smokeybandit

Only Daytona Beach, Melbourne and Orlando (for some reason) airports are closed.

For being a hurricane, it barely had any hurricane force winds.

The check in notification doesn't seem to be aware if you've already checked in or not.

Agreed. lobster night is not what it used to be.

A live roach in a room? The only way that happens is if a passenger brings a roach on board

Yes, I meant AOL dialup.

OK Mariner, you've got 45 days to get Starlink installed or else! Err, or else I'll use old school O3b!

I'm one for one in my RU history. Got a GT up from a GS. The GT didn't open up until like two weeks before the cruise. We board, and the room has all sorts of medical equipment prestaged. I sadly wondered if someone on the previous reservation was suddenly no longer with us.

Somewhere in the middle.

I just got the RU email and I'm shocked how low minimum bids are. GS to GT on Mariner for a 5 night is only $70pp Granted, it'll require a cancellation to win that RU since this will be a full ship

But until then

That was fast

Ah, that makes more sense. Though at the same time still makes no sense. I'd be curious if the Barbados embarkation was even selling well to see if this was more financial than anything.

Odd reason to blame it on US customs when the cruise never touches the USA.

There are reports on social media that it is now back

Labadee and Porta Plata is actually about as fantastic of a substitution as you could get, especially knowing it's a NY cruise

eDocs have been outdated for a long time.

That's your one time premium for the entire year.

It's 365 days. For instance mine is 3/1/2022 to 3/1/2023. And yes, an annual plan definitely makes more sense if you have more than 2 trips a year.

I do think you need two cruises to know if you really like cruising. After the first one you now replace googled expectations with experience. Then for the next one you can do this/don't do that from lessons learned on the first one.

When my son was 2, nearing 3 we decided it was time for a family vacation. We looked at all inclusive resorts, but thought we'd give cruising a try since it was all inclusive, but you also went somewhere. TL;DR version, it was just the onboard relaxation and "do what you want when you want" that sold us. Our son could have his time in AO, we could have our time at a show. The crew really helped, too. As stressful and weary as that job can be, all the crew always put on their best face and went out of their way to make sure we had everything we needed. After sampling other cruise lines in the same market as RC, we found this to be unique to RC.

If that's what marinetraffic.com is showing, then cruisemapper is using UTC

cruisemapper would have port arrival time, but I don't know if that's docking time or when it arrives in the channel.

I've seen it served like that even before covid.

THe LA cruise terminal required masks in July. It was funny since that was the only venue that tried to enforce the various mask mandates LA had at the time. Put a mask on for about 3 minutes, then take it right off again.