BrianAlt

Welcome to Club 17!

I hope they won't serve the scallop carpaccio.  Definitely the most disappointing dish of the night.

That is a bit disappointing.  But I'll do it on my next sailing and decide if I'll do it again.

Fixed for me now.  Was like that for a while.

I LOVED my CL suite on the Harmony.  And I'm fully expecting to LOVE my CL suite on the Oasis coming up soon.

22 minutes ago, PG Cruiser said:

No fair! There are five of you… there is strength numbers ha ha!  
 

I’m a solo cruiser

There was actually a couple more with us, eventually.
 

Just post an event on the message board. 

A picture actually on the pool deck. 

Only during a Yeti Pub Crawl. 
 

Did you hit the ADD button?  I've made that mistake a few times.

You can also log out of your account and log into the cruise planner under the other reservation number.  I've had to do that with my kid's cabin to book them for like the drink package which you can't purchase for additional guests on your account.

On 8/28/2021 at 7:46 AM, Pen said:

We are sailing out of Bayonne on Oasis of the Seas end of October.  We are at 57 days.  Entertainment hasn't opened yet.  Has it open for any of the other sailings out of Bayonne that are leaving sooner?

 

Penny

Join the Roll Call!
 

There you go.  I guess most important thing to do in these times is BREATHE!  

Could be the policy of the port. 

A friend on FB just posted this...

On 3/13/2020 at 6:01 AM, benfalconer said:

After checking our bags in about 10:30 we went for a walk around the rocks came back to the terminal lined up and filled out our medical forms. ... Disgraceful performance !  Shame Shame Shame.  

One post.

1 hour ago, JSB_Z51 said:

Pineapples? What are you really trying to say?

54 minutes ago, wordell1 said:

I think you will find that facebook is wrong about many things

19 minutes ago, Snotarni said:

We're on the Dec 5 and Dec 12 B2B and are kinda counting on being able to enjoy the CK on both!!  

Same! (On my sailing.)

17 minutes ago, Jkaczano said:

Which sailing Brian?  In my FB group, the admin has also stated some wrong info.  So I’m curious if it’s the same

October 24th

24 minutes ago, Pooch said:

I actually think it’s the other way around.   CK will be closed to Pinnacles based on reduced capacity.  

That's what I would think!

In a FB group for my upcoming Oasis cruise, someone posted that Coastal Kitchen might be closed to suite guests based on the number of Pinnacles on board.  I've searched for information on this here, on CC, on FB.  I have found nothing that indicates that this is even a possibility.  She is an admin on the FB group and I already had her bristling at me for another time I contradicted her (she was wrong  ), so I didn't really want to challenge her again.

So I'll ask here, is this even remotely possible?  It's one of the main perks of a suite.  Can they really take away CK from suite guests?

15 hours ago, Pattycruise said:

How rough is the sailing to the Caribbean?  I've done the cruise to the Bahamas (20 years apart) and both times it was VERY rocky-of course it was hurricane season, so there's that-but someone had also said "it is always rocky out of the NY harbor".  I'm looking at booking some NJ sailings this fall and figured I find out ahead of time-as opposed to the hard way.

It is definitely NOT always rocky out of NY Harbor.  It has almost always been calm. 

The main thing in my worry about is the winds.  The windier it is, the more motion you will feel.  I've only had 3 cruises that were rough out of 27 and only one was out of Bayonne/NY. They are:

1. A 3-night cruise that was supposed to go to Halifax (without disembarking) and back on the Anthem.  There was a storm out at sea and the ship went south instead of northeast.  It was pretty windy and while I didn't see anyone getting seasick, you could hardly spend any time out on deck at all.
2. A 5-night cruise on Enchantment that went to Bermuda and back out of Baltimore. Going down was fine.  On the way back it was stormy and very windy. Many people were curled up on deck chairs unable to move.  Note that on the way down it was fine AND we were doing a B2B.  On the next leg, a 9-night Caribbean cruise, it was completely fine on the way down and the way back.  So it's just that variable.
3. The WORST I've ever experienced was on a 7-night cruise out of Long Beach, California on Princess, the Love Boat itinerary.  Going down was fine.  But as soon as we left the cove in Cabo and re-entered the Pacific Ocean, it was INCREDIBLY windy.  The winds were coming off the ocean from the west and hitting us broadside.  The ship was ROCKING.  50% of the passengers AND 30% of the crew were down for the count.  My wife got sick, took the pills provided by the ship, slept that afternoon until the morning, woke up and was fine.  That was the only time either of us have ever been seasick.

So, NY Harbor isn't bad at all.  And it really depends on the weather as to any problems.

9 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

With no good data backing it though.

Not personally rejecting or endorsing. 

My parents were recently on Celebrity Edge and the strangest thing they saw was empty elevators.

This is the strangest thing I've ever seen cruise related, but not seen on a cruise ship by me, was the story of a woman that brought a starfish onboard.  This was on cruise critic. The story goes something like this:

A woman was going on a cruise and supposedly the person she was supposed to travel with couldn't travel.  She was then ASSIGNED another guest in her cabin, apparently on her request.  So another woman was in the cabin with her.  I think the woman was blind (or the original passenger was blind, don't remember perfectly).  Everything was going okay, weird, but okay, until the first port stop.  After the port the woman noticed a STARFISH in the shower.  Apparently the other passenger brought a starfish on board and was keeping it "safe" in the shower.  Well, after a day or two the starfish was starting to stink.

Much hilarity continued on the boards.  The OP stayed with it for a while defending what she was saying.  The post can no longer be found anywhere the last I looked.  If anyone finds it, it's one of the funniest things I've ever read online.

30 minutes ago, JimnKathy said:

Everything I read (John Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, etc.) indicate they recommend the boosters only for the extremely immuno-compromised at this time. One thing's for certain...we can count on changes to these suggestions on a daily basis.

Not anymore.  Recommendation is now that everyone gets a booster 8 months after their second shot.