SteveinSC

Ugh I just checked cruise planner and I have about 239 for my next RCC. I am 60 days away for my first ever Carnival cruise. I didn't book it, its a birthday cruise my brother's friend planned. But the great thing is that after that all my cruises until 2022 are on RCC and within 104 days of each other.

That feeling when 360+ days is finally down under 100! 

Adventure Of The Seas to Bermuda

Today things are back to normal today, Shore excursions departed right on schedule, passengers have been returning to the port safely from their tours and stays at local beach clubs.

Oh the flashbacks!  I went to boarding school in Camden, S.C.  we had one dusting of snow and they shut the campus down and said we had to stay in our dorms!  I was a 14 y.o. from New York City and I was in shock.  How do you shut down a BOARDING SCHOOL?   We literally live here!  We couldn't sneak out to the other dorm to see friends....too funny now. 

@SteveinSC As a Chicagoan this has me literally dead. I love the reaction of cities that don't get snow or cold weather. I remember the light sprinkle of snow that shut Dallas down for 3 days...meanwhile it snowed 3in, rained and dropped to below zero over the course of 2 days and it was business as usual. Also MILK BREAD SANDWICHES???

To be fair to many of the southern cities...they don't have a fleet of snow plows and mountains of salt sitting around.....it just doesn't make sense for them to make the capital investment annually for snow events that are so rare.  Just run to the store, know the highways will be a shiitz storm and make french toast ?

You have to make sure you bring a lot of singles for the...."entertainment"

Prime example of why I don't leave my travel plans for the last day. My cruise doesn't leave Miami until Sunday. I will be on the ship when she sails. 

as you should be.....as you should be......

Yeah, im near Charlotte and the rush for bread and milk has begun!!!!  MILK SANDWICHES FOR ALL!!!!! Charlotte-Meck schools are already dismissing 3 hours early, and my kids school system (Rock Hill) has already determined a 2 hour delay tomorrow, but fully intend to make it a whole day if snow actually accumulates. HEAD FOR THE HILLS!!!!! On one hand, it makes the waiting for my cruise (44 days) even harder....but part of me feels like this is just going to make it that much sweeter. 

I have 3 days and 263 days showing on my countdown clock. 
Vacation starts at 5 pm today. My area of Coastal North Carolina RARELY has snow. Guess what? We're supposed to have a decent one starting later today and overnight. My flight is scheduled to leave Norfolk at 9:13 tonight. Will I kick off my vacation flying to Florida? Will I start it by staying at the LaQuinta in Norfolk near the airport? Who knows? Either way I'm on vacation. 

It's correct about what happened on the 18th,  the main affection was for the shore excursions, you know, the ones offered by the ships, passengers were even in the buses at the gate waiting for departure and couldn't because of the blockade.
On the 19th, Costa Maya had 3 cruises scheduled, Celebrity Reflection, Norwegian Escape and Harmony OTS, all together had nearly 50 tours to the ruins, beach, water park etc. and every single one got cancelled as a precaution. Only Harmony confirmed that it would dock but didn't sell any of the shore excursions.
Today, the 20th apparently things go back to normal, there is a total of 35-40 official tours scheduled and people was just called to work. For today we have Empress OTS, Rhapsody OTS and MSC Meraviglia. Even if the situation eased, we as locals had an affection. If you don't come out of the port complex, a lot of locals work there and rely on commission or tips. If you go to town, you're also helping, If you get on any of the shore excursions from the ship, you'll also be helping locals because everyone from waiters, to tour guides and staff at locations is also local. So when a shore excursion from the ship is cancelled, that means that some people won't see any income for the day. 
I'll update this depending on what happens later today.

According to the CDC there have been between 14,000 and 36,000 deaths from this year’s flu. 
Link for my source here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

65 days.... omg I should probably start packing. I feel your pain, brother.

You ever reach that point where you feel like youve researched all you can, youve set up all your excursions, youve filled out all there is to fill out.....and youre just WAITING. Its agony, and I just want my embarkation day to GET HERE. What do yall do to deal with the agony, the torture, the slow death of WAITING? 

I am 45 and 494.
Monday- edit spread sheet, Tuesday- print luggage tags, today- fold luggage tag and find those plastic holders.
I packed most of the clothes in packing cubes in suitcase, ordered a new garment bag for the formal wear, iron clothes and put back on clothes rack, check prices on excursions and ship purchases to make sure prices haven’t dropped, print out all confirmation, Review/memorize ship decks.  Watch YouTube, check the forums here.  Gotta stay busy!

@SteveinSC Yes it seems they are shooting themselves in the foot.

Bah.....business as usual in Latin America. Ive seen much, much, MUCH worse. Watched people burn down a Popeyes Chicken in Tegucigalpa, Honduras after the coup in 2009.....ill gladly take some disgruntled taxi drivers. ? Im sure theyll get this resolved quickly. Too much money involved. 

Bah.....business as usual in Latin America. Ive seen much, much, MUCH worse. Watched people burn down a Popeyes Chicken in Tegucigalpa, Honduras after the coup in 2009.....ill gladly take some disgruntled taxi drivers. ? Im sure theyll get this resolved quickly. Too much money involved. 

Bah.....business as usual in Latin America. Ive seen much, much, MUCH worse. Watched people burn down a Popeyes Chicken in Tegucigalpa, Honduras after the coup in 2009.....ill gladly take some disgruntled taxi drivers. ? Im sure theyll get this resolved quickly. Too much money involved. 

On harmony right now and we are at Costa maya. Almost all of the royal Caribbean booked excursions were cancelled. We didn’t have one planned anyways as this was our walk around the port for a couple of hours then get back on the ship early stop. Everyone we saw was happy to have us there. We were the only ship in port today. Lots of people in the port area but it is a very nicely done up port. Also lots of people booked their own excursions and were fine. There were also excursions you could book in the port area with no issues. I saw people getting into cabs and there were no problems there either. Other than it being crazy humid it was a great day! 

@SteveinSC On the blog there is a post saying some itineraries are being released after March 9th.

When I put in a search for just October-November 2021, there's about 12 ships greyed out, so the answer is not all ships are available to book for that period yet.
Another set of itinerary releases will be coming out this Spring.

Make sure that your TA does repricing. Reading some of the posts here involving repricing, it seems that not all TA's offer that service. My TA Danette with MEI, has already repriced my Greek Isle Jr Suite for next Oct, twice and saved us $1400! Although I follow the prices religiously, she sent me an email notifying me of the savings before I even knew there was a price drop. Now that's what I call service!