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11 minutes ago, jsdst12 said:

I just started "following" John Heald on FB.  In the past 72 hours I've rolled my eyes more than I have in 37 years of living on this planet.  

JH + Social media is bad for your health.

3 hours ago, CruiseRonJulie said:

I just read a review and the lady said "her cruise was ruined because the captain did not visit her table at dinner."

I may not get it, but I'm pretty sure the Offices and Staff are there to keep you safe and to give you a wonderful time on your cruise.

I just do not understand people who believe the ship's crew are there for there entertainment and to make life long friends.

Welcome to the internet. This has been going since day one.

1 hour ago, evandbob said:

 

I'll guess they flew and didn't like it.  I've done 2 cruises out of Galveston by flying non stop from NY area airports and it is a stretch from Houston to the port.  Don't know how they arranged their transfer, but I used Carnival's shuttle bus both times.  

I should open a business for CC members only from Houston Airports to the ports. I could make some good money.

53 minutes ago, Outerdog said:

What is the OP's point for posting this?

 

Does OP have an opinion on the matter of their own? Or is this basically a troll to start another typical  legal and medical "debate" on a cruise forum full of people who, for the most part, are completely unqualified to comment upon either aspect of the topic due to lack of formal education nor specific knowledge of the facts related to the case?

I have a formal education in the matter, do I need your permission to post?

2 hours ago, Two Wheels Only said:

I agree that the passenger should have been taken to the hospital ASAP but.....

 

After the ocean liner finally docked two days later, on Nov. 17, 2016, Ow Buland was transported to Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach and in cardiogenic shock upon arrival. The man’s extensive treatment included the implantation of four stents, spending five days on a balloon pump and life support, as well as a return trip for a defibrillator installation in his chest, according to the outlet.

 

....I think that the patient had a pretty bad heart before the cruise started. 

Time is muscle. The longer his heart attacked continued the more damage it did to his heart. The blockage in one vessel will cause damage to the surrounding ones. 

52 minutes ago, jwjax said:

 

Sorry,  no,  you won't find it in the FS on a ship, but I think someone said smuggling??   oops...foo...pah!

 

I have a friend in St.Thomas who has found a 10-12yr old Cruzan.  He keeps it for sippin'.   I have not seen it here yet, but still looking.

 

 

I toured their Distillery in 2004 on St Croix.

21 minutes ago, jwjax said:

 

Hmmm...just curious?   What do you consider a "high" quality rum??   Rum is Rum!   Especially in mixed drinks on a ship!

 

Cruzan from the St Croix,  is not a high quality or expensive rum, but it is much better than Bacardi!     In the 80's, I could get it in St.Thomas for around $2.00 a bottle....?  Today it is $16 or more?    It is my rum of choice, for most drinks.   I know there are several high $$ rums available, but unless drinking it by the shot,  it really doesn't matter much to us.

 

 

Cruzan 2 year old dark rum is my sipping rum. But I have not found that in the fun shops, unless they have changed recently.

19 minutes ago, sparks1093 said:

It's the same rum that I buy here at home😲🤣.

No, I have not found a high quality rum from the Fun shop. Bicardi is not a high quality rum. 

1 hour ago, sparks1093 said:

Instead of jumping through all of those hoops just buy a bottle from the Fun Shops on the website.

Except the rum they sell from the fun shops is horrible quality rum. 

1: Port closest to me ( Galveston a hour drive NOLA 3-hour drive)

2: My shortest work week ( shift work some weeks long, some weeks short)

People have been commiting suicide by jumping off ships for centuries. Rudolf Diesel did so.

1 hour ago, EllaDuChien said:

You must "Acquire"  1500 points via your casino play.  On the slots the formula is $2.50 per point through the machine.  On table games, the formula requires a calculator, paper and pen, possibly a protractor, maybe a Ouija board and some tarot cards!  

1 hour ago, EllaDuChien said:

You must "Acquire"  1500 points via your casino play.  On the slots the formula is $2.50 per point through the machine.  On table games, the formula requires a calculator, paper and pen, possibly a protractor, maybe a Ouija board and some tarot cards!  

So you spend $3,750 to get free drinks?

Searching for the next ex-wife.

I'm only a thirty minute drive north of Galveston and all we got was some light rain and sprinkles.

I'm at work in the Tomball, The Woodlands area and it poured here this morning.

Aside from the better attention from wait staff at late dining, I feel you get a more fun/metropolitan crowd (e.g. the old people who need to go to bed early and those with young children tend to go to early dining).

 

AFA missing the shows, well they're "entertaining"in a simplistic way, but they're not for us...

 

Obviously, my opinions. To each their own....

Not all old people go to bed early. Some that work early hours go to bed early. I have to be at work at 4:30 am.

Clothes are so over rated. A few shots of Tequila and they usually fall off.

The tables are electronic and are horrible to play on.

Coke and a 2 year old dark rum and ice.

Let's see if I got this right?

 

A cruise ship is not a destination, just a convenient way to wake up somewhere different every day without having to pack and unpack and rush, but a TA with all those boring sea days one after the other you love?

 

Bill

Me thinks you might need to fine tune your sarcasm detector.

More than a dozen cruises from Galveston and Ive never seen anything even close to that. I watch quite a few sail aways online as well. It was a first for us.

When you live it here, you get use to it. So funny watching to local news they run out during every major thunder storm, report on the flooded roadways. They never studied their history that Houston area was built from drained swamps. Nature always tries to reclaim what it once had.

With a perfectly good terminal and pier in Baytown, why don't they sink a few million in that and build it up. Just a little ways up the bay and no problems getting from the airports in Houston over there.

 

Such a waste.

They had the Bayport Cruise Terminal that the City of Houston built with about 35,000,000.00 of my tax dollars. Can only get small ships in it, it also takes a few hours longer to get and out and fog in the late winter and early spring grinds it to a halt. Bayport was open for a few months then shut down.

Terminal two is next door to terminal one. It sat idle as Valor was the only ship in port that day (docked at terminal one). We could of walked to terminal two in less than 5 minutes and had some place to wait for a few hours while the water receded. That walkway was not flooded. However, the streets were big time.

 

https://www.cruisetimetables.com/maps/galveston-cruise-port-map-large.jpg

 

 

 

http://cruiseshipcaptain.wikidot.com/caribbean-port-of-departure-galveston

Welcome to South Texas. What you witnessed is a near daily thing here.

They're bring back water beds for your cruise.

My ex and I had a water bed, after we bought it we drifted apart.

Every cruise I book is in the double digit range. Thanks to my job I can only ask for time off around 3 weeks out.

I start packing a couple of hours before we leave. Then I make the luggage tags and seal them.

 

Drives the wife nuts! :D

I do the same thing, must be a man thing.:eek::halo::halo: