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BigTeee

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  1. !sorry. I am not expert at this technology. I'll try to delete the duplicates? This website is hard to use. It seems to me that there is organized dancing or stretching every day @ 5:00 for an hour. Fine by me. First time HAL experience for me. My friends all did HAL before CCL bought HAL and it seems different now so trying to set my expectations.
  2. Please, was it strictly ballroom? (Waltz, foxtrot, tango, Rumba, swing?) Or just ridiculous nightclub swaying? People tell me that I'm going on Hospice of the Seas for the nearly dead..... I think that I found my answer on this YouTube video. At 5:00 some days is Ballroom Dancing hour, and other days some Tai Chi or stretching hour. That's about it. For the other 23 hours, I'll pack earplugs and books to read.
  3. I don't understand your tea debacle at all. And I am a tea lover. I never touch pre-made tea, so there's that..... "Coughing?" I don't understand. If I hear one cough on my July Rotterdam, I should demand a medical evacuation and refund. I have no patience with either norovirus or Covid or SARS or bird flu.
  4. Please, was it strictly ballroom? (Waltz, foxtrot, tango, Rumba, swing?) Or just ridiculous nightclub swaying? People tell me that I'm going on Hospice of the Seas for the nearly dead.....
  5. I got one and it's my first HAL booking
  6. Yeah, i just got a "paid upgrade" offer, 44 days in advance of my cruise. New terms for me. I carefully read that "paid" means that I am the one who has to pay. I have to pay more money to HAL to get a nicer cabin. Interesting but id rather spend my extra money in the casino.
  7. Yeah it's an upsell. Obviously the decision is made by its parent company CCL and its computer algorithm. I wonder if many empty cabins might sweeten the offer in a couple weeks. It's a gamble, either way.
  8. I booked a fifteen-day cruise on HAL. it's free, except for $300 taxes and port fees. Plus free cocktails. I'm solo. Now i get this upgrade offer to buy a balcony..
  9. Same here. I got emailed today for a cruise six weeks out. I'll wait. "Upgrade for select bookings from your Interior Stateroom to the following best available: Vista Suite for an additional $799pp USD/$1060pp Canadian Verandah Stateroom for an additional $449pp USD/$595pp Canadian Family Oceanview for an additional $199pp USD/$264pp Canadian Oceanview for an additional $149pp USD/$198pp Canadian
  10. I'm solo on a free casino offer and I just got emailed an upgrade offer that I have to pay some money for a better cabin.
  11. No. Terrible. My. MSC Opera trainer was excellent. With a good price. Carnival Legend only had some yoga classes that were very expensive, poor old equipment, and absolutely no personal trainers. Carnival was a disappointment.
  12. Yeah, there's a big Thomas Kinkaid auction on this cruise. Big popular appeal, I know. There was a Thomas Kinkaid store at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. I'd rather buy on land than at sea, myself. To each his own; beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think that Thomas Kinkaid and the Dali are the only artworks that merit serious consideration. That said, it's on Carnival and therefore presented as a big Hollywood TV game show accompanied by imaginary prices and various add-ons. Pure capitalism in action. I don't judge. You are buying what you like in a fun environment. But, none, not even the Dali prints, are however remotely close to investment grade. I stuck around for a week of free fun entertainment value; but I'm dropping out now for my second week of my two-week cruise.
  13. "No more free champagne! No more watching shills collude with sharp dressed Euro-model smarmy charmy auctioneers! No more free dollar store print of some flower painting!" I am in 2024, now, and this exactly is my experience. Very interesting experience; but, I shall not buy a Xeroxed print for my residence, no matter what French words for a color ink jet printer they use. (And its not champagne. It's cheap prosecco mixed with orange-colored sugar water.....)
  14. I agree that it will be in every tourist shop in Europe that caters to Americans. A corporate trained waitress should know and serve an Amercano to its mainly American clientele, and should be fired for not knowing. I annuaully have visited Europe since the 9980's I still believe that Starbucks cemented its popularity with Americans at home and abroad. I never have drunk it myself and none of my family nor friends drink it. I know the Starbucks version, and was trained by Starbucks on custmers orders for it, but I imagine a true standard version is debatable. Interesting read:https://drinksupercoffee.com/blog/nutrition/what-is-an-americano/
  15. So many helpful comments from fellow foodies who can afford to experience The Legend! Thanks! I'm proud to have joined the Cruise Critic Board!!
  16. I actually have baked beetroot cake, made from scratch with beets that I ground myself with my KitchenAid food grinder. The key is to not skimp on sugar. If I see the price of chocolate getting severely inflated as it's predicted, I may go back to baking beet cake and not chocolate cake. Anyway, I'm about to book Chef's Table on Carnival Legend Transatlantic Journey: $90. Which is about what a mid-range meal costs in a sit-down restaurant costs in the Washington DC metro region, including 11% taxes, excluding tip and valet parking (I refuse to get another street parking ticket from the traffic cops!)
  17. Funny. Michelin was to encourage car drivers to drive on Michelin tires to a roadhouse eatery! I guess all those car drivers driving out to the middle of the deep blue want a michelin rated experience? Anyway, Carnival still promotes itself as a "fun" experience. I might try this Chef's Table on my very first Carnival Cruise. I've eaten in the finest restaurants on five continents, and I also have a Mikky Deez app on my phone. I just love food. My only fear is that I be sharing a table with fellow passengers who think that anything that's not served with a bottle of ketchup and a tub of mayo will taste like dirt?
  18. "Asked for a Americano at breakfast. The server started to pour coffee out of a pitcher. I said I want a Americano. She said yes it is coffee. I said no it is espresso with hot water. She said that she never heard of that. " The only people who hear of that are Americans frequenting Starbucks. It is done no where else in the world. And I am an admitted coffee snob and have actuality worked at Starbucks. That said, for an Italian/(Swiss) cruise line, MSC's coffee is decidedly average. That was my experience on an MSC Dubai cruise.
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