Eli_6

I will have a boarding pass. Why wouldn't I have a boarding pass? The flights are only 3 hours apart. Not more than 24. I can check in for my second flight and obtain the boarding pass before I ever leave Houston.

I actually think they are more likely to move a large kid up than one for being really smart. My first ever cruise, when I was 13 years old, the club people moved me to the teenage group after seeing me without my parents saying anything. I was 5'8 and a D cup bra. I was also had my braces off, was already having my hair highlighted and in all respects looked and acted like a much older teenager. Frankly, I looked almost exactly the same from about age 12 until until I was about 38-39 and started getting fat.

I will say it. I don't let my older son check himself out of kid's club because he is so out of it/clueless/distracted that he would never be able to find his way back to our room if we did. One time my younger son put a mac-and-cheese bowl in the microwave without adding water first and it caught on fire. Like a real fire. Our fire alarms went off. Smoke filled the house. I threw a towel on the fire to put it out. I ran around opening all the windows. House smelled awful. Completely filled with smoke. My older son was sitting there playing on his pad through the entire thing and never moved. He looked up about 30 minutes later and said, "Where did all this smoke come from?" Never noticed the fire alarms. Never noticed my other son and I screaming or the commotion. Never noticed the fire. He plays soccer and the coaches never put on goalie because he will be picking flowers, staring at the clouds in the sky, and talking to himself. He doesn't even need a tablet or a phone to get distracted. He once came home with only one shoe on and had no idea how he lost the other, where it was, or when it happened. Not even making this up. One would think you would notice only having one shoe on. Not him. He is, however, very well-behaved if for no other reason than he is so in his own little world he is unbothered by whatever anyone else is doing. He probably needs to be on ADD meds but he is so skinny (because he forgets to eat unless we remind him) that I worry it would affect his growth if I put him on them.

Ok, upon consulting the Heathrow airport website, it says: CONNECTING FLIGHTS If your baggage is checked through to your final destination, that’s where you clear customs. If you’re collecting your baggage and checking in to your next flight yourself, you need to pass through customs at Heathrow.

I also asked on the BA flyer forum and they said the same thing as BA. I have been through LHR three times since Brexit and only had to go through C&I the one time when I had two separate tickets and a bag that wasn't checked through.

I am sure you are correct. Still no refund today. Tomorrow will be 7 business days so I guess I will give it until Friday before I call. Frankly, I may just go ahead and purchase the new excursions with a credit card and then use my gift cards on the cruise to apply to my on board account to pay for incidentals.

I just called British Airways and I do not have to clear customs and immigration on a short layover (less than 24 hours) unless I had to go "land side" to pick up and recheck baggage. Now I do have to go back through security, but not customs and immigration because I am never officially entering the UK.

Even though I am just having a layover and not leaving the Heathrow airport? I thought if you were not leaving the airport that you didn't have to go through customs and immigration...only security.

Still no refund and tomorrow will be a week since my last convo with them wherein they said I would get the gift card refund in 5-7 days. Getting annoyed because I wanted that $600 to book the "new" excursions and I "check in" in 2 days. Guess I will give it a couple more days...

I tried to post a funny mole meme, but it didn't work. Then I tried to find a mole emoticon but the best I could do was a porcupine. 🦔

I never said I was "properly" bundling them, lol. 😂 I have the bags that use an actual vacuum to get all the air out and the clothes do come out wrinkled because I have done it before. I believe you that the system you use doesn't cause wrinkles because I have used those roll bags before as well, but they don't get the clothes as shrunken down as the vacuum bags do. I even told everyone that we are skipping formal nights because I don't want to have to pack the shoes for formal nights...because with three boys/men their giant shoes alone will take up half of a carry on suitcase. Hubs is 12/13 shoe size and my boys are already in men's size shoes despite being in 8 and 10.

Thank you!

If you get $1 off per gallon of gas per 1000 points and you get 2000 points per $500 purchase, that would come out to a $60 savings (assuming a 30 gallon tank) so slightly better than the Allstate or AARP. But, if you have a smaller tank, not as good of a deal.

Those photos are insane! Love seeing them. Photos of the steakhouse look good, too.

I am packing for our trip in less than 3 weeks. I am going to attempt to fly with carry on only because I don't want to have to pick up luggage and re-check it in Heathrow and go through customs both in Heathrow and again in Barcelona. (Our IAH-LHR round-trip heathrow had to be booked on a different ticket number than our one way LHR-BCN for reasons that would take a paragraph to explain. If tickets are on different ticket numbers despite being with the same airline, you have to pick up and re-check luggage, go through customs, etc.) Because of this, I will be vacuum packing our clothes. Is there any sort of item to get the wrinkles out that I can permissibly take on the cruise? Has anyone ever asked the room steward for an iron and been given one?

@canes20 I apologize for reading it that way.

Our shower didn't work in our Aft wrap suite the entire time despite them coming 3 times to fix it. Fortunately, we also had the adjoining cabin so we were able to use that shower. The hot water issue was not mine but several people who have been on the Pride (both here and in F B groups) have complained about hot water issues on the Pride. Either no hot water at all or it coming out scalding.

Well, that's a bummer because it sounds like they are only doing the ADA cabins if that is the post Shiner6 was referring to. They probably need more ADA cabins if she will continue to cruise in Europe, to Greenland, etc. as the average age on those cruises tends to be older than the Carribean cruises and, therefore, there are usually more guests with mobility issues.

With the singular exception of my recent issues with the shore excursions and gift cards, I have always received my refunds extremely promptly. Often times the very same day or the next day.

5 of my 6 last cruises have been amazing experiences and I have left positive reviews. However, if I had a bad cake and someone asks if the cake is good, I am going to state my opinion. Is not it possible that with different chefs and different kitchen staff and on different ships at different times that I may have had a terrible cake even though you have always had ones that were very tasty? People can have different experiences and their experiences all be valid.

We got one one time pre-Covid and it was decent. We got one post-Covid and it was terrible.

Bummer. No mention of updates to cabins. I was really hoping the cabins might get a refresh to include things like hot water and working showers.

I saw that post, but I am not so sure if it was real because the David statue has had a leaf over his private part for a long time. Although, maybe they were offended by his bare bum. Who knows? People are crazy. Some principal in Florida got fired because an Art teacher showed a pic of the David so clearly some people are easily offended.

Yes. Exactly. Some "people" act like they haven't seen a bare breast since they were nursing at one. I am surprised we Americans even manage to procreate.

Usually, yes. Some exceptions apply.