abbydancer2003

I'm not sure I always played 10%.

You'd be ok on any ship. It's not whether you can do it, it's HOW you do it. And by the way, a friend who took his OBC and bought a slot credit for a bonus 5.00 could not do it with that. So, I think it's just plain OBC sitting in your account. I think there's a lot of confusion on this thread since we're talking about different things. I've done this on the Equinox, Summit and Eclipse.

Thanks. I'm on the Silhouette in October for her trip back to the US. I'm enjoying this.

I did two sailings on the Eclipse, and I had a lot of OBC. I came off of both with a lot of cash (a little less than the OBC, but I had fun). Most ships work as mentioned above, you transfer money at the machine. However on some, it looks like the non-revolutionized ones, use an older system where you go to the cashier, and transfer even multiples of 50.00 at a time to a ticket. They give you the ticket, you put it into the slot, and play away. When you're done, you hit cash out, and it prints a new ticket that you can insert into another (or the same) machine or take to the cashier and cash out. The tricky part was that it had to be in even multiples of 50.00. We did end up with a very small amount of OBC left.

You and me both.

Huh? What am I missing? Banning gay marriage is technically in our State Constitution, but overturned. I think the plan now is to try to get it out, which can only be done, apparently, by yet another proposition.

nope, not enough for either Opulence.

We always have them split it before cooking. It's never been a problem.

Day 6R - Hubbard Glacier Woke up again to spectacular mountain views, so breakfast in Blu again. We were first seated in the window section, but by the aisle. One of the window tables opened up, and the people finishing up next to us said maybe we could move, but we’d already started, so passed, until Sein came by and told us she was moving us. So we finished at the window. After breakfast, we decided to hit the open decks for Hubbard Glacier. We were heading in and noticed an ice flow moving right to left in front of us. The the naturalist came on and said that there was a small island on our right and we were going behind it to get to the glacier. That was fun and we got close. Of course the captain said it’s the closest, but I bet he says that every week. Once the ship started turning, we went down to our balcony. Eventually, of courser, we had a great view, and soon Mike joined us. Sometime between 1 and 1:30 the ship started out and we went to lunch. I had the Cobb salad without the chicken as a starter, and the Luminae half burger. For dessert, the Olive Oil pudding. I don’t really taste olive oil, but it is good. We wandered around some after lunch and then headed back up to the room. We spent time here each day because Beth needs to rest her broken ankle (she actually is a trooper on this trip). At some point I went to the lounge to make an appointment with a. Future cruse person. We made an appointment for 10 am on Ketchikan day. We headed to Michael’s club just before 8 for silent disco. It was empty, just one of the regularly there couples in there. The concierges had the equipment ready, so around 8pm we got our headphones. At about 8:25, our butler, Jamal arrived, and, recongnising it was time to leave, walked out with him. He actually escorted us all the way to the restaurant. We met Mike and Kathy there. For dinner I had the Apple and Green salad, and the steak and chips from the main. The steak was interesting as the chips were simply 4 strips of roasted potatoes. Not really French fries. That said, it was very good. For dessert, I had an apple and blueberry Vacherin, which is sort of a meringue with fruit and I think a custard. After dinner, back to the room and to bed, since we finish dinner close to 11.

She was the retreat manager on our 2019 south America cruise. Glad she's still around.

Ship: Silhouette Length of Cruise: 14 days Cruise Sail Date: October 20, 2022 Date email offer received: August 6th Captain’s Club Tier: Elite Plus Booked through Celebrity Direct OR via TA: TA Current Cabin: S2 Sky Suite Bid? Yes/No: Yes If YES - Bidding Details: Cabin Category: Celebrity Suite Bid Offer: $205 per person Notification Date: Pending Accepted / Rejected: Pending Cabin Category: Royal Suite Bid Offer: $550 per person Notification Date: Pending Accepted / Rejected: Pending General Comments (offer details, etc.) Suites have been sold out for a while, and we're happy where we are, but decided to bid anyway. I expect both to be rejected.

When that happened for us last week (anything with fish) the waiter brought something else, usually fruit. In this case, the beet had some kind of fish on it, so he brought us the beet without the fish. I'm not a fan of red beets, but this was OK.

Rick Steves? Saw him at Lawn Club and Tuscan once. Danced with him too. It's on his Cruise show

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I had two bags, my sister had one and we did use all 3 on our 7 day cruise. Of course, we could have easily done 1 or 2. We were in Vancouver for a couple days, so didn't bring quite enough clothes for 0.

I'm between you - only 2235. probably tomorrow I'll have 2179 or 2171, depending if we did Go Green last week.

Exactly. It didn't take long for the peeling to start. I've had a couple where the printing wears off, but it's much less than the whole card peeling off. Maybe I'll just ask for a new card every day so they'll go back.

Question on the card itself. Is your information printed on the card, or is a sticker on a blank card? On the Eclipse, ours was a sticker that by the end of the week was peeling off. While waiting in Michaels club to get kicked of the ship I had the concierge make me a new one. (it was my first Elite Plus one, so I wanted to save it).

My sister and used to wonder what she'd do after Z is for ... sadly, we'll never know.

Reading this, I think I just dodge a bullet. We were on the Ruby in December, and DH asked if he could take the mattress home. So we decided to order the bed. They say a 12 week turn around, so we waited until we had about a 2 month break in travel and ordered at the beginning of April. So now mid August, and no bed. The order status is unfulfilled. I've emailed a few times, and no answer. I called today, and apparently Princess has paused the selling of the beds. Not that anyone told me. The person I spoke to was very nice, and they are refunding it, as well as the mattress topper and cover that I've already received. I guess it's now time to order the Marriott bed. Maybe they're still shipping them.

