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Urban myth about longshoremen salaries. Salary.com says: The average Longshoreman salary in Florida is $55,669 as of August 29, 2022 My husband was a retired mechanic, and he used to say "you don't see old mechanics still working", because it's so hard on their knees, wrists, fingers, elbows, and backs. Same for longshoremen. I say give them their tips. I usually greet them with a HUGE smile and say, "I am so very happy to see you! Here take this heavy suitcase, please." I say it, give them money, and they take the suitcase away. It's magic.

I thought Don Rickles was funny, if not rough. The humor I have always had an aversion to is slapstick.

Loved the guy!

Ahhhh, well that answers a lot of questions. I was wondering why the rep I asked to check a price and include the DP340 (C&A) promo code had never heard of it.

This is what I read, also. I downloaded it through the App Store on my iphone: Australian ETA. If you're going to New Zealand, theirs is NZeTA.

You might have posted after me. So sorry to hear you got sick. Not a good souvenir to bring home after a cruise. Safe travels next time.

IMO, they answer the call faster, but not sure they are that much more knowledgeable. Yes, they can book cruises for you.

I put that cleaning supply on my ignore list, too, but I guess it takes a while for it to be effective. Never was much for the abrasive type of cleaning supplies, anyway.

Thanks for this link. Just what I need.

Apologies if I'm repeating myself. I have a datestamper app on my phone, so when I use a home test to show a negative COVID test, I will datestamp the photo I take showing it. I don't want to show up with an unproctored, undated negative test result and have a problem.

You must not have read some of my other posts on this thread, and I won't repeat myself. However, what I have been doing has worked very well with exposure to thousands of people, dozens of airports and airplanes, and 58 days of cruising, and 21 negative COVID tests during that time. I don't think that's futile; I think it's reassuring. YMMV.

Correct, as discussed above. An adult has to be on the booking, either in the cabin or in an adjacent cabin. The whole idea is that the person under the age of 18 is accompanied by an adult.

I have a photo datestamper app on my phone. I will use that on my cruises that do require a pre-cruise test.

Thanks for clarifying that. What's important to this thread is the underage passengers must be accompanied by an adult.

The switching is a personal choice; the adult in the cabin is a requirement. See post #41 above. That's directly from RCCL's web site.

I thought it was a pretty interesting story. Posting police rights are a figment of some people's imaginations.

What the WHAT, brillohead? I'm not important; I'm just a poster here, like you. For your current and future edification: "No Guest younger than the age twenty-one (21) will be assigned to a stateroom unless accompanied in the same stateroom by an adult twenty-one (21) years old or older. A guest's age is established upon the first date of sailing."

OK, people like you and I with strong immune systems don't get sick. But, we can carry the virus. I don't want to carry the virus to anyone, known or unknown to me. So, crowded = masked, to me. I'm just trying to explain here, not convince. We all make our own choices.

They do wear masks. It's me taking the virus to them I'm concerned about.

For you. But, what about the people around you that are unknowingly exposed? Like I've posted before, my friend is double vaxxed and double boosted, and had COVID (pneumonia) for 3 weeks. It's those other people I'm concerned about being exposed.

Correct. I stood on the very, very top of the Rhapsody once at 6am and looked at the very, very, very close up underside of the bridge. The perspective from the bridge must have been pretty startling, because all the commute traffic stopped completely up there to see if we would make it!!

Yes. You can reserve multiple cabins.

Funny thing about immunities. I have been told several times in my adult life that getting the Hong Kong flu in 1968 probably did very good things for my immunities. Sooooooooo sick!!! Only good thing out of that is I looked amazing in my wedding dress 6 months later, because I was STILL underweight. Fast a little bit forward, add two breastfed children to the family, and I find out that my sons are having similar experiences with viruses as me: one was stuck in a large extended family epidemic of norovirus last Christmas. As he put it: "I'm the last one standing". He also told me once that at the end of the world, it was going to be him and the cockroaches: he doesn't get sick. Other son in 2020 was super-exposed to (as someone put it, "original recipe" COVID). Like coughing-in-his-face-while-sick-with-COVID close. Not a sniffle. I had original recipe COVID, too, in late January 2020. Pneumonia. Took 4 months to recover. Nothing since. So, I guess my immunities did some good, but OMG what I went through to get them (and pass them on). Nope. Been there twice; done that; don't wanna do it again. Mask-on.

Go through the booking process on rccl.com to see the availability, but don't pay, then go to this web site: https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/ Find the Allure in the little orange ship dropdown menu, upper left corner of the page. It has a great "deck-drag" feature, so you can see the cabin description, and also what's above and below your cabin. I use it all the time for cabin selection. When you see the two-ended arrow between two cabins, those are connecting cabins. Once you get your selection, then change cabins.

Ahhhh, you nailed it, SchoolNurseMom: we ALL should worry about them. I'm a "it takes a village" type of person. Whenever I help someone, like the lady at the grocery store who just couldn't get the heavy 24-pack of sparkling water out of the too-tightly stocked shelf, and she said thank you. I told her my standard response to anyone who says that, "You're welcome, it takes a village". Reminds people we are all in this together: whatever "this" might be. Safe travels.