Tree_skier

im trying to convince DW to go back to condo life but she still wants a house with a yard.

Going on now

Next stop is Orlando 🏖️ 🏖️

Hoping your surgery goes well Greg. @Sea Dog

Wow sounds great. Maybe you need roommates 🤓

I don’t attribute bad behavior to any particular group. There are idiot gold status C&A members. There are rude and annoying newbie cruisers. Some of the best conversations I have had and nicest folks I have met on cruise ships have been pinnacle members.

Won a slightly over minimum bid from a 4D balcony to an aft facing JS on Adventure that was sold out. We're leaving this Friday. I can't wait 🙂 I'm now 1/10 in RU bidding.

You can always turn up at the anytime after 6pm and you will be seated as soon as a table is available. Also, you could just go see the Maitre D' upon embarkation. Tell him aproximately when you'd like to eat and he/she will get something worked out for you in MTD.

How loud was it at Hideaway? Did you feel like it was a party atmosphere or was their any degree of peace?

Awesome and just in time... We're joining you on the second leg. This will be there perfect primer to get things going.

True, I wasn't think about that when I posted... IAH is an extra 15 minutes.

Apparently the Vegas line is TS sightings is 25... I'm going with the over.

After these last four or five years following your posts, Owen seems like a really impressive young man. Congrats, that's a really nice looking ride. 🙂

What's the over/under on TS sightings.

Galveston Express is $30 pp and easy to schedule and highly reliable.

I read that complaint here regularly but it's 45 minutes from Houston Hobby to Galveston. That's the same as flying into Orlando and cruising out PC yet I never hear people make that same complaint.

Are you staying in CA or are you part of the exodus?

Just for the record... I do have empathy for the OP no matter what their experience is cruising or on forums. We had a calamity no to dissimilar back in Dec and thankfully we were able, at some expense, to rectify it before sailaway and everyone was on the ship as expected. Albeit close...

So today was the day for stuff to break 😠 This morning, first thing, the belt on the dryer snapped. I managed to get the new belt ordered and it will arrive on Monday sometime. However, I'm flying out to Orlando on Tuesday so I'm really skeptical about DW and I getting all the laundry we need doing done on Monday night and still packing and being ready to roll to the airport. So after getting that part ordered up I went to have a shower and while showering, the extraction fan suddenly died. Back to Amazon and new fan ordered. It's arriving tomorrow but I'm pretty busy tomorrow so we'll see. Then after getting out of the shower and getting settled into some work today on the computer I foolishly set my MacBook Pro on the seat next to me and got up to get a cup of coffee. It slid off the chair at exactly the wrong angle and broke the screen and hinge. I called a local Mac repair shop and they tentatively quoted me $867 to repair assuming there is nothing else broken. It's a two year old MacBook. It just pained me spend that much on a two year old device so I have gone out bought a new one. If anything else breaks today you'll hear the screaming three counties away.

After reading the draft guidance I'm no more clear on what happens with DBP or Diamond vouchers or even included food. How are they going to price included food as billable item for VAT purposes. I imagine with the drinks they just charge it out at the ship board price. But even that seems ambiguous after reading that.

I was shocked at the price too. I'm just thankful and looking forward to a great day at Labadee... I've got The Haiti coastal cruise booked as well as a zipline. I'm quite stoked for the day. 🙂

I suspect the OP won't be back to add to or provide any more clarification to the original post. 🙂

None of my 2025 bookings have anything of consequence in the cruise planner yet. My first one is 2/2/25 though so you are inside the one year mark. I'm sure stuff will pop up soon.

How late does it let you stay onboard and what time is your flight home?

No I don't think you get the double points. That's the downside. Edit: If @ONECRUISER says he got them then I am wrong. He travels solo all the time and would be more knowledgeable. I just thought I read somewhere here on CC that said no double points unless booked as a single.