Nacho.Daddy

So would this be acceptable now? 😁

Call whoever you booked the cruise through and ask for them to change it (if available). So if you booked the cruise through Royal, call them. If you used a TA, call them. If not available, ask to be waitlisted. Last option is to ask as soon as you board the ship.

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Haha......didn't even notice that last sentence. I guess I got hung up on being able to help someone understand a little bit of the techie world that I never finished reading/comprehending the whole post. Still curious what kind of file format Royal uses though. There are some really weird ones out there.

The post you quoted (#28) is my only quote of that poster. There is nothing of mine earlier. As I correctly stated, a 1.9 GB JPEG file when be obscenely huge so I'm wondering if they used a BMP file format or some other format so I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Are they JPEG, BMP, or something else? In JPEG, 1.9 GB is a HUGE picture file!

A "bit" is a single item that can be a ZERO or a ONE. A byte, in conventional ASCII code consists of 8 bits to make a character (such as "a" which is 01100001 or "A" which is 01000001). That's the difference between a bit and a byte.

Since we have earned it, as you correctly put it, why can we not use what we have earned as we see fit. If I want to give away my 4 Diamond drinks every day, so be it, I've earned them. If I want to give my free pic away, since I've earned that pic, why not? No one is trying to beat the system. We are simply taking what we have earned and doing what we want with it.

On our last cruise we inadvertently had MTD (we normally select Early and I don't know how we ended up with MTD). I also saw that the earliest I could select under MTD was 1845 which is rather late for us so we requested on board to be changed to Early and it was approved.

Yes, pizza on MSC is definitely better than on Royal. Pizza on almost every cruise line is better than Royal's though, IMO. On Carnival I get the Quatro Formaggio (4 Cheese) which doesn't have sauce as such (garlic butter instead) and then ask for pepperoni added. It's FANTASTIC!!!

I sailed the Meraviglia back in January and enjoyed it very much.

Having sailed both, I disagree with the MSC/Carnival comparison. Especially as of late with the lower class of people sailing Carnival. One doesn't always have to fly either. I have a B2B on the Jewel out of Galveston for Mar/Apr 2025 and I'll be driving from Florida (picked this because I've never been to Galveston before). It's about a 14 hour drive so 2 easy days of driving. It's also much easier to see the country from ground level instead of 35,000 ft.

I have sailed several Oasis class ships and on the MSC Seashore (sister to the Seaside). IMO, an Oasis class ship will win hands down any time BUT, for a good price I enjoy sailing MSC. The food is a little more European (that seems to matter to some folks, I enjoy it as I lived in Europe for 13 years) but the service all around (MDR, buffet, bars, etc....) was top notch. I had wifi on the Meraviglia and had no problems at all. For a good price, if I were you I'd give MSC a shot so as to see how it compares to what your likes and dislikes are. IMO, it is not as good as an Oasis class ship but plenty good enough for the money spent.

Hand carried unless you want to go to the naughty room.