OCSC Mike

If they're still there by the end of July you hid them a little too well, lol.

You can look at the current sailing’s full activity list in the app.

That's my favorite too. I felt like the oddball b/c of all the fruity pebble love, lol... although I eat that one too.

Agreed... I still eat some of it though, lol.

That's lame. Oh well, enjoy JR's! Haven't been there in forever except to use a couple vouchers on milkshakes.

It could vary by ship but the Crown Lounge (they changed the name) had every main type of sweetener on my recent cruises (yellow, pink, and blue). Pretty sure they were all the name brand versions but not 100% sure on that as I don't have a major preference. Congrats on Diamond and enjoy the coffee machine! It has always been one of my favorite perks.

Yes, it is, but we all like what we like.

One of my only complaints about 7N western from PC. We always seem to leave Costa Maya early & there was a beach club we enjoyed a long time ago but wouldn’t bother going with the early departure time. We’ll likely just walk around the port for the heck of it in the morning & get right back on the ship. Maybe not but anything food-related is at least of interest to me. I eat my tiny lobster tail & my wife’s while she gets tortellini. The molten chocolate cake is her current favorite MDR dessert so Lobster night is one of the few MDR nights she truly enjoys, lol, just not for the lobster.

I must be the only one who likes the birds. The angry chickens make me laugh and the dive bombing seagulls bring back memories of my summers as a kid at the Jersey shore.

If only La Bamba had referral fees! She deserves a commission.

Crazy. When I hear that prices doubled for some sailings/cabins it almost makes me feel OK that I've booked summer 2025 cruises for like 20% more than I paid for this summer. I have a much lower price for spring break 2025 (that I'm likely going to have cancel, which kinda kills me) but spring break 2026 is the same as summer so that one went up like 50%. March is no longer cheaper than June/July.

Florida is toying with that idea. I think 1-2 counties are testing it. I think parents are strongly against it.

Yep, that's crappy. Don't get me started on start dates... School starts in the 1st half of August here when it's 100 degrees. My wife technically starts work on August 2nd next year but if she does 3 extra days before that there's some benefit later in the school year so she usually does. That takes her back to the very end of July! Kids go back on 8/12 as if that's not bad enough. Florida decided they would slowly move towards starting closer to Labor Day like up north a long time ago then changed their mind.

Still an awful deal compared to the 3N package with grats included from everything I've seen but at least it's clearer.

Looks like they updated the Chops+1 listing to make it clearer that grats are included. It wasn’t there when I started this thread.

I miss the shore (not the show).

Two different posters here were kind enough to take pics in the area of where #22 will be and I think the view will be fine but it might be kind of close to the walking path that people take from the beach to the pool area... so my best guess is that we'll just have to decide what we want on that one side... another daybed or a walking path. Really not a big deal of course. I'll be busy eating and drinking either way. My first choice is actually that they get so delayed that it's not even installed by July. I think I like #14 being on the end. It's been almost 4 weeks since they told me 2 weeks so who knows? I figured I'd shoot them another e-mail on Monday just for the heck of it. BTW, my next blog/cruise isn't even the one with Paradise Beach. We're doing the same Western in June and July but Paradise Beach is July.

Twice as much? Crazy. Give it some time. I keep an eye on stuff we'd never actually buy out of boredom/nerd-dom and I've actually seen less-crazy prices lately... but as you know everything is highly variable by ship/sailing. The $70 daybed at Paradise Beach is my idea of splurging, lol. Still waiting for them to install those new ones BTW.

I wonder how Dan would feel about "Beezus" as a nickname.

No critters the one time we had one last June. There was a lemon shark by our OTW cabana in June 2022 that chased my wife out of the water though, lol. Pick your critter... or ? FWIW, I much preferred the OTW cabana and prices seem to be all over the place depending on the sailing. We're not actually shopping for one but on one of my cruises the difference was only like $100 at one point.

This is probably better off in the main forum but where are you seeing something called Island Grill? Never heard of it.

You'll be fine. GTY's are accounted for. You will also see "sold out" categories show back up as available if you check often enough.

Thanks for all the pics and info. We were at Nachi last October and it was super relaxing but the frozen drinks were awful and the food was just OK... that's what led us to try Paradise Beach. I'm sure we'll walk around since we've never been there and hop in the pool or the ocean just to cool off but there will plenty of time spent eating & drinking in our daybed.

Agreed.

Music is as subjective as food but thanks for the feedback. We'll see how we like them. We didn't like the band that was previously on Wonder (Temperature). If nothing else, Music Hall has some unique drinks to use vouchers on, lol. We feel the exact same way. We actually went to sit out in CP one night in March and it's definitely peaceful, it was nice and cool that night, but it's just not our thing. We got bored after 5 minutes, lol. A while back we were having dinner in Giovanni's on some other Oasis class ship and had a window table. There was a woman playing violin in CP and our server cracked the window to let the music in... we thought that was nice. Couldn't agree more about the cruise ship jokes. We get it... cabins are small and people eat a lot. We still go though b/c we really enjoy stand-up, we just hope we get someone who works the crowd with some improv and doesn't do the cruise ship jokes. We keep winding up really liking one comic and hating the other. We actually saw the same guy on Allure in October and on Wonder in March... fortunately we liked him. From checking the app, he seems to be on and off Wonder quite a bit so maybe we'll run into him again. We could possibly see it again if we have nothing else to do but it's not one of our favorites. I appreciate all the dance-type stuff but wish there was more diving. We did that in March but said we're not going a 3rd time. The special effects at the end were still cool but I can't sit through the rest of the show again. Obviously I'd be there every night since I never have access but I think I already mentioned we agreed how especially nice we thought the entire suite neighborhood was (compared to Harmony, which we thought was plenty nice at the time). I'm sure you have a routine as often as you cruise (heck, we do and cruising 3-4 times/year is our max) so doing something different is probably a nice change of pace. Glad it happened to work out that way. Congrats!!! I'm skeptical about using up our 10 but I'm gonna try! My wife probably averages 2/day but she'd never get to anywhere near 6 so I'm going to have put in some effort.