MrsPhim

People keep mentioning late 90s but some of these things have just disappeared within the last 2 years 😭😭😭. I’m on Radiance now and there was no late snacks buffet last night, last year we had them. That was a shock, hubby and I were asleep and we woke ourselves up specifically to go hit the mini midnight buffet and all we saw when we got up there was the staff cleaning dishes. I believe we had no charge room service before 10pm up until 2021? It completely sucks too, I absolutely loved getting free room service BLTs. Last year they served fries with the sandwiches from the deli, this year only potato chips or cole slaw 😭, that was also shocking. And no more bacon bits in the Guys burgers topping bar, there seemed to only be 6 toppings now 😭. We were lucky, in the Panorama in early 2020, we had an Indian gentleman that did hypnotism in the empty Lido buffet room after dinner, all the kids knew what time he’d be there and ran to him. Did anyone else catch him, it was a blast. We had a hypnotist stage show on Elation sometime in the last 10 years I believe, one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, they need to bring it back. We had magicians on stage, breakdancers performing in the atrium on music nights, I’m sure we had the steel drum pool deck 3 man band within the last 2 years, and Hasbro game show, Is that all gone? We also had a carving station, noodle station, and like fried foods station (chicken, potatoes) on one of the cruises I took not too long ago, maybe it was Panorama. And we definitely had things like more dance classes, Zumba, photos with towel animal mascot. I miss photo opportunities with the pirate, birds, dressed up girls in Mexico, etc outside the gangway during port days. Do they still do those? I know it was wasteful but I miss seeing all of the pictures posted in the halls of everyone taken on the cruise. Also maybe it’s just the Radiance but karaoke is so short, it goes from 5:30 till 7:15 and I remember one ship, had it only on alternating nights, not even every night. Definitely lots of things missed, I can’t believe so much has changed just in the latter part of a decade. Same with Vegas with things like resort fees, no more free parking, and a ton of buffets permanently closed.