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A&L_Ont

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    London, Ontario
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    Cruising
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Royal Caribbean
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Caribbean

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  1. Our entire province has been given a PA Day for grade and high school students. Only a small sliver of our province is in the zone of greatest eclipse viewing zone but they all get it. Meanwhile they could be at home, while their parents are at work, and stare at the sun. Makes on sense to me. Maybe as I get older I’ll understand it better. 😉
  2. When did eclipses become such an “emergency for safety”. In my life I have lived through multiple ones (5 I can easily think of) without losing my sight and 2 of them I was in grade school. Rules for eclipse haven’t changed, I guess society has just gotten dumber. With warnings in coffee cups I guess I should not be surprised. I was in San Francisco during this eclipse. We were driving there from Monterey and were just checking into the hotel at the height. Afterwards we went to Alcatraz.
  3. I wish it had been true. Having watched the video it is amazing that 2 survived.
  4. I only heard about the original two. One is in hospital and the other “walked away”. I haven’t seen news on the two new recoveries myself but they had to have gotten out of the water quickly as hypothermia would have led to their demise some time ago. My fingers are crossed that more have been found alive.
  5. Isn’t Vision soon going to dry dock? If that is the case I could foresee the remaining cruises being cancelled, especially if arrangements for another embarkation port are difficult to set up on short notice. I can’t see how that would be easy, let alone the guests getting there and back VS their original plan of Baltimore. Edit to add: just read what @Ourusualbeach beach posted as I was typing. Seems like getting the guests home on the ship is the first concern for RC and then cancelling the next two sailings seems to be the news to come.
  6. I was watching the news right now and you can see that the ships anchor is down, so they tried to slow the ship. It makes me think it was a mechanical issue, as they had time to try and slow the vessel. Sadly if it worked it didn’t change the outcome.
  7. For sure. Just heard they lost power and tried to drop the anchor to slow the ship. If you think about how many ships have passed under this bridge without this happening before, it is amazing. FBI is also there helping to run the investigation, from logistics to the possibility of terrorism.
  8. That was my initial thought. They could fly them home from Orlando, Miami or Fort Lauderdale, but I doubt logistics would be any easier.
  9. Celebrity unfortunately didn’t work in the end. We are panning this between a baseball tournament and a wedding. It basically gave us a 3 and 4 night sailing to become a 7 day cruise. For the AI we can fly go on a Tuesday and return 7 days later with greater ease and savings. I can handle the beach/pool for a week at an AI, even though I love the ship. I hear you about the ancillary costs too.
  10. 100% correct. We went to a Royalton Resort in Cancun in December with Owen for half of what a NYE cruise would cost. We had their Butler program which gave a few small advantages VS a normal guest. Our March break cruise of 2025 is our only cruise booked at the moment. We booked it almost 2 years ago, and have a 2 BDR GS on Freedom for 6 nights. We could switch to a CLS on Oasis for 8 nights but we are not going to for 10k more.
  11. Currently in the process of booking a Sandals over a cruise for our anniversary in July. We can fly business to Antigua, stay in a butler room with transfers for just what a suite costs on a RC ship. The cruise cost doesn’t include airfare, pre-cruise hotel, specialty dining, Ubers or a drink package. We are hoping that the price bubble with break with RC but who knows when that will happen. It makes it an easy decision even though we love to cruise.
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