Stellanor

Our hotel is one of those that looks amazing in the lobby and then you get off the elevator and the hallway smells like cat food.

I snorted.

On the same sailing! See you soon!

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I usually amuse myself with a phone or tablet while I eat (for example, watch a television episode with a small Bluetooth headset), but I don't want to bother people by using a lighted "device" during their fine dining experience. Sometimes I get around this by having dinner in Le Bistro and asking them to put me on the far right wall/corner, and then I sit with my back to the wall.

Introvert here. This strategy will actually work very well in the MDR as well. I have this nagging fear of not having something solid behind me during meals. You can ask to be seated against a wall, and it will be no problem for them, just might have to wait a minute. It's a little tougher in the big MDR on the megaships (Tropicana, etc.) since the ratio of open space to wall space is so much greater.

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We just got off of the Escape yesterday. When we were in Nassau our ship was right next to a Carnival ship. As we were slowly getting to the dock, a wild and crazy naked woman on the Carnival was in here cabin putting on a full nude show for all to see.

Computer monitor, meet spit.

Gosh..that anime is making me fat just thinking about food.

You beat me to it!

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Holly,

 

Here is the photo of the "seagull" incident.

 

 

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God bless you, and god bless this thread!

OP here...wow, did not expect such a great response...and i second the chocolate lava cake if they still have it...i think i will stick with cagney's for steak...

 

a big shout out to "all ready2cruise" for making the above list for MDR...really awesome!

 

I think I will do something similar if i have enough input.

Hopefully the lava cake and the chocolate volcano are still the same thing. If you see either, think of us!

Hoo boy, can you. Man, I'm loving all these threads about food! You can pretty much order as many of each as you want, and they can go as replacements for others. Want an appetizer and two desserts? Absolutely. Want three appetizers and three different wines to go with all three? Can do. Want three entrees? Right this way.

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I've also heard tell that the grouper sandwich served at lunch is not too shabby. I sail this coming weekend. For the good of the herd, I'll try it and report back. [emoji4]

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Probably the guy that would pee off of his balcony, every morning when we would be drinking our coffee. We would call security, they would come up and talk to him, he would apologize and then it would happen the next day.

 

One of the kids thought I should video it and show it to security and I said no thank you.

 

 

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I think we may have a winner...

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Oh god, could it be? A thread in which to discuss the most heavenly thing I've ever eaten? Also not a dinner dish, but it was gone from the menus after our last cruise, and I tell you, all joking aside, that it's absence contributed to my lack of interest in booking again for a while. That's how good it is. Ready?

The chocolate lava cake in the MDRs is the most delicious thing I've had on any sailing to date, and I'm not even that big of a chocolate lover. Last time on the Epic, I got it every night, and once I even got two and skipped the entrée. I was so happy they brought it back.

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I'm the same. I wondered about this too, and thought that they probably would be fine with it - folks take curling irons and the like. These are very much the same. However, I will be bringing my hot water bottle (the pink bladder white screw top stopper kind) next week. I figured they couldn't possibly take that away.

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Well, since you don't seem to know the difference between roll and yaw (your first sentence uses them interchangeably, while your last sentence says roll was fine, I would tend to discount your ideas about ship design as well. Height to beam ratio may have an effect on rolling, but metacentric height is the only real measure of a ship's stability (tendency to roll, and speed of rolling), and without knowing the position of the center of gravity of any two ships, looking at their beam from astern means zero. Now, if your complaint is about yawing (a side to side linear motion, not a revolving of the decks around a center point), this has absolutely nothing to do with beam. This "azipod shimmy" is common to all ships equipped with podded propulsion, and is caused by using the propeller to steer with. The propeller creates a flow of water under the flat hull above the pods, and this will be in the direction the pod is facing. Sea conditions will cause the autopilot to swing the pods back and forth from straight ahead in order to maintain course, and the resulting swing of water flow across the hull above the pods causes the shimmy. This condition is exacerbated by certain weather conditions, in particular following seas. Probably the ultimate example of this shimmy, and the ability of the ship to maintain heading in following seas is the Queen Mary 2, which had to go back into drydock after trials to get a longitudinal "skeg" built between the azipods to improve directional stability.

chengkp75, I think I'm in love!

I'm loving this thread to death. I don't have a story to top those already posted, but here goes:

Our last sailing on the Epic, we were upgraded during check-in to a nice balcony on deck 14, very close to the aft staircases. This was amazing except for one thing. We would go to sleep peacefully and happily only to be woken up around midnight each night by a very drunk woman who refused to take the elevators to her room. She was so inebriated that she was literally on her hands and knees crawling up the stairs, cocktail dress splayed, a couple of equally inebriated companions loudly cheering her on. She would scream at the top of her lungs about how drunk she was and how she couldn't make it to her room. I and several neighbors near the staircase popped our heads out of our rooms to take in the spectacle the first night. The troupe was so unapologetic as to become belligerent when Guest Services was called and quickly responded to the scene. By the second night, they had decided that they weren't going to let anyone tell them how sober they needed to be in order to walk up the stairs, and it got fairly entertaining watching them argue for their right to drunkenly crawl on their faces up the staircase, arms akimbo, scowling. Threats to leave them at the next port were met with muffled concessions to attempt to be quieter, but the display recurred most of the remaining evenings to a lesser extent. Haven't seen anything like it since.

