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Thank you so much for the great review! Loved all of the pictures! Seems like you got a lot of things accomplished in 5 days. Safe travels!

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Thanks for another great review! Always enjoy a good laugh. Very funny!

Oh BYW, read your "potty squatty" segment to my husband and because of you, potty squatty just made another sale. They should give you some commission or some kind of compensation for your endorsement! LOL!

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We use American Tourister compression bags. I usually get them at our Wal-Mart, although they are getting harder to find. They used to have 1 X-Lrg, 2 Lrg, and 1 Med bag in the package, but now only have 1 Lrg. and 3 Med. bags.

The X-Lrg were great for dirty clothes as they were pretty big. The Lrg size are good for packing your clothes in, but the Med size are small.

You do have to be careful about weight when using them. You don't need a vacuum because you just roll them to get the air out. We take some empty ones and fill them up during the week with dirty clothes and hardly need to pack anything at the end of the week.

We also pack our clothes in them and you don't need as many bags and you don't have to worry about you clothes getting wet if something happens on the way to your cruise or on the way home.

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I would say yes. We were at the suite beach and there was lots of coral.

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Aren't the Keys going to get hit too? And won't all of the ports like Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Port Everglades be in the path for being hit/affected?

This will probably affect a lot of cruises and passengers.

Prayers for the people of Haiti and all of the Bahamas.

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The Allure ports seem a bit iffy. If Jamaica and Haiti get hit as hard as they think they will, will they be able to dock there? And Majesty going to the Bahamas? Thinking some more changes will be coming.

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I thought the hurricane was affecting all of the Bahamas. Doesn't seem like going to Freeport would be a good idea. JMO.

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We do have a long wait for Harmony, but we have a 9 day Alaska booked on Radiance for May 2017.

With our son starting high school this year it will be harder to just get up and go like we are used to. Although my husband would like to fit another cruise in there somewhere.

Until then we'll live vicariously through you guys and others. Lol!

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Thanks Andrew for bringing us along for another great cruise! Hope that you had an uneventful and safe journey back home.

We appreciate the time that you take to do the great reviews full of humor and great information, and for the fun periscopes! Looking forward to another virtual cruise with you guys in November on Harmony!! Unfortunately we won't be cruising on her until 2018. [emoji17] Cant wait to "see" her through your eyes.

We will say a prayer for your FIL, scary, especially when you are not there to help out. Hope that you have some family that were able to be there with your MIL to help her feel more at ease until you guys got back home.

Thanks again!

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Andrew, if you want to talk baseball with anyone on board, Jerimias (spelling?) loves to talk baseball.

Also, I'm not sure if you guys do the CK, but if you do, Surgeon, that is the way you say it, not the way it's spelled, is a great server and a really nice guy!

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Hi Andrew, just got caught up on the review, but I am behind on today's scopes.

You say that you are here to entertain and you sure did with the piano scope! Unfortunately, I did not catch it live but it is a classic! So hilarious! Loved Lisa and Owen in the background!

Thanks for the review and the scopes and I am so glad that the weather has turned for the better for you guys! Looking forward to more fun!

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Thank-you. I hope you enjoy the review and scopes this go around. You are right about MPoole. We sail with him on Harmony in November so I can't wait to meet him in person. I might need to buy him a Stella or two.

His scopes are so funny sometimes! So neat that a bunch of you guys are cruising together and getting to know each other! Yes! You have to buy him a Stella!

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Giovanni's is our favorite, too! We are also disappointed with the replacement of Jamie's. But I can see how they would want to change things up on a new ship.

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BTW, the scope of the old guy on the pier in Santa Monica, the reaction you and Lisa had, priceless!

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Hi Andrew, and Lisa, and Owen!

Andrew you were the reason we set up the periscope acct. in March. We didn't even know what it really was at the time. We have enjoyed your scopes and now follow a couple of others. (MPoole is a crack up, too!). We also love your reviews. Always look forward to some humor.

Hope the weather is great for you guys and that you have a wonderful cruise!

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It is a little different (I know the steak at lunch is different then what they have for dinner). But the food was soooo good.

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I could be wrong, but I believe that lunch at Giovanni's is only served on boarding day and sea days. We went on boarding day and just showed up.

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Wish I would have known to ask about this on our cruise on the Allure in May. We were in a GS. Don't know if we will ever be in a suite again. That would be fun.

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We have only done 3 Disney cruises on 3 different ships and loved them all. Always had great service. We finally could not afford their prices anymore and jumped over to RCCL.

We have done 3 RCCL cruises on 2 different ships. Two of those cruises were on the Allure. We LOVE the Allure! So many things to do. Ocean Aria and the ice skating shows were awesome. (Oh, and we saw Mama Mia and liked that, too) Love the Royal Promenade. My DH and DS enjoy the flow riders and we ALL have fun on the zip line. Central Park is amazing! We liked Labadee but still like Castaway Cay better. Pretty much all of the crew members that we met were great. Try Giovanni's if you like Italian, so good! We have done it for lunch and dinner.

As long as you are okay with the big cruise ships I think your family will enjoy it. The first time we had a balcony room on one of the humps. This last cruise we had a GS for the price you pay for a balcony on Disney and it had lots of fun perks.

Hope that you enjoy it!

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My thing is toiletries. I have travel size for all of my facial products. I thought you were limited to how many you could put in the quart size bags. Or how many of those bags you can carry on.

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Whew!! Thanks. You had me scared there for a minute!!

Enjoy the rest of your Grandeur cruise!

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How do you feel the overall condition of the ship is? Reading some of the reviews, it sounds like it needs some work.

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We were on the Allure in May and reservations were not hard to get after boarding. In fact, sometimes we made reservations the same day with no problems.

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Thanks Mark. I'm looking forward to your Live Divina review.

 

 

 

 

 

Wait, I didn't post any pictures of speedos! Who put that there?!?!? :)

 

I'm glad you enjoyed the review. Thankfully I didn't encounter any bed bugs on the Escape.

Wait! I just finished your review. ( I know, a little late for the party!) Did you encounter bed bugs on another cruise?? They totally freak me out! That is a nightmare scenario for me at any hotel or cruise ship!

Thanks for the great review. Loved the humor! And Del Rio! Haha!!

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Yes they do and it's free.

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