tunafish

shower...

started at 6 month with our kids - no problem. I think club starts at 3yo, being potty trained is a must for pools (no swim diapers allowed) I think holland is great with kids as you do not have many on board and things are nice and quiet for the most part. For older kids you have to consider that HAL does not have many things for kids (slides, playgrounds and other junk)

Bechamel sauce is a part of regular lasagna recipe

PVSA no longer apply to alaska cruises as far as I know. Shoulder they allow you board in Alaska is a totally different subject. I really do not see why not if flight was cancelled.

yes, no clue here. But in reality I do not see how amount of OBC should correlate with the fare you pay. Even for regular priced 7 days cruise some sailings are $250 a person and some $900 a person for the same inside cabin. That OBC should be based on your stock only. I also do not know how they see what was paid on a given booking. Even comped cruises billed at full price with casino department then paying the difference. So theoretically it is full paid booking. I had the same inconsistency with kids sail free promos. Some were applied to casino fares and some were not. Why? Who knows why...

Just got stock OBC for casino comped cruise (well, third paying passenger plus taxes of course). FYI.

If you can not use service on the last day, why do charge for it? strange, right?

you dress for other people? I have been on 10-15 HAL cruises spanning 10 years now and NEVER seen any elegance in people dressing. I am sorry, but a dress shirt with folding creases across chest and abdomen area or a cheap suit jacket that is 20 years old and 2 sizes too big or too small looks like a Halloween costume. You can slap additional cultural situation like men wearing baseball hats while sitting and eating etc etc. I really do not know why even bother if not for yourself. This "dressing up" especially on carib cruises should be thing of the past (it is actually) and as long as you do not show up in a bathrobe and fuzzy slippers you should be good

Anyone can tell me where MSC usually docks in Cozumel. Trying to book a rental car. Thank you guys!

what was the price?

Nah... I really enjoy these posts: "who else should I tip?" "If you are not in a yacht club you might as well swim behind the boat". So much money could be made on human vanity. It is awesome

Bring coral shoes to their private island, lots of small rocks at the entrance of the beach. The rest is the same, if you sail in US most likely announcements will be in english and spanish. I do not remember more than 1-2 day, so I do not know what people are complaining about. If you book your bella or fantastica rates like majority of people you can disregard the multiple comments on these boards from the yacht club megasuite guys who had ruined cruises because captain did not visit their suite on day 2 at 10am and their butler ran out of tissue to wipe the tears while they were on the VIP line calling their personal TA. Sorry for the sarcasm... and yes, do not forget the shoes

And if they don't they just close the shop? C'mon guys

Just wanted to share some info on MSC casino offers. Just finished our first sailing on Divina and got a 30% off casino offer (you need 900 points to get it on board). Trying to apply this voucher for another sailing booking you are getting WAY less than 30% off. While it was clear to me that they would never discount port fees and taxes, the actual base rate has a portion that would not be part of the discount. We were planning a rather cheap sailing ($249pp) and $129 of this sum is out of discount. if you look at total price per cabin you overall discount is about 6%. Rep told me that the excluded part of base fare is different for all sailings and she could not disclose the percentage. It has to do with TA commission part of the price

We booked with TAP out of MIA via Lisabon to Italy for $400 a person. They even allow free layover in Lisbon to enjoy for couple of days and have flights to both Rome and Venice

go pro and canon without a doubt. unless you like to shoot your face talking

this is where shuttle bus from the cruise dock stops. just steps away

close enough to see everything and far enough not to feel anything. It is hard for me to tell you exactly as I do not know your level of comfort. We saw significant amount of calving during the stay here. I personally see how this trip could be simply majestic, but I also see why they do what they do there. You run on a very capable boat to the glacier, I wish they could bring you really close the ice wall to really hear the white thunder of breaking ice and your boat would rock through the wake from the ice hitting the water. I am not saying risking the ice fall on deck but we were FAR from the actual ice. Once you get to the glacier - there is a lot of ice in the water but I could clearly see how you can navigate through to come close if you wish to do so. For amount of money they charge for this trip... I wish it would be a bit more "adventurous". Do not get me wrong - you can see entire glacier, you just not utilize the true potential of a small boat. There is also two very small islands just before the entrance to the Tracy arm. They have ton of seals and sea lions with birds and eagles. They play they fish. Pure joy. Somehow we only made a short stop there on the way in and captain refused to stop back on the way out, what is extra 5-10 minutes out of the 7 hour trip? At the same time on the way back we slowed down to see some hatchery farm in the distance that was nothing more than couple of industrial buildings on the water. I guess these young guys on the boat lose concept that for some people this is once in a life time event and for them this is an everyday event. just another trip in the books. But regardless we enjoyed it a lot. It is just a majestic place where you can brush on the eternity

maybe on a chartered yacht with 10 passengers. I do not think any legal department would allow this activity. getting fish in quantities enough for several hundred passengers constantly can not be fulfilled by a local fishing boat or two. sysco corp is your answer here

it is pretty expensive, it is salmon, not bluefin tuna. I think $15 a pound is ok price. $20 a pound for a king

Every single place there is after the tourists money. Juneau pier facility is couple blocks long and you have 3-4 ships there at once. 8000-10000 pax ready to part with their $$$. You do not even need to try

we did it out of juneau earlier this month. It was a cool trip

whole reason working from home is a big BS.