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orville99

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    Orlando area in Florida
  • Interests
    cooking, fishing, cruising
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Royal Caribbean, Holland American
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Caribbean, Alaska

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  1. Finally cracked the code to get through to a real person - ask for "technical help" - the automated system will connect you with a live person (a clueless one, but at least one with a pulse). I had to convince her that I was simply trying to get to the D+/Pinnacle desk and that the 526-9723 number she kept telling me to use no longer worked.๐Ÿ™„ When she finally connected me directly to the C&A desk, the nice woman on the phone told me that they know the phone system is broken and that they are trying to get it fixed. 3 hours just to confirm that we had added gratuities to two April 2025 cruises.๐Ÿ˜ฑ
  2. Yep, and the automated system has no option to actually get to a live person, let alone someone on the C&A desk. What's your secret handshake that gets you through to someone with a pulse?
  3. I have been trying for the last hour to contact the C&A desk, and all I get is an automated response that can't find the C&A desk. #9 doesn't work, no way to get to an operator. Am I alone or is their system broken again.
  4. Whatโ€™s digested has to go somewhere, and your body has no immediate use for it, so it is very likely stored as fat while the body burns simpler sugars and carbs.
  5. "Individuals without a gluten intolerance, wheat allergy, or celiac disease have a gluten transit time of up to 4 hours in the stomach, 6 hours in the small intestine, and 59 hours in the colon. Therefore, it takes 2-3 days for your system to eliminate gluten entirely." - VeryWell Health Every time you eat another gluten-laden meal, you restart the clock - not a myth, a medical reality - unless one is in denial. YMMV, but I have never felt better in my life๐Ÿ˜‡ BTW, we just fry with Olive Oil whenever we want fried food. Just had Asiago breaded fried Tilapia GF tacos last night๐Ÿ˜Ž
  6. Given the quality of what they have been serving lately in the Suite lounge, even horses ovaries would be a step up from their "hors d'oeuveres" ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ˜ฑ
  7. Pure myth - it is gluten that your body doesn't need, can't process, and can't eliminate. I eat twice what I used to eat before I switched, and still walk the same 2-3 miles a day and swim the same half mile a day as I did before I switched, so the only variable that the weight loss can be attributed to is removal of gluten, which the body stores as useless fat.
  8. Are these locations consistent on all edge class ships?
  9. GF - Gluten free. She takes meds that gluten interferes with, so she started avoiding it as much as possible. Once we started converting our favorite recipes to GF, I really got into playing with ingredients and found that we could make almost anything GF with a little bit of tweaking. Pounds melted off of me, and once the meds worked as they should, she actually gained back the 10 that she lost before they got her meds correct. Love the Indian food on RCL, and they now even have GF focaccia in promenade cafe - almost as good as hers.๐Ÿ˜‡
  10. DW hooked me on a GF diet, and I shed 35 pounds. Scale helps me make sure it stays off.๐Ÿ˜‡
  11. Absolutely! However, I would need to adjust the order a bit. We just got off of our fourth cruise on Adventure since February, and other than Izumi, the biggest gap is between the WJ (best by a mile), Specialty dining (more like fast casual land based restaurants than "upscale dining) in a distant second place, and WAAAAAAAY behind that, the "rubber chicken circuit" MDR offerings. YMMV
  12. DW and I just got off of a 2 week B2B on Adventure, and only gained about two pounds each. We just can't seem to gain weight on cruises any more. AA on the other hand....๐Ÿ˜‰
  13. Serenade would have to convert the entire ship to hold the meeting๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜‡
  14. Thanks for taking us along on your journey. Safe travels home and wishing you all the best.
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