KarinaGW

or 8096? Or, I guess any of the Vision class corner afts?

We'll be sailing on her next year with somewhere between 2 and 4 in our group (we made the res for 4,easier to drop a person than add one). If it does wind up being all 4 of us, I'm wondering how tight it's going to be. I mean, we'll deal but forewarned is forearmed.

Thanks. Happy sailing!!

Will be on Empress next month -- and my daughter & her roomate will be in 9664.

Based on this image I found, looks like the best OV cabin possible. We'll let ya know once we see it in person. :)

Thanks very much. This looks to be a fairly brilliant cabin. I'm excited to hear what you think of it (and the ship, in general) when you get back.

Sailing on Empress because...well we can and haven't yet. We are booked into 9664 which is one of the 6 larger ocean view cabins on her. If you look at the deck plans, however, each of the 6 show a different layout with 9664 seeming to have the most extreme angles.

I am looking for information and/or pix from someone who has actually been in that specific cabin as there will be 3 of us (yes, madness, I understand that) travelling and I'm curious how its layout compares to the only other 2 F1 cabins I've been able to find pictures/video of.

Thanks

I can see a new sub category for oversized balconies

I'll bet that means they're going to follow Carnival's lead and charge extra for them now. sigh.

 

This is not a Carnival going cheap on ink problem. It's just chemistry.

As people pointed out I have (for a variety of reasons) mostly been on RCCL & also never had that happen. FTR, though, had I been on the RCCL board & read the same kind of review, I would have asked the question the exact same way subbing in RCCL for Carnival..it was mainly meant as a humorous (:eek:) kind of something. I know the tone of voice in which I would have said it and clearly, it came across poorly in the typed word. I genuinely meant no offense. Were I anti-Carnival, I would not be cruising on Pride...a cruise I am very much, btw, looking forward to.

And, a couple of people did mention it happened with their Royal cards too, so, it is just a thing that can happen, however rarely, just nothing to freak about.

It was actually part of a fairly comprehensive multi-part photo review of a cruise on Pride. In point of fact, it was this review posted by a Carnival regular:http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showpost.php?p=49587145&postcount=118

The post was back in April, otherwise I would have just posited the question there to the OP. But, since there is no notification process in CC, I decided just to ask in a new thread. I should have known better.

Thank you to the people who answered me civilly.

My husband refused to believe that cross-cruiseline bashing occurs. Thanks a couple of you for disillusioning him.

Thanks for the reassurance. I'm assuming it did happen as the poster seemed to have been genuinely appalled by the situation. Bad luck, I guess.

My upcoming cruise on Pride will be my first real Carnival cruise and I'm looking forward to it. But, I was reading a review that talked about how through some kind of weird combination of water, sweat & suntan lotion, all the ink on her Sign & Sail Card washed off completely? I mean I usually take my DL with me which gets me through island security up to a point. The notion that things could go horribly sideways because Carnival buys ink from the cheapest bidder appalls me.

Is this a common thing?

 

Happy to pay you back for all of your work!

 

:)

Thanks, mom. You're a lifesaver. That's what I remembered and I've been playing with proportions. Tough job. But, I've got another 9 months before I get to have another in person.

Hi all,

I'm looking for the bar menu from the Music Hall on Anthem of the Seas, not Quantum....specifically the ingredient list for the drink called The Tribute. Can anybody help?

 

there is a line on the horizon for a basis and one at the color break of the hull to determine the offset,

 

One of the salvage crew died despite use of mountain climbing gear

 

another, less severe

 

Based on my need, at the time, of having to get from the bathroom back to the bed at the height of the storm, i judged the angle to be 10-15*. Your graphic feels like it supports that.

It is a SOLAS requirement that has been noted in the Royal Caribbean video on the building of the Voyager class ships and was cited by one of the Royal Caribbean captains during the Captain's Corner.

 

SOLAS regulations are long and full of technical data. I'm not going to spend time looking for it. Try contacting Captain Bill Wright in Royal Caribbean, I'm sure he can point you right to it. Captain Wright was the person who brought the Voyager from Europe to Florida and was featured on the video put out by Royal Caribbean. The SOLAS regulation was mentioned on the video.

Figured as much.

At some point during the storm, the pods were damaged, right? So its possible that when the ship wasn't making any headway could have happened after the pods were damaged.

Read chenpk75's post that begin on this page and continue on. Or, if you're feeling really determined and want a complete education on the subject, go here: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2314372 and especially pay attention to postings by Cenpk75, aquahound and Loubetti.

But, the short answer is no.

I think thats great news. I truly hope Rccl and all cruise line have learned to be more cautious when it comes to weather.

 

Doesn't explain why rccl denied there was any serious damage to the ship

I would tend to think serious damage would be a hole in the side of the ship. A glitchy pod is a serious inconvenience as there was a fully functioning pod that could carry us safely if at a slower rate. Kinda like riding your car's spare donut til you get to the mechanic.

