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16 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Welcome to CC.

 

The cabins are quite well sound insulated but you may notice some sound from that area. You could have more noise from the hallway than from below.

Did you read the first line of the OP or do you just reply to every post?

42 minutes ago, grandgeezer said:

It’s not based on hindsight it’s based on knowing when to take a big profit when you have a chance. Every time I buy a stock, I have an exit strategy. When it goes up, I put a stop loss order in to preserve some of the gains. I also have a target price to sell, but don’t put a sell order in until I think it’s getting ready to peak. As it gets closer to the target price I reevaluate the potential of the stock and if I think it will continue to rise, I’ll adjust the target to sell. I’m somewhat covered both ways up or down.

So, if you would have sold near the top, and took the $10,000 profit, you would immediately by the stock back to get the $100 - $200 obc? Why don’t just use the money from your stock sale and let the remaining money grow. At $200 a cruise, the profit would cover you for 50 cruises before it’s gone, if you aren’t making any money on interest or anything.

Whatever floats your boat.

Bye.

A lot of what you say makes sense but how come you don't have to pay taxes on your gains?

1 hour ago, Jerseygirl1416 said:

If people are buying at the higher prices then why would the cruise lines lower the prices??? 

Seriously? Maybe because they think they will sell more packages at the lower price than at the higher price, to the point that they make a larger total profit. The same reason many, not all, things go on sale.

3 minutes ago, robyn206 said:

Correct, this is the newest version of the fake sale that all the prices on my two upcoming cruises are the same as yesterday, except for a few dollars off the unlimited dining and the combined drink package with voom.

This "sale" saved me $85 for two packages from the price I purchased at yesterday.

$1200 is still a ridiculous amount to pay for a week of alcohol.

This is the Memorial Day sale. I would think there will be a 4th of July sale and a Labor Day sale

but I don't know if that will be any less. That was pretty much my question. 

Like all the experts say, if you're going to get it anyway then buy it now because you can always get the reduction.

9 minutes ago, mspink98 said:

Our two on Harmony next May are priced at $77.99 per week after "20% off". I suspect any Memorial Day sale may not have started yet, as the "Wow" sale has been extended (surprise surprise!)

Memorial Day sale has started.

Is the current sale really a sale? $72.99 a person for the deluxe beverage package?

I purchased it because I know I can get any future price reduction but in recent history

is that about as low as it goes.

Harmony, seven nights in October.

Probably already posted but I didn't see it on the first couple of pages.

https://news.yahoo.com/chloe-wiegands-grandfather-pleads-guilty-164311633.html

14 minutes ago, kpark895 said:

 

Susan, so sorry to hear of your friends' sorrow and suffering.  We all need better days ahead.

 

And the monthly condo fees are less than $400.  Less than $1200 per month, including taxes, insurance and HOA fees!  Only downside for Sid - it's in California!

Add in PMI unless he has 20% to put down.

16 hours ago, xpcdoojk said:

  Where we park in the cove it is less than 50 yards wide, yet there is over 50 feet of water below the deck.  

Park ? You sure you own a boat ? 😁

37 minutes ago, drsel said:

Prices will have to go up because the cruise lines have to make up the huge losses

Pretty sure that's not the way it works. They can charge whatever they want but getting people to buy

is not based on what a company needs in revenue.

1 hour ago, ed01106 said:

There does need to be some balance.

 

 We could save over 30,000 lives a year by banning all automobile traffic.  But the economic consequences would be devastating and we as a society have chosen that we would rather have the cars and attempt to reduce the death toll with airbags than completely shut down society.

 

Extreme examples:

 

The same balance needs to be taken with Covid 19, if shutting down for two weeks will save tens of millions of lives than it is worth it.

 

If preventing 50,000 people in their 80s from dying a year or two premature requires shutting down for 9 months driving the country into a depression worse than 1929, the we should let them die, just like we do with auto victims.  

 

Obviously we are somewhere in between those two examples.  But as trade offs go, cruise ships have proven to be the antithesis of social distancing and offer only minor benefits to society.  They should remain closed even after schools reopen and other portions of society begin to return to normal.

