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Indian Paneer is traditionally a buffalo milk "cottage" cheese that uses either lemon juice or high acid fruit juice to curdle the milk, which is then pressed into a block and cubed for paneer based Indian dishes. According to the WJ Exec Chef, they substitute tofu for paneer cheese in all of their paneer dishes.

It is (according to the chef we spoke with) a label of convenience, not fact.🙁

Their Paneer dishes in the WJ (they use tofu in place of buffalo paneer) are DW's go to meals. We also do their vegetarian stir fry with Thai rice noodles for lunch whenever they have it (usually on port days)

For Yeshiva week cruises, RCL strip cleans one of the restaurants (on Harmony it was the Solarium Bistro) and brings a rabbi on board to re-configure it to meet Kosher requirements. During that week, the restaurant is only available to passengers who pre-purchase the Kosher dining plan, and they get all three of their meals there every day. Other than that unique accommodation, their galleys do the best they can within their space/provisioning limitations.

And I was simply stating that RCL does not have the capability to prepare any truly Vegan meals. Their galleys are only equipped to prepare a limited variety of vegetarian (plant based) alternatives to their animal based menu counterparts.

All raw food components used in Vegan entrees may be vegetarian, but not all vegetarian food is Vegan. The requirements for food preparation to qualify as Vegan are significantly more strict than preparation for vegetarian. For example, I could saute a steak for a meat based entre and then wipe out and use the same pan to saute portobello mushrooms to substitute for the steak in a vegetarian version of the same entre. A Vegan would never use a saute pan that had touched meat. Strict Vegans won't even accept using the same prep kitchen as one that preps animal proteins.

Not true. Vegan is a much more restrictive diet than vegetarian. RCL serves vegetarian, not vegan.

We are scheduled to be there on Adventure on 10/8, so I hope your info is accurate😇

The problem with ours is that we were already scheduled to stop at Coco Cay so we would have to either do two stops there or go elsewhere.

We are well past FPD on our 10/5/24 6-night on Adventure, and to date have received nothing from RCL swapping out some place else for Labadee. We did this exact itinerary in July, and they rerouted us to Grand Turk. I'd be fine with that again, but I'd like to know before we board so we can either pack our snorkel gear or leave it home.

Last time we were there we hired a pedicab (they book them at a small booth inside the gates) for $25 for the two of us, and the driver took us all around Falmouth while doing an excellent narrative about the history of the town. Worthwhile experience.

Not sure if they still have them on the newer Disney ships or if they are still available on their older ships, but when we sailed on Disney, we always booked on decks without the laundry rooms because we couldn't stand the smell from them in the corridors.🙁

Have not received one of those emails on our last 20 cruises. We used to get them all the time until last year when they just stopped coming.

True.😇

Royal refers to that configuration as a "Royal" king. However, if you measure the configuration, it measures out as "California" king sized (72" wide compared to the standard 76" wide king)

True for the general public, but they do a fixed menu lunch for people who purchase the Key. On our last three cruises on Adventure in July, there were only a handful of Pinnacles doing B2B, so we were invited to join the Key lunch on TAD. IMHO, not worth the cost of admission.

We had a 7 night on Oasis in a JS that got extended to 11 nights because of hurricane Dorian, and were offered the opportunity to book while on board for the remaining three nights for $100 each. We got 22 points for the first (11 night) cruise, and 14 for the second (3 night) one.😇

Heartburn on every cruise, but rarely ever at home. Three or four possible causes: 1) We eat a lot of foods on cruises that we rarely eat at home; 2) They seem to use red and green bell peppers in everything, and we would never even have those in our kitchen, let alone in our food; 3) Lately it seems like everything they serve is either fried or swimming in grease; 4) They over/under use spices depending on the nationality of the current chef, so food is rarely served the same way from cruise to cruise; and 5) Their beds are crap - we have to get extra pillows to prop the head end of the bed so we can sleep a bit elevated.

Fortunately for us, we have no desire to sail on any of those three classes of ship😇

The default setup is two twins joined together to make a queen bed. The room steward should be able to separate the bed into two twins. Interior cabins that sleep more than two typically have Pullman beds that drop down from the ceiling.

All cars are configured the same way. With the exception of rows 1&7 and rows 2&8 (which have a card table between them), rows 2-6 face southbound and rows 9-13 face northbound.

We have done the Miami-Orlando run on Brightline, and it looks like you will be facing towards the rear of the train. We did that on our first trip up to Orlando, and decided not to sit that way again. Stiff necks from trying to watch what we were passing🙁 Unless you want to nap for the whole trip, I'd suggest changing your seat.😇

We just got off of a 22 night B3B on Adventure in a GS and ordered room service from the MDR menu on more than a third of the nights and about a half dozen lunches and breakfasts. There was never a fee on any of those orders.

We always bring the notarized form, and have been asked for it on some cruises out of Florida, but not on every cruise.

We posted at the same time.....