dodgestang

I believe it was the invention of the flushing toilet that brought modesty to our species and along with it, its nefarious step sister prudism 😉 There are 2 settings here. 1. You are an innocent child who knows nothing, and sees nothing 2. You are no longer innocent and understand how the world works Either way....I have no issues 😜

Can't gamble on the mouse....so why gamble with the mouse?

It seems the media has significantly downplayed/not informed the public about the number of countries in the world who have shifted into treating covid as endemic and no longer a pandemic.

About the same from my perspective aside from the Genie only wanting to be in your room for like 5 minutes at a time....which was nice change IMO 😉 and room service was handed off at the door...the didn't come in and throw out a table cloth and set seatings.

Considering I wear jeans and a polo to chefs table evertime I go.........

Yeah....and the tolls on the PA turnpike

Never ever. Once in place......a tax never goes away

Sounds like we're talking the $1200 or more in a single pull and how to handle seapass if it isn't you playing 😉

Uhhh....why are we talking about solo cruising. Original poster didn't mention solo. When you sail in balcony you get 1 point per night, when you sail in a junior you get 2 points per night....otherwise know as double points to the cruising community at large using double occupancy. How solo layers into that is something you obviously know more about than me....but that's doesn't discount the fact that sailing in a JS gets you double C&A points. Sounds like what you are trying to say, is that the OP, if they were to sail alone in a JS would get 3 point per night....which is double points for the suite and then 1 additional for the solo run 😉 Where-as since you always sail in a non-suite as a solo you were already getting 'double points' because of the 1 point per night bonus and then personally felt slightly when that didn't stack to a +4. They do make it overly complicated sometimes with language choices. As for the link.....documentation is always preferred when justifying a position in opposition to someone. I'm sorry if you would prefer to only debate with anecdotes. On the plus side.....thanks to covid I've been banking on double suites and double covid...so I have been getting 4 points per night for 4 outings now....only downside though is I have to put up with my family 😉

https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2016/07/26/royal-caribbeans-junior-suites-what-you-need-know

$40 or so for battery power tinsel tree and a couple of the kids smaller presents packed in the bags They also have/had Santa visit (when we were on 2021) and gave out presents to all the kids on the ship.

To that very specific question......shower/tub in the bathroom, little more space in the room, double points for C&A

Depends on the boat, larger vessels have coastal kitchen which is a dedicated suite restaurant. We always choose a suite.......because we like the one with the piano and our daughter plays it all the time. ;). Other than that...space, high touch with concierge and/or genie, second bathroom (sometimes)...we are almost always a party of 4....then there is the better/larger bath tubs and no a small shower stall benefit..... On the smaller boats in a suite you also get a dedicated place for breakfast even if they don't have coastal kitchen....we love breakfast in chops.

I bring one on every cruise we take. There was even one supplied by royal on the last cruise we were on so never even used mine. Play it low and enjoy your cruise.

I wasn't picking a fight and have never been accused of being mature....was making a laugh about it...like I thought you were....they are so close that it is a darn near a non-issue for just about any form of transport.....except for air2sea transfers Google says 7 minutes BTW https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Port+Everglades,+Port+Everglades+Midport+Garage,+1850+Eller+Dr,+Fort+Lauderdale,+FL+33316/Fort+Lauderdale-Hollywood+International+Airport+(FLL),+100+Terminal+Dr,+Fort+Lauderdale,+FL+33315/@26.0807437,-80.1511397,14z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x88d90040cc646243:0x7662ff8b2aa32c17!2m2!1d-80.116658!2d26.0850697!1m5!1m1!1s0x88d9aa7ae4c8faf5:0x2ae0339d90a6cbe6!2m2!1d-80.1506022!2d26.0742344!3e0 😛

You're right....3 miles.....that' like 60 seconds away if I was driving. 😜

Just take your own taxi....don't take the royal air2sea transfer......we got off the boat at our scheduled time of 8:30 went to the transfer bus...and sat there till 10am when they finally got the last of the people off the boat. Then it took forever to drive and unload to the airport which is literally 5 minutes away. We weren't in the terminal till after 11am...it was frustrating....but since our flight was at 3:30 didn't stress us. Well other than being told to come back and get back in line to check in our bags because the airport can't handle you checking in more than 3 hours before the flight.