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Cruise directors don’t make or break our cruise. However on the smaller ships they are usually much more visible and can add to the cruise experience. We watch the morning shows for highlights of the day or important port info. On the big ships we sometimes never even know who they are. Just off 28 days with Kat on the Jewel. She was very visible and did a great job.

Hey Rockwall is just across the lake from us. I do enjoy Gloria’s. We were on Navigator in May. Great ship. The tiki bar and Playmakers were great additions. Have a great time!

We’d love to do a world cruise with Royal but 9 months is much too long. We’ve done 8 weeks and just returned from 5 weeks. We’d try 3-4 months but wouldn’t even consider longer. We have a home and a fur baby and grandkids. Plus the price per day was pretty high I suppose because of all the “special” experiences they got. I’d take less special and less cost. If they kept the length down I’m guessing more would be interested. We love cruising but even those who love it get worn out after a while. Most sea days we spend half the day in our room to relax in the quiet. If you do 7 days it can be go go go but longer and you need some downtime. I can’t imagine 9 months.

This is your best answer. Some ships will have a plug by the bed but only the newer ships do. If you fly your cpap case does not count as a carry on. Just be sure you have it marked with a medical tag like the ones you can find on Amazon. We carry in it an extension plug, not a cord, that we can also plug a usb into so my sound machine can be by the bed too. The magnets work great for the cord on the older ships and keep it off the floor so we don’t trip over it in the night.

Just dropping in a few pics from Norway. Turn around day in Amsterdam today and headed to Iceland next. We have a great trip so far! Norway was stunning.

The shorter cruises are part of Royals new plan. We have a B2B booked on Utopia for next year. The 2 together are less than a 7 day on Harmony out of Galveston so they are not necessarily more expensive.

Our first Royal ship was Majesty in an ocean view in 2000. Our first cruise was MS Seaward on NCL in a tiny inside near the forward anchor in 1989. Golf balls and skeet off the back and flaming baked Alaska in the dining room. We still have the list of passengers they used to give out from that ship. Times have changed. Mostly for the better!

Kudos to those of you who travel in a carry on only.

I’m already not sleeping well and we have 5 more sleeps to go before we leave. I’ll wake and think of things I need to pack or do. Amazon has been coming daily for vitamins, facial cleanser, luggage locks, all the things I’ve left until the last minute. I am trying with little success to go to bed earlier than 11 and get up earlier to help adjust for Europe. Maybe I’ll be so exhausted by the time we leave that I can sleep on the way over. I can’t relax until I’m in our city of cruise departure with all our bags. But yes I love to travel!

I bring my own liquid hand wash soap. I dislike a bar that gets gooey.

I’m assuming I can use all that OBC to purchase shore excursions. Correct me if I’m wrong though. It will pretty much make the cruise “all inclusive”. We have 8 days in ports.

Interesting comments on both sides. We have just booked Princess after almost 20 years away. We went with the plus because we won’t have any repeaters perks and are not in a suite. By the time we paid for gratuity and internet it only takes a couple of drinks and bottled water to make it “worth it”. We do have a ton of OBC which we can use for excursions right? Can those be purchased ahead of time with OBC?

This is soooo true. We’ve not had a price drop on any of our cruises in over a year. They have only gone up and some by 30-50% more! If it does drop before final payment you or your TA can call for a price adjustment.

Wow. These pictures are wonderful. I’m packing and getting excited. We decided not to do the railroad in Flam as DH wanted to do the Viking village instead. But we still get a waterfall.

We always check in for the second cruise. We do not print our set sail for the second leg nor luggage tags UNLESS we are changing cabins. We print luggage tags if we are changing cabins just to help tag our stuff for the move. If we get consecutive cruiser info in our cabin by the last day we don’t stop at guest services. Otherwise we do.