HeWhoWaits

11 hours ago, rjac said:

Sorry, HWW. My wife saw my post and said she would GLADLY slap food out of my hand as well as alcoholic beverages. And if I whined or complained, she would gladly slap the sh*t out of me. This is going to be such a fun cruise, I'm feeling it already!

 

I wouldn't dream of denying use of your beverage package and/or Diamond vouchers!

20 minutes ago, rjac said:

If you pay for my cruise, I will gladly do this for you on (insert name here) of the Seas.

49 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

You do not need to turn off international data when you're in airplane mode. That would defeat the point of there being an airplane mode.

The benefit to doing so is in case your phone inadvertently goes out of airplane mode. Because of a system alert, my phone briefly activated in Cartagena, Colombia and three text messages and two work emails came through before I could react. Cost wasn't crazy high but if it had happened when the phone wasn't on my person it could have added up (it was 5.5 days worth of stuff that could have come through and that would have been quite a bit).

Check on what the pricing will be. Changing the reservation gets the whole thing repriced at the current rate.

If the new price without the second person will be higher, you may want to just have that person be a no-show at departure. You will have to pay taxes and port fees for two at the time of payment but you'll get back those fees for the no-show.

11 hours ago, rjac said:

Do you know why the game is called "golf?"

Because all of the other four-letter words were already taken.

7 hours ago, Pattycruise said:

Personally, I’d call up and represent myself as my son-in-law.  This is not evil intent, it’s a helpful intent.  I see nothing morally wrong.  Just know DOB, email etc.

I've posed as both of my sons for this purpose with other companies. It works.

7 minutes ago, teddy said:

Lol

 

Social media:  Making everyone’s personal opinion feel relevant to individual echo chambers for a couple decades….and now it’s become “newsworthy”. 
 

In other news, different people like different things.  
 

I like broccoli. Fight me 

I LOVE broccoli. How dare you only LIKE broccoli? You heathen!

Apparently, there are some that are convinced Royal has gone too far.

World’s largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, labelled ‘monstrosity’ ahead of maiden voyage | The Independent

48 minutes ago, Matt said:

FWIW:

 

Saw them holding children IN FRONT OF open windows, not OUTSIDE OF the open windows. The safety officer needs to be clear in emphasizing that point.

Do we know people hold their kids up for a better view? Absolutely.

Do we anticipate that people will dangle their children OUT of the window? No, because we expect at least a modicum of common sense.

Just now, CruiseGus said:

Guess not

https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2023/07/11/court-allows-toddler-dropped-through-cruise-ship-window-lawsuit-resume

Do Judges really lack this much common sense?

Yes, they do.

Royal will certainly allow a rebooking (with the change fee and any difference in cruise fare) for an open spot on the same or another ship.

6 hours ago, Pattycruise said:

Royal only recognizes your age when you board.  They will not adjust a seapass card to reflect 21 when you turn 21 during the cruise.

This is exactly why we planned a large family trip in 2012 to board a couple weeks AFTER our youngest turned 21. The original hope was to schedule with multiple birthdays and an anniversary happening ON the cruise, but that pesky 21st birthday fell on a Wednesday.

22 hours ago, KristiZ said:

Because if you were going to work that hard you would have made $20s or $100s, not $1s! Hahaha!

20 hours ago, ChessE4 said:

Easy, no one counterfeits $1 bills.   Now US forever stamps are a different matter.....Foreign counterfeits abound.

The most successful counterfeiting operation in US history was $1 bills. It was much easier to pass off 20 singles than a single 20 because nobody checks small bills.

1 hour ago, Xaa said:

We started construction on our children almost a year before we named them.

But some people name their children before they start construction. 

2 hours ago, OCSC Mike said:

Same here. I managed to get the useless marketing e-mails sent to one of my backup e-mail addresses though. Will likely unsubscribe from that, lol.

You mean the ones that have come through as "Ends Tonight" six consecutive days (with the same information as the previous month of "These deals won't last")?