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I was surprised that the tugs didn't continue to accompany the ship, at least to get the ship past the bridge.

Click on the upper left hand corner of the video and it takes you to his youtube account. I think it is like a chengkp75 type person on youtube.

There is some good youtube videos on a thread on the RCCL board.

I just realized, this must be the I95 bypass around Baltimore we all use when driving back and forth from Florida to the north.

I doubt that they care. Tipping probably counts more.

With all of the capacity they are bringing online, if that doesn't soften things, what will? Another Icon and a 7th Oasis is a lot.

That is even more than what I got on Odyssey. And it was nonrefundable OBC. I wonder if the bubble on outrageous prices is bursting.

The point of my post was that after the points system changed for both cruise lines, that the more expensive rooms accumulated points much faster on X than on RC. We first cruised on Celebrity Horizon and we had the presential suite, 1 point. then we did the next 4 cruises that were TA's in a Sky Suite. 3 points. One point for the cruise, one point for the suite, and one for the longer cruise. I would have become Elite much faster when they changed their loyalty system because the took into account your stateroom. Not to worry, we took or Elite status, got diamond, cruised a lot, and we are Pinnacle now on RCI. The point was, that after the change, it applied to ever day that you cruised, instead of just one point regardless of how long the cruise was.

Leap year

You can get your new seapass at GS the night before and will receive an IN TRANSIT card to facilitate reboarding. Then you can exit before the B2B group if you want. Remember, you will have to do muster again. BTW Ron Jon's surf shop is close by. A popular place to visit.

Customs normally uses facial recognition. You just walk up to a video screen , look at it, and it should recognize you from your passport photo, and you are on your way. You will be given instructions before, and will get your new seapass before getting off. But, you should have your passport, just in case, but also reboarding. Facial recognition gets everyone processed very quickly, no long lines.

Walk past the Pub, in a room to the right, in front of the Diamond lounge

You ever notice that many people do not shut up and pay attention when the captain makes an announcement. Sometimes after those announcements I have the urge so exclaim loudly "Did you hear that , I wonder where we are going now".

My carryon item I must have is a sweater. Stateroom attendants must be trained to always turn the thermostat to the coldest temperature. Too dam cold for me. I have had to call maintenance to fix the heat, it doesn't always work.

Isn't that the guestrelations@rci.com?

When I was between wives, I had to learn, couldn't survive on the alternative. The only joy was having something to eat. Little story though. In those days, there was a little pizza place, where the guy made his own sauce and I loved it. So I usually drove up there about once a week for pizza and beer. The place was County Line pizza. As the name implies, it is on the county line with neighboring Martin county. The town in our county is Jupiter, in Martin is Tequesta. The pizza place had one waitress. Her husband was a Tequesta police officer. Must have been 1980 when the restaurant closed and the owner retired. During the restart we were booked on Odyssey. We got to chatting with , he probably noticed her Boston accent, and he had lived there at some point. Then he said he now living in Florida, and he is a Tequesta policemen. So , as we talked he said he had moved there in 1978. 2 years after I had moved down, I knew then he would know about county line pizza. When i mentioned the waitress, he just grinned. The waitress's husband was his boss when he first joined the force.

I thought any excuse was a good one for you guys.

Lets face it, you move up a lot faster when to get the more expensive suites. That makes sense. It took us 5 long cruises all but 1 was in a suite to get the 10 cruises for elite. When they changed. we would probably made it in 3, we were mostly in a sky suite. The kicker point for a suite counts for every day. they changed the system after we came to RCI.

Sure looks to me someone has done some snow skiing.

You don't get Captains Club points for these cruises do you? Not that it makes any difference, if you are Diamond on royal you would be elite on X. Haven't figured that there was any special benefit.

I have an RCI credit card. I charge all cruise expenses and do not carry a balance, so I pay no interest, and get points that I can use for OBC. But you can use a debit card, just put the info in when you checkin.

There are 2 penthouse, at the stern of the ship taking up the entire stern. This ship is the same size as a Radiance class ship. I believe they might actually have a refrigerator iin the PH.

At least you drive on thee right side of the road.

I guess some like it. Maybe it is better now.