Grenadyr

Here are some sample menus and pictures of drinks I've found around the internet. The Starbucks frappucino's aren't included if you get them from the Starbucks Kiosk on the bigger ships. They are included if you get them from elsewhere on ship like Cafe-Latitudes.

If it will help any I've got an online drink calculator I made to help me figure out which package worked for me. You enter in your cruise length, number of ports, and what you think you'll drink and it does the math for you. I also recently updated it with current drink prices. Cheers. Drink Calculator

My wife and I will be visiting St. Lucia in February and are thinking of getting the day pass. Has anyone tried out their facilities and how were they? And, has anyone tried to upgrade the included 20 minute massage to a full hour or more?

Since I'm cruising again after too long of a break I've decided I need to update and repost DrinkCalc, now at V.3. The math is the same but the interface and prices have been updated. I was looking back at the comments and I'm thinking about integrating a selectable feature to not depreciate coffee and juice on port days for more accurate calculations. I've also added two "misc" fields at the bottom for less common drink options. The drink prices are also adjustable, but the new prices will reset to default whenever the page is reloaded due to lack of any persistent database function. Both the calculator host and website host are also now free which means it won't be subject to price increases which is what killed the last version. Enjoy, and please feel free to suggest improvements or let me know if you find any bugs. Quick Edit: The calculator now shows your average daily drink cost both with and without discounting coffee and juice on port days. Admittedly it made more of a difference than I expected. Cheers!

Fwiw, my wife and I have a 12 night cruise booked in February and I haven't seen a 3-night or 5-night option yet.

We recently arrived at 10:35 and people were already boarding. We were drink in hand by 11:15.

$275 per person,and they only charge for the first rwo passengers. So, for three of us to go from a large balcony to JS was $550 total.

We cruise on Nov 10th, we got our offer and I made a bid on Sept 11th, it was accepted on October 2nd. Fwiw our minimum bid was $250 to go from a large oceanview balcony to a Jr Suite. I bid $275 and had no expectation I would get it. Good luck!

Fwiw, we were originally going to get my daughter certified and a refresher for me on our upcoming cruise. After a little research about our local dive shops we found it was cheaper for my daughter to trained locally and I ended up getting my refresher free. The deciding factors were the difficulty in planning our excursions when we didn't know when and where the open water dives would be, how much personal attention we would get during the classes, and whether my our certifying dives would be together. She ended up certifying through SDI over about 2 months, as our schedules allowed, and found it very enjoyable and unhurried. (She also finds it very amusing that she got her diving license before her friends got their driving licenses.) As a result we now have 4 dives planned together thru local dive shops when we visit Roatan and Costa Maya.

It is a bit of a gray area to say the least. For our cruise we got my daughter her own package as she likes to stream music and video when she surfs and would be considered a high bandwidth kind of user. My wife and I have our own package for checking email and surfing web pages, both fairly low bandwidth activities. The vast majority of the time we'll be on separately, except when we're winding down at night at which time we're usually on at the same time. The other concern was my daughter will be roaming on her own so that allows her to be messaged without delay, while my wife and I will be together and can use one device for texts. Fwiw, its also because I like toys and its something to play with on the cruise.

I contacted special needs due to a allergy I have. Here is the response they sent me...

I have the RAVPower filehub and plan on trying it out in a couple of weeks. I've experimented with it here at home and it seems pretty easy to setup and use so far. I hadn't heard anything about MAC cloning but I was under the impression that they provided a login and password for each Voom package you buy. As you can supposedly log one device out and then login another device using the same credentials I'm not sure why they would be checking MAC's against logins. I have heard they actively block VPN's though. I'm not a lawyer (and I don't play one on TV) but I didn't see a restriction on using a travel router in the admittedly brief terms and conditions I found. They certainly specify each package is per device per day and they have a generic note that pricing is per person. If you wanted to stretch the "per device" part of that to the breaking point you could argue that the travel router constitutes your one device as its the only device actively connecting to the ships wifi.

Fwiw, we bid $275/pp for an upgrade to a JS, when the minimum bid was $250/pp. We were notified about 45 days out that we got it. I wasn't expecting to get the upgrade or be notified that early.

@JLMoran , Good thought. I'll have to think about that. Ultimately it would be easier if it was a selectable option but I'm at the limit for usable fields with the level of calcapp I subscribe to. I might be able to rig something in the background calculations. As it stands it would probably be a blanket removal of the depreciation for coffee, juice, and water. That would be easily done without needing another field.

Here's the suggestions I've found while looking around online for room steward gifts in addition to cash... 1. Hard Liquor. (Yeah, I know...) Supposedly hard liquor can be difficult/costly for crew members to get as the crew bars stay with beer/wine. Anyway, something regional or different could be fun as a gift. (Assuming you get it onboard.) 2. Snack foods. I was thinking about regional foods again as you can buy doritos anywhere. 3. USB sticks loaded with music / movies. Crew internet access is limited and can be costly and supposedly there is great demand for electronic entertainment, especially if its tradeable. 4. Toiletries. Not sure about this one as people can be pretty picky about their deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, etc... 5. International prepaid calling cards. Not sure if this one is still relevant in the age of the interweb.