 

 For example, I would allow professional sports to begin competing in front of cameras and a TV audience well before I would allow a return of thousands into a stadium.  I would open stores well before permitting gatherings such as NYE in Times Square.  There does need to be some balance.  

Auto example is wrong on so many levels. Transportation deaths would still occur no matter how you choose to travel. Bicycle, horse, plane, skateboard, walk, camel...deaths would occur with all these.

2 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

As far as the stock. The entire purchase was a 3rd of the cost of this little jaunt. 😉

I think I get the math, two more investments like that and you get a free cruise ? 🙂

Anybody look at the difference in price between you pick the room and we pick the room

for cruises in the near future ? I think we all know why, just kind or funny to see the big difference.

2 hours ago, Geoffa30 said:

@eroller Is that a picture from onboard now? Looks like a really nice space now that it’s in use and the furniture in place . Possibly one of the best lidos decks of any ship. Think the purple loungers give an air of Premier Inn.

With room for 20-25 of those purple loungers only 50 people will get the experience of a Premier Inn.

3 hours ago, happicruzer said:

 

 

 Too many cruisers (probably over 10-25 million) have cruised safely because they don’t climb over railings or dangle outside windows.
 

 

What does "probably over 10-25 million" even mean? 

Definitely a subject in need of three !!!

40 minutes ago, sid_9169 said:

Hopefully Greg doesn't find out that I have eleven thousand more views at this point...

I guess it's the small pleasures in life.

I'm still waiting for the announcement that alcoholic beverages are no longer included with your drink package on the private islands. I put the under/over at 18 months.

The pay venues for food don't bother me much because food is not that important to me. I like to eat but I can always find something to satisfy me.

1 hour ago, sid_9169 said:

Hopefully the rest of the day goes better than it has so far... First thing this morning, I pick up my phone to turn it on, and it crashes to the ground... Luckily no apparent damage... Then, I realized that I haven't received my phone bill or two other credit card bills in my po box and this month. The idiots at the post office put other people's mail in my box all the time, so I can only assume that my bills have been misplaced in someone else's box... Then, to top it all off, I go out to my car this morning, and there's ice on the inside of the windshield... It took me ten minutes to clear it off good enough to make it one mile to work...

Sounds like the usual crap we all deal with every day. Actually doesn't sound bad at all.

If you cracked your phone screen, had your cell service turned off and a cracked windshield then it wouldn't be a great

start to the day but still manageable since it's Friday and you probably have a $100 meal from Mom coming up soon.

36 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:

 

 

 

 

A little about Me and my wonderful wife. My wife Linda is an assistant prosecutor and I (Greg aka sea dog) is a journalist (Real News) as a news cameraman and editor for KMBC-TV. 

Kind of a funny sentence given your profession.

4 hours ago, GA Dave said:

That is today's answer to everything when something does not go exactly as you want.  SUE!!!!!!!!

Exactly as it should be in a civilized society with a legal system in place.

Would you prefer we go back to the wild west and people meet up at high noon in the street ?

35 minutes ago, mitz18 said:

The trend is -  prices after the sale will either be higher, lower or stay the same.  If you find a fare that appears reasonable to you for the trip you want, book it.  If the price drastically drops later, (depending if final payment has been made or not) your TA might be able to assist you in getting a reduction.

OP, if you want actual information look at Hoopster's response and ignore this.

18 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

So my cough is still lingering, even though I feel better today than the last 12 days. 
 

Well anyway, I had a coughing fit right in the elevator and of course it was packed full. One lady was so close I could almost feel her butt rubbing against my, well… You get the idea.
 

Anyhow Lisa snapped this photo of her.  I think she’s afraid that she might catch something. 
 

Lisa should have told her that I have the Dengue Fever. They did just have another case reported in Miami. 
 

The nerve of that lady to not want to catch what has made you feel like crap for two weeks.

5 minutes ago, Esprit said:

Prior to a cruise I inform my clients of my vacation and when I'll return to my CPA practice. So definitely no work is done or even a check on emails.

I work to live; not live for work!

Good to know.