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There is a great view from up there and it was a couple of people deep. To get a clear view I spent a lot of time standing on the edge of the pool on the Retreat Deck taking pictures, a lot of them in my live review were taken from there. However, Marcia probably had the best view as the bridge camera showed wonderful scenes according to my DW who also decided to not brave the sun and crowds and watched from our balcony and in the room.

We found the entertainment in the TSL to our liking so spent quiet evenings there. I did attend some main theater shows but was not really impressed, even with one other said was good.

We are in this cabin but on Millennium starting next week. On our last cruise, the guest in 6145 gave us a tour so we could see what it was like, but the tour was in the evening so did not see that there was only a door and no window as the side of the door like a normal balcony. Not sure that will matter to us as we spend more time on the balcony than sitting in the room looking out, weather permitting.

i cannot take all the credit. A cruiser on the Royal Caribbean Boards put together a huge list of drinks, including beers and a couple of them on a particular cruise were checking off the drinks as they had them. A few of us contributed recommendations for additions to the list and it just started growing. A one point, I created a spreadsheet that had all of them on it but have since lost track of that file. I also may have a screen shot of the working list from a cruise two years ago that tracked the number of each drink that had been consumed.

My DW also prefers shorter excursions but likes later departures. She, unlike me, is not a morning person. We are signed up for one 10 hour excursion on our upcoming cruise, which involved a hour and 45 minute bus ride each way (from Kobe to Kyoto and back). The rest or 4.5 hours or less, the way we like them.

It is any two devices simultaneously - for example, your phone and your husbands phone, then you could disconnect your phone and connect your laptop or he could have his phone and his laptop -- it does not matter what device it is, just that only two can be connected at any given time.

This is going to be 100% dependent upon who your neighbors are. I would assume any musicians on the cruise would be rehearsing in the theater versus in their room. To do rehearsals in their room would simply be bad manners. p.s. We'll be traveling in that same suite next month.

I am guilty of that as well.

I make my own at home. Our DD and SIL gave me a smoking kit for birthday this year. I make smoked old fashioned with both Woodford and Zacapa here at the house. They are really good. I failed to obtain a smoked drink on our last sailing as it was on Millennium which does not have the WCB. I am going to ask again when we board next week. Maybe at Cellar Masters they might have something.

Sacrilegious I say. SPAM is delicious. Fried and served with eggs, made into a sandwich, cut into little cubs and used in fried rice, and who cannot like spam musubi. My wife makes the latter with fried egg. As they would say in Hawaii -- broke da mouth.

Lately it's before you board as well.

The Celebrity App was updated today. Did this update have any effect on those of you not running iOS 17 being able to use the app?

My first visit was in May-August 1960, I was 10 years old and had lost my father the previous November. My mom and I went and spent the summer with my youngest sister and her husband, who was stationed at Kaneohe. That was back when they were trucking loads of sand from windward beaches to Waikiki over the old Pali Highway.

Don't say that out loud in Hawaii. They may sacrifice you to the Aumakua.

Jim, I forget the name but there is a good plate lunch place in the food court at Ala Monana Center (Mall). Fair warning, based on your eating habits, I would recommend you only buy one as it will be enough for you and Iian to share. There are a lot of good places to eat in that food court. There is also a Foodland grocery store on the lower level in a far corner where we got some delicious poke.