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Like I mentioned in a previous post Labadee is named after the Marquis de La Ba'die who was a French slave owner in the 1600's that settled to that region. In 1791 his descendants fought against Henri Christophe's slave uprising during the Haitian revolution.
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Doesn't really matter ... it's a silly made up name anyway. Just say "that sleazy Haitian stop".
It isn't made up. It isn't silly.
Ending was changed from "-die" to "-dee" so that English speaking people could pronounce it as closely as possible to the original way.
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Not uncommon in Europe at the beaches.
Not everyone has the same "rules" as the US.
Fortunately I have never seen that kind of behavior at the beaches in Europe and I live there :)
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Looks like we'll have RIck Sullivan on our mid-March Oasis cruise.
Unless he's already moved to Symphony.
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Some of us do care about how a local population pronounces their own cities/locations, yes.
I agree with you.
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You’re kidding...they ignored the history and culture of the area completely?!
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They didn't officially change it, it's official name is still the french one. The English version is used by Royal for marketing,press, signage,... and is also the one that is communicated to the passengers.
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For the second reported usage to become the norm, the spelling of the place name would have to be changed to L’Abadie! L’Acadie is pronounced as “Climb a tree” (I live in Montreal and am fluent in French).
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The name of the place is actually "Labadie", named after le marquis de la Badie. Royal changed it to Labadee so that it could be pronounced more easily by english speaking people. As a french speaker myself, I pronounce it the French way, I assume some of the crew do too, others use the english way.
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party!!!
She's gone past Miami and heading south ...
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^ that's going to be a real slow voyage to PE.
It will indeed :D Marine Traffic says she left at 2018-01-25 11:04 and is scheduled to arrive in port everglades on 2018-01-28 06:15 , so yes very very very slow ^^
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Looks like she's out of dry dock. She's just left Freeport
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No Mini-Bites on Symphony?
Nope, that's where El Loco will go. Oasis/Allure have Wipeout there, Harmony has Mini Bites and Symphony will have "El Loco"
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I like the food better at JRs for breakfast. Although, if I am in a hurry, then Wipeout it is. Will there be a Wipeout Cafe on the Symphony?
JC
No, it is being replaced by "El Loco Fresh". Royal describe it as "Fresh. Fast. Authentic. Satisfy your craving for fresh-made Mexican favorites — the craziest thing about it is just how good it is".
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I knew this thread existed and I was looking at my cruise planner and saw that the dreamworks breakfast was being offered, and wanted to set the record straight, and here you beat me to it.
JC
Strangely enough, it has now disappeared from the planner, people already booked for the breakfast are also reporting that RCI has cancelled their reservation. They must have changed their decision again. (They had confirmed that it was going to be there for 2018, don't know what they are playing at)
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why is there a character breakfast listed on symphony cruises?
Because they decided to keep Dreamworks for 2018 on Symphony.
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Is this an appropriate comment for a Cruise Critic host? Your words carry more weight now and there is no evidence of welds giving out either on this ship or or Harmony before it. I, personally, do not believe that this shipyard is up to the standards of either Turku or Meyer Werfft, but I also do not believe that the ships built at this shipyards are not seaworthy.
It was a joke, If you had followed some of the threads about Harmony you would have seen that some people complained about the welds.
Regarding les Chantiers de l'Atlantique, they are up to the very best standards. Since the first few sailings of Harmony I haven't heard anyone complaining about the build quality of the ship. If it wasn't up to the standards RCI wouldn't have signed with them in may 2016 a letter of intent for a 5th oasis class ship.
Turku has also had some issues with newly built ships, just look at the Freedom that had to have a damaged bearing changed on one of it's azipods in Hamburg before it's handover to RCI.
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Regarding passenger counts, Harmony can handle 6780 passengers at max capacity, Symphony will have a max of 6870 passengers so 90 more witch is insignificant.
All of the ports that Symphony will be going to have already had to deal with oasis class ships in the past, they will be used to the process and have it down to a T.
If you look at the tourist side of it, Oasis class ships constantly sail to ports in the Caribbean like St Martin (island population : 80 000),Nassau (274 000), Cozumel (100 000) those destinations are able to handle the huge amounts of cruisers without any problem.
Symphony will be sailing the med to destinations that have huge numbers of tourists even without the cruise industry, if you look at Barcelona (1 604 555) it has something like 75 000 hotel beds available, it can handle about 150 000 tourists a day , Symphony's 6870 passengers will be barely noticed.
Rome has a population of 2 876 000, again 6870 passengers will not make a difference. Just for the sake of it Marseille (1 831 000),Naples (975 000), Florence/Pisa (383 000/90 000).
I do appreciate and respect that you do not want to be in the same port as Symphony but even if you were it would not have an impact on your experience in the ports.
Her sisters were in the med for more or less the same period of time, Symphony will be there for just a bit longer due to her being finished 3 weeks ahead of scheduled. What's more RCI have already scheduled for the Oasis to be there in 2019 (May to November), if the ports were an issue I doubt that they would keep going back.
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It will have the same impact that it does in Caribbean ports maybe less as she will be docking in much bigger cities that are full of tourists anyway.Some ports in the Caribbean like St Martin can have 6 big ships at a time with a total passenger count that is much more than what it will be for Symphony in the med (even with other ships in port). Besides Oasis, Allure and Harmony have all sailed on the med itinerary before without any issues. Regarding the TA; it will hold up just fine, the Oasis of the seas went through a big storm with hurricane force winds when it transited from Turku,Finland to Port Everglades and she handled brilliantly. You can watch captain Bill Wright talking about it on this video
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Might be due to her scheduled dry dock this week
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At the moment it doesn't look that it will have any impact on the delivery date. Symphony was scheduled to have 2 sea trials, they will only have one now and try to "squeeze" everything into the February one .
They cancelled the trials due to the 80km/h winds that made it very risky to maneuver the ship in the very narrow St Nazaire channel. The winds are supposed to calm down by Tuesday but by then the tide will be to low to move Symphony, the next high tide is in a month, hence the one month delay ....
https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/symphony-seas-les-essais-mer-reportes-dun-mois
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Do you happen to know who will be the Symphony's captain for the first sailings out of Barcelona ?Will it be Rob Hempstead or Rick Sullivan ?
Thanks,
Andrew
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Sea trials have been postponed due to high winds according to this article https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/saint-nazaire-44600/saint-nazaire-sortie-en-mer-annulee-pour-le-symphony-5510909. They hope to get going tomorrow if weather permits it, they don't seem to sure about it though.
Celebrity edge's movement has also been canceled, this one is rescheduled for next week
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April 14th from Barcelona, before the official inaugaration:confused:?, whatever floats your boat.:D
Jazzman
April 14th will be one week after the inauguration ;)
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Interesting. Did they actually paint the floor of the ice rink? It's typically done differently (at least for land-locked rinks).
Might be for Laser Tag that will take place in studio B
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There doesn't seem to be a roll call set up for Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas sailing April 7, 2018. Help to set this up please.
What's the rudest or strangest thing you've seen recently on a Royal Caribbean ship?
in Royal Caribbean International
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I will narrow it down then : You do realise that there are also Spanish, Italian and French readers here ?
Can we please go back on topic now ?