island lady

The booking agent from Viking originally put us in 8018. Upon researching later, I found complaints about the loud banging door to the outside right next to it that pax use a lot. Noisy and lets in blasts of bad weather during rough conditions. I called to be changed out. I am now in 7016, and think it may indeed be a better location. Though very close to the elevator doors. Anyone have any issues with that cabin? Thanks in advance. 🙂

I am usually never home anyway...so I don't notice what comes in the mail there. 😄

You probably heard the old saying about dining....Eat breakfast like a Queen, lunch like a King, and dinner like a pauper. Really is easier on old folks like I am not to have a huge dinner to digest late anyway. 😉

I go into the SL or CL very early for Bucky's coffee and my morning Latte. Have many times been in there when they were checking, cleaning, and refilling the fancy coffee machine in there. Have never, ever witnessed them putting half and half in the machine. It was always just plain milk. Sometimes small containers, sometimes those big bladder things, sometimes box milk....but always milk. No half and half.

Peanut butter stuffed French Toast? Oh my....sounds yummy!! 😋

Portland ME...though we prefer "Two Fat Cats" for blueberry pie. 😋 One port day there, Bucky could not eat the full piece of pie he bought there.... (they are huge) so he decided to bring it back to the ship to eat later. Security caught him and told him he could not bring it on.....so he simply sat in one of the plastic chairs just outside the gangplank, (I think they were for the crew) and ate the rest of it in front of them. You should have seen them salivating over that scene. I think they were hoping to score it for themselves. 😄

To those that are worried about the large lunch they may have had that day, followed by early dining time....there is nothing wrong with simply having a light dinner on those days. Soup...salad..etc. There are many times I have simply had a couple of appetizers or one with a salad. There is no rule that you have to have a large full dinner with dessert in the MDR every night. 😉 And there is always the WJ for later night munchies if they should happen to occur.

Follow up to the promised refund at 90 days. Surprise...surprise!! We actually received it at exactly 90 days. First time they actually did something they promised!

Best Chops breakfast experience we have had by far was our B2B2B on Voyager this last February. They welcomed us by name every morning, had our favorite beverage choices coming out as we were seated...and food was always hot, fresh, and delicious. Service was over the top wonderful. When they ran out of my favorite V8 choice, our waitress picked up a six pack on her own time off in port. Wow.... Miss that place!

Bucky always brings on his Dove Dark Chocolates. Eats most of them, but is generous with handing them out to crew as well. On December cruises, I bring fruit flavored candy canes which I hang from a little Christmas sock on a magnet hook on the door. The cabin attendants and various crew members that pass by love snacking on them. 😉

Happy cruising my friend. Will be following along! 🙂 Our turn in our favorite GS again end of Oct. B2B.

One cruise on Harmony, we were not impressed by the lack of service in Chops...ended up back at CK, which was good since we were so familiar with the staff in there and our favorite waiters. On Jewel, with no CK of course, Chops was really bad. On both legs of both B2Bs in February and January. Both food and service even worse. Ended up in the MDR for breakfast, with far superior service and better choice in entrees. We kept trying to see if things had improved in there...but finally gave up.

Just got my wish list granted last week. Octantis doing a brand new itinerary of the NW passage and sailing the St. Lawrence Seaway out of Toronto 2025. Booking up quickly!

I always set a reminder to myself on my daily planner to pay off upcoming cruise the day after statement date with my CC. That way they carry it one more month until I pay it off. 😉

Thanks! LOL...that is what a favorite captain on RCI would tell us during an event (every time 😉 ). He also used to tease that one of the older, much smaller ships they had in the early years is now "Lifeboat #12". 😄

Have only been a couple of river cruises, but it has been many years ago...will be on Viking Vidar this Sept. Having been mostly ocean cruising...and always called a "ship"....question is the river cruise. Is it called a ship or a boat? Captains on ocean ships cringe and some get pretty upset if you call his ship a "boat". 😉

They never have, and we are checking through together. Would only have to show security our paperwork if needed. I carry on the lap top...no room for wine. 😉

True, but I was pointing out one person (my DH) can pack two of his bottles in one carry on. There are two of us in a cabin. Two bottles for the cabin. My wine is the comped 3 bottles they give us.

Thanks....My sentiments exactly. We totally enjoy sea days on ocean cruises as well. 🙂

We are booked on Viking Vidar Grand Euro Sojourn for 21 nights in September (hoping we get lucky and are not dealing with typical low river levels during that time). Knowing how tours every day can leave you "toured and tired out"....I have left gaps during the 3 weeks of several days to recoup and just enjoy the boat for the day. No reason we have to tour every single day, though we do still have quite a few packed in to enjoy.

But two per cabin. One person can take two bottles on...but not to exceed the two bottles total in the cabin.

Oh for sure!! 😄 Cheers! 🍷

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Hit and miss, but I have received several of those awful plastic cork screws, along with the comped wine and a couple of glasses. But also hit and miss if we get our wine at all right away (or the correct type) or any glasses at all. 😕

I only drink one.