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The ground staff deal with checked luggage. Not carry ons.

Flight Attendants are not measuring bags when you come on to a plane. They're watching to make sure bags end up in an overhead compartment quickly, smoothly, without agitating other passengers. Once they go through with final cross check and close all the overhead bin doors, that will be the end of that discussion.

This is the 3rd biggest reason I cruise.

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Give it time. A few weeks after you get home they’ll stretch back out. Never fails.

Put more bluntly: DON’T use a surge protector. Ship’s electrical systems cannot handle a sudden disruption in power flow because of how they are wired, and how surge protectors are manufacture to work. Your home electricity has power coming through one side of the recepticle, and then it returns via a neutral wire. The surge protector only disrupts the flow of the live side. On a ship, there is current traveling through both sides of a plug. And when one side is disrupted while the other continues to deliver a charge, there is a risk of not only a fire, but a fire anywhere in the ship where the wiring also travels besides just your stateroom. Think of a baby’s cradle on another deck being exposed to fire because you tried to sneak a surge protector through. Power strips without surge protection are fine. Power strips with surge protection are banned. If anyone brings one on board, the rest of the ship should HOPE it gets found and confiscated.

Yeah. If it was pouring outside on an excursion and someone offered me one I would graciously accept. As soon as it stopped raining I would slip it into the nearest plastic recycling bin.

It's a fact that's easily proved. Only a person who has never tasted coffee beans roasted within days of brewing would not understand the dramatic, and unignorable difference. Someone who has, recognizes this fact instantly.

You couldn't choose a quality coffee and stick to an exclusive brand, since all exclusive brands are inferior. The only way to serve the hightest quality bean is to get a purveyer to bring it to the ship at every port, just like how the chef does when he's looking for the highest quality salmon. He waits until he's in port in Juneau. Every port has a local roaster. That's where the good coffee is. Anything that's sealed in a can or sitting on warehouse shelves for weeks before you buy it is garbage.

I was never a fan of franchise coffees. There isn't a lick of difference between those and a bag of 8 O'clock at the corner grocery. But if that's all that's available in a person's community I could see why they might refer to it with superlatives.

I bring a French Press and brew my own coffee with locally roasted single source beans. But you go with that. See you on the Sky in June of 24.

Remember when you were in high school. And you would have crossed the Great Dust Bowl in a 1965 station wagon with no oil cap if it meant you were going to get to see the ocean in California? Never lose your sense of adventure. All anyone can ever tell you is what happened in a single one hour snapshot of their life and no one else's.

Well, if that's the case probably best to stay out of all urban areas and just live in the woods.

Well you could avoid it by getting a flip phone and covering all the camera lenses and microphones on your TVs and computers with black tape. But I agree with your sentiment.