Goodtime Cruizin

Enjoying your review and eager to hear more. We're sailing the Indy at the end of Oct w/ this same itenarary celebrating the DW's birthday. I'm sure I'll have a few questions throughout your thread.

Looking forward to more!

I agree but last year I had a Central Park balcony and we LOVED it[emoji267]

That's a great attitude for cruising, especially w/ a handle of Ocean View! :D

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll do a bit more study on it but I do think the DW would really enjoy it.

Tell me about it. I've watched a couple of videos on you-tube but it shows you only go about 6-10 ft deep. Has anyone been on this excursion and can offer anything? Thank you in advance!

As mentioned, Sabor is authentic Mexican food vs a TexMex menu. The food is really good. Service was 5 star and they offered 4 different types of Margaritas that were not offered elsewhere on the ship and those margaritas were fabulous. In fact, a few times, I went to Sabor to get a margarita to go and then scooted back over to the Schooner bar.

But... no dancing etc.

9. Get off a ship and within 24 hours, post on Cruise Critics things that annoy you instead of posting things that you enjoyed.

Because it feels good to tell people you're better than them, because you don't care what other people do. :cool:

Well you got part of it right! I really don't care what you do and or why you do it. None of my business. What I do is none of your business either. And this is what bothers you. You want it badly to be your business!

Later guys. My job is done!

Well why are you posting about it if you don't care :confused:

 

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No need to be confused. Paul is a message board bully. Nothing more, nothing less. But he's harmless. He just likes to agitate. His handle should be Maytag. :D

We used shareashoreexcursions.com for most of our ports. We ended up having a great cruise as each port we had different and small groups. It was wonderful as were the guides. I suggest that you look at this site to see if you can find someone that needs others to join in, or perhaps you can do as we did, start your own request to 'share a shore'. It was very effective and worked for us.

Also, hit up your roll call. If there's nothing you can join, creat your own via shar a shore and post it on the roll call. It worked for us!

Thanks, but I don't drink beer. More of a wine or cocktail person, myself.

 

But I imagine we could have a drink together without argument. This is an internet forum for discussion, which is why people tend to discuss their opinions about these kind of cruise topics. If I'm sitting with you in person, I don't the topic would even come up. It's the implication that those who have an opinion about respecting some kind of rule are busybodies who go around always worrying about what everyone else is doing that is cliche'.

 

I don't think you should get drinks for other people from a package that is meant for your consumption only.

I think, if it's formal night, and you dine in the MDR, you should dress up for it.

I think only you should occupy a deck chair, not a towel and or book on your behalf.

I think you should only bring on-board the things you're allowed to bring on-board.

 

I think a number of things like that, and if the subject comes up on a discussion forum, I might share my opinion. But I don't spend a lick of time worrying about any of that, while I'm actually on the cruise.

It's all good. I don't give a flip about it either while I'm cruising. Where we differ is that I don't care on the threads either. Life is too short.

One of the most useless and cliche' responses that gets thrown around here all the time. This is a forum for discussion, which you would think would mean that opinions on various topics are the norm. Yet, when certain people hear an opinion they don't like, they resort to this kind of "I don't care what anyone else does; all I care about is enjoying my vacation" diatribes.

 

But, it generally makes them feel good about themselves and superior to those who express opinions on things, so I guess it's all good.

Still don't care how you feel and why you feel the way you do. But perhaps one day we can have a beer together and solve the world's problems. I'm buying... I'll have the premium drink package. :cool:

Tough crowd here....I buy the package for me.....my wife pays as she goes.....no problems.....no worries....no cheating....

Great response. And this is how we do it on a very busy port crusie. A 3 day port in the Carribean, we both buy the pkg. A 5 day port in 7 days, she doesn't. (She doesn't drink as much as I do)

But to be honest, I don't care what others do. None of that bothers me. To each their own cruise. Likewise, I really don't care what others think about how I choose to cruise. If I wish to buy a drink for my wife or a new cruise friend, I will without considering how & why others feel slighted. It's none of their business.

