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She seems to have a very limited vocabulary.:rolleyes:

But she's got madd street cred, yo…:cool:

She finally has a new Tweet posted that will make you haters feel so ashamed.

:rolleyes:

https://twitter.com/fiercoptimistic

Her Twitter feed is a slice too. Hasn't been updated since this whole "ordeal" began, however.

https://twitter.com/fiercoptimistic

As they are now in Jamaica illegally, authorities will surely deport them once they surface.

The one article says that RCL personnel assisted them with disembarkation and escorted them to immigration. If that's the case they're either still there or have been allowed into the country legally.

No response here. I'm just wondering why the CC system greeked out C K Y O from the user name.

Add two letters on the front and one on the end for a phrase that likely is verbotten.

Are the others after 23 May cancelled as well? The only sailing showing on RCI's website is the 6 June sailing.

As of today they have cancelled the sailings on April 25, 30, May 5, 9, 14, 19 and 23.

This question can be answered with mathematical certainty when it comes to slots.

In the short term, yes, it's possible to walk away from a single session--or even multiple sessions over an entire cruise--with more money than you started. Possibly even substantially more.

Over the long term, no, you will lose money on slots.

Even the best paying machines keep some out of every dollar bet, on average, and cruise ship slots are among the worst paying machines out there. If you find one paying out anything close to 90 cents on every dollar bet you should stay there and lose that 10 cents on every dollar because chances are every other machine on the ship is going to take more.

Nine-day Alaska for four adults in one verandah cabin priced out at $14K.

Who else is waiting not so patiently to book for summer 2017??? If only we knew the prices! I actually think it's keeping me awake. Which won't bode well for my day tomorrow. What is everyone looking at??? I'm curious what rates will do over last summer? If there's a 10% increase then I can book what I want in the Dream. What's wveryone else thinking?

Already booked the July 24 nine-day Alaska sailing on the Wonder out of Vancouver. It's pricey but not necessarily a good indicator of the pricing trend because Alaska tends to be higher anyway and it's a new, extended itinerary.

In most cases the terminal is pretty well cleared out by about 12:30 p.m. so the afternoon PATs are less strictly enforced. If you have a later PAT and arrive at the time the port opens or before boarding begins, you may not be allowed in if there already are a large number of passengers waiting.

You're welcome, and I agree, if you want to use data at all, then get a WiFi package from the ship. Also put the phones in Airplane mode (and turn WiFi back on), just to be sure there are no cellular charges.

Also, make sure to turn off all automatic app updates. Those can suck up a bunch of data on your WiFi plan.

DCL must have stepped up their beer hand some. Last cruise on the dream, the only thing I could find was mass-produced common beer.

But I never made it down to 687.

 

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Again, my lists are from the Fantasy so the Dream may not be the same. Still, all of the ships--including the Fantasy--had a horrible beer selection previously, so I am hopeful that they have upgraded the choices on the entire fleet. It would make sense, but I am just not sure.

Two Hearted is one of my favorites!

The I expect you would like Jai Alai too, if you haven't already tried it.

They also had Cigar City Invasion pale ale (cans), Bell's Oberon (bottles) and Florida Beer's Sunshine State Pils (draft, on deck 11 midship, starboard side bar kiosk).

Will be a first time Disney cruiser aboard the Dream 9/16.

 

First - thanks for any help!

 

(2) - I've read all about wine at dinner (corkage fee, etc) but I haven't seen anything about beer service with dinner. Can I order a beer at dinner from my server? If not can I grab a beer from a bar before and just walk it into dinner?

 

(3) - I'm not a fan of most mass produced beers (Bud, Heineken, etc.). I like IPA & Stout craft beers. I've read somewhere else that one of the bars does serve some better choices... the sports pub themed bar from memory. Any news on if those choices have expanded to other bars on this ship?

 

(4) - Since we're first time Disney cruisers we have that last 75 days out slot for picking our boarding time online. Do select times "sell out". For example if by the time I go to select our boarding time is there a good chance that noon will already be a time I can't choose?

I haven't been on the Dream for a while but on the Fantasy the beer selection has been dramatically improved in the past couple of years. IPAs available on the Fantasy as of last month were Bell's Two Hearted (bottles at most bars), Cigar City Jai Alai (cans at most bars) and Florida Brewing Devil's Triangle (draft at the bar kiosk on deck 11 mid-ship, port side). Kona Castaway IPA also was available in bottles and maybe on tap at a few locations.

There are assorted other beers available in various locations. The sports bar on the Dream, 687, even has its own beer; an ale brewed for Disney by Red Hook, IIRC. Supposedly 687 also was upgraded to have a total of 14 beers on tap, but I can't confirm that or what they are.

