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laumicmah

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    Florida
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    Cruising. Travel. Disney. Binge watching TV
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    RCI
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    somewhere tropical and not home

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  1. Loving all the comparisons to Royal. Very helpful. Enjoy those margs in Key West.
  2. So I cannot status match now for our Dec 30th cruise? Also, can I ask you how much of a bar tab would a moderate drinker accrue over a 4 day cruise? If we did the pay for $200 and get $50 deal would we spend all that? And is that a limited time offer?
  3. Hi! We just booked for this cruise over New Years. We are frequent cruises and will have 1 Disney, many Carnival, several Royal and an upcoming Norwegian under our belts before Virgin. Looking forward to your compare to Royal. We are from the north too but live in FL now and can easily get to many ports, bonus!!! It is, however, chilly here as of late. But still better than the 20s-40s up north. Safe travels and enjoy the experience!!!
  4. My husband was very interested in the LA to Dubai leg but he still works so we can't do it yet. But I have some questions and they are likely answered in this thread somewhere so I will go back and read it all. But here goes... 1) is everything included like bar drinks and the specialty dining? How do they let folks book the specialty...like everyone get 1 or 2 a week or do they not do them or are they extra? 2) I did read past few pages and saw where someone went to grocery store and looks like they got 2 bottles of wine. So can you bring on booze and wine? I see they ran out of wine so I'd hope they allow you to get off and buy some to bring back. If bar is included then they won't care if you bring your own booze on. Right? 3) tipping...do these workers get paid more up front I hope. And then do you tip here and there, at the end? Additional tips? Thanks and thanks for sharing. Wish I had followed from the beginning cause now I have a lot of back reading to do.
  5. Was going to ask. We just booked last night (1st NCL cruise like OP). And I just now tried to make Cagneys resie and all that is left is 9.30pm. There was 9pm the 1st night so I grabbed that but want to switch once I get on the ship. I prob should have taken 9.30 for the day we wanted (not 1st night). Can I modify some way? Also, is Bayamo seafood place not part of the free dining package deal? We get 1 free dining with our inside cabin booking. I used it for Cagneys. But they offer a dining upgrade for $83 pp. But it doesn't say what that is...is it 2 more dinners? Or just 1 more? A regular 2 dinner package is $119 pp. So the upgrade offer of $83 has to be for 2 dinners, right...and not just 1? Do excursions go on sale? Do they book up fast? Can I wait and watch for a sale? Cruise is March 16. Thanks for info. Also...do we need to make resies now for the MDR? Is there a way? Or just do that on the cruise?
  6. I emailed and they changed it for me. But cruise is Sept so we could still get early (had the my time dining and hated it last cruise).
  7. If you have a grand suite and access to the suite lounge do you get beer and wine from 11am to 5pm...before the happy hour or no? So hard to find this info. Thanks.
  8. So, I used to do MTD on Carnival and it was like 5:45-late. Just walk up and if no tables, they give you a pager (or now phone app, I think). Loved it. Early dining was like 6:15 and late was like 8:00 or something like that. Honestly, we are 5:15-5:30 eaters. So we'd go right when MTD opened. Just got off Adventure OTS and had MTD. Booked late and that's all they had available. I assumed it was same as Carnival. I thought, though, I needed to make resies. I tried before getting on ship and the app only showed 8:30, 8:45 times and no way am I doing that. I have been doing fasting diet and don't eat from 7pm to 11am. Well, that went out the window when the MDR desk guy set us up for 7pm resies. Better than 8:30 but I was thinking more like 6pm. He said earliest is 6:45. We had trouble with shows and wanted to see the ice show one night so we bumped dinner to 8pm that night and went to 7pm ice show. That was late. We had same waiters each night, which I did like as they were good and our table neighbors were nice to chat with. But it really isnt MTD, is it. They should just go back to 2 set times, or do 4 set times so waiters can get 2 dining times and divide the levels of the MDR based on that. Like 5:30, 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30...some servers do 5:30 and 7:30 and others do 6:30 and 8:30. We also have MTD for our Dec 14th cruise and I tried to get it switched with my VP and she said nope. Said to try when I get on the ship. This time I just went on to make reises and got 7:15 each night. How can I get 6:45??? Seemed like, on last cruise, they had the 5:15 early dining at our table and did a reset quick to seat us at 7pm. They don't want us at 6:45.
  9. Seas were rough last night. But we docked at like 10:30am at Coco Cay. Here until 6pm. We are waiting to get off after lunch.
  10. They just told us we will be cruising through swells tonight, from Tammy (odd). And rougher than normal seas. Been rough since last night. I guess it will get rougher???? Eek. Said we are docking an hour late at Coco and getting an extra hour there. We shall see.
  11. We are on Adventure and supposes to go Friday. Hope we do because we aren't getting off in Tortolla today because the DH got badly sunburned feet in St Croix yesterday.
  12. Does DH get port fees and taxes back if he's a no show? Same for me? What's the benefit to us canceling before the cruise as opposed to both being no show? Thank you all for the info! I sent emails asking all kinds of questions to the planner and she only answered half. Also, what's the deal on canceling a Dec 14 cruise...too late? 50% lost. Can that be moved to another date? Also booked with that planner and I asked but she didn't answer that either.
  13. Not that it's a big deal, but, does DH get points if he is no show? And does he get double points if he goes solo?
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