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On 2/19/2023 at 8:17 AM, Sea Dog said:

 

Had a great time last night attending a VIP open house of our brand new KCI terminal. Thanks to the airport public relations director for getting me tickets. The construction has been going on over the last two years. This $1.5 billion project features over 40 gates, a 6,000 car garage, many restaurants and shops and local commissioned art throughout.

 

 

 

beautiful hanging sculptures.

 

 

 

This has moving lights in it. Very cool.

 

 

A lot more walking than the old 3 smaller terminal system. Lots of space. I like the people movers.

 

 

40 gate’s expandable to 50.

 

 

Incorporating KC’s jazz history. 
 

 

Lots of restaurants including several bbq restaurants.

 

 

Nice seating areas with plugs for charging under the seats.

 

 

Even work stations where you can work.

 

 

 

 

Nice big bathrooms that even tell you stalls available and where’s the nearest next bathroom.

 

 

 

 

Bag claim is downstairs with plenty of room.

 

The terminal opens next week and we will fly out of it on March 11th for the Bella Cruise. With a 6:30am flight, I have peace of mind knowing the layout and where to go. I hope all of you will get a chance to fly into Kansas City and see this new terminal.

 

 

It is absolutely beautiful and seems very functional. Much overdue!! I've always loved flying in and out of MCI but would not want to be stuck in the old airport for hours.

41 minutes ago, cheeseheads4ever said:

We are sailing on Beyond on April 16-23. Maybe this has been covered in the past but what shows are a do not miss? Plus if you had to pick one specialty restaurant what would it be? Do you need to make reservations for the shows ahead of time? 
We are dining in Blu! Can we get an entree from one of the 4 MDR’s if we so choose?

Any help would be appreciated…

We loved Elements. Twice!

36 minutes ago, George C said:

I should have worded this better we as of now don’t have Covid her friend who was with her for about 4 hours Saturday tested positive.

Hopefully  your wife will be fine. I had it pretty rough but husband didn't get it from me. Shared stateroom/bed but fortunately he is fine.

1 hour ago, Jimbo said:

This was the Phillies parade, they had over a million, when the Eagles had their Super Bowl Parade they had twice as many it was reported, over 2 million.

 

Philadelphia people really know how to party though, Mummers Parade every year also gets large crowds.

 

 

I would certainly expect them to have a larger crowd. I believe Philly is 2-3 times as large as KC and also has a lot of fairly nearby metropolitan areas to draw from as well. 

But THIS year is KC's time and someone will have a wonderful celebration next year. Maybe one of these 2 teams but whoever it is, they will enjoy it so much!

8 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

The parade was over 25 blocks long 10-12 deep. A lot of them did not make it to the end. But here is a actual photo A friend of mine took with a drone.

Great picture! My grandson is a drone flight engineer. Loves it.

On 2/15/2023 at 2:14 PM, Jimbo said:

KC Chiefs Parade is on NFL Network. now............having speeches now on a stage, can't understand why it isn't wall to wall people down there listening to the speeches. I can actually see the ground with no people.

Wow!  You must be watching some very bad video or poor angles. The official count was approximately a million attendees. It was a huge crowd. The actual parade route was 10-12 people deep for several blocks. 

Try Google for an overhead picture.

5 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

It does not shut down their AC, but it will seriously adversely affect their AC.

 

Here is my standard spiel about balcony doors and AC.  Every cabin has two AC systems in it.  The first, is the one controlled by the cabin thermostat (and the balcony door switch), which only recirculates air within the cabin over an individual cooling coil by an individual fan in the cabin.  The second one is the fresh air supply system that balances out the bathroom exhaust fan, so you get fresh air in, and stale air out.  This system takes air from outside the ship, cools it, and supplies it to a number of cabins, and is controlled centrally, outside of passenger control.  Typically, all the cabins in one fire zone (between the doors in the passageway), on one deck, are supplied in common (so maybe 30+ cabins).  Now, the amount of fresh air supplied is slightly more than the exhaust air from the bathroom, for a very important reason, this slight overpressure in the cabin, keeps smoke from the passageway from entering your cabin. The overpressure goes out through the gap under the door to the cabin, into the passageway.  So, in a fire, you won't get smoke into your cabin. Now, if I open the balcony door, this unbalances the fresh air supply to your cabin, since you have changed the overpressure relief from the small gap under the door, to a huge wide open doorway to the balcony.  This drops the pressure in your cabin to atmospheric pressure, and can be shown by simply opening the cabin door at the same time the balcony door is open, and the wind tunnel created will blow any light object in the cabin out the balcony door.  Now, we get to your neighbors.  Since their cabins are maintaining positive overpressure, but yours is not, the fresh air supply will "take the path of least resistance" and increase the airflow to your cabin, meaning less cool fresh air for the other cabins in the block.  Therefore, their cabins will start to warm up, and you also remove the important safety factor of overpressure from their cabins.

