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After searching around a bit, it appears the only way to bid upgrades w/ MSC is thru an email they send (as opposed to other lines where you can go to the upgrade site/place bid/etc). Is that the case? I certainly won't complain about other lines IT departments after attempting to use MSC's. I didn't think it was possible reaching a level lower than 'useless' lol.

You must be the life of the party. You critique birthday cards people send to you as well?

Hope the lack of a butler isn't due to being first-timers, and was just a lapse, as we'll soon be doing our first. Enjoy.

Sounds exactly like us. Never understand the sheeple that just can't wait to get on board, and rush to get off as soon as the door opens. We hang out in the back of the jet, wait till it dies down, and costs us roughly 5min....time that we'd spend waiting on our bags anyway lol. Glad you're all set to cruise. Have a great time!

As much as we're looking forward to the suite experience on a new cruise line (for us), I will say going in, if there's some 'double secret handshake' that requires being a 'regular' in order to receive an expected return on our investment, we will be 'one and done'....and that goes for any service we pay for with any other business as well.

We're trying our first MSC cruise (YC). Trying to distinguish between whiners and complainers and those w/ legitimate concerns is difficult. We also realize most reviews are from those who have negative things to report, so we'll just give it a try and find out for ourselves. We're pretty low maintenance and are easy to please, so don't think our review will fit in here if we enjoy ourselves lol.

Not a foodie, yet very critical of Italian cuisine...interesting. I have no idea what to expect of our upcoming cruise, particularly regarding food. I realize it's subjective, and we have yet to be disappointed w/ the food on any line, but some of these reviews have me wondering.

Ours is coming up. This will be our first time on MSC, and we are anxious to give the YC a go. (Unlike you, we love CL's on RCCL). Certainly going to be interesting. We enjoy every cruise; hoping this comes close to the 'suite life' on RC.

We're giving MSC a shot in the yacht club...booked it for 1/2 what RCCL gets for a full suite. Be interesting to compare...hoping they're both of roughly the same 'value', allowing us to double up on the bookings. They're be some drawbacks, but we have heard the YC blows away Royal's suite area. We're certainly curious.

We generally take one of two paths...sit and wait for the crowd to thin out, or get out of there prior to the CD's post show address. The latter tends to be our go-to, as we don't need to hear the latest update on events remaining for the evening....if we weren't aware of an event, it's generally nothing we're interest in anyway.

Not even the slightest of issues. As long as he's not barefoot, he's set.

Clark Griswold believes it is.

Now that's a clever way to get this topic going again.....nicely played.

And we wonder why there's some angst in the C&A society....

Indeed. We've never traveled on a partially booked vacation, nor will we ever.

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Have a question for you, but was unable to message ya. Contact me when you have a moment please.

Ya, I don't get it. I couldn't care less what others' status is, and I assume they feel the same about ours. For those that care, I guess the adage of 'reverting back to children as we grow old' has some merit.

You two are awesome at +1'ing each other....people are gonna start talking.

Got ya. Thought you were in the crowd that let's all know they own the ship. Took the bolded the wrong way.

Best way to reincarnate the never ending useless discussion.

5+ as of Feb '23. https://www.cruiseswithfriends.com/blogs/2023/royal-caribbean-crown-and-anchor-society-diamond-plus

The personalized pin you can have. Ebay also has them for $1 if ya lose it in the shower. Internet and balcony cruise are nice perks. CK limited access certainly a downer on pin heavy cruises.

Tampa, PE, PC and Miami have had no problem w/ our water (this year or ever).

They won't blink an eye.