DarrenM

dont most folk go on a cruise to avoid shopping?

We don't. No point. Not sure my 2 sons would appreciate gifts from a cruise ship.

Oh completely agree. We were sat with4 americans nightly who asked us how we managed to get burgers, and only when we told them they were vegetarian burgers did they realise. They looked at us like we were mad. We arent vegetarians, but those beyond burgers were fantastic. Better than any real burger I have ever eaten. But there wasnt many other folk eating them in the MDR. Actually just remembered.........we werent in the MDR. We were in Blu on that trip. Maybe thats why? Memory like a sieve.

been waiting days to do this.

Would suggest looking at Celebrity, with a word of caution. Their ships are not geared towards children at all, and I guarantee my two would have been bored out of their minds. Yet weirdly, on Beyond last year, there were hundreds of kids on board. It was strange. I wasnt impressed. Yet on reflection the year before, hardly any. Which was nice.

I am doing a very similar Itinerary this May on Constellation. 11 nights. The extra day being a sea day at the end. I will report my findings in about 2 months time. probably too late for you then. I have been on Reflection, Edge and Beyond, so am curious as to how I will find the smaller ship.

so good you had it twice?

But but, I cant stop eating eggs benedicts in large quantities at breakfast. I accept I am odd though. At home I dont follow rules about timings of breakfast lunch and evening meal. I just eat when i am hungry usually. and thats usually in the morning, about an hour after getting up, and when alcohol has been consumed. Sometimes on a cruise that can be the same time. 😁

No of course not. We have staff that do that. Please dont tell her I called her staff.

On Celebrity reflection 2 years ago we had their Beyond Burger numerous times in the MDR. Best vegetarian burger I have ever eaten. Strangely, when on Celebrity BEYOND, last year, we couldnt get e BEYOND burger at all. Very odd.

I must have paid more, our tour bus took us right to the top of the acropolis last year. We didn't need to leave the bus. OK sorry. That was a joke. There's a drive way and car park at the bottom of the entrance. You get dropped off there. It's quite the climb and queue after that.

Mind you, I eat so well at breakfast that its just not feasible to eat lunch as well. So more often than not, lunch is missed ready for the evening meals 4 courses. Unless I partake in very early alcoholic beverages then the munchies strike, so afternoon pizza is usually consumed. I don't usually do this at home either. I generally cant be doing 3 meals a day though. That's just extreme gluttony to me. I would need to be running 10km daily to counteract the fact that I would look like Augustus Gloop by the end of the cruise.

This. My breakfast whilst on board was almost exclusively eggs benedict. Never eat this at home. Its cereal with oat milk. Mind you, at home I don't have half a dozen cocktails per day either. Honest.

I have no issue with Vloggers at all. Some are really good, and dont video people indiscriminately. Ben and David, the ones in question on this thread, are very very good. Well they are from my part of the world afterall, so they would be. They are very entertaining. I watch a lot of their content as well as another 2 couples from the UK. Couples that are around my age bracket. I dont blindly follow them though. One of the couples from the UK love ballroom dancing, and loved the Cunard ballroom nights(Not sure what the actual names are for these nights) I actually couldnt think of anything worse than ballroom dancing so will swerve this completely. Not turning into my parents just yet thank you very much. So its all good info.

But how would anyone know, when they make their ridiculous complaint about someone else not adhering to the dress code? leigh1107 wont be carrying a neon sign highlighting their permission not to comply.

This amuses me no end. I get it, that some folk want to "dress up" when they go somewhere posh. And posh places sometimes have a dress code. What amuses me on a cruise ship though, is that they arent going anywhere posh, or certainly no posher than the place they went the night before, when they wore jeans and polo shirts. They are going to exactly the same dining room as the previous night, but on this particular night they get severely triggered by other folk not wearing a tuxedo. You arent going to Ritz in London.........just the dining room. Also, I would rather be sat near a couple with great hygiene in jeans and polo shirt, rather than someone in an ill fitting tuxedo, that hadnt been worn in years, and smelled of moth balls. I could have taken photos of this very thing about ill-fitting suits, had a felt the need to do so or wanted to, last year on Beyond. And some folk wouldnt look good in a £1,000 suit or dress no matter how hard they tried. Thats just a fact.

I was going to ask, what on earth is that ship doing on the bridge?

Yes of course. But somebody in the dining room not dressed to someone else's overblown expectations, surely isnt a reason to be annoyed.

Yep. It was the best I could come up with.

Thats appalling and I would hope other passnegrs would come to the crews defence. I know I would. Actually did this on celebrity beyond last year when a couple moaned about the waiter in the cosmopolitan restaurant, and tried to get us to back them up. They were shocked when they got our response. Lets just say, our waiter smiled.

Not me. I am the exact opposite. But if I go somewhere for a land holiday I try to stay in a nice hotel too. The ship is massively important to me as we spend so long on board. And I seek out my favourite bar. And which cocktails I will over-indulge in to make sure I get my premium drinks package monies worth. Ah the joys of vacations.

I can't believe for a second that any cruise line would allow smoking inside any more. Are some of them still in the 1970s?

But are we talking laws, or rules? Some rules are too stupid to follow. As are some laws funnily enough.