HappyTexan44

I see a conflict, not with what happened to the OP but the attitude excusing it. On one hand you have the excuse of the poor dears are worried about their jobs. There is such competition for these jobs. They are supporting their families at home with these jobs. If they don't get enough 10's they will be fired ... Those statements weren't all made here, but that is the general attitude when people complain about the service. Then you have "Ships are understaffed" excuse for lowered service and them trying out a skimpy MDR menu. In the thread on that skimpy menu someone pointed out all the cruise employment ads they are seeing.

I was thinking that the last group numbers called would be sometime after we had to be out of the rooms.

Well, to be fair, in places like middle of Minnesota during the 70's cottage cheese as close as you could get. So, cottage cheese was in the family recipe.

So the line is longer at the end? Urg.

With the second room, you would have thought that they'd have noticed that you had two rooms tied together. Maybe they expected to have to have to switch both reservations for free, but were just hoping to get some extra money out of you. I am curious, when you subtract the extra airfare cost, how much are you saving by agreeing to completely change cruises? Because I assume that only your cabin is free.

I love it in my lasagna, well I use canned Alfredo because that is what I first tried. I was making lasagna for guests and I didn't have enough sauce. I looked in the pantry and the only jarred sauce was 'alfredo' sauce. I used that on the top layer because I figured it would be better than nothing. My lasagna is awesome, and even the jarred white sauce made it even better. Although to be fair, I've had some miserable 'lasagna' in Europe. The worst was in Munich. I love German food but after a couple of weeks I wanted a change. So I went to an 'Italian' restaurant and ordered the lasagna. It was the lasagna noodles with browned meat hunkels and meat gravy. No diary or tomato product. Not even layered. I asked a German co-worker about it. He said, "Well, it had lasagna noodles, so it was lasagna"

Voyager. We wouldn't want to be a problem so we'll get out of wherever by whenever time required. We'll have a ton of luggage (non-negotiable) so won't be using self-assist and we'll just have some small bags with us that day. I can totally see DH, for example, being happy to snooze in the sun between time to leave the room and time to leave the ship. Are they OK with you using the pool and/or lounge chairs that morning? Are places like the library/game room open that morning? Or do they want you to stay in an open dining location then? Although maybe the pool that morning would be a bad idea since we wouldn't be able to go back to the room to shower off the pool water. But then the ship pools are probably salt water. I wonder if the gym showers are open that morning?

So, you have to be out of your room by say 8:30am. You have to be off the ship sometime later say 10 am. We will have a car so don't need to leave the boat at any particular time. The rest of the family is late-starters, and might need to chill for a bit to fully wake up. I would also like to avoid the crush of people that need to get off ASAP. So where do people hang out on the ship after they leave the room but before they debark?

Wasn't there reports of Black Friday prices showing up different (higher) in the cart.

This level of detail is why this place is so helpful. Although, seems to me that if Liberty doesn't have the tech to scan the card, then it doesn't have the tech to require show reservations.

I notice the live report was from the app. I wonder if they haven't updated the app but they have changed the menu?

Royal might have. This might be about churning the tables faster so that they can fit in more MTD diners between early and late dining. I also don't buy that they can't hire enough people. They hire internationally. It isn't that people disappeared. If we let Royal get away with lesser_than, they will get the message that is sufficient for the customers and that will be the new normal.

That is so true. We vacationed in Southern California last summer, late June. We were wearing things like hoodies in the low-70's F (22C) weather. My husband still grumbles about how cold it was. It did make a way to chat with other tourists. We'd see people dressed like us and ask where they were from because we knew they weren't locals, and likely from the south.

I wonder if the President's Week crowd applies out of Galveston too? We booked Feb 19th, 2024 based purely on the cheap price. We can travel whenever. Texas has Spring Break vacations in March and April.

This system does seem to make it easier for the customer to prove that they hadn't ordered the drink(s). If there was a way to lock our accounts to something like this, I'd do it. I'm thinking of Disney World's Magic Bands and pins. You can charge stuff to your room using the magic band and you set up a PIN that has to be entered before stuff can be charged.

Well, if they are charging drinks to random people's accounts without a signed receipt, that effects everyone.

I gave up ordering omelets anywhere. It is a rare place that doesn't overcook the eggs.

Nope, originally MN but I didn't discover the real stuff until Texas. When I was a young adult my parents bought a Belgium Waffle maker. We tried "the good stuff" syrup to go with the bother of making the best batter. It became a tradition to invite people over for waffles the day after Christmas. They still put the pancake syrup on the table. I used to warn guests that once they tried the real syrup, they wouldn't be able to eat the fake stuff again. Eventually I think the pancake syrup was tossed because everyone that came was converted. Trader Joes has plastic bottles of real syrup. If I had to go somewhere cattle air, I'd use little travel bottles.

Well, it could be that all shorts are banned. But they don't all have the same formality level.

I don't know if I agree with "shorts are shorts" idea. You could extend that to "pants are pants" and that equates dress pants with PJ pants.

How do they know how many luggage tags to give you?

Talk to be about the maple syrup. Is it 'maple' syrup (note the quotes) that is really corn syrup flavored with maple. Or is it genuine maple syrup that comes from a tree. My favorite hotel breakfast is when you make your own belgium waffle (so it is fresh) and the real maple syrup I brought from home. Yes, I travel with a plastic bottle of maple syrup. I assume I'll want to pack that for the cruise, but if they have the real stuff I won't.

This thread could be subtitled, how to order an eggs benedict to maximize your chances of getting a really good one. I get why they would not want to toast the muffin. When I make it at home you want all the pieces to be done at the same time, and untoasted muffins are one less thing to worry about. But, I want my muffin toasted!

"During the 2 hours I ran around the basically empty ship and took photos of everything I thought would be interesting. " That is so me.

Oooh, that sounds good. I once had leftover lobster from eating at Del Frisco's. I made eggs benedict the next morning and used sliced leftover lobster instead of the canadian bacon. It was truly amazing. I can see a salmon eggs benedict being awesome too.