Jump to content

NutsAboutGolf

Members
  • Posts

    7,966
  • Joined

About Me

  • Location
    SoCal
  • Interests
    VBall
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Carnival, X, NCL & Crystal
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Hawaii

Recent Profile Visitors

5,116 profile views

NutsAboutGolf's Achievements

  1. I believe they COULD restrict the amount but will overlook it the majority of the time. Also, you carry some bottles and put some more in checked porter luggage and it should get on A more interesting question, X has no limits on cans of N/A drinks, I wonder if a case of N/A wine cans could make it on?
  2. You're allowed to carryon a couple of wine bottles, including non-alcoholic wines
  3. If it's available, they'll leave a slip with the special in your stateroom. X offers free pressing for a few items for those with status so many X regulars don't pay attention to pressing specials
  4. The ship X-Ray should catch it and they'll call the ship's Armorer to "check-in" the dive knife
  5. Anything can be used as a weapon, my neighbor is a flight attention, she was trained as a last resort/life or death situation to smash a liquor/wine bottle and use the jagged glass as a weapon that causes more damage than a small pocket knife There are reports from scuba divers that they are getting their dive knives on when they put it into a bag that goes to a porter, but not when carrying on. Usually, when divers bring on dive knives it's because they'll be diving when in port and will "check out" the knife while diving in port and back in when returning. Divers are supposed to self-report the dive knife to an employee who will call the ship's armorer but that reportedly can take over a half-hour
  6. The ships only have a certain amount of extension cords on board, there's no backup plan if the paperwork gets lost/shuffled and they run out of cords. I would recommend putting a "backup" cord in your checked luggage, very good odds it'll get on the ship and worst case they take it and you get it back at the end of the cruise. Many have had success carrying on the CPAP with the extension cord in the case but I would still check it. If you ever do stateroom crawls, you may see all sorts of "banned" items, when asked how they got them on, they'll say they put it into their checked luggage. Often when you see the banned items desk at the end of the cruise, they tried to carry them on
  7. Must be, he's one of the few YTers who does long videos exclusively about the stateroom. Most others do no more than a minute of the room and continue with a full ship tour
  8. X small group tours = "Probably smaller groups than alternative tours"
  9. I think the most accurate way to say this is "independent semi-private" tours
  10. I saw that and the last app update was a week ago
  11. That's Celebrity for ya...lol...But I'm overall happy that at least some with older phones can use the app
  12. There's only a handful of non-suite staterooms with real balconies, they are under the room type of balcony and are port-hole rooms and the balcony is so shallow, you can only fit comfortably if the chair is at a 45 degree angle. On the other end of the spectrum, all suites do not have IVs
  13. To stay on topic...How much do you tip the steak master class chef? With that out of the way... 🙃 Great looking steak and sear. I've been a big fan of hers and saw the video before, I just watched the conclusion as I didn't remember her cooking method. She does an old-school reverse sear, with an oven yet presents different temps/times relative to its thickness and sears each side for around 90 seconds but says to use your judgment. I haven't tried it but will; she doesn't pre-salt, I don't agree with that If you want a faster result, as I mentioned earlier, "Cold sear" putting a cold steak in a cold pan is all the rage as it comes close to SVing and is fairly fast requiring only a skillet. A test chef for ATK/CI claimed they developed the method, here's one of their videos, the cold sear method starts around 5:15 Also on ATK, I haven't seen this anywhere else (not say they were first) but you put 1/4" of oil in the skillet and you pick up the steaks for a second before putting it back to ensure the oil is getting into all the nooks and crannies. You're pan-frying it but the results are gorgeous crust
  14. When they first reinstated it after the restart it was for one ship only, the reason I mention this is that I'm not sure if it's yet available on EVERY sailing. So if someone says "Yes, I used it last week!" it COULD be ship-specific. Perhaps someone who knows for sure will post
×
×
  • Create New...