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OMG RAYE!! I LAUGHED OUT LOUD SO HARD!!! Thank you!! I needed that one!

Sweet..nice crib! 

This is why I never log in when I'm first scanning for cruises.  Only when one catches my eye will I log in and check with program discounts.

Yes.  My MIL was texting with the same on our Christmas cruise.  Couple tricks to remember:
iPhones won't always pop up the "hey you need to log in" screen when you connect to Royal Wifi.  Just go to "logon.com" to get to where you enter your PIN.  If you buy in advance, you get a PIN.  Don't try to log in with your name and room number, it'll just bring you to the place to buy another package which you don't want. 
If you're sharing a code, go to "logoff.com" to switch it off.
It can take a few minutes after logging on to the wifi for the phone to make the connection to Verizon, texting and calling may not work right away.  Wait a bit and it should come up.

Yes --- on Grandeur ..... everything worked great, including wi-fi calling so my wife could make phone calls back home ..... just no texting ....... And no, I'm not laughing, I know how we are with our 4-legged child...... we're so bad, when we board him, we say "Fritz is going to camp" so we don't feel so guilty...... And yes, the Mrs called the shelter a couple times to check up on him while we were gone ..... so no, no laughter here.  The picture is of Fritz giving some lovin to our grandson, Jackson.

Looks like Fritz is a Golden too!!!  My two girls, Liberty is driving and Sailor is hanging out! So now you can see I need to keep in touch! LOL

Thank you for asking for the red velvet cake. I have been testing (SAT) and (PSAT). This is the first time I was able to read live blogs. @WAAAYTOOO , I am working on my husband for ? class. Thank you for your live blog.

