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I apologize for my participation. Couldn't let it go.

Speaking of stealing... Just last week I seen a thread stolen!  Took it like it was theirs, without reguards to whom it belong too.  They even had the nerve to change topic....that's so rude. ?

I think a road trip ending in a cruise out of Galveston is in order..kill two birds with one stone.

Just did. Only 938 miles to the closest one!

You can try and contain the smoke, but it's smoke. A separate pool or lounge area seems fair.
I always thought it was funny back in the day when they had "smoking sections" on airplanes, separated by a row of seats. YOU ARE IN A TUBE! 
I'm with @monctonguyabout peoples individual rights. I'm a cruise libertarian. You do your thing and I'll do mine, as long as those things do not fringe on the rights of each other.

Yeah...what bothers me the most are companies and society trampling your rights and freedoms for whatever is the "cause" of the day....whether its smoking or straws......you cant please everyone all of the time....we have to get along...it cant be My way or no way.....as that doesn't work with 6000 ppl on a ship or anywherwe.
 
I agree....it would be nice if they would have a smoking lounge or bar..it would prob help a lot..but on a ship with 16 decks and the size of a small city.....ONE area next to ONE pool(aren't there like 10 pools?!) for smokers seems like a fair compromise imho.

As @JohnK6404 said, you can get as many apps, sides and dessert as you want. You do only get one entrée. The servers, at least in our case, asked when we ordered one side each, if we wanted to order more. Same with the apps.

He’s a bot.  He has no head

Maybe if it's raining, I'll get lucky enough to get a deck chair by the pool! Unless somebody is saving them with rain ponchos.

Maybe if it's raining, I'll get lucky enough to get a deck chair by the pool! Unless somebody is saving them with rain ponchos.

I looked at that one and basically the same without the 3 hrs of free time. Last cruise we did too any 6+hr tours. Not enough time to relax. Looking at shorter excursions this time around.
Maybe I'll wait and see what the wife thinks. It's a surprise 30th anniversary cruise, so I will have to keep it a secret until I tell her on our half anniversary next April. I booked the cruise this April. So far so good keeping the secret.

Maybe if it's raining, I'll get lucky enough to get a deck chair by the pool! Unless somebody is saving them with rain ponchos.

Maybe if it's raining, I'll get lucky enough to get a deck chair by the pool! Unless somebody is saving them with rain ponchos.

Hmmm. Seems like you have thought about these things before. Or are they just off the top of your head?
Whatever the case. Excellent points!

Wait, you married him without a trial run to make sure he loves cruising?? You're a brave woman! ? 

Is Buc'ees like Stuckey's? I sure miss Stuckey's here in IL. Pecan Log anyone?

I think, unfortunately for smokers, societal norms are changing and smoking is becoming more and more unacceptable.

Hmmm. Seems like you have thought about these things before. Or are they just off the top of your head?
Whatever the case. Excellent points!

Overall I'm pretty pleased with Royal which is why I am here.  This is how to make it better:
Keep cruising affordable.   Improve the website. Add free texting across the fleet using wifi based chat applications such as iMessage, WhatsApp or FB Messenger.  More airlines offer this now for free.  Time to allow it on ships.  Stop trying to build chat into the Royal app and let people use what they use already.  Royal talks about making vacation stress free, communicating with loved ones on board and at home makes vacations stress free. Migrate all ships to O3b Voom and leave the 1980 satellite technology where it belongs, in the past.  Add technology to allow mirroring phones and tablets to cabin TVs Eliminate the Diamond happy hour binge drinking nightly event by removing it from the Diamond Lounge.  This would solve the "How many Diamonds can you cram into a phone booth" effect in the lounge every night.  Keep 3 drink coupons but expand the hours of use and quality of choices.  Give Diamond members 30% off drink packages, move Diamond Plus to 40% off and Pinnacle to 50% off drink packages.  Even at those rates there is still profit to be had.  Currently many guests at these C&A levels don't buy drink packages or drinks at all, relying on the nightly happy hour for drinks.  These changes would increase DX revenue and reduce happy hour costs, a combined win-win.   Deal with chair hogs by actually enforcing the rules and do so consistently across the fleet Add USB outlets to all ships, add power outlets by the beds Clarify dining package rules.  State exactly what is included, apply this consistently across the fleet Make all rules consistent and apply them consistently across the fleet.  Be consistent with every thing across the fleet. Make Sea and Sky suite class available on all ships with consistent benefits across the fleet.  Star class can remain exclusive to OA/QU. Smoke free casinos across the fleet.  If Celebrity can do it, so can Royal.

I just got off Enchantment and we went through some high winds and choppy seas due to Hurricane/TS Barry and one day all the outside was closed. Including pool decks and sides of the ship. 

They already have that.  It's called the Diamond Lounge.

We were at a restaurant in Mexico and they listed all the coffees with liquor under the heading "Sexy Coffees."
I guess coffees are like a lot of people. They feel a little sexier with liquor in them.

Probably the same guy telling people they shouldn't wear shorts in the MDR!

If you give people the worst case scenario and it doesn't happen, how many people are really going to be mad at you?
What? You've got to be kidding me! They said we were going to get a foot of snow and we only got three inches!

Like they say there`s one in every crowd.  Never seen it happen.  If you want to see some aggressive people just go to the shopping seminar.  That is almost as entertaining as watching the Walmartin`s.  My most memorable aggressive experience on a cruise was 4 years in the casino.  This guy was at the machine for quite a spell.  He got upset and threw the chair over  and walked off. Yous truly sat down and 3rd pull I won $300.00.  Cashed out and called it a night.  Went back to the room and the wife said I thought you were going to the casino.  I said i did and won $300.  Nightie  night.