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We only leave our 2 dogs and 1 cat with our vet's office. I don't know ( or care) if it costs more, I feel that them being there is worth whatever it costs us. Our one dog is very very old and or vet always goes over the options just in case he takes a bad turn and it's time to help him along. I trust that she would make the best decision for him even if we are out of phone reach. Total trust with them. Also they would take what ever steps are needed if one of them get sick. We talk about everything and then I write up a letter giving her authorization to do what ever she thinks about anything. She has me actually write that euthanasia is one of the options. She also has us give a top dollar amount if there is one. (  there isn't).

We only leave our 2 dogs and 1 cat with our vet's office. I don't know ( or care) if it costs more, I feel that them being there is worth whatever it costs us. Our one dog is very very old and or vet always goes over the options just in case he takes a bad turn and it's time to help him along. I trust that she would make the best decision for him even if we are out of phone reach. Total trust with them. Also they would take what ever steps are needed if one of them get sick. We talk about everything and then I write up a letter giving her authorization to do what ever she thinks about anything. She has me actually write that euthanasia is one of the options. She also has us give a top dollar amount if there is one. (  there isn't).

Two words - Brittney Griner

Just an aside- next week is spring break for MANY northeast schools, so these ships are going to be full of folks who paid top $$$ to cruise that week.  Yeah, not a snowballs chance on CocoCay you are getting some stranger to switch with you. 
You cannot book GTY one parent/one child then expect others to change to accommodate your desires. This entitlement stuff needs to stop honestly. And nope, not switching seats on the plane either. Paid to choose my seat, I am going to occupy it, not interested in your sob story. 

I am personally sick  and  tired of being anywhere on the ship with tweens and teens with no parental supervision. I know, I know these parents feel that their angel wonderchild would never get up to pranks and if they did, why it would just be them being kids. Those same parents must not care that 4% of the population is the rate experts feel are pedifiles, or they just don't care about the safety of their kids.
Sorry to snap, but kids are the only issue we ever have on cruise ships. I have cruised with my 2 kids and my Granddaughter, when I was with them then, and even now, I am Mom and / Nanny first, and not the individual I am when I am not with them. The way people let their kids just go do what ever with no input from a Mom or Dad can really ruin a vacation for the rest of us.

Like the saying goes: A lack of planning on your end doesn’t constitute an emergency on my end. Anyone asking me to switch anything due to their poor planning had better be offering me some serious cash consideration on the spot. My going rate for a change in plane seat is $200 per hour of flight time. For a cruise, you better have a few $k on you!! Poor planning can be expensive and I have no issue being one of those expenses!! 

Or just don't bring it since they are prohibited.

We use our Visa RCI card for everything we can, we just pay it off each month, so no interest. We cruise once a year on a B2B, so 2 weeks - 2 cruises. WE book at least 2 seven day cruises. We use our points as OBC. To give real examples: Wonder of the sea 1st cruise in April we have $950.00 OBC. Second cruise ( Wonder of the Seas) we have $1300.00 OBC. To us this is "free" money. We used a portion of the cred for the second cruise to purchase the ship tour for both of us and also the CocoCay Beach club for both of us. We have about $900 still left. So about $900 OBC still for each cruise. We will use that for beverages. We rarely spend more than $800 total for drinks, so for us it's like getting a beverage package that is custom made for us, for free. The extra left over OBC we will have returned by check in the mail to us as this type of credit is refundable. Or you can put it in a slot machine and cash it out to yourself if you didn't want to wait for it.
I have checked the cost of cruises and we found it wouldn't work well for us. We don't want to stay in an interior and by the time you were to upgrade you would be losing money. Most of the time I check I can get a cruise well in advance for a better price. Take for example in 2025 April 24th, Voyager of the sea, interior cabin is $320 PP and April 04, 2025, Independance of the sea, 3 night is $290 PP. So even for short cruises you would lose money.
I put all I can in OBC from our card on each vacation, so only a small odd amount is left over on the credit card. That way we can see the real value we get each year from the card, as we feel it's like starting with a clean slate after each vacation. We use the card for just about 100% of spending money, groceries, appointment co pays, clothing, cell phone bill, dirTV bill. One thing we don't use it for, and I often think I should check on the ability to do so, is other bills besides at&t bills. I don't think you can pay your mortgage with a card, but I think I could add other utilities to it. Also we get double points for using to pay our cruises with it.

Unless you looked at the booking online and saw that the cabins were available, getting a royal up offer doesn't mean there are empty cabins. Often the move up comes from a snowball effect. Maybe 1 suite empty and that gets picked up in a royal up bid, or someone cancels last minute, then there is the empty cabin.  And then that cabin gets picked up etc. Even for a sold out cruise they still send royal up emails out.

