Theora

Not sure if they're still doing this (and would LOVE confirmation if anyone knows), but I had heard that on embarkation day, if you hustle yourself up to the spa and offer yourself up to them for the spa tours, you could get yourself a free treatment! That is, if you don't mind all sorts of people milling past staring at you as you get your facial or ionithermie or whatever. I was thinking about doing this on Crown when we go in December. I don't want to look the fool by asking the spa staff if they don't do this anymore, but I am shameless enough in my love of spa that I'm willing to suffer a possible indignity if it means a free treatment.

(BTW, I believe that this goes for guys, too, as there's always somebody demonstrating the men's barber/shave services.)

So, there I am. It's, like, 3am. I have my breakfast door-hanger card in hand, and I'm in my pyjamas. I knew that I had seen some of the cards on other doors in my hallway, but I wasn't sure what time they all got picked up. I went to the door and peeked down the hallway, to see if I could glimpse any of the other doors. Just as I had decided to prop my door open so I could pad down the hall and check, here comes one of the CD staff (Melissa, from the UK), purse in hand, clearly DONE for the night. She says hello, I say hello, and then she says, "Are you okay?" I say, "Sure!" and explain why I'm in the hallway in my PJs. Despite the hour, despite the long days that these people work, she took my card from me and said, "Let me handle it." I kept trying to take it back from her and tell her that it really really wasn't necessary, that she should go put her feet up or something, but she insisted, seeing as I was in my PJs and all. "You just go to bed. I've got this all taken care of. Sweet dreams!" and off she went. Fast forward to a few days later, I see her outside the Princess Theater standing next to the iconic Bex. She catches me and says, "Hey! Did you ever get your breakfast? I brought it to Guest Services, but they told me it had to go to Room Service, so I brought it there and put it in their hands. I've been wondering ever since whether or not your breakfast arrived!"

The fact that she went to all that trouble when she was supposed to be off-duty for the night kinda broke my heart a little, but also just stunned me.

Then, of course, our fabulous Cabin Stewardess, whose name is Rosa. We wanted to stuff her in our pockets and take her home with us. SHE saved the day when I was getting ready to head out for Chef's Table and was perilously close to having a wardrobe malfunction. She pulled a safety pin out of her own uniform for me to use. It's just one of the many awesome things that she did during the course of our cruise.