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The one I bought is 2045 sf (not 1200). I have too much stuff for 1200 sf. I go to half price books all the time. Me and my bil. Hes also a reader. Hes a balduchi fan too. Here is one for jimbo. Penthouse whole 5th floor of this ocean front bldg. $2400 a month HOA. Even if I came up with the purchase price, no way I'm paying that much HOA. Those high hoas are my issue with condos, so I compromised on location.
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I wanted a condo, because in my mind a single family house is less secure than a condo. I could be wrong. When push came to shove, sf won out. I picked a condo 2 or 3 miles further to get the sf I wanted. To me over 2000 sf is huge. It feels like a luxurious amount of space to me. HUGE. I did want to be even closer to the port but moved to less touristy, where snow birds have winter retreats to more residential. Idk. Space won out for me too. I'm not a whole family, just me and lots of junk I store lol. There are some lovely homes there that are single family. I wanted a condo, and not a townhouse with stairs either. Limited my choices. I still love to look. Everything is a compromise. People are saying so big for just you, get something smaller, less utilities. Idk if too big. Its bigger than where I live now. Looking forward to all that space. Feels like a luxury. I'm glad uber exists.
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Carnival announced earlier because they have a ship coming in sunday. Royal doesnt have a ship coming in until Thursday. Being surprised that carnival HAD to announce first to me means you just want something NOW you dont have. I'd expect monday royal will announce. It's a long weekend. Carnival had no choice. Royal had a choice.
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Allure Main Dining Room with Group
firefly333 replied to tapacuk's topic in Royal Caribbean International
I have very bad luck both b2b legs on allure. I specifically asked not to be seated with a large family, and the head waiter lied and said dont worry, we got you. Next week better table. That was the week I was 11th at a ten top, the other 10 were same family. They ever got around to fixing it. I think both head waiters should be fired on allure from what I saw they are liars. Oasis our group cruise last mid march our TA had set up a group travelling together to eat near each other... something happened. The guy from that group complained loudly most of the week. Royal used to take care ro put people kinda similar at tables, now they dont care. Its pot luck. -
Grandeur same. It's not a adventure issue. We thought they werent using the stabilizers to save fuel. We rocked and rolled.
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There is usually peanut butter and maybe jelly over by the waffle makings for breakfast seems to me where I saw it.
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Cocoa beach where I WAS looking. I thought the backside of cocoa beach where you face the banana river is a nice area. This one has every amenity, rv and boat parking is a biggie. Billiards. My cousin and real estate agent both pushing me to buy a pool table, no thanks. My cousin even said I should host a party once a week and he would maybe come up to see me lol. I for sure dont want the obligation of a weekly party. And of course the pool and shuffle board and all the normal things. Mine has a library I really like. The same banana river is what I look out to, except it a much wider river by the time it goes past my new condo. Problem is this one is only 1305 sf, bigger but not big enough and I think HOA $860, pushing that 1k mark hard. My hoa includes wifi and tv from spectrum. A lot in miami hoa include electricity is why hoa in Miami . I really looked hard for something big enough with a reasonable hoa, just never found it. I wanted to stay in cape Canaveral or cocoa beach. This is the banana river view and condo has TV and boat parking. I really liked this area better just not the size of the units and hoa. I'd just call it deep water side of the island like they do in texas. I'd have preferred this location. More tucked away.
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Deal Alert----Oasis April 7th and April14th
firefly333 replied to irishgal432's topic in Royal Caribbean International
Are you going to do a b2b? Too soon for me, wouldnt move to florida until end of may and I have a early may cruise. Thanks for the heads up. -
Harmony OTS - Bringing wine onboard
firefly333 replied to bgoff60's topic in Royal Caribbean International
FAQ says carry on only. Only takes one idiot packing red wine in a suitcase where it gets broke and drips into every suitcase below it on the luggage pile. -
Transatlantic Release Dates?
firefly333 replied to Minorhawk's topic in Royal Caribbean International
I'm thinking yes do the flight afterwards when you arent pressed for time. If something goes wrong on the flight back you can get bumped from your flight or whatever and at worst spend a extra night in europe. I'm doing voyager may 2025. From PC to europe. Plus the 2nd leg. I woukdnt mind doing another with tree skier. About them, or fall 2025. -
It does not include a gratuity. Some bring dollar bills to give to the bartender, some add a tip they write in. The cash tip I think they keep so I'm betting they prefer cash.
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Biden promised to pay for it, then said he hopes congress will agree .. imo unlikely the congress will agree. It might take longer to rebuild than people are hoping for. No bills coming up they can add it to.