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Empty chair with only towel for a long time - yes.

Wait a second. So it is acceptable to take stuff from loungers if it is left there at any time? I think not. It may happen, but it should not. I of course will never leave meaningful stuff in loungers, especially my work laptop, but it is beyond the point. I sailed with 8 lines before deciding to make RCI my preferred line, and RCI have yet to disappoint me. And I have not seen any fights ... unlike on some others. 🙂

I left my chair so what? I may be watching it from Jacuzzi or pool. Trust me, with so many cruises every year (5-6) and working days from time to time I am very experienced in this matter. 😀

It is not an opinion. If you are not standing and watching my lounger for all this time, you cannot even know if I was there during this time. You also do not know if I am watching my stuff. Your only option is to check with a pool stuff rather than deciding if something is abandoned (still not yours to touch) or not.

Oh trust me. Who said I am leaving anything unattended? I am NOT LEAVING Solarium or pool area, so I watch my stuff. Again, you cannot take people's stuff. You do not like something, you complain to pool area stuff.

Do you like to take other people stuff? Tough times...

No, you cannot. Let it be a nice surprise for you, but I am sure you won't be doing this again. You have a very strange idea about abandonment. The only way you can even determine that someone is absent is to watch this chair all this time (30 minutes or more). Not just randomly deciding that someone was absent for more than 30 minutes. And even if you think you are 100% sure this happened the only way to deal with a situation is to report this to nearby staff. They usually have better idea if another cruiser is in the area and how long he/she wasn't there.

Completely empty chair with only towel present is a clear sign chair is reserved.

I do not care what your intentions are. You may imagine anything in your had, but once you are taking my stuff this is it. And since when swimming for 45 minutes is abandoning my property. What happens if my work laptop slips and breaks? Whoever should be prepared to pay. Look for available chair as I do.

As entertaining as any interaction with thieves Why are you showing me your photo? Are you planning to look like this?

You have no right to touch anybody's stuff and watch what will happen if I see you doing this. I am a very peaceful person, but not in cases like this. And I do not care what terms you are using in your head. You are a thief.

If I am not planning to use chairs at all I just put my stuff on regular chair on the edge of pool.

Yes, but I am not going around the ship or to buffet. I am swimming in Jacuzzi or in the pool. There are many chairs around to use, but this person absolutely needed my chair by the window. Look, I do 5 regular size or longer cruises with Royal last several years. I know the rules. This was outrageous. I personally would not touch other people stuff even if person is outside of pool area and there is only a towel, but in my case it is normal to be in pool area and use pool/Jacuzzi for longer.

' Why? If I am swimming and my chair is full of my stuff, including tablets. Why would you think I am not in the pool area? Please do not move other people stuff. I never do this.

I was there ALL the time. More than 30 minutes, probably around 45 minutes or so. This person did not have any reasons to believe we were outside of pool area. And we left very important stuff in our chairs. Not only towels or caps. Chairs were full of stuff.

Since March we haven't seen any visible measures on-board. Of course now you don't need to have a test for most of shorter (less than 9 days) cruises, and if one need a test it is just a photo of hometest

NCL is a line we sail for good itineraries. (sailed 9 times) People complain about some issues, but we are willing overlook them for itinerary, good entertainment and vibe on board. In some reason we did not enjoy experience in similar to Joy class ship Breakaway (it does not have some things Joy has. Like speed cars etc) What REALLY I did not like on this type of ship was design. Especially pool deck. At all. Too many people... Also if Oasis has some sort of Solarium with a roof, NCL ships do not have it. As we are sailing from Northeast this is a big deal for us.

30 minutes is too little. I swim for longer. At least and hour.

I am about to embark on cruise #55 with 8 lines. And 4 A/I vacations and yet to see system working properly about chairhogging. I would not expect it to work. It is very difficult to enforce, and crew is not very comfortable bothering guests, removing their stuff. Recently we were in Jacuzzi in Solarium on Adventure for some time (after a long walk in Boston). When we returned to our chairs near window we found another passenger occupying it. She calculated we were absent for too long and it was a time to enforce laws. 🤣 There were many empty loungers maybe in the next row, but she needed one of our 3 chairs. She wanted to be by the window. We had towels clothing, tablets, phones etc on all three... so it was pretty obvious we are in the area, yet ....

I'd think it is Curaçao or maybe Bonaire. Dutch islands.

There is no physical health check. You do it when you checking on line. It used to be 10+ questions 1 day prior sailing, now it is 3 questions 45 days prior up to boarding.

YouTube works, streaming not so much. Connections could be not great with either during some periods of time.

Royal changed rules. You can use your 4 drinks as D and 5 as D+ all day long, but not unlimited during happy hours. Diamond Lounge still provides hors d'oeuvres for 3.5 hours in afternoon.

It is not free, but it is free for me on my cruises since we became Diamonds and even more at Diamond+ JFYI we cruised a lot with 7 other companies too. Check my signature. We never concentrated on RCI till recently just to get to Diamond level, but none other mass market line offers the same level of benefits as RCI even if you spend thousands with them. I could continue to sail with them and did not get this.

I am sure there are bad places, but during last year we multiple times, many of my friends, relatives, people I know from Europe visited NYC and never felt unsafe.