fireclan

Aw, c'mon Wayno. You didn't lay in bed on school nights, with your AM transistor radio, ear plug in, blanket over your head to hide the glow of the radio dial, listening to the 50,000 watt blowtorches like WLS, CKLW, & WABC, when you should be asleep? 🤣
Freddy Mercury perfectly captured that time with Queen's performance of Radio Gaga  in the '80s. Them was the days....................😁😍

Got off the ship in Nassau last week the area is amazingly different and updated.  If you had taken me there blindfolded and removed the blindfold I wouldn’t be able to guess what port I was at.  Looking forward to more positive changes.

Well we decided to throw caution to the wind. It’s booked you only live once. It’s so nice being retired and just thinking about another cruise😂😂

Thanks to @jbrinkm for posting the link. And here's a delicious memory for you missing those wonderful soft crab sandwiches with Eastern shore grown tomatoes!

According to my husband,  who fetches our coffee from the Crown Lounge each morning,  this 2 cup carrier gets many positive comments from others. It's made his daily trip much easier. He's happier (less grumpy) so I'm happier.

Hey Everyone, I wanted to share a tool that I created to help you get the best and lowest prices for beverage packages, excursions, and activities! 
 
The tool is called RoyalPriceTracker.com

Using the tool you simply enter links to any beverage packages, excursions, and any other onboard activities that you can buy before your cruise. 
 
RoyalPriceTracker will monitor the prices for all of them every day then once their is a price drop on an item your tracking you will receive an email notifying you of the drop and that it’s time to go book the lower price! You can then cancel and rebook or buy for the first time! 
 
Plus, it’s completely free to use! Feel free to check it out and start using it! 

This. Is. INCREDIBLE.
Do you have a tip jar or Venmo or something? Because I would like to buy you a drink good sir!

We have just implemented the update that dosen't require the booking ID anymore. Appreciate the feedback and hope you can use it now! 
 
let me know if you have any other suggestions!

It's all those things and crass commercialism......but what the hell!
Of 3 cruises we've taken that called on PDCC , only heard it once on Wonder last April. And I think the cruise director seized complete control of the PA system.  Didn't  need to open the cabin door to hear the song or the CD. I thought Wolfman Jack or Cousin Brucie was onboard. 
Us geezers know who they are......🤪

Uh oh. 
 
Thank you for the education.
 
I would think those folks may ask, "what's that old geezer wearing that shirt for", and I might just get a pass.  Or maybe the old Grammas might just think I'm hot. 

@WAYNO and @smokeybandit so I did it, I am excited. I purchased both types of magnets pictured above AND made my own creation. Its not perfect but I want this door to be special.....below is my first magnet, created by Neesa!  Again, not beautiful but I may get better with time! The college had this mascot on card stock, woohoo here he is ! Thanks again for the push and confidence!
 

I got the email also. 
Here’s my advice if I could bend an ear to the powers that be: 
There’s a subgroup of RC cruisers who are “seasoned” and comprise the upper tiers. This group is somewhat over the whole “big ship” thing along with St Thomas, St Maarten, Cozumel and Costa Maya (and the other islands that the big girls go to)
This group is BEGGING for a new smaller class that visits somewhere other than above. 
Well…..give us our RC benefits on a Celebrity ship and you won’t have to build a new class. Just transfer us to Celebrity. I’d be happy with that. 
We have our first celebrity booked to Norwegian fjords in 2025 because the itinerary was way better than Indy but it was hard giving up our 5 free drinks anytime, anywhere. 
Deep fjords beat alcohol but I shouldn’t have to choose!  

I'm sure this won't be a popular opinion, but I will admit to doing this...
Just slip the "foreign" coin into a bet (put it on the bottom) and it will eventually get mixed in with the others.  I've done this maybe twice...and it was never noticed.

Thanks to @jbrinkm for posting the link. And here's a delicious memory for you missing those wonderful soft crab sandwiches with Eastern shore grown tomatoes!

