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mil76

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  • Location
    Denver, CO
  • Interests
    Flowriding
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Royal Caribbean
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    St. Maarten

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  1. I'm not a bridge-phobic person, but those Cheasapeake Bay bridges are pretty scary to cross, especially in the summer when everyone is going "downeyoshin" and they switch all the lanes around. It would be nice if the silver lining of all of this is they bring both crossings up to modern standards.
  2. I sure hope they don't move Navigator out of LA. For a Voyager class ship it punches way above its weight. It was amped before Royal went into Covid cost reduction mode so it has great venues like Playmakers which Quantum doesn't have. Quantum makes sense for the shorter cruises in the winter which don't go far enough south, but I prefer Navigator over Quantum for the Mexican Riviera route.
  3. Here is a balcony door on Navigator. We had it opened since our kids were in the next room, but we found it to be a pain and wouldn't do it again. Our kids were college aged, so YMMV. The door is big and it swings freely, so if you get rough seas or wind it will end up banging. It covers most of the sliding door to the cabin on the side it opens, so it makes that balcony pretty unusable. It is not so easy to navigate around it when you already have 2 chairs and a table on the balcony. These door were not designed for making it easy to get between rooms, it is more for maintenance on the ship like cleaning, etc. Newer ships have sliding doors which were made for opening up between staterooms.
  4. You have rekindled my memories of working in the garment district in Downtown LA back in the early 90's. If I worked late and it was after dark, I used to fly down Los Angeles Street in my MGB to get on the 10. A red light could be a life or death situation. I was convinced the song "The Freaks Come Out At Night" was based on downtown LA.
  5. You can call the casino number and pay to upgrade or try to Royal Up (RU won't work for interior to suite though). My wife gets GTY stateroom offers, and she'll call and pay for the upgrade to Balcony. We have done about 10 comped interior rooms so far and have never stayed in an interior.
  6. At some point Royal will release unsold accessible rooms to the general public. Most of our cruising is casino comps so we are booking just a few weeks/months out. The comps are usually interiors, so my wife (the gambler) will call to see about paying to upgrade to a balcony. Sometimes they will offer her accessible staterooms that haven't sold. We try to stay away from them when offered since people would see us in that stateroom and assume we did something wrong (see previous posts).
  7. I can't imagine the Uber/Lyft wait times with both in port the same day.
  8. From the site posted above, it does show that Quantum will be stopping in Cabo, which from my experience is the slower tender port. Catalina is the other tender port, but they have much bigger tender boats so it seems to go quicker.
  9. One thing they definitely DON'T have is any of the T-shirts you see on Caribbean/Mexico/Alaska cruises. We asked if they had any Royal Caribbean T-shirts for the ports we visited, and we got a very snotty "if you wanted a T-shirt, you should have bought one while you were off the ship" response. πŸ₯Ά
  10. Any big ship with only one Flowrider is hideous to me from the back end as well. For selfish reasons in addition to the horrible feng shui!
  11. Maybe it's just me, but I think Icon is pretty bad as well. By day it looks like Sergeant Schultz And at night it looks like a Cassowary bird
  12. We only did Silver dining once, and the MDR the other 4 nights. There was very little on the menu that appealed to the picky eaters in my party. Are they allowing anything below pinnacle in the Golden Room? We are D+ and they told us we could only use the Silver Lounge.
  13. Don't waste your time, there isn't. The area outside Silver dining is the Crown lounge equivalent.
  14. Drone shows are only for special occasions, although they do have a light show every night. We watched the regular light show from our balcony at the Fullerton hotel. I read some of the articles on the CNY drone shows and it sounds like the crowds were huge and everyone stampeded inside the MBS when the rain started. Singapore crowds can get huge. We did Gardens by the Bay Christmas Eve and it was packed. I'm so glad it didn't start raining. We liked Grab because it had both taxis and private cars (Uber/Lyft equivalent). Booking taxis through the app was cheaper than just hailing one and paying the metered rate.
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