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  1. On shore restaurant buffets "require" you to get a fresh plate when returning. This isn't a restaurant policy but a health department rule.
  2. We have never had problems getting a pair of free chairs with free umbrella on the beach. One hint is to pass by the first beach and walk a bit further for less crowded optons. Ahh seagulls or as I call them rsts with wings. Living fairly close to the beach here in Florida I can tell the mon locals as they are feeding the rats err seagulls. There have had to ask people to stop feeding them when the people are upwind of us.
  3. Ialso think they were at Universal. At a theatre where the Hard Rock is at now at City Walk.
  4. Cruise lines and their stockholders beg to differ with you. Charge what the market will bare. Over the years I adjust my spending. For example I had been a Disney annual passholder. I did Universal for the first time in years. I throughly enjoyed it. I felt that price/value for Universal was better over Disney for me. So I switch to Universal annual passes. I don't begrudge Disney charging what they do. Obviously other people don't feel my sentiments. So they continue to go to Disney. Neither of us are right or wrong.
  5. If people are willing to pay the current fares then RCCL doesn't think they are way overpriced. It is how the free market works. Basic economics.
  6. Simple: They think people will still buy it at the new higher price no matter what Carnival is psying for it.
  7. I have cameras that use rechargeable batteries. I simply buy a spare battery. Have both of them fully charged before leaving the ship. I have very rarely needed the backup battery and I take a lot of photographs.
  8. Any reason why you couldn't "unstick them". If asked you can say you were just trying to be helpful.
  9. I imagine ships operate like on shore resorts. They have a central stores which supplies the various venues. Someone goes to the central store and signs out what they need/taking. For example part of my job was to figure how much oj we would need until the next day or to get through the weekend. I would then get the items. In between if we ran out tough luck we were out until the next day.
  10. Dream is my favorite show of any cruise I have ever been on. I tell people if you don't do anything else, see that show.
  11. There are several reasons as mentioned above. Size of ship Nassau is an example of this. The larger ships have to dock at the outer berths. And I think St Thomas has this limitation Historically, some cruise lines have preference. Cozumel is an example of this. Carnival "controlled" on set of piers so other cruise lines have to use the set of piers further out. Then there is local decisions about when/where ships can dock
  12. About the refinery. Back in the day when it was still operating periodically Carnival ships would have a port of call stop for St Croix listed in the on board "patter" for between midnight an 2am or there abouts. Obviously it wasn't for passegers but for the ship to take on fuel due to lower costs.
  13. I simply say no, I am not interested. On all of the cruises I have been where I had a massage this has worked.
  14. People keep on mentioning "treading" water. When I took swimming lesson when I was a youngster, they tought us how to tread water by moving arms and/or hands. They also taught us that you do not have to tread water. You can lay on your back or front and float. If you this you are burning a lot less energy than treading water. Also the more saline the water is the easier it is to float.Look up tours that go to the Dead Sea. One of the selling points is the ability to float because of the extremely high salinity of the water.
  15. Was this policy before covid or post covid. On RCCL precovid sometime during the cruise the captain would announce that that they were sail some percentage of capacity, usually 105 percent but sometimes as 110 percent. Haven't sail on RCCL post covid so don't kow if they are announcing are not.
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