BND

No. The bridge is not right next to the port.

No, just the original two from early this morning. No new rescues.

We hope to know soon about a possible port change. We drive to Baltimore and normally take Amtrak to Newark. We'd be willing to go two days early instead of one so we can prob use Amtrak. We prefer Business class or Acela. If we're cancelled I think we'll go to Ocean City or another beach for a bit instead.

It takes just about the same amount of time to sail from Bayonne as it does from Baltimore. From Bayonne, the ship is quickly at sea. From Baltimore, you have to traverse the Bay which takes hours.

I have a friend onboard. The Captain has announced he'll let them know once he knows something. The fact, that less than 12 hours after the tragedy, people are calling. They can't get info until decisions have been made. Calling just jams up the phone lines. The people answering certainly have no idea.

People are calling Royal. I knew this would happen. Just be patient. We all want to know how it affects our cruises, but give them a chance, geez.

Tell that to all those people who think that Vision class only has a couple of feet of clearance, sigh.

We're on the next two. Waiting to see.

My DH said he heard that the ship went dark right before, so a loss of power could easily have caused it. There were 2 pilots onboard who know the harbor.

Roanoke? That would be interesting considering where it's located. I assume you meant Norfolk.

That's what I was thinking.

Even at 130am there is traffic. They are saying on our local news (Wash DC) that there is possibly a tractor trailer that went in also. There was a work crew on the bridge at the time. Also, just as an FYI, Vision is due to leave for drydock on 20 April.

We're booked on Vision for 4 and 12 April. There are at least 7 people missing. I know they'll work to clear the channel as soon as possible. Not sure when the Carnival ship is due in but Vision is in 9 days.

We started cruising in suites. With Royal, we started in JS, quickly moved to GS for several and when the deposit rules changed years ago, we went back to JS. We did GS mostly on EX when she was in NJ which meant longer itineraries. When the deposit went from $900 to $1800,we said nope. We didn't want Royal having almost 2K of our money for that long. Part of the issue is back then deposits were refundable. So, people would book a GS 18 months out so if we wanted one, we had to do the same, and then they would cancel later (we never did) so RCI's answer to that was to double the deposit amount on GS and above. We have done JS ever since. This was all before Suite lounges and CK. We've flown first class a few times. Most recently to DFW from IAD in Nov on a 737. Seats are wider and we were fed pretty good food. We took our sons to CA in April 2001 in Business class on a large wide body plane(can't remember which but it wasn't a 747) and the food was really good and the seats comfortable. It does help that DH is a million miler with United and we used points for one ticket to TX. He doesn't travel for work anymore so points are almost gone.

We just met with our CFP. He suggested shaving off some of our profit from our RCI stock. We both said "NO"!!. He forgot we need to have 100 shares. So, for us, it's a placeholder. We don't need the money, but he likes to protect as much as he can now that we're retired (well DH works two days a week). We currently have all our booked cruises (8) with the credit applied.

Not a chance. The visual of being "so close" to getting something pushed over the edge is too addicting for some. Just like all gambling, the house always comes out ahead. For every person that comes out ahead there are plenty who don't.

We saw two bald eagles in Jan in PC after we boarded Wonder. They flew right past the Solarium while we were sitting there. As for medical evac, I'd rather be in FL than most of the islands for care.

I should know that as we've been on Anthem twice. But, that said, the onion rings aren't worth it.

I just cancelled our Hideaway reservations for our Apr 4 Vision Cruise. After watching review videos, we decided it's a no. We'll just do our usual pool lounger in the shade near food and bathrooms.

On the smaller ships with Centrums, there is a dance band there almost every evening. We watch people dance sometimes. There's always a couple or two that obviously have taken ballroom dancing lessons. You can almost see them counting in their heads lol.

I have never seen onion rings in the WJ. At Johnny Rockets, you have to pay a cover charge and honestly, they are frozen mushy ones. On ships with Playmakers they make them fresh and are among the best I've ever had.

That was ONE poster. You could just ignore them.

OP said "friend" which I took to mean just that, a friend.

Not unless she qualifies for them herself. Sharing a cabin makes no difference.

It was kind of an open ended question. OP didn't ask where it might be allowed.