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There's a pool there if you want to spend some non-shopping time there.

Have you tried finding this online? It never ceases to amaze me what you can find by Googling images. Even if it's not from Navigator, it might be similar enough to pass. ?

Did this on Allure with myself, kids (age 16 & 11) and MIL. We all loved it. We learned how to make a puppy with two cupcakes and a ton of frosting.

How do you get one? At a certain C&A level?

+1. I completed a special needs form online to have a diabetic sharps container and extension cord for plug in medical equipment in our cabin, but still had to ask for these from the stateroom attendant. Not sure about tuxedos.

If you plan on getting a soda package, you can get the Soda & Stream package if it's available on your trip. When my family of four went, my husband wanted the soda pkg, and I wanted all of us to have some form of internet so we could message each other thru an app. So we got the soda & stream package and surf for three. We swapped the streaming access around as needed.

Yes, most toddlers could communicate something like that at 18 months old, especially enough that a close family member could put two and two together with gestures, words and knowing the child's interests to understand what they want. First meaningful words usually occur by a year old, and simple phrases in the months and year following. However, I read that Chloe was a preemie (I believe this was in her obituary), which could have caused developmental delays so it's hard to say in her case.

+1, hoping someone can loosely translate the video commentary. At least give a summary. But wow, you can read the FB comments posted by translating them onscreen. A lot of the posters think this was premeditated. I'm not sure I would go that far.

I emailed Woodwind and Ulf responded!! No weight limitations and he probably won't need a vest. Looks like most people snorkel with no floatation devices anyway. I checked the SeaCow excursion on RC, and it's limited to 250lbs. Sorry for the thread hijack with my questions, but hopefully this is helpful for anyone else needing that info.

My confession is completely forgetting to have some cash available for tipping the porters on embarkation day. We had a rental car to return that morning, so my husband dropped me, our kids and our luggage at the cruise port, then drove off to return the car. After a porter took care of our luggage, I realized all our cash was still with my husband and I had nothing to give him except a profuse apology, thank you, and a hand shake. Awkward.....

My engineer husband rigged something simple on our cruise to give more "holding power" on the ceiling for a sorting thing we had stuffed with socks and underwear for four people. While I was filling it on embarkation day using only one hook, it fell. We ended up using two magnets with a screwdriver between them to hang the loop on. (Yes, I brought a screwdriver, you never know what you'll need it for) ? Worked great that way.

Just found this tonight and read all the way through. Great info, thanks for sharing! We'll be on this trip (except with St. Maarten instead of St. Thomas) in April, 2021.

Do any of you know if Woodwind or Sea Cow have weight limitations for snorkeling? My husband is about 320lbs. He's a good swimmer, and we could bring our own life vest if needed. I'm guessing a lot of weight concerns would be on the size limits of the life vests provided by the excursion company.

Have a great first cruise! I'm sure it won't be your last ?

Also, of all the window panes to approach, he chose that one to look out, so he knew something was different about that one. His story would have made more sense if all the windows had been open and looked and felt the same, then he could say he thought that's how all closed windows looked and felt.

It's all computerized I'm sure! No people paying any attention to this. ?

I know it's rough on the CC bill the month you book a cruise, but I'm glad it's high enough to keep non-serious cruisers from booking all the cabins and dumping them at the last minute.

I've gotten this before, and it's surf & stream. My husband wanted a soda package, and I wanted our family of four to have at least one access to surf & stream in case we needed a little extra boost for internet while on the ship, so that was a good deal. For the rest of the family, I bought the surf voyage (the non-steaming one) for three devices so we'd all have at least some form of WiFi at all times. We swapped the streaming one around as needed.

No. I think you have to book it the way you did, but no one cares who sleeps where once you're on board. I haven't had this situation personally but I've heard and read about cruisers doing this with no issues on the message boards and Matt's podcast. You should also let your room attendant know so they make up the beds how you want.

No problem switching rooms, and you can get extra room keys at the customer service desk. I can't remember if they add the extra room programming to your existing seapass card or give you another card.

I've learned that it's good to have two formal nights. The first one you might not be sunburned yet and can get better pictures. By the second one, everyone can see your white swimsuit strap lines around red shoulders that don't line up with your dress! Don't wait until the second formal night to dress up or you might look cruise-worn by then. ?

You do you! Not weird at all. ?

Have a plan but stay flexible. We had all our shows booked in advance, but on our last sea day we realized there was a teen rock wall competition that my 16yo son wanted to do that conflicted with a show. We ditched the show for some spontaneous fun, and I had to stop myself from feeling like we lost out on our plans. You just can't do everything and that's ok. BTW, my son won the rock climb and his joy was worth the change in plans. ?

Weekends = less traffic in Miami so that'll help if you disembark on Sat or Sun, especially if you have to drive to FLL. Also remember, RCI has no control over when port authority clears the ship. It can take longer for strange reasons sometimes. Last April, we docked in Miami around 6am, did self disembark and Lyft to FLL for an 11:30 am flight. I think we arrived around 9am, but we also have TSA Precheck so we weren't too worried about security lines. Only problem we had is our flight got cancelled which I didn't know about until we got to the airport. Totally should have checked my flight status before high tailing it off the ship that morning. ?

Old thread, but just stumbled across it and had to add a story and reply to @SpeedNoodles ? My husband & I had this exact thing happen to us in 1998 on our honeymoon cruise on Nordic Empress (now Empress OTS). We got picked as the newlywed couple competing against two longer married couples, and had to say where the strangest place was we ever "did the deed". I won't say what our answer was here, but it was pretty shocking, and we got recognized all over the ship for the rest of the cruise with congratulations. We won the game, we'd just gotten married, and people were apparently impressed with our location answer - I'm not sure what the congratulations were mostly for. Most of the people also said, "How did you do that?!?" Not only did we get lots of crazy attention the rest of the cruise, but back then they offered a video for sale at the end of the trip of photos and video clips they took throughout the week. Our Love and Marriage answer was part of the video along with lots of other good shots of us, so we just had to buy the video. But it was pretty awkward coming home and showing the video to my new parents-in-law who are very conservative. We had to distract them through the game show clip so they wouldn't notice that part. Same thing we did recently with our kids who are 11 and 16 yo, shortly before we took them on their first cruise this year. We showed them our old cruise video so they could laugh at how young and "90's" we looked, but we had to fast forward through the game show part. You just can't let your in-laws or kids know all the things you did before you got married!!! ?