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Disagree. We always book all included but we still like the "Happy Hour" for the Hors D'oeuvres and especially the camaraderie with the other frequent cruisers. I hope they don't do away with it.

I guess there should be some extra cost for combining business with pleasure?? 🙂

Hmm... I wonder if he can write off a portion of the cruise expense for office space rent? 🙂 I'm retired now but my home office was a pretty nice place. A "cruise office" would have been nicer but I don't think Wifi back then would have made it possible. 🙂

To me, the cabanas are absurdly expensive, but I suppose if you have money to burn...

Been to CocoCay and Labadee many, many times. Never spent a cent. It's a beach day. The beach is included. Food is included. Drinks are the same as on the ship (included with your drink package or same price as on the ship). Where you can spend money is on the same things you would spend at Disney or a State Fair: Rides. Also, they charge and arm and a leg for cabanas over the water. Not worth a dime to me. We like both places but we also stay on the ship many times to enjoy the ship with no crowds.

The weight limit is not necessarily a restriction. They just charge an arm & a leg if you go over. If he can absorb it in the business expense and also write it off...... I was on a business trip to Russia in 2007 and when I was about to board a flight to Budapest, my bag weighed 70 lbs (the amount allowed when I flew to Russia from the US initially) and I was only allowed 50lbs for the flight from Russia to Hungary. No problem, $350 extra paid by my employer made the flight possible anyway.

Good answer! I also noted that the "routine inspection" requires a dry dock which I personally wouldn't call routine. The original inspection was scheduled for 2024 so my math (I'd doing this in my head) tells me routine inspections must be done every 4 years. They are rescheduling the routine inspection to 2025 (my math skills still churning in my head tell me this is 5 years). So, I conclude: 1. 3-year reference is not germane since nothing is scheduled now 2. 4-year "routine maintenance" must be the normal periodicity for this maintenance 3. 5-year "routine maintenance tells me that if they can skip a year, then the 4-year scheduled maintenance was inappropriate in the first place, and they need to fire the person that scheduled it. (Or fire the person who re-scheduled it in the event it should have been 4-year)

Odd. Maybe it was my browser. Anyway, I could read this one. Thanks a lot. Cheers!

Agree. We drive from Woodstock. Port Canaveral and Tampa are OK but Ft Lauderdale & Miami are a stretch.

Couldn't read it unless I subscribed to the Orlando Sentinel.. Oh well...

Absolutely agree. We love sailing out of Port Canaveral but lately we've been loving Celebrity Cruises which is a much longer drive for us to Ft Lauderdale.

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Same here. BTW, we are also Retired Navy. Sallie 1995 and me (Terry) 1989

Additionally, (it was our experience anyway), when you have multiple OBC's, they use your non-refundable OBC first as you are spending it. Thus, saving your refundable OBC for last in case you have any left over.

True!!

So much for my logarithm theory. 🙂 We are booked on the Beyond for this coming Christmas departing Dec 22 which we booked well over a year ago. Before it was completely sold out, our cabin class had doubled in price. It doesn't even show up on the website anymore so I assume it's completely sold out.

I suppose that rules out paying for a threesome with a catholic democrat and a republican protestant?

Sticker shock usually occurs when the ship in question is getting close to being sold out. Seems that there is a logarithm in the reservation system that jacks the price up as the ship gets booked close to full. I wouldn't rule out an entire cruise line based on the pricing of a single cruise. You are smart to shop around.

That's what we planned on doing. Thanks

Thanks

Like I do when I get a haircut. I have to wait longer to get the same stylist. LOL We will miss traditional dining!!

That's correct. Thanks for the clarification Rich Yak! 🙂

My confusion was with my booking. It said I have 8:30 dining which apparently is not the case. According to all responses, I just go to the dining room and wait for a seat. Not having the same waiters or the same dinner mates which we traditionally liked. Oh well, that's the future of cruising, I guess.

We are booked on Celebrity Beyond for December. We have always had traditional dining so we booked late seating (8:30 pm). This was before we found out there were four different dining rooms on Edge class. I assume that we will not be dining at one table for the cruise so I'm wondering if we have to make reservations daily? Does this mean everyone has My Time Dining? ... Confused.