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It appears that O plans to sell the 'R'-class ships as too old before the drydocks after these and has decided "refurbish, but no structural changes".

To refresh your memory, when there's a lot of pax vs specialty slots (e.g. 7-day voyages) O will start serving in the specialties at 6pm. Otherwise, it's 6:30pm.

Good point, but Mumblings *is* where the person who just brought up the issue is going to look, and the other person may or may not exist. (I'm reluctant to answer in Mumblings *and* start a new thread).

Two comments: • The Juneau city government has decided they've got too many cruise ships coming, and are limiting berthing support. Monterey did the same in '23. • O has a history of not checking that a berth they plan to use isn't already booked by some other cruise line.

Nope. But look up "King Canute and the tide". 🤷‍♂️

Been on CC long? 😜 😉

Hypothesis: Not all flights from the airport are headed for places with that TSA liquids limit? There is no way they could claim they could prevent a BadGuy2 (who can bring liquids into the secure zone) from handing the liquids off to a BadGuy1 (who is headed for TSA-land).

Yep. And some precautions will not be in response to any specific threat, but rather will be invoked on a random basis simply to keep any bad guys guessing about whether such would be in place on their target date.

Powering down has nothing to do with your aircraft except that at 35,000' a cellphone radio (be it in a computer or an actual cellphone) will tie up a channel on every cellphone tower within 200+ miles of the aircraft. The more sparse towers are out in the local boonies, the stricter the locals will be on pax' electronics.

Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence" Submitted for perspective: Vista was supposed to overnight in Norfolk on her March 16th voyage, but that was cancelled because of a "berthing conflict". Seems they planned to use a berth which Carnival Sunshine has using for years on a day she had booked years ago.

> Bathtubs are R ships? No. The 'R'-class ships are slightly larger. ::runs and hides::

From https://www.oceaniacruises.com/shore-excursions • Prince of Wales Whale & Marine Mammal Quest (KLK-001) • Taste of Klawock and Totem Park (KLK-002) • River Hatchery and Lake Kayaking (KLK-003) • Klawock Highlights Tour (KLK-004)

Please have some mercy for folks who do fact-check and miss what's in front of their eyes. ::raises hand::

On Regatta last March, the Jacques' offerings were the same three entrées each night: salmon supreme, sirloin steak, and herb-crusted rotisserie chicken.

Understood. I'll get back to ya in 29 days 😉

My bad. False info. Disregard.

Thank you for the clarification. Sorry for the Chicken Little moment, folks. Lobster *is* still there 😄 , I just couldn't find it because it moved over to the "Burgers" column rather than where I was used to finding it 🤦‍♂️ . @edgee? Thanks again. I board Vista in 29 days, and have been carefully --uhh-- managing my expectations. 😉

Alas.

Yep. Granted, it's Florida lobster, not Maine lobster. Phasing out (but only gone on Vista so far) Waves, the pool grill, serves a surf and turf sandwich with lobster and fillet mignon. It's being replaced by a waygu burger.

Ah! Gotcha. Accusing a line of screwing up is defending them. Well... Good point. "Screw-ups" is not as bad as "evil money-grubbers".

On the surface, yes. But it's really about "how cruise lines come to make pax irate at them", and O has a talent for that, no? Or --just maybe-- O just attracts irate-prone pax? 😉

"Apologist"? "I don't think that word means what you think it means" — Inigo Montoya, Princess Bride

Yep. The crap-shoot is "which?" 😉

Remind us, please, where Marina is headed? (I just looked on O's website and they've already blanked it out)

Uhh... No. Both Paradise Bay and Admiralty Bay are south of 60ºS, and subject to the same certification requirements. Star headed for Admiralty Bay, so it wasn't that that kept her from Paradise Bay. NCL has stated that Star had to go slower than was planned and so simply couldn't get to Paradise Bay and back before the next cruise. I've speculated upthread that they discovered a screw-up at the last minute: no one had loaded the new 2023-24 IAATO marine mammal speed restrictions into the voyage management plan.