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Usually I will come to the MDR with a button shirt and dress pants , When I just started to cruise I also carried a sport jacket but decided it is a waste of space in my suitcase and I can take another bottle of wine instead of it. Official nights started long time ago when cruise were long and people were coming with tons of luggage, the cruise got lots of revenue from the photo and other items which were associate with he official night. Today , when many people are flying to port and every luggage is chargeable and every pound cost money people trying to limit what they bring with them. If you ask me what bothers me with people next to my table (or in the elevator or in the theater) is less what they wear but the fact some people think that using deodorants in the Caribbean/European summer or wash their T shirt is optional ...

Done around 5 cruises in Europe , I must say , did not saw more suites/Tux in MDR comparing to Caribbean cruises, maybe there were from the US/other places

You can find same in RCL : 14 nights Anthem of the Seas SKY class not even star : If you want internal room , it will cost you only 8000 $ !!!

At least that movie was funny

1. More new places to cruise to including Oasis classes. 2. Refresh Radiance class so the we can enjoy more new itineraries which require smaller ships. 3. More stay overs in interesting ports even if it means going out from the port during the night not loose revenues. 4. Working web site that allow to do at least what was possible to be done two years ago .. 5. More TV channels options. 6. Ability to mark your table in the WJ so people can go on the same time to take food without worry to loose the table. 7. Better breakfast in the WJ , more options , more fresh vegetables and fruits. 8. Replace Cats. 9. Better ventilation in the casino. 10. Replace JR with better Hamburger joint. 11. More comfort food during the night , WJ to be open longer. 12. Shuttle buses to the nearest city/public transportation center with Normal cost. 13. Single day drinking package. 14. Drinking cards in all cruises.

The official limit is 12 bottles , but most of the time you will not have issue if you will bring more , the only issue is that you will need to carry it in your carry on. Bottle of waters cost around 2 $ on the ship. Ship water are created on the ship and carefully tested , I can bet if you will check some of the bottle waters quality compare to the ship water you will find the ship water are better. but if you want to go on the safe side , just bring some with your own.

First , the bad rate is in the exchange stores, ATM are more about your CC company but most of the time it's a good rate , you just need to check. 100 bills are mostly OK beside taxis and small vendors. You can always use them in the supermarket (which you will need anyway to use to stock your apprtment) or in resturants. When you land in Barcelona you will also find many stores at the airport before and after imigration , you can use it there also , buying some chocolate or a dress in Zara ?

You will be near the Plaka area , you can just go to eat lunch , go to the market, checkout the Museum (Acropolis) or go to the nearest supermarket to buy local souvenir , another option will be to go to see the parliament house and the gardens near it (10 minutes walk).

Just hope it will be outsourced to another IT department, its one thing if your application do not show you what your ordered much different if your flight plans are deleted and to start your auto pilot they will need to clean the cache restart and enter it in incognito mode.

This is not a bad option as it will at least solve the issue of what to do with your suitcases .... post 9/11 many places that use to have luggage storage are closed now but still there are some private places you can use. Your option will be to take such excursions or maybe to take a ride to EWR , try to to check in your luggage early (some companies allow it if they have other early flights) and catch the train to NYC (around 15 $ per person each way).

Pisa is around 1 hour from the port , Florence is around 2 hours from the port , although you have around 13 hours in this port I would rather focus on Florence unless you really need to have a picture of your "holding" the tower ? . there are much more things to do in Florence.

Schedule maintenance message is what I get trying to go to the site. IT seem quite a long schedule maintenance (at least 12 to 18 hours) wonder if we will see some changes in the site (support more ships ? , ability to choose your C&A drink ? or any other stuff that used to work long time ago) or just O/S technical upgrade . I just hope that things that already work will continue to work (based on previous upgrades ...)

I recall in one your report you wrote they asked you for hard copy ? , it might be just when they started with the application.

