TiogaCruiser

Just wondering- being this is a bit of a side topic- For those boarding in San Diego, typically can you get off the ship after dropping luggage to go to Filipi’s?* We’re leaving from San Diego in December and MIGHT Amtrak instead of driving. We’d prefer not taking luggage, and normally carry on our own luggage… including cameras and other valuables we would not check through. (* For the individual who normally starts his replies with “Frequently discussed here”, it’s really okay to ask because things change, and Search doesn’t always work well.😉) Now back to our normal programming, and thank you to Bill and Mary Ann.

I was going to say the same thing

That chocolate tulip is reminiscent of the Chocolate Delight HAL used to make.

Unfortunately that is all the resolution I can get with a screen shot from my app. Trying here to use the download feature on my iPad. This is what is currently posted as lunch. pinnaclegrill_lunch_navi.pdf This is what is currently posted as dinner on Zaandam. pinnaclegrill_dinner_alaska_navi_1_.pdf

This is what is posted on Navigator for December 7 Zaandam. Note no burger and the lunch full price is listed as $19

Thanks for posting that. I just went in and was able to buy internet for our upcoming cruise. I had tried this morning but the website couldn’t find any bookings for us. (Navigator app could…. So I guess they must have been working on it this morning and had temporarily disconnected the database???) What appears to still be a work in progress is showing dining- DH and I are booked into the Canaletto but it only shows me…. 🫤 I paid for 2, but I’m not eating alone🤔. ( I guess that’s a step forward from August when the website would only show space for 1 person at our preferred dining time. I bought it and then had a chat with the Canaletto manager when we got onboard. He had seen that and was stumped and was going to follow up with me…. There are no dedicated single tables in Canaletto - a single would get a 2-top.)

Not noise, but smoke filled the air going up the center stairs on Volendam. We got so we used the aft stairs to get to our deck 6 cabin instead of the closer amidship stairs. We just booked Zaandam on deck 6 and DH asked for an aft cabin just for that reason. And he gets motion sickness.

Yes, the Santiago Sheraton, booked with HAL. Our plane landed around 6:30a (Santiago time). I met the HAL reps, paid reciprocity (it was in effect then), went through C&I and then we waited on the bus until all ~14 had arrived. Then to the hotel- where we were told that the rooms would be ready around 3-4 Santiago time. Adding- there was no arrival breakfast (at least I was not offered any). (LAN had actually fed us a very nice breakfast before we landed.). HAL did have a desk and rep at the hotel. I was offered luggage check in and a place around the pool if I wanted. (The garden is lovely.) Again- this was 2013.

When I did the HAL package my room was NOT ready and I was told to expect it around 3-4pm. It turned out that I was able to get a room around noon- if I accepted a smoking room. So my wait was about 3 1/2 hours.

When I practiced yoga I used books until I got blocks. Now those blocks go on my reformer to allow it to fit me better.

Just off Volendam on September 1 (NE) and there was a beach towel in our cabin

If worse comes to worst could you use the beach towel HAL provides?

I don’t have a direct answer for you. But I have a travel mat from Amazon ( which I see isn’t available now.) I’m sure there are others still available. I more recently got a travel towel that I use for the same purpose (along with use as a beach towel). Not sure if something like them might be useful for you. https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Yoga-Microfiber-Mat-Towel/dp/B014N5HKVO?pd_rd_w=6f9EI&content-id=amzn1.sym.8316a2b5-cd70-46ae-8cd3-b6d53778915d&pf_rd_p=8316a2b5-cd70-46ae-8cd3-b6d53778915d&pf_rd_r=3CESXZEB63EQ8PBR7GK8&pd_rd_wg=k8gFk&pd_rd_r=8eba577c-48ba-405f-ac1e-c18f63a7f58e&pd_rd_i=B014N5HKVO&psc=1&ref_=pd_basp_m_rpt_ba_s_1_sc From Walmart

My contribution is old: 2013, so things may have changed. I did what you are planning, but stayed only one night. There were excursions offered through HAL at the hotel. One went to a winery (Concha y Toro), another around the city and one did the city and a park. There was a HO-HO bus that many took which stopped by the hotel, and a mall within walking distance.

Pesto bismol has a similar off-label use that’s fairly common. Another thing to run by your HCP. ( I used that protocol in South America on a land based tour.) https://www.health.harvard.edu/a_to_z/travelers-diarrhea-a-to-z

Perhaps it’s along the lines of what happened to a neighbor. They took off on one of their first long RV trips, some 10-12 weeks. The last thing one did was use the (downstairs*) bathroom. They came back to a non functional toilet and had to have the sewer line dug up (in the garage) to fix it. The solid material from that last flush only moved the material so far- and with lack of water periodically washing over it from daily life it dried out and created the blockage. There was no clean out near the plug. Several thousand dollars later and a deep hole and installation of a new cleanout, he said he had not realized how similar house plumbing is to RV plumbing- (except for the sloshing around the matter get in an RV holding tank.) * I’m not so sure downstairs has as much to do with the creation of the problem as it does with being the first to get the back up.

But being you are so displeased with HAL, (an even left HAL a couple of times) Norwegian would probably be a better choice.

So it’s either worthless OR Priceless.

I was kind of thinking on these lines also. Last month we noticed that the section lobbed off of the old Explorers Lounge (I think they kept the name) had become another game room. It’s not that big and not that conducive to tables and upholstered comfort furniture. (But it sure was a good place to put the mah jhong sets and keep the racket out of the library.)

Hmmm. The apparent options on starboard are the space where the classical musicians perform (formerly LCS), the room they carved off of the Explorers Lounge (which I believe they still call by that name) and the Kings Room). Neither are that big. Any idea what they plan for the vacated space? Kn my recent experience Explorations (library) was packed most of the time.

Any idea as to where the library is to be relocated?

I’m glad to see private companies willing to exercise their prerogative to provide/sponsor opportunities for religious observances. And I’m sorry to see HAL has chosen to no longer have priests. And by the way- non-Catholic here.

Good morning all, Today is our 1 week anniversary of disembarkation.😫 We’re unpacked, the house is clean again and I’m missing our Room Stewards and can’t find the chef. Locally we made it to 109 yesterday and there was apparently a minor fire (saw the wispy dark smoke scattering) from the ridge north of us that got taken care of quickly. Today we’re going for 110. There are areas in the LA basin that are expected to be worse. Have a great day everyone!

Actually quite a bit of the south end of Chile and Argentina are pretty remote.

Thanks for including us, again!