markeb

No. I assume you’ll be at dinner at talking to the sommelier anyway and this will involve a negligible amount of time. And that you’re not doing this to tag on billable hours. And you can probably do it in the app, on your TV, or heaven help, the phone. You don’t need a PMP to do this.

OK. Project management: Option A: 1 Step. Variable time that could take 30 minutes or more, not including travel to GR desk Option B: 1 Step. Mostly fixed time of 30 seconds or less. No travel from dinner table. Not in the mood to draw out a path analysis or any similar tool. Just ask the sommelier!

Why would you want to stand in line at Guest Relations? The sommelier will do it for you during dinner. You're asking to take the more difficult and time consuming option. Have you ever done this? Or anything like it?

I seem to remember a story of people being turned away from the MDR dressed like that. Cruising to and from Bermuda…

James Dean died in 1955. That's 67 years. He and Marlon Brando, among others, moved them from work clothes in the 1950s. If anything, jeans have lost the "rebel" value since everyone wears them. People who need work clothes wear Carhartt or similar, although they've become semi-designer wear as well.

Just curious because I can't keep track of where ships are cruising. Were the Retreat lounges with self service alcohol on US departures? Or were they from a non-US port? The airport and hotel lounges are my best analogy. In the US, there's pretty much always a bar and a bartender. If you go to a Marriott lounge outside the US, or a United Club/Lufthansa Club in Europe, there's pretty much always self-service alcohol. Beer, wine, sometimes full mixers. It's a pretty striking difference.