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Oh that one on the left is right up my alley... looks good!!

So if someone took a midnight tender TO land, they were basically staying on the Island until 0730, I guess?

sometimes. Im a big lunch for breakfast guy...i get full on hoagies or burgers from wawa on my way into work in the morning. I love breakfast,too...but when the option is there, it's a rough decision between a big burger or a cheese omelet

I know the people and workers in Baltimore are going through it, but it must also kind of suck to be on a cruise for another week and all you're going to be worried about is how you are going to get your car and where you are going when it's over...hard to enjoy yourself when you know what happened in Baltimore, and still don't know what GOING to happen at the end of the trip.

It'll be a ship cat.... you'll find him walking on the counters at Sorrentos and knocking glasses off the bars.

They pay A LOT for internet, so to keep in touch with family, they use a large part of their money on that. Most of them just wait until they are in port and find a spot, but that is NOT free for them. Of course if they hang out at night at the crew bar- it cost them. All of the supplies at the little on ship store- laundry soap, toiletries, snacks, OTC meds...all cost them. They get free food and board...but most other stuff is costing them a nice chunk of their money

The Key Bridge in Baltimore was struck by a cargo ship and collapsed into the water. The whole bridge just fell... some autos and work vehicles were on the bridge. Looks like Vision of the Seas is out for a few days, so I guess we will see if there is any impact or delay in them getting back. Really crazy video of the bridge collapsing....

Love the little orange and black magnet guys! I'm really hoping to see Hiro as Symphony is on my short list of next cruises, it looks great!!! An NDA?? Now we really wanna know! lol

Then he'll be lugging 5 suitcases along every trip!!

If they are able to let you on, then I'm sure they will. If they are pushing it back to give the crew more time to prep or are only allowing the high level and suite people on, then they may have you wait.

I honestly never had a problem with some well behaved 16-17 year olds in there. If they were just relaxing on a chair with their parents or even alone, as long as they were just hanging out and reading or whatever, it was fine with me!

They raised the solarium age to 18+ a few months back. https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2023/09/26/royal-caribbean-ups-the-age-limit-its-adults-only-pool-its-cruise-ships

I'm sure they have something in place if they know you can't board until almost noon.

Thank you guys for taking us along!! We got that nasty weather yesterday in Philly, as well- rained from 4am to 4pm Saturday. Glad it wasn't enough to...dampen your trip (dad pun intended). You got me pumped for mine, even though we won't have all of the awesome venues this time around, still excited to get back on a ship and both of you guys posting all these pics of the food and loungers and COOKIES has me hoping this countdown starts moving faster!

yeah...we are gonna do it right at the bus, definitely cheaper through the bus line (and viator) than Royal

Yeah, I live in Philly so I know a good tourist trap...big broken bell anyone? lol. It's just one of those things..we're there, so lets get a pic!

I'm just not sure how it works with RC...it may not let you book two at the same time for the same people, kind of like when you try to book two activities at the same time, it throws up a red flag and keeps you from doing it. That said, give it a shot for sure and if it lets you...do it. Then you have up to a few days before the day of the excursion to cancel one of them. The other option is book the 2nd one through Viator or another 3rd party company...most of them have cancellation policies that allow them up to a certain time, just look into that part first.

That's exactly what I've assumed this was. There's still no real threat to that area, but people see Haiti and that's enough to want to keep out.

Here is where you'll see them in the cruise compass...down by the bottom of the "things to do" column...

Yes, there are a few meetups just about every cruise, you will see them listed right on the cruise compass\daily activities lists. I think you'll have a great time. Here is a picture of the area on a cruise compass where you'll find the meet ups listed... down toward the bottom of the "Things to do" column....

If you scan through this post you will see that not only won't you get stares, plenty of us don't dress up for Formal night. It's Formal night if you want pictures...it's every other night if you don't care about pictures in fancy clothes. As you can see, some of us literally wear the same thing we do the other 6 nights... it's completely optional now, they do not, and most people do not care what you wear, as long as you don't walk in with a wet swimsuit- go enjoy that lobster!

This is so good. I always feel terrible when first timers have a bad experience, especially something as big as this. Glad they worked it out and you have a much better outcome!!

I was totally slacking on this and just spent the last 30 minutes catching up while sitting at my desk here at work (You don't think I do actual work at this time of day, do ya!?) Looking forward to the rest of it. Still in disbelief about the lack of funnel cake...

Looks like you're going to Jamaica on the 26th now....Symphony on 4\20\24: Sat 20Apr2024Fort Lauderdale, Florida-4:30 PMBoarding Sun 21Apr2024Cruising--Cruising Mon 22Apr2024Cruising--Cruising Tue 23Apr2024Oranjestad, Aruba8:00 AM11:00 PMDocked Wed 24Apr2024Willemstad, Curacao8:00 AM6:00 PMDocked Thu 25Apr2024Cruising--Cruising Fri 26Apr2024Falmouth, Jamaica7:00 AM4:00 PMDocked Sat 27Apr2024Cruising--Cruising Sun 28Apr2024Fort Lauderdale, Florida7:00 AM-Departure