It's none of my business either if I see or hear about drink sharing. We're all chilling and having a great time. It doesn't make sense to get mixed up and/or involved with how others enjoy their cruise unless it's a direct fringement upon my rights or their rights. It's a catch me if you can mentality for some and some do get caught. It is what it is.

I've only witnessed it once, and just posted about it yesterday:

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showpost.php?p=46786576&postcount=86

Thanks for posting this. I think it'd be foolish to sit a one bar rotating drinks between two different people all on one sea pass . Especially in a repeated fashion. Your description shows out right abuse, as such, a bartender would easily catch on. And then she fussed it up and made a scene. :eek:

Upfront profit....that's the reason....the booze costs them nothing...soda costs even less! They do it, because they can, and because you will PAY it!

Of course I'll pay it! Are you saying there is something wrong with paying for it? For me it makes sense, especially now that the prices has increased.

My coworker wasn't kicked off but she and her husband were shut off for the night when the bartender saw her husband (with package) order a drink, then give it to her (no package). This was on FOS two weeks ago.

Well there you go, there's one! Thanks for sharing.

There have been a handful of such accounts on recent threads here.

I must have missed them. I'm beginning to think that sharing, while is looked down on these threads, is not that big of an issue in real life and RCL turns their head to some degree. In otherwords, there's not an enforcer. :cool:

Doubt they would kick anyone off the ship for that, but revoking the package is a different story. I don't think they'd hesitate too much to do that. But I'm not sure why you would expect to "see" that on cruises, even if it's happening. I've seen it reported a few times here, but it's not like they will make a public announcement that "Mr. Goodtime Cruizin for Cabin 8914 has just lost his unlimited drink package for sharing."

Well not having an announcement is a given. But cruise ships are not as large as we all tend to think at times. Especially when one hangs around the pool and the bars. It's crowded. My point is, word travels. I have no knowledge hence the question. Keep in mind, I worded the question as witnessed or heard of. There are a tremendous amount of people on each of the RCL ships today & every day. Unlike you, I've never even heard of someone having their seapass revoked for sharing even on these threads.

I can't remember his name, but he was on Liberty while it was in the Med last year. By chance does anyone now if he followed the ship over to the Carribean?

Dena, is bottled water included in the Premium Beverage Package?

 

Thanks =)

Not Dena, but yes.

Higher revenue from packages I expect

I agree and that's kind of my point. They've figured out that even with 'sharing', they're cleaning up. Something tells me that they have their drinks down to a science. How much of what kind, what type of cruise, what type of ship etc. It would be very easy to analyze.

So this brings me to the next question.

How often have you seen anyone kicked off the ship and/or the beverage package revoked for sharing?

Me... three RCL cruises and nada, zip, & nobody. I think the bartenders do an excellent job but I also think they see it occuring at times & turn their heads unless it's just blatantly obscene and out of control. Which I repeat I've never witnessed nor heard of.

Royal sucks that way. At least Carnival will give you onboard credit for the difference.

Carnival does alot things to people to get on their ships.

Serious question. Be it Alcohol or Soda packages, why?

I don't think I'd drink any less without one. With one, I might order more just to experience or taste something that I normally wouldn't order.

I'm one to believe that while RCL doesn't endorse sharing of alcohol packages, I think they do expect it to occur at a certain level. If they didn't, then why did they back off the ruling of when one buys the pkg, everybody in the cabin must buy one? I also expect eventually that we'll see a 2 for 1 package being offered. The last cruise I booked was on the BOGO50 sale. I'm able to buy one premium pkg and the 2nd pkg is 50% off.

RCL has it figured out folks. They're not losing money.

Perhaps I'm mis-reading this, but I'm thinking that CCL is doing this to prevent the use of bottled water as a means to bring alcohol on the ship.