abbydancer2003

Could be worse. You didn't get 5 letters from the IRS saying we owed them more money. Apparently there's a missing 1099R from my financial company indicated that taxes had been withheld on a disbursement of my mom's IRA. They're now working on it.

Wasn't just you on the Solstice. I think I mostly had sorbet, which was fine, but Glen had vanilla ice cream a few times and thought it wasn't good at all.

Well, go figure. We're doing Beyond in June and checkin opened about an hour ago (9pm in California). I just looked at my boarding pass, and I'm Onyx. Literally, just happened. And other than one slot pull, I use the card.

Can I hijack this for a question? I looked at the points and I've been Pearl forever. I gambled about 2000.00 in OBC on a recent cruise, and got from Blue Chip - nada. Is that because to advance to Onyx I'd have to spend real money? And to get an offer it has to be real money (if so, that's OK with me, just want to know). Note: I've probably spent over 4K of OBC in the last two years, but it's all from OBC, except 340.00 from a slot pull.

On the "Ultimate Ship tour" on Princess a few years ago, the doctor told us that helicopter evacuations are rare, because the person has to be so sick that they can't wait to get to a port, but not so sick that they're at risk to die in the helicopter rescue. I've seen a couple reroutes in the past couple of years and one helicopter on Princess (only helicopter ever). I've seen quite a few people removed at scheduled port stops for medical though.

I don't know about Delta, or FBC, but on United there's now a checkbox for extra seat. You then choose the reason. Luggage or comfort. We just did it after booking June cruises on Beyond, where the only decent flight pricewise was a red eye in coach. It wasn't that expensive, so I booked the row to keep the middle empty.

That's correct. Grand Pacific is the fastest receding Glacier in the world apparently.

Gorgeous pictures. I have one small correction on the above, though. To the right of the glacier, 90 degrees (in other words straight ahead) is the Grand Pacific Glacier. It's receded enough that it no longer reaches the water so it just looks like a rock wall. The glacier part might be visible if you look above the rock wall. It was there on my first few trips starting in 2007. (Wikipedia says fastest ever glacial retreat). In all my trips there, I've never heard the Margerie Glacier referred to as the Great Pacific. When you next go, take a look. And thanks again for taking us along. I think I'll go back in 2025 or 2026.

Hi. We're on the Best of Japan cruise in March 2026, so I figured I should follow this. I just read it all, and a few comments before I toodle off to bed, since we just got home from our 41 days on the Solstice. The last day or two the lemon tarts had the meringue. I didn't care, since I was way over snacks there by then. I noticed on your picture of the Polaris dinner, that it appears United is still putting everything on the tray at once. I wonder if I can request the entree be served after the appetizers, so it doesn't get cold. What a concept - eating the appetizers before the main. We're in one of the two aft Aqua Sky suites. Not sure which side. On the Summit last year the big complaint from DH was lack of storage. We were in a regular sky suite. Apparently, Kelly Hoppin doesn't believe in storage space. It's very clear to me now, that we're doing this cruise, and I know nothing about the ports, what we should do etc. Lots of homework before this one ....

Looking forward hearing about another trip.

Princess in 2023 gave us a nice FCC for missing 3 of 7 ports. On the Solstice we got some OBC for missing our first 2 ports (nothing for Maui earlier).

I think the certificate credit goes to the TA who booked the cruise you bought it on automatically. You should tell them if you want to change it.

On another note - it's been 7 days since our turnover, and the points aren't showing up in my totals. I do see the cruise that ended on the 25th, and the points that will eventually be awarded are for a 16 night. We repeated April 18th. The Club person onboard sent an email to engagement.

I don't see that. Why would they want that headache? Since it rounds to 1 point, it's easier to keep it one point.

And by turn around, it makes a big loop around at the top, so the sides are switched once the loop is completed. We did the round trip with my mom in 2022. Last time was around 2007, when they moved the engine (after telling everyone not to leave the train, due to the switch being in Canada). They did ask everyone to switch sides. Good plan, but the Waterfront station is a few blocks away from the Marriott. It's a bit of a walk with luggage. The cab fares are regulated, I think.