I knew something was wrong. As a caper lover, I can attest that they are horrific.

 

 

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Ahh, capers. I love a good heist.

But seriously, last time I was cutting those things with a knife and fork! I, too, sensed something was amiss.

If they have an edible bagel they're keeping it a secret.

I came to this thread hoping to read about salmon, and what I got was a computer screen covered in spit. Thanks, Cruise Critic.

Thanks, Stellanor!

 

I'm also a wino. I visit the Santa Ynez area every other month and come back with another case of wine that I really don't need (I now have two wine fridges and a bar that's overflowing).

 

I'd love your take on N&S. My cruise isn't until early May, so hit me up again if you remember to.

 

And I confirmed with the concierge that our Haven butler will bring in garnishments for the Bloody Mary bar. I can almost taste one now...

I'd love to! I'll take some notes for ya and report back!

Not gonna lie... After that last comment, I pictured swiping some bloody mary accoutrements from the buffet and smuggling them back to my balcony on a plate! It's nice to have them from the bar, but it's just so good to make them yourself, and really put in the good stuff!

Also, I just had to look up the bacon thing since I've never done it. Apparently the bacon in the bloody mary is a thing!

It was a no go for me. He also didn't buy that I should get it just because I am super awesome, and very pretty. I'm also lucky he has a good sense of humor. He also said it would cost us an extra $300 today just to get that credit. I must have booked when the room was really cheap...

*shrug* Life, including cruises, is what you make of it.

We may be fluffy goofballs, but my husband and I are actually pretty experienced wine snobs from CA (my husband just aced his blind tasting prep as part of the som). I haven't tried the N&S yet, but I'm sailing in a couple of weeks and am really looking forward to seeing what they've got. I'll try them and report back if you like, if it's before your sailing!

I'm actually far more interested in your bloody mary question! Love this one! I believe you're in luck! I suppose it depends on your room concierge and how on the ball and/or swamped they are, but a couple of friends just did the same thing. They also received the plain mix and some salts/pepper, but they received a small setup of lemons, celery, olives, asparagus (not too sure about this one), pickles, onions and they even brought shrimps (what I assume were cocktail shrimp/prawns), bacon (if that's your sort of thing, never tried it but, okay) and a big ol' thing of toothpicks as part of the setup. They actually sent me a picture and it looked amazing, I was going to send to you but I just can't seem to find it now! I hope you get it! I can just picture how nice it would be to craft some beautiful bloody maries and just kick back in the morning... *drool*.

You know what's funny? During every sailaway party without fail, I grab that first drink, and then I see all the dancing folks by the pool. In my head I start singing Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5... "A little bit of Monica in my life. A little bit of Erica by my side..."

This was also on ours:

Body Count- Iced T

The Beautiful People- Marilyn Manson

Angry Johnny- Poe

Hocus Pocus-Insane Clown Possee

Red Solo Cup- Toby Keith

Slam-Onyx

Kill a Man- Rage Against The Machine

What A Wonderful World- Louie Armstrong

 

 

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One of these things is not like the others...

Just kidding! I love your playlist. Poe = <3

All the good points have already been covered. ;)

Guess it might boil down to what you like. I like the mega ships. There's more to entertain, and I like the spa/thermal suits on the big guys better than the Dawn (but I probably spend about 50% of my time in there. lol!).

he merely scoffed at me and said "well, that's Cruise Critic, they know nothing." Oh well, I tried.

Geez. Someone's nasty today.

The more important thing is that your stateroom won't be ready for you to enter when you board, and I've seen people (with all due respect and courtesy) kicked out of their staterooms by the staff until they're ready. If you were to go in and start unpacking before the "Your Staterooms Are Now Ready" notification, you may be discovered there and asked to leave while the room is cleaned and prepared. The bag will appear at your stateroom door likely before the notification even goes out (I've always been able to enter around 1pm, and my bag has been there).

There was one time a long time ago that one member of the group I was cruising with was very protective of his luggage, and refused to give it to the porter when we arrived at the terminal. Instead he muscled the clearly heavy, oversized thing up through the port, through the snaking line and asked during check-in if he could take it onto the ship himself (it would later be discovered that he was trying to smuggle on a tremendous amount of hooch). We were cruising out of Miami (not sure if it's different for NY). The woman checking us in said that it may be possible, but she explained that she would have to take the bag now, give it to a porter to have it put through the scanner, come back to check in to continue her job and then find someone to bring it back through the port to him after it had been inspected; it really wasn't conducive to her getting back to work. They may have changed their rules to simply state "no" or "yes".