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So, too, with Princess' app. That's the *one* thing I miss an O app for. Hoping our butler can get that info for us. Interesting oddity about the Princess' app: Once you booked a specialty, that menu replaced the MDR menu in the app for that night.

Vista is scheduled back to Terminal 'J' on the 27th. However, *occasionally* Terminal 'J' ships do get redirected to the north side of Dodge Island when the pilot boards a few hours before docking. So keep an eye out tomorrow morning and on the 27th. If that happens on the 27th and you need to get back to the Terminal 'J' parking lot, let someone (butler? purser?) know you're a B2B and need transportation. See aboard for your 2nd half! 😎

Yep. Gustavia harbor is *tiny*.

"You do you" ...as long as it isn't fashionably torn jeans. 👍

Nor when the price of lobster or fuel oil rises. Other lines are required to refund port fees because they keep them as separate line items so the "fare" they advertise can be lower. O does not. (Yeah, we aren't mentioning O's "2 for 1" nonsense 😉 )

I like your luck. Mine says 2 out of 17.

Yup. ...and "photo op" just added one more thing to the list of things that could cause an 11am arrival and a rebooking. The folks didn't deserve RCI causing them to miss flights, but those folks can look in the mirror for the root cause of their problem. Did Silver Nova have the nous to put on something like an extravaganza buffet to "celebrate the meeting of ::yada, yada, yada:: at sea" while folks were looking at their watches waiting for debarkation?

Looking forward to Vista a week from Saturday. Going to try "butler". (Got my briefing letter done. Thank you @Sthrngary for the idea) (Won't have a tub, so Herself won't be able to drop "I had our butler draw me a bath" into any conversations 😞 )

My 2¢: • Delaying disembarkation for a photo op is bad optics. • Scheduling flights so tight that an 11am arrival will make you miss them is rolling the dice anyway -- fog, whales, mariner in distress, man overboard, ...

• "The only silly question is the one that isn't asked." • You'll have a butler. Ask him about the actual turnaround time on that cruise. • You're welcome. (In both senses) PS: O defines "a bag" as 20 items.

::ponders:: I wonder if O's "no rebates" rule is enforced more strictly than it's "only 6 bottles of alcohol can be brought aboard"? @ORV Your post came up as I was proofing mine. "Great minds run in similar tracks -- lesser minds call them "ruts" 😉

Sorry I didn't get to you in time. 😉

My 2¢: • Eisenhower had a specific, military, rationale behind the "National System of Interstate and DEFENSE Highways" -- remember he was a 5-star general. • Population density greatly affects the "roads vs rail" equation: if you look at only the US East the answer is "rail", and if you look only at the US West the answer is "road". But, with the Interstates in place for military reasons, the US national answer is "roads".

::ponders:: Did you consider the nuclear option? File a low-sodium medical dietary request?

Good point, *but* (and what is the cliché? "When someone says 'but', nothing before that counts?" 😉) sometimes you fall into a loss leader or some other special case, so the cruise line employee will have the best deal for you. Case in point, when we had zero O cruises but were unhappy with post-COVID Princess, I called O direct trying to decipher O's published pricing on a cruise. The in-house rep cut us a deal that no TA could come close to (we checked around, and no they couldn't). The in-house rep apparently had loss leader authority to try and hook us on O -- and he surely did. To use another cliché, "Embrace the power of 'and' ": Try to get pricing from O direct *and* TAs -- note the plural.

Watchstanding officers all have been day sleepers on the receiving end of banging doors and hence well aware of the issue.

Norwegian politicians are --ahem-- discussing what ships will be allowed into what fjords and as of when. Current indications are that from 2025 not even LNG-fueled cruise ships will be allowed into the "world heritage" fjords. 😢

Yes.

Did some more google-fu and found a beautiful drone shot of that forward area on Vista's deck 7. Unlike Riviera, it is not a simple weather deck, but most of it is covered by a windowless structure that screams "crew only".

One facet about the walk-in vs facing cabinets: The back wall of what would otherwise be a walk-in is where the door for adjoining cabins goes. Too much like Get Smart if it's in the back of a walk-in,no? 😉

Looking at a photo of that area on Vista's sister ship Riviera, it is outside and looks to be non-skid decking (crew) rather than teak-planked (passenger). Add to that, none of the YouTube ship tours show it. Not sure what it's for, though. Anchoring and dock lines are handled one deck below.

I haven't been on Vista, but generally (always?) if an area is blank white on the deck plans, it's crew-only.

That would make it on a Saturday? O's website is notorious for having garbage data on weekends -- their IT folks are updating the live servers. (Yeah, bad technique, but they do)

Likely. And I suspect they would if they had a HAL-sized fleet. Remember, they'd have already sold the 4 'R'-class ships if it wouldn't have left them a 2 ship line, so it's a matter of more options than ships and which areas will sell out at the highest profit.

That's what a port agent is for, so... No.