OCSC Mike

Sounds like a proper portion to me. Awesome! Have fun! I'm more of a swim with turtles guy but did see a few rays gliding across the bottom while snorkeling off St. Msrtin last month.

Happy B-Day!

It can but it is extremely rare.

Yes, my wife does (although she fills her with the free flavored water onboard). To be sanitary, you take cups of water from whatever venue (buffet, cafe, etc.) and pour them into your bottle... or you can get bottled water since you have the DBP and use that. You can leave later on and everyone gets breakfast (which starts extremely early on disembarkation day). I know nothing about that product and you're probably right... but you can test it at home by putting your phone into airplane mode and seeing how the kids watch works. You can get extra key cards from guest services (and obviously no one checks or cares who sleeps in what cabin).

That's a fairly high bar though.

Doesn’t sound harsh to me. Essentially that IS your “justification” (or reasoning, logic, thought-process, call it whatever you want). I look at it pretty similarly to you. We can mostly only sail when school is out b/c my wife is a teacher. For March 2024 - March 2025, we initially booked 4 cruises (all 7N on Wonder so it’s really apples to apples). The spring break cruises were a good bit cheaper than June & July. But that’s what we wanted to do this summer so we chose to pay the premium. Sure the March cruises are a better value but the Summer prices were worth it to us. For similar cruises further out, prices were even higher and March was similar to June/July. For now, we decided they were still worth it to us (booking refundable group rates helps b/c we have plenty of time to change our minds). There are a couple other factors that will make the total costs closer to the earlier cruises but that doesn’t really matter as far as my main point… Everyone values things differently. If cruising at current prices is still worth it to you, great! If it’s not, that’s fine too. I would never buy an expensive car or jewelry but if someone values those things & can afford them, no judgment here.

Just one less thing to take care of once you arrive. If it works for you your way, go for it.

Worst case, the porters can fill out luggage tags for her at the port.

Years ago when we were further away from becoming or acting like vintages we went to a local Irish pub for trivia almost every week with a group of friends & I think I got fish n chips 95% of the time.

Agreed. I still think funnel cakes should be on the Boardwalk on Oasis class... could add them to the Dog House... but adding them to a place already frying stuff is a no-brainer. WJ had churros on Mexican night on Wonder that were a bit misshapen (random chunks of dough, lol) but tasted good.

I've never had it in the UK but I like fish n chips... there's a reason you need tartar sauce for the fish and malt vinegar for the chips though. Also, it was more your comments about the food sitting out and how the tiny shrimp nuggets looked than the fish n chips.

Appreciate the pics but that sounds pretty bad. I've had far better looking breaded shrimp in the CL and SL on Wonder.

I just got to the bottom of a tiny bottle I bought before you showed me the light... I still think it tastes good but it definitely is more watery than Cholula.

No, look closer, it's chipotle. If Bezos sends me original he's getting it back!

Roger that, lol. Not sure I'll be able to tell though. I just started using it last cruise after @asquared17 had me switch from Tobasco chipotle (or pepper water as she calls it). It's also gonna be a little different when it's not in the middle of a taco with a bunch of fixins.

Huge price drop; I couldn’t resist. We make a lot of grilled chicken & brown rice to be healthy, picky wife, & neither of us can cook, lol. It’s like $4 for the tiny 5oz. bottles so I could spill out over half of it & still save money.

He's... well... something.

That’s the same sad 3-section warming tray I saw in 2022 & said it looked like something you’d get at Target for $19.99. I’m gonna need more pics from Playmakers & Fish N Ships.

Looks like a nice spread. Sincerely, OCSC Locust

I would have done the same thing! We only had a Promenade view once on Indy for 3N and didn't love it but I'd take anything over deck 3/4. That was the only time we ever put in any type of RU bid that wasn't just the min or like $5 over the min. You know we're fine with our interiors but we thought those rooms looked really cool... obviously we didn't win either. Definitely looking forward to pics of leg #3 now!

It ain't Wonder... no CK, no 11-11 drinks... abort abort!

As if I need to be tagged to find live blog food pics? Thanks for trying though. Sounds like you'll be fine, lounge-wise, either way but hope you continue to have your choice of the two.

Weird, I just logged in via Chrome on my iPhone and the bid slider works just fine. Are you using Safari or another browser? You can of course just use a computer but since you seem to want to use your iPhone I figured I'd try to help.

Ours made a fairly loud bang but I don't care about the shower door. It was the actual bathroom door that did the same thing that was a bit annoying if one were using it in the middle of the night... but a strategically placed wash cloth at the bottom in the threshold took most of the bang away and let us close the door quietly without disabling the magnet that keeps the door firmly shut. Our interior also got pretty freezing on Wonder (something we like about interiors). We usually didn't turn it all the way down until we were going to bed b/c it was making the cabin THAT cold.

One of the only things some smaller ships have over Wonder (and some other Oasis class ships) in my book... the cook-to-order stations. That used to be my wife's dinner most nights.