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The original Love Boat at her final resting place in a Turkish scrapyard. Sigh.

First time cruising on a ship that didn't have mouse ears on the stack.

First time cruising on a ship that didn't have mouse ears on the stack.

Just under the Lido Deck will be the Holodeck.

The original Love Boat at her final resting place in a Turkish scrapyard. Sigh.

The original Love Boat at her final resting place in a Turkish scrapyard. Sigh.

Can you imagine, only ONE Bartender????  How did Isaac survive?

50 bucks. That'll shut em up.

Simply said, if you are gonna drop thousands on a vacation that you just can't enjoy without getting high, knowing it to be unlawful, then you have other problems.

It's funny. It may be  that empty nest, no grandchildren stage of life  that you'll find me on Celebrity. Then back to RCCL for the grandchildren. ? 

Because I want to support jobs in my own country and I think its terrible a company would use their own employees to train other employees to take their jobs away is racist.....nope, not even close. Or because I have a hard time hearing/understanding people who's mother tongue is not English I am racist? Nope, wrong again!
 
But its people like you that say these things and push these ideas and agenda's that has turned the US and the world into what it is today...
 
 
I am 100% ok knowing that someone from China would NOT want me to be working their call center trying to speak their language when they are calling for advice or help or upset...
 
Come on people..don't be so sensitive!!!!
 
 

Just remember to pack your luggage and leave all that baggage at home.  

If RCL is going to introduce new on-ship excursions - how about the .50 cal pirate shoot? You get 200 rounds of .50 cal and whoever sinks the most Somali pirates - wins a prize!

I want to be a Commodore. It's nautical and it's a cool word.

Therapy Chicken. I believe that is in a red wine mushroom sauce.

Sorry I have to chime in on this.
I love cruising.  
I love roller coasters.  
But sorry they don’t really go together for me.  
Cruising is for relaxing and roller coasters are for thrills.  A roller coaster doesn’t add to my cruise experience and limiting the scope of the coaster to fit on a cruise ship, probably makes it not very exciting.  Water slides and flo-rider rides sure but not coasters, keep the coasters at Cedar Point.

In a fluke of scheduling for convenience, we have 3 trips to Nassau coming up where normally we just avoid going there.  I do not plan to get off at all.  I had wanted to do the flight simulator, thinking it was something that Dan would enjoy, but he says he has no interest so we will just stay on the ship.
I find it expensive, boring and generally unappealing, particularly in the cooler months.  If they close down the port entirely I will not lose any sleep.

I'm one of the people who don't get off the boat when it goes to the Bahamas. The reason is that, in my opinion, the people who live in the Bahamas are generally unfriendly and make little to no effort to be welcoming. How many times do you have to hear, "Hey Mister, nice shore excursion!" When I say no thank-you I suddenly get a muttered F##k You. This isn't a one off. It has happened to me a number of times.

With more widespread legalization (medical and recreational) around the world, I think this is going to happen much more often.  And that $4,000 fine is probably the tip of the iceberg for how much it'll cost in the end after lawyers fees and everything.
You have to abide by the law of the land you're in.  Just because something is legal back home, doesn't mean it's going to be legal abroad!

Reminds me of the old Folgers coffee crystals commercials: 
 

I agree.  I would add the cynic in me sees it differently though.  I think this more about showing who owns the cards when it comes to the Bahamas and cruise lines.  If memory serves me correctly only a few months ago the Bahama's govt came out and upped the cost of the ports, basically insinuating that the cruises are taking advantage of the low cost and they are not reaping enough in revenue for the amount of people that come on land when at port.  By leaving this letter in every cabin,  many that did not have an excursion will stay on the ship instead of just walking around Nassau and maybe buying some trinkets.  In essence, it is a win win for RCCL.  If they stay on the ship, many may spend money at the spa, at bingo or buy a drink or two  to lounge at the pool, ($$$ if they don't have the DBP), maybe even have lunch at a specialty restaurant,  more money in the RCCL pocket.  WIN #1.  
WIN #2 is the fewer that get off due to fear from this letter, the Bahamain govt gets to see even less revenue, and that by rising the costs to port in Nassau they lost money bc now we played the fear card with our passengers that had no excursions, but intended to just walk around just by placing this letter in every stateroom.  They never said don't get off, just insinuated you may want to be weary of getting off.  
~ I have seen this in my life.  My DH served in the AF during the 90's when they were closing military bases left and right.  The mayor of the town where the base was located went to the Base Commander and told him they were going to tell the Congressman and Senators they would like the base to close because in their eyes, they only brought noise to the town (airplanes), and nothing else.  Every base has a bank on the base.  The Commander ordered that bank to only give every airmen $2 bills if they were getting cash that payday weekend.  On Monday the mayor called the Commander and said I give.  The town had been flooded with $2 bills everywhere.  He saw and heard from business, including the banks in town why on earth are we getting all of these $2 bills?  He saw that the AF base with the noise of airplanes taking off equated to pumping in a lot of money into that town.   Hence, why I see RCCL doing that letter.  It is to illustrate to the govt that you don't realize how much money our passengers spend on shore.
I also bet that RCCL is not the only cruise line placing these letters in the staterooms.  On the day we arrived in Nassau, Carnival,, NCL and Disney all arrived in port that day.  I bet those cruise lines too placed a letter like in RCCL.  Old adage the enemy of my enemy is my friend.  Hence, all cruise lines will band together to prove a point to the govt in Bahamas.

The Port of Nassau is tired, run down filthy and not very appealing at all unless you are going on a sanctioned excursion to places like Atlantis or Pearl lsand. I agree that any tourist in any city should be wise in how they explore a new city but when the cruise line is adding an additional warning to its passengers attention should be paid.
Nassau is very convenient for cruise ships clearly. I am sure many ships register in the Bahamas as well but I would much rather have an extra day playing at Coco Cay or at sea or even throw in a day trip to Key West than waste a full day stopping at a port that I won't bother leaving the ship for.
As long as there is a continuing stream of new passengers with new adventures on their mind I doubt that Royal would consider an itinerary change though.  
The cinic in me wonders if a letter like this is an intentional statement of the obvious but will push some passengers toward paid for excursions.

We were in Nassau this past June with DCL. They had emailed a similar letter prior to embarkation. We decided to leave the ship anyway. We went as far as The Fence and turned around. What a freak'n mess at port.

This just reinforces what I have thought about the Bahamas in general. I typically try to avoid cruises going to the Bahamas but, if I do go, I stay on the ship.

Had no problems with taking water aboard the Anthem in August. FYI: The Coke Freestyle machines that are part of a drink package will dispense ice to anyone into any container. I washed out a coin bucket from the casino and used it as an ice bucket. Crew members who saw me chuckled.