SweetPea

2 hours ago, asquared17 said:

WE. GOT. THE SEATS!!!!

 

I have to admit ... i was really (and i man really) lost on the whole cup holder thing. I was thinking, WTH? Doesn't Royal have small tables for that?

Ok, i get it now.....

3 hours ago, Va4fam said:

80's gets the most love for a reason.  

Amen! I was feeling left out with all these teens of the 90s nonsense! Hmpph!

Not that i don't love me some 90s music, but 80s is the best. 

I remember teaching my high school seniors the day Kurt Cobain died and i honestly thought it would provoke a modicum of emotion from them. One asked, "who's that?" Another said, "who cares." I hung my head in shame and moved on to Shakespearean sonnets .....

16 hours ago, asquared17 said:

and requested a refund for our beach club “excursion” since we did not even get to eat lunch before the call to return to the ship had come. 

You had to seriously ask for that?! It wasn't automatic? 

NCL is the premier nickel and dime cruise line, but even we were auto refunded our cabana any time we had to leave Great Stirrup Cay early. 

15 hours ago, asquared17 said:

she agreed and said there is lots of vomiting. and i was glad i had not taken @SweetPea’s advice to sail out of NJ

Hmmphh. Pics or it didn't happen. Never seen it myself!

16 hours ago, asquared17 said:

the early seating was listed at 5:45 in the cruise compass. PERFECT. we could roll in just before six pm and eat like civilized vintages at a Blue Light Special. 

Fixed it for you ....

In all seriousness, Batman and I agree with you on wanting to eat alone. But what they put you through sounds a bit ridic. You said human ping pong. I was envisioning Monkey in the Middle where that dining time with a table of 2 was just out of reach until Deck 3 got tired of playing and threw you a hint.

1 hour ago, asquared17 said:

I NEEDED HIM!!!

i still have one bag MIA.  

we even went down to the bowels of the ship and it was not there. 

we loaded them all together - how could they be split up this way?????

Do you need muscle? I'm sick and he's not helping. I will gladly send him your way for a few hours!

1 hour ago, GregD said:

ELF, portside BBQ, you are saying all of my favorite things......excuse me while I fall into a pit of despair......

bonus points if you catch the reference...

Surely you aren't referring to the book of Psalms, so I'm going to guess ... The Princess Bride? 

1 hour ago, asquared17 said:

due to the torrential downpouring from before - my luggage got SOAKED inside. it must have come in through the zippers, but the one side of the suitcase was so wet inside that it even got into my toiletry bags.

Where is Batman MacGuyver when you need him?! He'd have had all your bags waterproofed!

Sorry to hear, and i hope you can get everything dried out!

Sorry I've been MIA for the cruise countdown, but YEAH!!! YOU'RE ON THE SHIP!!

Congrats on the Express Boarding! I'm putting the over/under of this trip's AAA calls at 5....

And P.S. Also team  @WAAAYTOOO, @OCSC Mike, and @ScottD for driving to the port! You've yet to convince me that flying to Florida in Dec and Feb is better than driving to Cape Liberty to sail out of your home state in May or June!

5 minutes ago, Ampurp85 said:

Share a room with my mom on Wonder. There are more places to be away from her. But clean bathrooms and Mason Jar wins over her behavior.

I love Allure but I don't think Oasis class or larger should do shorties. I got Utopia as a casino comp offer and I'm passing. 5-6k of pax trying to do everything in 3/4 days isn't fun.

I'm honestly not surprised by your answer.

Utopia with those shorties is crazy. That's some amateur cruise hour stuff with there. Don't blame you for passing!

On 1/31/2024 at 7:31 AM, Karannk said:

We skipped the headliner show tonight as it was illusionist Jason Bishop, who we saw on Oasis a few months ago. 

Sorry I'm just catching up. But another +1. He was fine once, but i wouldn't feel the need to see him again. 

On 1/30/2024 at 9:38 AM, Karannk said:

We were on Oasis in October, and by comparison we’ve been enjoying Anthem better thus far.

