HappyTexan44

Just about all your dresses can be washed in the sink. It is a very delicate way of washing, so unless the dress says "Dry Clean Only" it can be washed in the sink. Now it might come out very wrinkled, but that is easy to tell just by looking. Sometimes even dry clean only clothes can be washed on cold. When my daughter was little the kid's resale stores had fancy little girl dresses for dirt cheap, i.e. less than the price of jeans. I'd wash everything even though most said Dry Clean Only. Only once did it cause a problem when the dress was silk and it shrunk. Even then it was only a problem because the lining didn't shrink. DD would be in the sandbox wearing a taffeta dress, and I had to make a "No sequin clothing in the sandbox" rule.

I am with you. A mixology class for a decent price sounds awesome. I'll be on Voyager and I don't see it as an activity, so maybe I'm SOL.

Well, if people just stop respecting the chair hogs stuff then Royal won't have to do any more than back up the person that removed the stuff. I truly plan on going to the pool early on the first morning, hang out and read for an hour, and then snag towels for all of our group. Then turning in all the chair hogs towels that we don't need. After that, we'll just exchange out our towels and won't have to worry about there ever being a charge, if for example the cabin steward accidentally grabs it.

The end part of that is the worst. They hadn't even wanted the loungers any longer, they just wanted a place to dump their stuff.

Sell By Date ?

Because I'm a worry-wort that likes to plan. Do they allow you to bring camp chairs on board? For people that drive, and if they knew that an inspection was happening, camp chairs would be handy. Maybe even as a good deed.

I booked more than a year out and got early traditional, but my TA commented that it was nearly full. Then you add in the person that mentioned here that they'd been confirmed for early traditional, and then *poof* they really weren't anymore.

"We are on a 13 day cruise in October and would like early dining. At this time we are waitlisted leaving us with My Time Dining which begins at 6:45. " This was from the OP and is a perfect example of why they need three all three floors for early traditional. All three floors are early traditional, and yet the OP can't get on it. No facts on this one, but I suspect that there is a lot of cross-over with early-traditional and MTD. People that say, "5:00pm is a bit early, but 8:00pm is waaayyyy to late."

Well, for some people those things seems to be an essential part of the cruise. So, the price they'd be paying would be too much. So, for them, it would be as if the port charges were $1000/pp Note, that isn't me. The various prices being separate was a attractive to me because it made Royal much lower priced. Even if it were included in the base price, we wouldn't drink that much for example.

Well, there is bacteria and then there is bacteria. I am not going to get hot tub rash from my toothbrush

Then you add in that bedspreads are washed rarely, if at all. So, not just the bed, but the actual uncleaned surface where people have .... This is why I banish bedspreads to the corner of hotel rooms, and plan on banishing them from the room entirely on the cruise. Also, the main reason I bring my comforter when travelling f possible.

Those are usually the brilliant ideas.

Well, it would depend on how bad the problem was. Honest mistakes, I'd naturally go direct to the person. Room basically not touched, with sheets obviously unchanged, that isn't an honest mistake. They do have to turnover the rooms quickly, so it makes sense that other people would do rooms. I could go with the attendant with the idea that "someone" had skipped my room during room clean.

My daughter loved that I wore ears too. She is 12, so starting to worry about not being too childish sometimes. But, if mommy proudly does it too, then it isn't childish. I'd made her Baby Yoda ears that got lots of positive attention. I just had ordinary puffy fabric circles.

Somewhere I have a coffee table book on "Italian Cooking." Many of the recipes just start with "red sauce", which of course everyone just has in their fridge.

Hmmm, so maybe less people are cancelling now? There were probably a ton of people that booked refundable cruises a long time in the future thinking that the mask/vaccine stuff would be gone by then, but then cancelled when it hadn't. If they didn't have a person tweaking the estimates when the covid rule changed, that could account to the overselling problem.

Can you imagine a chair hogs reaction to arrive and find someone in THEIR chair, reading THEIR book?

I wonder if the problem is trying to do both? There has to be empty seats from Traditional dining when people eat elsewhere. If the table has people on it, they couldn't add MTD people. But, if it was all MTD, then they could fill the tables as people arrived and mostly fill them.

It was created by a chef in Italy to tempt his pregnant wife to eat.

So, if your room is disgusting on check-in, who do you contact first? The attendant would be the obvious first step, but that would be the person that didn't care enough to do it right the first time.

So, since you won't know if they'll select your offer to be bumped until some point in the future, I guess they gather the survey answers and then accept people willing to go Option#1 first, then look at Option #2, then once all those are bumped then they do Option #3. That makes business sense. Many time on a flight, I'd be willing to be bumped but only if the offer was the min. of XYZ. I have a suspicion that my cruise in Feb will be oversold. An interesting port was dropped from a couple of cruises on my ship near my dates. The price of mine increased in price much more than similar cruises. Like the OP, we are going with friends.

It actually says the reverse. The 6 month rule is for Americans when the cruise's homeport isn't in the US. RCCL says: Accepted Identification for U.S. Citizens U.S. Passport book that is valid at least 6 months after your cruise ends. A U.S. Passport book is required for sailings that depart from homeports outside of the U.S.

I guess it is only a big problem if they cancel someone's reservation that doesn't want it cancelled. But, I seem to remember a thread of them doing just that a few months ago.

There is no excuse for overselling a cruise. With planes, if you don't show up they let you on the next plan if there is room. So, airlines have an excuse to oversell, since they don't get money for that empty seat. But on a cruise, they have all your money long before the cruise and are going to keep it even if you don't show up. So, I think that is a genuine question, how do they keep overselling their ships? There might be something I am missing.

That probably explains why while I really like Indian food, none of the offerings on the new menu were things I order.