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Oh yeah! It'll be good to see HectorIsMagic and Fourever perform again. And all those sea days.

Not enough DASD and the deck of JCL update cards is getting a little dog-eared, so they only run the points update batch job every 10 days.

I'll give a fifth. (Top shelf, even).

Loyalty is a currency that can be earned and spent. It appears Royal spent a lot of their loyalty with Twangster's last cruise. Stuff happens beyond anyone's control, but the measure of any company is their response to it. His own personal stench cruise was offensive and unhealthy, but the cruise line's response was a calculated choice, probably by someone hoping to save the cruise line a couple dollars in the short run. And they did exactly that. If nobody higher up cares, they reinforced that the employee acted in accordance with RCI expectations toward a frequent customer. So noted. I'd been thinking about trying MSC only because they do a status match. I'll think a bit harder. There's a lot of competition and some lines are willing to, well, compete.

The Blue Boys. I greeted one of the guys in Visayan and the poor guy was in shock for a couple of seconds. They do all of the literal heavy lifting, painting, and cleaning - but don't need to speak English.

I second Signal for private messaging and SMS, and Telegram for both group and private messaging.

$11.99 seems to be the target price, but since you can cancel and reorder so easily, might as well lock $12.79 in for starters.

That seems to be the key. What's exotic to an American might be some chef's family recipe s/he cooked as a youngster. I'd bet regional US specialties wouldn't go over as well even if the ingredients were in stock ( e.g. a Horseshoe or Jambalaya).

"Poop Cruise" - awful to be on, but a great band name. Maybe Pablo Cruise missed an opportunity.

You know it's bad when people go to the cashier and ask to change a 5 dollar bill.

Dad taught me about rolling clothes, evidently originated in the Navy. Worked well for 10 years on the road.

I got $10.79 for the President's Cruise and $11.99 for a T/A. Both were purchased on the same sale. Pretty safe bet to buy now.

Wow, the Symphony T/A (46 days) were released today. "This is better than the new phone book!" - Nayven R. Johnson.

If you've confirmed that the sharing works with a captive portal, you're good to go. I shared my logon code with cabinmates. The worst that ever happened is that one of us either couldn't log on, or were logged off. I've never been hit with a double charge even though both of us were trying to log onto the RCI portal at once with different devices. Your 5D would only try to access your phone, not the public RCI site, so there's no way it could even know you'd be using a middleman. Royal isn't about punishing anyone for using their service. JLM is right on. Just because you can use the smartphone doesn't mean it's the best solution. Being able to process your work and upload just the best photos on Voom allows editorial decisions, initial backup (Secondary too if you bring USB drives) and not just bulk uploading. The laptop adds a lot of value in my opinion.

Let's face it, if your browser renders Google/Gmail, Amazon, and other sites in your Favorites, the problem isn't your browser - it's Royal. Their contractor delivered an unusable site and we're jumping through hoops to adapt to it. Royal understands $$. If you try to book something through their site and it doesn't work, call Royal. Let them know you've tried the site and it failed, so you need to complete the transaction over the phone. It costs money to hire call center personnel through an agency, even in Belize or Manila. A lot more than having a working website. If Royal figures out that their customer support costs are spiking and the commonality in the calls is that customers say that they tried to do it on the site first, (teleworkers transcribe quite a bit of your conversation), they'll have a choice - either fix the site or hire more workers.

L 100-400 or 70-200 zoom? I just graduated from an 80D to the 5D and lost 60% of my length due to crop factor. If you have press access and started with the long lens, you have avoided that problem. I have the 70-200 2.8 (indoors with theatre light and need the extra light gathering). Wanted to dodge buying another big white lens, so I cheaped out and got the 2X adaptor. Family went to a lot of local airshows back in the day at SAFB and around St. Louis back in the 1970s. Even with the 135mm lens, just got small black dots with exhaust trails. The back-end photography on the ship (engine room, et al.) seems pretty shielded from us passengers. The bridge tour is OK, but you need to be Diamond+ (or know one and use her/his ticket) for that. Are you on the President's Cruise by chance?

Personally, I think it's easier. But I do mostly stage photography and the talent likes to see photos while still onboard - so I run them through Lightroom before uploading to my website while still on the cruise. What's your favorite type of photographic subject?

Our resident Voom expert, @twangster has written a post on what you need here. Basically, Voom is sold on a per-seat license (you can use any number of devices to access the service, one at a time - assuming you buy a 1 device package) that is activated through an actual browser connection. So the 5D MkIV with BG-E20 can't connect directly with Voom, but the router can. Caveat: to set up the travel router, you'll need a smartphone, tablet, or laptop for initial setup. The camera won't connect directly with Voom, but once you get the router configured, it can stay online as a middleman and you can connect the 5D to it. I have the same setup as you but will take a laptop instead of the router and upload to the laptop.

In my defense though, I used Google translate.

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The Doc thought you will have enjoyed that. Back, to the.....you know.

Wow, haven't been on the Liberty and would have made a big mistake cruising with that limitation. Thanks @twangster and @WAAAYTOOO .

It depends. Each voom subscription is usable by one person at a time. That's a good, wide-open policy. You can use it on, say, an Ipad and when you logoff, your cabinmate can log on with a totally different device. So for email and web, 2 people can coordinate their use and share. If you want to communicate with each other (Facebook Messenger, for example) in realtime or both be connected at one time for any other reason, you'd need two packages.

Have they changed the pre-show PA announcement? Fourever had that caveat in Cruise Compass for their show on the Navigator. I talked with the stage manager before the show since the notice was different than all the prior shows, she said there was nothing different from the usual policies. Even the baritone from the group literally gave a thumbs up. But if they want to change policy, it's their ship.

An exhibition? I was charged with that once. ("Convicted? No, never convicted" - Bill Murray, Stripes).