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Can it hurt to try? AIUI, the need is to move the payment-in-error, not refund it.

::ponders:: Have you contacted O directly, or is this all what the TA said O said?

"It is the difference of opinion that makes horse-races" — Mark Twain

I've got an even easier solution: Place my hearing aids in the recharger. 😇 (DW envies me sometimes 😉)

I'd like to think they'll fix the issue, but since *all* the cruise lines insist on placing their prestige suites on the "corners" of the ship rather than low and mid-ships....

Datum: The most-subscribed cruise vlogger is aboard Vista now in a PH and from a podcast yesterday: "...the soundproofing is not fantastic."

Speaking of which, the "access controlled" foredeck on the Regatta isn't access controlled any more. (Others have told me the same for other 'R'-class ships, but I haven't sailed them.)

There are 3 modes of ship motion: • Rocking side-to-side. "Stabilizers" help. Low helps, forward/aft doesn't matter. • Pitching bow/stern up/down. "Stabilizers" don't help. Low doesn't matter. Midships helps*. • Judder as bow digs in, ship slows then resumes speed. Nothing helps. * Been right forward in 25' seas and swells. We went up/down 20-ish feet. Whee! 😉

"Embrace the power of 'and' " (do both 😉 )

When they show up in "Manage This Booking" → "Other Options" → "Culinary Classes"

Econ 101: With inelastic supply (takes years to build new ships), "Demand" up → "Prices" up and/or "Value" down. If you look at reported occupancy rates, demand is *way* up on all cruise lines, bringing them joy as they desperately capture cash to pay down COVID loans.

As @stephglobal pointed out, it wasn't "political". It was the mid 1950s and the plan was to provide evacuation routes ahead of nuclear bombers. "It seemed like a good idea at the time." — Every planner, ever, after being the very first to deal with a problem.

Sorry, not up to date on them. That good or that bad?

"From Snaefell Summit you can see 6 kingdoms: Mann, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, and Heaven." One more tidbit and I'll drop this off-topic. Once upon a time in Douglas there was the Inner Mann Restaurant. Bad pun, good fish. The menu was a display chest of that day's catch on ice.

Hmmm... Sounds interesting. @ORV, @EJL2023 Was that breakfast, lunch, pizza-time, ...?

Nope. It was in 1993 on Royal Majesty. Oceania has open dining, of course.

Lining up the tenders isn't that hard. The problem is that the ship and the tender bob up and down at different speeds so what starts as 6 inch step up can turn into a 3 foot step down. Pax (and even crew) fall and break bones or end up in the water between the tender and the ship's hull to get crushed.

Seas and swells won't hinder dropping anchor. *Currents* might make it tough to anchor in the right place, though. But, yeah, if it was nasty at anchoring-time, it might even have been a case of "nevermind the forecast, it might get nasty again anyway". BTW, the anchor isn't what holds the ship in place nowadays, it's the weight of the anchor chain lying on the bottom. The anchor is to help keep the chain untangled.

Grandparent. I spent 3 years on an RAF station, but never thought to ride Snaefell Mountain Railway to the summit. "Snow mountain" is also a nod to certain gray hairs. As for "honorary part"? Only to the high-tide mark -- smugglers all. That's what got the Duke of Atholl fired back when.

I invoke the "Law of Holes": When I find myself at the bottom of one, I should stop digging. But, but, but, gotta say... Thank you Mossley Town for your contribution.

Quite simple. The more extra specialty visits you've snagged, the less likely they will give you another. Plan ahead. BTW: We *have* gone hungry. It was our first voyage, we got 2nd seating, and didn't know there was a buffet serving prime rib all afternoon. D'oh! ::blush::

The problem often is that if the forecast says conditions might kick up before the last tender of the day is scheduled to run and can't, he doesn't want pax stranded ashore.

Is that a bug or a feature? ::runs and hides:: 😜

Several points, but the most important is that while O is (generally? invariably?) laid-back about boarding times, some *ports* are not -- and Miami is infamous: You could get onto the ship if you could only get into the terminal. • ICE takes longer with a ship when it arrives to the US on a repositioning. • Miami's Terminal 'J' apparently has a downstairs you can get into early. • O doesn't always get to use 'J', and Terminals 'A' – 'G' won't do that. • 'J' ships are sometimes rerouted even as late as when the pilot boards.

I always knew it was debarkation day because I'd gotten within (but no further than) 2 chapters from whodunit. 😉