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You should try it…. Pretty tasty. I am from a long line of Germans, and while I like my ancestral food, if I had to give up all of my food tastes to a single culture, it might be Thai or Japanese. I could probably do Stir Fry and Sushi and get by if I had to. I would miss a good burger or a good steak, and bacon and tomato… o my. JC

Year over year…. You watch every single company traded on the stock market? Amazing.

Done the Hibachi on Allure? That would be one of those. You really need to get out more. When are you going to sail with us?

Most of the rafts have an enclosed top…. Feeling better now?🤣

I am going to agree with you Alfred picks Rear Window and North by Northwest, doesn’t get better than that as far as simple suspense movies goes. jc

$54 for two at Chops is way better than anything I have seen in my cruise planner on any of my upcoming cruises. I booked BOGO for D+ for Giovannis for $42. So, are you talking BOGO? JC

Ok, while rolloman used to be one of my favorite posters and has since become a curmudgeon, (I am well on my way too) it doesn’t change the fact that the 84$ a day they are giving you might cost them 10$ a day and $60 dollars actually costs $60… some people don’t drink so, do you think they wouldn’t prefer an actual discount or per diem over getting 6 free cokes? That actually cost about $1 total. I am pretty certain they are going to want their $60 to cover a massage or money for the slot machine.

12 years ago I spent close to a couple of weeks at Atlantis on Paradise Island with a couple of hundred guests of mine. Beer in 2012 from the refrigerator in your room was $6 for a local beer. It was $6 if they brought it to you at the pool, or while you were having lunch. Breakfast at the buffet was $40 a person, plus a 18% gratuity. Dinner was OMG. I can only imagine what things cost there now. If you can’t afford to cruise with any cruise line, don’t. They will miss you, but complaining about it don’t mean a thing. O, and dinner for the pile one night, buffet style with an open bar was about 30K. The food was average at best and some of the beer was cold.

Can you taste the difference in the duty free alcohol and the alcohol at your favorite restaurant bar? The fact that they are outside the local network is something that they should as a business exploit. The true question is why is duty free cheaper than what you can buy locally…. Answer the government who is taking their cut. I would like to buy like Royal if I had a bar, but I can’t because the government is stopping me. I don’t see Royal as the villain. I just see people who are exploited daily complaining about someone who isn’t.

Yeah, I agree, it is not about the free drinks, but I do like them, very much. It is about the FlowRider.🤣 If they didn’t have a FlowRider, I would be way less likely to book with them.

We all do what makes us happy. Glad you are. Awesome way to spend your golden years. 🤣

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I know this is a really stupid question, and yes I know there are no stupid questions, BUT, this one is. I am sailing on the Voyager B2B2B, shortly. I have a check in time for boarding on the first cruise the TA. I think I need to check in for the 2B2B, but I don’t think I care about anything else, aka check-in time. I don’t need to rush to do this. Am I wrong? jc

I am sorry😂

O I agree with you. I was referring to using words like complicit for a discussion on this topic.

I love when posters start sounding like someone on Dateline. Queue ominous music. 🤣

Almost, it is also about the imminent take over of Jamaica by the Haitian Navy using the personal watercraft after the battle of the beach cabanas. Got to keep this straight, although it is very confusing. 🤣 I just keep thinking if we could only have whirled peas. As it is I am thinking I just need to stay in the Airstream today, as it has been raining and blowing 40MPH outside most of the morning. Hopefully, I won’t drown when the Airstream gets washed off the beach at the OBX and I end up in the ocean. 😃

Lots of drama. Thanks for that!

So, we should visit Haiti never? You have gone on, but I am still waiting for the invasion of the zip line and the battle of the jet skis. I mean there was so much danger, think of all the Coca Cola left behind. If I was starving the battle of the mountain coaster would keep me alive for months. 😉

Success is so different for so many people. As I mentioned I have no idea when you start withdrawing, typically it starts off at age 73 currently at about 3 to 4%. At least that is what my investment guru is telling me. Since that is a few years off, we are still invested in the market with about 2/3 of our “nest egg” and the rest is currently a CD ladder earning north of 5% as it rolls thru 3,6,9 and 1 year amounts until it rolls over to whatever when they mature. Keeping it so, I have money without penalty for anything we need or want at the longest wait of 3 months. I don’t hang out in this one of the silliest threads to live this long in the history of CC, but way back when this started, I mentioned the random walk theory. I still believe it is a very good explanation of why “experts” don’t really exist when it comes to picking winning and losing individual stocks. Of course, if you are a politician say living in San Francisco, and you know beyond a doubt that the government is going to say spend a trillion dollars on something that is in the next omnibus bill to keep the government running it is likely that you truly are an expert and can have your husband invest in things that the government is going to spend said trillions on. Unfortunately, for the vast amount of citizens this is not an option. JC<——— is just an ordinary citizen with an ordinary wife (well she is actually extraordinary, just not in the way described about a hypothetical person in SF)😂

I just did a math guess of 3% required withdrawal, and rounded it up to the next million. We don’t know when the poster started withdrawing so 3%, 4%, 5% all are options. Maybe even 2%. I am not an expert on this, but yeah, you are probably correct. I, personally, can’t think why I would feel the need to share this information, but hey, it is all good. 🤣. Nothing scary out here on the internet. jc

Weren’t you worried about Haiti at a very high level? I am thinking your logic is a bit off. Port Au Prince is super scary. Labadee, not. Ocho Rios, Jamaica, pretty scary… anywhere outside of fenced in cruise line areas pretty scary. Falmouth, Jamaica not so much. I am sure that the thugs in Port Au Prince will be in control of the Haitian Navy and will conquer Jamaica this weekend. So much for March Madness.😂

Congrats on your 2 million in 401K…. Buying a million worth of RCL is a bad investment, buying 100 shares and cruising a lot… is a no-brainer. 95% of the people ( I am guessing but bet I am right) own more than 100 and less than 200 shares. If you cruise 4 to 5 times a year you could make gains of more than about any regular investment I know of. That said, buying a stock like RCL is not a real investment it is a fun activity that you enjoy. The Shareholder benefit while it is combinable is wonderful luxury. JC<——— spent a lot of time in gradual school in economics (no misspelling).

Not sure getting comatose drunk is getting even, but I do guess it is a start!🤣