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Why is that every time they "enhance" something it feels like I just lost a kidney🤪

Hopefully, someone will pick up the mantle on the next leg and carry on your excellent photography and narratives. Thanks for taking us all along with you.😇

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AI became less attractive once they split out the gratuities. We will probably be doing the cruise only and just getting internet on board (if our 30% discount comes close to the pre-cruise prices). We don’t drink enough to justify the beverage package. The only thing DW and I are debating is whether it is worth the price to book the Retreat on an edge class ship.

I presume he doesn’t bring the scooter until the person in the cabin lets him know he’s ready for it.

Thanks. There are a few really interesting itineraries out of FLL next year that we want to book.

We have been on several RCL cruises over the past year where the room steward who had responsibility for the cabin of a passenger with a scooter would "pick up" the scooter every evening, move it out of the passageway, plug it in overnight, and return it to the cabin the next morning.

We want to book a Celebrity cruise while onboard a Royal Caribbean cruise next month, but I've searched and can't find any information. Two questions: 1) Can we book at the Next Cruise desk while on board, and 2) Is there any benefit to doing that (ie: OBC; reduced deposit, etc.)?

I look at it this way🤪 🙄

Looked for an existing thread before I posted this, but couldn't find one.

From Fox Weather: https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/cruise-ship-rescues-14-stranded-sea

D+++ = PET (Pin Envy Tier)

Depends on which ship. On Oasis and Allure it may fit because the TV swings out from the outside wall between the windows and the balcony door, but on the newer Oasis class ships (Harmony and Symphony) there is a TV wall between the bed and the sofa that chews up a lot of space

A newbie sailing solo in an interior, OV, or balcony that does the full WC would be D++ (~550 points) by the time they departed the ship. If they were solo in a JS or better, they would be a Pin.😎

It probably will only be scheduled once on their short cruises, but it is well worth adjusting your schedule so you can see it.

Did not know there was an aviary there. Is it new? And, can you get to it without doing the bridge?

We always call room service and order dinner from the MDR menu on the first night and have a nice relaxing meal on our balcony. One of the nicer perks of being in a suite on smaller ships.

When itineraries are first released, prices are typically at the lowest cost they will ever be. As soon as any demand hits the booking systems, prices will inevitably rise as prime cabins and categories are booked. If I do a mock booking today on any of our existing bookings (which we always book as soon as the itineraries are released), every one of our 2025 and 2026 booked cruises has more than doubled in price, and half of our remaining 2024 bookings have more than tripled. I really feel sorry for people who have to wait until late in the cycle to take a cruise, because of work requirements or school schedules, etc. They only see the higher prices, and the perpetual sucker "sales" that make it look like they are getting a deal - when the reality is that they are getting royally sc%$#ed.

He would have to be the world's smallest stateroom attendant - I can't even fit our suitcases under the bed with all of the spare bedding that is always stored there😇

Never, if we can avoid it. We try not to book any cruises that go to the western Caribbean unless it is a long voyage down to South America, and Cozumel gets in the way. We rarely leave the ship in that port.

Probably would have used a different word than spoiled. More likely that people were lulled by 0% interest rates and 1% inflation into the conviction that prices would never change. With overall consumer prices up more than 35% from their pre-covid days, the reality is those prices are never coming back.

On our 28 day B2B Panama Canal adventure on Serenade in November, the onboard cost savings over the course of the 28 days exceeded 60% of the total cost of the two cruises.

IMHO, seasoned cruisers do not leave a particular cruise line because of anything other than the lack by the cruise line to do anything other than sail, rinse, repeat every other week. For us, it is the uninspired repetition, not price that is causing us to look (and book) elsewhere. If it had not been for RCL salting in some new destinations and longer durations into its itineraries (like Bermuda, the ABC islands, and St. Kitts out of PC, and Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama out of Tampa), we would already be booking more on other lines and a lot less on RCL. Our cruise calendar (once we run through our existing bookings) has exactly zero RCL cruises penciled in. 😇

We had to double the size of the bucket that holds our bucket list😎 Cruising has taken us places we never dreamed we would ever see in our lifetime (and our respective careers have taken us all over the world - or so we thought)😇

It is only money. Memories, however, are priceless.😇