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Hmm, I have 4.15.0. Don't see anything newer in MS Store (Android, I don't have Apple). And I have auto update enabled,

No, because they are all different. They all have different codes -- varying stateroom classes, varying amounts of free play, varying dates on which they are issued. You'd need to know the date you received it. Then someone could help you with sending a copy because usually the list of cruises/itineraries are the same on each date even though the actual perks for each individual may be different. Then you could just pick an itinerary and date that you liked and book it through your account on the HAL site because the casino incorporates the offer into your account. For example, if you picked a particular cruise and went to the HAL site you would see the free (or reduced fare) offer right on the booking. <---However, ONLY if you are actually logged in. Hope this helps.

I circumvent the lanyard-dissers quite simply. I use a retractable-reel one that clips to the waistband of my pants. My top covers it so it is not visible as I travel through the ship. Has a plastic pouch so I don't need to remove the key card to use it.

OMIGOSH, Lenda! Thought Steve was supposed to see a neurosurgeon this time! Is there any way that, once you get the MRI, you can see a physician? If it is NPH it is imperative to get the shunt sooner, not later, to forestall permanent (irreversible) damage. I pray that you don't have to go through what I suffered with my ex. Nurse practitioners are generally pretty good but I've heard it said that ARNP means Are Really Not (a) Physician.

I have had good results with FlightEase for international flights regarding fares. However, for domestic flights I can do equally good (or better) on my own. Are you using a HAL PCC, a travel agent, or booking on your own? If using a HAL PCC he/she can enlighten you about FlightEase. Don't know about a TA or arranging FlightEase on your own, as I always book it through my PCC.

Wish that I'd known that he was also an aero engineer when I met y'all. Would have made for fascinating discussions (but STUPEFYINGLY boring for non-engineers).Yes, F-111 was DEFINITELY done before CAD.

Love, LOVE CAD!!! I'm so old that I remember designing airplanes using the ancient ink-on-mylar method. Then in the '80s CAD came along! We were able to design faster PLUS we could plug the model of our part of the aircraft into the models of other design-groups mating parts and could see and remedy any interference before sending our production drawings out to the shop for fabrication. Love it so much that, even though I'm retired, I still keep an old copy of Boeing's CAD software on my own computer so I can just fool around with it and dream of new airplanes.

Thanks, already knew that. I had actually signed up and paid for 2-week parking at YVR before booking the Radisson. However, I was still going to drive up the day before for reasons that I had already stated. So an overnight booking at a hotel near YVR plus the parking came out to be about the same $$. Therefore I opted for the Radisson deal because it was less driving around. Just easier parking at same place I was staying. But thanks again for your suggestion. Anytime you locals suggest anything to help out-of-towners it is appreciated and potentially helpful.

What I'm doing is staying the night before the cruise at the Radisson on Cambie, using their 15-day parking rate. That's because I'm doing a B2B so I'll be on the ship two weeks. And I prefer driving up the day before rather than taking a chance on good traffic with no holdups anywhere on I-5 on the morning of the cruise. So it's working out best for me at just about $510 USD for the two weeks. Plus the Radisson is just a couple of steps from the Aberdeen SkyTrain (Canada Line route) station. In the past I've always taken the Amtrak Cascades for cruises departing from Vancouver but they won't have that train up and running 'til the end of the cruise season.

Seriously @semibeater? You didn't have to do the ArriveCAN (requires testing within one day of arrival) to get into Montreal? I'm asking because I have Can-US-Can-US-Can B2Bs coming up. See my post #10 on this thread.

At resumption of cruising last fall I was tested on three separate B2Bs in October, December and March. But that was HALs protocol at the time. Now apparently HALs protocol is not to test on B2Bs. However, the protocol of the country you may be visiting probably overrides that of the cruise line. I'm getting ready to do a B2B on Zuiderdam to Alaska, departing and returning to Vancouver. Because of the ArriveCAN requirements I expect that I'll have to be tested TWICE (and that's not counting the one I'll have to do for the border crossing prior to entering Canada): Once for the in-transit procedure and then again for disembarkation at cruise end in Vancouver.