Yes, I can also check in to another cruise I have during October without any issue , strange . By the way , when you do check in from the app how do you print your set sail pass ? last time I have done it I had to do the check in again from the web site and it gave me a different slot time (it did not let me just to print the set sail but needed to do the update to get to it).

@Lovetocruise2002 Thank you for sharing , as always it was fun to follow , really made me check again the next GC cruise dates to see if by any chance we can join one of them. Safe travel home.

Yes, tried cleaning my cache and incognito , it seem some other issue .After completing the check in in the old page I can see it was changed to update check in /set sail pass but still pressing the link do nothing. My only problem is that checking in the old system gave me the old set sail pass which is the single set sail pass for all the passengers.

Yesterday I thought it is a good time to do check in to my Greek Island cruise which is only around 40 days from now . Since Rhapsody OTS is not supported yet by the application I thought I will try via the site . So after login in I saw the cruise and pressed the check in online , well nothing happened , no check in screen , no error message just nothing . As I already know some of the site issue I tried to do the same from another browser , did not work, tried from my IPAD , same same I called Royal , got some representative who asked me to restart my computer , I was shocked to discover it did not worked, his next idea was to wait 24 hours and try again which if I need to translate it from CSR language its something "I do not really know what to do with you but I really wish you will hung up so you will become another CSR problem". Well I did not argue and waited to try again (who know maybe they have some upgrade/update done) , by the way my other near by cruises I could do the check in. Tried again today , still did not work so I called again hoping to get a representative that will not ask me to try and shutdown my router/the power in all the apartment or to stand on my had try to check in upside down. Lucky for me I got someone that already encounter this issue, here are the steps if you ever have this issue : Change your location to Australia Go to the already booked page press cruise planner press already booked again and choose check in IT will take you to the old check in page. You can also try to go directly to the page : http://www.royalcaribbean.com.au/beforeyouboard/home.do Not sure why it happens , maybe the Rhapsody is not supporting the new system yet or just a random RC IT issue. Anyway, I am checked in now.

You mean the quest right ? ?

If you take refundable fare you can always change it (before final payment) if you find better deal.

Its a shame , as it was the first year I got a free cruise and I really wanted to upgrade but the price was ridiculous high. I guess someone was calculating that no matter if the gambler will be in inside or or in a really nice suite they will spent the same time/amount in the casino ... I guess we need to prove them differently. Interesting question , when you travel in SC are you spending the same amount of time playing in the Casino , less ? more ?

There are three places to buy such product on board , the first is the general store on the ship , you will get there small samples of cosmetics in a very high price. The second place will be the duty free , there you can find limited number of products from the usual suspects , price can be not too bad (for example the liquor prices are quite good) Third place will be the SPA , were they will try to sell you product from Elimis , some of the products are quite good per my spouse .

It would be very interesting to compare the prices before the unofficial announcement and after ?

Very tragic , I hope the family will be able to recover and continue with their lives, I understand why they are trying to shift the blame to the cruise line. Based on the current information its hard for me to understand how someone will mistake an open window to be a glass wall. If today we will blame the cruise ship for heaving open windows maybe tomorrow someone will blame them for getting diabetes due to all the food which is served in the buffet ?

Officially 22 days + 1 personal day + 9 public holiday (+/-) but I can not remember the last vacation I did not went with my laptop and worked part of the time . As both my Spouse and me working in the same company we get the same exact vacations.

Three weeks ago I Took the train from Rome to the port. The train is quite reliable , mind the 7 Euro one is the slow train that stops in many stations , you want to take the fast train which is 45 minutes . Once you get into the Train station you will need to take your suitcase up the stress (not sure I saw elevator but I might missed it). From there you can or walk 15 minutes to the port or to take a 2 Euro bus from the train station to the port gate, From the port gate you will take the internal free bus to the port. I would take the early train so if any issues you can take the later train or even in the worse case scenario a taxi. so the total cost for you will be a taxi to the train station around 20 E depends were your hotel is located , around 24 for two people for the train tickets and extra 4 more E for the bus.