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Must have been a "Senior Moment"!

Does that cruise show up in your "Past Cruise" list? One that I canceled and its time has come and sailed on. No, it doesn't show any points. RCCL IT = Royal Can't Compute Logically Information Terminated!

Yeah. I'd be good at it, too.

I'm not a fan of Jazz but I know a lot of people are. So, someone please tell me, or actually, those that love Jazz that the times and venues are advertised in the Compass. I hope it isn't like the piano guy!

That's why I try to stay loyal to one brand, be it a hotel brand, airline brand, credit card brand, or cruise line. Spreading out your loyalty is diluting the perks. JMHO

When I don't cruise Star Class, I plan on bringing my Zero Water Filter system. There's nothing unhealthy about the ship's water but there is a taste and smell (chlorine-like) that I don't care for. When cruising Star Class, it includes ALL beverage packages so then I'll drink the bottled water and sparkling water. I don't think a separate beverage package for water is worth it if something is as easy as bringing on the Zero Water Filtration system (or others if so desired). No, I'm not advertising, I don't have any arrangement with Zero Water, I'm just a very satisfied customer.

Well, the Internet is supposedly so good now, you can watch your favorite movie on Netflix, right!

That falls into the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" category. My dad, if he was served anything other than HOT food and/or on a cold plate, he'd return it until it was what he expected. Don't bring him a steak if it wasn't sizzling on the plate. At home, he lived with us for the last 6 years of his life, and when he got coffee fresh out of the K cup machine (the K cup machine was set to 192 degrees/the hottest setting), he put the mug in the mic to get it even hotter.

Exactly! Fast food joints are traditionally "Entry Level" jobs. Meaning it is probably kids that still live at home and don't pay for their living expenses, or only pay a token amount. And being an Entry Level job, it is like an apprenticeship in life, apprentices make far less than their professional counterparts. My Grandson makes about $15.00 per hour for about 15 - 20 hours a week during school season. Before labor laws, way back when, I worked for my dad, at age 12, 6 days a week in the ProShop cleaning golf clubs after the members returned from a round and maintaining the golf carts. I did that for about $20.00 a week. I didn't pay for any living expenses. I'd do it all over again if I could, it was a great life-learning experience. As an adult, I have an uncompromising work ethic, I think because of it.

I worked in a French Restaurant in S. Florida as a kid, washing dishes. I didn't receive any of the tips that the servers made. There was no requirement that they did. I fully understand that some or many restaurants do have a tip-share policy, but that's a joke, it's an honor- system. As stated, I was the general manager within the parking industry. The valet parking part of it had tip-share for the cashiers and other non-parking folks. It was a joke. I reversed it. But, yes, I had to increase the wage to the cashiers and other no-parking folks and the turnover was reduced because of it. We got better and happier surveys because of it, from customers. The employees were much happier, the parkers/valets made more money because they kept all of it, although not much more because they didn't put all the tips in the jar anyway, and the cashiers, et al, were making more money. If an employee is motivated by money, which I hope all are at least a little, they work harder for more money and customers get better service. Where's the motivation to go above and beyond if you're income doesn't go above and beyond?

I didn't post to say what was the "NORM' at pubs or cafes. I posted what I found to be the legal aspects of tipping in the UK. Why? Because some folks, throughout the years of reading these boards, tend to try to make it seem like it's the law in the UK for employers to pay their employees the tip/gratuity, and tipping is frowned upon in the UK. And to show that the law in the UK isn't much different than here in the U.S., except that we, the people of the U.S. prefer to tip for service voluntarily, not mandatorily. Believe me, if I went to the UK, which I have, and there were two restaurants, one next to the other, one included tips in the final bill and the other didn't, I'd go to the one that doesn't, first. Nothing more, nothing less.

I've never tipped in a Mcdonald's or Burger King or Jimmy John's*................. I tip for full service. I'll tip the delivery person, like Doordash, which I don't use. * I have a grandson that works in a Jimmy John's and I don't think he has ever got a penny in tip money AND he doesn't expect it.

Not only that, it did run its course, over and over again. And this is a discussion board.

I hear ya. But, in the case of cable and internet, you are actually paying for something on a monthly basis. Electricity is based upon actual metered usage, in this case, the usage that didn't happen. The premise of my post was that some people want compensation for something they physically didn't get. On a cruise, if you don't get to a particular port, you are still cruising and they may substitute another port of call but they will credit back any port taxes and cruise company excursions, as appropriate. I don't know about my Internet but my cable company has something about how many hours it must be out before they credit some of the monthly fee. I really haven't had an issue with either my electricity, internet, or cable (actually satellite) here in Alabama.

And I didn't take it in any specific way. It just made me reminisce about times past.

This kind of question reminds me of when I used to work (now retired from) an Electric Utility Cooperative when the power went out for a short period of time. Some, very few, people would call in and ask if they were going to be compensated for the time they went without electricity. My answer: I assure you, sir/ma'am, we will not charge you for any of the electricity you did not receive.

I'm not sure what you mean by the "tipping culture in the UK". I've done a little checking into it and if the sources I've checked into from the UK are right, businesses have the OPTION of paying their employees the gratuity or they can let the employees receive cash tips from their customers. One thing the U.K. does that the U.S. doesn't if I'm reading it right, in the UK the minimum wage is the minimum wage, not reduced because you are a server AND tips are calculated above that minimum wage, not as part of it. We have basically the same here in the U.S. Some employers do not allow their employees to accept tips (Publix Grocery Store Baggers as an example as my granddaughter is one of them and is not allowed to accept tips). Go to any other grocery store that has baggers that take your groceries out to your car and they are actually working for your tips. https://www.gov.uk/tips-at-work/tips-and-tax

I'm going to answer, to the best of my ability and experience within your post. Not because I want to be argumentative, just so I don't miss anything^

SMH

Mistake, mods please delete.

Please please please take your trailer hitch off, if you have one on. As a P/U Truck owner in the past, I fell victim to my own hitch. Those things hurt.

So, after reading this yesterday, I decided to verify what Canaveral charges for their parking. I sent them an email and got this back this morning: