TravelinGert

So happy I came across this thread!

So I have probably half a dozen very nice dresses worn once or maybe twice by my daughters. These would be very slim sizes, probably between a size 4 and a size 7 US. I don't know if anyone is interested in dresses that small, but here goes. I have a picture of one of the dresses:

I would estimate my daughter was a size 5 at the time of the picture. The gown has a lace-up back and may fit up to size 7 depending on how endowed you are. The dress comes with a matching wrap. I'd be thrilled if anyone is interested in this gown.

In addition, there is another long dress in about this same size. The dress is a darker cream and looks like a 1920's style dress with a little collar. My daughter picked it because it was just like the girl in some movie set in the 1920's wore. If anyone is also interested in this dress, just let me know and I will grab a picture.

Please email me at MRestil@mail.com if interested.

Amazing act I really enjoyed watching. I'm not sure I want to be on a cruise with an incendiary device, but I'm sure he has many other wonderful acts I would love to see. :rolleyes:

Just in case RCCL missed it, I sent their employment office an email back at the time I first spotted the the story. You never know. If the right person hears about it, they might get in touch with him. :)

This information is purely second hand, as I have never personally suffered motion sickness. My daughter has always had a lot of problems with it, to the point she disliked swings as a child because the motion made her ill.

She said driving in their van in a windy cross breeze was more troubling to her than the big cruise ship last year. She says the pressure bracelets do help as long as they are applied before she feels ill. She does not think sucking ginger candy has ever helped her. She did think having a nightly ginger ale and staying outside as much as possible during the day helped on the ship. She has recommended I take one of those reusable cold packs and keep it in the refrigerator to place on the back of my neck. She said having one that wrapped and fastened around her neck allowed her to sleep comfortably.

With all the great info in this thread it really boils down to a math question in my opinion. Can you drink enough of the drinks you want to drink during the week to exceed the cost across the week?

 

Of course if you do not drink one day then you have to drink double the next day just to keep pace. :)

 

Personally, I think a single package for $35 a day would be:

 

1. More attractive and cause more people to buy it

 

2. Cause people to drink more normally as they would not be as concerned with getting their money's worth

 

3. Net RCI more profit. They are buying wholesale and in large quantity which means their cost per drink is very low.

 

Any fence sitters automatically buy at $35 a day ??? (still having to buy all days of course)

My understanding is the drinks pricing is as follows:

$6.50 a day for a soda package. No water or juice included. No idea what juice costs, but I did see one place it was reportedly more than the per soda charge. Tea, ice water, and lemonade free for everyone.

$12 on average for a glass of wine.

$7 average for a cocktail and $10 average for a frozen drink.

I would jump at the chance of a drink pack including soda and juice by day, and drinks at night for $35 a day. I don't even care if the juice isn't freshly squeezed. I can say for certain if the drink package prices go up, I won't be buying any. Please don't misunderstand. I don't blame them for charging a price that will make money for them.

We probably haven't spent $300 for alcoholic drinks over the last 3 years. We split a $30 bottle of wine with friends over dinner maybe 4x per year. We are still making pina coladas from the large commercial bar bottle of rum we received as a gift 8 years ago. My spouse would split a seam if I spent $300 on alcohol on a 7 night cruise.

I think I could drink enough on the cruise to justify $45 a day for all-you-can-drink. I'd love to find out. :rolleyes: I'd like mimosas or a Bloody Mary with breakfast, a Tom Collins with a salad for lunch, a drink in the afternoon with a relaxing snack, and a cocktail before a late dinner served with wine. Perhaps if it is chilly, a tasty hot beverage after dinner out on the romantic deck. My spouse, not so much. Three pina coladas in one day would be quite excessive for him, and I can't see him doing that more than once on a cruise.

This is a brother of a friend story, for whatever that is worth. According to a friend when his brother went on a cruise including a stop in Canada, they asked him, "Have you been convicted of any crime?" to which he honestly replied he'd had a misdemeanor conviction. They didn't ask him for what, just said it would cost him $200 USD for a temporary permit.

According to TripAdvisor's blurb regarding DUI misdemeanor convictions in the US, it is within the purvey of the customs agent to allow a person convicted of any US misdemeanor a temporary permit for exceptional circumstances or compassionate grounds for $200. I am guessing that's what they gave him. I imagine it depends on the agent and also on why / where you're getting off the boat. Friend's brother had booked a package tour through the cruise line which didn't involve any sort of drinking. Not that that may have mattered. Apparently he specifically never said DUI as it wasn't asked.

I'd assume if you called the cruise company and asked, they'd tell you more. It seems highly likely it would just come down to you might not be allowed to leave the boat at any stops in Canada.

Booked for the Quantum of the Seas inaugural transatlantic sailing 11/2/2014. Our first cruise and we are so excited! Thinking we will fly into London, maybe take the Eurostar to Paris for a few days. Then again, an overnight Irish Ferry over to Ireland looks interesting as well. Decisions, Decisions. So far, all we have for certain is spending our pre-cruise night at our favorite hotel in London, then taking a tour to the cruise dock in Southampton by way of Stonehenge. Well, that and we want to go to the theater while in London. Hubby is picking the show, so he feels all special and cool. :cool: haha!:D

Why not just raise prices and pay the staff decent wages instead of relying on all the prepaid gratuities that most pay any way?

 

I know many, myself included usually adds a little to that any way for those that go above and beyond... Which would now be true tips, not what's now basically expected for doing their job.

Ya know there's something to be said for this. I don't really like the idea of employers in any venue being allowed to pay less in expectation the employee will be tipped. I've worked for tips, and sooner or later the employee always gets the fuzzy end of the lolly.

Back when I worked for tips in college not everyone tipped. Regardless of whether or not each customer tipped, it was reported we received 15% tips on the total sales we'd made for the night. It was possible to end up owing more than we were paid in wages from the company to the tax man.