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tells me page isn't available when I click on link

Not that I ever thought the ships looked old inside based on these pictures and descriptions the ships will look new and great. Nice to see beginning of the refit style

As long back as I remember they were always queens or 2 twins - wish they had been king size but they weren't

I found even with open dining after the first couple of dinners they knew where we wanted to sit ans as we approached they told the waiter to take is to table xx. Worked out great - we generally don't eat with others on cruises.

And when will NC become just Crystal here

I will hold it against you

Been on several cruises on Crystal where there were kids but you really wouldn't have know it - they tended to stay in the special kids play area and when they were in public they were well behaved. Probably make more difference in the parents and how they keep their kids in line than whether there were kids there. Of course there were never a lot of kids

Most Crystal cruise I can remember someone walked into the dining room on formal nights in jeans - I never saw anyone from Crystal go up to that person and not allow into dining room. Why would someone "violate" dress code like that?

Wonder if unlike OC they will enforce these rules

I also met and talked with Bruce McGill on the 2019 Tokyo to SF cruise - he was great to talk to and not at all like the character he played in Animal House A role i think he'd like to forget

It is encouraging, to me, to see this - shows a lot of the great things on the old Crystal will be on the New Crystal..

There are also times when several ships are in port and all the docks maybe taken so tenders may be required.

Reducing worked on Firefox on a Mac also - but what % of people would even think of doing this. Crystal needs to fix - so far the NC isn't better at web site than the OC was.

I certainly remember cruising on Harmony - then when I first did Symphony it was such an upgrade from Harmony. Wonder what it will look like after this refit.

May 27, 2019 Tour from Tokyo on first day of cruise

OK didn't read the full Explorer threads but it said cancelled - guess they just changed itineraries

Obviously not totally related but the new Explora Journey has cancelled a bunch of cruises this summer - sounds as if are having issues getting going.,

Just meant in Triest - again Symphony was switched to bow in a couple of months ago while Serenity was bow out - now a long with the announcement that Serenity is in dry dock they get their directions switched again. Maybe how those docks are set up

Saw that - interesting that it is in the same location/dock as before but now facing the opposite direction. At the same time - Symphony out of dock was switching facing direction. Symphony had this direction switch also a few months ago. So they dry dock when bow pointed in and aren't when bow facing sea.

Yup back docked but turned around.

As of right now Symphony is under power heading away from Triest dock. Not far so maybe just heading out to turn around but it is away from dock under power

The first regular size cruise ship is here in Portland, ME - we've had a couple of the very small ones in the last couple of weeks but nice to see the real season starting

One of the things we all need to remember is that one cruise on a line may not tell the whole story. I was on a Crystal cruise back in 2012 (along with several others on this board) and if it was my first Crystal cruise it would have been on my only one. One of my worst cruises was on Regent but obviously from other comments and reviews it is a luxury line. The only thing we should all agree with is that there is nothing close to as good as NY pizza 🫠

To me, a lot of does NC measure up to OC is up to us also. Yes, the crew treated up superbly but we also treated them that way which is one reason they were great to us. I didn't hear people say "hey -get me XX" we talked to them by name and were exceptionally nice to them. That made them want to treat us very well. So as things go forward if we treat them as we used to I suspect they will treat us as they used to.