Sadly, getting anything but a mass-produced beer in the main dining rooms can be difficult unless your assistant server is willing to go to one of the actual bars for you. I think the service bars there only have the bad stuff.

Having done both we very much prefer the Fantasy. I'm not sure if it's just that we don't like the shorter cruises, if we like the ship better, or some combination of the two. Shorter cruises just seem so much more crowded and busy; likely because everybody is trying to get as much done as possible and cramming it all into a short period of time.

Honestly, our cruise on the Dream probably was our least favorite of our (so far) 14 Disney cruises. Oh the other hand, we LOVE the Fantasy enough to have our 15th DCL voyage scheduled to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary in October.

last cruise we got insurance thru RC, looking into insuremytrip. Does it allow you to cancel insurance if you change cruise. From time to time we move to another cruise prior to final payment.

Insuremytrip is an aggregator site that offers a way to shop for a wide range of plans from many different insurers. The availability and cost of pre-existing condition waivers and other features will vary significantly, so you need to know what features are important to you and select accordingly. If you are at all unsure, I agree with the PPs who have suggested calling to talk with someone who can walk you through the various options and help you identify the plan that may work best for you.

Do they leave you behind? Check out this >this< youtube video! It turned into a bad day for this couple! :(

Bad link.

You'll need to print and sign the payment authorization form that should have been generated as part of your online check-in but nothing in the booklet needs to be filled out if you have done it all online.

At least this OP didn't use an email address as his screen name.:rolleyes:

All. Thank you for your responses. We have decided to do our honeymoon on a Disney Ship. As some of the other posters have mentioned. Yes we are into the Disney thing and the customer service you get from Disney. We are looking forward to trip sometime in 2017.

 

Though I know i'm setting bar high for marriage. Proposed to at Magic Kingdom in front of Mickey and then sailing high seas for honeymoon.

You'll have a great time! We just got off of our 14th Disney cruise--two of which have been adults-only cruises--and will be celebrating our 25th anniversary on another Disney cruise this October.

I'm not sure whether or not I would want a port-intensive cruise or one with more sea days and quiet times for my honeymoon, so that's one thing I would think about. Also, unless you are planning a summer honeymoon--when the Magic is in Europe and the Wonder in Alaska (at least historically)--then the Bahamas/Caribbean are going to be your options; barring some entirely new itineraries being released. In that case, the limited southern Caribbean sailings out of Puerto Rico are going to feature the most ports of call and the eastern Caribbean sailings out of Port Canaveral the most sea days.

That is the same as it has always been then' date=' and is why I referenced the need to be off the ship by 8 in my earlier post. And the way they determine "off the ship" is that you have had your card swiped on leaving. Yes, if you are on the list of "early" flights with onboard air check in they will pull your bags and you'll have to claim them in the terminal and take them on the bus with you. If your flight is after 1 pm, you must be off the ship by 9 (like everyone else).[/quote']

 

Your prior post said just that guests with onboard check-in had to be off by 8 a.m. and did not reflect the nuance of the before/after 1 p.m. flight issue. So while it may be the same as it has always been, the specific matter had not previously been addressed in its entirety in your posts or anywhere else in this thread.

I have not heard anything like that and would consider it a long shot until the two newest ships are launched, but I have no real information one way or another.

Agree that the sleeping arrangements won't be an issue.

One thing to be aware of is that if your kids are booked in your parents' room, you likely will need to get authorization from your parents to take your own kids off of the ship if neither one of your parents is with you. At least that's the case on Disney; children under 18 can only leave the ship with an adult registered in the same cabin unless an authorization form has been completed in advance.

Actually, what we got this past Friday for our Fantasy cruise that ended Saturday was a little different than that. I think 11:30 a.m. was still the absolute earliest, but if you were using Onboard Airline Check-in and had a flight before 1 p.m., you had to be off of the ship no later than 8 a.m. or they would pull your bags and you would have to take them to airport on the bus with you. So passengers on flights between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. could use the service but only if they were off by 8 a.m.

We were on Southwest so it didn't really matter and we had to deal with an absolute mess at MCO. We still made our noon flight with plenty of time to spare, however.

The chances of missing the boat due to some unforeseen issue make this choice a deal breaker for us. I see the higher cost on some of the excursions as a good insurance policy.

 

Thanks to all for the info. I'll set a reminder for 75 days out. Pretty exited about our first Disney Cruise.

Just last week our excursion to Virgin Gorda, which we booked through DCL, arrived back at the pier more than 20 minutes past the scheduled all-aboard time. With 100+ DCL guests on board I was pretty sure they wouldn't leave without us and they didn't, but I would have been very worried if I had booked it on my own.