cruisingguy007

Three in some cases, no late night lido buffet to grab a hotdog/hamburger fries and other greasy eats. Total cluster. Hopefully that's one of the first things that returns. It's sorely needed.

Yeah, show the same documents required for a cruise already. Brilliant. But it's helping to "stop the spread of covid" in some peoples eyes, same with the 30 second documents required to cruise with Verifly. 🙄

You'll have plenty of time, heck, you can go on an excursion, return to the ship and shyt, shower, shave, get dressed and head back out with many hours left. PV is one of the longest port days and the ship doesn't even sail away until well after dark. Should be GTG. Have a great trip!

It seems more complicated than it is, the easy way to keep track of it is to look on your phone, the Hub app will always display ship time on top. It's really not that complicated, the time forward and back happen late at night and it's easy to check the top of the app if you are ever unsure and/or before exiting the ship in port.

Sorry, disagree, it is nonsense and redundant. Takes all of 30 seconds to show passport, vax card and negative test printout.

This! Tired of all the whining about masks, utensils, covid and mandates being needed. Put your dang mask on if you want, no one is stopping anyone from doing that, the pontificating about what everyone else needs to do and the group think is irritating. Not everyone is in the same risk categories, protect yourself or simply don't cruise. It's fine the way it is, everyone gets to decide for themselves and you can have a regular cruise vacation or a modified cruise vacation (masks, avoiding others, staying in cabin etc) as one sees fit. Personal choice is awesome and the reason the lines are seeing fuller ships again. No one wants to go back to ghost ships and half empty ships that will bankrupt the lines, pressing on is the way forward for the industry.

Sounds like another reason to avoid cruising to/through Canada until all the covid testing nonsense ends. They should have just kept it like it was and allowed the exception to continue without stopping in Canada. All these different travel rules are ridiculous, inconsistent and redundant (USA include) for international travel. Same with that Verifly nonsense, no way I'm giving my personal information to a third party app that is a direct/metadata collection point. People need to wake up and start getting paid for selling their information instead of giving it away for free. This data collection is what makes these companies valuable, much like watching TV commercials, they should be paying us for our time/data instead of the other way around and/or making money off our data without kicking back some.

Could work but experienced cruisers may unplug their phones, I only plug mine in to call for room service, then it gets pulled out slightly to disconnect.

You'll be fine, cruise casual is fine, though I'd avoid super casual.

The server in the MDR was right, the dress code doesn't change for each restaurant, it's whatever it is for the ship that day and cruise casual is fine, only on "dress up" night do they want pants and it includes the other optional restaurants as well. It may just be the totality of dress, if he had a nice shirt and shoes I really couldn't see them denying him seating, jean shorts and tshirt with dirty tennis shoes may garner a different response than a nice collard button down, dressy shorts and stylish shoes.

Wow, they didn't tell me this. I would have promptly left and told them where they could shove their dress code. They gave me a window seat even. I'll bet they are glad they did too, seeing as how we tipped very heavy there, pretty much gave them all the 50% wine discounts in cash and a nice tip on top of that. That would have been their costly mistake.

Nope, wore my standard issue uniform, chino shorts and a button down shirt and Sperry gold cup ASVs.

Fortunately I have my awesome kids, unfortunately, my little guy is well under 12 so it will be quite a while until we will be "allowed" in. 😞

It's maddening to be sure. I just tossed on some headphones and pumped the volume up to drown it out during the day/evening and ran a noise maker app at night to get some sleep. Inside cabins are definitely much quieter, you only get the occasional hallway slammer neighbor, not a surround sound slam session from all angles. If I didn't have the noise app I wouldn't have gotten much sleep. I was quite done with it at the end of 7 days lol. I'm not sure how it didn't bug the slammers themselves? Didn't ruin my cruise but was annoying as heck.

Did you do a review? Didn't see one posted by you, I'd be interested to read about your experience.

Too close IMO. The problem with LA is traffic, you just never know what you can face, it can be great or a disaster. Even if you got off as early as possible, you'd still be on a tight schedule. It may be possible if you have priority debarkation but I'd push it back until 1ish if it were me. That, or have a backup flight/plan. If everything goes right, sure, you can make it probably by 11ish. There are just too many variables to contend with (late return, wind/rough seas, propulsion issues, problematic debarkation situations, medical or other emergencies, traffic etc) We're on in Jan again too! Maybe I'll see you onboard. Have a great cruise!

Bottom for the win! Though, I'd simply eat that one first and then the other one lol. Like wine, always the better first.

Yes on the escargot, and the prime rib fantastic in the MDR. Tender and cooked to perfection.

This! Well said! Concur 100%. Seems to be a "how low can you go" theme going on. I'm as pro-cruising as can be but there are limits that I would find unacceptable to be sure. It's gotten a bit ridiculous with the excuses to be perfectly honest.

Is that a computer monitor? Where is the TV? 😁

Didn't see it when we cruised last month, I was looking for it too. Didn't stop me from eating at the places I wanted but I''m always down to save some coin. Probably just another casualty of covid losses needing to be made up from somewhere. I will say, most of the specialty dining locations were packed still so I doubt they really needed to offer it, people went anyway.

Last cruise the neighbors had small kids who would go in/out of the cabin to the balcony over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again, and over and over again. Well, you get the picture. Letting the balcony door slam each time. I close mine quietly, twas quite irritating indeed.

Did you happen to see a group causing trouble during your cruise? I've heard some grumblings of a boom-box bumping group that was causing havoc all week and a report of a couple who was supposedly jumped by this same group at the end of the cruise and required hospitalization. The Mrs. finds a lot of this stuff on bookface but I can't always be sure it's accurate and/or not not exaggerated. I'm trying to sneak a cruise in this summer with just me and the kids and all these drama stories aren't helping lol.

Summer won't help, extreme heat hurts the economy, costing billions in production losses. The only good news is that it's an election year so come fall, any/all efforts will be made to entice/incentivise voters; that may generate a little bit of relief, temporarily anyways. If covid throws a huge breaking ball, all bets are off though.

Felt the exact same way, kinda bitter about it lol. Of all the days to miss, the one that would actually save money. 🤬