JamieLogical

@jhoover69, my brother, will be sailing in a YC on MSC for the second time on May 4 but has sailed Haven on NCL several times in the past. He might have some notes for you about the differences between the two.

They will have paper menus in multiple languages available in the MDRs. Since she will have an assigned table with the same staff every night, she should just have to request a paper menu in her native language on he first night and they should be prepared with that each of the following nights.

I believe all of the current sailings on the Encahnted before it repositions in August are sold as both 7-days and 14-days, so I am sure there are a LOT of B2B passengers through the summer.

When we were on the Emerald Princess back in December 2022, my husband started going down to the International Cafe every morning in his PJs to retrieve coffee for us. We tried completing the room service card, but after three days in a row of receiving only a collection of artificial sweeteners and no real sugar (even started writing in "sugar" on the card) and ultimately having to run to the buffet for sugar packets anyway, we gave up on room service breakfast coffee and he went down and fetched some. We ALWAYS have coffee BEFORE showering and dressing, so pajamas it was!

I generally don't mind seeing butt cheeks, especially nice ones, but them sitting on the chairs in the buffet would be a different story.

I have definitely seen full bands on my MSC sailings. This band played a lot on my February Divina sailing, including a lot of rock. They were great! This band was on my Meraviglia sailings last April... sorry I don't have a better photo, but there is a drumkit with a drummer back there. You can kind of see the left half of his shirt/shoulder, but his head is behind the iPad.

To my knowledge, there is no dress code in he buffet? Aren't people allowed to go in there in their swimsuits from the pool deck?

I did go ahead and rebid. I don't have high hopes of actually getting upgraded, of course, but it would be nice to have the better room layout, wrap-around balcony, and Reserve class perks.

Not much news on cruise progress this morning. I got in touch with our petsitter last night to make sure she is still able to check in on the cats and lizards. My husband set out his suitcases last night. He always gets them out a week or so ahead of our trips as a "warning" to the cats that we will be leaving soon. I don't know whether or not they comprehend it (he insists they do), but they seem to like to have some new and different surfaces to lay on for the week...

I believe all of your examples pre-date the upgrade bidding system. I imagine that has impacted when they assign GTY rooms and the likelihood of free upgrades.

MF is just the lowest mini-suite category.

All I can say is that I hope things have DRASTICALLY improved on the Emerald since I sailed her so you can have a good cruise.

Brooklyn to JFK is a shorter trip than Manhattan to JFK... plus that was Marathon day, so that's why I was pointing it out specifically. Can't really expect traffic to be an WORSE than that on a weekend.

We booked a GTY MF on the Enchanted Princess. We sail May 4 and just got our cabin assignment on Tuesday night, so under two weeks out.

I just looked back at a few of the menus from my February cruise and I do not see any notations on the menus about items containing lactose. However, I do know that your servers at the MDR as well as every server in the specialty restaurants will ask you if you have any dietary restrictions. I do not recall seeing milk onboard at all (maybe in the buffet?), much less milk alternatives....