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Same here woop woop!  App was a breeze to check in.  1st RC cruise so it is just a new process for me.  I stayed up and did it right after midnight.  I wasnt sure how fast the early times would go 😅.   Cant believe we are this close to the cruise now.  

Same here woop woop!  App was a breeze to check in.  1st RC cruise so it is just a new process for me.  I stayed up and did it right after midnight.  I wasnt sure how fast the early times would go 😅.   Cant believe we are this close to the cruise now.  

Ah, my son actually made all our reservations so he would have gotten the emails, I just checked the calendar in the app to make sure I was OK with what he scheduled.
We booked everything for this cruise and the next of our B2B.

Just booked all our entertainment.

I had a similar experience with MEI.  1st vacation through them I was satisfied overall.  2nd there were issues with communication and things we asked to be booked were neglected.  Response time was slow over email and I had a hard time connecting over the phone, which is my preferred method to talk when discussing plans.  I had to remove vacations from them when pricing changed without explanation.  I lost confidence at that point and have been booking things on my own.  I considered using a TA again for an all inclusive resort we booked, but decided not to. 
Each their own, I am not advocating for not using a TA or even to avoid MEI.  I think my experience could just come down to a difference in preferences which lead to the issues experienced. 

With the website check in you have to load a bunch of your data before you get to the page where you select your boarding time. With the app you can go straight to selecting the boarding time and then do everything else later. My son did our check in for our last cruise and for some reason he used the website and he only had my travel documents so checked me in for a 10:30 time. When I got up a 7am I noticed this and by then all I could get him and my wife was 11:30, I think he assumed that once he selected my boarding time it would apply to all three of us. So as I've seen sometimes the website is available right away but the app lags behind.

I had a similar experience with MEI.  1st vacation through them I was satisfied overall.  2nd there were issues with communication and things we asked to be booked were neglected.  Response time was slow over email and I had a hard time connecting over the phone, which is my preferred method to talk when discussing plans.  I had to remove vacations from them when pricing changed without explanation.  I lost confidence at that point and have been booking things on my own.  I considered using a TA again for an all inclusive resort we booked, but decided not to. 
Each their own, I am not advocating for not using a TA or even to avoid MEI.  I think my experience could just come down to a difference in preferences which lead to the issues experienced. 

Good to know about the app giving you issues.  I prefer to use a computer for most anything over an app or mobile site.  

Check in will open at about 12:01am, so late night the 4th or early am the 5th depending on how you want to look at it. Using the app you can just select a boarding time and then do everything else later. We’re sometimes had trouble with check in not opening in the app right away, and have had to use the website.

We saw them a few weeks ago on Odyssey of the Seas too for sale.  

Just got out of MDR on Symphony of the Seas on "lobster night" and I ordered the steak and the lobster ... Our server indicated he could bring out one and the next or make it a "surf and turf" - I opted for the later so basically was the lobster tail and butter added to my plate with the steak.
 
Both the steak and lobster were really good, very happy with this meal 
 
 
 
 

Can’t wait for the first person sailing and receiving one to come back to this post to let us know all about it!  

I had a similar experience with MEI.  1st vacation through them I was satisfied overall.  2nd there were issues with communication and things we asked to be booked were neglected.  Response time was slow over email and I had a hard time connecting over the phone, which is my preferred method to talk when discussing plans.  I had to remove vacations from them when pricing changed without explanation.  I lost confidence at that point and have been booking things on my own.  I considered using a TA again for an all inclusive resort we booked, but decided not to. 
Each their own, I am not advocating for not using a TA or even to avoid MEI.  I think my experience could just come down to a difference in preferences which lead to the issues experienced. 

Almost all the safes we have in our balcony rooms will not fit a tablet. It seems when they upgrade the rooms the safes tend to shrink. The compartment where they sit did not change, only the size of the safe.

On OA….the first 2 weeks we were in a Central Park balcony and had a very small safe….definitely not large enough for a laptop.  We moved to a GS for this leg and have a much larger safe.  Don’t know the dimensions but I feel confident that a standard laptop would fit.  @Ampurp85 is correct.  It depends on your cabin category.

It will also depend on the type of room you have in regard to safe sizes. I stayed in the 4BR Villa on Harmony and could fit my 15.6in Laptop in the safe in the master rooms. The same could be said for a 2BR GS on Allure. I stayed in balconies and interiors on a bunch of other ships and there was barely room for my kindle. Also, on my last two sailings this year the safe did not work, even though I told guest services and called cabin management. I started locking things in my luggage which I also put in the closets. 

Yep, self service on Anthem but you are required to go through the washing station and the Washy Washy lady sings out encouragement.

I don't know the measurement but what we do is use 1 of our suitcases as our safe.  That is where we store his wallet, my purse and our money.  We have color copies of our passports and when we get off in port we carry them and leave the originals in the suitcase also.  I have read about who has access to the safe in the room and I trust our suitcase with a TSA lock more than using an in-room safe.

Finding Harmony on Harmony???  HM 3/11/2023 – 3/18/2023

 
This is Us – A Little Bit CRAZY, A Little Bit LOUD, A Whole Lot of LOVE! 
10 people, one cabin, crazy cousins, “set in their ways” older parents, plus a Genie…Will we find Harmony? Nobody knows? Not even us!
This sailing as been a long time coming. I am beyond excited, and a little bit sad. Originally, we had booked this sailing for December 2020 to celebrate my Mom’s 70th birthday. We lost that sailing, and we were most fortunate to be able to reschedule it to now. However, as much as we tried to retain our original group, my other sister and her family could not make it. That leaves 10 of us, instead of 14. I am sure that our Genie is breathing a sigh of relief lol.
This is our 3rd time on Harmony, but for my parents and sister’s family, it’s their first. It is by no means anyone’s first cruise though. My parents have cruised more than any of us have, but never in suites. They are pretty stubborn inside cabin cruisers, well my Dad is anyway. This cruise is another way that we are trying to thank my parents for everything they have done for us.
We last cruised as an extended family in December 2017 on the Disney Fantasy. The kids were all a lot younger then and I am sure this experience will be a whole lot different.

The new biodegradable straws (replacing the paper straws) are virtually indistinguishable from plastic, to me.

New straws are great, but I still bring a straw with me just in case. They don't always give you a straw unless it's a frozen drink. 

with a frozen drink  & milk shakes the hole is quite small to suck through. "steal' some form one of the fast food places. 

It's 24 hours..breakfast 6a-11a then lunch/dinner from 11a-6a. Continental breakfast is free, anything hot works the same as ordering dinner from them does...it's a flat fee of 7.95 then you can add a gratuity. So if you order just a burger...or a burger fries and a salad ..it's gonna cost the same.  Continental breakfast is free and no fee, we slipped them a few bucks each time . You can fill out a card the might before with the breakfast order and hang it on your door..it will show up when you want in the am. 

Your best, and most reliable course of action, is to talk with your physician and the supplier of your device.
 
I have encountered these types of issues many times over the years with patients in my own practice, and there is always a work around. One must be proactive with the communication, and begin the discussions early.

While I can't directly answer if they're the same (though google says yes), I would like to direct you to All Good Reef Safe Sunscreen.
Based on a few lists I've found the 5 ingredients that have been proven to harm reefs are:
oxybenzone avobenzone octisalate octocrylene homosalate octinoxate  and most reef-safe labels only remove oxybenzone and Octinoxate. While they are still considered okay in some places, I didn't want to have any cause for concern while snorkeling or from the excursion staff so I made sure to get a mineral sunscreen and All Good is the only one I've found that is mineral AND comes in aerosol form.