RestingBird

Oh my....this is worse than bot status! I've slid into the unknown "fill in the blank" rank ?

@Matt heard my pleas, and now it's official...

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Great its just like all the other brain teasers on the internet .. its clearly a set of flip flops except now when I scroll back up all I see is a scary face. Now I'm going to be cowering in terror for the rest of my life everytime I see a pair of flipflops ;) Does this site offer counseling services ... I feel traumatised ...

Now I see it.  For the life of me I couldn't figure it out, I kept seeing a face with wicked eyebrows.  I gotta stop staying up all night working...

Ok...You've caught me.  It's Bot City.

True.  There was that day in 1947...
I'm just happy to see Canada finally got the internet and folks could find the blog.  Probably explains the increase.

Uh Oh.....looks like SOMEBODY is sensitive!

Congrats @RestingBirds!!!
 

Looks amazing!  I have nothing booked, been waiting to make sure the new baby is healthy.  Born a few days ago, all is well...now I can get booking! ?

Looks amazing!  I have nothing booked, been waiting to make sure the new baby is healthy.  Born a few days ago, all is well...now I can get booking! ?

I will stop complaining about Chicago.

Not if you work for a board that requires a doctor's note after a few days...that is problematic lol
In Ontario...Last day of school is always the last Friday of June.....???

I'll see your Chicago June 21 and raise you a New Jersey June 27.
No, I'm not kidding. ?

Looks amazing!  I have nothing booked, been waiting to make sure the new baby is healthy.  Born a few days ago, all is well...now I can get booking! ?

Or perhaps the announced upgrades to Coco Cay have created a significant increase in bookings so available cabins are more expensive due to increased demand. Just a thought.

Found this just now...she looks great!
@KLAconQueso and @AGSLC5...if you read through, OP said that cabins were not refreshed.....

Was the coke included in the drinks package? If it was then at £45 per day that's not to be sniffed at ? 
Probably the only time there's been a straight line on an RC cruise 

This looks like soooooo much fun!  Every cruise director in the fleet should watch these videos.
 
Get rid of the tired, boring 70's night and have events like this where people have fun and really enjoy themselves. A real vacation.
 
Instead of passengers having to pretend they like the Village People and KC and the Sunshine Band songs; Turn the subs down low, make the girls wearing bikinis sit in a pile of glitter and let passengers get their moneys worth out of their drink package.
 
I woud sooooo sign up for 7 nights of this!!!!

Every question I had in my mind before reading vanished when I read it was  British reality tv show.
It also mentions a show called Geordie shore! I would replace the S with a W 
A show where parents can sit and proudly watch their children having sex on tv.
Nowadays people have very little respect for themselves never mind anyone else 

All the marketing on the Mariner of the Seas worked... going to book for end of August. 

In other Mariner news..was looking a cruise compass from this Monday's sailing and on Day 2, formal night has been replaced by "Wear your Best" night. 
"Say goodbye to Formal night and hello to Wear Your Best.  Get glamorous, be chic.  It's time to shine - Your way." 
Looks like the are dropping formal night on these short cruises.
And....great news....2 days in a row now, the cruise compasses show Late Night Snacks in the WJ!!  10:30pm-12:30am!!

I try not to have overbearing rules about who you can and cannot link to. If the info is relevant, link to it!

Sounds like a possible new port in the DR.   per the article, several cruise lines have shown interest ;  RCCL, NCL, MSC and Virgin.   Article states,  once complete, will be able to handle the "largest cruise ships in the world".   Hey i love the Caribbean so i'm all for a potential new port!
http://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news/news-headlines/costa-maya-s-parent-to-develop-new-puerto-plata-cruise-port.html
 
@Matt  if this violates any policy of the site, please feel free to remove this.    
 
 
 

Thanks to @Wilson for tipping me off to this!  Today's Galveston Daily News is reporting that the Port is near a deal with Royal Caribbean to bring an Oasis Class ship to Galveston in late 2020.  The Port says Royal Caribbean would build the terminal on land leased from the Port of Galveston. 
The full article from the Galveston Daily News requires a subscription, but here is the full text:
GALVESTON - July 15, 2018
Port of Galveston officials are nearing an agreement with Royal Caribbean to build a third cruise terminal at the Port of Galveston that could cost $85 million and bring the world’s largest passenger ship to the island in 2020.
“We’re working toward a really good agreement,” said Ted O’Rourke, chairman of the port’s governing board. “It’s a great opportunity if we are able to put it together.”
  Port Director Rodger Rees in March announced that Royal Caribbean wanted to bring an Oasis-class ship to the island, but that doing so would require a new cruise terminal.
The port already is home to two cruise terminals at piers 25 and 27, but the size of the Oasis-class ships requires additional support, officials said.
Royal Caribbean’s Oasis-class ships, of which there are four with more planned, are more than 1,180 feet long and capable of carrying more than 6,200 passengers.
Officials are discussing putting the third cruise terminal at Pier 10, next to the Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and BMW vehicle processing plant, Rees said.
“Right now, the talk is about having Royal Caribbean come in and build the terminal themselves, then we’d have them lease the land from the port, sharing in revenues with them. We’d control the parking aspect of it,” Rees said.
Royal Caribbean officials did not respond to a request for comment by deadline Friday.
The proposed facility would have to be about 155,000 square feet, port officials said.
The BMW facility would not have to move under current plans, Rees said.
The benefit of having Royal Caribbean build the cruise terminal would be that the port wouldn’t have to take on substantial debt and would, instead, be able to focus on its substantial infrastructure needs, Rees said.
Ever since the Carnival Celebration made its first voyage from the island in September 2000, the port has come to depend more and more on the cruise business for revenues.
The port depends heavily on revenues from cruise ships. Port officials anticipate about 55 percent of revenue budgeted for 2018 will be cruise related.
Port officials are projecting operating revenues of about $37.4 million in 2018 against operating expenditures of $37.2 million, according to documents.
“This doesn’t use up our borrowing power to build a new terminal,” Rees said.
  Addressing dilapidated facilities at the island’s public docks could cost as much as $250 million, a problem exacerbated by the fact the port is projected to bring in only about $250,000 in net income in 2018, port officials said.
For a third cruise terminal to be ready to host an Oasis-class ship in the fall of 2020, officials will need a project planned and designed by about November, Rees said in a previous interview with The Daily News.
There is not yet a final agreement with Royal Caribbean, and all details of the proposed third cruise terminal could still change, Rees said.
The Wharves Board of Trustees must approve whatever agreement is eventually reached with the cruise line, Trustee Elizabeth Beeton said.
The Port of Galveston is a landlord port, which generates much of its income from lease agreements with maritime tenants and fees related to ship calls.
The port is home to three year-round Carnival Cruise Line ships, one year-round Royal Caribbean ship, one seasonal Royal Caribbean ship and a seasonal Disney Cruise Lines ship.
The Carnival Vista, the cruise line’s newest and biggest ship, will arrive at Galveston’s docks Sept. 23.

I will also be on the Nov 17th sailing of the anthem of the seas. 
Here is a YouTube drone video of the island. Gives a good look at the pier construction around 2:38 as well as the entire construction zone (walled off areas of the island).  Guessing it’s from within 2-3 weeks ago.
 
https://youtu.be/GpOhiWGmIgk
not sure if links work here, but if not just search Coco Cay published by On The Reef