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On 11/19/2018 at 4:10 PM, AmazedByCruising said:

 

To each their own means, I'm not native to English, "whatever you personally like", doesn't it? If so it's the wrong wording as I'd love to fly without being really anxious about any weird noise. On a plane, it would be solved if I could watch the cockpit cam and see all the meters.  

 

 

On a ship I actually like high waves. When topics on CC will have "pure chaos" in the title and the Captain needs to decide between comforting 100 panicking passengers and the 2000 others that don't like the amount of announcements, I think the decision should be to make the announcement. 

 

 

To each their own is a dismissive and arguably rude expression. 

It was supposed to be in at 11:30 this morning.  Shouldn't be more than a few hours late. 

On 11/10/2018 at 9:20 PM, NavarreCruiser said:

 

 

Just out of curiosity what prompted you to reactivate a 12-year-old thread? 

 

I've seen a lot of posters get chastised for starting a new thread instead of using search to find their answers.  I guess this is what happens when people actually search.  The OP threw me for a second when they said that their cruise had been transferred from Sensation to Fantasy.  That didn't make sense. Then I looked at the date.  😂😂😂

2 hours ago, dmdiver said:

I noticed Celebrity Edge is blue all across the bottom.  

 

It also has the assymetrical butt end that has the purists tailspinning into a death spiral.  LOL. 

It looks amazing.  I like it. 

Lists feel worse than they really are. If you could actually see the ship from the outside, you'd say, oh, there's nothing to this. 

 

I used to work on Boeing Jetfoils for a company in Japan and we would regularly do turns at 5°-15°, but could take them up to 20°-25° if necessary. We tried to keep them gentle sweeps for passenger comfort, but they always felt like we were banking more than we actually were. Fun stuff at 45 knots. 

 

 

9 minutes ago, tallyho8 said:

I wonder if there was much panic on the Concordia. Most of the reports that I read did not mention extreme panic among the passengers.

 

They may not have realized that they were sinking, at first.  It seems that the captain wasn't very forthcoming about how dire the situation was.  You can't react to something that you don't know is happening.  I'm sure that panic ramped up as it became clear that their three hour tour was doomed. 

God bless LSU. LOL.  With that said, Roll Tide! 

2 hours ago, pjfnme said:

Again, I have no issue with a delay.  The issue I have is that priority P/D guests were not automatically offered the earliest arrival appointment.  If you took a later time knowing that you could arrive at the terminal anytime after it opened, then you are basically being told that you have no priority boarding as you are promised.  

My friend has cruised Triumph twice since this started. The first week of September and third week of October. She's Plat and strolled up in there like she always does and got right on the ship. They just wouldn't let anyone in the terminal until after noon or something like that. I think you're stressing for nothing. What you SHOULD be concerned about is that her cabins didn't have any ac on either cruise and no hot water on the Oct cruise. 

It's been going on for over a month. Priority is still priority. Just a couple hours later than usual. It won't kill anyone to not be busting the door down at 10:30.

On 10/26/2018 at 8:04 PM, Cobrakev said:

And how did they give you those loyalty perks? Just ask for them?

 

MSC will match your status from any cruise line. Yes, just ask for it. 

On 10/26/2018 at 10:31 PM, IPlayWithString said:

How can you have a PARTIAL transit? I thought you were either in it or you weren't? Can you exit half way like, "Ok. hmm. This is kinda not what I expected. Imma get out now."? 

Something like that, except that it's planned.  You turn around halfway through and go back out the way you came in. 

You would think the news could get off politics for a bit, and make more than a passing comment on this. Going to be a mad rush for hotels the last 24 hours if they have to get out, still a bit early to tell. Heck the first poster replied to me they think mobile wouldnt even get rain. lol

 

24 to 48 hours the news will surely pick this up more if its going to hit the usa somewhere.

Mobile's forecast for the rest of this week, from TWC. My guess is as good as theirs. LOL.

 

 

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Forecast for Mobile this week. Doesn't look like they expect much from the hurricane.

 

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Please share ? The Park Board has an open mind .

They use concrete tetrapods as breakwaters. The surf washes the sand in and keeps it from eroding. The beach areas that you see in the satellite photos are naturally formed, where there used to be just a seawall vs. the Sea of Japan. They actually turned one area into reclaimed land to use as their on site manufacturing area for the tetrapods. It is an ongoing battle. They've been placing tetrapods since back in the 60s, at least.

 

I know how people feel about obstructed views of the sea, but if it's living on the water vs. the house washing away....... The added benefit being no rip currents and protected beaches.

 

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ready2cruzagain, Regarding the park and cruise package, was the parking free with your package? The details are not specific. Thanks in advance

 

If you stay there, ask for a south facing room, so you can look out your window and see your ship when you get up in the morning. You're welcome. :D:D

There is one problem with Galveston and the area around the port for doing what you say.

 

In 1900 the Great Storm hit Galveston. To date it’s the largest loss of US lives in a natural disaster. The first three streets from the harbor were covered in 6’ of mud. The city was thriving as a shipping port and they hastily decided to raise the street level to the top of the mud.

 

Those buildings along the Strand and historic district are actually sitting on their first floor. The entities visible today are the second floor of the structure.

 

The Historical Society is never going to allow those brick streets to be torn up for drainage improvements. Also, very little of the businesses along the Strand area flooded over the past two weeks. The lowest points of the island, or inland about a half mile did.

 

Inland about ten miles is Texas City. Much of it is below MSL, and they have a series of pumping stations to push water back to the bay in the event of flooding. They didn’t slow down the massive rainfall totals from Harvey, Ike and one of the storms last week.

 

I don’t doubt Galveston has a water problem. It’s not along the port area. The West End is eroding away. All those beautiful homes built back after Ike are seeing beach erosion after every major storm. Building continues there and along the Beachtown area on the east side at a frantic rate.

 

I would like to see Harborside raised. It is exempted from the GCHD governance and could be raised 2’ within two years of construction.

 

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Y'all need to ask your sister city, Niigata, Japan, how to deal with beach erosion. Niigata is my hometown, BTW. :):)

Resist!

 

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9-1 sailing didn't start boarding until around 1pm. Lots of complaints about the ac and sewer problems on that cruise.

A flooded car is still better than a good day at work, right?

 

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You may enjoy Holland America Line.

My 95 year old mom despises Carnival. Loves HAL. LOL

 

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Sounds positively abysmal.

Clients who break the rules is way different then implying a cruise line is doing this (which they would not).

 

 

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They may not be now, but why wouldn't they consider this untapped revenue stream at a later time? One four letter word: FTTF.

...and you forgot about the bumper cars, ejector pods, zip line, rock wall, flow rider, sky dive simulator....

 

 

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Thank you for keeping the lines shorter for those who do enjoy those things.