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Thanks for taking time to put this together! I especially appreciate the food summary, and your East vs West thoughts. Those pretty much answered any questions I had bouncing around in my head.

Thank you for taking the time to write this Mr. Stealthdog! I’m debating booking either the eastern or western run in Feb/Mar. My last NCL cruise was in 1996 - I’ve been exclusively Celebrity and RC since then. You’ve just about convinced me to do it. You should get a $100 social media influencer credit or something. Enjoy the rest of your vacation, and I’ll be following along to ensure you do.

Thanks for the pictures! We were on Allure what feels like a long time ago (maybe 2018?) I remember being worried about crowds since it is so large. But we all had a great time. The kids chose it, and I would be ok going again without the kids.

If that is what you want, there is the Refreshment Package that is specialty coffee, soda, etc. Essentially non-alcoholic beverages. It’s on sale for my cruise right now for about $24 a day. I’m Elite on Celebrity so was Diamond on my October cruise. I used the 4 free daily drinks, and got coffee from the espresso machine in the Diamond/Crown lounge a couple times a day. That was good enough for me.

You must be pain free. Enjoying reading along!

This is great, it’s like I can ease off my vacation by following along with you this week. I thought that Peanut Butter Tropic was kind of weird. But certainly appreciated Yulia. I also got to know the guy working Blue Moon up on 14, and the woman working Imperial Lounge in the evenings quite well. I should have sent my kid back home to school and stayed on another week…

We were told the bags would go on the earlier flight. I forgot to put the battery in the air tag this morning so I can’t confirm though.

Off the ship this morning - have a great week! We did self assist this morning, when we were walking through the terminal they were just starting to put out the first groups of luggage. We hopped in a cab to the airport, and were sitting at Gate B8 at 8:20. Unfortunately didn’t get on the earlier flight as standby so we are here until 2pm. Just wanted to share our experience in case it is helpful.

I’ll be honest, I struggle to make it through the four diamond drinks per day so I am not that knowledgeable about whiskey/bourbon. Here’s the menu from Blue Moon on Deck 14. Which may just confirm that I don’t know much…

So obviously it isn’t like it was 25 years ago. Breakfast in Windjammer I have been heading to the omelet station in the back. Which is also conveniently located close to the bakery station with the cinnamon donuts. We have the late seating in main dining, which is at 8pm. It is me and my 16 year old son. Our wait staff is getting us through quickly, and we’ve been making the 9:15pm shows. This is our preference, they aren’t rushing us out or anything. Day 1 (Welcome Aboard) and Day 2 (Caribbean) were, as the kids would say, “meh”. I thought the Day 3 (French) and Day 5 (Italian) were good. We did Chops on Day 4 (Mexican?). That was also good but I would not pay the single going rate of $62pp or whatever it is now. Tonight is Royal Night menu. I think the food is just different now. Most of my cruising was pre-2015 on Celebrity. It’s like there aren’t many of what you would call “the old favorites” with these menus. So you gotta go in with that attitude I guess. I do appreciate that the portions are smaller - I am not leaving super-stuffed. But they have been more than happy to get us multiples of whatever we’ve asked for.

Enjoy! We will be walking off Adventure Saturday morning. This has been a great week, have been impressed by all of the crew we have met.

Thank you for taking the time to write this - I walk onto Adventure of the Seas on Oct 14, so it’s been a nice way to get a preview of what to expect. You know you’re a good writer when you can even make the harryfat -> harryfat1 story interesting. Maybe we will run into each other one day. I will just look for the man and woman taking pictures of each other from opposite sides of the ship.

Thank you for taking the time to write words and post pictures. When you showed the “fancy” luggage tags, I thought about how I make my own luggage tags by printing them out, encasing them in clear packing tape, and then attaching them to my luggage with zip ties. I spent some time wondering if that makes me more or less anal than you, and more or less cheap than you. I have no answers. I guess it doesn’t really matter anyway.

The problem with Covid testing is that a positive test does not guarantee that you are contagious, and a negative test does not guarantee that you are not contagious. We are chasing something here that is impossible.