momofmeg

11 days left serious packing time.

Do you have a tornado warning? we did here. I used not to take them seriosuly until the Kroger less than a mile from me got creamed.

I would be willing to pay an extra fee for permission to have a set/limited/pre-approved amount of alcohol in my cabin for my consumption there, even if I had to purchase the alcohol from RCCL...

NCL does offer a bar set up-it is like $60 and you need to order before the last week before your cruise. So as long as you order it 8 days before, you can do it.

We're from Dalton and love to cruise. The yard sale you're probably talking about is "The World's Longest Yard Sale". It runs along US 127 from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky around the first week in August.

Hello Mocs.

Anytimecrusier, the yardsale thingie sounds fun.

Okay everybody, off topic question. What is the name of the gigantic "yard sale" the goes through like 4 states including Georgia and it's held every August?

 

We're going this year and I can't wait! Shopping is always good:D

I don't know the name but I have seen clips about it on Home and Garden Television.

Hello everyone! I am from Douglas,GA that is about an hour from the FL line. We love to cruise and are planing a Disney cruise in May with a group of 14 from GA!

Okay and myself and another poster live in Douglasville, Ga close to Atlanta. I was on Disney in 2004. It is a nice line.

Usually the first formal night is the first sea day and the second formal night the last sea day-except when the sea day falls on the last night of the cruise.

However, formal night is NOT a big thing on NCL. They call it "Dress Up or Not Night," it is only requested tha tyou dress up in one of the main dinning rooms, the other main dinning room you can even wear jeans. All of the specialty restaurants you can wear resort casual to dinner any night-jeans, capris, only shorts are frowned upon.

We did particulate in the first formal night, although we ate at the French restaurant and could have dressed more casually. The second formal night we ate in the Mexican, and we did not participate, although my daughter and I both wore dress slacks and silk blouses. We felt that, even though we were not dressing formally, we still wanted to look a notch or so nicer, since others would be dressed up.

I'm one of those who mostly only notices this on cruises, since I'm not on elevators much - and we only take elevators down on cruises mostly to spare the knees. Take the stairs up to work off meals.

Going down is easy for me-going up is more trouble!

Not to mention a few lbs.:)

You know what I find funny? People who make a big deal about going to the gym to work out-but who always take the elevator even for one deck-LOL!

Hey guys. My name is Travis I am a college student living in Douglasville, GA. I have been on 2 cruises so far; Sovereign OTS 2007 and Navigator OTS in 2008. My friends and I go cruising every spring break. My next cruise is back on Navigator in about 28 days!

Hello Travis, do you live close to Arbor Place Mall? I do. I live in a subdivision near Kroger and the Fire station. I have a daughter that is 24. I am guessing she is a few years older than you since you are still in school.

After reading these posts, I am glad I take the stairs most of the time-I only take the elevator if it is more than 3 decks up. It seems I save myself a whole lot of grief!

Hi from Gloucester! We will be on the HAL Noordam in April, it will be a longer cruise....but would you be willing to report back and tell us what you saw on formal nights? I guess I had better start packing soon:) Thanks in advance. Liz

Liz, since you are on a longer cruise-I am sure you will see more of a "black tie" atmosphere.

Our cruise was 6 day last year-and although we saw some "black tie," we also saw cocktail dresses for women and suits for men for the most part. (after 5) However many were simply women is dress slacks with a dress blouse and men in dress shirts but no jacket.

The biggest thing that surprised me though was- how many dressed down AFTER dinner. People in cut offs and shorts-and not even nice shorts.

However, I do not believe you will see that on a longer cruise-so if you want to dress black tie, I am sure you will have plenty of company. I am sure also you will see a good many going more "after 5" with the cocktail dresses and suits. But, if I were you, I would dress either black tie or after 5, I would not go more informal than after 5.

We are planning next year to do a 10 day on HAL and that is how I plan to dress.

We will be on our first cruise soon and I just received my cruise packet. It states dark suits for men on formal nights. I just bought my DH a tan summer Perry Ellis 3 piece suit which he looks awesome in ;) Will this be alright for formal night?

I think so. Of course it depends on the length of the cruise- on a 7 day it seems people are more informal. Your hubby could wear a sportcoat and dress slacks and not look out of place on a 7 day.

The longer cruses tend to get an older crowd who are still sticklers for the older rules. Your hubby might would feel out of place then.

We future cruisers from Georgia. Over the last several years we have paid for several cruises for our college aged children, but this is the first one for us. We will be on the Ruby in March and are really excited.

I have been on Caribbean Princess, a sister ship. I expect you will have loads of fun.

Newnan Ga here next cruise in 3 weeks yahoo!!!!!

Okay you live about 30 miles from me. Have fun on your cruise!

I live in Douglasville near Atlanta.

My hubby did work fof Delta-until Delta sold him to IBM-LOL! same job-but now Delta is his "client".

Hopefully some others will join us.

I noticed these other state threads-so I thought I would try here. One was started in the floataway last year-but it soon died. I know you guys are out there. quite a few of you were with me on my last two cruises. Both cruises had more Georgia people at the CC meet and greet than any other state.

I saw many in elaborate nice evening gowns, I opted for the cocktail dress myself-but if if you choose to go black tie-you will have plenty of company.

