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Ipeeinthepools

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  1. I grew up in a similar situation. If you were eating the beans and Vienna sausages, you likely had Braunschweiger sandwiches for lunch. I can still do the pork and beans but I can't bring muself to go back to the Braunschweiger,
  2. The Asian stations always seem like a good idea but it always seems to bother me. Perhaps too much sodium or MSG
  3. We'll see, you may be correct. However based on your frequent references to Luminae, one difference between us is that we do not cruise in suites. I believe that the HAL suite experience may not be as good as others but it may be a different conclusion for non-suite guests. Their Pinnacle class ships look very nice but I'm not as interested in their other ships at this point. HAL does tend to offer longer itineraries while Celebrity seems to be on a path to offer shorter cruises. So we'll see, perhaps we'll follow you over to Viking. Who knows, perhaps Celebrity will change course and we'll be back for another try.
  4. Bye. We have 1 more cruise booked on Celebrity and it is a very unique itinerary so it is likely we'll keep the reservation. We will likely try HAL, maybe we'll see you there.
  5. Hopefully the situation in the OVC will improve before I get to the Edge in October.
  6. I really doubt that the amount of discarded food is major financial factor in this decision. Much of the food is recycled into other items the next day and probably recycled into the crew mess. I'll suggest the major factor is the staff to support the evening service in the OVC. They can either use the staff from the evening OVC to assist in other understaffed areas or they just reduce the number of crew.
  7. But it did move me to another tier. I thought you would be happy for me.
  8. And then people stop going to the cruise line and they shut it down. You can't cut your way to profitability.
  9. Hold on. I was good with the Pork and Beans until you added the kale. No way will I eat that stuff.
  10. I hope you make the cruise without any problems but I suggest that you get out the your insurance and see what you would need in order to file a claim.
  11. I think I'll bring a couple of cans of Spam to add to the Mac and cheese
  12. Does the Priority Banner allow you to show up whenever you desire?
  13. So with Club Orange can you just show up at anytime? Does your Boarding pass actually say Club orange?
  14. You're not alone, that's why you can't cut your way to profitability.
  15. It's a shame that this is the situation. Come on HAL, the pools should be one of the most desirable places on the ship.
  16. Let's see if my math is correct, if it is RCL has a much bigger problem than I thought. So based on this table RCL took on about $11 billion in additional debt from 2019 to the end of 2021. From a recent article on Cruisehive RCL has about 90,000 berths at double occupancy. "In total, Royal Caribbean’s fleet can welcome as many as 89,700 guests at a single time at double occupancy (nearly 113,000 when fully booked with all berths filled)." So let's assume RCL was going to pay off the debt in one year. If you divide $11B by 365 you get about $30 million per day. So this means that RCL would need to generate another $30 million in income every day of the year to pay down the debt to 2019 levels in one year. Let's say the extend the payment time to 10 years, then they would only need to generate an additional $3 million a day in 10 years Based on RCL's double occupancy berths of 90,000, this means that every passenger would need to pay an additional $33/day every day of the year to pay down the debt in 10 years, not accounting for interest. Also assumes that the ships are sailing at 100% capacity. Is everyone prepared to spend an additional $233 per week to pay off the Covid debt?
  17. What he said with the suite dining room on Pinnacle Class ships and priority tendering
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