Safe and pleasant voyages. Seeya on the Anniversary segment.

JMO, but the best part of visiting Alaska in September is that THE SALMON ARE RUNNING!!! Out at the Mendenhall Visitors Center they have a platform over Steep Creek where you can watch the bears fishing. In Sitka, if you walk through the beautiful forest (Sitka National Historical Park) there are bridges over the Indian River where you can also see them running and spawning.

Some more cruises, Jacqui: Zuiderdam - 17-Aug-22 - 7 day Alaska Inside Passage B2B with Zuiderdam - 24-Aug-22 - 7 day Alaska Inside Passage Then Koningsdam - 22-Dec-22 - 7 day Mexican Riviera B2B with Koningsdam - 29-Dec-22 - 9 day Mexico & Sea of Cortez Looking forward to pics of Shadow when she arrives. As always, thanks again for all you do (even in stressful times).

HAL used to have the 49-day "Atlantic Adventurer", departing from Fort Lauderdale, ALL AROUND the Med, then returning to Fort Lauderdale. Was a WONDERFUL itinerary. Can't imagine why it was discontinued -- think about 2017 or so.

I've messaged Guest Services twice in the last 7 years about that. They just send a boilerplate response, sort of "we're thinking about it". There are a few lines that do offer double loyalty points, forget which now, but I do know that Princess is one of them. And that's the weird thing! Princess is one of the lines under the CCL umbrella.

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Lenda @Quartzsite Cruiser, I'm able to really, REALLY empathize with you. My favorite ex (boyfriend for 30+ years, not husband) has NPH. However, he refused the shunt a few years ago. I visited with him last year and it just tore me up, remembering the guy he used to be. He has the classical triad of symptoms. I spent a week with him. But his caretaker told me that a day after I left he asked her when I was coming to visit. That's how bad the short-term memory loss is in the untreated cases. So I'm glad that you've opted for the shunt. It's the only hope that your DH has. There is NO OTHER way of treating it. Praying that it works for you.

Here in Snohomish County we're down to mail deliveries about 3X per week.

There are pictures of that very stateroom on halfacts.com, a TREASURE TROVE of info about all HAL ships.

Can"t celebrate National Ice Cream Day 😪. Didn't scoop neatly into a bowl, would just spoon it right out of the carton. Used to clean a pint in one sitting just watching a TV show. Had to join Ice Cream Anonymous and I've been clean and sober for 7 years now. And able to maintain my target weight -- even on a dam ship.

Sorry, don't mean to hijack this thread but just a quick question for @SilvertoGold: I was on Kdam in March and April. Was the PG hostess named Anastasia? You don't have to answer if you don't want to (or if you didn't note her name). I had to write my first-ever nastygram to Guest Relations about problems with her. Yeah, first nastygram in 12 years of sailing on HAL, but she was that intolerable. Back onto thread: Next month will be my first cruise on Zuiderdam so I will be following this thread with great interest.

And I was on one of them with you, Sue. On Eurodam with dear Captain Scott (now retired).

Ditto on what others have posted. Three post COVID cruises already and always just waved through the vacc/test station at FLL and SAN. I found the VeriFLY app very easy to use -- unlike ArriveCAN, which is a real kluge. Dreading the boarding procedure for next month's cruise out of Vancouver. Vancouver was always a pain for boarding and in-transit procedures, even pre-pandemic.

Not soon enough for me, although I've ALWAYS taken the Cascades pre-COVID. For my August cruise gonna cost me about $500 to stay for a night at the Richmond Radisson or Holiday Inn Express and park my car for the two weeks 😬. And that's not even including the cost of gas in the car for the 220-mile round trip. Even if I choose just the Canada Place parking (without an overnight stay) it's about $500. So why don't I just fly? Not even taking into consideration the hassle of YVR arrival/departure, cost me $200+ round-trip for Lyft or shuttle to Sea-Tac from Snohomish County.