mikedw

Great post. It is all relative.

I agree, living in Maryland, I get sick of seafood sometimes because I eat it all the time. I think I had the duck instead of the lobster on elegant night of my last cruise.

Unfortunately, no matter how well they clean the ship, all it takes is for one person to use the toilet and not wash his hands and have traces of fecal matter on them and the entire sickness spread all over again.

Or another way never to be called again is to join the Fully Informed Jurors Association and wear one of their tee shirts. Judges and prosecutors hate that organization because they teach people that they have a consitutional right to nulify any law they disagree with. Once they see that, you will never get called back.

As other have said, it shouldn't be a problem, or you could just do what over half the people did when I lived in Baltimore, they threw them out. The city had no resources to enforce them.

Having a wife that uses a scooter or wheelchair, this makes me upset. If this ship ever sails from a US port then there could possible be a big lawsuit, sinc the US government has said that if you sail out of the US, you must meet some ADA requirement.

That's just plain silly. Jewelers don't ask where you have purchased something when you take it to be appraised. Even if they would, you're under no obligation to tell.

I collect antique watches and when they been appraised or worked on, just about every watchmaker I've ever dealt with have asked me where I got them in casual conversation. I'm sure most Jewelers are the same and people like to talk.

My wife and I have bought a couple things from DI and have been happy, but I did read online once that if you buy jewelry on a cruise and then take it to a local jewelry store to be apraised, lie and tell them that you inherited it. Reason being, they get upset that you didn't buy from them and purposely lower the value of it.

My wife and I did a tour with one of Mr. Simmon's partner several years ago and it was great. Things were kind of iffy then, but I'm glad accessibility is improving.

We were just in St. Thomas on the July 2nd Carnival Dream sailing celebrating our 10 year anniversary. My wife bought me a Hamilton Viewmatic Automatic watch at the DI watch store there and they were absolutely great. I love both antique and new Hamilton Watches and I know a lot about them, unfortunately, very few jewelers in my area carry them. The sales people were great there. Then we went down the street to the regular DI store and my wife bought a ring with one regular surrounded by two canary diamonds. Yellow is her favorite color and it was the color of the brides maid dresses. We liked the deal we got and our happy with the merchandise.

We found the sales people in St. Thomas to be much more pleasureable to deal with and very low pressure. Will definately buy again at DI in St. Thomas.

I think on RCCL the Deck and Engineering Officers work 10 weeks on and 10 weeks off. On NCL I think it might be about 12 on and off. On all merchants ships even US Flagged ones the Deck and Engineering Officers work 4 hours on and 8 off, when they're not on watch they have other colateral duties to do so it's a pretty grueling schedule.

Some of the smaller cruise lines like American Cruise Line sometimes go to Alexandria. The now defunct Delta Queen Costal Cruises did. Some of the Tall Ships stop in DC sometimes. Anything larger then a cruiser or destroyer couldn't make it up that far.

I worked at a travel agency that did a lot of large groups. Most HS Reunion Cruises, Family Reunions, and wedding cruises always have a large percentage of people who say they want to go at the beginning, but when it comes time to put the money out, the actual group is very small. Did a HS reunion cruise earlier this year for a client and almost everyone took there kids and except for dinner together all did there own thing.

Personal opinion though, I graduate in 89 and we only had a 5 year reunion, I really only hung out with the people who I was still good friends with and I still see them on a regular basis. I think once you get older you really begin to have nothing in common with them anymore and I see no point in it.

That's a suite compared to what I had in the navy onboard a submarine:)

Michael

Hagerstown, MD

That's a suite compared to what I had in the navy onboard a submarine:)

Michael

Hagerstown, MD