They can't. I've always thought that the reason they have the lunch is to give people who book concierge something in addition to two extra points per night.

I was told, the two times I was in Aqua (and a friend was also told this), that Aqua peeps can use the Concierge as well.

I thought the salmon at the salmon bake tasted like a salmon poptart. That said, I don't really like salmon, so that may be part of it. Also, earlier in the year I'd tried the salmon at the Taku lodge, so it had a high bar.

Duck tour is fun. There's also great ice cream along the water - I forgot the name though, might be Black Bear since it's at the waterfront and K know that's where we were.

I'm home with good internet, so here's the next post: Day 5R - Icy Straights. We now have Jamal bringing us coffee and tea at 8 each morning, so that gets us up. Today he brought two plain and two chocolate croissants, but no butter, just honey (which I assume was for the tea). The views were spectacular, so we decided to go to breakfast in Blu, which has the best windows of any included restaurants. It was great seeing Sein again and introducing her to my sister. I also met a new waiter, Made’s brother. We had a nice breakfast, but eventually decided they need their restaurant back. We then went to Tuscan for the Elite breakfast, just for coffee and tea nd to continue to enjoy the view. We then heard from M&K that they were in Michael’s club, so we headed there for about an hour. Apparently Kathy has a 2pm massage, so they’re going to go to Sushi on 5 for lunch. We had an invite to watch the sail in from the helipad, so around 11:45 we headed to the room to put on slightly warmer clothes. At about 12:15 we headed to deck 6, where Mike was herding the guests to wait. After about 5 minutes, we were ushered down the hall and onto the helipad. It was somewhat windy and chilly, but not very cold, although after a while, blankets helped. At about 1:05 we left as the ship was docking. When we arrived, we saw the Royal Princess in the pier, but then it pulled away, and apparently commenced tendering. What I think that was all about is that the Royal Class Princess ships can’t dock in Skagway, because of the landslide at the pier. We had a quick lunch in Luminae, and got a window table, since it was pretty deserted there. Beth and I both started with the Bib lettuce salad. The toasted pine nuts on it were great. I opted for potato leek ravioli for a main, and finished with Vanilla poached pear. About when we were finished Mike arrived ready to go out. We headed back up, grabbed our stuff, and headed to the gangway. On exiting the ship, we noticed the tender area for the Royal Princess across the way. There was somewhat of a line for it. We walked off the pier, and into the pier area. There was a gift shop, an information booth and two gondolas. We also noticed the X Millennium parked at a dock a bit away. We wanted to get to Hoonah, so we asked at the information booth. They said to take the gondola that goes to the other dock (where the Millie is, and you can either walk or take a shuttle. The shuttle is 5.00 round trip. The other gondola goes up the mountain where there’s stuff at the top, including hiking and access to the zip line down. We opted to do the free gondola to the main pier. As we got off there was a woman wearing her Princess medallion, asking how to get back to her ship. Apparently the gondola worker didn’t know, so I told her to take the gondola back, walk to the X Eclipse, and she’d see the tender line right there. The work said thanks, good to know. We then walked to the main area where there were restaurants and lots of shops. Someone told us to look for the shuttle ticket booth near the donut shop. We walked through a large shopping building and found both the donut shop and the visitor information booth. We asked about cost and whether we could walk one way and shuttle the other. The guy thought you could do one way for about 3.00. We got in line for the shuttle, but they said it would be about 40 minutes, so we decided to walk along the water. It was about a mile and half, with helpful signs indicating distance. There also were flags of all the military branches on benches along the walkway, as well as occasional story boards explaining things. It was a nice and interesting walk, but we decided it wasn’t in Beth’s best interest to walk back, so we figured we’d see Hoonah and then take a shuttle back. Hoonah was nice little town, with some open gift shops and not much else besides residences and businesses, so we wandered into a gift shop (Beth thought they’d sponsored the military flags). The owner is a veteran and was very friendly, so Beth bought some post cards, I bought a pin and Mike bought tee shirts. We then asked where to pick up the shuttle, and people said to go down a side street. There were people standing at spot by the public restrooms, and we asked them. They said to go to the store a block away and you could get it there. (They apparently were on a different shuttle). We went to the store and there was a shuttle coming in 15 minutes. So we bought our tickets, and waited. The shuttle guy came at about 4:25 in a small shuttle. He counted the people waiting, and realized they needed a bigger one. There was a bigger one parked nearby and a few minutes later another guy came out and drove a bigger shuttle in and away we went. When we arrived back in Icy Straight, we stopped at the donut store. It turns out it was mini donuts and all money went back to the community, so we had some hot cider, and 4 flavors of donuts. Turns out they were plain donuts dipped in powdered sugar that was flavored. We opted for chocolate, maple, spiced cider and huckleberry. Good but not great. Then back across the gondola and back to the ship. The Princess tender was still running, but no line for them. We relaxed in the room until dinner time. We met Mike for dinner, but Kathy was apparently relaxing from her massage earlier and decided not to come. I ordered a Caesar salad for a starter, I think I had a steak for a main, and the pine nut flan for dessert. While the pomegranate sorbet was good the flan was just odd, so I didn’t eat it. After dinner, back to the room.

We were on the helipad once, and that's in my next post. The internet got pretty bad, but I am completing this. The weather was in the 60s in the ports, but it can change. I had a heavy hoodie,, and a down jacket (not a parka) and used one or the other in ports, both with a hat on glacier viewing days.