island lady

That would be in dog years of course. 😄

Thanks! We were there last year, loved it. Great walking town and pretty waterfront. 🙂

LOL...I am packing for the last quarter of RCI world cruise out of Barcelona next week. 😉

LOL...OK...more cabin selections for us. 😄

I just hope they work something out. I most definitely don't want to have my Aussie circumnavigation cruise cancelled. That has happened twice now with RCI (once for Covid, but once for no reason at all well past restart)...and is the reason we switched to Viking for that adventure.

Hah!! I resemble that remark!! 😄 😄 Though I did find it interesting when I pull up the Celebrity website to look for new cruises, I see older faces...gosh we do still exist!!. On all the Royal website pictures...it is always and only ....young families with kids...

Agree....we love the drink voucher program on Royal! Anywhere, at anytime ....it is happy hour for us. 🥰 We unexpectantly became a Zenith equivalent...without even having been on an X ship before. Supposedly now have the premium drink package. Not sure how that all works, happy to have it, but more importantly for me...the WIFI package. 🙂

Me too. First cruise with X for us in December. Then became even sweeter for us when they came out with the status match with Royal for perks on X. 😉

We are also on the Venus 1/20/25 out of Sydney. Have heard nothing from Viking. A "no news is good news" thing hopefully. We then connect to Orion the next day after we disembark in Sydney.

My Dad used to pull water skiers in front of the Musical Fountain (and actually designed the boat jump ramp!). Is that still going on? Grand Haven was soooo beautiful in the Summer. 🙂 A perfect little town on the water.

Oh sure...they want to make my bid money go away....I can see that. 🤪 So why did they accept my 20K on my bid last year? 😉 63 nights in a GS, versus a balcony. Worth it.

My post was just to point out that hurricanes are common in July, as it is right now. Thanks, I do know OP was talking about 2025, so hurricane season for next year. 😉 It comes around once each year for some reason. BTW....I grew up in Grand Haven, graduated from Grand Haven High School. No hurricanes up there. 😄

I have bid on so called sold out cruises before. RCI was still taking bids even though it showed sold out. I won a bid on one of them. (Cancellations, no shows, etc.) But this one, won't even let me try to bid. When I emailed the WC desk, she told me due to over sold condition they were not even putting the bid system out there. Soooo...it indeed it DOES have something to do with it in my case.

Great deal....but two words: Hurricane season. 😮 Would not want to be down there right now either! Here comes Beryl!

For me, I can totally see my next cruise as sold out...not just due to online...but I cannot even submit an upgrade bid. 😞

And is the reason, we (even with Pinnacle benefits) are moving away from RCI. They only want the young families now...no longer care about we "old fart" loyal customers. Will be on our first X cruise end of this year with more to come. But if we find the same thing with X....we will be moving away from that sister line as well. We loved Viking last year, and now have 5 longer cruises booked with them.

Yes, thank you for correcting my statement. Bottom line...is I can use my phone.

I hear ya' there. Sooo frustrating as we do not live in a rural area. Our community alone has 1600 homesites. AT&T is the only cell service that has that problem here. And it did for the 4 weeks we were just south of Portland...same situation.

Our signal service out at our community (1600 homesites) is non exist with AT&T. Have called them many times to complain. We are not out in nowhere land!! 😡 Finally found one rep with AT&T that told me he had the same issue. He connects to home WIFI, then turns on WIFI calling. I did that a year ago, and have great phone service from then on. Funny thing is .....I don't turn on Airplane mode...but it still works.

I am now even more happy that our NW passage on Octantis to Greenland will not be until August. 🙂

Pisco Sours with that foam were pretty good on our cruise along Peru!! 😄

Thanks! Have most of our med cabinet loaded in a duffle bag already...and all the toiletries and a foam topper. 😄 Aww...bummer on the continuing radiation. Hope all is healed up and done with all that stuff soon! Will be booking the Apex "Birthday Boy" cruise when we board Serenade in a week. Looking forward to that one!

We liked staying in Lahaina too. Left just 2 weeks before the devastating fire. So sad.

We are just "forced" to rejoin RCI world cruise on Serenade out of Barcelona in just over a week. I think that view will be on our horizon. 😉

At some point...hopefully in the future...we will sail with the two of you again! 🥰