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A lot of food service employers require shoes that are non-slip, as well as closed toe.

Free Continental Breakfast in your room. Very nice variety of items other than cooked foods. LEFT SIDE OF MENU.

Jersey had a solution to their problem.

These guys are playing pick-up sticks with thousands of tons of connected steel girders which are in many cases under tremendous stress. Like trying to clear up a wood lot after a tornado, very dangerous.

Depending on the size of the debris, which can also be reduced. a dredge could clear the rubble.

Those sections are all under extreme stress that would make it way too dangerous to attempt cutting the downed bridge into manageable pieces with divers. Best bet would be to have engineers decide the best way to section the mess up into pieces for removal and use explosives to do the cutting with much less danger to humans.

Only a few short miles from the cruise terminal and since the passengers would be ready to board it would be fairly easy and fast. Wouldn't even need a gangway just embark and debark from the lower deck.

Comparing HAVEN to a veranda on Royal Caribbean? Just wondering if price is the only thing you are comparing? Will your choice be based on accommodations and other perks?

Good butter with a nice salty taste.

We ordered fruit Danishes and were surprised to get 2 blueberry muffins and 2 slices of the stollen. The selections they made were a bit off the mark, but not at all a problem. It is very similar to an Italian Panettone or a European Babka, just flattened out a bit like a biscotti. LOL.

On our recent Anthem cruise (Jan29/2024) They had it and was almost an everyday item FROM ROOM SERVICE. It was a fairly traditional (stollen) yeast raised sweetbread with raisins and a delicate sugary crisp crust. It was almost an everyday item when we asked for Danish pastries on our order.

Any rollator/wheelchair assistance embarkation day, cape liberty?

Do they still have the tram/trolley from the ship to the shopping area?

Fact is everything that makes a cruise or cruise line from the telephone representatives to the President and board of directors is PAID WITH THE FARES COLLECTED FROM THE PASSENGERS. And just like any other service I pay for I understand that even those flipping the burgers, who I actually and indirectly pay, are to a degree my employees and deserve a living wage that most probably should rise with inflation. I don't wish to debate who is and isn't an employer, in my opinion it is a person who pays someone or a group of people to provide that person with goods or services. So, YES, the passenger is the ultimate employer of a series of employees. Tipping in the American culture IS PART OF LIFE and is and has been for decades considered a part of an EMPLOYEE'S salary (EVEN BY THE IRS.). I don't really care who tips or doesn't, but I worked in the service industry and did rely on tips just as the employees on cruise ships do. I also UNDERSTAND that there is such a thing as inflation as is easily seen by the increase in cruise fares over the years.

We ALL expect a salary raise from our employers, and since passengers are actually the people who ultimately are the employers, I see nothing unusual with a minor increase. 12% does seem to be a bit steep but as part of the total cruise package and compared to the cost of living in some parts of the world once again I see nothing unusual.