 

Whenever I got complaints about warm cabins, particularly if there was a cluster of them, I would just walk down the passageway and listen for the wind whistling under a cabin door.  That is the cabin where I would find a balcony door open, and when the occupants were told to close it, the complaints from the surrounding cabins stopped.

Very interesting. And very technical. Thanks.

On 2/12/2023 at 3:02 PM, shipgeeks said:

I imagine your neighbors don't appreciate that.  It will shut down their AC, too.

Seriously????? Been on over 100 cruises and have never heard this. Can anyone actually confirm?

We rented a cabana to watch at Lawn Club last year on Silhouette. So much fun!!  (Except for losing the game.)

2 hours ago, mnocket said:

Thanks for the report.  No pizza, hamburgers, curry, sandwiches,  or grilled meat or fish other than the Tilapia?  If possible could you make observations for a few more nights and also confirm whether there are many unused buffet stations (sounds like about half of them must be)?  Finally, could you give an estimate of the lunch offerings vs the dinner?  If Lunch is 100% would you say Dinner offerings are 50%, 40%, 30%?

Thanks!

The OP mentioned 4 kinds of pizza.

On 12/15/2022 at 12:17 AM, alexkrn46 said:

Great review, we are also on the 10 floor neat forward elevator, no banging tonight, past nights very loud  sounded like someone was trapped in the wall trying to get out

Yikes. We will be on Deck 10 starboard just a bit behind the forward elevators. Hope this gets resolved.

Just now, 4774Papa said:

The website Rome to Rio provides several options

 

Taxi   US$75–95

 

I will check on enrolling in Uber or Lift.

I'd suggest adding both apps. I compare both most times as the prices can vary.

1 minute ago, cruisin from florida said:

When we travelled with 3 teenaged sons in their own inside cabin, we just apologized a lot and tipped big. 

The one we saw a lot on our last TA was definitely not occupied by teenagers. Actually by a bit older couple in a JS. 

1 minute ago, loman said:

Yep , we leave our room nice and tidy other than making the bed.

As i was walking by an open door once, i looked in and the room looked like a crime scene , only thing missing was the body.

I looked down the hall expecting the CSI folks to appear .

And in some of them you couldn't find a body if there was one  😀

A taxi will probably be about $100-$125. 

I don't know your reason for saying no Uber but either them or Lyft would be the cheapest and most convenient. Our last ride from FLL to downtown Miami was just under $50 late evening.

We often ask our steward to just give us fresh towels on some evenings. It gives them a small break and I'm perfectly happy to do that. 

One thing that amazes me on cruises is how messy some staterooms are. That would drive me nuts!!! One near us on our last cruise looked liked they had blown up their luggage. No attendant should have to deal with that.

On 12/3/2022 at 10:14 AM, Harry_D said:

I’m also still waiting for a cruise ship with Pickleball courts!
 

Check out Royal Caribbean.

1 hour ago, jamesnnb said:

Bingo. That did it. Thank you.

That's great. For future reference sometimes you can just restart your phone and it will adjust.

On 10/18/2022 at 6:17 AM, njkruzer said:

As D+ apparently we also get a free daily non-alcoholic Specialty coffee.  That's for dh.

I did not know this! Is this an extra perk just on this Anthem sailing?

What a fun thread!! We will be in Bologna for a couple of days prior to a cruise from Ravenna in October so if anyone has restaurant suggestions, please share.

And gelato!!! I may just have to try all. My favorite to this day was in Milan. I shall try to find the name of the place 😊

We much prefer cruises that have nice weather (at least nicer) for the full week so we never choose sailings from NJ to the Caribbean. Just another thing to consider. I'd definitely select Wonder. Either way, have fun!

In Seattle a taxi or Uber is generally less than 2 transfers from Royal. And easier. I believe Uber is about $30-40 and a taxi is a bit more.

3 hours ago, SraLiz said:

Hello All-

Looking to book flights and wondering what is the earliest flight time you have personally had after a cruise from Rome?  I see Flights by Celebrity has one at 11:00 am.  I am looking at several options and a couple leave within the 10:00 hour.  

Also.... I looked on Flights by Celebrity and couldn't find pricing options for premium or first class.... just economy and business.  So I called.  Unfortunately my representative was not very helpful.... she said they don't offer premium/comfort plus seats.  Can this be right?

Thanks for your help...as always, I appreciate you! 

Most international flights are Business which is the same seating as First would be domestic. 

I've been working on Celebrity Air all afternoon and mostly with premium fares. Some business. I see all classes so they are there. Unfortunately you will need to look at airline sites for seat availability.

Thanks for all of the responses. Funny - I didn't feel it at all yesterday. Very minimal right now.

Just now, HBDave said:

I like the standard height tables on the other ship. I wish Celebrity would bring these back. Having breakfast on a table at your knees is no fun!

Out table is standard height on Silhouette.😊