JMorris271

I just got am Email from RC telling me that I have a final payment due now and I should go ahead and pay it NOW to avoid cancelation. My final payment is due March 7. I am aware of when my payment is due Thank you!

Are they afraid I will cancel before that final due date and want me to lock in my  investment on a cruise I may not join?

1 hour ago, Wymond said:

We are having a Baltic cruise in late June. My wife is worried, while I am not very much.

The day after tomorrow is the date of final payment. We have 48 hours to consider it.

It is not the beginning of the crisis now.The governments and the cruise lines have learnt from what had happened. The cruise companies have much more concern  than cruisers. They will never want any of their ships to be another Diamond Princess. And, if the virus spreads seriously across the whole Europe, most countries will shut down their border. We cannot sail to anywhere even though we want to cruise.

So, let the cruise company and the governments to make the decision for us.

I am sharing you concern.

I'm getting a little worried.  I have to make the final pmt on March 7th. What to do. I take the responsibly for my decision but I still don't want to loose my investment.

10 hours ago, TSUmom said:

I will not cancel my cruise.....I know people that won't cruise because they are afraid of norovirus.  The world is so full of the what ifs that if we worry about everything that is possible we would have to live in a bubble.  I enjoy travel too much to worry about these kind of things.  Heck my plane could go down or I might have a car accident on the way to the airport.  Life is just way to short to worry.  Before my mother passed away she told me she wished she had traveled and seen the world and that she is happy I am getting the chance.  She always loved the stories and pictures and "vacationed" thru me.  

If it must happen, and I'm in no way being ominous,  what a way to go while  doing what you enjoy!

I'm sure it's there but I can't find one. I am looking for a deck diagram for a side view of the Harmony showing the floors numbered so you can see what's is  where from the outside of the ship. I see the top view cabin layout but not the side.  Can someone please tell me where I can find that graph.

Thanks

A few yrs ago I was playing BJ on the Indi. I'd been at my chair about 2 hrs and this chap sat in a vacant chair next to me. He was a tall guy with longer legs than usual.  Once play began, his leg was constantly banging on mine. I maneuvered to avoid contact  which was impossible. It is difficult to concentrate on my cards while  getting rapped  with leg. After a minute or so of this I quietly informed him that his leg was rubbing against mine and would he please stop and  became quite indignant. He

did try to do a better job managing his leg situation but with out success.

The table was full, my game was being interrupted,  so I left the table  very pissed. I did return once he departed.

How would you have handled this situation if it was happening to you?

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Aside  from helping to limit  the spread of some illnesses. I believe that sanitizers do more harm than good.  There is nothing like a healthy body with a good bio filtration system , immunity system, that can only evolve with exposure to good old germs and sanitizers limit that .

4 hours ago, Donald said:

The CDC conducted many surveys on cruise ships over the past decade. They discovered that ships pushing the hand sanitizers had far more Norovirus cases than ships that do not. Too many cruisers do not understand that hand sanitizers are an adjunct to handwashing - NOT a replacement.

 

Other CDC surveys pinpointed the best locations to contract Norovirus; 1. airplanes, 2. schools, 3. prisons, 4. old age homes, and 5. hotels. Did you or any of your fellow cruisers visit any of those locations before the cruise? Just about everyone.

 

The next surveys pinpointed the best places on a cruise ship to contract Norovirus; 1. Self-service buffets, and 2. public toilets.

Where does just about every mass market cruiser go immediately upon boarding? 1. Buffet, and then 2. Public toilet.

 

So if you carry a container of sanitizer with you, where do you store it?

Most people opt for a trouser pocket, possibly the dirtiest place on a human being - or a purse, the second dirtiest place.

So you take the contaminated bottle of sanitizer out of a pocket or purse. This guarantees that your hands are contaminated.

Then you sanitize your hands.

Next you use your clean hands to place the still-contaminated bottle back into your contaminated pocket or purse.

So your hands are contaminated again.

You have just defeated the system.

 

Purell may not be effective against Norovirus. But there are some hand sanitizers that are effective. In order to kill Norovirus "spores', there is a minimum requirement called "dwell time". This is the length of time a liquid sanitizer remains liquid and in contact with the viral spores. Most sanitizers require a dwell time of several minutes in order to be effective. How many of you squirt the sanitizer on your hands, work it around a bit, and then quickly dry your hands? You have just defeated the sanitizer and rendered it ineffective. The dwell time was too short to be effective.

How many cruisers squirt enough sanitizer on their hands to keep it liquid for several minutes? Hardly anyone.

 

Now let's talk about the mobile telephone that you carry in your contaminated pocket or purse. This is the thing that you are constantly pressing against your face, letting others press against their faces, and handing it to any number of people to hold and view a photo or video. How many times a day do you properly sanitize that mobile telephone?

Wiping it on a trouser leg or a shirt doesn't count.

Do you sanitize your hands every time after you use your mobile telephone or loan it to somebody else? You should.

Do you wash your face every time after you press that contaminated phone against it? You should.

Nope.  The dirtiest place on the human body is the human mouth. It's been tested and proven.

This virus is not an act of god. It is an act of men being careless with their well being and the well being of others. Caused directly by the action or inaction of people.

22 minutes ago, Elaine5715 said:

No liquor sales on the quarantine ships.  Guests are confined to staterooms except for an hour each day.

All guest or just those that are symptomatic?

I have deposit on a June carib cruise with finial pmt due in March.  Yes. I am a little apprehensive about taking this cruise.

On 2/4/2020 at 2:06 PM, mom says said:

Missed port= increased fuel costs, loss of revenue from shore excursions, increased costs for food and other consumables, possible supply problems. Loss of profits.

All losses offset by a tremendous  increase in liquor sales.

I'm more concerned about the possibility of walking next to someone that crapped in their pants while trying to run back to their cabin.

8 hours ago, weedpindle said:

Be adult. Make up your own mind.

 

That was a rhetorical question.

I'm cruising in June from Fla. and worried sick.  I am thinking about postponing the cruise until 2025.

8 hours ago, Essiesmom said:

I have never had a qualm about using public toilet.  EM

When you gotta go, you gotta go.😫

5 hours ago, chabad said:

Could be. But what is wrong with using the Purell. The main ingredient is alcohol. Nothing wrong with that.

I see in the reports that Purell is not effective against this virus.

5 hours ago, chabad said:

what chemicals are in the buffet?

 

They are being sarcastic I think.  Like there is not enough chemicals in the food already?

8 hours ago, kywildcatfanone said:

I avoid them when at all possible, would absolutely prefer to go back to my cabin.

Who wouldn't?

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I need to know what type of disembarking ramp is used in Port Canaveral  please. I must wear braces to walk and it is very difficult for me to walk on steep inclines. Can someone tell me how the exit ramp runs? Is it horizontal or is it pitched?  Thanks

Uber would be about $65n and get you where you want to go at the AP.

If you take an Uber to the port, you will miss a good part of what makes Charleston wonderful.

I will be a solo on Harmony in June and  really do appreciate your time and great documentation  of your cruise.

On 1/2/2020 at 6:45 PM, 3red7s said:

luckily we will be there the last week of February

 

You will find the early spring gardens around I the side courtyards of the old homes spread everywhere and the antique Iron gates and fence outstanding.