deltatraveler

Thank you for posting this information/ It is very hard to interpret what is on the internet. We will be cruising from Tokyo fro 14 nights including South Korea. We are spending 3 nights in Shanghai. After some research and speaking to friends I decided to apply for a visa. It was $142 CDN and is good till 6 months before our 10 year passports expire (8 years) for leisure entry only. I went to the VISA office and did it myself. The agencies wanted upwards of 300$. Am I correct to understand you can only obtain Chinese Currency n China?

Sorry Bill but we see things through our own experiences and sorry I got sucked into this thread. I don't know how that happened. I usually skip right over the chair hog whining threads. I've never been unable to find a chair on four different cruise lines and I've never seen a confrontation at the pool let alone over a chair. Arrogant? Far from it. Arrogance is touching other people's things and taking their chairs just because you want it. :rolleyes:

When looking for seat we usually go where it is quieter and off the beaten track so we have not had a problem. If we are in the pool area we a find that others always offer up, "these people have been gone for 2 hours." Then we approach a staff member and they look after it, remove the articles, intercept if the person comes back.. ...this has been on RC and Celebrity.

To say there is not an issue though is incorrect. We sailed Norwegian at Christmas and for this reason alone we will never sail them again. They have a policy in place of 30 minutes but none of the staff would step in. By 8:00 am every morning all seats had something on them, including cutlery. The fighting that would go on, we even witnessed a person throwing water on someone else. There were no seats anywhere-they could not accommodate a full ship. The absolute rudest thing we witnessed was a lady would come out every at sea morning at 8:00 am and hold 20 seats. The rest of her party did not show up till between 10:00 and 11:30. She would yell and scream if anyone came near the seats. She yelled at the attendants. Not really much of a holiday for her, I hope the rest of her party were buying her drinks. The sad part was think of all the people who could enjoyed those chairs for a couple of hours. We went back each day to the area to people watch, it was quite a show.

Remember to be kind, enjoy your much deserved holiday and get a staff member involved if there is an issue.

14 days till we sail away on The Liberty Of The Seas!!!!