I definitely have a trend.  I do bad at the beginning of the cruise and even worse towards the end !  😔

Thanks to @jbrinkm for posting the link. And here's a delicious memory for you missing those wonderful soft crab sandwiches with Eastern shore grown tomatoes!

https://www.amazon.com/Drink-Caddy-Portable-Carrier-Reusable/dp/B08K2Y6CPK?ref_=ast_sto_dp (the 2 cup one)

Looks like we lucked out if that’s all we have to look over! Thanks for the link and video. 

According to my husband,  who fetches our coffee from the Crown Lounge each morning,  this 2 cup carrier gets many positive comments from others. It's made his daily trip much easier. He's happier (less grumpy) so I'm happier.

According to my husband,  who fetches our coffee from the Crown Lounge each morning,  this 2 cup carrier gets many positive comments from others. It's made his daily trip much easier. He's happier (less grumpy) so I'm happier.

Hello all!

My husband who is an engineer likes to dabble in side projects, and recently was working on an idea for a simple site to track cruise prices in real-time.  As avid cruisers, this is something we've often discussed as a 'wouldn't it be nice if' type of feature.  Aside from asking a travel agent to keep an eye on the price, the only way currently to track if pricing trends up or down on a particular sailing is to manually log in to the RCI site and do a mock booking. 

The site he has put together grabs all of the data in real-time from the direct RCI site so users can easily track the prices and use that information to make or modify bookings.  

It's currently still in the very beginning stages of operation and the full dashboard isn't quite ready yet, but we wanted to share the link to sign up in order to gauge how much interest there might be in something like this! 
If you do check it out and have questions or feedback, feel free to drop them here and we will use that feedback to help build out the site in a way that will better serve cruisers' needs!
https://cruisesavvy.app/

Now that the 2025 NJ cruise schedule has been released I am honing in on [maybe minutes away from booking] a back to back cruise, 2 shorts together to make a long cruise. Liberty OTS out of NJ 4 days to Halifax Canada and then 5 days to Bermuda. We will be booking the same cabin as that is easiest and suggested. Any info, suggestions, tips, insight would be awesome. Kinda excited at the idea and I LOVE the idea of going North to Canada and then south to Bermuda. An interesting combo. Thanks for any info.

We went on our first cruise in 20 years last year and I just thought I would share what we learned. 
You don’t need a huge fancy ship on a long cruise to see if it’s a good fit. A smaller older ship has plenty of sun, sea, music and new things to experience. 
Do grab any available discounts (in advance on the royal website) for things like drink or water packages if you can get them. The offers do go away. Rookie mistake in waiting. 
if you are doing a shorter budget cruise you will be just fine without premium dining. 
This may vary from port, but we toured Cozumel on our own and were really glad we did that. There are lots of beach clubs you can do on your own or go into town. I am glad we rented a car. I’m not glad we got a parking ticket. 
In Galveston we did a hotel with a shuttle but it was a SLOW process, might not have made that a priority. An air b and b and an Uber booked ahead would have probably done the trick, though do plan for parking. 
We made the trip to the port and the port stay an important part of our vacation, we stayed 2 nights before and that helped us feel less stressed embarkation day and we loved Texas. 
if you don’t have a passport BRING YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE! Our travel agent never mentioned this and thank heavens we had backup documents. 
There are beer buckets on board but we didn’t really budget enough for drinks. We did bring soda and water on and grabbed more in port.  The ship has plenty of food but grabbing a quick snack isn’t always easy, not the worst idea to bring a few nibbles. 
It can be cold and hot and everything in between. Layers are great. 
Talk to people, make friends, we got to interact with all sorts of folks from all over. 
Try things you would not normally do, trivia, shuffle board, hide ducks, dance class, ICE SHOW.  We ate a lot of Indian food on board. 
We avoided crowds by doing everything on the late side, later meals all day.
Grab a paper cruise compass. 
Don’t worry about keeping up with everyone else. We didn’t have all the magnets or sparkle water bottles or fancy outfits but we had a great experience. 

 

 

 
 

One option is to use the Bounce app to leave your luggage somewhere for the day: https://usebounce.com/
Another is get a day pass to a hotel to hang out there (luggage, you, or both!): https://www.dayuse.com/