WhiteSoxFan

I have seen in the past where the booking engine will not offer up cabins that sleep 3 as available to book if you only select 2 in the cabin. I don't know it this is still the case.

The Jewel has just the one hot tub in the Solarium.

Generally 7 day sailing depart Saturday & Sunday, some ships do alternate 6/8 night sailings with the 8 nt departing Saturday and the 6 nt departing Sunday. 3/4 day alternating cruises tend to depart Monday/Friday. There is a 4/5/5 rotation that has the 4 nt departing Thursdays and the 5 nts on Saturday or Monday. Then there are longer cruises so there are a lot of possibilities. I agree it would be nice if you could pick a range of days and a range of dates because there are so many possibilities.

As long as they keep filling ships and getting the onboard revenue we can expect more of the same. A few years back I found my invoice from my first cruise on the Majesty in 1999. In adjusted dollars it was about the same as we had been paying and it was for an OV not a balcony. The absolute best deal I ever had was when the Mariner was on the west coast and they had a hard time filling it. I had three price drops and paid less than $2000 for three of us in the Deck 10 corner aft in August. Yikes!! I've never bothered doing the math on the drink package because I know that I've never had my total onboard account exceed the cost of the drink package alone for 2 of us. Of course it helps when you're a diamond member. I'm curious to see what my drink bill is at the end of the group cruise. I'm sure I'll drink more than usual and I'm sure it'll still be less than springing for the drink package for me and the wife.

#FirstWorldProblems lol

Item 3 is the one that interests me. I wonder how many people actually pay the onboard price and what is the average price paid for the packages.

True, it's hard to do the "is it worth it" calculus if you don't know what the normal pricing will be.

Yes it is. I believe that the Mariner, Allure and Symphony will be using it all the time starting abut mid November.

From what I've seen if it 's the size of a seapass card, which is your basic CC size, it works. I'm sure there is just a detector at the bottom of the slot looking for anything that is there. I read where someone cut one out of a piece of heavy stock paper and it worked.

https://seaport2.miamidade.gov/dailydock/Default.aspx Thanks to @twangster on that!

Yes any card will work, old Seapass, hotel key, etc.

What kind of recovery time is there on cooling the room. I imagine that if you're in port on an excursion the room will get a little warm. Or does it act more like a "setback" on the thermostat and merely raise the thermostat setting?

I am under the impression that it is a master switch for the A/C and lighting. Not all the power in the room.

Looks like the 11/4 Allure sailing may be the first to get to use it. The port schedule shows the Mariner there 11/1 though, maybe that's the soft opening. ?

Add that to the list of reasons to use a TA.

I have sailed the Allure twice and I think the Oasis class may be the best at distributing the people around the ship. There is so much on these ships that I feel they feel less crowded, generally speaking, than some of the smaller ships.

Short answer is no. Like Matt always suggest, take a UBS charging hub where you can charge multiple devices at once. It is allowed and most of what you're probably needing to plug in is a USB charger anyway.

I loved our Mexican Riviera cruise on the Mariner out of LA. Not only because it was something different, but also because it was super cheap with 3 price drops. That is the reason they aren't there anymore. They couldn't get enough revenue out of that market.

That would be 1000% better. Of course they would need the pier to be open by then.

Wow! You like to live the life of adventure. A little traffic or a problem like a flat tire and you could have been out of luck. Even though I fly in early I often fly to Orlando for cruises that leave out of South Florida. I always leave around 6AM to make the 3 - 3-1/2 hour drive, leaving plenty of room for error. Of course, I'm of the Matt school of thought on getting to the pier as early as possible.

I have no problem with the adjustment but I'm curious of the reasoning. The NOAA tide predictor shows the low tide on the 24th occurring at 3:06AM local time. Leaving early would make it seem like arrival will be earlier and more coinciding with the low tide. Or is it a matter of them making the journey through the channel at a slower speed thus requiring more time?

Well I'm sure you'll be able to see it as you sail past it. ? I'd love to see some recent photos to see how much construction equipment is still sitting onsite. That was the biggest indicator to me that they weren't going to have this done for tomorrow's Mariner sailing.

Looking at the updated port schedule it appears that currently the first planned use of Terminal A is for the Mariner on 10/29. It seems that with the exception of 11/5 & 11/9 it will be the regular terminal for the Mariner. It will also be home for the Allure starting on 11/4 on of course Symphony.

I'm really looking forward to it as I'm sailing on her in 47 days!

I agree. That room is shown as having a sofa bed. Rooms with sofa beds have the sofa near the balcony and the bed near the bathroom. I think the reason for this, and I speak from the experience of having a daughter on the sofa bed twice on Allure, is due to the fact that the space between the sofa bed and the desk is really small and hard to negotiate with the sofa bed out. Getting from the bed to the bathroom could be difficult if the bed were near the balcony. In fact there is so little floor space with the sofa bed out that we actually put our packed bags on the balcony the last night of the cruise (we did self disembarkation).