georgeh

well, i was pleasantly surprised to find that royal caribbean has a partnership with a company called "chargerback.com". i did self-assisted departure, but left my phone in the room (d'oh!). i called my phone when i got home, and they told me to go to this website for lost and found. all said and done, it will only cost me $9.36 to get my phone sent back to me. awesome!

just got back from the liberty of the seas. i was a bit disappointed that they no longer had the mole short ribs in sabor. they don't carry the gazpacho either. the food was still good, and of course the guacamole is good, and the empanadas are excellent as well. best margarita on the ship (as i was told--i don't do tequilla).

just got back from the liberty of the seas. apparently, indian food is such a popular thing now, it is always offered in the MDR (off menu, but always available). my wife had some indian dish at least twice. on the last day, they had a full compliment of indian on the buffet (chicken tikka, etc).

i asked for chicken tikka masala and sag paneer on a cruise a few years back, didn't give them a heads up, either. but it came out quick and was delicious. i might have had naan bread too, if i had told them this request a day ahead. they seem to like cooking the food of their home for people.

it is on the room service menu. i will be ordering it!

i don't see why not. you bought it from them, so they got the big, fat markup anyway.

one thing you might be able to use it for is just to cast movies from your laptop or tablet. internet wont be good enough to stream, but i f you download some stuff before you leave, then you can at least watch something in the stateroom if you want.

80 bucks. but i guess it might be worth it at least once.

Hi all, Liberty of the Seas in September. I'm trying to decide if the mystery dinner is worth it. Seems like it would be a better deal food-wise to get the 3 night specialty dining for the same price. Has anyone done it? Is it fun/worth it? thanks! g

Well, I login with my email address to both the main RC website AND crown and anchor. Then they tell me that a letter got dropped from my email address somehow for the system that sends confirmations and reminders. So, it does actually seem like it is at least partially their fault. But thanks for the insulting input.

the funny thing is, after talking to this guy...they had an INCORRECT email address when they sent me the payment reminder on the 11th. I pointed out to him, that it was odd they seemed to have the CORRECT email address to send the cancellation notice to me. i think that inconsistency might have been enough to get him to fix this for me, or he was just the right guy to talk to. i dunno. crown and anchor login has the same email as the RCCL login, which is how i booked it. so just weird all around. but at least it is fixed now.

FIXED. After calling back 3 more times, I finally got a nice representative named Carlo. He put me on hold, worked some magic, and now i will have about 500 bucks coming back on my credit card. Amazing how 3 different people can't do anything and just say "sorry". apparently, they have the power to do anything...most of them just don't want to help. whew. now i really need a vacation trying to get my vacation sorted out.

can't figure out how to delete post. posted in wrong forum. dasfa

i'm going to keep calling them back until i get someone that will actually help me, and not read a script that says "sorry". they claim they sent a reminder on the 11th, but I checked my email....NOPE.

through the website. now, the connecting room with my wife's sister is gone, and we are on the hook for 600 more than what we had planned. you would think they would send out a reminder a day or two before they cancel your reservation. this is some bulls**t. carnival might be my cruise line from now on.

update. apparently, we were supposed to pay off the balance by the 25th of June (last monday), but, i did not get any email, no phone call, nothing!!!!! now the 1600 dollar balcony room is going to cost us 2100 dollars, and our on board credits are gone. NOT COOL ROYAL CARIBBEAN!!!!!!!

Strange...my cruise was cancelled on me. I never got an email warning me of anything! Just all of a sudden, this email with all the cruise planner stuff refunded and lots of legaleze at the bottom. not happy. ___________________________________________________________________ Dear George, A change has been made to your reservation or guest status. Due to this new "cancelled" status in your reservation, we have cancelled all reservations made using our Cruise Planner pertaining to each guest listed below. Reservation Number: ____ Cruise: 7 Night Western Caribbean Cruise Ship Name: Liberty Of The Seas Date of Departure: 23-Sep-2018 Departing From: Galveston, Texas

not sure what boat you are going on, but on the vision and liberty, the shows are first-come, first-serve. no reservations. also, they may have 2 comics on the boat during a cruise,, and they usually have 2 versions of the show-G rated and adult. So there is usually plenty of comedy for you to see.

i'm from texas, and the liberty is an amazing ship. going on it again in september.

im a developer. when they first rolled this out, it was crap. but, it is getting better, and they are doing this website in the newer more standardized technologies. heck, i wish i worked for them.

Sounds like my property tax protest in Fort Bend County, Texas. It is well-known that they they kept a blacklist of arbitrators who sided in favor of the homeowners. ugh. Now, we have the highest taxes in Texas. just a quick rant-off topic.

it is important to be shielded from the commoners ?

i guess you guys are right...but i'm a programmer, and i welcome the chance to unplug ?

while live blogs are cool, you can always post when you get home. imho.

I work in the offshore construction industry, and we have several large vessels (saturation diving boats, utility boats, and pipe-lay barges). In today's world, we need to maintain internet access for email, business programs and phones. So, for us to have approximately 1.5MB - not gigs, but megs, costs us around 15,000 per month. Each additional megabyte is around another 5k on top of that per month. Now, our boats will have about 300 personnel for a job (sometimes more). Half are on duty at any one time, working 12 hour shifts. that means we may have, say, 75 people trying to use up that 1.5 megs using facebook, emailing, streaming, etc. It just doesn't work. When you add the phones and critical business systems on that 1.5 megs, the usable internet for the off-duty personnel has about 300K to play with, which means that each person is getting basically no connection. Now, scale this up for a cruise ship. You will have hundreds of people trying to play candy crush, social media, or stream music. In order to allow for this many people to have decent access over a sat connection, it would cost hundreds of thousands per month. The lesson i suppose, is that we should just unplug from the outside world for a week...isn't that what vacation is for?