Well, I certainly dropped the ball on this one, didn't I ?  I guess cruise issues overwhelmed me and I never got around to finishing up this blog.  Oh well....I said in the beginning, "no promises".
I believe that the only meal options that we skipped were the Chef's Table and Izumi Hibachi.  Even if it was just for a snack, I think we hit everything else this trip.  Our best steak on board was, without a doubt, the filet on night 4 at Coastal Kitchen.  I had steak at Chops, Giovanni's, Samba and CK and the one in CK beat them all by a mile.  I went to Izumi (sushi side) twice but I'm sure Dan was there at least 4 times.  That's his favorite place to eat on the ship without a doubt.  Overall, I think the best overall meal we had was at Giovanni's.  Dan had ossobuco and I had the filet.  While the CK filet was better, the overall meal and service was probably best at Giovanni's.  The Chops and 150 CP were also wonderful meals.  The only truly disappointing meal we had was at Samba Grill.  I think we were just expecting too much.  All of the flair that made that restaurant somewhat special has long vanished. They no longer decorate the place and they do not have the carnivale show anymore.  The food was just - meh. 
For those of you who may not know, when you are in a specialty restaurant you can order individual menu items from any of the other specialty restaurants, if you want to do that.  For instance, when we were at 150 CP we both asked for the mushroom soup from Chops and for dessert we asked if we could please have a slide of Red Velvet Cake (just for you, Sweety !!!!) to share (there was no way we could both eat a dessert....we were STUFFED !). We also ordered the mushroom soup when we ate in the CK.  Obviously, you don't want to inconvenience your wait staff to an extreme but for an appetizer or dessert, it is easy to do.
We had breakfast delivered to our suite nearly every morning.  I think twice, during the week, we went on over to the CK so that we could change up our menu a bit but I will say, having breakfast in the suite is THE way to go for us.  Like Sabrina, we are lazy cruisers and we like to sleep in...so having food brought to you is ideal.  You don't have to worry about being up, dressed, ready to go out.  You just have to be able to answer the door !  We got WAAAY more use out of our balcony on this cruise than we had with any of our previous Star Class cruises.  By evening it is often so hot outside that you don't even WANT to eat out there but breakfast was really perfect.  The only evening meal we had delivered to our suite was on the last night, when they served lamb shank, which is Dan's very favorite MDR meal.  The sun was so bright out on the balcony that we ate inside for that one but it was perfect, because Charlie, our Genie, did such an incredible job of setting everything up for us.  He was such a gem.  I adored him.
Neither Dan nor I got off the ship the entire cruise.  We were on a western to LAB/FAL/COZ and we have been on that itinerary so many times we just don't even bother anymore.  If the ship had gone to Costa Maya we WOULD have gotten off.  We love that port, but alas, it did not.
We had only 2 minor issues - and trust me - these are truly first world problems.  The first one is a repeat of EVERY OTHER Star Class cruise we have been on.  I don't know WHY they cannot get this one together for the SC program.  AGAIN, our luggage was delayed in getting to our suite.  Dan tipped our porter $20 thinking that this would ENSURE that we got our luggage quickly.  Nope.  He was right with us as we left the SC staging area and went to check in and where he went from there....only God knows.  He only had our luggage on his cart so I can see no reason why he would have been diverted from going DIRECTLY to our suite, but...it was at least 2 hours before our luggage showed up and THEN, the luggage was just left outside the door !  I was somewhat furious about this.  You see the pictures of the Genie carrying your luggage up the stairs.  Not for us !  I think the stateroom attendants (we had 2 on this trip...first time to have 2) were a little embarrassed.  They helped us bring it inside but Dan had to schlep those heavy mother scratchers up the stairs and he was none to happy about that, either !  The second issue is a bit more esoteric.  For reasons that we never fully understood, these $0.00 charges kept appearing on our seapass account from Adaggio dining room.  I think this is one of the MDRs but was never sure.  ...and when I say chargeS, I mean, like 87 in 1 day ! Charlie explained that these were the probably for the drinks that were coming to our suite for the "mini bar".  I suspect that this is partially the explanation.  As I said, we had 87 of them on day 3 and another 40+ on day 5.  I think I consumed 3 Coke Zeros and Dan had maybe 5 Coronas from that area the entire week.  We probably used a couple of bottles of water.  They just kept bringing drinks and bringing drinks even though we never ordered them and were NOT consuming them.  Either they were putting all of the drinks for all of the suites on our bill or they were WAAAY padding the account.  My personal opinion is that there is some kind of scam going on and the "free" Star Class suites are the patsies. I think they are trying to justify the costs for SC guests by showing that they are consuming soooo much in the minibars.  I don't know the reason.  Dan didn't really care what the explanation was.  He insisted that every one of them be removed from our account.  They were all removed on day 3 and then more appeared on day 5.  I'm sure that Charlie went to speak to SOMEone, somewhere b/c Dan said that if another such entry appeared on our account he was going to have someone come and remove every drink from our suite.  Whatever Charlie did, it worked.  No more charges appeared. By the end of the cruise, I'll bet there were over 100 bottles of varying descriptions laid out in that area of the suite.  Juices, sodas, beers, water, flavored water.  You name it.  It became a joke after a few days.  They just kept bringing them and bringing them. Oh well.  Like I said, first world problem.  Let's just say we did not lack for anything to drink on this cruise !
All of the regular "genie services" were pretty much the same as we have experienced before.  We had seats reserved for Blue Planet, Aqua Theater Show, the Ice Skating Show and the Comedy Club.  We skipped Mama Mia ! because we have seen it multiple times before and I think it's the stupidest plot of all time. The music is ok but the storyline is so lame that I cannot get past that. Jim went with us to all of the shows and Charlie faithfully saved his seat right along with ours.  Charlie came to our suite on disembarkation and walked us all the way to the Suites Customs Line where we said goodbye.  I think Charlie was the best genie we have had to date.  I loved Reyno and Sebastian but Charlie was by far the most personable and thoughtful.
I have all of the Daily Compasses from the cruise and will scan them and post them.  I just haven't gotten around to doing that yet.  I did not take any more photographs.  I hate carrying anything around with me - even my phone.  So once I leave the suite, that's it.

We got free upgrade from Central Park balcony cabin in to board walk balcony cabin 

@WAAAYTOOO thank you for doing the blog and for all the info.  Great tip about food from one restaurant brought to another.  That might come in handy for us since our girls are picky eaters.

Well it sounded like a fabulous Cruise for you and Dan! To me that sounds like the perfect cruise, stay on the ship, have a Genie, get breakfast served in Suite!  I won't have a Genie on our upcoming but will for sure eat breakfast in our GS every morning.  I'm so happy for you both! And thank you for blogging and sending pics!☺️  

Sorry.  I just realized that this thread has NOTHING to do with OBC.  Old brain.

