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Bought it once, tried it once, threw it out. Worst coffee I've ever tasted. I'll take my Trader Joe's Bay Blend any day over Blue Mountain.

I thought it was just me. Bought it years ago and did not care for it, and we drink strong coffee. Gave it to a buddy who wanted to pay is for it, we could not take his money.

On Sint Maarten, off the ship, go to the right, opposite of where everyone else is going. There will be taxis, tell them you want to go to Maho (Sunset) beach. Go to the bar, get a drink, order some lunch, sit back and enjoy.

You can thank me later.

Keep going. Will be on eastern leg on 22nd. Tell me more.

Hope this answers some questions:

I'm in 7712 on Sept 22 sailing.

One time. I broght a black suit, thinking it was my tux, and all the tux accoutrements. Had to buy a dress shirt and tie.

With that said can you cruise on a celebrity ship and get the points added to your crown and anchor account and vice versa.

Don't think so.

Excellent.

Charged/Pre Pay - you say tomato I say tomatoe.

It boils down to you cannot do MTD without RCCL imposing you to pre-pay your gratuities which is fine. My only question or concern is how much am I pre-paying? What will my account by charged when I look at my bill?

 

To clarify to someone not familiar with this. You are not "charged" to use MTD, Royal Caribbean just asks that you pre-pay gratuities which you pay upfront in advance.

If you are booking online or thru RCCL on the phone, you will be shown the amount of the prepaid gratuities.

Somewhere around here or on the RCCL site is a list of what each person, cabin steward, waiter, etc should be tipped.

Some one here will have a link to it I hope?

I've been told this twice, now, so I must believe it is true... but I'm still just kind of incredulous about this policy.

 

As it has been explained to me, if you choose to do My time dining (for 2 kids to eat fast and leave early), your tips are prepaid... ($45 pp). But the charge applies to your entire dining party.

 

So, since we are going with my in-laws (3 of them), and we have 5 in our party (2 adults, one baby, and the 2 "my time" kids), ALL EIGHT of us would be paying $45 per person?? Can someone explain the rationale behind this? For a 4 night cruise, I understand that the recommended tipping for dining staff would be $3.75 pp for waiter, 2.25 for assistant, and .75 for head waiter. For a 4 night cruise that is about $30 pp. So, for 8 people, it is about $120 more to do "my time".

 

I could understand charging per kid. Or even for the 5 of us in my family. But really, for all 8 of us?

 

I must be missing something here. Can anyone set me straight?

This includes your cabin steward also. There is your difference. It does not cost more to use MTD. In fact, many people find this much easier.

On the Oasis Jing was our waitress and Laszlo her assistant, what a great team. Excellent!!!!

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