Itchy&Scratchy

we were in E322 and it looks like this when in port: They are usually elevated when in port, because the crew is working on them. When you are at sea, it looks better. If you are in a cabin positioned in the middle of the life boat, it looks like this: the top of the boat is even with the floor of your balcony.

I use the elbow for that. No additional hand needed, like it's needed to grip the card and take it out of the pocket.

one doesn't have to use room service in order to accumulate dirty dishes in their cabin.... And I am pretty sure that "a lot" doesn't mean 100%.

the older demographic never carries a plate and a drink back to the cabin for themselves or a significant other?

has nothing to do with laziness. As a mom, I carry a drink and a plate with lots of yummy goodness for my kiddo whose guilty pleasure while cruising is sleeping late and then eating breakfast on a balcony. I have no hands to spare to pull out a stupid card and touch it to the door/insert it. I don't want to put the food on the floor to do that either. Why? Why? Why would anyone think that this is not a useful feature?

yes, we do. 🙂

really? On my cruises it always listed all the names. I actually find it fun to look for the same names as ours (we have foreign names). We'll most likely never find the same last name (pretty unique), but first names are a wee bit more common. Well, mine is. On our last cruise we actually find somebody with my first name literally 3 doors down.

yes! we bought these for our latest cruise and loved them. However, if you have extra large wrists, you may find them a bit tight. I am fluffy with fluffy wrists, and while my DH has skinnier wrists than mine, he found them to be a bit tight. my DH's skinnier wrist: my fluffy wrist: On our first Medallion cruise we used these ones and also were fine with them:

imma scoff at this one, though. With the names visible at each cabin door, one doesn't have to walk past all the doors to see which one opens. Whether you have a the plastic card or a medallion, you can just look at the name on them, and go past all the doors looking for the names matching the ones on the card/medallion.

I, on the other hand, find it immensely useful to be able to find my DH, DS and my parents on a Princess ship. We are not always joined at the hip and don't always know where everyone is. Once my kid was able to find me on Enchanted when I was away from the family. There have been many times when I wished there was a similar device on RCI's Oasis class because I spent a lot of time trying to locate my family members. I also love how it opens my cabin door when I have my hands full of treats and drinks.

ours started cruising at almost 4 - out of diapers already, and actually large and mature enough to use a booster properly on short taxi rides. It's been a bliss ever since. 🙂

I'll let you know in April. We will still be under 50 on our first X cruise. I will be comparing our sailing to Princess and RCI... We love both Princess and RCI, but for different reasons. At the moment RCI prices are pretty high, and Princess doesn't have any ships we are interested in sailing at the times we can sail. P.S. I will be comparing the lowest, steerage class experiences without any packages or perks.

nope, didn't happen with me with ether RCI or X site.

we do it in ports of call as well.

country-style animals?

we liked it last year and I booked it for this November as well.

you keep splitting hairs. OP didn't show up for her cruise with her naturalization or citizenship certificate combined with her foreign birth certificate. She showed up with a foreign passport. Both my DH and I would rather cruise with a US passport. They are cheap and can be replaced in a jiffy. Not so much with our naturalization certificates which stay put in a safe. Even our kid who was born in the US cruises with his US passport. Nuff said.

not true for a naturalized US citizen. We cannot board a closed loop cruise with a foreign birth certificate.

that's exactly what she said. If you are a legal resident, you need to have your GC with you to travel with a non-US passport.

if OP is naturalized, a foreign birth certificate with a US license is not going to satisfy boarding requirements.

as we can see, neither the cruise line, nor I want to volunteer to check that process out. The cruise line requires you to have a proof of US citizenship with you to sail - so, we bring it. If you don't have US citizenship, then you need to have another type of permission to enter the US. We do not leave the US without our US passports.

yes, of course. Mine never liked the kid's menu offerings on any ships, and he is FAR from being an adventurous eater (but he loves veggies). The only thing he always gets which is considered a "kid's menu offering" is a fruit salad with every dinner. When he was younger, we had an agreement about food on cruises: he ate whatever he wanted for breakfast and lunch, but I ordered his dinner for him. I always got something reasonable for him that I knew he was going to eat. Now that he is 12, he orders for himself. He is still not an adventurous eater, though, but he is willing to get a bite of something off of our plate if it's not a food he knows he hates (he has some sensory sensitivities when it comes to food texture). He does love Sorrento pizza.

Foreign born US citizens need a US passport to come back to the US. ETA: I know I am slightly paranoid about forgetting to bring our US passports on a cruise with us, but I triple check my purse before leaving the house, then check again on the ride to the airport, at the airport, then again at the hotel. Yes, it is clearly an overkill, but at least I am not the one at the pier with a passport from another country.

it has to be.... We've been sailing with Princess for 10 years and never had a problem. I book all of our cruises on Princess website.

how would they know where you got it? You could have just purchased it from the bar down the deck. Since we are staying in a hotel across from Publix this time, we are planning on bringing 3 12-packs of soda with us - that's 1.5 cans pppd.