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10 hours ago, OCSC Mike said:

I'm sure you'd want to form your own opinion, shows are as subjective as food, but you didn't miss anything IMO.

Have to agree. In hindsight I should have done anything else that night

We're on this one, oldest son is tagging along. Trying to figure out what to do in Port Canaveral, maybe hit a seafood restaurant

Care to elaborate what the frivolous charges were?

15 hours ago, ScottD said:

I saw a post saying the line at guest services is long with people asking for compensation...

Watching a news clip, they said power was was down for 8 minutes. That's not really even noticeable

Has happened to us a few times, just got our TA to correct it, or you can probably call

We've never done WJ for dinner. How is it? Better than lunch options?

I wasn’t able to get it on my last few cruises. Said the bars don’t have it

My experience I've had times where they were running ahead of schedule and were allowed to depart 30+ minutes before the scheduled time, other times right at the scheduled time and other times up to an hour late.

2 hours ago, smokeybandit said:

I was in prime position to see them last night. Clear skies, no light pollution from buildings.  Yet didn't see a thing. Meanwhile social media photos from within a 10-15 mile radius of me had all sorts of great shots.

Same here. On the news tonight local  meteorologist said it’s easier to pick up with a camera. Mentioned if you can’t see them try to look at sky through your cell phone

As mentioned might not be an apples to apples comparison on the room. The 3rd party TA group is probably going on group discount. Also for the room a balcony in one location doesn't equal a balcony in another. A room front of the ship will be cheaper than midship. A balcony on deck 5 might be cheaper than one of deck 8.

When did you book your cruise? While I've never done this, my understanding is you can transfer your reservation to a travel agent within first 30 days or something. That might be a way to get your deposit transferred over and then repriced via this 3rd party company

You can watch them now, but nothing is recorded. You’ll have to rewatch them the day of departure to get the ticky mark

This happened to us on the Wonder last year,quite frustrating

Unless it's a pretty significant itinerary change, I wouldn't hold my breath

Would like to try it one day. I can see the pros and cons. I’m the early riser, but usually go to top to walk around and watch the sun rise

We go with connecting staterooms, having that 2nd bathroom is a must.

While not on the drink menu, I like a hummingbird (got the bartender to make one last cruise). Outside of that boring rum and coke

I'd probably go with the owners suite as it's closer to the elevators. Which ship are you planning to go on? We were on the wonder with a boardwalk balcony a few rooms away from ATS. The water show itself became extremely annoying by day 2, being in the room when they show is going on isn't something you'll want to do (outside of the first time watching it)

We'll be there around halloween (or so the wife tells me). Good that is sounds like it's still warm, not sure I'll go swimming though

Just now, TXcruzer said:

To add on to your very sensible approach; one of the children is 6, therefore “Pullman compliant” the younger child could sleep on the sofa. 
 

Was just about to post that. One cruise we had 2 pullmans and a sofa. My one son didn't want to sleep in the pullman so he sleep on the sofa. 

Only Royal IT can mess something up like this. Wondering if they've done something like changed the password policy (i.e. you need to have a special character in it), but don't want to code something that lets you login with old one and takes you to the change password page.

4 hours ago, Cakemeister said:

Hopefully I'll still be alive at age 79 for this one.

My house was in the path of totality for 4/8/24, but it was completely overcast. 

We were in the path of totality as well. Cloudy up to maybe 10 minutes before totality when the clouds started to break up. Had a big blue patch of open skies go over our house starting a minute before totality. We got lucky

I've had to get a safe unlocked twice, once my wife typed in our wrong code on locking it and forgot what she typed in, the second time previous passenger left it locked. In both cases it required an officer to come down and unlocked. In the case of the previous passenger leaving it locked, it was the housekeeper waiting at our room saying she's waiting for the officer to come and unlock the safe, both cases the housekeeper had no ability to do it

I like it, hopefully they keep it up. I'd be willing to give these staff a tip when I see them

When we got one I think they just assign you one, didn't get to choose

Good to hear. Remember our first few royal cruises they had the T-shirt and the walk. One of charities I give to off my pay. Looking forward to it again