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Well, I guess I could have got in free, but I do not regret the $18 I spent on my 3 day ticket. I wish I had it as a souvenir, but it probably disintegrated in all the rain. I actually lost my job by going to the concert. I was working at the concession stands at Monticello Racetrack (maybe 10 miles or so from the concert site). I had been working there summers for a few years, so by the union contract I was paid maybe 25 cents more per hour than annew employee. New people (actually a corporation) bought the concession that year I was not there at the beginning of the season as I was not going to miss either finals or my college graduation. So they treated me as having no seniority for working and would often tell me to take some weekdays off. Now if your boss treats you well, you reciprocate. And the same if they treat you like garbage. So, just before the Woodstock weekend, I told them I had tickets to a music festival and was not coming in that weekend. They told me if I did not come in to never come back. My reply was I would come back for the paycheck they still owed me. The funny thing is I should have never told them and just not showed up as they had to close because no one could get there as they are on the same road as everyone needed to get to Woodstock and the traffic did not allow anyone to get there..

At the meeting with the officers, I did ask the officer who was in charge of the stewards about their workload. He tried to say that they really did not have more cabins than pre-Covid. He later noticed me at the latitudes meeting and thanked me for the question.

Actually Dylan was not my first concert, but the second and was the first MAJOR concert. The real first was the folk singers Ian and Sylvia.

How young? I was 22, but I have met younger people who attended. I met 2 people on our last summer Prima cruise who also attended. The second went like this: I got on the elevator on the 17th floor (buffet) to go to our cabin on the 11th floor. A couple got on on the 16th floor. The wife--"Where are you from?" Me--"Monticello, NY" the wife again--"Did you go to Woodstock?" Me--"Yes, I was 22.." the husband--"17" And at the local library when they had the county historian giving a presentation about Woodstock. I met someone (she was actually married to the younger brother of a girl I graduated high school with) who said she was 14. Now I do think that was a little too young.

Not always. Our flight to Heathrow in London this summer from Newark had a stop in Montreal. We did have a direct flight back from Reykjavik.

Or take another cruise home. Though if you waited for another repositioning cruise rather than take Cunard, you would have to spend a lot of time in Europe.

My first major concert was in 1965, Bob Dylan alone acoustic in the first set and electric with the group of musicians who would someday be known as the Band in the second set. I first saw the Who at the Woodstock festival. They followed Sly and the Family Stone and preceded the Jefferson Airplane. I have never seen Fleetwood Mac in concert, though I have seen Stevie Nicks in concert at Bethel Woods, the former site of the Woodstock concert. (And that was with a hurricane on its way!)

White Lake, NY is a village within the township of Bethel. Just past White Lake going south on NY route 17B. it is still the town of Bethel, and that is where the Woodstock festival was in 1969. White Lake, Sullivan County, New York - Wikipedia

Things like that happen. Our first NCL cruise (NY to Bermuda) was on the Crown. It was not really set up for freestyle. Lots of small things wrong, especially the crew did not seem to really care. Our second was on the Epic (Western Europe), and it was just much too large. I really had no desire to sail NCL again. And then we received in the mail a flyer from NCL and fell in love with an itinerary, And in 2021 booked a cruise on the not yet built Prima, London (Southampton) to Reykjavik. And despite 2 of the ports not happening, we really loved the ship and the cruise.

Lots and lots of people summered in the Catskills back in the day. At trivia last summer on the Prima we paired with a couple who lived in Arizona now, but back in the day spent their summers in the Catskills. Funny story--we were on a land trip actually and were in Prague in a museum. And I kept seeing a young lady at a distance who was wearing what was either an original or more likely retro tee-shirt from the Woodstock festival. It read Woodstock Aquarian Festival in White Lake, NY. When it was a few minutes before closing, the staff hurried everyone out, and we came near to her. I said, "I attended that festival, and we live about 10 miles from White Lake, NY." I really did get a funny look from her. 😊

Can I join the "I am 76 club"? I qualify.

Do you realize the same thing happens when you use your credit card at a gas pump. There is an authorized pending charge that will drop off and be replaced by what you actually charge. Also, hotels ask for credit cards even when the reservation has been paid off in advance. They too will have authorized pending charges in case you do make charges, And they too will drop off. There is a good reason that every poster told you this was normal and you had nothing to worry about.

However, it would seem that a non-compete agreement would not apply if they were recommending an agent within the agency they had left. I would think the agency would want to retain that agent's clients.

You really want to make your luggage distinctive, put on a bumper sticker that says Callicoon Center Band. (Google is your friend if you want to know more about the Callicoon Center Band. My DW has played flute with them since 2001. Many have been in much longer, though I do not believe any are still there from their founding in the 1930s.)

I hope you tipped him well. 😉

That does sound quite reasonable. If I were the OP, that is where I would start. I wonder if the OP could still contact the former agent and ask for a recommendation.

You are in a different part of the USA than I am. There seem to be merchants here who will take either. but add a percentage fee if paying by card. There is also at least one auto body shop that will take cash or a check, but will not take a card.

In Amsterdam, it was museums that would not take cash, though we did finally find one that did take cash, but would have preferred a card. We also had to pay with a card to get a transportation pass, though later we did find a place that would have taken euros.

I also found all the posts about the buffet and seating complaints puzzling. We never had trouble finding seats.

When we were in Amsterdam last summer as a cruise port, we had Euros. And almost no place would take them. They wanted only credit or debit cards.

staff about 10. I never saw anyone occupy the chairs. I think the warning has made a bit of difference. So, on the same ship one of you saw it working and one of you saw it not working!

Ok, I will agree always late was hyperbole. 43% is still quite awful. I think we can also agree on that.

No, never saw it on either home computer on which I stay signed in on Edge or library computer that I have to sign in and is on Firefox.

And also wait to book late, and the ship might have no more available cabins.

Well, the person was from Canada and had flown with them several times. We had had only one previous flight on Air Canada, and it was delayed.