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While I prefer bed by the balcony out of 11 cruises on Anthem once we had sofa but balcony. It wasn’t tight. Anthem has pretty large rooms

Never heard about changing floodplain except for separating bed in two. It’s not possible.

I am enjoying your photos. We were in V in March 23rd cruise and found her to be the cutest out of Vision, Enchantment , Grandeur. Lounge entertainment was THE BEST. Enjoy!!!

It does not matter if you or me like this port (it is OK once in a while), but it is difficult to find substitution. So many ships need ports.

Gouge? They are not government. Not even American company, They lost billions during Covid. They started to be profitable only by the end of 2022, still they need to pay back loans.

Cruises in some reason always evoke some strong feelings in people. No one is discussing A/I, but constantly hear some weird stuff about cruises

We cruise 5 times a year and love to get on the ship as early as we can. Lovely time in deserted solarium 🙂 or even in empty buffet. Embarkation procedures are now way better than they used to be even without priority line, so enjoy our early embarkation

I liked our time in Norfolk. I know we had somewhat long line, but I enjoyed it.. beautiful area.

I usually don’t work lately, as I have enough PTO (well it’s unlimited now, but I match it with 26 PTO days + 3 floating holidays I had before so it’s 29 days) … however I had to work this past Wednesday on Vision, because due to accident with Baltimore bridge we had to dock in Norfolk, VA on Thursday and were bussed to Baltimore, That was supposed to be my work day…. I knew I wouldn’t be able to work that day so decided to work on Wednesday. I wish ships had more power outlet and especially in Solariums 🙂 . When I was officially working from Solariums I had to bring large power bank.

Better than in office for sure. 🙂

Literally nothing happened to vacation time for vacation. 🙂 There is plenty of time for everything, With great internet available we started cruising 5 full cruises a year. Now I have enough PTO days for all 5, but back then working 1-2 days on Thanksgiving week cruise or semi working (watching for emergencies) during Christmas/New Year cruise allowed us to cruise more.

Nope, they are Southern Royal even markets cruises with Antigua and St Kitts (Anthem) as Southern

Seriously? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Caribbean And all cruise lines call itineraries with Barbados & St Lucia Southern Caribbean itun.

It really depends... For example our balconies on Anthem were way cheaper than what was offered on Vision class (more balconies - cheaper price) For us if Royal adds more Southern Caribbean cruises we won't have a need to sail from Baltimore. Our drive to NJ is way better too.

Well... we are there several times a year on other ships. Quantum, Oasis, Voyager classes. We won't drive to Baltimore for this. Only 12 dayers to South Car. However if we won't change our minds we will be on 8 days Thanksgiving cruise on Vision to Charleston, Miami, Bimini.

I would love it, although we like to experience small ship once out of 5 a year cruises.

I agree about Bermuda, but everything else is very similar to NJ. We just returned yesterday from 12 dayer to Southern Caribbean which we do from there once per year. (USVI, St Maarten, Barbados, St Lucia, St Kitts) There are way more cruises to Southern Caribbean from Baltimore than from NJ.

I started working remotely from RCI ships in 2016. I am in IT so it is development + video conference. Now internet is even better.

Itineraries are actually pretty good and match ones in New Jersey. Bahamas(with variations), Bermuda, NE/Canada, Southern Caribbean.

I am fine with most places in Mediterranean or Northern Europe if there is enough time of course.

In the end it is all the same. Rules are known. Cruiselines cannot make exceptions because they sell excursions based on this "risk". (Well I should not use quotes). This is aside from amounts they need to pay to stay in port longer.

If we book something it is often independent tours, but we do some analysis of area we explore before we do this. Area, timing etc.

They still have a time. Probably they are watching cleanup and deciding. I hope for Bayonne if cleanup isn’t finished

I think 1 credit (7 points) was for cruises up to 12 nights and then it was 2 points. Still it’s crazy to equate 3 nighters and 10 nighters to 7 points. We lost 7 points (a cruise) on this conversion. Oh well, we moved on.

I missed “don’t really like cruising”. They don’t cruise to have fun, but to be allowed into one of lounges for some snacks for several hours. If this is not happening they wasted lifetime of cruising