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A company carrying a lot of debt in a rising interest rate environment? Sure.

The signatures on them put them somewhere between 2017 and 2020.

That has been on youtube for years. Try "Cruising With Wheels", among others.

I have done all of the above. NCL has been more likely to have a no single supplement rate available. Carnival pretty much never. Royal occasionally.

LAX doesn't exactly favor Uber these days. After you arrive, you have to take a bus to the designated Uber pickup area. And the roads around the airport these days... oh boy, getting ready for the Olympics.

What good comes out of that? Post some perceived slight on social media to shame some individual you know little about? Passive aggressive behavior at best.

They should have removed him from the ship. There is no justification for deliberately running into another person with a scooter.

They can take photos of themselves to send to family when they off duty.

It's on the invoice when you book. 18 or 20% (whatever the going rate is now) of the daily price for the drink package x the number of days of the cruise. Under $20 per day roughly.

On my rough winter trip I wound up laying in bed for an hour or so to ride out the worst rocking. I am not prone to motion sickness but you bounce off the walls walking down the hallways.

Hmmmm... do I want a paper 8x10 photo of some people I'll never see again, or maybe $5 or $10 bucks.... not a difficult choice.

Oh yeah, the crowd that treats the staff like pets instead of functioning adults. Maybe the old hygiene products threads can be revived.

Crew members have cell phones and can more easily send their families electronic images than carry out some paper copy with strangers for months at a time. They are being polite to you.

I just watched the Gem leave, looks relatively calm with the sun going down... hopefully the captain finds them a "relatively calm" path back to NY. I was on the Gem late January 2018, the year that the Breakaway supposedly tried to go directly through a bomb cyclone (great videos). We came up from the Caribbean maybe two weeks later, really rough seas. I was on deck 7 or 8 in an oceanview room, some friends on 4 described how the waves were so rough that their windows would occasionally be underwater. Gulf Stream not friendly to us.

They get day-of-cruise no-shows sometimes.

Nope, very different.

You can also get cards for family members to enter each other cabins. We did this last fall and, along with our regular room cards, generic looking grey cards which would open the other room door but could not be used for charging anything.

Didn't ask for it. $2300 is 8.5% of $27,000 per month. That's more than $300,000 per year. If your AGI is less than $300,000 you should be paying less for your insurance. If you're making more than that, good for you. You can take this information and disregard it but considering how many people make that much in retirement it might be useful to you.

This is the gospel truth! The details of that trip will confound anyone trying to figure out the RoyalUp algorithm. Canada trip out of Boston, we booked two GTY interior cabins - there was no single supplement, we took the trip both as a cheap vacation and the points got us to Diamond for the trip we took later in 2022 - free drinks motivate us. Literally dirt cheap fare and double points. We did the minimum bid + $5 on my wife's room for balcony only, at the last minute it went through. The keys on the door had someone else's name on them so we went to Guest Services and they changed it. The welcoming gifts were in the other people's name, Guest Services said enjoy. The next day they delivered a new set (water bottles and cookies) in wife's name. We had the invite to the C&A exception in the other people's name, we went to the desk and got it in ours. Also had the water and cookies in my interior room - I met up with the room attendant and let him know that I wasn't going to use the room other than for picking up "my" mail, so he got the week off. So if there's an algorithm, good luck figuring it out.

Can't agree more. Treat them like people.

There's no "should". Do whatever you want. You've already paid 20% on your drinks so bartenders and servers "should" be covered unless you have them do something out of the ordinary. Cruise employees are not indentured servants, penniless orphans, or downtrodden. As adults, they enter into an employment contract that is acceptable to them.

If you're paying $2300 per month then your income would have to be over $300,000.

Apply for an ARPA subsidy. It limits the premium to 8.5% of your household income regardless of how much you make when you buy an ACA plan on an exchange. It's been available for several years.

Crew members aren't helpless orphans; they entered into an employment arrangement and are compensated per their contract. There's no obligation of any kind to tip beyond what the cruise line already charges you. Anyone can tip more if they want to, but telling others that they "should" tip more is not their concern.

Not one if those remotely suggests that one session would cure one of the addiction. Completely ridiculous premise.