keagle

Cancelled a cruise with the cancel button as the cruise we were going on came up in an early bird sale. Prices drop heaps. Liked the fact that it asked if I wanted to book another cruise at the end. Yes please. Booked again for the cheaper price and the refund was that quick there was no need to any extra on the credit card.

Hi

How many people choose a Guaranteed Cabin? We did for my up coming trip to NZ in Feb on the Sun Princess.

With 30 days to go still no cabin, in recent times how long have you had to wait for a cabin?

Any one got a good upgrade ?

John

You chose guarantee - you take what you get.

You will not get less than what you booked for.

Worry about it if you get to the ship and they tell you there is nothing. Or book for what you want.

Tell him,or you, to either not worry about the seas, or give up cruising.

There is no way on earth that you or anyone else can predict the seas.

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Regarding drinks on Sea Princess, i was having a look at what you can pre order for your cabin, & they had spirits & wines.... is there a limit to what you can order, as in the amount? Thanks for any help we cruise in March. :)

Read the fine print. Princess cruises only allow consumption of these packages in your cabin.

But you did not see the sad and gloomy faces of the waiters, I did, they well know who has removed the auto tips and are thus expecting a 'cash tip on the last night of a cruise. It is well known that some Poms are tight, just like many Aussies. Tipping is not a 'born with' culture in the UK, it is optional like Australia.

I have seen the opposite of this though, and it is as bad.

If they know who has removed tips, then they do not need to hang around your table gunning for a cash bonus top up, as happened to our table of six once. We had all pre paid and none were removed.

Very bad form.

I felt fine on the top deck,in fact,I loved doing laps every day. But, sometimes I had trouble in the Broadway Melody Theatre. Obviously, the theatre is at the front of the vessel so there was a fair bit of movement but I was fine watching the movies and some of the production shows. There were one or two Shows where there a bit of spinning involved ie Ballroom Show and they made me feel a bit off so I left early.

 

Your experience in the Airport Shop was my exact experience at Lifou.

If the curtains are still closed and they are swaying, it will quickly make you feel odd. When they open I go back to normal, but they really have to be swaying to affect me. This happened to me on the Sea Princess when the sea was about 6 -7 meters, the movie, The Descendants, really took me close to the edge... what a hopeless movie.

I am constantly amazed at how people feel that they need to ask others what their work conditions are like. Would you ask the captain how much he is paid?

There are so many different stories in this matter that none of them could be looked at, and be thought, with 100% accuracy that they are 100% true. Cruise workers get asked the same questions 1000's of times over and could quite easily embellish their stories to make people feel for them, or change them depending on who asks the question. I would think that they would have a good eye for this.

If the job was not to their advantage, they would not do it.

This isn't a domestic question so slightly OT but can you buy duty free cigarettes to smoke on board? They don't take them and give them back to you when you disembark do they? First timer here....

 

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Royal Caribbean will allow you to purchase duty free cigarettes and smoke them on board. They also sell them at some bars and in the shop that sells other things like alcohol, chips and bits and pieces.

The main problem now is that the import rules only allow around 50 cigarettes to be bought in to the country per adult.

In one of the photos of your room, I saw some bottles of Evian water. What size were they? I originally purchased 24 bottles for my upcoming 10 night cruise but changed it to 12 later on.

We never used them, actually had the removed, but from memory they were 1 litre. They actually look bigger than that, don't they.

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If you want to see some Cruise Compasses go to web site and you can look at some. From my experience they don't chance very much.

Link should be in my signature. My cruise diary.

I tend to get to get sea legs fairly quickly, which makes walking on land, for me, a fun experience. It can take me up to 3 or 4 days to completely get past them, but I don't get land sickness (or seasick for that matter).

Washing facilities on Mystery Island.

Should I post a picture of the wash basin?

Isn't that funny. I would never describe Vegemite as salty. :)

Mystery Island might be a no-go for him. :o

Here is what I did to avoid the power board problem. Most small things charge this way these days.

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?p=40468879#post40468879

I don't doubt you at all -- but I have never heard of this anywhere else or considered it myself. Do you have any reference to this claim??

 

I have a bit of a "theory" myself - that Novovirus is more likely to become virulent in places where people vomit - eg at sea, in old people's homes where people are sick. Children do also vomit quite a bit.

 

 

Barry

No reference, but I was astonished one day on Rhapsody when I saw a child drop a ice cream cone, only to pick it up, get another one from the dispenser and then put the one off the floor back......

Makes you think.

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You can't miss it. :D

I'm not sure of the official policy but it seems to be the norm to take pool towels off the ship at port - we've never had a problem and we've seen plenty of people do it. We won't be bringing our own towels from home...

 

You don't pay for pool towels unless you don't return them. We've always had two pool towels already in our cabin - I'm not sure if they do this on Rhapsody or if you pick them up by the pool.

 

You won't find any pool towels in your cabin on the Rhapsody. The towel bay is on deck nine - port side near the main elevators. The will scan your sea pass and make note how many towels you have taken. You can take them ashore. Your sea pass will be rescanned when you return them. They charge $25 per towel to your sea pass if at the end of the cruise you have not returned any of them.

There is some info on the Sydney maritime pages stating that the OPT will not be available from the end of March till sometime in to October although it was not really clear as to what part, or if it was all of it, that would be closed.

I think that satellite internet might be too slow for Skype.

I do not know if you know yet but this card is introducing changes as of 1 Jan 2014, it ison the cash withdrawals which will now carry a charge and conversion fee (not like it was before).:D

This is partially correct. There will be a fee for a cash advance or cash equivalent transaction, but there is still no conversion fees or international transaction fees.

It was the Rhapsody this happened on.

Just heard a news report that a body was found in the area by one of the search vessels.

In my carry on bag, I usually have my iPad with a cover front and back. Makes for a nice flat surface to write on.

Wasn't there a story about a elderly gentleman going missing not that long ago, who had a similar condition?