Well, I certainly dropped the ball on this one, didn't I ?  I guess cruise issues overwhelmed me and I never got around to finishing up this blog.  Oh well....I said in the beginning, "no promises".
I believe that the only meal options that we skipped were the Chef's Table and Izumi Hibachi.  Even if it was just for a snack, I think we hit everything else this trip.  Our best steak on board was, without a doubt, the filet on night 4 at Coastal Kitchen.  I had steak at Chops, Giovanni's, Samba and CK and the one in CK beat them all by a mile.  I went to Izumi (sushi side) twice but I'm sure Dan was there at least 4 times.  That's his favorite place to eat on the ship without a doubt.  Overall, I think the best overall meal we had was at Giovanni's.  Dan had ossobuco and I had the filet.  While the CK filet was better, the overall meal and service was probably best at Giovanni's.  The Chops and 150 CP were also wonderful meals.  The only truly disappointing meal we had was at Samba Grill.  I think we were just expecting too much.  All of the flair that made that restaurant somewhat special has long vanished. They no longer decorate the place and they do not have the carnivale show anymore.  The food was just - meh. 
For those of you who may not know, when you are in a specialty restaurant you can order individual menu items from any of the other specialty restaurants, if you want to do that.  For instance, when we were at 150 CP we both asked for the mushroom soup from Chops and for dessert we asked if we could please have a slide of Red Velvet Cake (just for you, Sweety !!!!) to share (there was no way we could both eat a dessert....we were STUFFED !). We also ordered the mushroom soup when we ate in the CK.  Obviously, you don't want to inconvenience your wait staff to an extreme but for an appetizer or dessert, it is easy to do.
We had breakfast delivered to our suite nearly every morning.  I think twice, during the week, we went on over to the CK so that we could change up our menu a bit but I will say, having breakfast in the suite is THE way to go for us.  Like Sabrina, we are lazy cruisers and we like to sleep in...so having food brought to you is ideal.  You don't have to worry about being up, dressed, ready to go out.  You just have to be able to answer the door !  We got WAAAY more use out of our balcony on this cruise than we had with any of our previous Star Class cruises.  By evening it is often so hot outside that you don't even WANT to eat out there but breakfast was really perfect.  The only evening meal we had delivered to our suite was on the last night, when they served lamb shank, which is Dan's very favorite MDR meal.  The sun was so bright out on the balcony that we ate inside for that one but it was perfect, because Charlie, our Genie, did such an incredible job of setting everything up for us.  He was such a gem.  I adored him.
Neither Dan nor I got off the ship the entire cruise.  We were on a western to LAB/FAL/COZ and we have been on that itinerary so many times we just don't even bother anymore.  If the ship had gone to Costa Maya we WOULD have gotten off.  We love that port, but alas, it did not.
We had only 2 minor issues - and trust me - these are truly first world problems.  The first one is a repeat of EVERY OTHER Star Class cruise we have been on.  I don't know WHY they cannot get this one together for the SC program.  AGAIN, our luggage was delayed in getting to our suite.  Dan tipped our porter $20 thinking that this would ENSURE that we got our luggage quickly.  Nope.  He was right with us as we left the SC staging area and went to check in and where he went from there....only God knows.  He only had our luggage on his cart so I can see no reason why he would have been diverted from going DIRECTLY to our suite, but...it was at least 2 hours before our luggage showed up and THEN, the luggage was just left outside the door !  I was somewhat furious about this.  You see the pictures of the Genie carrying your luggage up the stairs.  Not for us !  I think the stateroom attendants (we had 2 on this trip...first time to have 2) were a little embarrassed.  They helped us bring it inside but Dan had to schlep those heavy mother scratchers up the stairs and he was none to happy about that, either !  The second issue is a bit more esoteric.  For reasons that we never fully understood, these $0.00 charges kept appearing on our seapass account from Adaggio dining room.  I think this is one of the MDRs but was never sure.  ...and when I say chargeS, I mean, like 87 in 1 day ! Charlie explained that these were the probably for the drinks that were coming to our suite for the "mini bar".  I suspect that this is partially the explanation.  As I said, we had 87 of them on day 3 and another 40+ on day 5.  I think I consumed 3 Coke Zeros and Dan had maybe 5 Coronas from that area the entire week.  We probably used a couple of bottles of water.  They just kept bringing drinks and bringing drinks even though we never ordered them and were NOT consuming them.  Either they were putting all of the drinks for all of the suites on our bill or they were WAAAY padding the account.  My personal opinion is that there is some kind of scam going on and the "free" Star Class suites are the patsies. I think they are trying to justify the costs for SC guests by showing that they are consuming soooo much in the minibars.  I don't know the reason.  Dan didn't really care what the explanation was.  He insisted that every one of them be removed from our account.  They were all removed on day 3 and then more appeared on day 5.  I'm sure that Charlie went to speak to SOMEone, somewhere b/c Dan said that if another such entry appeared on our account he was going to have someone come and remove every drink from our suite.  Whatever Charlie did, it worked.  No more charges appeared. By the end of the cruise, I'll bet there were over 100 bottles of varying descriptions laid out in that area of the suite.  Juices, sodas, beers, water, flavored water.  You name it.  It became a joke after a few days.  They just kept bringing them and bringing them. Oh well.  Like I said, first world problem.  Let's just say we did not lack for anything to drink on this cruise !
All of the regular "genie services" were pretty much the same as we have experienced before.  We had seats reserved for Blue Planet, Aqua Theater Show, the Ice Skating Show and the Comedy Club.  We skipped Mama Mia ! because we have seen it multiple times before and I think it's the stupidest plot of all time. The music is ok but the storyline is so lame that I cannot get past that. Jim went with us to all of the shows and Charlie faithfully saved his seat right along with ours.  Charlie came to our suite on disembarkation and walked us all the way to the Suites Customs Line where we said goodbye.  I think Charlie was the best genie we have had to date.  I loved Reyno and Sebastian but Charlie was by far the most personable and thoughtful.
I have all of the Daily Compasses from the cruise and will scan them and post them.  I just haven't gotten around to doing that yet.  I did not take any more photographs.  I hate carrying anything around with me - even my phone.  So once I leave the suite, that's it.