Unless you looked at the booking online and saw that the cabins were available, getting a royal up offer doesn't mean there are empty cabins. Often the move up comes from a snowball effect. Maybe 1 suite empty and that gets picked up in a royal up bid, or someone cancels last minute, then there is the empty cabin.  And then that cabin gets picked up etc. Even for a sold out cruise they still send royal up emails out.

You can't take te bathrobes home with you, even if you're staying on a suite. If there are 3 persons on the reservation there should be at least 3 bathrobes available on the suite, why there wouldn't be enough robes for all of you?.
 
P.S. It's not a "cleaner", the position is called Stateroom attendant. 

I never mention a person. but I do say yes...the main dinning room staff. They do always, several times ask, for only 10s.

I never mention a person. but I do say yes...the main dinning room staff. They do always, several times ask, for only 10s.

I never mention a person. but I do say yes...the main dinning room staff. They do always, several times ask, for only 10s.

Suite guests have always gotten better benefits, but remember that they are paying for those benefits.
As a Diamond Plus guest, you get to book an inside cabin if you like and get similar benefits.
I'm not sure why there's so much disdain for suite guests because it's been this way for decades in terms of suite guests getting additional benefits.

As a person who had a long hard fight with cancer and was left feeling like I could die any minute, I get a lot of comfort from my small 5 lb poodle. I love my Doberman also but my poodle has really helped me. It's hard to go from actively dying for a couple years to "hey you're okay". I have passed my 5 year mark so I really am okay.
But...my dog is not an emotional support animal. I'm sorry, but if someone wants to classify a dog as a support animal, you better spend a few hours training them every day. EVERY DAY. They should be able to be quiet. They should be 100% house broke. They should have several AKC, or the equivalent, training certificates. They should be flawless on a leash. Above all, they should never be a danger to others, never should they be uncomfortable around any person, any dog, or anything. 
Otherwise they are a pet. I do train my dogs. I believe my dogs do meet that criteria, but for the time frame of a cruise, and I have done long ones, I am okay with out Ziggy, and certainly he is better at the vet's office with his Dober brother. I know it is stressful for me and for my dogs to be away from each other. Plus since they go to my Vet while we are gone, it's a lot of extra money, but even as well trained as my dogs are, I don't know for absolute certain that Ziggy wouldn't bark at times, and that would be wrong.
I will also point out that people are now selling "real" service animal kits, with a "real" Vet's letter, for people to cheat their untrained dogs into places they do not belong.
 

As a person who had a long hard fight with cancer and was left feeling like I could die any minute, I get a lot of comfort from my small 5 lb poodle. I love my Doberman also but my poodle has really helped me. It's hard to go from actively dying for a couple years to "hey you're okay". I have passed my 5 year mark so I really am okay.
But...my dog is not an emotional support animal. I'm sorry, but if someone wants to classify a dog as a support animal, you better spend a few hours training them every day. EVERY DAY. They should be able to be quiet. They should be 100% house broke. They should have several AKC, or the equivalent, training certificates. They should be flawless on a leash. Above all, they should never be a danger to others, never should they be uncomfortable around any person, any dog, or anything. 
Otherwise they are a pet. I do train my dogs. I believe my dogs do meet that criteria, but for the time frame of a cruise, and I have done long ones, I am okay with out Ziggy, and certainly he is better at the vet's office with his Dober brother. I know it is stressful for me and for my dogs to be away from each other. Plus since they go to my Vet while we are gone, it's a lot of extra money, but even as well trained as my dogs are, I don't know for absolute certain that Ziggy wouldn't bark at times, and that would be wrong.
I will also point out that people are now selling "real" service animal kits, with a "real" Vet's letter, for people to cheat their untrained dogs into places they do not belong.
 

As a person who had a long hard fight with cancer and was left feeling like I could die any minute, I get a lot of comfort from my small 5 lb poodle. I love my Doberman also but my poodle has really helped me. It's hard to go from actively dying for a couple years to "hey you're okay". I have passed my 5 year mark so I really am okay.
But...my dog is not an emotional support animal. I'm sorry, but if someone wants to classify a dog as a support animal, you better spend a few hours training them every day. EVERY DAY. They should be able to be quiet. They should be 100% house broke. They should have several AKC, or the equivalent, training certificates. They should be flawless on a leash. Above all, they should never be a danger to others, never should they be uncomfortable around any person, any dog, or anything. 
Otherwise they are a pet. I do train my dogs. I believe my dogs do meet that criteria, but for the time frame of a cruise, and I have done long ones, I am okay with out Ziggy, and certainly he is better at the vet's office with his Dober brother. I know it is stressful for me and for my dogs to be away from each other. Plus since they go to my Vet while we are gone, it's a lot of extra money, but even as well trained as my dogs are, I don't know for absolute certain that Ziggy wouldn't bark at times, and that would be wrong.
I will also point out that people are now selling "real" service animal kits, with a "real" Vet's letter, for people to cheat their untrained dogs into places they do not belong.