TheCount

9 hours ago, MrFunInTheSun said:

All Of us that boarded early today are pirates 

 

 

 

 

Todays forecast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We share the same thoughts on both Rum and Cruising trips.  Have a great trip.

3 hours ago, timf2001 said:

 

The Cruise Compass said it was $70 for the first passenger, but the sign says $82.  Is the sign inclusive of gratuities, or is the Compass wrong?

If the compass notes $70 + 18% great, comes really close to $82.   Question for the OP, MrFunintheSun,  interesting to find out If the individual price is $70/day/pax +18%. Our C&A provides us a discount as Diamond +.  We are on-board Harmony in 3 weeks time. Any added info on drink pkg would be helpful.  Thanks 

7 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

Happy to report we are home. Alarm is set, Owen’s school lunch is made and laundry is sorted for tomorrow.

 

Guess who welcomed us home. 

 

 

 

After things settle down in the next day or so I’ll get final thoughts together and report back. 

 

Thanks for following along this far.  Hope you make it to the end. 

Welcome back to SW-Ont.. After a long day of travel, must be feel good to be home.

2 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

Ottawa then London. 16C there right now. 

 

On the plane now. Off to Canada’s Capital. The lady at the gate said the noon flight gets scaled back regularly. 🤔

 

Glad I got a Whopper pre boarding. 

 

 

I’ll be back when we land in Ottawa and are settled in. 

I think we just saw the AC bird fly over our house in SW Ont.

Welcome back to  #wethenorth , #shethenorth

On 9/5/2019 at 8:41 AM, twangster said:

 

I will often wait a day or 2 into the cruise and buy Voom on board using the C&A discount.  This approach assumes a few things.

 

My cell phone works in the US, Canada and Mexico as part of my home rate area.  If an itinerary has a quick overnight before arriving in a port of call in the US, Canada or Mexico I can wait a few days then buy Voom on board cheaper than buying it.

 

Ovation to Hawaii starts in Vancouver.  It sails to Seattle as a port of call, then leaves for Hawaii.  My phone will work until around 6pm on day 1.  Day 2 we are Seattle where my phone works.  Day 3 we are at sea.  By waiting for day 3 there are 7 days left.

 

7 x $19.99 = $139.93 minus C&A discount.  I'm now D+ so $139.93 - $45.98 = $93.95.

 

Assuming a cruise planner price of $13.99, 10 x $13.99 = $139.99.

 

My approach saves $46 but I won't have internet at night when the ship is at sea until day 3 when I buy Voom.  

 

I do the same when Key West is a port of call on day 2.  I wait to buy Voom on day 3 and "survive" disconnected nights 1 & 2.  

We are D+ as well, and seems like for us, waiting until day 2 or3 to purchase with the C&A D+ discount end up being the lowest per day cost. Spouse and I with C&A likely to use her free 24 hr period, then buy in on a day 2 or 3 once we do the calculation.  Day 1, is in home port, so cell phones work until departing into the evening along the Fl coast.

7 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

Day 10 of a 7 night cruise.

Sounding more like Gillian and the Captain's 3 hour tour to the Isle! The Professor, The Millionaire Howel's, Ginger the movie star, and Mary Ann , guess they must be on-board the Harmony or is it the Minnow? 

Cruise Compass keeper!

19 minutes ago, A&L_Ont said:

 

Thats all the storm ships you have. Lord bless you, you’d never survive a blizzard at my house. LOL. 

 

Too second Lady H, stay safe. 

London snow storms can be epic., I/ we know. Been there, stuck in London hotel. Should have just stayed home, but the sport meeting seem too important to pass up.

59 minutes ago, A&L_Ont said:

 

 

Shirt says it all. 

 

The school called, they want souvenirs when you return.

9 minutes ago, A&L_Ont said:

The Count, sorry no. 

 

I did find this though. Totally different if this was the swingers cruise. 

 

 

 

Not our type of club or drink of the day.

Tend to stick to Caesars  for breakfast, beer in the heat of the afternoon, martini before dinner, great wine for supper, then cocktails for the shows. Finish with a nice port or aged Zaccapa 23yr rum or Grand Marnier as the night cap.

Travel safe.

Good morning and happy Day 9 of a 7 day cruise! WOW that sounds crazy. 

Andrew, did you by any chance locate/see the on board price for Deluxe drink pkg and ZOOM internet, in the standard US $ on ship?  Seeing there is a weekend promo on pre-cruise planner and based on our Canadian loonie taking some beating on exchange, we are debating to wait for on ship and Diamond + discount or pre-purchase in the planner with our CDN loonies.

Thanks for any info if you can either post or PM the details. 

Happy day off Labour day from your SW Ont followers. Back to the grind on Tuesday and counting down to our trip in 34 days, but who is counting!

The Count

20 minutes ago, A&L_Ont said:

 

Owens goes on a dryer as soon as it is home for 3 hours. Does the world some good. 

 

Good on you guys for taking care of the equipment.  I run the 7 arena and rec facilities in my city and I along with my staff certainly can tell you some really really smelly stories of equipment stench.  

Cool and overcast here in SW Ont today. And the Day 9 Compass is likely one of those keepers of the trip. 

Travel safe.

3 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

Evening plans. 

