I haven't seen that one yet.

Here ya go... http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2235059330030186251xrpdMm

I took $40 per night. I hit the 1000 mark for the free $10 gambling on the 6th night. Wife hit hers on the 5th night and hit 1500 on the 6th playing slots varying hits and lines. If you put in $10 and are lucky enough to get it up to the magic mark (?), then lose it all, you will hit the 1500 with only having to spend $10.

I'm curious -- what do you all do with your pins?

I found pictures of each of the ships that we've been on on Webshots. I copied them and put each in a frame. Then I drilled a small hole in the left side of each frame and glued the pins into the frame. I have them hanging on a wall in my garage with a shelf under them. I started collecting the ship's models after our third cruise and I have those models under the picture of the ship. I need to go on a cruise on the first three ships again to get those models. I tried e-bay but they want waaaay more for them than what you can buy them for on the ships.

Had to laugh at that recipe.

Flan de café (this is the flan served at Pancho's Backyard)

12 eggs

3 tablespoons of your favorite instant coffee

3 tablespoons of Los Cinco Soles brand pure vanilla

1 quart skim milk

1 ½ cans of condensed milk (596 ml)

½ can of coconut cream (calahua)

The rind of one lime

½ pound of White sugar to caramelize

A dozen eggs,1 1/2 cans condensed milk, 1/2 can coconut cream, 1/2 pound sugar, then 1 quart skim milk. Does that make it less calories?

On our last cruise on the Dream, I bought two larger bottles of vanilla. They wrapped them in a mesh like thing to protect them. When we went through security to board the ship, the guy running the scanner told me I had to check the liquor in at the desk. I told him that they were vanilla and he just said "OK" without even opening the bag. Maybe that would work for smuggling liquor back onboard.

Here is a picture of what they look like on the outside of the ship. As you can see, they are under the lifeboats and you can look directly down on the water. http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2987906950030186251tqOhqh The view is partially obstructed by the steel on the side of the ship as opposed to the glass rails on the upper balconies.

We were on the Panorama Deck and this is what we saw when we looked down. http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2781873370030186251cHUdBb

If you are on the lanai, you can look up into the balconies on the next couple of decks.

Cruisenanny, oops

 

They can make one dining room anytime time dining and have the comfort foods added to this dining room menu..... and keep the other dining room assigned time with no comfort foods?? What you think?

 

Im sorry but fried chicken and meatloaf belongs in the buffet not in a dining room along with the ribs, burgers and such.

First off, this is not a flame so please don't take it that way. I'm only giving my opinion. I personally wouldn't think of putting a snail (escargo) in my mouth but I see no reason to take it off the menu or only offer it in the steakhouse restaurants just because I don't like it. That's what a menu is for...variety.

Have you ever tried the fried chicken? The night I had it, there wasn't anything on the menu that appealed to me so I tried it. It's delicious.

I enjoyed it more than I would have had I tried something that didn't appeal to me.

I would like to see them give you credit for the amount of days cruised instead of cruises taken. We've been on five seven day Carnival cruises for 35 days. If you take ten three days cruises, you become Platinum. We are only half way there and have spent a lot more money for our five cruises than you would for ten three day cruises.

As for the food, I'm glad they put "comfort" food on the menu. If there's nothing you like on the menu that night, at least you have something to choose from that you do like.

I wish they would have stuck with the stadium style (tiered) arrangement on the Dream Class of ship. The way it is now, it seemed too crowded on the Lido Deck when there was something going on. Everyone was on the same level and you couldn't see over them like you could with the stadium style.

It doesn't. It is more than that. Closer to $ 4 -5 for a single point.

But as I said above, you can get many points for $4-5 just depending on your luck. If you put in $4 on a dollar machine and take it all the way up to 1500 credits, then lose it all, you would get the free drinks and it would have only cost you $4. I personally only spent $340 in the casino and hit the 1000 point mark.

Not exactly sure how it works but this is what happened to us on our Dream cruise in February. Wife and I both spent between $40-60 a night in the casino on slots. On the sixth night, wife hit 1000 points and was awarded $10 free gambling on her card. On the seventh night, I hit the 1000 mark and got my free $10. Later that night, she hit the 1500 mark and instantly a lady came up to her and told her that she had won and someone would be over to her shortly. Within a minute, a guy came up and took her S&S card out of the machine, punched a whole it it and attached another card to it. It said "Drinks are on us". It was only good while in the casino and the drinks had to be ordered from the servers. She also could not get drinks for anybody else. I'm guessing they probably watched to see how often she got drinks to make sure she didn't.

After a while, she got up to walk around and stopped at the bar at the casino to get a drink and was told that she had to get them from the servers that he couldn't honor the card at the bar.

