VACruiser

@SMOKEY0202 I used to feel the same way until I took a cruise last year on one of their new Ships, the Celebration of the Seas in an Excel Suite (super nice suite I might add) and saw a very different clientele and restaurants. It is a much higher experience than their older ships or definitely their short cruises as they are very shenanigan driven. I have another cruise this year on the Celebration of the Seas to see if what I felt the first time is consistent. We shall see. But with Royal pricing it behooves me also check other options which I will.

I always wonder if the upside down pineapples are someone playing a joke or is it real? May be that is because I can't fathom that really occurs so it only enters my mind as a joke. I've seen them before on cruise doors and always walk faster past them as if someone is going to reach out and grab me and pull me in ...

That would be from the same type person that would eat a half-eaten doughnut from the top of the receptacle. Seinfeld reference

^^^that about covers the situation but you can add in afternoon showers too.

@Stvr California did i miss which CLS you're in...inquiring minds want to know.

@Stvr California Let's see which CLS it is - 1730?

oh, the suspense. Your blogs are always so suspenseful!

Thanks for that - I never knew that was there it may save me one day from fretting.

You're living vicariously through your husbands' triumphs on the flowrider. I love the term flowrider widow.

Agreed. I did a tour in Haiti with the U.S. Army in the mid-90's and St. Thomas has nothing on corruption as that country. That was a level I was not familiar with but quickly found out. Corruption is the national economy of Haiti.

We had a similar type situation whereas the driver stops at the bottom of the hill coming back from Magens Bay and announces that some one asked him to stop in the shopping district and no one fessed up to it. He got exceedingly irate and started demanding money as he huffed and puffed. He said he wasn't going one more inch without money from all the group. We all paid him and he took us back to the port. After thinking about it that was probably a ruse to get money up front or at least during the travel. It's so Caribbean that you almost have to laugh.

or you are so busy blogging that you forget to pack your undies

All I know is the price difference between the two are pretty steep on WOS. To pay the premium there would have to be a very defined difference between the two classes. I just mocked up a cruise and saw the difference is north of $2500. That would have to be a lot of amenities at that value difference.

@asquared17 Imagine how many Amazon accoutrements it would take to fill those 6 bags if they were yours

Put me in the same category - I love the shenanigans stories. It keeps me going on cruises and wonder why I never see these things minus the skimpy bathing suits !