teddy
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My two cents: Lyft or Uber
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In addition to the above, we found that we paid the GTY price but got to pick our room within the category.
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2 hours ago, bobroo said:
like H.R. Puff N' Stuff bizarre.
lol
I haven't thought of H R Puff N' Stuff in decades.
Now the theme song is on repeat in my head.
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I’ve seen a few references around the web to his age, along with (not so) subtle hints that it may be a factor.
50 isn’t old and senile. Seriously, it’s not.
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If that is indeed him, that video is quite damning.....especially the second camera view. Both the man and child break the plane of the window.
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I include Lyft/Uber drivers with taxi drivers. I always tip our ride share drivers.
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Dramatic headlines sell papers.....or in this case, get clicks.
Other than our middle son's wedding, the only time I've worn a tie in over 25 years is formal nights on our cruises. It's kinda fun.
That being said, in January I'm doing a b2b with my wife doing just the first one. We're dressing up for the two formal nights together on the first one, but when I'm solo on the second, I'll just hit the Windjammer. Most of the fun for me is being dressed up with my wife. -
@twangster Good points. Thank you for sharing them.
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Pretty much everyone on this board knows what the ships are like. In addition, we surround ourselves with people who have similar interests, and those people tend to think like we do.
Since I'm off from work and quite handily putting off doing the work around the house I need to do, I spent some time doing Google News searches with various search phrases that I think a person totally ignorant of cruising would use.
Many of the stories on major media websites are very slanted against Royal Caribbean. Some just throw in subtle pictures of the children's area, others blatantly print quotes like, "This was an unsafe wall of glass that shouldn't have been there within feet of a children's play area" (https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/family-of-toddler-killed-in-fall-from-ship-sues-cruise-line/2187887/) There is an interview with the grandfather where he says, "I just want them to fix the boat. Just fix it. Just fix the boat." (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cruise-ship-death-salvatore-anello-grandfather-charged-death-of-chloe-wiegand-says-hes-colorblind/)
How about this headline? 'Kids are not supposed to die on cruise ships"? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2019/12/11/kids-are-not-supposed-die-cruise-ships-family-toddler-killed-fall-sues-royal-caribbean/)
The lawyer is really going all out to make the public believe the ship is unsafe for toddlers.
I had never cruised until not too long ago. Up until then, I was 100% ignorant about cruise ships other than my memories of watching "The Love Boat". Had I seen this story before I actually knew what cruising was like, I bet that my ignorance combined with my being a father would have put me in the "evil cruise ship" side of things until I did some actual research on my own. Luckily, I am very skeptical of what I see in the media, so I feel that I eventually would have learned the truth. There are so many people out there who take what they see on CNN. MSNBC, FOX, etc as gospel. They're not going to dig any deeper.
The lawyer may be a sleeze, but he's a smart sleeze. He's trying to get the public to exonerate the grandfather to pressure RC.
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A few of the numerous Google News searches I did:
https://www.google.com/search?q=baby+dropped+from+cruise+ship&rlz=1C1AJZK_enUS807US807&sxsrf=ACYBGNTKJg7MM2Xlca_aDV1_fJTSMBd3ZQ:1576260090970&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWqq62mrPmAhWQuVkKHZ7vB7kQ_AUoAXoECAsQAw&biw=1920&bih=937- Julie-Anne, Brobbins246 and Okgladgal
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2 hours ago, YOLO said:
CNN reports: Michael Winkleman, the family's attorney, said at a news conference the "singular goal" of the lawsuit is to raise awareness about the risk of falling from windows and "prevent this from ever happening to another child again."
They are suing RCL to raise awareness to who? If you ask me it's to the passengers. So instead I say they should be suing passengers who put themselves and others in danger!!!
My wife and I raised three kids. All were of legal age when this tragedy happened.
Throughout their youth, We managed to keep all of them from falling out of windows despite never having been made aware of the risk by a frivolous lawsuit.
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On 12/10/2019 at 5:13 PM, FionaMG said:
I nodded off practically the moment I sat down in Studio B and when I wakened up again they were wrapping it all up! I
On our first cruise, we went to the ice show on the first night, and my wife promptly fell asleep.
I haven't let her forget.
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Who here is old enough to remember when Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" was getting lots of radio time? This song comes to mind every time I read about this unfortunate incident.
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49 minutes ago, PG Cruiser said:
I was in one of the provinces around Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines when it erupted in 1991. We were at Alert Level 5 when it erupted. According to the news this morning, the volcano in New Zealand was only at Alert Level 2.
I left NAS Cubi Point shortly before the eruption. When we went back down there, the damage and destruction I saw left me speechless.edited: I was also there for the 1990 earthquake. I'll take a good old blizzard over volcanoes and earthquakes any day of the week.
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I really appreciate you taking the time to share your experiences and pictures. Thank you.
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This is what I found when researching before we purchased ours through the cruise planner. According to the article, they are on Adrenaline Beach.
https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2016/05/18/spotlight-labadee-beach-loungers -
Our experience with LGA over the past couple years has consisted of construction and delays.
We have decided to avoid from now on, even if doing so means paying a bit more.
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The "third prong" provides a pathway to ground, it's just not the earth ground the bus bar in your home electrical service is connected to.
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13 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said:
My husband was stationed at Futenma Air Station. We lived at Camp Kinser and I worked at the Naval Hospital at Camp Lester
It was a fun 3 years but I was ready to come back to the land of tall people
12 hours ago, mworkman said:I was there from 95-98, I believe my wife’s cousin was the hospital administrator @ Lester about the time you were leaving.
I was just a little Lance Corporal with VMAQ-2. Originally went to Westpac on a 6-month UDP. Ended up deployed for 19 months due to Desert Storm.
We always were put up at Kadena AFB and loved it. The Air Force chow hall was to die for.
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5 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said:
We lived there for 3 years, also (89-92).
Small world...I was there off and on a few times in 90-91
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18 hours ago, WAAAYTOOO said:
Called for an Uber to pick us up but he never found us and cancelled the trip on us.
I drive for both services as my side hustle...my original side hustle is too hard on my body now..
I hear from quite a few people that their ride was cancelled by the driver. It's too bad. Driving for Lyft/Uber isn't rocket science, but it does require some basic customer service.
I think it's simple laziness on a driver's part. When I get a pickup in a congested area, I call the passenger to find out exactly where they are. In all the times I've done this, I've only had one person upset with me calling them, and even then, the people they were with thought it was a good thing because I didn't drive by them the first time.
Taking a cue from my driving experiences, when I'm a rider at a large airport like Miami, I call the driver to tell them exactly where I am when I see they are five minutes out. In Miami specifically, the app tells me to wait upstairs but the signage on the ground tells me to go to the lower level. I confirmed with our Lyft driver back in October that the driver's side of the app usually sends them to the upper level.- WAAAYTOOO, Baked Alaska and KristiZ
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2 hours ago, mworkman said:
We will be on her right before you sail...if you need any info or pics...let me know.
Oh cool. Thank you very much!!
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I work in jeans and steel toe boots, so while I may complain a bit, I really enjoy having a reason to get dressed up with my wife.
The last formal night we were at I wore a pair of dress pants, a long sleeve button up shirt, fancy shoes (that I bought for the cruise), and a tie. I had to look on YouTube while we were getting dressed to remember how to tie the tie.
I clean up good.
WAPO: The Demise of Formal Nights on Cruises: How dress codes are tearing passengers apart
in Royal Caribbean News and Rumors
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I've never understood people who complain about suite perks. They are available to anyone who books a suite. Want the perks? Book a suite. Boom...you've got perks.
fwiw, we are Inside GTY people.