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I will be curious to see whether Royal continues the same altered Quantum itinerary for the remainder of their Seattle sailings this season. The last Alaska voyage will be September 26. Any takers on that bet?

August 22 as well.

We are not expected to board any Norwegian ship until next year, so I will be watching for menu/food reviews until then. My top concern is how much stock Norwegian puts in their variety of mix and match pasta options since I have almost given up all pasta. So what else ya got?

I was unable to locate any Edge transatlantic sailing in November 2023. Do you perhaps mean April 17, 2023?

According my count for August sailings, passengers onboard 3 out of 17 NCL ships fall under no pre-cruise testing. I welcome movement in that direction, but the “noted exceptions” weigh more than the “rule”. At least presently.

I appreciate your concern for catching early flights upon disembarkation. It is certainly a distance from Port Canaveral back to Orlando and I have better judgement than to expect to board a 10 o’clock flight.

Thank you both for trying to advise me. I will be traveling solo, so Uber would not be cost effective. Cost of MSC transportation is the same as Cruise Control Transportation at $25 and CCT only offers two departure times. My specific question is what is the earliest deparure time of MSC shuttle returning to Orlando International Airport?

Deciding whether to book return transportation (Port Canaveral to Orlando airport) with MSC. Does any recent cruiser know the earliest disembarkation departure shuttle time?

My local Aldi carries General Tso, Sweet & Sour and Teriyaki. I have not their version.

Does anyone have the recipe? The Carnival version has just the right amount of sweet and heat. (Yes, I want my mouth to burn a little.) I have tried making stir-fry at home using bottled sauce without success in cloning the Carnival flavor. While onboard a few months ago, I asked to see the bottle label, and it was explained to me they make the sauce (as with multiple ingredients). I can find Szechuan sauce recipes online, but it sure would truncate my wasted time and ingredients to have the real deal recipe.

I received an expected response several weeks after emailing our request. The reply claimed the brokerage statement was not attached to the original request. How can that be? The photo of brokerage statement was literally embedded in the request immediately below the details of associated cruise. I replied by forwarding the original request, with a photo of the brokerage statement embedded. My theory is employee was myopic in scanning each request for attachments. No attachment generated an automatic reply requesting documentation.

No.

Part and parcel of a voluntary program authored by CDC. Hypothetically, no cruise line ever had to follow the voluntary program. There is another choice available. Not to participate and be color-coded gray. Choosing not to participate does not equate to lack of health protocol, so don’t get frantic. Given the high rates of transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC currently recommends that everyone avoid travel on cruise ships, including river cruises, worldwide, regardless of their vaccination status. However, if you do plan to travel on a cruise ship, it is important to be aware of what these color designations mean. Cruise ships with a “Gray” color status have chosen not to participate in CDC’s COVID-19 Program for Cruise Ships. This designation means that CDC has not reviewed or confirmed the cruise ship operator’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols. CDC cannot confirm the COVID-19 public health measures implemented on “Gray” designated ships. Therefore, CDC does not have information about precautions and interventions, such as mask use, crew testing, or vaccination status for these ships.

Further development in the database, at least. No communication from Royal Caribbean yet. Serenade is inactive for June, July and August 2023 (greyed out). May 2023 only contains the transatlantic itinerary to Copenhagen. September 2023 only contains the Canadian itinerary after the ship returns to Boston.

If you are saying Serenade is currently available for booking next summer, I do not find that to be the case. Still offline.

Boooring! How about something truly shattering like staying open past 6 pm?

My husband would be thrilled if it would operate after 6 pm. Would not even have to be late night. Curiously, on one Carnival cruise in the spring, Guy’s was kept open after 6 pm. Believe it had to do with a MUTS premiere. So it is possible.

Could be prelude to changes or turn out to be nothing of consequence. I was mock booking some European segments next summer and at least some Serenade voyages are “oops” offline. I checked random weeks in May, June, July, August and September.

I never saw anyone relinquishing any beverage brought onto the ship from port stops. I did not even see a “table” where such could be confiscated.