funkidd

I have been offered a free cruise several times the first time I upgraded to a balcony room for 70 bucks pp. The next time I upgraded to a grand suite for 150 per person. I guess it just depends on availability on the specific cruise. I loved to get comped. I guess cause I play a lot in the casino. The only thing is, is that my old lady gets mad that I don't spend enough time with her. I cant win!

I always use my sign and sail like others on here have said. I have never had an issue and don't have to hide it because I have to take it with me to get back in the room. No problems yet. Knock on wood.

I have had minor issues with things breaking in the room and always got someone to fix the issue quickly. I am surprised that you were treated the way you said you were. I know that if this happened to me that I might end up in the ships brig because I would end up getting stupid belligerent. However I have also been around enough to know if you want something to at least stay calm and ask nicely. Did you do that or demand from the start? Also why did you just take what they gave you? I would have asked nicely then escalated to demanding after I was basically ignored. I would have slept in another room on the ship its called the brig. Kind of reminds you of the united passenger that was drug out of the plane the other day. LOL

We took a Christmas cruise and returned on Christmas eve. My advice is to go shopping at your house for groceries before you get home on a cruise that comes home Christmas eve. We got home took a nap, I got up at about 10pm hungry and had no food in the house for Christmas eve or Christmas. DOH!

I run 12 fast food restaurants and have installed and then taken out these freestyle machines. I cannot say they wont be in all places in the future, however there are several real drawbacks to the machines. yes they can dispense more drink flavors. The advantage just about ends there. They are more expensive, about 15% more. The machines break a lot and cannot be easily fixed or fixed at all at sea. It takes a special tech to work on them. Traditional bag in the box is much easier to fix and parts can be easily kept on hand. They also take a lot of daily maintenance from the wait staff to keep going. Too much fiddling with the machine wastes time= wasted money. I also read a few posts up that soda beverages are the biggest profit maker in the food business. Wrong. This used to be true however soda costs are now equal to most food groups in the business. You still make pretty good money most of the time, however you have to be careful its not like the old days when soda was cheap and you could just waste it. You can thank the federal government for mandating that ethanol (made from corn) be put in all gasoline for that. Corn and corn syrup which is what soda is has gone thru the roof in the last 10 years.

Operationally and cost wise I don't see cruise lines jumping at putting them in place. You might see some tests in some cruise applications, but not ship wide and industry wide, not for a while.

While I have never bought the cheers program I have thought about it. I usually add up my drinks at the end and find that I would not have saved money. I usually get a free drink card at the casino a couple days in anyway so it wouldn't be worth it for me and my wife drinks but not that much maybe 6 a day. My question is however is the 15 drink limit mandatory? On a carnival cruise a while back I think on the magic we were partying with some people we met and they had the drink package. They reached 15 drinks each and they kept on buying drinks like regular after that. Is it a call that the bartender can make or is automatically halted now at 15 in the computer system? Does anyone know?

My wife and I will be on the Breeze on May 7th. I cant wait to see what the new surprise is and I cant wait to try Guys Pig and Anchor BBQ.