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Lady Z - thank you so much for continuing to share your beautiful photos and Port commentary. We appreciate you keeping the thread going and sharing your voyage with all of us!

We’ll be on both of those with you! Then staying on for the PC eastbound sailing!

Wow! Your day looks amazing! Very glad you had a perfectly Royal day!

Beautiful! 😍 Thank you again for sharing your photos!

Love your photos Lady Z! Thank you for sharing! Busan looks like a wonderful place to visit! Glad you made the best of a poor weather day and still enjoyed your visit!

I have found that Cruise Planner item refunds are almost immediate. When we’ve had a sailing, and therefore CP items cancelled by Royal, the refunds can take much longer. Congratulations on your new home, and for getting the current home sold!

Thanks you for replying! We have the UDP on a few Radiance cruises later this year and hope to visit Samba for several dinners! Enjoy your cruise! Hope the Radiance was refreshed!

Samba has been on Radiance occupying the space on Deck 12 for more than a dozen years. The OP’s question is whether Samba is still onboard Radiance now that it has left drydock. Does anyone have the answer?

Wow! How exciting! Have a fantastic time!

Yep! We’ve only taken two cruises on the mega ships, and they were immediately after the Covid comeback, so much reduced capacity. We enjoyed those two cruises, but won’t be booking again with regular crowds. Just not for us. If they do build the smaller “Project Discovery” ships in the future, I’m sure they will follow the new norm and debut with ridiculous prices.

The Merritt Square Mall has looked like that for years! I too visit The Avenue at Viera. It is definitely closer than the Melbourne Mall, but it can be an expensive ride to get there if you don’t have a car.

I just keep an out of date AAA card in my travel bag to stick in the slot if I need it. 😉

Merritt Square Mall has a JC Penney, Dillards, Macys, and yes, a Bath & Body Works. The Mall also has a Books A Million, Ollie’s Bargain Store, and a very good Mexican Restaurant, Margarita Island. There are other assorted stores, but I don’t know what they are. The general Mall has not been well maintained, but the anchor stores mentioned above own their space and are fine. As long as you are happy with those stores, it’s fine to shop there.

Many times in dicey weather, it’s felt like we were blown in through the door to dinner! Always makes us laugh!

We love Izumi! Had the 10 Night Dining Package on each SA leg so we ate dinner at Izumi 3X each leg! It’s always delicious!

Great photos Laura! Thanks for sharing! Although we eat at Izumi often, we have never taken the sushi making class. It looks like John had fun!

This was actually a much better deal last week. We booked a Suite Guarantee on two cruises without our C&A discount. There was only a difference of $100-$150 and we got $600 in OBC.

Glad John made it to the Great Barrier Reef! Thanks for sharing these photos! I had no idea this vessel is what you would find when you got there. What a setup!

If you have to find something else, we took a fantastic (private) tour to Normandy with Overlord Tours. I think there were 8 of us so it was easy to organize.

We did it more than 10 years ago. Yes, we enjoyed it. We had a fantastic lunch with plenty of wine on a lovely cruise down the River, and also saw the major sites in Paris. We probably won’t go back to Paris, so I’m glad we went.

We have done that tour and it is fantastic - worth the long drive! Not sure about that particular day though! 😳

Residents here are weary of the daily traffic jams and the constant shenanigans. Years ago, Cocoa Beach actually had to pass a City ordinance banning furniture from the beach. People (mostly twenty-something’s) were bringing couches, chairs, etc. to the beach. They’d find them along the way, sitting out for trash pickup. Once at the beach, they’d set up a seating area on the sand, party all day, and when it was time to go home, they would leave the furniture along with their trash. 😳

Great group photo and I’m sure a great memory! Congratulations to all for making it to the top!

We don’t sail on the big ships and past sailings during the first week of March were not full of Spring Breakers. I think the majority of the cruisers on Liberty were first-time cruisers.

We just got off a 4 night cruise on Liberty. Our mistake as Spring Break had already started (March 4)! There were more than 4,200 guests and more than 800 kids. Lots of older teens, twenty-somethings, and families. Luckily, we could go to the Suite Lounge and we used our BOGOs for dinner in Sabor and Giovanni’s (both excellent). The Windjammer was packed at breakfast/lunch (and probably dinner), and MTD was packed the two nights we went. Great staff though, and good food everywhere!