Essiesmom

My suggestion is to go to a place that sells binoculars, such as an army/navy store, or one that caters to hunters. Try them out. Find what is comfortable for you to hold, or too heavy. My first pair, purchased in Hong Kong in 1988 was Bausch & Lomb 7x35, for a bird watching trip. The second I purchased much more recently in the PX, Nikon Aculon 8x42.5. They. Both accomplished what I needed and are not too heavy. Try, and decide what will suffice, then look for it on Amazon for price. EM

Looking at cruisedeckplans, there are a lot of pictures of those cabins, none showing a rollaway, a number showing an upper bunk. My advice is to become a member of cruisedeckplans.com, a minor investment, and look at the pics of all the cabins with that symbol. Write down the ones that you can document have the upper bunk, and try to book one of those. EM

We are missing pics of the cats welcoming you home. EM

I have the second ones and they are fine for all tags. Use for MSC and Carnival, Celebrity are narrower but fit also. EM

When I am doing a test booking it often offers me the choice of booking type first, and when I add voyager number it goes down a tiny amount. Of course, when I then change from 2 guests to one guest, it says sold out. EM

No, only on the newest? On Seaside we ate in a section of one MDR. On Seashore they have their own MDR. EM

How old and fit is your friend? Could she do an upper bunk 1A cabin? Floor space in those cabins is amazing. If you could move the beds into an L shape, one across the back of the cabin and the other along one side, it would work. That works well on the Fantasy class, but I don’t know if anyone has ever tried on the newer ships. EM

I believe there are clear pages for filing business cards, and I have seen them used for cruise cards (Sea pass). Does sailing all of Royals ships include sailing on former ships now retired to other cruise lines? I believe there are several floating around in Europe…. EM

They didn’t say it was noisy. They were asking if the cabin across was noisy. EM

The Diamond does have the IC, just not gelato. EM

Welcome to Cruise Critic. I think you will find your best answers if you ask on the Alaska board under Ports of Call, further down on the main boards page. Lots of experts and locals there. EM

Post #15. Top of menu says Gala Dinner. EM

I don’t see any replies yet. Also, you embedded your question in an existing thread about a specific cruise, so many people won’t see it. If your query isnt pertinent to the topic of the thread, it’s best to start a new thread. EM

Ive only had invites to two webinars, December for 5 and March for 4. EM Just went back to my points page and found the survey point. Didn’t realize that was a point exercise.

I tried to sign in yesterday and couldn’t…today I followed advice and was able to change my password and get in. I see that my points arrived…4 of them. I was wondering why others were talking about 3…. EM

An ignored user generally does not know about the ignore. Their reply on a thread will be seen by everyone but the person ignoring them. EM

This morning it did accept my street name so was able to reset password in Safari on my iPad. Haven’t tried the app today, but I don’t have any cruises booked. EM

I couldn’t log in last evening, and in trying to reset password it wouldn’t accept my secure question answer (what was the first street you lived on). EM

Have you asked on the Ports of Call boards?

Chances are there won’t be an outlet for it in the bathroom, only at the vanity. But I’ve never been in a YC bathroom…. EM

Hairdryers are allowed anywhere on the ship. Has your wife ever brought this item on a ship? There have been reports on other lines that dryers with ceramic elements do not work on the ships, and Dyson may be one of them. EM

If you go over to the NCL board here, you will see continuing complaints of canceled ports, and continuing to sell cruises listing the cancelled ports. EM

If you forgot you already asked, or don’t know how to find your previous thread, just tap on your username or avatar and it will bring up your profile and the previous threads you started or replied to. If you start a thread and then don’t return to read replies for days or weeks, it may have moved back many pages, as these boards can move fast. EM

One option is a November cruise on QM2 from Southampton to NYC, then continuing on a two week cruise to the Caribbean, returning to NYC and then the return crossing to Soton. The whole things is sold as 27 days, but you can buy the crossings and the Caribbean portion of 14 days separately. In January P&O has one on Ventura that is 35 nights. What you are asking for can be quite long. P&O has one on Iona in Jan that also is 35 nights; another QM2 in Jan that goes straight to Caribbean, o NYC but atoll 35 nights. I am only looking at cruises from Soton in cruisedeckplans.com. Perhaps Fred Olsen or the other Zulu based lines would have cruises from another port in the UK. EM

The Gatun cam has been adjusted, or changed. It appears to be indoors which dims the colors. And a little different angle. Today, We’d. 4/17 we had Eurodam going westbound. This morning the had reversed the lane directions, although by afternoon they were back to ‘normal’. I wonder if someone with influence made a special request…