MommaBear55

I'm curious how your son thinks that they will all get passports and money to buy flights.

We had similar happen on a 2 week cruise out of Australia. I didn't realize they got two weeks off around Easter. It was awful, first time in 25 cruises that we'd had a bad experience with feral children, including an 7 year old shepherding 2 younger children up and down the elevators with dripping ice cream cones.

It will be fine. It's after school resumes and it's a longer cruise. We did similar in October last year and I don't remember any kids, which means whatever kids were there were well behaved.

The minimum pay scale for tipped employees are is $2 to $3 an hour, so at $3 an hour, just over $1000 a month for 84 hours a week. I don't think you would be able to cruise as much as you brag about on that wage.

Sadly, they all have Karaoke

Took me 3 minutes on the website, both Indepence (,Dec 23) and Symphony (Dec 22) would work.

You can use your travel insurance when you need extra medications while on the road. I carry my usual meds, except for the one I have to get at an infusion center

The cost of my asthma meds just represents the severity of my disease. The insurance covers me well when I get ill when on trips.

As someone who is on $7,500 worth of meds for my asthma every month, my annual travel policy has come in handy multiple times. I also "waste" $3,600 a year on car and house insurance, despite rarely needing the car insurance and never needing the house insurance. Guess I should have banked it instead, using your logic.

They charge on board for the medical care, no matter where you catch the illness. They do sometimes cover injuries that occur during a Royal Caribbean sponsored event.

We've done the March/April cruises twice, including a TP, the first was very calm with great weather, the second we missed half the ports and seas were rocking for almost 3 weeks until we got to French Polynesia. Guess we got lucky the first time around

You can custom order omelettes in the Solarium Bistro

As someone who was an ED provider, your husband got exactly the care that was needed. Surgery after fracture is often delayed and is not deleterious, the surgery was actually not a medical emergency. In a US ED, that bill could easily have been $5,000. Who was supposed to pack up all the stuff in your stateroom? The staff does it under supervision from security. Once you are off the ship, you are actually not Royal's responsibility. The fact that you didn't buy trip insurance is on you. You've learned a very hard and expensive lesson. Royal doesn't need to refund you anything for your lost days. But I am truly sorry for the whole situation. It must have been very scary to be in a foreign country and trying to navigate all this while worried about your husband. Hopefully he will recover quickly.

We found that it was very difficult to change even $20 bills on our most recent cruise, so we plan on bringing $15 a day in ones (we get 5 d+ drinks a day, so that's at least $10 right there), we tip a bit more in the specialty restaurants and we tip our tour guides. One thing I don't do any more is tip the cabin attendant much extra, Royal raised the tips per day then promptly halved the service we were getting.

It's illegal at a federal level, can't take it over state lines, so although probably be fine why risk it? It's illegal in many countries. For instance, they bring on drug sniffing dogs in Bermuda, and it's an immediate $1000 fine.

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A double is 2 drinks

If it's before the final payment date, you can get a refund. If it's after the final payment, you are out of luck. I don't look again after the final payment date. It's not worth it!

The only thought I had is that the Spain/France crossing may be smoother. We've done both cruises and the one to Norway both going and coming was very rocky.

As a nurse practitioner who worked in the ED and as a hospitalist, I didn't realize how stressed I was. I absolutely loved my job, my colleagues and my patients. It was an honor to serve them. Because of my own health issues, I retired when Covid hit. I went from working up to 12 twelve hour shifts in a row to being home 100% of the time. After making over 1000 masks and 200 surgical bonnets in 4 weeks, I then started to unwind and realize there was life beyond work. I also realized how I enjoy not having a schedule, love to work out, garden, ride my bike and travel 100 plus days a year. It's been a gift. You will find your own way, and it can include still working if that's what you want. Part of the push for me to retire was that my husband had partially retired 7 years before me and was looking forward to spending more time together.

It would be really nice if you could release your early table and switch to My Time Dining. A family with children would love your early seating.

Technically they can always ask for it if name is different on license and birth certificate. Better to have marriage license with you and not need it then to need it and not have it.

I totally disagree. We have enjoyed all the meals we've eaten at the specialty restaurants except those at Giovanni's and consider it money well spent to not have to eat in the MDR. Each person chooses to spend their money they way they want, I'd never argue with someone's decision to gamble or to get the drink package.

The 3 night dining package gives you a choice of eating at Chops, Giovanni's or Izumi. You start on night one or two and you get assigned the first time. You can change that. You should also make reservations for your other two nights at the same time. The $20 allowance is for ships that have other restaurants such as sports bars or Johnny Rockets. You could choose to eat at the same restaurant all three nights or so 2 nights at one, one at another or a different restaurant each time.

We have been getting dining packages ever since the new menus started. We eat an occasional dinner in the MDR, but the rest of the time it's in specialty restaurants