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John Witherspoon
Born in Gifford, East Lothian. Joined the clergy, becoming an ordained minister in 1745. Emigrated to the USA in 1786. Helped to draft the Declaration of Independence (he was also the only clergyman to signed it, but 21 of the 56 signatories were of Scottish descent). 


 

Yes, primarily for Celebrity Edge

No.  Work

Unfortunately, Allure was serving that nasty brown gravy at Park Cafe instead of the au jus.  I just skipped the gravy and had a roast beef sandwich without it. I missed having the au jus but it was ok.  The roast beef and bread were excellent. I do NOT recommend getting that nasty gravy. What a way to ruin a good beef on weck !

This is why I never log in when I'm first scanning for cruises.  Only when one catches my eye will I log in and check with program discounts.

...as long as your OBC is the refundable variety.

LOL...My wife received an email from RCI that stated "here's the requested receipt" which i asked her if she had requested one.  She had not.  So i logged into RCI to check what was going on, as our cruise was paid in full.  That's when i noticed we were on a different floor...then i noticed we had been upgraded from a JS to 2BR suite. No phone calls asking  for additional money requested...just a fantastic upgrade that we enjoyed and are willing to take at any time. :-)

I think this was a mistake.  The children should get the same status as the parents until they are 18 years old.  After age 18, they retain whatever status they have accumulated (if they are Diamond b/c of their parents, they remain Diamond) but they will not get to the next level until they accumulate enough points on their own to warrant the next step.
It should not matter whether children are in a cabin of their own or in the cabin with their parents.  They rate the C&A level of the parents; it is independent of what type of cabin arrangements they have.  If your children are not the same C&A level as you are, you need to check again with C&A.  They should be.
This, however, does not extend to other members of your family.  You have to have the same address in order to acquire the same C&A level.  Even then, I'm not sure they would extend the C&A level beyond spouse, parents and children.  I know that sisters and brothers do not get that extension.

Yeah, I think this is one of those situations where you ask yourself, "which should I be more nervous about ?  Whether they ARE cancelling flights to check for mechanical issues or whether they AREN'T cancelling flights to check for mechanical issues".  It's kind of a lose-lose for them.  Hopefully it's all win-win for the pax.

We once had a free upgrade on Liberty from a Grand Suite to an Owners Suite. We were so surprised it should happen to us.

Wow !  Nice lineup !

Yeah, I think this is one of those situations where you ask yourself, "which should I be more nervous about ?  Whether they ARE cancelling flights to check for mechanical issues or whether they AREN'T cancelling flights to check for mechanical issues".  It's kind of a lose-lose for them.  Hopefully it's all win-win for the pax.