Cindykm

1. Arrive the day before sailing and if time and location permit scout out the pier and see how its setup.

 

2. Arrive before 11 to return the car and avoid lines for check in and security.

 

3. Do venue hopping after boarding Sandwich at Park Cafe then hot items at Windjammer followed by Desserts at Cafe Promenade or Cafe Lattietudes.

 

4. Use House Phone right after boarding on embarkation day and ask Operator to help with Specialty Dining Reservations and My Time Dining etc.

 

5. Walk the track with a coffee and see the sea.

 

6. Use fitness center towels for pool towels or on shore excursion then return them when done.

 

7. Take tea battery operated lamps for interior staterooms

 

8 Ask Main Dining Room Server if they can cook a curry or local item from the Chef's home country one night

 

9. Order the dessert to go and grab a coffee before the show.

 

10 Reverse the order of your meal and start with Dessert and work backwards one night or just go for Dessert one night in the MDR after a big lunch. The cheese platter and two or three dessert options and coffee .

Your list is wonderful , I really like 8 Ask Main Dining Room Server if they can cook a curry or local item from the Chef's home country one night . And number 10 - I need to try this one of the nights, I am usually a stickler for things in the proper order, but this sounds fun.

A fun and easy read is Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Novel by Robin Sloan and Rodrigo Corral

and also a fun easy read is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Novel by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

The last book is a big big TOME, it's called the Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

These are 3 of my favorite books. The first two are very light reading, the last one is about a Historian in search for Dracula, this is not a scary or graphic novel. But it's so very interesting how they intertwine the real Vlad the Impaler with the made up monster of Dracula. It's a historic fiction if you will.

Hope you have luck with finding some good reading and enjoy the sea