Quantum & Ovation Plus - 30 Day Live (hopefully)

[DaKahuna]

33 minutes ago, bobmacliberty said:

I didn’t ask for specifics. I’ll see if I can get better info tomorrow. 

Not that important, more curiosity on my part.

[CanuckCruizer]

9 hours ago, bobmacliberty said:

I didn’t ask for specifics. I’ll see if I can get better info tomorrow. 

Hi bobmacliberty - yes - inquiring minds want to know...😎 - we are on the Hawaii sailing and would love to hear any updated info.  Thank you so much.  Hope you have a great day in Victoria - supposed to be sunny & hit 70F.  It is going to be hot here in Vancouver today - mid 80's.

 

Cheers,

Canuck

[bobmacliberty]

Good morning from near Tofino, BC on Vancouver Island. It’s very foggy out. I doubt the bridge can see more than 100 feet. The captain is again blowing the fog horn regularly. Our cabin is by the aft elevators and we can hear it clearly but somewhat faintly. I would not have enjoyed hearing that sound earlier this morning if I was in a bow cabin. Better safe than sorry.  
 

We are supposed to arrive in Victoria today at 5:00pm for a short stop. All aboard is 9:30pm. Not much happening in Victoria on a Sunday evening so we’ll probably just walk around a bit. 
 

Typical sea day stuff today. Lots of sales, trivia, and Bingo. None of that appeals to us so we’ll probably watch football (Go Bills!) and read. 
 

More to come…

[bobmacliberty]

8 minutes ago, CanuckCruizer said:

Hi bobmacliberty - yes - inquiring minds want to know...😎 - we are on the Hawaii sailing and would love to hear any updated info.  Thank you so much.  Hope you have a great day in Victoria - supposed to be sunny & hit 70F.  It is going to be hot here in Vancouver today - mid 80's.

 

Cheers,

Canuck

Good to hear about the weather, especially Vancouver. We’ll be there for 4 days after the cruise. I’ll let you know what I learn about the engine work. 

[Lorey2007]

36 minutes ago, bobmacliberty said:

Good morning from near Tofino, BC on Vancouver Island. It’s very foggy out. I doubt the bridge can see more than 100 feet. The captain is again blowing the fog horn regularly. Our cabin is by the aft elevators and we can hear it clearly but somewhat faintly. I would not have enjoyed hearing that sound earlier this morning if I was in a bow cabin. Better safe than sorry.  
 

We are supposed to arrive in Victoria today at 5:00pm for a short stop. All aboard is 9:30pm. Not much happening in Victoria on a Sunday evening so we’ll probably just walk around a bit. 
 

Typical sea day stuff today. Lots of sales, trivia, and Bingo. None of that appeals to us so we’ll probably watch football (Go Bills!) and read. 
 

More to come…

Stop downtown and get a beavertail yummy.

[CanuckCruizer]

54 minutes ago, bobmacliberty said:

Good to hear about the weather, especially Vancouver. We’ll be there for 4 days after the cruise. I’ll let you know what I learn about the engine work. 

Sorry - forgot that you are not spending the day in Victoria, only a few evening hours.  Weather is supposed to be good in Vancouver - tomorrow 29C (approx 85F) & sunny, Tuesday 28C (approx 83F) sun w/possible light drizzle, Wednesday 19C (approx 66F) rain and Thursday 20C (approx 68F) sun w/possible rain & Friday - Ovation embarkation day will be sunny and 23C (approx 74F) - so hopefully a wonderful sailaway for you!  You are lucky as the weather is supposed to turn after that and we are possibly looking at having a wet, colder sailaway (on Oct 3) but another forecast is for partial sun and 66F (changing daily of course).

Enjoy your walk in Victoria.

 

Canuck

[bobmacliberty]

3 hours ago, CanuckCruizer said:

Hi bobmacliberty - yes - inquiring minds want to know...😎 - we are on the Hawaii sailing and would love to hear any updated info.  Thank you so much.  Hope you have a great day in Victoria - supposed to be sunny & hit 70F.  It is going to be hot here in Vancouver today - mid 80's.

 

Cheers,

Canuck

I talked to the Diamond Concierge. She has no new info on the repair work. She only said that they wouldn’t make the crossing if it wasn’t safe to do so. 🤷‍♂️

[CanuckCruizer]

54 minutes ago, bobmacliberty said:

I talked to the Diamond Concierge. She has no new info on the repair work. She only said that they wouldn’t make the crossing if it wasn’t safe to do so. 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for asking, I appreciate it.  Well, we got an e-mail from the Suite Concierge, so I guess the sailing is going ahead or she wouldn't take the time to bother with the e-mails.

Hope you have a nice last day and enjoy your cruise on the Ovation!

Canuck

[Bxc53]

1 hour ago, bobmacliberty said:

I talked to the Diamond Concierge. She has no new info on the repair work. She only said that they wouldn’t make the crossing if it wasn’t safe to do so. 🤷‍♂️

Ah yes, the Official Company line... I recently retired from a large multinational company and they had folks whoses  full job was creating and disseminating a "One Voice" to the customer facing employees to pass on to the customers.

