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Yes. Safety first. Until a vaccine or cure is in place, we will probably wear one anyway. It’s no big deal and as said earlier, safety first. 

In 2020, with air being the primary mode of inter-city transportation, CLIA should be lobbying Washington to end the PVSA. Can you imagine the great coastal cruises on both coasts. 

The last I heard was that due to maritime law and the drug/gang violence in Mexico,  west coast cruising stopped. 

The issue that I have is if you remove responsibility for the virus, corporate cost savings hit and I don’t believe the cleaning/sanitation procedures will truly stay in place. Every ad you see says “your safety is our top priority”, but the longer things go, the less is being done. 

I forget the exact article/section, but one of the recommendations in the EU return to cruising documents was to separate seniors. It was a recommendation. As said above, I can’t see any enforcement if people wanted to be with the younger group.  

1 hour ago, celoplyr said:

I like it too, but I was going to do a "how many days cruise are you going on" and do like $500/day. Each trip around the board would be a day so for a 7 day cruise, you would do 7 trips around the board, starting with $3500, and then tally up the money.  THe railroads can be shore excursions (I was thinking a deck of each type, with a random cost amount), and maybe at the end everyone gets to see what kinda of cruise they would have had.  I think you would need to have some incentive for spending money so people aren't just passing on everything, etc.

 

Ok CLEARLY I'm way bored.

 

AND I could make the typical monopoly property cards as well.  The idea of having activities on the properties is what the Arizona edition has, so it fits within the theme I think. That way you get 2 games in 1 board!

No. IMHO, no passing on a ‘property’. Those would be experiences. Then, after the game we would compare the game results to our actual experience on board. 

I do like the countdown option. Everyone starts with $20,000.  Each ‘property’ has a booking value. From inside guarantee up through the suite levels. Once ‘booked’, then the various properties become cruising costs. Start with something like drinks and bingo up through ship tours and high end dining. Instead of collecting $200 for passing go, you pay the daily gratuity. Last person with money wins. 

This is the one topic I have been interested in. We usually get the Promenade view rooms. We stumbled on a January 2021 Explorer cruise aft balcony. We are really excited about this. But the questions now are around capacity and who stays and who goes and who gets moved. Hopefully we will stay in place. I

Please remember that when testing first started, you almost had to be symptomatic to get a test. Now we have drive-thru testing for anyone who asks. That’s going to increase the positivity rates as people just want to be tested.  Our community in Florida offered it and we took the test just to make sure we were okay (yes, at that point). 

We are scheduled for January. I may wear a mask some of the time even if not required. Better safe than sorry. I fall in to a higher risk group.  But a day on the ship is better than a day at home. 

I noticed that the earnings call is tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10:00. I am hoping that call brings a lot of information. 

Good morning all. I just checked the refreshment package for our Jan 21 cruise and it is only a 10% sale. $32/day is now ‘only’ $30/day. I guess we’ll wait a while. 

How many of you who don’t want a cruise line bailout buy American made products?  Most of the stuff we buy is made elsewhere.  This is to avoid American labor costs and taxes. IMHO, get the money to the people, not the corporations. The huge corporate tax cut, which was promised to create all these new jobs, went to executive bonuses and financed the largest corporate stock buyback ever. Another question for you. How many of these companies will pay the employees for quarantine time?  Yes there are some. Most will have to take unpaid time off and/or lose their job. Help the lower and middle class. The 1% has already been helped. 

Sorry, your argument that ships aren’t American flagged and therefore do not qualify for assistance doesn’t hold up. 

Following as we will be in our first balcony cabin (10 previous, all RCCL) next January.  We stumbled on an aft balcony and with all of the talk here of aft balconies, we had to try.   Enjoy your cruise. 

I’m another sailing in January 2021. Nothing yet. I have seen people talking about November 2020 packages available and a price drop already. Soon we all hope. 

I agree with MapleLeafForever. Maybe closer in prices are dropping , but in looking at mid-2021 and farther, they seem to be way high. 7 night Caribbean cruises starting at over $1000 for an inside.  

On 2/15/2020 at 7:21 PM, skrufy said:

You can drag your feet til about 930am. Then you will be asked to disembark. The1040am train should not be a problem. From the port to the Miami Brightline station it takes about 10 minutes. We are coming down from West Palm next month and plan on getting to the station at least1/2 hour early.

If you would, please let me know how this works out. We live in WPB  and are currently considering this option. People don’t seem to be to positive about off-site parking in Miami and with a nine day cruise at $25/day that’s a bit much. 

I’m sorry to hear you have had billing issues. I have not heard about that. 

I am not sure that even the Viking Crown could hold 700 people. 

The issue is too many Diamonds and above. As stated, more than 700 on that sailing. About the only place to host a group that size would be the theater or the main dining room. Obviously the dining room would be in use. So. ....  I would be interested in hearing your feelings about solving this issue. 

I rented a scooter through Scootaround. It fit through the door fine.on Indy. The big issue we had was the layout of the Promenade Room we had. Due to the layout, you could not get it past the bed. This meant it was parked just inside the door and blocked the bathroom. We ended up with my son taking it to his inside room where it fit fine. 

The tips collected by RCCL go far beyond the people you see every day.  They also go to some behind the scenes people such as laundry and others who serve the customer facing crew.  If you remove the auto-gratuity and tip cash, these tips must be reported to RCCL and pooled also.  If you leave the daily gratuity in place and tip extra to those who serve you, they will get all of that.  

If you remove tips and feel only tipping the people who serve you is the way to go, you are doing a dis-service to laundry help, dish washers, etc.  All of the people who make the customer facing staff look good.

And if you feel this way about cruise line tipping, do you advocate for honest wages to be paid for service people in the U.S.?  Just raise the prices of the food and beverages.

I will continue to pre-pay gratuities and add extra where deserved.

Thanks for sharing.  We will be on her for the same 5 night itinerary in early January.  🙂

Following.  I also have the RC App and it has the menus for our 01/05 cruise.  As you, I wish there were more details in the app.

I did find it amusing that my wife and I got one, and my son got one.  My daughters did not.  So they picked the top and the bottom C&A.

Okay.  Thank you.