librarylady19

Great pics. Such a beautiful city. We took the HOHO bus when there as it is definitely too big of a city to see completely in a day! 

9 hours ago, little britain said:

X have just announced that Apex will be in Southampton in 2024 for the May to November season.   
If X can give us a new ship why can’t RCI?! 

Lucky you!!

1 hour ago, bandp407 said:

Hi librarylady19- so funny seeing you on this thread for the Reflection. It was your posts that I read back in 2012 before booking our 1st Celebrity Cruises & on the Reflection! I took your suggestion about the boxes to bring for over the bed. We love them & have been using them ever since !!! 

That’s cool! I’ll have to remember to bring some myself! Reflection was our last cruise pre-Covid & has always been our favorite S class ship. Nice that she’s had a “facelift”!

Following! Got our 3rd Reflection cruise coming up in Feb. so will be interested to hear how the ship looks so hope you have time (and bandwidth) to post photos. 

Hope they release Europe ‘24 soon…I’d like to use the Amex Plat offer which expires end of year. (25K points when spending $1000). 

Well there are lots of other beers in the Netherlands, and of course many from neighboring Belgium &  Germany. If a smaller line like Viking can offer decent beers (& wine) no reason larger lines can’t also. 
‘The beer selection (or lack thereof) is my husbands pet peeve. Worste case was “craft” social bar on Apex which was anything but craft beers. 

On 8/2/2022 at 4:27 PM, Chiliburn said:

Vision of the seas has a couple of bookings in Australia in early 2025.

Darwin and Perth,I would say it’s the circular Australia cruise.

 

https://www3.fremantleports.com.au/VTMIS/dashb.ashx?db=fmp.public&btn=CruiseShips

 

Lets Hope captain Hindrick Loy brings his ship down under.

Let’s hope to gets a refurb before that. In sad shape ….

Here’s the link to the bar menus.   Now, on other cruiselimes I’ve found that (even pre Covid ) they often didn’t stock what was on the menu. 
https://rogerjett-photography.com/specialty-2/hal-regular-and-specialty-restaurants/hal-beverage-menus/

12 minutes ago, FlaMariner said:

 

Welcome to Holland America Line!

 

If you own 100 shares of Carnival Corp stock you can get $$$OBC for your Holland America Line sailing.....Here is the info:

 

https://www.carnivalcorp.com/static-files/50351a91-4dc0-4f6b-bfec-684647e6129f

 

 

Good to know - esp. since their stock is rather low!

Just now, CruiserBruce said:

For your dates...any time now.

Thanks Bruce; will check regularly then (not like I haven't 😀)

No option yet on our 4/29/23 cruise. When do those become available generally?

Good to know! Celebrity is our favorite line and we have our first HAL cruise booked for April '23 on the Rotterdam (Fjords). What is the stockholder benefit w/ HAL?

12 minutes ago, MikeyB said:

This just in....we have another promotion for UWDawg to translate.

It's for cruises identified as "closer to home".  Question- Do we all live in the same place?

Lots of free air and some cabin savings.

FDA23

Oceans - Rivers - Expedition??

1 hour ago, Selion said:

Off topic, but...  Free air is worth it if you're willing to slum it while getting to the ship.   LOL!  🤣

Nice if you can afford business class, but some of us have to fly economy - more $ for other trips that way. 

46 minutes ago, FLORIDA FLOUNDER said:

Ridiculous!!! $150 for VA+??😮

Indeed. Only worth taking Viking air if it’s free as there are lots of cheap airfares out there !

Glad to see 2024 river sailings now on website. Hoping for some good deals to use a voucher !

European River cruise offer - in email today:

Reduced Fares plus up to FREE International Airfare

Offer code "RCR" 

Expires Sept. 30th

Wish they'd post 2024 river cruise schedule!!!

Thanks for your 2 week live review! We were on last week in a balcony cabin - and concur that it was a marvelous ship and crew! After a very disappointing Med cruise on Vision in June, I was very happy to enjoy the wonderful entertainment and amenities on Quantum. Our cabin - midship deck 8 - was fantastic with more storage than we’ve had on Royal, Viking or Celebrity. We saw whales from our balcony on 3 different days!!!

As for the customs lines, we saw a woman cut in the line about ten people ahead of us and when she was challenged, she pulled out pepper spray. Other cruisers called for security and when she denied her actions, she was loudly denounced. She was pulled out of line for about 20 minutes but was not arrested and smugly sailed through the line ☹️Pretty nervy to say the least. 

Thanks for taking the time to update us. Can’t wait to be on board soon!

3 hours ago, gloriason said:

LibraryLady19, I don't know about you but I'm seriously concerned about our upcoming cruise on this ship.  We are to leave tomorrow for Seattle but I have such a bad feeling about the Quantum.  Have you given any thought to cancelling?  Would Royal Caribbean allow us to move our cruise to another time?  I would love to know if everything is truly under control on board, that would make me feel more confident about continuing on with this September 5th cruise.

Yes, I am concerned also. We are leaving tomorrow too so will go to Seattle regardless. Don't think Royal is going to be too forthcoming to any passengers about ship issues however, not wanting to deal with mass cancellations/refunds if it can be avoided. I think they would have no problem missing more ports and giving us a token OBC, as was already done pre-cruise, however. A known  issue has now been compounded by an unanticipated emergency.  I could have cancelled then (and probably even now) but other options for Alaska in 2022 are severely limited at this point, so we decided to go ahead with the reduced itinerary. This certainly adds an additional level of concern.

Sure hope no crew members were injured. 

On 8/31/2022 at 8:07 AM, Tulsacoker said:

nice we pre ordered the same Evian water.... 

heads up for those on 9/5 sailing - price of “Evian” package dropped to $26 - so I cancelled and rebooked. That’s enough savings for an alcoholic beverage 😀

Solarium is back in the app for the 9/5 sailing !

27 minutes ago, DaKahuna said:

@late2cruisin  The Solarium Bistro will be open next sailing.  No idea why it is not showing on the app or why the menu is not showing but Romana, the Suite Concierge, verified with the Solarium Manager they will be open.  Reservations are required so if the App does not get fixed, you may want to make your reservation once onboard. 
 

Thanks for checking! We are looking forward to trying it. Mixing it up with specialties and dining off ship as we aren’t big fans of MDR food after our last experience on Vision. 

I made a reservation for Solarium bistro - before it disappeared from the app - and it’s showing on my calendar. We’ll see…..