island lady

LOL...you must have misread my post on why I prefer starboard side, .....or you are messing with me...as usual. Funny boy! 😄 I like the starboard side for the quiet atmosphere...I have no hallway foot traffic, except for what suites are over here "on the dark side". And nice to have the keyed entry on this side as well....that is when they actually close the doors...some are too lazy to do so. 😒 But your super convenient cabin is indeed nice, and perhaps you don't mind all the hallway foot traffic to CK/SL. BTW...I need the extra walk from over here anyway...eat/drink too much on these cruises. 😲

LOL...you think I don't know where 1722 is? We walked past it several times a day this week, plus four weeks last year...and will again next week. 😄 My comment was in response to my friend from Orlando that made the statement I booked the wrong side...with him knowing I was on the starboard side. It is my friend that likes to book 1722, not me. 😉

Ahh..thanks Ken. I thought that sounded very strange. 😮

Yes, common with Radiance B2B...but only a small bit of our Alaska tour. We follow it up with renting a car in Anchorage, and then striking out on our own for a few weeks doing rental homes. Flights up there, may as well get the most for it. 😉

OMG...totally right on!! 😄

I actually picked that one when Wonder first came out, when we were doing the Med. and TA. It is Starboard side, in a keyed entry area all to itself.. We get no foot traffic going to and from CK/SL, like they do on the port side. Upstairs on deck 18, both sides get foot traffic going back and forth from the Suites Sun deck. I am a light sleeper, so a more quiet hallway works for me. 🥰 And don't tell anybody about the "secret doorway" that is just 4 cabins down from us. 😄 I use it if I forget something when in CK and need to dash to the cabin and back quickly.

For us, as we are currently....the set up on Wonder (which is also our home port ship) works the best for us. Deck 17 all GS cabins (our favorite type) same deck as CK and the SL. 🙂 We are in the same cabin for this B2B as we were for four weeks last year at this time (Med and TA). Love it.

We book full suites. So...yeah, this Pinnie gets access. 😉

Awww...thanks! You are most welcome and happy it worked for you. Definitely works for me, and in fact today (sea day) on Wonder is my hand wash laundry day. Though I only use hook magnets on the ceiling, (no clothes line) when I hang my stuff up inside. As close to the A/C as possible for air flow. And like you...we send out wash and fold (boil and fry 😉 ). The combo seems to get the job done. But I think with Serenade we will be also adding in dry cleaning for the things that are too tough to hand wash. Congrats on the Sydney to NZ!! We are doing a circumnavigate of Australia and then hopping onto another sister ship to do NZ beginning of 2025. Both of those with Viking. RCI cancelled our Aussie adventure not just once, but twice...so they lost out. 😉 And is also the reason we are not doing the 2nd quarter on Serenade, since we are already booked with Viking for that area.

Ready and waiting for you...will try to usher the giant lady in on Sunday for you. 😄 Quack Quack! 🦆 Bucky has already started placing his Origami Boats around the ship....find those as well. 😄

What roll call? 😉

Ummm...please keep in mind that not all Pinnies cruise in inside cabins.

Totally agree. We have "Coastal Kitchen" zero charges posted on our account nightly. No way to tell if they are voucher or our suites perks. But I figure free is free...no matter what they want to call it. But if we would ever (and we never) go up and over our six per person...and knowing half of them were suites happy hour drinks during dinner in CK...should we see a charge on our account.... I would then take issue. So far...non issue.

Oooooohhh! Yes please. NZ dry SB for me please!! 😋

Teeara...I am doing mine next year (though once again westbound) on Serenade. 😉

Yes, I have adaptors....but are there any regular (for the U.S. anyway) standard outlets is the question I am asking. And BTW..Euro outlets are 220-240 voltage. Standard U.S. is 110 to 120 AC. Hey Orville...will wait to hear from you on that as well. Thanks in advance. 🙂

Are there really just Euro plugs on Serenade now? Didn't they leave any 110 plugs at all?

Thanks...I had read somewhere that the full cruise pax and the quarter segment pax could use the laundry facilities... I guess I should bring my hand wash equipment with me anyway then if we are excluded.

Bring her in for us! 🙂

This exactly. ^ And the reason why I am my own TA. 😉 BTW...just booked Seward to Seward B2B 2025 yesterday with Next Cruise. We have done that one 5 times already.

Thanks my friend! I was hoping you would post soon! I knew you were doing this back and forth cruise. Hope you have a fantabulous time! 🤗 The one thing I would love to know...is if they indeed install the laundry facilities. That would help a lot, for me to be able to leave my "washy washy" collapsible tub and laundry detergent behind. I have way too much other stuff to pack, and that would help a lot to leave those behind. 🙂

We as well...which we have done several times. Could have booked it again yesterday for the 2025 season, but decided to grab the more comfort and room of a hump GS cabin. 🙂

I am still working on them to install that beer tap next to the coffee machine...stay tuned. 😄

Yeah, that's about it. 😉

It was the Next Cruise team (two of them told me the same thing) that told me the 2025 Alaska bookings were open to outside TAs first. I thought that was pretty bad that the company TAs were last to have ability to book. They are really frustrated by that. Can't blame them.