NutsAboutGolf

Other than seeing traditional dining times in the daily, do you know for sure traditional dining happened on your sailing? Others have claimed despite being able to make traditional MDR reservations in the app, the reality was E-Class ships only had select/anytime Here's one random thread...

I see your sig that you appear to be going on the Beyond which is E-Class which does have multiple dining rooms which are all anytime. The E-Class has no traditional dining even if the app says it does. The S/M class doesn't have multiple dining rooms beyond one for traditional and one for anytime/"select"

Very suspicious, haven't they had loungers for decades? Wouldn't be surprised if its a cutback, "want a lounger? Book a suite!"

I believe they COULD restrict the amount but will overlook it the majority of the time. Also, you carry some bottles and put some more in checked porter luggage and it should get on A more interesting question, X has no limits on cans of N/A drinks, I wonder if a case of N/A wine cans could make it on?

You're allowed to carryon a couple of wine bottles, including non-alcoholic wines

If it's available, they'll leave a slip with the special in your stateroom. X offers free pressing for a few items for those with status so many X regulars don't pay attention to pressing specials

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The ship X-Ray should catch it and they'll call the ship's Armorer to "check-in" the dive knife

Anything can be used as a weapon, my neighbor is a flight attention, she was trained as a last resort/life or death situation to smash a liquor/wine bottle and use the jagged glass as a weapon that causes more damage than a small pocket knife There are reports from scuba divers that they are getting their dive knives on when they put it into a bag that goes to a porter, but not when carrying on. Usually, when divers bring on dive knives it's because they'll be diving when in port and will "check out" the knife while diving in port and back in when returning. Divers are supposed to self-report the dive knife to an employee who will call the ship's armorer but that reportedly can take over a half-hour

The ships only have a certain amount of extension cords on board, there's no backup plan if the paperwork gets lost/shuffled and they run out of cords. I would recommend putting a "backup" cord in your checked luggage, very good odds it'll get on the ship and worst case they take it and you get it back at the end of the cruise. Many have had success carrying on the CPAP with the extension cord in the case but I would still check it. If you ever do stateroom crawls, you may see all sorts of "banned" items, when asked how they got them on, they'll say they put it into their checked luggage. Often when you see the banned items desk at the end of the cruise, they tried to carry them on

Must be, he's one of the few YTers who does long videos exclusively about the stateroom. Most others do no more than a minute of the room and continue with a full ship tour

X small group tours = "Probably smaller groups than alternative tours"

I think the most accurate way to say this is "independent semi-private" tours

I saw that and the last app update was a week ago

That's Celebrity for ya...lol...But I'm overall happy that at least some with older phones can use the app

There's only a handful of non-suite staterooms with real balconies, they are under the room type of balcony and are port-hole rooms and the balcony is so shallow, you can only fit comfortably if the chair is at a 45 degree angle. On the other end of the spectrum, all suites do not have IVs

To stay on topic...How much do you tip the steak master class chef? With that out of the way... 🙃 Great looking steak and sear. I've been a big fan of hers and saw the video before, I just watched the conclusion as I didn't remember her cooking method. She does an old-school reverse sear, with an oven yet presents different temps/times relative to its thickness and sears each side for around 90 seconds but says to use your judgment. I haven't tried it but will; she doesn't pre-salt, I don't agree with that If you want a faster result, as I mentioned earlier, "Cold sear" putting a cold steak in a cold pan is all the rage as it comes close to SVing and is fairly fast requiring only a skillet. A test chef for ATK/CI claimed they developed the method, here's one of their videos, the cold sear method starts around 5:15 Also on ATK, I haven't seen this anywhere else (not say they were first) but you put 1/4" of oil in the skillet and you pick up the steaks for a second before putting it back to ensure the oil is getting into all the nooks and crannies. You're pan-frying it but the results are gorgeous crust

When they first reinstated it after the restart it was for one ship only, the reason I mention this is that I'm not sure if it's yet available on EVERY sailing. So if someone says "Yes, I used it last week!" it COULD be ship-specific. Perhaps someone who knows for sure will post

You do not need the internet to access your pass within the X app, you may get a popup that says "no connection" but doesn't stop you from accessing it. Was recently behind an elderly couple who didn't have phones, I thought this was going to be a 5min thing and looked to see if I could jump into the back of the line at either check-in person beside me but to my surprise, it only took the staff a few seconds to look them up and validate the info matched their passport

Trying to be helpful, what information are you specifically looking for when you ask if it's "similar"?

How's the cliche go, opinions are like noses, everyone has one! A certain ex-president orders his Peter Lugers steak extra well done with a side of ketchup; I've never been president, who am I to tell him to order his steak differently? I share why it's better or worse to do something a certain way. This is why when you sous vide a steak as you get a better taste that's difficult to accidentally overcook it

Come to think of it, once you pay the cover, you have 3 options, they cook it for you, you can cook it without assistance or you can cook it with crew assistance?

The $20 upgrade was on board at future cruises (for me, whenever I called the BCC, they had no idea what I was talking about when asked about the $20 upgrade)

There are very few datapoints out but one theory is that if you have a fully comped room, you can receive the OBC if you pay to upgrade your room type. There were a couple of people claiming they were able to receive the OBC back when you could pay the $20/night fee to upgrade to AQ