The best that we could figure it is this way. You put in lets say $10. You take it down to $5. You now have five points. Now you get it back up to $15 and lose it all. You now have accumulated 20 points. It's not actually how many dollars you spend, it's the total overall of the dollars spent, plus the winnings spent. If you were lucky, you could put in $10, keep playing on that if you kept winning, (nobody's that lucky) and get your 1500 points.

A previous post had them at $2.50 and $3.50 for a large plus grat. The smalls apparently come out to $2.88 each. Good incentive for chore money :)

When we were on her (Feb 19-26) there was a sign on the machine that said $2.50. It never mentioned a larger one and all I saw were the smaller cups. They had two flavors on our cruise; Coke and a red one. The machine was located on the Lido deck, right next to the bar closest to the cabins. You had to order them from the bar.

ok we all ready pre paid .... with Disney if you pre pay or put them on your on board account they give you envelopes and cards with the person's name and how much you paid for you to give out on the last night....so unless we want to give more to the original people or for the Maître d’ or room service we don't need to do anything else for the gratuties? will the people just get them automatically at the end of the cruise?

No, you won't need to do anything else and they will get the tips automatically at the end of the cruise.

What cabin numbers were you all..?

 

Thanks

We were on the Panorama Deck in cabin 11266, Brother and SIL in 11270 and son and nephew in 11272. Three cabins in a row.

Thanks shelkate1! I looked at the deck plans & I couldnt figure out where deck chairs would be on deck 5? Are they set out along the lanai? Also, did you find the ship easy to manuver?

The deck chairs are all the way around the ship on Deck 5. Here's a picture of them. http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2781873370030186251cHUdBb

As for manuvering around the ship, yes and no. The ship is easy to manuver, it's the people standing in the way that makes it hard to get from one place to another. The ship is way overcrowded. There were always crowds standing in the walkways making it difficult to get through.

Will someone please post some pictures? Thanks in advance.

Here you go. We just got off her Feb 19-26 Western cruise.

The first group is the pix my son took, the second is ours.

http://travel.webshots.com/album/579876815mAElKG

http://travel.webshots.com/album/579861601DYxYDx

I personally don't see anything wrong with someone that's already in line going around someone if they don't want what that person is getting. Nothing any worse that standing behind someone who picks through the whole salad bowl for just the right leaves of lettuce. I don't consider that cutting. That's going around.

Ship models

S&S Cards

Golf Balls (From Ships and Islands)

Christmas Ornaments from every island

I have folders with all the Fun Times and all paper work for each cruise with receipts from everything we bought including drinks, car rentals, hotels, cruise documents, etc.

White photo albums with each ship on the cover

Ships deck layout folder (BTW-RCI has the best ones)

I just left click and it opens the picture in a new window....full-size....try it again it should work.

For some unknown reason, if you are using AOL, the pictures won't get bigger if you click on them. I gave up trying a long time ago.

This is a picture of a couple that sailed with us on our first cruise on the Destiny before she was moved to San Juan. They had different outfits like that for each night. That was back when you didn't have to pay a fortune for each piece of luggage to fly. A lot of people thought they were part of the entertainment crew.

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1026533811030186251frteQeKoUJ

For me, it's not even a matter of the money. I tried it and simply didn't care for the experience. The service was way too invasive, in my opinion. You never got a chance to just sit and relax and talk to your companions without having one or more servers hovering about...:(

I couldn't agree more. We did it once and will never do it again for that reason. You'd go to take a bite and somebody would be there asking how you were enjoying your meal or bringing something on a bent spoon that looked like seaweed for you to try. Some people enjoy this but we'd rather be left alone to eat and enjoy our meal.

Zolton from Hungary on the Destiny in 1999. He always had a smile on his face and was real friendly. If he saw us in the buffet, he would come up and talk to us. I ask him one night to call me by my first name instead of "Sir" which I hate. He said that he meets at least forty people a week and for him, "Sir" and "Ma'm" is a lot easier. From that night on, he called me "Mr Sir". Part way through the cruise, he tripped going up some stairs and was laid up for a day. He said they didn't get paid if they didn't work so he came back the next day and limped through his shift. Couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy. He got tipped well at the end of our cruise. ;)

"Where did the empty cabin come from?" They probably were having complaints from the people in that cabin so they just switched the people in each cabin hoping that it would quiet both parties. ;)

That is one reason we never go with a guarantee rate. Do some research and pick the cabin that best fits your needs even if it does cost more. By the same token, we never cruise during hurricane season even though the rates are cheaper. They are cheaper for a reason...there may be a hurricane.