Lady Chew

What identifies a cruise virgin?

 

Walking up to the Captain, asking him who is driving the ship, and expecting him to laugh at a really stupid joke that he has heard more than 10,000 times.

 

Stumbling around when the ship is rolling and saying to everyone, "I haven't been drinking".

 

Demanding to speak to the Captain when your toilet paper is too rough, your bed is too hard/too soft, or you cannot get the dining table you want.

 

Using your cabin vacuum toilet as a waste disposal and then complaining when it gets stopped up.

 

Leaving your balcony door open and complaining that your cabin is too warm, and the cigarette smoke from your neighbor's cabin is being sucked into your cabin.

 

Complaining that the ship is moving or creaking when you are cruising in heavy seas.

 

Complaining that there is vibration in a cabin or dining room that is located directly above the engine room.

 

Complaining when your partially obstructed stateroom is partially obstructed.

 

Rushing to the dining room to stand in line for 20 minutes instead of having a drink first and waiting for the newbies to finish wasting their cruise standing in line.

 

Walking through the Casino and complaining about the smoke, instead of using the beautiful outside Promenade Deck with the wonderful fresh sea air.

 

Complaining that the ship is too big. It is the same size as when you booked the cruise.

 

Complaining that your cabin doesn't look as big as it did in the brochure picture.

 

Asking an officer to turn on the wave making machine in the swimming pool.

From what I've seen, there are a LOT of repeat cruisers who do most of those things!!

We pull out the sofa a little bit into the room and stand our big suitcases on end behind it. We can still drop things into the suitcases, and it gives us another "table" to use.

We had an oceanview balcony port side forward on 10. Very good views of the ports.

We always walked down the stairs, took the elevators back up if we were going more than 3 levels up.

Deck: 10

Cabin: 154

Ocean View Balcony

Towards front, port side

Bed: near balcony

NOT quiet: Our cabin was not connecting, but shared the doorway recess with another cabin. Anytime their door opened or closed, it sounded as though someone were coming in our cabin. If anyone knocked on their door, it sounded like they were knocking on ours. A keycard in their slot sounded like a keycard in ours. We could hear their voices, we could hear doors/drawers opening & closing. We could hear them very clearly on the balcony (even with our balcony closed). We could hear them in the bathroom. Speaking of bathrooms, we heard a constant whooshing sound (could be heard anywhere in our cabin) that we finally determined was caused by water in the pipes every time cabins around (above?) us flushed or showered.

Balcony view: no obstructions

Balcony size: normal

Was wind a problem: no

Any specific problems: noise as noted above. Could only get warm water in the shower, not hot. (sink water was fine) Door/lock had to be reprogrammed. General lack of storage. Safe extremely small. End tables useless for storage, just 3 small rounded shelves, no sides to keep things in place.

Other comments: great location, convenient to elevators/stairs. Shower size a little larger than other RCCL ships. Bed linens/pillows, towels very nice.

We went to the QUEST on our cruise last week ... I guess I should put in a disclaimer here - IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THE QUEST DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER!!

CD wanted to see a man & a woman from each team down on the main floor "exchanging an article of clothing" So the two captains on our team ran up and she gave him her sweater and he gave her his shirt. Okay, fine, most other teams did the same. But :eek: OH MY EYES :eek: ... one lady came running up and she removed her outer garment, which I'm guessing was a sundress, I didn't actually see her take it off, but I did see what she was left wearing when she did ... a thong. Period. We had the rear view (literally) on our side. :eek: OH MY EYES. :eek: People were just screaming!! And we're not talking Playboy bunny here, either, folks. NOT a pretty sight. The man tried to cover her up from the front while he removed his shirt and wrapped it around her.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to attend QUEST again ... Mr Chew can't wait!!

oh, there's a zoo on all the ships ... a human one!

You never see "door to door" sales people. With all those doors you would think it would be a natural.

This one go's with the door to door salesmen, Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons on a mission with a packpack and a mountian bike.

Actually, on our last cruise (Liberty, Feb/March 2009) there was a large group of Chocolate People on the ship. They were on as a reward for sales, and they were approaching passengers and crew members to sign them up for additional sales force. Kind of like Mary Kay (and probably many others) you sell your product, recruit someone else to sell, and you get a commission of their sales, and the sales of people they recruit!

Just got off Legend of the Seas ... there was a woman who was a dead ringer for Whoopi Goldberg. If we hadn't been positive she was in NYC kicking up a fuss on the View ... we'd have asked for her autograph!

Eyewitness Travel publishes Cruise Guide to Europe & The Mediterranean

Should be available in most book stores, and in the library

Been very helpful in planning for our cruise in September!!