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I'm not Galveston Steve, but I live an hour away. Spent many summers on the island. I would highly recommend seafood and/or Mexican food. One of my favorite places on the seawall has both breakfast and seafood as well as lots of other choices, Miller's Seawall Grill. http://millersseawallgrill.com/ A good choice for Mexican is The Original Mexican Cafe, http://www.theoriginalgalveston.com/menu.html.

H.S. social studies teacher here as well! Fingers crossed none of my students will be on my July sailing as we sail out of Galveston and it's only an hour from my school.

This is totally us! We have cruises booked for 2020 even though it is killing us to not go to WDW as we are also huge Star Wars fans. The plan is to let the "newness" of Galaxy's Edge wear off a little, at least to the point where you aren't limited on the number of hours you can spend in it, and then go. At least with cruising, we can build up C&A points. It's going to be very hard though in July 2020 to be in Orlando for our Mariner cruise and not go to WDW. May have to at least go to Disney Springs for a little while.

We can't ever find qualifying cruises either. I agree a welcome drink would be nice. When we were on Rhapsody at Christmas we went to the Veterans meet up one afternoon and there was literally no one there. Where we have saved a ton due to discount was at Walt Disney World. Between the discounted tickets via the ITT office on post (just need an MIL ID), the Salute to Service discount on room rates, and the discount on memory maker, we can go to WDW for a week or more for less than a 7 day cruise.

I just checked my cruise planner and my ultimate has been changed to unlimited. I'm very happy because as a bariatric surgery individual, this is much more conducive to how I eat. Giant 3 to 4 course meals are really wasted on me. Now I spread out my courses of several hours and not feel guilty about wasting food.

Thanks, @Matt!

We are relatively new to cruising with Royal Caribbean, so I may have missed an announcement earlier in the year/last year. Will there be cruises to Bermuda beyond October of 2020? Right now, that's the latest month available to book. TIA for any info.

Interesting, but makes sense. Of course they are going to charge sales taxes for everything since we don't have income tax. I see why Todd would draw that conclusion, though. I've seen somewhere where it stated Texas liquors would be served.

Stupid Texas blue laws... They are slowly changing, but the one/s that cause this ridiculous rule for cruises is still in place. Tito's is a safe bet for a "Texas" liquor.

Thanks for the help.

I chose not to give a laundry list of all the issues we experienced on this thread as to not take up too much time of others. I only highlighted one of them as an example. I was not asking for judgement of what warrants contacting customer service or how to do so. I just wanted to know how long I should wait before contacting my dedicated guest experience team member. Your assumptions of my intentions and “pettiness” was uncalled for.

Our bed on the Rhapsody last month in an ocean view was so hard that I couldn’t sleep the first night. Our stateroom attendant put 4 duvets under the bottom sheet and it provided minimal comfort. By day 5, my hip flexors were screaming since I’m a side sleeper. We met some people who had packed an air mattress and we are considering the same the next time we cruise in July on Liberty in a JS.

Sailed on Rhapsody from 12/22-29. Had some major & minor issues while on board to include my wife being harassed by another guest because she overheard her at Guest Services discussing a housekeeping issue & assumed my wife was complaining about our stateroom attendant, which btw she was not. The other guest heard my wife say our stateroom number and wrote a nasty & vulgar letter & placed it on our stateroom number plaque. Security got involved & we got “we’re sorry” from a Guest Services manager. ? I emailed customer relations on Thursday, 1/3 & received what appeared to be an auto-reply from a “dedicated Guest Experience team member” with contact information. My question is how long should I wait for them to follow up with a phone call or email before I contact her?