DirtyDawg

Isn't that what our parents said about us when we were young. "We Depression era folks have to make up for those lousy Boomer and post WW2 tippers. 🤬" 😉

Rain while on a cruise is God's way of telling you you need to check out a local bar. You stay dry and consume the local 'culture'! 🥂 😁

Good. That makes three of us on this thread who got their renewal in about 7 weeks. Hopefully the start of a trend!

We are talking cruise lines here. They don't pay much taxes even in good times. But RCL pays lots of interest to the banks and bondholders!

I just Googles this. https://dailyhive.com/mapped/europe-charge-visitors-starting-2023 It looks pretty straight forward and cheap.

Hank, do you get the wholesale rate or just a very low retail rate plus the 1% fee. By wholesale I'm talking about what your bank pays in the FX market when it goes out and buys $100M in pesos, for example.

I wear Kirkland. Very up and coming American designer. Way "Cic-i-er" than those pretentious Italian designers and they give you all of the jeans without parts ripped or missing! 😁

Is Steve a real person or is everyone at @tripinsurancestore named "Steve"? '

In addition to the fax service fee, the DAE also covers the Y2K upgrade fee, and the DOS legacy system fee. Maybe some day it will include a shareholder dividend fee. 😁😉

We are now 5 pages in and over 100 posts! 🥳 So Have we solved the age old mega serious dilemma of tipping on a cruise ship yet? Sorry, I should have said, have we solved the age old mega serious dilemma of resort fees on a cruise ship yet? How about we move on to pre tipping vs post tipping! That should be good for another 100 posts! 😉

🤐 don't give them any ideas!

You don't have to worry about that around here. Very chatty bunch.😉

You've lost your chance then to tip your kids wonderful, dedicated, GOAT Economics and Finance Profs. It's the kids' parents who are coming up who should be tipping!😁 And tipping BIG like we all do here at CC.

You said you are new to cruising. How new? Any previous cruises? If not, why not try out a shorter cruise first to see if you actually like cruising. Lots of people love cruising 😍, but lots of other people hate it 🤬.

The OP is probably sleeping right now. It's 9:30pm Eastern Daylight Time right now so it's 2:30am in the UK. 😴 @Doolittle asked the question at midnight UK time. The OP was likely in bed then too! My question is; Why are you still up? Get to bed! 🛌 😁

And what's better than staring at yourself in the window? 😊 Of course if it was me, it would be the cruise I lost 20 pounds. 🤢

I'm bringing the crew poutine on our next cruise. Three days in the luggage before we get on the ship will allow the cheese curds and gravy time to mature just like a 2003 Margaux! 🥰🍷

Remember the old days when if you won some cheezy contest they would make you answer some silly 'skill testing question'? Just think of ArriveCan as our new 'skill testing question'. Get it right and you get to return to Canada as your prize! 😁

@Z-Bird you have it correct. You will need 2 ArriveCan submissions. The second will take you a couple of minutes to complete. Enjoy your cruise!

Or the "I shouldn't have to but here it is - 😉" 😁😁😁😁

But we are talking cruising here. Cruise lines call the left of a ship 'port' and right 'starboard'. They call the back of a ship the 'aft'. So, of course, cruise lines will call a prepaid fee a 'tip'. And Cruise lines are not thugs. Cruise lines are just providing a valuable service to us by relieving us of the immense responsibility and enormous pressure of calculating and paying tips to the crew thereby massively increasing our relaxation while on our cruises. They are 😇. I shouldn't have to but here it is - 😉

I am a huge fan of "tip creep". Please folks, tip your kids' University Professors - OK just the ones who teach Economics and Finance - you can skip all those general arts Profs if you like. I think a $ grand from each student at the end of each semester would be appropriate. Prof Dawg needs to cruise more! 😉 After that I'll agree with you 1000%. "Tip creep" is a real, HUGE, MASSIVE, problem!!! 😁

Let us know how long your renewal takes.

Hopefully the long backlogs are behind them and our experience becomes the norm and there is no need anymore for folks to apply for renewal a year in advance.

When did your husband apply vs. the expiry date?