StephPS79

Living cruise life to the fullest. 😁

There are still some ships where the aft pool is adults only. Just not all. Glory, for example, has signs at the aft pool for adults only, on most sailings.

There are a more than a few ships that have the aft pool with this restriction removed.

Still there!

Doesn't just have to be Cheers, you can use OBC for any pre-purchases.

For the money, I'd probably stay put. We have a deck 5 Havana interior on the Horizon for next year, I'm pretty excited about it, and don't see myself spending much time in the cabin. I'd say I'd be willing to pay maybe $250 total to move to a Havana balcony, but think I'd pass for $400.

Aww man, here comes that wave of sadness, the end to vicarious cruising and back to reality without this Live Blog to distract us for a while... Thanks for taking us along again! As always, your Lives are a pleasure to follow.

Argh, the worst! When someone is treating, you say thank you and everything was wonderful! It doesn't matter if it is true or not. I don't mean just cruising, I mean manners in general. I like treating people to dinner, but if they complain about everything, nothing annoys me more. You can voice your criticisms behind my back, like a polite person. I'm fine with that lol.

Debatable.

I can't lie, I love a good Joe Farcus ship! They have lots of...character, lol. Except for the Magic. Man, I hate that brown and green color scheme.

Chiming in on Bimini, I agree you could definitely skip an excursion here. We did do an excursion, for a sunken ship snorkel, and that was tons of fun, but only a few hours. After, we decided to rent a golf cart and drive around the island a bit. You can get to a really nice...park? It has access to a beautiful beach area. Not sure there were any public restrooms or anything out there, so I don't know that I would plan a beach day there, but it was a nice little trip with fantastic views. We stopped at a few of the bars/food places on the way there and back. Overall a fun adventure. I would definitely say we prefer Bimini over Nassau or Freeport. If we ended up there again, I'd probably skip an excursion, and just do the golf cart again, although I probably wouldn't mind checking out Resort World.

I don't care what all the naysayer curmudgeons say, I think Carnival pizza slaps! Especially that Quattro Formaggio. Looks scrump!

Pretty much exactly this. I was going to say this isn't specific to cruising, but pretty much applies in general to everything lol. This is just another way people keep status. Look at Apple. It's "superior" because it costs more and people pay for it to keep that status. In reality, if the product is actually superior is highly debated. And calm down everyone, I'm actually on an iMac right now, I'm not against Apple products.

Are we really splitting hairs on 9.5 cents?...

There won't be any 2024 sailing from Norfolk. Sunshine will come to Norfolk in 2025.

Propulsion issues aren't limited to Carnival.

Yes.

No shade, but that just isn't the reality of business operations. Of course you have the right to cancel, that doesn't necessarily mean you are entitled to a refund.

Really? I saw that and was actually pretty stoked. No joke. I would definitely tear up some chicken noodle soup after a late night.

I mentioned we had an almost similar room on the Magic. The only negative we experience in that room was, the thrusters vibration was INTENSE. A definite rumble you could hear and feel lol. We are late sleepers, and usually woke us up when docking. Which I didn't really mind, a nice built in alarm clock lol. Even with that one negative, I wouldn't hesitate to book one of those rooms again, and sounds like it might not be so bad on the Dream. P.S. Yes, 100% you can see through those windows at night with a light on. I should have warned you! Hopefully you were able to conduct your experiment before any curtainless exposè. 😆

I know I'm late to the party, as I try to avoid a computer as much as possible on the weekend, so getting caught up now. But you have NO IDEA of the rollercoaster of emotions we catcher-uppers were riding, following the luggage saga waiting to see how it ends, and the exhale of relief to see this! I mean, I'm sure you do, since it's your actual luggage. But still. 😆

Wow, nice surprise!

Is B, though?...

It could be due to the fact that I'm that I'm dieting, but I'd tear that plate lol. Looks scrump!

You might have to catch him between naps! 😆