I know that's blasphemy here, but I'm quietly raising my hand in agreement  

I could honestly not care less about Symphony in May and would rather just do Odyssey in January. 

1 hour ago, MaryS said:

Not feeling that great today because I wasn’t thinking (I was stupid) I went into the shops and the perfume smell was so strong and I’m extremely allergic to most perfumes.  So now I’m stuffed up and have an itchy throat and will probably have a coughing attack sometime today (probably during the show).  Thank god I brought a ton of allergy meds.  

Ugh me too. Angel is the WORST trigger for me. Hope you can recover soon!

Man, when i get to be an actual vintage a la @asquared17 (and most def not @Ampurp85's definition of vintage), i hope I'm not as entitled and stubborn as what you're dealing with on this cruise! I bet that $25 OBC for the train malfunction wasn't sufficient for them. 

I've had a crazy week so just catching up. 

I'm sorry Allure wasn't much of an Allure lol. However, I'm curious if you'd rather do a short cruise solo on Allure or share a room with your mom on Wonder?

+1 in the RUDE column. Did you tell them you didn't feel like peopling that day?!

14 hours ago, MaryS said:

In the pool area they do not have bar staff walking around.  They have a rolling kart with beer, wine, water and some other stuff 

Interesting! They do have a bar there too, right? I'm envisioning people getting bumped with that cart like the poor aisle people on airplanes!

On 1/26/2024 at 8:51 PM, asquared17 said:

this is such a sad email

IKR?! I'd almost rather receive nothing rather than having my hopes crushed!  

On 1/28/2024 at 4:52 PM, MaryS said:

My cabin is a panoramic oceanview.  Plenty of storage.

Fortunately your cabin is awesome without the upgrade! I think the Aqua restaurant access would be cool, but that ship looks beautiful and the food already looks great without it!

3 hours ago, asquared17 said:

i personally use vintage to refer to 80s and above 

I U

1 hour ago, Ampurp85 said:

I use the term vintage to mean a person older than 55 aging like wine.

You, not so much

Happy sailing!! 

4 hours ago, Ampurp85 said:

a vintage skater. I mean he is probably just in 40s but

I'm going to need you to define vintage like you kids use.  Is the definition fluid? 

On 1/28/2024 at 1:41 PM, Ampurp85 said:

bringing up her "dry cooter,"

I can't. I just can't ....

And then just when you think HE can't ...

On 1/28/2024 at 1:41 PM, Ampurp85 said:

said it's because her "cooter was dusty."

I'm afraid to read the rest of this post ... but i have to .... 

On 1/28/2024 at 1:41 PM, Ampurp85 said:

The last two involve nudity.

 I should probably skip the rest but

On 1/28/2024 at 1:41 PM, Ampurp85 said:

just full genitalia on display

Yup. I should've stopped earlier. 

But now I'm invested...

On 1/28/2024 at 1:41 PM, Ampurp85 said:

pulled out her thong to put on, climbed over to get drinks and did it again coming back.

Happens all the time. Really. Perfectly normal behavior ...

I have to admit (embarrassingly so) that the "9 month cruise drama" currently popular on social media has taken up about 17% of my free time for the past couple of weeks. It's like a train wreck that i cannot bring myself to stop watching! 

You'd never know you were on the same cruise as these people. I feel like i should start commenting on their posts with the link to your blog. That would be fun (for me).

Thanks for your sane blog. Looking forward to the rest!

Also, did you guys take dance lessons?

2 hours ago, Ampurp85 said:

They were out of oysters and green tomatoes. So my brother had fried tomatoes.

Did they at least show the movie then?!! I'm horrified that any fried tomato wouldn't be green!!! WTH?!

P.S. Your drinks look better than your food.

2 hours ago, Ampurp85 said:

One lady asked if I would give up my seat so she and her son or her mother could sit.

I'm eagerly awaiting how you responded to this