HeWhoWaits

Ours has a dress code - you must be dressed (unless every blind/shade/curtain is closed AND you are the only one home).

Compared to the days I work from home, my standard attire during the day on cruises IS dressed up.

The only folks likely to get this info ahead of time are those staying in suites who will have been contacted by the Suite Concierge. Even then, it's usually less than a full week notice.

I have yet to see anyone get dress-coded since the mid-2000s.

Not sure they are equipped to store anything for you. There is certainly space to leave somthing unattended, but it would likely be best to just collapse it and take it on the train with you.

I would go directly to the Hotel Manager with the concern. Guest Services can put you in touch, but they won't be able to do much themselves.

Any good travel agent will provide some perks - not the least of which is THEY deal with Royal when there are issues or changes. As for "the perks" - that's dependent on your status with Royal, not on the travel agent. Many folks here use MEI Travel which is a sponsor of the blog. Check them out.

Now that's a drink I can get behind! Grapefruit, grapefruit, grapefruit! Still not an incentive to get on the megaships, but a recipe for which I may have to go buy the ingredients.

We didn't register for Celebrity numbers until after booking our first Celebrity cruise. We still got all the perks associated with the match in force at the time. If we ever book on Silversea, we'll do the same.

Same ChatGPT algorithm.

That plethora of emails is the biggest part of the ridiculous workload I mentioned above. It's so nice to have the first workday back be just another workday rather than the first of several days trying to dig out from under the "pile." As you say - it's a personal thing. Many want to completely disconnect for X days. Others disconnect from work, but not from the rest of the internet world. I would rather have partial work disconnection and not be swamped on my return (and forums such as this are the closest I come to social media). None of these approaches is wrong.

"Apply for" = request. Guess they hope that by having a number we'll be more likely to book a cruise.

I choose to work several hours per day on trips to save some vacation time. That's not an expectation - it's on me and an expense I'm willing to absorb. an hour or so before WJ opens for breakfast and quick check of email while cooling off upon our return on port days same hour or so before breakfast plus more of the morning and maybe during lulls in afternoon activities of interest on sea days I typically use 3 or 3.5 vacation days instead of 5 for a 7 night cruise without feeling like I missed out on anything. Do that three times and you get an extra week off. Plus there is the benefit of not coming back to a ridiculous workload. If my employer "asked" me to be available, it would be a hard "no" unless they agreed to pay the entire cost of my internet package.

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The only time we ever booked GTY was also a suite guarantee. We got a JS almost exactly where we would have selected (same area, different deck) at a savings of $240 pp.