DallasGuy75219

I do, on ships/cruiselines where 'closets'/clothing rods have no shelf on the floor, just the same carpet as the rest of the cabin. I roll up my dirty clothes to fly home, so I wait until the last night of the cruise to do that and put the rolled clothes in plastic bags directly into my luggage. Not that putting dirty clothes on the floor justifies having rodents chew them up, if indeed that's what happened🙄

That may not be fleetwide, it could be all they can get in Europe (or could have been supply chain issues, like everything else these days).

They're all sweet IMO, at least on my Regal B2B last month where they used the Oasis margarita syrup as their mix. That stuff is concentrated and meant to be cut with ice/melted ice in a frozen drink, not used as a mixer on the rocks. I tried all the margaritas on the menu and settled on the 24K gold margarita, with tequila as well as Cointreau and Grand Marnier (one is mixed with the drink, the other a floater, but I don't remember which is which). All the varieties of margaritas were way to sweet for me, with the exception of one casino bartender who would add water to dilute the Oasis mix before mixing the drink.

That's why I started getting a cheese plate to go at dinner every night. It's my late night post-casino snack after the late night snack buffet (now being cut anyway) was closed and when I didn't want to deal with the line and/or drunks waiting for pizza when it was the only venue open and only had one person working it.

Yet another cut... the filet with the steak and eggs has been replaced with a cheaper cut (striploin? sirloin?) since cruises resumed in the COVID era.

Cruising for free because Carnival has cut back on and cheapened the experience to the point that I (and apparently others) will no longer pay for it, except by "pre-paying" for future cruises by gambling in the casino.

So I have a mildly amusing story about this... a long time ago on Royal Caribbean we had an assistant/junior waitress who was clearly struggling with her execution of English. I fully believe she was trying to be polite and trying to address pax as "My Lady," but again her execution was a bit off and she kept addressing them as "Lady," which came across as quite informal and a bit brute to anyone who didn't realize she was struggling with English.

And your pettiness for not being able to get over an overcharged orange juice will get you blocked for hijacking posts.

Yes, the people driving to New Orleans and Mobile (and to some extent Jacksonville and Charleston) to cruise are much more the Wal-Mart/Carnival crowd than the Princess crowd.

Bigger catchment area for people who drive to the port... Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are all within roughly four hours driving distance.

You need to look up the definition of fraud, particularly in the legal context, before throwing around words and accusations that you clearly don't understand.

Yes, book your flight first to make sure you can book something that departs after 1:30. Don't book a transfer. The excursion will drop you off at the airport. The language about passengers who purchased a transfer is for people who already bought transfers and then decide to do a debarkation tour. The ShoreEx desk onboard will give them a credit for what they paid for the transfer so they're not paying twice for the transfer (once for the transfer and again in the price of the debarkation excursion).

It depends on the rules/regulation of the turnaround port/country. We did not have to get tested for Rome turnaround on Regal Barcelona-Rome/Rome-Athens B2B last month. I know Greece had stricter rules than Spain and Italy so possibly people staying on in Athens had to get tested.

The B2B instructions left in your room near the end of the first cruise specifically state your steward can/will help with the move.

You have a choice when you order, at least if you're in the US. You still have to order, even if just getting the free basic medallion and lanyard. Although if you didn’t order I guess they would default to having your medallion and lanyard ready for pickup at check-in.

This includes booking EZair online for a reservation under a casino promo. There's a system issue where this can cause your entire booking to be canceled.

They ship your medallion with a free lanyard with a circular medallion holder, whether or not you pay for an upgraded medallion or other accessories.

$12 USD

That is the normal process. Your booking confirmation will only show what you actually paid until the casino "pays" their share and your booking is updated at a later date.

They usually don't make those available to people who don't need connecting rooms, unless the ship is close to sold out and connecting rooms are the last available rooms in that category.

What ship and itinerary? If it's something like the 7-day Mediterranean itineraries on Regal, a lot of people do back-to-back (or back-to-back-to-back) cruises and Princess runs out of cabins available on consecutive cruises. By moving you to an essentially identical cabin, they could be making your old cabin available to others on two or more consecutive cruises.

Most people on an Alaskan cruise aren't really interested in Victoria. Princess would skip it if they could but they have to stop (and given passengers a reasonable opportunity to debark) in at least one foreign port on a closed loop cruise from a US port (Seattle) with a foreign flagged ship. There are 11 excursions available on the last night of my Crown cruise later this month, none of which I care to do at that time of night on the last full day of the cruise. Vancouver may not be an option because of the ships homeported there.

Theoretically.... I ordered a Bloody Mary with breakfast on the Regal last month. Never received it but it showed "delivered" in the app, the whole time I was seated at the same table.

Unfortunately credit card consumers are increasingly forced to use disputes in the COVID era. People have had their fill of the never-ending cycle of calling in and being put on hold, only to speak to a incompetent rep who promises a refund but doesn't process it correctly or at all, only to have to repeat it the process a month or two later when the refund never shows I just went through it myself with Lufthansa. First agent hung up on me, second agent transferred me to United to get rid of me when the problem was clearly Lufthansa's, and third agent said I'd get a refund in 7-10 days. When the refund didn't post within a month I disputed the transaction rather than wasting more time and energy on the phone with Lufthansa.

The same thing as all the other cruise lines at least offering if not pushing my time/my way/any time dining... labor costs: By opening earlier and closing later than they would with two fixed seatings, they can stretch a smaller number of servers over a longer dinner service. On any given night they know a certain number/percentage of cruisers are not going to eat dinner in the MDR, but they don't know which specific people on what night (other than advance bookings for specialty restaurants). My time/my way/any time allows seats/tables that would otherwise go unused at two fixed seatings to be filled by any cruiser needing a seat/table.