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aa7yy

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  • Location
    Tucson
  • Interests
    Make beer and built a still!
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Holland America
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    ????

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  1. My Navigator App doesn't work. Getting used to it, just shut it down. Flashes on and off and won't allow you to type anything in.
  2. Just finished fighting the Stockperks Project. Told them I wasn't going to do it. Now have the Credit, you must get an updated statement and I always print it out for the argument at the front desk. The World Cruise Desk can do it in an hour but they think we need a special program. Put it on my phone with Verifly, Navigator, and Cruise Mapper. Remember the line for the first 24 hours of your last cruise? Trying to get wifi to work, Navigator to work ? Throw in Stockperks 🤣🤣
  3. On the Oosterdam last summer, up early. Checked the HAL web site and it was in Dutch. Went down to the front desk to talk to them. They explained it was my phone, then they explained it was my browser. Then I took them over to the free computers and told him to log into my account. He did and it was in Dutch. He went back and sent a message to Seattle. I am convinced the tech staff on board have trained at Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T stores in phone sales. Anybody tried Stockperks yet? I refused, told them my vacation was not going to revolve around 4 different phone apps and HAL wifi! Took a look at Navigator today for fun. Still doesn't work. Has in the past, but not now, must of tried to fix something. There, I vented!
  4. Well I have been shut out from the Crows Nest for CC Meet and Greets, 4/5 Star Receptions and a Private Tour Group Exiting Rotterdam. Art Show/Sales might just drive me over the edge. So far the low spot was the 4/5 Star Reception that we couldn't go to because we weren't invited.
  5. nHow is my first choice. From breakfast you can look in the stern windows. Also closest to trams for a trip into the train station. Lots of places to eat across the street. Old Rotterdam has no AC so is hot and stuffy and you will probably get an inside room. But a nice outside deck for lunch.(that can be crowded) Out in nowhere. Cab ride, shuttle wasn't available in 22. NyNY, well you could say that you have stayed there. Not bad to terminal. I hate thinking about a cab to a place I can see.
  6. Well I would say the same for the $500 airfare on the Black Friday Sale. No strings attached when I booked a new cruise and re priced a middle cruise. The strings were attached the following week. The $1000 airfare is good for $250. Three cruises B/B/B no money can be used for the flight in. No use for a flight on the middle and $250 for the flight out. Nothing in the Black Friday sales when I jumped in. Fine print added the following week.
  7. I picked flexible. To pick your seats you had to pay off, that made it early. Once they are paid off you can't cancel. Seats are important to us.
  8. For me, to book early I had to pay off the tickets early. That made the tickets non-refundable so when I canceled the cruise they tried to stick me with the tickets. I turned it around on them as the airline had made a change in my original schedule and I escaped. Now, trying to deal with the previously undefined $500 Airfare Credit makes it pretty much worthless. I book direct using my AA or Alaska Credit Card
  9. I spent 7 weeks on the Oo, July thru Sept 1. I just didn't sign the paper. They got used to it and left me alone. When I get off the ship I give my favorites a bunch of euros or pounds or dollars, what ever I have left. I give tips for service or even pleasure not to mention good work. Who ever thought up the system to sign for drinks in the bars and not in the restaurants probably also works on the web site.
  10. Regarding #2 You should have version 11.10 Tap Help and down to the bottom
  11. !st, don't try and deal with shipboard tech people. Remember these are the people that make Wine Sommeliers out of waitresses. 2nd Constantly update Express Vpn. They make "fixes" with out telling you. 3rd Try Help and email them, they answer and make fixes without telling you. 4th Where are you trying to Connect. I used Milan, then Miami 5th Options, Settings, Go to VPN Protocol and try all the choices. Probably end up on automatic. 6th Look for strongest signal, Try Crows Nest opposite the Exec tours desk. She has a router in her office.
  12. They installed Starlink on the Oosterdam during August. Midship, both sides, outboard on a platform. Five posts with hardware as pictured above in #67. Did most of the work while in port. Download significantly faster, upload about the same as old.
  13. I just spent 7 weeks on the Oosterdam and was able to use Express Vpn with both the old and the new. Did take me about a week emailing back and forth with Express Vpn but they got it working. No intelligent life onboard.
  14. The standards are way down there! Last month in the Pinnacle, jeans and golf shirt. Seems to me that when you are giving them away they are no longer "specialty" restaurants. Canaletto, guys wearing hats, can't take off my John Deere hat! Guy in shorts.
  15. After my last 3 wine tasting invites I have decided to skip them in the future. Rotterdam last September one of the girls pouring drank more then I. A month later she was a Sommelier.😁 Same cruise there was a Sommelier pouring that had been waiting tables 6 months earlier on the Konnsingdam. The Round the World tasting seems to be the place where non sellers go to die. I am not a wine snob but I have not been to a tasting yet that was informative or good wines.
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