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I booked Wonder on Aug 11. Wanted to do the 4th but it was on the naughty list. I did upgrade to GTY neighborhood balcony for $146. Taking my youngest son as a special dad and son trip since I’ve previously booked up all my wife’s PTO 

1 hour ago, WAAAYTOOO said:

So here I go...."telling" on myself.  Sheesh...

I made the rookiest of rookie mistakes.  I double-booked (overlap) cruises !  I still can't believe I made such a stupid, rookie mistake but I sure did !

 

I think you’re being a little hard on yourself. Look at the bright side, the only reason this happened is because you are fortunate to be able to cruise so often. Now if someone like me who only gets to cruise like once or twice a year did this, that would be a rookie mistake. In your case, I could easily see that happening trying to keep track of all your cruises. I would definitely need a detailed spreadsheet for that

Doesn’t look like Utopia is excluded from the list. There are a few select ones, but guess since it’s doing 3/4 night they decided people could use certificate before the 1 year mark. I was hoping to get Wonder on Aug 4, but that is excluded 

I noticed on my August sailing on icon many of the PDCC prices have recently dropped. 

I went in Feb and paid around that and thought it was worth it. Just as an fyi, if you like to go in the water at the beach it will be pretty cold in January, but you do have the heated pool option. And definitely watch for it to drop in price and rebook. I think mine started out at like $50/person and ended up getting for around $30/person. 

3 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said:

I struggled with whether to do a live blog for these 3 rather mundane EX cruises but I decided to give it a go.

What's this nonsense about NOT doing a blog....I didn't know that was an option 

So wait, why was the solo traveler bring handcuffs on the cruise

15 minutes ago, GatorCruiser said:

Dang, we’re on 8/3-8/10 sailing. Too bad , would be cool to keep meeting fellow posters. 

Darn. Yeah agree. My hope is to be able to get on some group cruises in the future. 

19 minutes ago, GatorCruiser said:

Next cruise is icon in August. y’all thanks for following our posts. 

When in August are you on Icon?  I am on Aug 31 

Would someone actually use those?  Love my wife, but not wanting to take a dump with her

5 hours ago, Aftman said:

Yes and triple points if you cruise as single person in cabin.

Well my wife is making me take her

This is why I always want to be at the port by 10am.  My wife thinks I’m nuts, but I say the sooner I can get on the ship the better. 

35 minutes ago, Ampurp85 said:

In sad other news the week has flown by, its already Friday 

For those of us not on a cruise the week flying by is great news. Gets us that much closer to our next cruise

I was able to book a JS on Harmony for Feb 9 2025. Was trying to get one in Nov of this year but no JS available. With the prices of even JS right now I don’t see my booking one on my own anytime soon so glad to get this opportunity 

1 hour ago, GatorCruiser said:

Didnt see @Matt Who I know lives here.

I think I saw on Royal Dining Facebook page he ate at Mason Jar for dinner tonight.  He said something about slapping your grandma good 

7 minutes ago, jbrinkm said:

I've told my teens twice since they got home from school to pack. Under/over on whether they did it?

I would say 1 did and 1 didn't.  Everyone has the 1 kid that listens right 

2 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

An interesting observation that Hubby made last week on OA. He always thought that 2 flowriders would mean more stand up advance times. WN (July 2023) was when he really started to get into the flowrider. Since then we sailed OY, IC, and those only have one as well. He was pretty excited to go on OA with 2. Anyway, as it turns out, there is not much more advance riding time. He was rather disappointed. Most times, they ran one side boogie board, one side mixed wave. The lines were long on both sides. The only time they pretty much ran advance only was from 9-10:30am each day. So not a noticeable difference from ships with one wave. He actually said that his favourite wave so far is Icon, but we both realize that could have been due to reduced capacity on the inaugural

Yeah I noticed on Allure there wasn't really many advance only times, but when they did the mixed wave the boogie board people would be on 1 flow rider and standup on the other.  they would not allow people to just do boogie on either flow rider.  While you would get the chumps like me with the white bands trying to earn the blue band, that line would come and go.  they would give people 2 chances(1 turn) and if they didn't get the blue band that couldn't try again until the employees switched out(so like once an hour).  But the good news was it was open most of the day so gave plenty of ride time opportunity.  

38 minutes ago, GatorCruiser said:

Yes. The play scape is on the other side where the second flowrider would be. 

That’s a bummer. I love their being 2 especially on the Oasis class with all the people. It allows more time for the stand up only instead of having so much mixed wave. 

Does Wonder only have 1 flow rider?  

24 minutes ago, Ampurp85 said:

Yes. You get C&A point associated with room type. 

But you should post casino stuff in the newly minted casino area

Thanks!  yeah i thought about that right after I submitted this.  I forgot it was there.  

If you get an offer from the casino for a free junior suite room, do you still get double points for your loyalty status for that cruise

37 minutes ago, OCSC Mike said:

We have a 2-top next to one other 2-top & have been chatting with a friendly couple. Tonight the woman asked me if I did a live blog from Wonder in June, lol. She read it at that other site (I cross posted that one, I’m loyal you guys now). Thought that was pretty crazy. She thanked me… but no tip. Oh well.

That's pretty crazy! 

Great ship to do this itinerary. I had similar itinerary in Nov(just PDCC instead of Labadee) on Odyssey, and do that same itinerary on Oasis in March 2026. 

6 minutes ago, GatorCruiser said:

 My kids don’t deserve this but you can’t leave them at home, I guess. 

I’ve had no problem leaving them at home . We take them on many, they are going on Icon in August, but sometimes it’s nice to get away with just the wife. We are actually lucky that we are both on our 2nd marriage but everyone gets along really well. If we vacation without the kids my wife’s ex takes his 2 kids as well as the youngest that my wife and I had together. And my 2 are now both over 18 so they are self sufficient and I don’t have to worry about them 

21 minutes ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

In case anyone is wondering what happens if you leave something on board

Uh oh. Who left the jacket