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On 2/3/2019 at 2:22 PM, twangster said:
Aft views are nice regardless of destination.
The views leaving Hubbard Glacier from an aft balcony on Radiance can be spectacular.
love this picture - and i love aft balconies - I think they are some of the best cabins! thanks for sharing
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On 1/10/2019 at 12:49 PM, JLMoran said:
Michelle, take a gander at @twangster's live blog of his Empress cruise to Cuba. He did a bus tour through Royal, I'd guess Azamara will have something similar. Do note that his pictures aren't showing right now, but you'll get the gist of the tour and where it went.
Thank you this was really cool and helpful
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On 1/10/2019 at 12:40 PM, WAAAYTOOO said:
I'm envious that you are going on Azamara. Dan and I want to take one of their cruises to the Antarctic. That will have to wait for retirement ! Please let us know what you think of the ship and the cruiseline.
will do - this is my second sailing with them - I really like them a lot - and try and get on them for smaller sailings when I can just to enjoy the all inclusive feel
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On 1/10/2019 at 9:37 AM, Matt said:
Havana, yes?
yes, havana over night
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6 hours ago, deany said:
Evening
I go on my first cruise in June and want to know what the score is. What is good or bad on Oasis of the seas?
Deluxe drinks package has been bought and i wondered if there is anywhere i cannot use this. (is the champagne bar included?)
Excursions - is it better booking through RC or someone like Viator? Also anyone been Rome. I have been told its easy just to get a hop on hop off bus and sort it out myself.
Thanks
Welcome to the Boards and Blog - Rome is great - but quite a distance from the port - you can take a bus from the ship into Rome and then there are many free things to see - I highly recommend the Hop On Hop Off bus in any new city you go to - if for nothing else to use for transportation around big cities. I really like www.shoertrips.com for shore tours as an alternate to the ship tours. But also in Italy I like www.walksofitaly.com
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Hi all
I'm scheduled to go to Cuba in March on Azamara. 4 night mini-cruise and interested
in what others have done for shore tours here? anyone else do something fun you recommend?Hosting a small group of 8 people. Any recommendations appreciated.
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On 12/6/2018 at 8:14 PM, karl_nj said:
I've been charged, occasionally, but it's sort of random. Same thing on other cruise lines too, sometimes they charge, sometimes they don't.
If they don't charge me, I just add it to the cash tip I give them at the end of the cruise. So in my case, either the cruise line gets the cash, or the wait staff does.
wow cool idea never thought of it this way - agree with Matt, I have not been charged but I think it can happen at the bar/restaurants. I do pull out the rack in the fridge as well to keep the bottle cold. but worth it to bring a bottle or 2 on the ship.
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On 1/8/2019 at 10:41 AM, tiny260 said:
+1 on the Michelle recommendation.
Woo Hoo! thanks for the support
- SpeedNoodles and tiny260
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On 1/8/2019 at 10:35 AM, coneyraven said:
I'm with @WAAAYTOOO --- @michelle is AWESOME!!!! Her response time is amazing.
Thank you for the Thumbs UP!
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On 1/8/2019 at 10:27 AM, WAAAYTOOO said:
I use Michelle Cunningham ([email protected] 703 881 2727). I highly recommend using her or any of the other MEI agents.
Just an FYI - Michelle has been away for the past several days on personal family biz. I think she is back now but I am not 100% sure. If you contact her and do not hear back IMMEDIATELY (which is always the case if everything is normal) that will be the reason why.
Good luck, Robert !!
Very envious. I have yet to do Alaska. Retirement...hurry up !
Thank you Raye!!!
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4 hours ago, Pamela27 said:
Hi, i'm looking to book for May 2020 in a voyager class ship out of Fort Lauderdale for 7 or more nights or do a b2b totaling 14 nights. Does anyone know if this will be available next spring when the deployment comes out. My other option is March 2020 on Adventure 8 night and 6 night which we are doing this April 2019.
We want to go southern or eastern caribbean.
