HeWhoWaits

On 6/11/2024 at 7:07 AM, PG Cruiser said:

TIKI TEA
Specialty Cocktails
The Bamboo Room

Don't you dare make this one with a legal tequila!

4 hours ago, ScottD said:

All of these one-off posters

As I said above:

10 hours ago, HeWhoWaits said:

"Ocean View Deck" isn't a thing. That's the first clue.

"Ocean View Deck" isn't a thing. That's the first clue.

16 minutes ago, PG Cruiser said:

Looks like Royal tweaked it.  I don't even know who Bennie is. lol

The might be trying to make us picture Benihana via Bennie's

14 hours ago, PG Cruiser said:

BENNIE'S MAI TAI
Specialty Cocktails
The Bamboo Room

 

NOTE:
I love the aroma of lemongrass in Bobby's Gin.

Shouldn't this be called "Bobby's Mai Tai?"

13 hours ago, SpeedNoodles said:

I approved the post, but I'll be totally honest. TL;DR.

We all blame you, @SpeedNoodles! 

Or maybe we all thank you for the humor that followed!

20 hours ago, Doug_Texas said:

Cruise Critic reported that passengers on Celebrity 1/25/2025 Equinox sailing recently received letters saying Labadee was being replaced with Nassau.  Of course cruises can always alter back to original itinerary but it doesn’t sound like an immanent restart.

We are one of several couples looking at potential February cruises.

One Celebrity sailing is called "Labadee, USVI & Antigua." Labadee is NOT one of the stops included in the itinerary.

6 hours ago, Atlantix2000 said:

Hi ChatGPT user!  Try to be less obvious next time.

I thought the ChatGPT in this case was relatively tame. At least it was (relatively) accurate.

Most important are the deck number and section of the ship that the bags need to reach. Both will be obvious in black and white. 

The only way for we "normal folks" to see different stateroom types in person is to befriend individuals staying in those different stateroom types and getting a personal tour of their rooms.

1 hour ago, RCIfan1912 said:

Common sense is lacking again.

Common sense stopped being common before my kids were born (and they're both in their 30s now).

9 hours ago, Mike n Ky said:

If the points had crossed over from Celebrity

We went back to our cruise history and did a comparison of where we would be using the Celebrity point system on our Royal Caribbean cruises (best guess on which point level applied to JS on Royal). Even being generous, we would only have reached Elite under Celebrity's system while we are D+ with Royal (thus Elite+). The double C&A points coming out of Covid helped, but as a Granny Smith to Honeycrisp comparison, we would have reached D+ without those extra points on our Celebrity cruise earlier this year if that trip counted at one point per night C&A.

1 minute ago, Doug_Texas said:

Is it additional 20% of their advertised packages pre-cruise

In February, the 15% off premium package upgrade for Elite (we had booked under the "have it all" which includes the basic package) was taken off an unusually low offering price pre-cruise.

On 6/3/2024 at 11:56 AM, Scarlett625 said:

People started begging those hiding ducks to just give them one or post exactly where they were being hidden. 

Those people need to be better at searching AND they need to understand the point of hiding and seeking.

Scenario A - they don't care who gets the voucher drinks when they are redeemed.

Scenario B - if you are clear that you are ordering one drink with a voucher and only one using the package, you should have no issues, especially if you become a "regular" with a particular bartender.

Website updated for me some time after 8:30 p.m. yesterday.

30 minutes ago, WAAAYTOOO said:

the complimentary premium drink package (which may or may not be equivalent or better than 6 drink vouchers per day

Premium package > 6 vouchers if you're going to use at least 4 or 5 on covered adult beverages. That allows for additional specialty coffees and other non-alcoholic drinks.

6 minutes ago, PG Cruiser said:

Are you in way saying that Penicillin doesn't belong in a Tiki Bar? 

Of course not. Tiki Bar = way too many opportunities to injure oneself and penicillin is an excellent antibiotic.

Single malt Scotch in a tiki bar just strikes me as hilarious.

38 minutes ago, PG Cruiser said:

At this point, after sampling almost 300 cocktails, I don't even know (or remember) what I like anymore. lol

Although while working on the Bamboo Room recipes (to be posted soon), I'm taking a liking to "Penicillin."  I am weirdly hooked on Laphroaig ha ha.

"Bamboo Room" and "Laphroaig" in the same breath just seems so incongruous.

It's possible that your $400 has expired. Credits DO have an expiration date. If you have multiple credits, they may have different expiration dates and the system doesn't automatically use the "oldest" ones first. That's on the cruiser or the cruiser's TA.

1 hour ago, FionaMG said:

ill-fated "dynamic dining" concept that Royal invented when designing those ships.

Royal certainly didn't "invent" the concept. Disney Cruise Line was doing it (and doing it well) long before Royal unsuccessfully ripped off the concept.

3 minutes ago, OCSC Mike said:

Same here on both counts. We also don't spend much onboard so I don't exactly have many line items besides all the $0.00 voucher drinks.

One or two actual purchases, all the vouchers, and a casino charge to cash out our unused OBC.

15 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

I've always gotten a paper copy. Could be a suites thing though.

No paper copies for us in suites since the last one we received (which WAS a suite).

On 5/26/2024 at 9:43 AM, JeffB said:

installation of LED screens

Those are already in place on Reflection.

On 5/26/2024 at 2:05 PM, FionaMG said:

virtual card

Could THAT be the problem?