 

Enjoy the evening.  Will Jerry be on-board in October when we join aboard the HOS and in the Suite lounge or the Diamond Lounge ? Thinking things will be cleaned up in Orlando and  the Cape from Dorian by the time we arrive.

3 hours ago, Djsmrs said:

Just a little bit of home coming to you.  2 sets of goalie gear.  My son and his buddy after camp.  He HAD to be a goalie.   I HAD to get rid of my smaller car to load all the gear 🤣😩🤔. Our tryouts start Wednesday - best of luck to Owen!

Oh. The smell from that much gear.  Hope it was cleaned before tryout camps.

5 minutes ago, NSnewcruiser said:

 

We are going to get wind and a lot of rain from Erin here in Nova Scotia today.YAY!.lol

Stay safe in Florida!

Yes, the just showed the rain track over NS for the next few days. Sou’westers are the fashion statement for storm Erin. Be well. Stay safe.

Watching Dorian and reports.CTV Morning news, reporting Brevard County  Cape C and Coco Beach preparing for hard hit of the hurricane. Emergency prep underway. 

Possible rain due to storm Erin over next days in SW Ont and not much concern. Watching and wishing you all safety on return, and return home.

5 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

A Canadian car door , showing it’s salted road appetite, or is it salted road appetizer?  Man, I need my Harmony trip to co e soon. Happy and safe travels.

10 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

For those at home. One for me and one for you. Your pick. 

 

Drink up and enjoy. 

 

 

 

From your Canadian followers, how about Bloody Caesar, a Canadian breakfast starter?

Enjoy.

23 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

Dinner was filling. Tasty too. The meat was cooked just right as well. The ribeye had flavour. Skip the Mac and Cheese. Service was quick. We were done in an hour and were not rushed.

 

Peter our waiter was a joy. He has been in the cruise world since 2003 starting with P&O and 3 contracts later joined RC. He started as a pastry chef and worked his way through the kitchen and dining room and eventually ended up in specialty dining. He has worked on Brilliance, Vision, Grandeur, etc and had only recently entered to Oasis Class of ships. Thankfully there was a lull in Chops to which we could chat for a few minutes. 

 

Now, for the person curious to the soup, it seemed like the original mushroom soup but then you had me second guessing. 

 

 

Craisins ain’t raisins. 

 

 

 

Owen commented that the liked the croutons and boom. Look what appeared. 

 

 

Copious amounts of meat were consumed and we somehow polished off part of a cheese cake and a small amount of ice cream. 

 

A great evening. We tried to run the father/son golf grudge match but the links were backed up. Maybe tomorrow. 

Late response to the chops meal. Hope it was good. We are considering skipping  chops this time around. Somewhat over-rated IMHO compared to my smoker prime rib or rib-eye.  Glad it was a positive experience for you.

10:22 am and on board. WOW.

Speedy.

Andrew, if you can remember when on ship, can you post the beverage pkg price and internet pkg price?  We are D+ C&A and will figure out or discount and convert it over to our CDN Peso cost. Decision to pre-buy or wait with the C&A disc.

Many thanks.

The Count

8 minutes ago, A&L_Ont said:

 

What ship?  Just curious. 🤔

We are on Harmony departing Oct 6.

Home in time for CDN Thanksgiving turkey dinner on Monday  the 14th.

18 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

Thankfully we have found refuge after a great lunch. Our flight was originally scheduled to depart at 2:30. It’s now pushed back to a 4:20. Thank goodness we didn’t decide to go to Disney today. 

 

We have a same stop to make in this Toronto outbound lounge in 6 weeks time, as well. 

The Count

Andrew, Lisa and Owen.

Travel safe and have a great time. Your peps back he in southwestern Ontario will be following the review. We are aboard Harmony in 6 weeks time. Leave some fun for us.

Loved the sports and auto photos earlier.  Been in many of those London ice rinks over the years.

Have a blast.

2 hours ago, tennislvr8 said:

I was actually thinking of changing the date of the booking. I was told that would mean a new booking number and all cruise planner purchases would be cancelled. Did you change the date?

Started with On-board booking well over a year ago, then Cruise planner purchase, then transfer to TA, then price drop via TA, then moved booking - same ship by one week via TA, then RCCL cancel with full payment via TA.  Each issuing new numbers and continued BS from the RCCL or for what is being communicated back to us, the PAX.

>  As noted # frustration is being polite on my/our end.

Well, our from experience, we had pre purchases on cruise planner cancelled, new confirm # issued due to  moving booking to agency,  got ripped off from pricing paid on Black Friday for cruise planner item,  had RCCL indicate our booking was non-refundable when in fact it was voted on-Board and confirmed as Refundable. 4 new confirmations being issued each time anything taking place including price drop guarantee adjustment.  So to the original question, they didn’t offer you a possible 4th situation. Here it is:

> RCCL will do what ever they want, give you no options, take away your OBC, and offer you no paper trail or audit trail on this as resolutions has stated to us, they don’t have audit trails of cruise planner, just the booking, but that too, is open to question.

 Our current “battle” for an upcoming cruise has been exactly that, a battle on all fronts both RCCL and with the TA not getting any answers or response no matter how high and hard they are pushing to resolve. #satisfactionNOT . To the point we considered cancel and take back only what would be refunded under the policy, but then, they win and we lose. Not going to happen.

#frustration