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On 11/9/2021 at 11:13 AM, Merion_Mom said:

 

The way he spoke to you  ("the travel agent telling me he cancelled my daughter's cruise, is terminating our relationship, will refund me my deposit, will charge me the agency fee of $35 for his time, which was not on the original invoice") is inexcusable.  This person is in the wrong line of work, no matter how bad a day he may have been having. 

 

I hope that the agency makes this right and assigns you a better agent.  Good luck.

A big travel agency in the south charged me $35 once for a cancellation. Won't ever happen again.

26 minutes ago, lovelife said:

We had a medical issue on board (not Covid-related) and therefore arrived an hour early.  It is not the first visit to this port.

So is Canaveral the embarkation port, or is this a stop on the cruise, or only medical stop?

So is this the first time for Oasis at Port Canaveral or is there an issue for them to be docking at this time of day?

So sad to hear no sailaway party and countdown and horn playing Disney tunes. I just don't know if I can justify the price with so much of the cruise taken away. I am a Diamond member with Royal and get casino freebies in the mail weekly but just not comfortable enough yet to take one yet!

Has anyone heard if annual Prime cruise benefits will be extended beyond March 2022?

I don't mind an inside on the newer ships but hated the inside on some of the smaller ships. Smaller ship and very small cabin.Had to crawl to the end of the bed to go to the bathroom on the Sovereign! I was younger then so it was easier, but would be a bit tougher now!

You will love the Mariner! One of our favorites, but all of the big ships are our favorites!

11 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

Mardi Gras sailed today 

Did you ride out to the park to watch her sailaway John?

Waiting for those daily updates from you John! Have fun!

I've been on September cruises where the entire cruise locations were changed because of hurricanes. Got back on board in Nassau and the Captain announced instead of Grand Cayman and Cozumel we were going to St Thomas and St Maarten! I was ok with that.

2 hours ago, Sam.Seattle said:

Why not?

when we were there two years ago we saw so may homeless people down by Pike Market and have heard that after all of the looting and streets being shut down because of the riots that areas of downtown might not be the safest. I hope this is not the case. We would like to do this cruise again, but the plane ride was so long from southwest Florida.

Did Ovation out of Seattle two years ago. our best cruise yet. two nights pre cruise in Seattle and had a blast! Not sure about things now.

I'm sure Key West will fight this. They don't want the big ships churning up the bottom, and bringing in thousands into Key West at once! The way everything has been changing who knows what will happen!

Can my status be used on Celebrity and can my Prime casino status be crossed over to Celebrity? I would like to try Celebrity, but I still have some compd offers from Royal. 

Fly in the night before and enjoy some excellent latin food!

On 6/5/2021 at 8:09 PM, divincenzo said:

Who's to say Caribbean countries will even allow non-vaxed people disembark?  

My thoughts exactly! I don't think these island governments are going to allow a ship with a bunch of non vaccinated people walking around and possibly starting an outbreak!

Two favorites, Harmony and Ovation! 

My question is what ports of call will be open for ships from every cruise line? I have probably missed something about ports other  than Nassau and the private islands. Too many ships to send them all to only The Bahamas!

43 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

You do know that cruise ships represent less than 5% of total world tonnage, and are a small part of worldwide maritime trade? What incentive do the shipping companies have to cut their throats to help another company?  The only way this would relate to a union strike is if both the cruise lines and the shipping lines benefited from anything gained by the strike.  Any amount of money the cruise lines could offer the shipping lines, even if it were the cruise lines' entire profit, would be less than the lost revenue of shipping to/from the US.

 

You obviously don't understand the Jones Act or PVSA.  Cargo coming from overseas is not, nor ever was, subject to the Jones Act, so changing it would have no effect on foreign ships in foreign trade.  And, you are quite wrong.  There is a large Jones Act fleet, it is just not what you think.  Because the Jones Act and PVSA relate only to coastwise and inland trade, the fleets are small cargo ships, tankers, tugs, pushboats and barges, ferries, casino boats, commuter boats, whale watching and sightseeing boats, and charter fishing boats.  The Jones Act and PVSA support hundreds of thousands of US jobs (paying US income taxes) and pumps hundreds of millions of dollars into the US economy.

I love ready your posts Chief! So when do you think cruises from the US will start back up?

I just saw it on the noon news on tv

They just announced on the news that the CDC has a No Sail order until November.

So I doubt that the Adventure is going to be the only ship doing this. Probably 3 or 4 will be docked waiting for passengers after this gets started. 

I paid $50 for two people in a limo from the airport to downtown. And the limo picked us up at the cruise terminal and took us to the airport for $50, plus Seattle has port valet so you don't have to drag your luggage off of the ship. It is delivered to the airport and to your destination at no charge.

1 minute ago, dswallow said:

 

An extra 2,500 people arriving or departing over two days?

 

That's exactly what I'm talking about. We're not talking about a big airport!

And if you have  to fly into Nassau like the night before, where are you gonna stay? Paradise Island! bring your wallet!