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Embassy Suites was nice even though we were only there for a few hours.  We've stayed there a couple of times.  One thing is that it never seems to get any cheaper...

On 3/31/2023 at 7:20 PM, davekathy said:

If I don't spend it, I'll tale it with me.🤪

I'm trying to time things so that my last check bounces.

9 hours ago, GeezerCouple said:

 

Welcome to CruiseCritic!

 

 

But 6-12 months for a name change!?  Where did you hear that?

Did Carnival tell you that when you tried to get the spelling corrected?

 

 

I think the OP is saying that the name is spelled incorrectly on the birth certificate, not on Carnival cruise documents.

Celebrity Summit

AQ cabins on deck 11

https://www.cruisetimetables.com/#ports

Another option

Yutes (or yoots, utes)... Yuts would rhyme with nuts 🙂

A movie I always watch when I'm looking for something and it pops up on the guide.  Wish it could have been made with fewer F bombs tho

2 hours ago, George C said:

Concierge will walk you off the ship at end of the cruise.

 

Is the Concierge someone you should/need to tip for the help getting off the ship?

Carlisle Bay has one big, gorgeous  beach.  Different sections of it may be called different names but it's one beach.  Walk there from the dock and pick a spot for yourself.  It's my fav place in the Caribbean.

Cab for 2 with bags from the airport to Embassy Suites was $18 plus tip.

If you walk straight towards the beach from ES you'll run right into a road you can drive and get right next to the beach.  On Isla Verde Blvd (it parallels the beach) or whatever they call it there are 10' wide walkways every block or so that lead to the beach from Avenida Isla Verde.  Across from Pizza City, Taco Bell, and Burger King.  Lots of bed rentals on a Saturday but they were packing them all up and didn't ask the cost.  I'm guessing $10 or less for one lounger.  With Carlisle Bay being a 10 for sand, Isla Verde would be a 7 or 8.

It is a simple sentence.  You said you "don't smoke and never did".  Then you added "or have vaped".

It's not a big deal.  I thought maybe you were a husband/wife on the same account or something.

If it's just a typo - that's fine.

 For the record, I don't smoke and never did or have vaped.  

You've got at least two posts in this thread talking about quitting smoking...

10 minutes ago, Ret MP said:

 For the record, I don't smoke and never did or have vaped.  

How many of you are there?

Is CLT---->SJU an International flight?

Just wondering about any airport lounge access in Charlotte and Miami.  I think there are a couple I could get into with a first class international flight boarding pass.  So is mainland US flying to San Juan considered an international flight?

10 minutes ago, Kitalion said:

Thank you Davekathy.  9 pages of commentary later we have come full circle.  Royal don’t care to enforce it - for whatever reason.  They could if they wanted to but they dont.  And that was the point of my very first post.  

So one steward on one ship looked the other way when he caught your friend vaping.  That is not evidence that Royal doesn't care to enforce it, just that  one steward didn't care to enforce it.

No problem here...

There are plenty of abandoned towels all over the ship at the end of the day.  I might just grab one of them and trade it in for a fresh one on the first day and just keep swapping them out all week.  That way my account is never on the hook for a towel and shouldn't be at risk of being charged for an unreturned towel.

I'm sure that if there are any flaws in my plan they will be pointed out to me here 🙂

3 minutes ago, moposh said:

Apparently as OP was charged.

Being charged and paying are two different things.

I''ll bet most of the people that that know they have left their towels on the beach or at the pool call and complain about the towel charges and get them removed too.

Do they ever actually make anyone pay for the pool towels?

Did that $35 include a taxi back to the pier?  We usually walk there from the ship but walking back can be a bit more of a challenge.

Since this has wandered off  into sort of a quitting smoking thread.  Chantix worked for me when nothing else did.

2 minutes ago, Ret MP said:

https://www.grayflannelsuit.net/blog/1968-raleigh-belair-cigarette-coupon-catalog

Wow.  My uncle never looked anything like all those people lol

8 minutes ago, Ret MP said:

LOL!  Ya, my mom smoked Ralieghs. Their was a coupon on each pack.  My mom smoked about 4 packs a day.  She just about supplied our kitchen with cookware and utensils with those coupons.  And much more.  She was also into S&H Green stamps.  She died of Alz..

I still have the dartboard from my uncle and Raleighs in the 60s.  Think I got a couple mess kits too