 

We called it the Official BS... 😉    . I suspect, if indeed all engines were operating to spec, RCL would make an announcement to close out the earlier ones discussing the engine issues..

Edited September 25, 2022 by Bxc53

[DaKahuna]

7 hours ago, CanuckCruizer said:

Thanks for asking, I appreciate it.  Well, we got an e-mail from the Suite Concierge, so I guess the sailing is going ahead or she wouldn't take the time to bother with the e-mails.

Hope you have a nice last day and enjoy your cruise on the Ovation!

Canuck

Make sure and say hello to Romana from Toshiko and John.  She's a wonderful lady and will take very good care of you. 

 

You will also find that Han and Putah are great in the Suite Lounge.  Make sure to warn them if you are going to change your drinks around.  After the first one or two orders, they'll simply just ask if you want your usual. 

 

 

[CanuckCruizer]

1 hour ago, DaKahuna said:

Make sure and say hello to Romana from Toshiko and John.  She's a wonderful lady and will take very good care of you. 

 

You will also find that Han and Putah are great in the Suite Lounge.  Make sure to warn them if you are going to change your drinks around.  After the first one or two orders, they'll simply just ask if you want your usual. 

 

 

DaKahuna - you must have ESP, as in my reply to Romana's e-mail - I mentioned you and your wife singing her praises - haha.  She seems very nice.  Thanks very much for the tip on the servers, as we know exactly what you mean.  We had bartenders on HAL that had our drinks actually poured and ready and our seats reserved at the Crow's Nest before we even got to Happy Hour - lol.  That was exceptional service (props to Oliver on the Oosterdam).

Thanks again for all your info given in your live review and we thoroughly enjoyed the "food porn".

Bob - hope you and your wife are having a great last night and hope you enjoy our fair City for the next few days.  Have a great time on the Ovation.

Cheers,

Canuck

[bobmacliberty]

Good morning from Pier 91 in Seattle. Our first cruise is over. All but the walking off and final dinging out part at least. We’ve had a difficult couple of days, including a visit to the Medical Dept yesterday. It shouldn’t be anything serious but rather than traveling directly to Vancouver  today, we’ll stay a night in Seattle and go to Vancouver tomorrow (hopefully). I’ll explain more once we disembark and get settled. 
 

More to come…

 

 

 

 

[CanuckCruizer]

52 minutes ago, bobmacliberty said:

Good morning from Pier 91 in Seattle. Our first cruise is over. All but the walking off and final dinging out part at least. We’ve had a difficult couple of days, including a visit to the Medical Dept yesterday. It shouldn’t be anything serious but rather than traveling directly to Vancouver  today, we’ll stay a night in Seattle and go to Vancouver tomorrow (hopefully). I’ll explain more once we disembark and get settled. 
 

More to come…

 

 

 

 

Bob - so sorry to hear that you are having a medical issue.  Hope you get it resolved and everything is ok.

Take care,

Canuck

[akcruz]

41 minutes ago, CanuckCruizer said:

Bob - so sorry to hear that you are having a medical issue.  Hope you get it resolved and everything is ok.

Take care,

Canuck

 

I will second this, hoping all is OK and you are able to continue your trip as planned.

[Sea Dog]

1 hour ago, bobmacliberty said:

 We’ve had a difficult couple of days, including a visit to the Medical Dept yesterday. It shouldn’t be anything serious but rather than traveling directly to Vancouver  today, we’ll stay a night in Seattle and go to Vancouver tomorrow (hopefully). I’ll explain more once we disembark and get settled. 
 

More to come…

 

 

Oh no. I hope everything is ok with you. I will be anxiously awaiting the news.

[h20skibum]

2 hours ago, bobmacliberty said:

We’ve had a difficult couple of days, including a visit to the Medical Dept yesterday. It shouldn’t be anything serious but rather than traveling directly to Vancouver  today, we’ll stay a night in Seattle and go to Vancouver tomorrow

I hope it is nothing serious, and you can get it resolved before the next cruise. 

[Lionesss]

Praying

 

Take care

 

Our thoughts are with you.

 

 

[bobmacliberty]

Thanks all for the well wishes. I won’t leave you in suspense any more. The sea day after our Juneau stop, Micheline started feeling very stiff. We often walk 2-3 miles at a time but we’re guessing that the 3 miles of hiking we did at the Mendenhall center followed but literally squeezing sideways into a school bus seat without moving for 20 minutes, combined with cold/wet conditions, too much bad (for you) food, too much bad (for you) alcohol, too much sitting, a very hard mattress, and not enough stretching caught up with her.

