HappyTexan44

Before you do the final booking, you could do a search for just your ship and your month. That won't tell you explicitly if it is in Dry Dock before or after, but it will tell where it is around your time frame. If you see cruises, you know you are good.

They save it for the most egregious people.

So, I'd bought two packages. We have two rooms with DH in one and Me in the other. It shows only $50 OBC, but then it still shows the pass.

So they give you the Freestyle cup to hand to someone, and because of what cup it is they fill it with fussing about seapass card, etc.?

No, not really. But, then Rome makes my heart go pitty-pat. I've been to a great many cities and all but one of them was wonderful. But I love Rome. When I was in college, I did the Europe Eurorail 'backpacking' thing. It was for 7 weeks and I spent over 3 weeks in Rome or nearby. For part of that trip I was with my Swedish friend doing her post-graduation continental trip and she wanted to avoid Italy because of the World Cup, otherwise I probably would have spent more time there.

Also, I wonder if people have extra PTO time that they didn't use when they were afraid to leave their house?

I'm with you in that I'm committed to the nonrefundable cruise. So, I'm closely reading the reviews hoping to spot something on each menu where people say, "Well, this item was pretty good." So far it seems the kitchen is still getting used to the new items, so I haven't started a list yet.

People that are mean to wait staff eat spit. Never done it myself, or seen it, but I've heard about from people that laughed about doing it.

I'd have a hard time even getting on the ship if it was in Rome. I'd be like some kid whining, "Do I have to go on this cruise?" Galveston on the hand ... I love Texas, but that is a whole different story.

I've wondered the same thing about Voyager. I went ahead and got the soda package which mentions freestyle, and we'll cancel if they don't really have it.

I also wonder if they are planning on adding it to those that don't? Seems like a no-brainer. No need to bother the bartender and happy customers because they can get, for example, orange diet coke.

I'm not him, but I've been watching the new menu reviews. "Inedible" is frequently used. Unless those 4 cruises were with the new menus, that data isn't useful.

Last fall I booked a cruise for Feb 2024. It wasn't as soon as the cruise was available, but they'd only had up to Mar 2024 loaded. Some friends recently decided to book the same cruise, same number of people and same cabin class (next to us) and they paid almost twice what we did.

So it is sitting in the cart getting cold? How is that better than putting it on the table? Anyone else having Pink Floyd running through their head? "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!"

I agree, it makes no sense. Supposedly the no substitutions/modification rule to to save on labor since they can have the food plated before you even walk in the dining room. But then making the waiter do extra trips is more labor.

There is no free lunch. Dinner was just pre-paid with the cruise fare. This would be particularly annoying because of the "No substitutions" rule. So, if you can't eat the side that comes with the main part of the entrée you'd like, you are forced to waste that side and also order something else.

We'll still go to tourist areas, but even then we won't stray from large groups. When DD was a baby, our Mexican friends told us to not take her to Mexico until she was much older. As a stunningly attractive child with pale skin, blonde hair and a red-headed mom, she would be a particular target for kidnapping. Not for the normal reasons, but to be presented as the child of whoever paid for her. She won't be 15, so almost but not quite of that danger, but the normal dangers are even scarier.

When you do, they bring the second one right out. Last time we ate out was away from our home base. I ordered the Monte Cristo, which some restaurants do really poorly. So, I talked DD out of getting one for herself. It ended up being the best I've ever had, and we ordered one for her. They brought it very quickly and if they'd said something like, "You can't have the sandwich until you finish the first thing you ordered" I'd have fallen out of the booth in shock.

Well fudge. What I'd planned on doing when I bought the premier pass was buy the Voom plus soda. I should have done that anyway. Now that is up $2 a day.

Weirdly I got the confirmation email on my gmail account, and the apology on my main email.

Now I'm glad I did two packages. With the $50 OBC I can get soda plus Voom for the price of the Premier. I too am content with the $50.

In the reviews, it sounds a bit like they are giving people the bum's rush since the new menu. We like to eat a normal pace. Normal by American standards, so fast by some.

If you don't want to be rushed and aren't sharing a table, can you order courses one at a time?

Universal Orlando has something similar. The facebook page is something like "UOR Rocks." People make little themed crafts, originally painted rocks, and hide them around. I was reading about it how the ducks started with one little girl not that long ago and took off. The cruising friends we are travelling with really enjoy it. The mom prepares the ducks and the teens hide them around.

As a goodwill gesture they could keep the things that cost them little. So, eliminate the champagne and internet. They obviously had a max number that could be sold, since some cruises sold out before they pulled the offer. So, the tour/officer's lunch wouldn't be overwhelmed. Many people were interested just for the internet, so they'd cancel. We've never done a tour, so would probably keep one package.