Thank you for any replys
no way to really know yet what RCI will do with deployments but I would think you could get a b2b pretty easily - will have to wait and see
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8 hours ago, jce2 said:
I would have transferred to Annette but apparently some guy named "Matt" is keeping her busy......
thanks for supporting us and you are in great hands with Danette
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yes unfortunately as others have said the pricing will be based on the rates the day you add a new
person in the cabin - but I agree if you think you may have a 3rd person that could go
look for the cabin you want, add then and then take them out like you did - -
Yep the longer Caribbean sailings will come out with Phase II of the Caribbean releases
Happy to watch them for you or send you quotes if needed
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Was just on Celebrity Edge myself and loved the ship - the Entertainment was a little |edgy| as they wanted it to be
But overall I really liked the ship and the décor, cabins etc. Royal Caribbean still has better artwork in my
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On 11/14/2018 at 11:15 AM, KJ1231 said:
+1 for Michelle! I don't know if it's because I booked 3 cruises within the coming year or not. Long-time members might get better service because they are repeat customers. However, Michelle has been great since day one and I put her through the wringer with the first cruise she did with me as she had to repeatedly go back to the Casino Royale folks. Hope she's enjoying her time on Symphony this week!
just catching up on reading these but thank you for the kind words!!
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its not automatic though - you have to tell this to the Celebrity/RCI agent that does the booking
so they can create the status for you. Just fyi- henrysea13 and coneyraven
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On 10/1/2018 at 1:55 PM, WAAAYTOOO said:
This thread is intended to be a Thank You to Michelle C. from MEI for her extraordinary work in making a dream come true for us !
If I haven't made it clear before, let me reassert now, that a good Travel Agent can make things happen that you just never thought you would be able to do !
These 2 cruises on Anthem, Feb 15-23 and Feb 23-3 March 2019 began as lowly inside stateroom casino comped rooms. All we would have had to pay was the taxes and gratuities and we could have been on our way for 16 days for nearly -0- cost. But Michelle immediately upgraded these inside rooms to balcony rooms for us for a very nominal amount (less than $100 each). She was able to find us a nice location on deck 12 where we could have the same room on both cruises, which is a nice touch...no need to change rooms. They remained that way for some weeks...until I asked Michelle to check and find out how much an upgrade to a JS would be for the first half of the B2B. She came back with a very reasonable upgrade charge, so we upgraded the first cruise to a JS on deck 13 and remained in the original balcony room for the second half of the B2B. Then one day I noticed that a Grand Loft Suite (GLS) had popped up on the first half of the cruise (there had been no Star Class suites available on either of these cruises when we first booked). Thinking that there was no WAY we could afford to upgrade AGAIN, AGAIN I asked Michelle to just call and ask. At this time I was on a biz trip (I think I was in Reno at the time !) so even with the time difference, she was so helpful. Sure enough, the price was very attractive, so I pulled the trigger and had her upgrade the first cruise from the JS to the GLS. YIPPEE !!! I was now going to be Star Class for the first half of the B2B. I was in heaven ! ...and wouldn't you know it...shortly after that, another GLS became available on the second half of the B2B and she once again worked her magic and we snagged that one, too !! ...both of these B2B Star Class cruises together were about half the cost of 1 SC cruise by itself ! They are different suites, so we will have to move from deck 8 to deck 10 on the turnaround but I'm hoping that we can keep the same Genie. I have no idea how something like that works. It will be our first B2B and now both of them will be in Star Class. Can it get any better than this ?
While Michelle was certainly instrumental in getting all of this accomplished for us, I have to also give credit to the Club Royale people with whom she worked. ...but Michelle was dogged in her pursuit of this dream on our behalf. If she didn't like the price that one agent gave her, she would call back again and again until she got the price she thought we should get...until it was all done. I know I wore her out with all of the calling and rebooking that she was doing. But once again, she has come through for us and I am so very grateful.
Great job, Michelle. Thank you !
wow- thank you for this true vote of confidence and for the post - I love finding the deal and the Casino people were great both times in really getting this set up for us. SO SO happy you will be able to live out this dream - and like I said before - happy to come along :-)
Happy sailing - and yes, this was kind of fun too, to see what we could do - happy for text messaging!
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37 minutes ago, Mljstr said:
Thank you so much for your patience with all of this and the Documents
So glad they are in your hands now - One step closer to your big trip!
AND we so appreciate your working with MEI Travel and supporting Matt's blog
- Mljstr, WAAAYTOOO, Baked Alaska and 1 other
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On 8/2/2018 at 9:10 AM, WAAAYTOOO said:
YAY ! I'm very envious. I would like to know about the suites programs; what they include and what they don't and what the suites venues are like.
Thanks !!
yep I will tour all the suites and get you the insights on the program itself - they do have some unique perks that are nice and amenities they offer -
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- congrats and yes I agree Loft Suites - they are just unique
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Trust me - its a daily ??? what the heck is going on scenario - but somehow it all seems to balance out
hang in there guys and yes, always question when it does not look right