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I have plenty of those from trade shows. Workplace chic indeed!

My wife does the same. Always makes a trip to customer service to get a hole punched in her cruise card.

As others have mentioned, I always travel with a mesh laundry bag. That suction cup shower thing for leg shaving is going to be a christmas present for the mrs.

I agree - Ruby Princess was launched on 2008. 14 years out of a typical cruise ship life of 40 year is really not old. But the OP specifically mentioned Ruby, so here we are.

We've sailed on the Ruby Princess out of SF three times in the past year. Fine ship, great crew, no complaints.

If the Carnival ship was Fantasy Class, I feel your pain. But we've sailed on the Grand Princess (built in 1998) and it was fine. Lots of balcony rooms and mini-suites. Three main dining rooms, two good specialty restaurants, scads of bars plus Alfredo's Pizza, which very few Princess ships have.

Caught the 2nd episode. Gibraltar looked great. Ship looks nice, too. Maybe they should add a Dr. Bricker character to hit on the bachelorettes.

He needs two shots 3-4 weeks apart. You have 2 months. You can do this.

If you are vaxxed, no test is required to enter Canada. https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid

When did they stop accepting eMed? Princess' website still recommends them.

This is probably not something you want to crowd source.

Sometimes on Princess we like to retire early to our cabin and watch a couple old episodes of The Love Boat.

You are not alone. We have good friends who for years would only book interior cabins because they spent almost no time in the room.

We've only been on Celebrity once - the Solstice to Alaska in 2019. We found Celebrity to be better than RC, Princess and Carnival in every way, for not much more money. I wish Celebrity did more on the West Coast.

Three things are possible. Or some combination. 1) you have outgrown RC. Try Celebrity. But only if #1 is the only problem. 2) could be that cruising has not returned to pre-pandemic levels of customer service and food. In that case, maybe take a break from cruising? Try a “staycation” or road trip. 3) maybe you are burned out on cruising. See #2.

Sounds like good times indeed. The pandemic may have put a damper on such things.

Just for fun I checked fb to see if there was a group for our fall Princess cruise. There isn’t. But the CC Roll Call for that cruise has been fairly lively.

Roll calls seem to be alive and well for Princess. Took a Carnival cruise in May: CC Roll Call existed but was dead. Found over 100 fellow passengers on a FB group. As someone else suggested, this might be rooted in the demographic.

It's on CC now, too. https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/7041/

I thought AOS meant Anthem of the Seas, too.

The last time we cruised out of Florida (in the Before Times) we flew in two days early. That alleviated the stress of possibly missing the cruise if something happened to our flight and it gave us a day and two nights to see Tampa. The next time we cruise out of the East Coast, I would do that same.

Our last three cruises have been from a port that we can easily drive to. The next one will be as well. It's a low cost, low stress way to start a cruise vacation and I highly recommend it if you live driving distance from a port. But at some point we are going to run out of places to sail to from SF. I hope air travel has gotten back to normal by then. If not, maybe we do some more road trips.

We’ve had mixed experiences sharing tables. My best memories were at larger tables, where the odds of hitting it with at least one couple are better.

And yet, here you are on a forum dedicated to cruising. May I ask why? Not judging, just curious.

We’ve been on two cruises that used the medallion. The device itself worked well during embarkation and onboard the ship. It’s a good system, better than a keycard. The OceanMedallion phone app was a little wonky both trips, but we managed. Being able to order drinks from anywhere was a treat, but hardly essential. You do need the app precruise to enter vaccination and passport data. If it doesn’t work right on your phone, try installing it on an iPad. And make sure you have the latest update (don’t be a dummy like me before our first voyage and suffer bugs that were already fixed).