She used to play tennis competitively and had problems where her hip would pop out. Her chiropractor would pop her hip back in and and she’d be good as new after a few days, but she could not move without severe pain until fixing her hip. She’s had some treatment and has been working with a trainer twice a week to strengthen everything, but she thinks her hip popped out again. She was stuck flat on her back in the cabin. If she moved at all…severe pain in her back (other muscles compensating). 
 

After a few hours, and realizing that it wasn’t going to resolve itself, we called medical. They eventually (took an hour when they said 20-30 minutes) sent a wheel chair to our cabin to get her. This was our first experience with a medical department on a cruise ship. Both the doctor and the nurse were fantastic.  They gave her an intramuscular shot (i.e., in her butt) of a painkiller. The nurse had hip issues and was familiar with some stretching that we think popped her hip back in. They gave her a few days worth of muscle relaxers and some Naproxen pills for the pain. Both have helped tremendously but haven’t eliminated the pain. At least she could sleep last night. 
 

So our final 2 days of the cruise were stuck in the cabin and eating dinner in the Windjammer, where I’d eat quickly and then bring a plate to the cabin for Micheline. At least we could watch football on the cabin TV, although watching the Bills lose to the Dolphins didn’t help my mood. I managed to sneak out for a drink or two while she napped, but we left a lot of free Diamond voucher drinks unused. Ouch. 
 

We were supposed to board a bus this morning to Vancouver where we were to stay at the Pan Pacific Hotel. There’s no way Micheline could have survived a 3 hour bus ride. Instead, we are staying an extra night in Seattle at the Embassy Suites next to the King Street train station. She is staying in bed with a regimen of painkillers and muscle relaxers, plus some stretching where she can. She’s already feeling better and we hope that she can make the 7:45am train (better than a bus) to Vancouver tomorrow. If not, we’ll repeat the process one more day and target the morning train on Wednesday. There’s currently

only 1 train a day that crosses the border. We are missing some sight seeing in Vancouver but we probably wouldn’t be able to do what we had planned anyway…biking through Stanley Park, visiting Grouse Mountain and the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park…since that would take physical exertion that Micheline couldn’t handle. 
 

The Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver has been very flexible with our reservations. That is greatly appreciated. Our primary focus is to get to Vancouver (in one piece and without pain) before our next cruise leaves on Friday. We fully expect that Micheline will be near normal in the next day or 2, based on past history. 
 

Sorry for the long story. More to come…

[DaniDanielle]

Praying for a quick recovery🤞🙏

[crzndeb]

7 minutes ago, bobmacliberty said:

She’s already feeling better and we hope that she can make the 7:45am train (better than a bus) to Vancouver tomorrow. If not, we’ll repeat the process one more day and target the morning train on Wednesday.

I hope Micheline is feeling better. Good news for you, Amtrak just started it’s Seattle- Vancouver run today, after 2 years. Micheline will also have several days at sea on your way to Hawaii, to really rest up and heal. 

[bobmacliberty]

1 minute ago, crzndeb said:

I hope Micheline is feeling better. Good news for you, Amtrak just started it’s Seattle- Vancouver run today, after 2 years. Micheline will also have several days at sea on your way to Hawaii, to really rest up and heal. 

I never wanted to take a bus to Vancouver. The train was always my first choice. I love relaxing on a train while watching the world go by and the scenery between Seattle and Vancouver should be beautiful. As you said, Amtrak wasn’t going to Vancouver and wasn’t giving a date when they would restart. Just sometime this fall. 
 

A flight would have worked but would have taken longer with airport transfers on both ends plus arriving early and dealing with security.  I couldn’t find a rental car to drive across the border. I even looked at taking a seaplane since that’s a real (and exciting) option from Lake Union practically to our Vancouver hotel. But they couldn’t guarantee our luggage could go with us. We didn’t want to risk that. We settled for the Amtrak connecting bus, figuring we’d suck it up for 3 hours and have more time to enjoy Vancouver. 
 

Today WAS the first day that the train to Vancouver is running again so if there’s a silver lining to this whole ordeal, it’s that we’ll get to take the train now. 

 

 

[Luckynana]

Bob, I am so sorry to hear about Micheline.  The poor thing!  Thankfully, as you said, there is a silver lining to your plans, and at least the trip will be much more comfortable on the Amtrak train.  Good wishes that Micheline wakes up tomorrow feeling so very much better.  🙏🤞

[dani negreanu]

19 minutes ago, Luckynana said:

Bob, I am so sorry to hear about Micheline.  The poor thing!  Thankfully, as you said, there is a silver lining to your plans, and at least the trip will be much more comfortable on the Amtrak train.  Good wishes that Micheline wakes up tomorrow feeling so very much better.  🙏🤞

 

@bobmacliberty

+ 1 🙏

[jmh2006]

I am also sorry your wife has been having issues but also glad she seems to be getting better!  I agree with you about trains, love them!!  Keep us posted on your arrival to Vancouver.

[Ozark_Kid]

I hate that for Micheline.  I hope she heals quickly.  Hanging out in the hot tub on Ovation might feel good.  Thankful she was able to get good help.