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Try to avoid cruises that have a large charter group if possible...can greatly influence the vibe on the ship!

You'll hate us. We don't play often but when we do, it's the last game for cumulative prize money and we get the blue computer. We sit and drink and put 1% effort into it. LOL. We also lose. ?

As an Irish descent, red haired, white freckled skin person I'll say, I apply sunscreen every 15 to 30 seconds. LOL... Sunburn is no joke!
I burn easily and fast.
I coined a term... GPS: ginger protection spray. I'll never use less than 30 SPF and I'm always buying more before every trip LOL.
I also coined the stages of "tanning": white, red, peel, white.

Fall asleep in the sun.  
I haven't done this on a ship but I see people doing it and that sunburn before formal night makes getting dressed up a b^%$#!
Lobster anyone?

1. The Gift,
2. My Time dining first night

The art auction goes without saying but for me it was not getting off the ship/visiting CocoCay.
I have been on quite a few cruises but my first one with RCG I went with a complainer who didn't want to do anything and whined when I tried to leave her alone. We never left the ship and was always in our room by 10:30. My next cruise I plan to get off at every port, stay up later and enjoy as much as possible.??

Great, bet there will be a pop up person on my screen encouraging me to bid on something. Get it, get it, do it, do it, do it?

Just saw a TV commercial for everyone who's missing the on-board art auctions.   Grab your champagne glass and log into https://www.parkwestgallery.com/browse-artwork/.  Park West has  brought the auctions to the internet.  ?

Often room service dining starts at 5pm on day one.  
A lot of crew are tasked to turn around day activities and some services are not available.
See cruise compasses here:
https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/cruise-compass
 

Absolutely my favorite lunch is going to Chops to get the Filet Mignon and having a drink. I tend to go as early as possible so we can have some exploring time on the ship! 

Forced to close this thread. This isn't the place to debate the virtues of a vaccine, nor attack each other for their views on it.

If you have a FCC applied from a previous sailing, and then the new sailing is cancelled, you get the original FCC back in its original amount.
You then get 125% FCC for the cash you paid on top of the FCC that was applied.
So no, you cannot keep multiplying your FCC and growing it with subsequent cancellations.

The 125% from the first reschedule will stay the same, there will not be an additional 25% added for a cancellation of a reschedule. We have had 5 reschedules now from last year (wow it really is 2021) and only have received the first 25% additional monies. Wish it would keep adding up but realistically they are not going to give away the farm to keep you rescheduling. The latest blurb from the higher ups at RCCL indicates that they have had more interest and bookings now that the vaccine has come out than ever before, so I expect pricing to reflect that and go higher. Only additional extra money we have received in all this was some bonus onboard credit above and beyond the 125%. We were really, really nice to the agent at RCCL when we had to cancel the last cruise that was supposed to leave two days from now and he gave some additional OBC to use on the rescheduled cruise later in the year. Always say it pays to be nice to the people at the office and not complain and yell like so many are apt to do. My mom always said honey attracts bees better than vinegar. ?
 

Actually, no.   If nothing else, my hospital's cases of flu admissions are WAAAAY down -- I don't recall a single pediatric admission this season yet, and that is extremely unusual for this time of year.  And that, I directly attribute to masking, social distancing, and remote schooling.

Never has heart disease, aspirin overdose, falling down stairs, etc, put the kind of pressure on hospitals where patients had to be put into hospital gift stores due to lack of actual hospital rooms in which to put patients.  You cannot compare an infectious disease to other most other medical problems.  In all of my years doing 911 I don't remember ever running out of ambulances so often or having so many hospitals tell them to divert because they were full, and they can't find anywhere to divert to.  That's the core of the problem.

No, just supports the awfulness of this virus and makes you wonder what may occur if the world did treat it as another flu. 

Sure use 2020 as a timeline for your point but fact is currently COVID is the no 1 killer in America. 3880 in the last 24 hours and a quarter of a million cases. No amount of measures is going to allow cruising or normality in general to return without a succesful vaccine or herd immunity is reached.

 

If enough people were it might, but they're not, so it doesn't. ??‍♂️

Heart disease is the result of personal choices made consistently by an individual over several decades.
Covid-19 is highly contagious and will take you out within a month, through no fault of your own.

But even with these controls in place we are seeing days of over 3000 deaths from covid. Those numbers make it the number 1 killer in the USA.  Not only this heart disease is a build up of many years of things and doesnt kill you in a week. 
 

Are we trying to say here that because people die from taking Aspirin, heart attacks and falling down stairs that we will just let people get COVID-19 and die?
I am not a hater of cruising and the cruise industry.  Cruising has been my recreation of choice and I miss it terribly.  In fact, I'm booked for the Odyssey in November 2021.  But until I gain enough confidence that I will not be a carrier of this coronavirus, I will do my part and abide by the guidelines for mitigating its spread, however insufficient and controversial they may be.  They're all we've got at the moment.  I will wear a mask when needed, keep distance from people outside of my social bubble, and put my cruise activities on hold.

Depends if your mother is a doctor or not.

I'm going to preface this by saying this is a very naive comment and I definitely know the answer is $$$$. But I can't help by think that considering this is a world wide pandemic and people are dying everywhere...shouldn't Pfizer etc give labs around the world the formula and pump it out like crazy. If it was a cure for something small I can understand wanting to make it a monopoly. But considering it could get the world back on track to normalcy im sad it doesn't work like that...

To date they are the only company selling vaccine at a substantial profit at about $30 a shot compared to the Oxford Vaccine which is about $3 a shot, however 70+ third world countries will get the Oxford Vaccine at cost price, less than the $3

AstraZeneca vaccine was approved for use in the UK .
That will expedite the UK vaccination program and might indicate that the FDA will also approve it.
AstraZeneca vaccine  not require  deep freezing for shipment which is a big advantage and will help ship the vaccine to remote places.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-approved-for-use-in-uk-12155958