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Thank you.

I ordered a sandwich and Coke. My folio read: Stateroom Service $13.51 My understanding was the delivery fee is $7.95. Can you explain the difference?

I was denied using a voucher for a soda when ordering room service on Harmony.

As long as your "OK" to the overcooked steak was relative, I'll agree. Personally I've given up on Chops. I remember dinners in Crown Grill on Princess where you couldn't hold a conversation over the sizzle of steaks on the grill or see your dinner guests through the haze of smoke across the table. THOSE were delicious steaks grilled precisely to order! In Chops, I'm pretty sure the steaks are seared downstairs hours before service. I've been seated my very last two visits facing the show kitchen, and I watched the "cook" use tongs to place a pre-cooked steak on a half sheet pan, brush it with liquid and place it under the broiler to warm up. I could not observe anything red in the broil that would possibly be a heating element hot enough to cook a steak. YES, in the WJ Food Trough guest may pile on as much as they want. But there's plenty of inexpensive starches that dominate with very few high ticket items. UPD is the price you pay for the privilege of eating mostly decent food, albeit in smaller quantities. An how you open your post, with the YES's if funny.

From our friends at Wiki.... "Half and half" or "Half-and-half" is a mixture of milk and cream, which is often used in coffee and with breakfast cereals. In the United States, half and half is a common liquid product produced by dairy companies in premixed form. It was invented by William A. Boutwell of Boutwell Dairy in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, which distributed the blend regionally between 1927 and 1956.[16][17][18] In the United States, half-and-half must contain between 10.5 and 18 percent milkfat.[19] It is pasteurized or ultra-pasteurized, and may be homogenized.[19] ********************************************************************************************************************* As a heavy morning coffee drinker, I can tell you that there is a great difference in taste. Personally I do NOT enjoy coffee with half & half. My preference is skim milk, and most Café Promenades don't offer it. Thankfully I can get an individual serving carton somewhere onboard and bring it with me. I'm on Harmony now and I can report that they have half gallon jugs readily available that they use for the pitchers labeled cream.

I would NEVER call you nor your baby ugly... ... just your comments. I don't know you personally, however your words are received in a way that implies nothing was right and your cruise was an overwhelmingly unpleasant experience. You did touch on some issues that have been discussed here and that I am in agreement with you-- such as the housekeeping service cuts without a cut to the gratuity, even if it was small gesture of good will. While I am no cheerleader for Royal, to use your analogy, for some, you just called their baby HIDEOUS. It reminds me of the time a few years ago at a community breakfast table, sitting across from a woman and her husband. Two staff members had to come take her precise order for how she wanted her hot tea. Every comment she added to our conversation was some negative element about her cruise experiences, which were many. I happened to be walking behind the couple as we left the dining room and heard her punctuate the whole experience by stating: "Watch! The steward probably won't have cleaned our room yet." I really wanted to catch her attention: "Excuse me, can I just ask... WHY do you put yourself through the repeated dissatisfaction of cruising that I learned all about with your complaints for the past hour? Why not stay home?" I didn't. And she's probably living in her misery. As for your experience and dissatisfaction... I am not going to argue against it, because it has merit. I do believe we are approaching that "Tipping Point" were customers will revolt and find alternative vacation holidays as they realize there's better value elsewhere.

OP, I've read your post in its entirety. After I take a good hot shower to wash off all the BITTERNESS, I will book therapy sessions for the entire Royal Corporate Staff to help them overcome the suicidal tendencies they may possess from working as such a worthless cruise line. Then I'll send you cruise brochures for the other major lines, so you can work your magic there. Oh, and I'll include a copy of the bestseller "Fair & Balanced Reporting," since you seemed to have misplaced your copy.

So when this actually happens, please come back and tell us what you did and how it worked out.

I was young too, but still remember...."Attention K-Mart shoppers..." as they announced their "blue light special" which would only be available for a short period of time (say 15 minutes or so). In the USA we'd refer to them as a discount department store, and those specials drew customers with an urgency, since the sale price was over when the light went out. At their peak, they had close to 2,500 stores world wide while today there are only 9 left, of which 3 are in the USA. In their struggle to remain viable, they tried many things, but I don't remember them ever selling Royal Caribbean Cruises.

Well said! A few years ago my mother at 86 was adamant about renewing her passport; she wouldn't ever think of being without a valid passport.

But according to a number of studies, it won't benefit Royal's coffers. Read the studies as to why smokers are a deeper and more profitable gambler for the casino. Your analogy to restaurants and clubs is off and in no way compares to what happens in the casino. At a restaurant or club, many times there's now an outdoor patio to sit where smoking is permitted. Or smokers will walk outside during their visit to take a cigarette break. Casinos do NOT want their smokers to venture away from a machine for a cigarette break. Even more important is the trance inducing state that cigarette smoking (nicotine) helps create and maintain. Slots on there own are intended to do that for everyone, non-smokers included. But add nicotine, and the smoker generally spends a far greater time gambling. I will share that I am a non-smoker and a gambler.

I've visited the N/S mini casinos on two Oasis class ships that are located in the former Jazz on 4. They just don't have a good look and feel of a casino. Nice thought, but poor execution. Seems like a closet. I'm a N/S and HATE cigarette smoke, but I'd rather endure it in the big casino than play in the small, lifeless room.

I appreciate knowing this, as I would have never imagined. I'm still going to chance it and howl. Please don't turn me in!

That actually was a scene in a movie. It involved a phone that was connected to a bluetooth speaker on a table out by the pool, set at high volume for listening to music outside. Then when the boyfriend snuck out of bed while everyone was asleep, to "view" something on his phone privately in the bathroom, his phone reconnected to the blaringly loud bluetooth, waking everyone. The only "howling" will be from me, as I watch Newhart. Never watched it, and just discovered all seasons and episodes are available on APV. Thank you.

Here's a vote for NO-SHOW: Ten days out from the cruise, wouldn't a call to re-assign and move around result in a repricing of the cabins involved? Doesn't that get expensive? Do you have all the passengers linked and do they show up in your app so you can swipe and see all the boarding passes? If so, checking in as your group of three with all the passports in hand is a good smoke screen: they're focused on getting the people in front of them properly checked in, meaning health questions, picture, and passport scan. After that, it's MOVE ALONG. Lastly, "across the hall" or adjoining seems to be acceptable as the current volume of families with children is higher than the number of connecting rooms to accommodate. I'm pretty sure they've relaxed their policy because they LOVE the occupancy rates as high as 118% which results from triple and quad occ rooms. Let the sleeping dog rest. Hope it all works out!