WAAAYTOOO

1.  No.  Any alcohol purchased either onboard or at a port will be held and returned to you on the last night of the cruise.

2.  You may bring 2 bottles (875 ml or less) per stateroom on board at embarkation.

35 minutes ago, Tiffeven said:

Star Class food coma here we come!

Be afraid.  Be very afraid

Yippee !!!

Welcome, CrimsonCruiser !

I love how they have integrated shops And other facilities (bathrooms !) into the old fortress “ruins”.  It is so practical.  They would never allow this in the US. They have done similar integrations in Curaçao, which is one aspect that has endeared me to that island.

That schedule change will suck for casino players.  The casino will be closed the entire first day and night.  I understand the need ...hopefully some of the prop issues will be resolved.

I have seen the sofa replaced with a chair in adjoining rooms. It is possible that you may lose the sofa

Even if there is a fridge in the room I would be very hesitant to store milk in it.  The fridges are really more like coolers...and only keep the contents modestly cool.  I would be afraid of milk spoiling.

Sorry, but it looks rather unappetizing.  Hopefully it tasted better than it looks.

Yikes !

My sweetie, Speedy.

My dad.  Looks like he totally scammed somebody else’s plane b/c that is not his name on the side !  He had one, though...

Ooh rah !  Happy belated birthday, Marine !

8 minutes ago, Mike.s said:

Would be nice if this was available on all ships, now, seems to be taking forever to roll it out 

...and even when they roll it out, it seems glitchy. 

36 minutes ago, Traveler said:

The main differences between bars/Restaurants (who believed they allow smoking in Restaurants few years ago , amazing) is that the ban was done on all  places at once  , here each cruise line will be afraid to be the one that will announce the ban and the competitors will get the 15% (and I guess much more in casino money). So to ban indoor in cruise line they will need to be coordinated.  

Think if only 70% of the bars would accept the ban  , most of the smokers would go directly to the one that did not accept it ...

Agreed

See what you started, S.Marie !

Thanks, Jay !  Glad to hear that the Event didn't cause any issues for you.

Thank you for providing this information !!

I love it when we get the first Genie email.  I know it's really going to happen, then !!

I usually do not write a LOT in my emails but I do write a LOT of emails to the Genie.  I'm sure that Joyce is extremely pleased that I am not bugging the s**t out of her right now, since I am away on travel (hello from beautiful Bahrain, BTW !!).  I actually think the Genies appreciate it when you communicate your "wishes" to them...that way they do not have to guess about what you want.  Perhaps this is just wishful thinking on my part - a way to soothe my guilty, overly verbose, conscience.  LOL

IMO, the only information that you really NEED to provide to the Genie is what you want to happen on boarding day.  All of the subsequent days you can play by ear but boarding day will go much more smoothly if they know what you need for them to handle up front.  There are certain particular exceptions such as any requests for Labadee cabanas, etc but those are fairly few.  I believe that there are few requests that you might make that will be truly unique to the Genie.  I have yet to have a Genie say to me, "WOW !  You are the first person who ever asked me to do THAT !"

Allow me to interject a small personal anecdote here.  Since I AM in the Middle East, I purchased a beautiful Aladdin's Lamp today for my Genie gift.  Do you think that is a totally lame gift ?  It's not large (being mindful of the lack of personal space that Genie's have in their room) - maybe 6-8 inches from end-to-end.  I think it's lovely.  Joyce may hate it.  It was an impulse buy (as were the 7 Pashmina wraps, the 5 beautiful hand made Turkish bowls/platters...and the gorgeous opal ring....that I bought, courtesy of the awesome  local souq !!).  I always have trouble with the Genie gifts.  I saw this and thought immediately of Joyce.  I guess that's a good thing... ??

On 11/7/2019 at 9:30 PM, twangster said:

Poor thing !  One of those nasty crocs must have gotten one of his legs !

 

Jay, did you feel that the fact that this was a President's cruise caused you any inconveniences ?  Any events that you wanted to see cancelled ?  Anywhere that you wanted to go, that you were denied ?  Any places you felt were extremely crowded that might not have been on a different cruise ?

5 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said:

@WAAAYTOOO, there goes another one...

What a SC HOG !!

GREAT Thread !!!  #lurkersunite

We purchased the UDP on our upcoming Brilliance sailing over Thanksgiving.  I noticed, when I went into my cruise planner calendar, that they show me eating at Chops Grill on night #1 so I have to assume that they have assigned me Chops Grill for my first night.  Since we will be eating lunch at Chops Grill on embarkation day, I'm sure we will change our Chops dinner reservation to something else.  Don't want to eat there twice in 1 day !

Since we are in a GS on this cruise, I will ask the Suites Concierge to move our embarkation night reservation to whatever OTHER venue we want (most likely, Izumi).  It's one of the nicest amenities of being in a full suite. 

14 hours ago, J-Fitz said:

Does having The Key mean that you can eat at the MDR that has the Chop's menu or you have to go to Chops in order to take advantage of that perk?

The Key will have a designated place (either Chops Grill or the MDR) for their embarkation lunch.  If the designated place is Chops, all Key personnel who wants embarkation lunch will go to Chops to eat.  IF their designated place is the MDR, all Key personnel will go to the MDR to get their embakation lunch.  Regardless of which venue that they eat in, the menu is the same - and it is from Chops Grill.