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So good to be back to reading the blog and regularly checking the topics for helpful information. I was a regular reader, until COVID, and then it was difficult to tune in as regularly. It is nice to be reading and planning upcoming cruises and seeing the many familiar contributors with well earned expertise!! I used to love reading your insights and am once again looking forward to it. Our first cruise isn't for 6 months but we have finally begun browsing the cruise planner and purchasing excursions and such. Anyone else feeling the "hopeful cruise vibes"?

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The adventure of seas vlogs kicked it off for me. I had a Europe cruise that kept getting moved because of COVID and refused to book anything else and wasn't planning anything for the Europe one either. Now I have a southern Caribbean booked for Feb.  even though both are so far out, I'm excited again and have started planning again ?

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I am on the Oct 31st Allure. We had decided on a 10-10 because my mothers birthday is 10/7 but decide we wanted to do Halloween on a ship. We missed out on all our vacations so we are doing 3 days at Disney, 3 days at Universal and then getting on the ship. My mother is turning 60, hasn't been to either and they are on her bucket list. Other than some snorkeling at Cococay, I plan to just relax and hit the casino. I wanted to try star class but only sky class was left.

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7 hours ago, Ampurp85 said:

I am on the Oct 31st Allure. We had decided on a 10-10 because my mothers birthday is 10/7 but decide we wanted to do Halloween on a ship. We missed out on all our vacations so we are doing 3 days at Disney, 3 days at Universal and then getting on the ship. My mother is turning 60, hasn't been to either and they are on her bucket list. Other than some snorkeling at Cococay, I plan to just relax and hit the casino. I wanted to try star class but only sky class was left.

?  Oh well....hopefully we can meet on a different cruise.  We will be spending Halloween on Vision (PR) I HOPE. Not sure if there's any movement on Vision yet or not.

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9 minutes ago, Kathleen said:

@WAAAYTOOOBefore the world stopped because of COVID, I believe we had shared that we would be on the same cruise on 01/09/2022 on Oasis, our first Star Class cruise, due mostly to ready about it from you!! Hope to hear we are still on the same cruise and can share a cocktail or two.

Yep, we are still on this one for now.....but it is very likely that we will cancel this one SINCE they chartered the following cruise (1-16-22) and we had planned a B3B SC from 1-9 through 1-30.  When they chartered 1-16-22 they moved us to 1-30-22 but now we have a week's break...we would have to disembark on 1-16, go home, wait a week and come back for the last 2 of our cruises.  AND b/c the Owner's Panoramic Suite was already booked for 1-30, the only SC suite left was the Star Loft and they refused to price protect it so we had to rebook at the prevailing rate which totally sucked.  So right now, we are still booked on 1-9 and 1-30 but I am 99% sure that I will cancel both of those and just keep 1-23.  My whole purpose of doing this was to do a B3B SC and the charter totally dicked that up.  So I will be satisfied just to do 1 week SC and do the B3B thing another time.  Unless they change their casino access restriction for unvaxxed, we will probably end up cancelling ALL of our upcoming cruises....so it's all up in the air.

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8 hours ago, Ampurp85 said:

@WAAAYTOOO I was looking forward to meeting you as well and a couple of others. I love cruising so I am sure we will get there. I was looking at a cruise that ended in PR but the flights from there to Chicago were ridiculous.

Me too (looking forward to meeting you).  I was able to make airline reservations waaay back to PR (and also to Barbados for our Feb 22 Grandeur cruise) and I had airline credits to use, otherwise I probably wouldn't have booked out of CONUS either. Who knows if I can even get to either PR or Barbados.  If they require us to be vaxxed then we won't even be able to go.  I've decided to stretch the limits of my patience and just hold off doing ANYthing for now.  I figure I have a 50/50 chance of doing any cruising....either we will or we won't !!   LOL

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@WAAAYTOOO I had no plans to be vaxxed either but my job required it. It was a weird situation, as I need to work so I can afford to cruise  ?.  I used credits to pay for my flights for Oct. But if cruising wasn't starting, I had back up land plans. This whole thing has been such pain and disappointment. I really hope something works out so you will be able to enjoy Star class and the casino soon.

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55 minutes ago, Ampurp85 said:

@WAAAYTOOO I had no plans to be vaxxed either but my job required it. 

That is a very difficult position to be in and I am so very grateful that I never had to make that choice.  Prayers and grace to you.

 

57 minutes ago, Ampurp85 said:

I really hope something works out so you will be able to enjoy Star class and the casino soon.

Thank you so very much.  

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8 hours ago, Fairlynew said:

Where did you find the CK menu?  My app is not showing any menus.

Thanks.

For Odyssey I can see it in the app under dining for my Odyssey cruises through November at least.

It does vary by ship.  For example my last Allure sailing had the filet on night 3 or something like that.

For some reason all my Odyssey cruises have no CK dinner menu for night two but they show a dinner menu for the day of debarking which is weird but I'm not overly concerned about it.  I think they just coded the days wrong.  It will work itself out.

Nothing earth shattering here, looks like a fairly normal CK dinner cruise menu.

For Odyssey...

Day One

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Day Two (three since they skipped a night)

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Day Three

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Day Four

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Day Five

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Day Six

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Change the cruise dates.  You don’t have to look at your particular sailing in the app.  Click on “see what ships are supported” or something like that and then click on a different ship in the same class as yours.  For example I can see menus on Oasis but not Harmony.  From what I’ve seen and has been posted, the menus are very similar.  Sometimes they flip which day a menu is offered but very little else.  Gives a pretty good idea for now. 

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17 minutes ago, Fairlynew said:

Interesting.  I am on ovation in August and cannot see any menus on the app- not CK or mdr 

Ovation has been staffed with a minimal crew while she was drifting around near Singapore.  There likely would have been no food and beverage manager on board or other guest related positions. 

Now that she is in the US she will begin crewing up for the August restart.  As more crew sign on and get vaccinated I'm betting they will begin attending to details in the app.  

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On 6/28/2021 at 1:04 AM, Ampurp85 said:

I am on the Oct 31st Allure. We had decided on a 10-10 because my mothers birthday is 10/7 but decide we wanted to do Halloween on a ship. We missed out on all our vacations so we are doing 3 days at Disney, 3 days at Universal and then getting on the ship. My mother is turning 60, hasn't been to either and they are on her bucket list. Other than some snorkeling at Cococay, I plan to just relax and hit the casino. I wanted to try star class but only sky class was left.

@WAAAYTOOOis on Allure for 2 weeks, then I'm on for a week, then you get on for a week.  We did NOT coordinate this very well, ladies!!!

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