OCSC Mike

Looks like a pretty cool cabin for a family (assuming it's not overly expensive). Enjoy!

Yes, it's safe.

Correct unless someone cancels and it goes back on the market I guess. I wouldn't expect many price drops in general these days though and especially not for a rare sold out cabin type.

Maybe they're assigning them earlier nowadays for whatever reason. Glad you were able to switch!

This seems to indicate that @Lovetocruise2002 believes I would have no problem in the tub, lol, although I did amend my freeloading plan to taking naps on the suite sun deck instead.

+1, especially the travel part. We're only able to swing it schedule-wise b/c I'm flexible for a large portion of the year, my wife has a teacher schedule with the obvious breaks, and it's an hour drive to PC for us. We swing it finance-wise b/c we stay in caves, not fancy-schmancy suites, lol.

This is why we're doing Roatan in June and Paradise Beach isn't until July (same itinerary both times). The plan is to do one long-ish excursion plus CocoCay per cruise but if we don't make it in June we have July as a backup and we'll just be doing two excursions.

Sorry to bump this but, FWIW, unless the app has been lying to me, there have been headliners listed every week on Wonder since we had this discussion (the app has just been slow to update/populate future cruises). One finally popped up for next week's cruise so mine is next in line. Just sharing info for the heck of it really. It's not a huge deal to us and the headliners seem to mostly be singers that we'd have zero interest in seeing anyway.

I know my cabin always has a ziploc bag filled with cookies, lol.

Only suite snobs think it takes Star Class to induce a food coma. I assure you it can be achieved at little to no cost, you just have to go get the food yourself (the horror). Yes, you (and others) mentioned the small portion size. I like trying different stuff so that works for me. I'd rather try 5 different small plates than one giant burrito. My order (one of them at least) will likely be something more like "one of each taco." Some of the reviews I've watched/read mention the portion size as a negative... which I don't get. It's all you can eat. You want more, order more! Everyone seems to agree that the service is excellent though. OK, enough about Paradise Beach. We have Eastern this month with a powerboat snorkel excursion we loved 7 years ago and are doing again. Apologies to others for hijacking the thread. I'm sure Turquoise Bay is lovely but we're taking a private tour of Roatan in June since we tried to in 2019 but Harmony wasn't able to dock due to high winds.

If I blog our cruise in 10 days and the one in June, that may be all I have to share by the time I get to July, lol. Not sure how many times people want to see/read about the included food on Wonder (plus Mason Jar brunch). Really going to make an effort to just make random shorter posts so I don't get blog fatigue.

We didn't even get off the ship (except CocoCay) in Sky Class. I'm never gonna be in Star Class but that would be a no-brainer for me. BTW @Jax, I keep finding more and more positive reports about Paradise Beach. It's 3 cruises away for me but I'm still looking forward to it, lol. Thanks again for your recon work there a few months back.

Gee thanks. Unless the pics come with free drinks, that's OK, lol. Do let me know who the CK manager and supervisor are if you don't mind. The staff we had in June was the best we've ever come across but I know several have moved to other ships (one of the concierges is on Icon for example). Keep an eye out for Vinay (wrong spelling I'm sure) from India.

It’s always night 2 on Wonder when CocoCay is day 2 (1st formal night is 3) but in this case I agree night 2 is likely formal/French.

It was already merged. Neesa had originally started a duplicate roll call. You can go back to packing (or getting others to pack).

It kind of is… even I’ve been in one on Wonder before. Being right by the SL/CK & under the suite sun deck were the highlights for me. Nothing against the nice room with its tub shower & fancy TV that comes out of the ceiling but it was having free drinks, coffee machine, & snacks literally steps from my cabin door that did it for me.

Does one actually need a reason to try a little of everything?

I hear ya. Some of the trivias on Wonder were like that. We sat on the floor of Spotlight Karaoke (On-Air on other Oasis class ships) once or twice, the Schooner Bar fills up, etc. Oasis class is by far my favorite but one thing we did enjoy when we went back on Indy a couple years ago was the Star Lounge being used for some of those game show type events. Sometimes we just grabbed a small table in the back near the bar and watched the chaos while having a drink.

Maybe he'll just drop in with a comment or two but I'm not holding my breath, lol. No biggie either way. I'm far more concerned with actually taking pics (which I've mentioned I normally don't do) and making shorter posts here and there rather than long daily recaps like my brain is naturally wired to do. I enjoy reading both types of blogs but the long recaps start to feel more like work at times and less like sharing the fun.

This is part of what I'm looking forward to when I go back on Wonder in 11 days. When we were on her the 1st time, I think we saw shows 6 out of 7 nights. This time around, we'll likely only see 3 shows, leaving far more free time to do whatever in the evenings.

Unless PC has somehow closed the loophole, because you pay at the machine as you enter the garage, you only wind up paying for the length of the 1st half of your B2B. The machine has no way of knowing when you'll actually be back to leave. I've only done one B2B myself (a 3/4 like yours) but that was a nice bonus savings, lol.

Yeah, he popped into our roll call at least, only reason I know he'll be onboard. Ironically, he lives virtually down the road from me where my wife teaches but it will take being on a ship with 6000 people in the Caribbean to possibly run into him and say hi, lol.

Trying. That’s pretty much what I meant by looking at the big picture… just easier said than done at times. Maybe you can use your mod powers & get @Matt to drop in. He’s on that cruise too.

Agreed but I can deal with "not as fun." Unfortunately it's actual negative stuff getting in my way at the moment. Trying to move on and look at the big picture (which is fine) so let's let this stuff fall away and get back to @Lovetocruise2002's planning and stories of how she's the only one who will be packed on time.

Because that's the only way you get to see food from the WJ and other places the poors eat? I'll start one and @GatorCruiser said he will be contributing but no promises as far as how much or what I wind up posting. Unfortunately real life is getting in the way of my being able to relax and look forward to the cruise like I should be but I'm hoping it either passes or I'm able to just block it out once embarkation day gets here. I have no doubt I'll enjoy the cruise itself but how much I blog is TBD.