Sigyn

Exactly! It's worth a stop in just to see the infamous burger. Edited - won't Luminae bring me MDR meals if requested? I could ask...but would it be the same?

Apparently we need a picture of the cheezburger!

so you're saying I'm going to die on my cruise?

I'm fine with the new suite deposit policy. It just gets a little more paid off upfront and the change fee is still reasonable. If you're booking a suite, paying a deposit of $1,000, $1,500, $2,000, etc., shouldn't matter in the realm of things. And if it does, maybe you should be looking at less expensive cabins?

I'll be on the Millennium in 14 days. I don't know if I'll eat in the MDR, tho. If I do, I'll order the darned burger and take a picture!

Is the Luminae burger good?

I prefer a Royale with cheese.

I leave in a week for the first leg of my vacation to Alaska - a week in California beforehand - and then in two weeks I head to Vancouver before my July 7 cruise to Alaska. I've just decided to splurge on a new digital camera for the trip. I need to start researching, quickly, which one to buy. My husband has a 20-year-old digital Sony camera, but obviously we want newer technology than that. Would love to get recommendations on where to start my research and which cameras under $1,500 or so that are favorites among this group. I am not a photographer. I took one photography class in college and remember nothing, so I don't know how to adjust settings and f-stops and such, so it needs to be very user friendly. Thanks!

no, it was just a guarantee sky suite on the Millennium. No specific type of sky suite. They ended up giving me an accessible sky suite. I actually knew that was very likely going to be my cabin when I booked because that was all that was left, other than aqua sky suites, when I changed my cabin from a family SV (that big one on the corner with the giant deck) to a guarantee sky suite. I know there's an issue with the water coming out of the shower stall, but I was okay with that since it put me into the Retreat for what I considered a really good price - it was around $2K more to go into the guarantee suite over what I was paying for the SV and for that $2K I also received the premium drink package, premium Wi-Fi, hundreds more in OBC (was it $900? I forget now the exact amount. I already had some OBC. I might have more than that in OBC total.) and the other suite benefits.

I should have added that I opted for a guarantee sky suite, not one where I picked the room. That saved us a total of $71 pp per day.

My husband is a project manager. I get it. We're paying $507 pp/pd for our 7-day Alaskan cruise on the Millennium for a Sky Suite, not counting the $900 in OBC we received. That brings it down to $442 pp/pd.

Thanks! I was curious! I see the cheapest starts at $14K pp and sounds pretty similar to what CC offers. At least they're including four nights of a hotel room included with Wynn. I presume the "access" to the hotel suite that the Bellagio offers once you pay for it yourself will cost a pretty penny. Regardless, ouch. $28K for four nights to see the race. You definitely have to be a big fan. My husband is a golfer, not a race fan. He said he could see paying $11K for 1:1 with Tiger Woods for an hour on the golf course and lunch, but not to just watch a PGA tournament with VIP access.

The Wynn is for two people - The CC is one person. What's the price on the Wynn? I attended the Grand Prix when it was in Phoenix many years ago. I had a press pass because I was an intern and the editor of the newspaper wanted me to go get "color" for the story the real reporter was writing. I just remember it being very, very loud. The press pass gave me access everywhere. It wasn't that big of a deal to me, a non-fan.

I appreciate the input. I like how Medina does the donation to a charity option for reservations. That's pretty interesting.

We were on the Prima for a Caribbean cruise over the Christmas holiday and enjoyed it, but all of our tender ports were cancelled, so I find that super interesting about your experience. What is up with the tender situation on the Prima?

cruisedeckplans has a lot of videos on various ships and the cabins.

A woman after my own heart. That would be a dream come true - unlimited shopping in Rome

I know! I'm in #8127 on the Millennium in three weeks from today. I can't wait! I booked a guarantee suite and they gave me an accessible sky suite. Other than the towel barrier I'll have to do for the shower to avoid water running around the bathroom floor it will be marvelous! And I'll take the towel barrier for the $1,000 I saved over picking my own sky suite.

I would highly advise it, simply based on the aggravation I had with our son when he was 21 months old on a cruise we took in 2009. It's a lot of extra work to travel with a baby or toddler, even, in our case, with friends we had traveling with us for extra adult hands. So having a butler and extra services available will be very helpful to you. Personally, I never cruised again with our son until he was 15 years old, but that was just me. He cried at every dinner because he was so exhausted by the end of the day and so we couldn't have a single meal together in the MDR. I felt like crying, too!

We, too, put Air Tags in our bags so we can track them when they're away from us and that's been super helpful. And we divide clothes among both bags so we have something even if one disappears. If we lost one, we would go to the store to buy what we're missing to fill in the gaps. Not an ideal situation, but we'd make it work. I do love to shop, so I'd actually see that as a bit of an adventure, buying new things in another country or city where they offer things I can't get at home. We are flying to Vancouver two days before our cruise in three weeks, so we'd have to spend the day we were going to sightsee shopping instead, but if that's the worst thing that happens, we could deal. I always try to put it in that perspective - if this is the worst thing that happens, we spend XYZ amount on clothes (we have travel insurance so that offsets it), and we have to "waste" a day shopping, then so be it. That's not so bad.

There are four sky suites on deck 8 on the Millennium and one, #8117, is not accessible. The other three are. Deck 9 has this same layout. #9111 is not accessible and is a sky suite.

We're staying at the Auberge in Vancouver for two nights pre-cruise. What are some good breakfast spots around the area?

is there any other kind of political humor? 😂

we used a mask, snorkel and fins for the 300m, so it wasn't horrible, but it took a long time. the instructor had us tell stories during the 10 minutes treading water so that we would't focus on the time. we also had to swim underwater for 50 feet. It's a NAUI certification. My son did his with SSI last fall and he didn't have to do the underwater portion, and his swim was 200m but without fins or a mask or snorkel. he did the treading water portion tho.

I've interviewed everyone from a ship's officer and a cruise line CEO to a US First Lady, John F. Kennedy Jr., John Travolta and Margaret Thatcher. Many people say a few extra things without realizing it. Margaret Thatcher didn't, of course. But then Scotland Yard was standing next to us.