BecciBoo

Well some have told me you just have to look at spending your limit as purchasing another cruise...nothing is really free except if you win an amount like you did or if you end up with $90 more than you came with, but that doesn't get you free cruises, you have to count all the $$ you put in. And we only cruise 2 times a year and I "may" elect to put $100 or more into a bandit fully realizing I will most likely lose it all, so how can I accumulate enough points? For us it may not be worth it except for the fun. It was really fun! So just count it as entertainment right. We'd have to invest a lot more money and cruise more to really get enough for the offers, right?

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But how much money have you gambled away to get those cruises???

But now give us the figure you spent to get the $90! It all sounds good until you do the win/spend figure, the break even figure....so you put in the machine maybe $500 maybe more just to get $90 back and some points? It doesn't make sense to those of us who have to sacrifice the cruise fund and then play for 3 hrs and lose every penny........like me.....😥 Show me the extrapolation of what cruises you "won" with fares compared with all the money you've gambled..then we'll see. I've looked at all the material/pamphlets etc and the real money is just not worth it to lose outa my pocket. I sure had fun though at the magic drums bandit. But I only earned 79 pts or something and it disappeared along with my initial $250 in the machine at the end of March.

The water onboard is tested every day.

If you believe "swim diapers" keep stuff from getting into water, I have a bridge you might be interested in!

And I sure hope they don't.............

Yes they have Skier...I know of one personally, well incidentally anyways. On Grand Princess sailing out of the Galveston port as it was just getting dark going into the Gulf, my best friend and her 2 daughters witnessed a rescue of a couple who were completely nude when they hauled them in, they were unharmed she said but many witnessed this...obvious what happened.😲 I found a news item, it was 2007: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/couple-doing-the-wild-thing-on-balcony-of-cruise-ship-fall-overboard-and-wait-4-hours-for-rescue.15270/ Hey it was mentioned on Cruise Critic too:

We did a 3 day and 4 day B2B to get ours back in the day.

I think they should have kept this one for adults only along with the swim up bar AND the Hideaway. There are still plenty of pools for kids and this would keep them in their area in Surfside. I'm going to write to my contact at Corporate and suggest this right now. This was my pet peeve on Carnival Jubilee. There were two infinite edge pools on the back but we never stuck our toes in because of screaming, splashing kids in it. They were even in the two lap hot tubs which is supposed to be for swimming in place, but no such luck with kids in them all the time. The only place we didn't see them much was in their own play pool areas...HA! It won't keep us off Icon though, I love the ship and our cruise is not until September...ain't scared o'no kids, I can stare down the toughest kid. Don't even have to say..."GET OUT!", think the liquid mercury cop in Terminator LOL. But will have to find a better price or win a bunch of money in casino! 😍

Dang, I wished. For the first time ever, I had $250 to play with last month and I lost every cent, but happily played the 3 Happy Drums game for almost 3 hrs, but alas, never got the big bonus I was hoping for. How do you guys do it? I planned to move around to other machines as instructed, but I kept advancing so I stuck it out...did I do wrong?

Wow I'm grabbing one of those Songs the minute we get on board! YUM

Ours is an accessible interior, we paid $2823 all in. Including travel policy and grats. Cruise Fare 1627.00 1627.00 0.00 0.00 3254.00 Extra Sav NRD 30% Savings NRD Vacation Protection Plan Gratuities Taxes, fees, and port expenses -25.00 -579.00 99.00 Total 2822.76 Promotions Applied If pricing stays what it is now, we won't be doing Icon class again.

That is an excellent price on Icon in any event! Almost as low as our interior we booked on the first day of booking!

That's our plan Stan.

Our remaining child has already served 13 yrs, seems like she recruited yesterday!, My Grandson, other dd's has been in 6 yrs already, both have performed well and garnered their share of honors so will retire with some bucks and then who knows, both sides of our family all military, Navy, Army Special Forces and my hubs Air Force. I can think of no better place to be than the service for any kid.

Katie and her siblings came out from under our porch to eat some kibble I gave them and the first outa my mouth was "I gotta get me that cat". She was the only Siamese fathered kitten and she was gorgeous. We trapped her and she has been the best most affectionate cat I've ever had. But she does stare at you like..."OK, where's the meat" first sighting.mov

That's the problem, Common courtesy is rare these days!

I really don't notice a lot of it, but cutting in front of me, I just cannot dismiss, it seems more deliberate than most offenses.

We only have Katie our feral cat and she just mostly sits and looks at us like "Who are you and I'm waiting for my Sheba!" She's a love too just kidding.

That and dogs sit and look raptly and longingly at you and don't interrupt you. 🐕‍🦺

That floating island looks yummy good.

These days, everywhere, rudeness, self absorption and bad manners are routine...shameful.

Whoa, that is like a red cape to a bull where I'm concerned. I have confronted several line/que cutters in my day, like a said before, won't tolerate it. I would have trotted right around her and said "excuse me this place was already taken". This is the thing, these creeps expect YOU and I to just roll over after WE have followed edicate and the rules. If I take my important time to be considerate, why shouldn't they. 😡