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Then I’ll buy the lobster and you cook it for me!🤪 (and I also use butter in the cooking, usually a compound butter of some sort. But I don’t just dunk my beautiful lobster meat in a bowl of melted butter). 😛

I make an awesome Lobster risotto and lobster pasta and lobster roll on sour dough for the days after.

If you are in Boston, sure! I’ll set up my own shore excursion where I grill up lobsters and show you all how to eat them. And there will be no drawn butter! 🤪.

You eat the lobster meat as is. The flavor of lobster should be by itself. Come on, you’re from MA. Eat lobster meat as is, not drowned in butter. I’ll pick up 2 4 pound lobsters on Friday and grill them. Come over and I’ll show you how good they taste without butter. 😊

You do know that they didn’t “fly” the lobster anywhere if you were eating it in NB. It was probably in the water the same day your DW ate it!! And “flown” lobster is NOT the same.

Only amateurs have drawn butter on lobster. {sitting back, eating popcorn and waiting for the drama}

I assume that you are talking about one of the 7 day Caribbean cruises. Princess does tend to be a much quieter clientele. But it is college spring break so you may get some of those folks. But they usually aren't interested in Princess. The nightlife will have different events in different venues but none of them should be the over the top party type.

Great review! Brought me back to our New Years Eve cruise. Thank you!!

My tour guide is asking at which port we will be dock for our overnight in Copenhagen on Celebrity Apex. I guess there are two.

I haven’t booked an excursion through the cruise line in years. Always book private excursions and have never been concerned about missing the ship. Well, we were concerned once in Florence but the guide got us back to the ship exactly when he said he would and it was still in time. And I’m a control freak. These types of things are exactly what I would normally worry about. “On time is late” is my motto. But we know that well respected tour companies would go out of business if their guides missed departure times.

We book it just for the two of us (unless traveling with friends). Really get a personal experience.

What the poster means is if there are only 100 slots for the 11:00 boarding time and as a suite guest I pick 11:00, does that mean that there are only 99 slots left and therefore one less for a non suite guest. Because a suite guest doesn’t need a slot, does that take an opportunity away from non suite passengers. Does the computer magic know that I’m in a suite and not deduct from the count. I’m curious too. I’m bring 9 suite guests with me and don’t want to spoil it for others.

I will never do cruise sponsored excursion ever again. I’ve been using TBL almost exclusively for almost 10 years. Loved every single one except for maybe 2-3. Not sure what was “poorly informed” about the article.

I know people rent a car and go off on their own but I find that a tour guide provides you so much more information than just looking at a building. The amount of history and folklore and personal stories we were given for our visit to Sagrada Família for instance could never have been read in a book.

We haven’t booked a Celebrity excursion in years. We book exclusively with Tours by Locals. Every place we go, we go to their website first. We can also customize tours for what WE want to see. We set up 3 days of tours with the same guide in Amsterdam before getting on the Apex in June.

Whether it’s “worth it” is up to you and your bank account. But I get the question. We normally stay in Aqua class on non-revolutionized ships. But always in a Sky Suite for the revolutionized one. Just our own preference. To use, the experience isn’t as special and my husband likes Blu. So we follow that rule on cabin choice.

We have 6 cabins all together which makes it SO much easier! We will be opening the balcony doors so our meeting place is our one huge balcony.

Nothing optional about this body! 🤪😋😚

Actually I’m working on losing weight so I can wear some of my clothes again. It’s almost like shopping since it’s been a little while since I’ve fit in them. 🤪

Only the Mardi Gras 2025 cruise so far!

You are the cruise before ours. I’ve been trolling your roll call since ours is so quiet. We miss each other again!

Yes! I have scheduled some “free time” as well. 🤪 Definitely have not over planned the cruise itself. I have a loose schedule for where to eat lunch and which bar for cocktail hour but it’s just an informal guide. Something to help me hit every venue but it’s not a fixed schedule.

I’ve only sailed Princess and Celebrity but here is why I’m switching: You ask some for something as simple as a glass of water… Princess - “Yes” Celebrity - “Of course” A very simple difference but means everything in the service level.

You think the country is going to explode. I can still plan vacations

I’m going to be herding the cats for 7 days. Hopefully the retreat hosts will help me.