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If you were eligible for the Loyalty OBC that began at $25 with 21 cruise credits & up to $100 with 50 cruise credits that has been eliminated.

And I believe those are at the beginning of each hundred number series of cabins…100, 200, etc.

😂 He’s one of my favorite sitcom characters 😂 I only had a 3 high interior bunk bed cabin but had a great unobstructed view while hooking up aircraft to the starboard cat. 😉

Mahalo…I was able to view the video of what does appear to be a C-17 landing at NAS North Island. I spent a couple of days there for flight deck & below deck firefighting training…quite an eye opener about fighting shipboard fires. You should have had a good view of my first cruise ship. ☺️

Winemaker’s Dinner is only available on Royal-class ships in their Wine Cellar located in the midship dining rooms.

From interior to minisuites they have a stainless steel ice bucket…never been in a suite.

Here are photos of Discovery’s minibar::

New Apple iOS update:

Read the numbers of viewers which wasn’t good at 2.4 million in the US. Although that was much better than the Australian version of the show…278,000.

In advance I purchase their 12 pack of half liter bottles of water that's delivered to our cabin...$7.08 includes tip. Currently that's more expensive than a share of CCL stock...yikes!

As I recall the most recent Royal-class ships do not have the tea tower adjacent to the International Café.

Once it is issued it can also be viewed by going to the Cruise Personalizer, select the Payments button and at the bottom under Credits the MOBC is displayed there. When checking cruise prices mine is also automatically shown in the online pricing summary.

I learned something new from the executive producer about the duties of a real captain, CD & bartender. 🙄 “We didn’t want actors, we wanted people that really did this for a living,” Bienstock says. “A real ship’s captain, real bartender, a real cruise director. And just like the original series, these people, besides doing their day jobs, their roles are to find singles and bring them together in the hopes of a match.”

That is likely the free version in the dining room.

Was that after resuming cruising in summer 2021? We sailed three cruises on Royal-class ships (Enchanted & Discovery) since cruising resumed and none of them had the Winemakers Dinner. The reasons given were a lack of sufficient wine inventory and staffing. Prior to the pause we greatly enjoyed it on each of our Royal-class ships cruises.

Princess management is who dreams up such things & in her webinars the Princess VP of Sales is ecstatic about this cheesy program. She believes that it’ll increase cruising as much as the original Love Boat program. She described it as a combination of the Amazing Race, Survivor & Love Island which left CBS for NBC’s Peacock network. In the Love Boat series love was mostly depicted with humor by actors but the new version is people not truly seeking love but their 15 minutes of fame in another scripted reality show. I’ll occasionally watch the original camp version of the Love Boat on the free Pluto TV network and not this trashy Real Love Boat version.

From the Princess Passage Contract & enforcement may vary. Guests are also prohibited from bringing water, sodas and other non-alcoholic beverages on board that are packaged in bottles. A small quantity of non-alcoholic beverages (i.e., sparkling water, sodas, juice, milk) packaged in cans or cartons may be brought on board on embarkation day, only if carried on in Guests’ hand luggage (not in checked luggage). A small quantity is considered a maximum of 12 sealed, unopened cans/cartons of 12 ounces each or less per person. Guests will be asked to discard open beverages in plastic containers prior to boarding. All checked and carry-on luggage will be scanned and any prohibited items, including alcoholic/nonalcoholic beverages will be removed, confiscated, and discarded. If Your luggage is locked, the lock may be removed by security or, alternatively, the luggage will be held by security until You can be present for an inspection and any items in question further identified and/or surrendered.