Originally Posted by Tuna

...so I was walking down to the restaurant with my stuffed bird on the shoulder of my life jacket, trying to keep my Burger King crown on with one hand, when this wig comes at my face from nowhere....

 

This was posted in 2004 and is still gut wrenching funny!! I laughed out loud Tuna... keep it up.

sorry-but it is not funny to me-perhaps you left out a line????????

They did that while you were sharing a cabin...and on the very first afternoon? Not to mention that they're 22 and 19, I'm surprised you weren't upset. I'd be fuming amongst other emotions.

Or I would not share a cabin-LOL! The least they could have done is use that inside lock- when you use that-the card will not unlock the door. Now my daughter has caught hubby and I a couple of times-but she could not get in-as we had that lock on-LOL! and she never said a word either-as she knew what was going on.

It's a good thing I sent mine in for renewal. It expires February 1st. It cost me $75 for the renewal fee and $8 for the picture at Walgreens. I think I paid $90 for it 10 years ago and $10 for the picture then.

Good news! I mailed off my passport renewal on January 8th and received it back on Saturday January 17th. today, I received back my old passport,

Tazmanaf, loved your idea about these for the steward and wait staff.

 

We checked them out at WalMart this afternoon, and they all say "For calls originating from the U.S.," dial this 800#. Even the AT&T Worldwide card doesn't give any directions or # to call if you're initiating the call from outside the U.S. (which the ship's staff would be). Also, nowhere does it say how many minutes you get for your $10 or $25 card. And of course nobody in the store knows a thing. So we went to the AT&T store - same thing. They said to go online, but all I could find was about gophones and stuff.

 

Can anyone provide information on what kind you buy, where you get them, and respond to my wonderings about what if the call is being initiated from outside the U.S.

 

Thanks in advance.

The crew know the best deals for phone cards-it is much preferable that you tip them extra instead of giving them a card as extra, they come out ahead that way. If you want to do something more personable, buy thank you cards and write them a nice note and put your cash in that instead of the white business envelopes the ship provides.

I have heard on these boards as well as an article in our local paper that the cost for a passport is going to go up "significantly" this March. So you might want to get one sooner rather than later.

It's a good thing I sent mine in for renewal. It expires February 1st. It cost me $75 for the renewal fee and $8 for the picture at Walgreens. I think I paid $90 for it 10 years ago and $10 for the picture then.

I enjoyed the therapy pool when it was free, but I think $25 per day or $150 for a week is too much. If it was free, I would go perhaps 3 times in 7 days, and each time I would get in for 30 minutes-that is just not worth what the lines charge. I see no need to get a week's pass since I won't go every day-and $20-25 for me to spend 30 minutes there is just not worth it.

As far as the specialty dinning, that charge does not bothe rme. We used to pay $800 a person for an inside cabin-now for that price, we have a balcony cabin. I prefer having that to the better food. I can always go to the specialty for one or two nights. I do not have to have top notch 4 star food every night. Sometimes I am happy just to have a simple salad.

It's true that some do seem to be "bragging," but you know, most of us are just answering a specific question asked. We base our answers on personal experience, cleanliness practices, and opinions. If you don't want to read things like this, then skip the darn thread.

 

 

 

:confused: Do you mean you'll be scanning the public areas of the ship for couples indulging where, IMO, they shouldn't (e.g., public hottubs/pools, the helicopter deck, etc.)? Or do you mean that you'll be peering around your balcony divider in hopes of "catching" your neighbors being intimate?

 

If the former, that's up to you. We have better things to do with our time around the ship than to spend any doing that. If the latter, well, just don't. It's rude beyond belief, IMO, for anyone to peer around what is obviously a privacy divider to look into someone else's balcony (and cabin, if the drapes are open). It's none of your (or my or anyone else's) business what people do on their own balconies unless it interferes with your own cruise experience.

 

 

 

As I wrote above, don't read the threads if you find them a turn off or offensive. Did you really not consider that pax might use their private balconies for private activities when the ship is at sea? Did you figure that if you didn't know about it, then it couldn't possibly have happened?

 

No one is giving graphic details. No one is posting pix (thank goodness). When we book a cabin with a private balcony, that's what we expect. That cabin and balcony do "belong" to us to use as we see fit (as long as it's legal activity and does not directly negatively affect others) regardless of how offensive the very idea seems to be to you. IMO, you being offended by these posts and by the idea of intimacy on the balcony is your problem. No one is asking to have sex in front of you, for crying out loud! I don't discuss the details of my private life with anyone except my husband and my doctor. Regardless of how some TV shows depict women discussing every encounter and every relationship in graphic detail, it is not the reality for anyone I know. We don't find it appropriate to go into specifics when we talk about our marriages. (Which doesn't mean one of us might not be particularly happy one day and mention that her husband has been "particularly attentive lately." We all get the idea with no more information needed.)

 

Anyway, the bottom line (again, no pun) is that if you are turned off or offended by threads about balcony activities, then skip the threads. No one is forcing you to read the posts--You choose to do that on your own.

 

beachchick

Actually, I beleive you know which posts I meant-that come off sounding like adolescent braggarts, I never meant all did.

Well, back to the point, I do not really care, as I said, what others do. I have never seen anyone having sex on ship-and if I did-I would turn away-I certainly would not watch a private moment between two people.