mo&fran

Lets face it, you move up a lot faster when to get the more expensive suites. That makes sense. It took us 5 long cruises all but 1 was in a suite to get the 10 cruises for elite. When they changed. we would probably made it in 3, we were mostly in a sky suite. The kicker point for a suite counts for every day. they changed the system after we came to RCI.

Sure looks to me someone has done some snow skiing.

You don't get Captains Club points for these cruises do you? Not that it makes any difference, if you are Diamond on royal you would be elite on X. Haven't figured that there was any special benefit.

I have an RCI credit card. I charge all cruise expenses and do not carry a balance, so I pay no interest, and get points that I can use for OBC. But you can use a debit card, just put the info in when you checkin.

There are 2 penthouse, at the stern of the ship taking up the entire stern. This ship is the same size as a Radiance class ship. I believe they might actually have a refrigerator iin the PH.

At least you drive on thee right side of the road.

I guess some like it. Maybe it is better now.

Good idea. we did that tour on our first TA, and we decided no way would we ever do tour like that again.

You don't have one of the penthouse suites, do you?

I'll bet they have learned that when people are present a lot of crumbs 'accidently' fall in the water. Curiously, are there any signs about feeding the fish.

Look what happened in 2020.

From reading this thread, it seems the only erosion of benefits is the about the access to the lounges and the coffee machine in the morning. I don't drink coffee , and since we have the vouchers, we rarely go in the lounge anyway unless we need to see the concierge, access is no big deal. Since we turned Pinn about a year and a half ago, I have loved the faster boarding, breakfast in Chops, and free internet. We still get a bunch of wine and water, which we got as D+ anyway. I often do not even use up my extra free drink.

I like MTD, we can usually get a time to our liking, and since the restart, since I use a rollator, they have been seating us near the entrance. And we keep the same table the entire cruise. If I had traditional, I don't know if there is a way to make that fact known so they can use that information to choose a table. OR even if they would bother. Curious, we have a bunch of cruises booked on Freedom this coming October. As soon as they appeared on the website, i went to book my time, and MTD didn't start till 715, which I thought strange. We prefer 630 - 645. Now that they are talking about adding another shift , it fits in with what's happening. I did have to laugh about people showing up late and having other people seated at their assigned table. We almots had that happen to use, the early diners shows up late to their assigned table If we had just gotten there a little earlier or they were just a little later. I told the waiter that our early cruises, if your time to eat was 6:00 . and you weren't there by 615 ,you didn't eat because the doors were closed and locked.

If you go to Coco Cay on google earth, you can zoom in to ground level, it will show some ground views that RCI provided Google.

When I got my current TV, a 72 inch Sony, the deal was the would deliver the TV and take the old one away. As I was paying, the guy asked if my old tv was larger than 45 in, I said yes, it is 55. Out of curiosity, I asked what difference does that make. He replied that he had to send a big guy. I said, "if he can carry a 72 in, taking the 55 out shouldn't be a problem". Apparently, the TV's have become lighter, so my 55in Samsung weighed more than my new TV. BTW , Sony and Samsung , for that size were the same price.

AS I was doing my daily walk at our local mall, that starts out going through our local Sears, an employee told my this was the stores last day. I don't know if they are closing all of them, but i think there are only about 13 left. Nothing on the news yet, but the guy said they had just found out.

East coast ships goto Coco Cay where they siphon money out of cruisers wallets, without burning a lot of fuel doing it. they have to figure out how to more Oasis class ships with the existing terminals. THis year they had freedom class doing them

Makes sense. At least you get an extra day of summer this year.

do you say winter starts on your shortest day of the year?

Like we in the US consider summer to be over after Labor Day.

Are you sure it has a heater. Looks shallow, and the sun would heat it pretty quickly. Plus a lot of people in it.

Isn't that a junior suite?

I doubt that it is, but cruisemapper shows it part way across the Pacific and looks like it is headed towards Japan.

I do not find the TA flights to Europe bad, they have all been over night flights. We did do an east bound cruise, TPA to AMS, that was great. But it took a few days for the jet lag to go away.

I guess it is time to expand your cruising. TA cruises are fun. The ones we did visited some Med ports before the crossing. Those were Celebrity, the our first B2B on RCI, eastern Med , then across to Fl. I'd like to go to Asia and Australia , but the long flight home makes me hesitate.