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AlohaLivin

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  1. Hi - I’m wondering what you ended up doing. To be honest, we always hate this port, I have never been anywhere in the world with people as aggressive as we found in Jamaica. That said we find ourselves going back in about a year and trying to figure out if you had again, we’re going stay on the ship as we usually do. The Historic Falmouth and Ocho Rios Highlights tour doesn’t look bad, but 5.5 hours seems pretty long for a few stops.
  2. Hope everyone is having a great time - I had to bail on this one, too close after surgery, but hope it will be a blast for you all!
  3. I am so surprised that a post would be removed that suggested that it is unethical to share drinks with others from an unlimited drink packages. I thought that was just a basic truth. If I were going to find a problem with a post, I think I would take down the post suggesting that breaking the rules is acceptable behavior rather than the post stating that it isn’t. But hey, that’s just me.
  4. I haven’t been able to determine why only certain ones are allowed. But if it’s disallowed it will wipe out the title you’ve used immediately. So if you’re going to try new ones make sure to copy of the text before you chance it! I just went back and checked all the ones I’ve use of trips the last 5 years and these are additional ones to those above that are allowed: (I use this for the casino ), , ️, , , , , , , , ,
  5. and @DixieNN Glad to be of help We tried pro, but the free version is a plenty for us. The pro version gives you notices on flights, but so do the airline apps so why pay? As you can see from my example, I hope, I add various emoticons/icons to the titles of events to separate out categories of activities/items. I use️️… etc. There may be 20 of them that will work and sadly I have no idea what distinguishes the ones at work and the ones that don’t. But I find it helpful to use one icon for all excursions, another for important notes, another for meals, etc.
  6. Such good points! I have to wonder if @britinbrooklynrealizes that in setting things up as he has it will mean that the grandmother is the only one in the family who doesn’t get to eat at the coastal kitchen or go to the suites lounge or enjoy many of the other benefits that rest of the family has? I would think that could be a problem; if I were going on a cruise with my family and everyone else was in a star suite while I was stuck in an interior I am pretty sure I would have some seriously negative feelings about that (particularly if I was expected no babysit ). Maybe I missed something crucial somewhere in the story?
  7. @smokeybanditand @KJonesmake a good point on the drink tipping - we drink very little and our D+ vouchers are far more than sufficient for our daily use (with plenty to spare ). So when we do drink, we are either using a voucher or getting a free drink in the suite’s lounge and that is why I said that we always tip for every drink (as there is no auto 18% gratuity). Thanks for pointing that out.
  8. I personally would never withdraw my gratuities. That’s not fair, in my humble opinion, to all those people who get part of the tips that we usually do,not see in person. We do tip extra to the cabin steward and waiters at the end of the cruise. We also tip something with each drink and tip the concierges (Diamond Lounge/Suite lounge). I’m one of those who comes down kind of hard on the side of tipping because I think if you can afford a cruise then you can afford to tip the people working hard to make you happy. While I think that tipping in the US has gotten a bit out of hand, with cruise staff I have zero issue with paying gratuities.
  9. Likely never. Way too much like a floating Disney World. We prefer a less crowded, more laid back vacay
  10. We did okay with a 10:20 flight on a Miami cruise (similar distances involved) - we walked off the ship first and we had plenty of time (but we also had CLEAR and TSAprecheck. We had lots of extra time. But, cutting it that close is not our preference, that was an unusual situation. P.S. Getting the key or being in a suite will help ensure that you can be with the first group off.
  11. Not a problem I would think as long as you’re sailing from the US. If you’re sailing from a foreign port, it could be a problem. Definitely for Canadian ports there could be issue (particularly for substance abuse issues).
