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Yeah and also you have to be on the ship's wi-fi before it'll let you do anything in the chat app. We could probably try to organize a meet-up maybe later in the day. Give everyone a chance to get their bearings and get settled in their cabins. The sail away is probably around 4:45 and I knot Brian and I want to go to that, so maybe we all meet at 3 somewhere?

I think you need the last name and room number of someone to add them to the chat app, but you can't do it beforehand.

Since I can't stop watching videos and getting excited, where is the first place you're all getting a drink and what are you getting? I'm thinking of doing a Matt and getting a Lava Flow (probably virgin, though) at one of the pool bars. Really hoping for amazing weather. Our last cruise had miserable weather almost every day.

Call Royal Caribbean or have your travel agent do it, for sure. I can't imagine they'd make her have the deluxe package if she's under 21. As for Sabor and Wonderland, yep, they have separate bar areas. You can just go in and sit down and order drinks from the bar no problem!

Oh, great! Yeah, just search for "Ohio birth certificate kiosk"

I got my birth certificate back pretty quickly after I got my passport, but yeah I would see if you can get a certified replacement quick. I know in my birth state of Ohio, they have kiosks you can go and get a new certificate replaced the same day, so I'd look into that as well.

Yep, that's what I was going to suggest, too, especially if it's a minor misspelling. Either way, you /can/ cruise with birth certificate and driver's license even if you didn't have the passport.

How badly is it misspelled?

Sweet, I'm all booked up now!

I'm certainly keeping my eye out on this cruise to see how the changes affect me. I've said this in some of the YouTube videos: I understand why they are making changes, but we do not have to be happy or accept them if we don't feel the cost is worth it anymore. I have the inaugural Icon cruise booked, but yeah, will have to reconsider if things end up not being worth the cost anymore. Some people say they don't mind the changes, others say their vacation was damaged by the changes. Not going to go looking for things, but I'll definitely note anything that stands out to me, specifically, and take it into account for next time. I do still think it's probably worth it, I mean, for around 2-3 grand, you get a week living on a moving resort, effectively. So far, I think the only change that bugs me is the menu in the MDR. If food quality overall is down, then yeah for me it starts to lose its luster (food is a BIG part of cruising), but I'm not bothered much by the other changes so far.

Hopefully! My first cruise they hadn't gone back to letting people book online, so I had to wait until I was one the ship.

More what I would consider a baked egg.

It depends on what hotel you're staying at. Some have a shuttle that will go to the port, but the problem with those is you are on their time table. Might be better to get an uber or a taxi. We'll be staying at the Radisson RED hotel near the airport.

Yep, we've got 10:30 as well! Definitely need it to get here faster, though!

Well, I would say keep in mind that StarLink is used as a widespread consumer product whereas I'm not sure if MedallionNet is used by anyone other than cruise ships.

Which ones? I've never gone on other cruise lines.

Yep! I'll be on probably a little before midnight EST.

Satellite internet sucks, period. When you have thousands of people in such a small space potentially trying to access the same uplink, it's going to be slow. The technology just doesn't exist to be better than it is.

No doubt they've blocked the speed test sites to prevent folks from posting proof of the slow speeds.

So, I was just watching a video about First Class breakfast on the Titanic and one of the items was shirred eggs. It's eggs backed in a little dish surrounded by bread crumbs. I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried getting this on a RC ship. I'd never heard of it, but I'd love to try it.

Sure thing. You can either go to the link or dial in if desired. meet.google.com/svk-ohoo-oto Or dial: (US) +1 484-909-0164 PIN: 108 679 460# More numbers: t.meet/svk-ohoo-oto

Hm, yeah I'm not sure how that works, I didn't think about folks in other time zones!

So, I imported the recipe into Recipe Keeper and used its conversion capability to reduce it to 1/8 serving size and this is what I got back. Looks reasonable. Unfortunately, I don't know how much a "tub" of mushroom base is, but they do sell small jars of Mushroom base in grocery stores. You could follow the directions on that for a reasonable comparison. You could also potentially half /this/ set of ingredients if this is still too much, but i think this would make a decent-sized pot of soup. EDIT: Wow, think I found the tub, actually. https://www.walmart.com/ip/MINOR-S-Mushroom-Base-16-oz-Tub/345967092 $104 bucks for a 16 oz tub. Must be pretty potent stuff!

Along these lines, I suspect this may be why some people say the chat function doesn't notify them in a timely manner. Almost every phone is very aggressive in killing apps when not in use so they can say they have longer battery life and the Royal app is not likely classified as a messaging app, so most phones are going to kill it quickly. Folks will likely have to go in and tell their phone to unrestrict the Royal app. Heck, even on my Samsung phone, I had to specifically unrestrict Telegram or I'd get delayed messages and it IS a messaging app.

It's pretty simple. You start meeting and you can get a link which you can paste for people to join.