A ship can go 45 degrees and then right itself. In fact, it is a SOLAS (Safety Of Life At Sea) requirement.

 

Can you please provide the link for this requirement? I've been unable to find it and would like to educate myself more as to the specifics. Any *official* link would be fine...even an official recap of the pertinent section would be fine.

Thank you.

I am a meteorologist and an avid cruiser. There is NO WAY the Capt should have sailed anywhere close to that storm. I worked Saturday, it was well forecast and the severity was no surprise. Total negligence.

Where do you work and where did you get your degree? Not trying to be argumentative, but you are possibly the billionth person to pop up with that claim in these threads.

When you are using anything loaded on your seapass from tier passes to diamond lounge drinks, make sure you mention that's what you're using..it's a different button on the register.

And, their definition of bogo is not get one of the same or lower price free...it's get a second of the same drink.

First of all I don't think the passengers signed up for that. Second, this is true only if the ship does not need to be taken out of the water. Given the azipod is under water, I'm not sure it can be fixed while floating.

Hi Karina, I can't see your pic...I'm assuming they use divers but wow..pretty incredible work they do!

Of course you looked at it during the 2 minutes, I was trying to find a better link...sigh. It's fixed now.

Here is a pic of an azipod, I think! The ship is Eurodam. Not sure how they repair them in the water though.

 

Here's how:

Hang...on..darned image is a .png file... here we go:

Ok I think I'm ready to share my pic..

 

I'm no technical expert on this whole Azipod thing, but if the port side pod was broken, would it mean no water trail from that side of the ship? I took a picture of the back on Tuesday at around 1:35pm and it appeared both of those water trails were the same. To me it looked like normal water coming from the port side.

 

Your pictures are just as interesting as I thought they'd be (although far more nerve-wracking) compared to mine taken the next day. Do azipods work like big honking oars....paddling less on one side to make a turn?

I'll be interested in seeing robmtx's azipods picture from Tuesday. This is the one I took from the concierge lounge at noon on Wednesday. Clearly, the starboard pod is happy but the port one is working at much less power....I'm assuming it's just not shut down and that it's drag causing that ripple...could be wrong.

PS. It was also snowing at this time.

Where does it say the cruise isn't going foward? All I've seen is that is has to be fixed before they depart, which has possibly already been done according to other reports on threads on CC. And, that article was written yesterday so that doesn't give a true update.

This article from this morning (http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016/02/coast_guard_deems_storm-damaged_cruise_ship_seawor.html) which references the one (s)he mentions is far more optimistic:

The U.S. Coast Guard said a Royal Caribbean cruise ship damaged in a storm on Sunday should be able to depart as scheduled on its next voyage Saturday afternoon, pending some necessary repairs.

"Based upon progress made over the last two days, it is anticipated that

Anthem of the Seas will be able to sail as scheduled," Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe said in an email Friday morning. "However, repairs must

be fully completed and tests of critical systems -- anything related to

safety of the vessel and its passengers and crew -- must be conducted."

Coast Guard inspectors began going over the Anthem of the Seas for damage after it arrived back at its home port at Cape Liberty in Bayonne on Wednesday night.

And, I did see them walking about while I was in the Schooner.

I am British and I like my tea made with boiling hot water and cold milk.

 

RCI seem to have great difficulty in :

 

a). Sourcing decent selection of tea

 

b). Providing water hot enough to make a decent cup / pot of tea

 

c). Providing milk

 

Biggest disappointment on recent cruise on Oasis was the quality of the tea. Anyone else agree?

Anthem had Tetley...which seemed to make all the Brits and Aussies swoon with happiness.

I find the water is hotter at drink stations like at the buffet and coffee shop more so than in the MDR.

What he said.

So now that we know the coast guard was informed about the damaged azipod, why did they risk traveling back up the coast toward the storm? The captain talked about this small pocket of clear weather between the old storm and the new storm. Sounds like a risk trying to travel btw 2 storms with damaged propulsion when they could have just docked in Port Canaveral safely, which would of had larger financial implications having to fly people home. Luckily the decision worked out for him.

Did you even read what you posted?

 

The Coast Guard says the ship sustained largely cosmetic damage, including broken glass, china and balcony doors.

 

Rowe says the ship can safely maneuver with a single azipod. <emphasis mine>

He would have had to go through the second storm that he believed was developing to get to Canaveral. He did not want to put us through that, so he, in conjunction with both the Coast Guard and the home office decided to slipstream behind our old nemesis (my phrasing, not theirs) and bring us back to Bayonne.

Y'all are arguing that he entered the one storm deliberately with foreknowledge despite the storm warning, but yet you wanted him to do the same to go to Canaveral. You can't have it both ways.