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LOL, we were in Jamaica way back last century for our 20th anniversary. It seems there was a small departure tax. The woman in front of us in line said she had no money left, please make her stay. They did not. In fact they not only let her leave, they made her leave.

And those booking themselves rather than using a TA who would advise them of the problem.

LOL, I once was asked by a technician for the cable company after a visit NOT to give him a 10 if there was a followup phone survey. It seems 10s were sometimes read as a 1, and then the technician was in trouble. He was fine with a 9. (They now do 1-5.)

What if it is a service rooster?

That is not only on HAL as we had a naturalist in Alaska on Princess.

I believe TAs get these rates.

We have mostly done some form of anytime dining. We did however have 3 large tables with regular seating, two before lines established anytime and one after when the small Ocean Princess did not have it. On the first, one couple barely showed up and a woman with a fairly young child sometimes showed up, but usually late. So that was not a real experience where we could chat with others. I do remember the joy the youngster had when a cake was brought to the table for our anniversary and he got to eat some too. On the second table, we did bond with all the others and saw them throughout the cruise. On the Ocean Princess, our tablemates were a German girl and her mother, a couple from Washington DC on their first cruise, and a couple from Canada who were more experienced cruisers than us and had sailed on world cruises. The German girl basically giggled a lot, and her Mother spoke no English. The government bureaucrat from DC was a bit of a know it all despite being on his first cruise. (I don't remember his wife saying anything.) But we did hit it off with the Canadians who sat at our right. I do remember some good experiences with the people we sat with at anytime type dining. Once in fact, for some reason, the person next to me mentioned where he went to college and the year he graduated. I graduated from the same university one year earlier, so it was easy to find things to talk about.

Many of the days the Carnival stock went down were days the whole market went down a lot. Yesterday the market went up a whole lot 700+ points.

This is wonderful for you and everyone else who was in the same situation. All that stress about flights should now be mostly over. I say mostly, because air travel is still quite a mess.

Great news. Thank you for keeping everyone updated throughout this whole situation.

So, anytime anyone posts something you do not like, it must be a fabricated story?

And when in the past, I questioned whether someone could enter your cabin because of this wonderful feature that everyone touts, I was told that someone would really have to be planning on this to do this.

They blamed there was a constant smell of marijuana on Covid? LOL

Good that there was a solution; otherwise I think it would have been a problem.

Can you actually get their cabin number from the cruise line they are using, or is that information that is considered private? I'm not sure how you can get it from your friends without them wondering why you are asking.

And that is a FACT that many posters here seem to be totally ignoring.

Absolutely correct, and none of them with the same testing requirements as cruises.

And if you are flying in to your cruise, you very well may contact Covid at the airport, especially in long lines.

The person "skipping out" was both unconscious and had a credit card on file. The niece was not in any way legally responsible for her aunt's bill, something her credit card company agreed with when she contested the charge.

Also make sure you black out any customer # that identifies your account from your brokerage.

Perhaps, you could read the original thread that I posted the link to before you make comments like that.

But, can you imagine the opposite? What if this happened to a Polish person (or really a person of any other nationality) in the US? How do you think they would react to the bill from the emergency room?

If you read the original thread with this story, you will see the aunt did have a credit card that had been provided.

We had a cruise for 2020 that I cancelled before the cruise line (Princess) inevitably cancelled it. We not only got back our refundable deposit, but also the 3rd party insurance, but only because of a ruling by the NY State insurance commissioner. Our TA told me when I asked him that no other state has such a rule. Another time, almost 20 years ago, a river cruise from Amsterdam was chartered out from under us after final payment. We decided to fly to Amsterdam and book a hotel instead. The insurance was transferred, and because the cost was now less (we went for less days and obviously meals were no longer included), they not only transferred the policy, but gave us a small refund (which I had not expected.)

Not too cynical?