  12. As others have said, you’re not going to be on board by 10. Recently the first time to even get into the facility is 10:30 AM (that isn’t boarding time). Even if you are a Pinnacle, have a suite, or have the Key you likely would be onboard at earliest at 11 or 11:30. As has been noted by others you won’t have access to any room before around 1 (even in a suite) and your luggage will likely be hours later than that. Even when we do a B2B and are the first ones back onboard (say at 10-10:30) it’s not much of a situation of leisurely checking out the ship as crew is rushing around for the ship and nothing much if open. But your best chance of getting close to your fantasy, at least for a short time of time, is to book a suite, purchase the key, or do a B2B. It’s just hard to conceive of embarkation day as being remotely leisurely and relaxed as there are a lot of staff and a lot of guests trying to get so much done all at once.
  13. Might be a wee problem with that plan - the weather (e.g., I would melt). But we do visit often!
  14. We really enjoy the Las Olas Boulevard area for shopping and dining (and there are a number of places that are relatively reasonable to stay overnight nearby also). It is lively and wonderful in the evenings! @FSUFAN I have 4 Publix stores within about 3 miles of me, I will be glad to send one to you I will trade you for a Trader Joe’s!
  15. It isn’t too early. We had one much earlier and we had plenty of time (we were the first group off bc of the suites, but the first walk-offs were very close on our heels). We were at the airport 2 hours prior to our 10:20 am flight. Don’t stress
  16. My guess is it anyone who tells you they played $20 in the casino and got offers is mad You can get promo offers on each cruise based on how many points you accumulate during that cruise. You also get a free yearly cruise for being Prime status or higher in the casino. Finally, you can also get comped offers and those vary dramatically as people above have noted, it is hard to know their analytics on for the comped offers. But I just had a deep dive into this with a casino host that I know well and some things that seem to matter are (a) your location , (b) how much you lost on your cruises in the casino, and (c) your average play per day. I have noticed people that seem to lose moderate to high amounts and are new to cruising may get extra offers (even more than those of us with many more points and lower losses). But in the end, nothing in life is free
  17. Wonderful news, thank you! Hopefully all will be in place by the end of Nov. It makes such a difference to have great concierges (as you well know!). I very much hope Shannon will still be there too since we are going to be going from diamond to diamond plus on the back to back on that ship and hope to have easy sailing with the quick change
  18. We will be onboard for a b2b in a few weeks, good to know the Diamond concierge is so good! Any idea who the suite concierge might be? We are so ready to see Lady G again after two cancelled cruises on her during the shutdown!
  19. All the cruises I’ve been on in the last 6 months from FL have had the first check in time at 10:30 am (including the one we checked in for last night that sails in Nov). If you’re in a suite you can arrive an hour earlier than your time, but none of the cruises that we’ve been on recently had a time earlier than 10:30 am. Happy sailing
  20. Going to have to admit that I don’t spend a lot of time with professional nitpickers, but since this nitpick quoted me in particular I suppose that I should respond with a correction of your correction. In the cruise business all of these destinations are referred to as private “islands” (often both officially by the lines and in the common use by cruisers). Thus, in this case the definition is not a geographic one but a cruise specific one and therefore “island”is correct within that morenarrow vernacular (as evidenced by the highly knowledgeable bloggers here at RCB when referring to Labadee).
  21. I have to be honest and say that I don’t scare easily, but it doesn’t bother me to go to Haiti (and this section isn’t really as if you were going to the heart of Haiti). And honestly, the livelihoods of the people that work at Labadie from close by villages have just been devastated by the pandemic so I have been so happy to have been twice in the last 8 week (it is my favorite private island by far.
  22. This has now disintegrated into the bizarre.
  23. It truly is amazing how much these prices having been jumping around recently. Sale, no sale, or during the same sale We have a Casino comp 5 day in a balcony cabin that we added on to our existing 9 day in a suite during December recently and so I have been checking the key prices for the shorter add on. The price has jumped around from 29.00 to 26.99 to 2299 and back in 2 weeks time. I have also noticed random jumping around on a lot of the excursion prices for the second leg (more so than normal). If you’re like me and like to hang on to your money, it definitely pays to check pricing on excursions and the extras pretty often ✌
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