sullaRaffaello

Why on earth do you think jt's good to hear? It's the one thing about new Crystal I condemn. Marketplace isn't a wastage of food? If Waterside is closed, Crystal ceases to exist.

Booked on a Friday morning for the Sunday (2 days later). Got a minimum rate inside single cabin. No need for a flight since I live in north Jersey and the ship was out of NY. Just a bus ride from my town. I would definitely do it again.

This morning I received an e-mail from my travel agent. When I saw the name, I thought it was the info about what was going to happen with this cruise. Instead it was the business-as-usual e-ticket for this cruise with a "bon voyage". Unbelievable!

Dwight, How high have you hit on the Beaufort scale?

Except for anchovies!

In 1982, on board the QE2, I was invited to the crew bar by a cocktail waitress. There had to be at least 40 passengers down there.

https://www.herodion.gr/en/ Excellent, reasonably priced hotel.

Many throughout the years such as HAL, Carnival, Cunard, RCCL, NCL. but most recently Crystal, Regent, Seabourn and Silversea.

I have never seen this on any ship I've been on.

The worst food I've ever experienced on a ship was Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas.

9 on the Seabourn Sojourn, Funchal to Miami.

I also was once a young man on both the Raffaello and the France in tourist class. A group of us young people decided to have afternoon tea in the first class ballroom on the Raffaello. As soon he saw us, a head waiter asked, "What cabin are you in?". When we told him, he politely told us we could have afternoon tea in the tourist class dining room. A couple of years later, on the France, I met a girl from first class. Many young first class people would come to tourist class bars and night clubs, because there were many young people in tourist. She invited me to L'Atlantique, a late night first class bar. Nobody stopped me and I had the onion soup which was a late night specialty there. Loved those two ships.

Italian Line French Line Chandris Cunard Line Seabourn Crystal Holland America Line Royal Caribbean Norwegian Carnival Silversea Azamara Regent

Are you back to breathing again?? LOL!

To those of you who defend closing Waterside for lunch, I vehemently disagree. Waterside is the luxury product, not self-service buffets and hamburger/hot dog stand casuality. If something needs to be closed, it should be the stuff on deck 12. If Waterside were open and the others closed, people would have to go there or get room service. People need to get taught what luxury is. I can't believe there is more waste in Waterside than at the Marketplace. As far as having closed Waterside before the shutdown, I've been on Crystal 319 nights on both ships before the shutdown, including 2 world cruises, and remember less than 5 times Waterside was closed if that. I have the Symphony scheduled for a little over a month early next year. If these closures become a standard procedure and not just something temporary, it will be a deal breaker for me. Very sad, because Crystal is a line I love, and I think after the startup everything is even better than before, if that's possible.