NutsAboutGolf

It depends specifically what you want to do; for many renting a car is a great option

If visiting by land, you can book an Oahu hotel for your entire stay. On a weekday, take the earliest flight from Oahu to Maui, rent a car, explore Maui and take the latest return flight that evening. Can keep your luggage i your Oahu hotel and inter-island Airfare can be had under under $100 round trip…Do the same for Kauai and the big island

On the Solstice at least, in the MDR for 2023, no more, Beef Wellington, Prime Rib and Ribeye. Has anyone on any ship seen these on the menu for sailings that departed in 2023? (NYE sailings were under 2022 rules)

With your time, just pointing out that there are shortcuts like supermarket delivery and sous vide. We often make a sous vide steak and with pan sauteed veggies for dinner. I can do the prep, cook and cleanup in under 10mins with 2/3rds of that time is spend tending to the veggies.

On the Solstice it was roughly every other night. There also wasn't any more Wellington, Prime rib or ribeye like there used to be in the past. May vary by ship

Not sure if you even meant to quote me as I 100% agree with this. There’s only so much Gordon Ramsey can do with a can of spam and a buck for additional ingredients

She’s part of the top, she isn’t a dictator, there’s the X board she answers to and the X board answers to the parent company of RCG. Anyways, on YouTube check out guga foods, he has a second channel of sous vide everything; he mostly does recipe/cooking experiments on steaks and has done many on the buck steak, Kobe and everything in between

Coincidentally, us too! However, was a much longer than expected process (39mins total, 10mins initially waiting for a rep) as was repeatedly put on hold; we’re also BCC so perhaps they need supervisor approval or something. Wasn’t the easy as 1-2-3 “here’s my booking number, I’d like this Wi-Fi package and here’s my credit card” as I envisioned but totally worth the wait

The buck does NOT stop there. You can buy a steak for a buck (terrible pun) at the dollar tree, if there’s a way to make it amazing, why spend $100+ at a steakhouse? Totally agree there are ways to make things better and I started a thread years ago championing ships using sous vide. Yet the chefs who are actually cooking your food have to follow a strict recipe. Therefore the buck never stops until it reaches the very top

Fair enough; we only go 9am or later (they close at 10am) so chat with others that do the same

Totally agree and the premise a waiter gets dinged on food quality makes zero sense. Would a chef get in a trouble if one marked the service as bad (rhetorical)? Bad food quality really isn’t the chefs fault either

Part of their culture...Cheap meat with a long shelf life was important for an isolation chain of islands in the 40s

To be clear, it isn't a full hot breakfast; most eat breakfast then head down there to have some drinks and/or more coffee

There two core issues with these types of articles... 1) This article has been "recycled" for years; he'll make one update to say Carnival and that updates the publish date to current 2) The contributor is known in interviews for asking very softball with their questioning and not asking for followups

Been on X 99 nights since the restart; there's never that many kids. With that being said, temper your expectation for non-suite complimentary food quality, food selection and the availability of food. X and VV are polar opposites when it comes to all things complimentary food

Sorry to hear that, if there's any update let us know. The BCC call center is open weekends, surprisingly late

Everyone receives drinks within the Classic drink package (up to $15 I think) while playing even if you don't have the package. If you don't have any drink package and order a $15+ drink from the Premium package they charge you the full amount, they do not deduct the $15 like most bars do

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. The brownies almost looks like fudge, I had them but they seemed to be way different and closer to traditional brownies. Totally understand not everyone is nuts about nuts...lol

The harder cookies were the ones they always had and I was rank below average, the softer ones were much better but not as good as Eden Cafe's cookies which was excellent

The somewhat good news is it broken down per night and prorated, if you can wait a couple of nights, on a 7 night sailing you’ll save 2/7ths. Note, once you starts you can’t stop it. 24 hour pass is expensive

Marketing has this covered, it's not luxury, X's slogan/motto is "RELAXED Luxury"; sounds like this also applies to the crew LLP also referred to X as the "Culinary Brand"; luckily, she never claimed it was the "good tasting" culinary brand

Recently was on the Solstice which went to Cabo and if they asked for tipping or had a tip jar at all I didn't notice In Belize, I've been twice in the past year, they said nearly the same thing both times, something like "everyone, if I could have your attention please...If you had a good time say YEAAAAHHH!!! (oddly I'd guess 10 out of 200 said it back as this was so unexpected and random) The crew including myself work hard to take care of you, please return the favor as we will be accepting gratuities." They didn't even have a tip jar, guy would take the cash and put it into his pocket

Like all cruise lines, X participates in last minute "fire sales" if the ship is fairly empty. Keep my eye out for those

Add me to the air tag list; pulled back the luggage liner, taped on a tag and put back the liner

Yup...RCI has the exact same additional tail charge but swapped it from a smaller Spiny to a larger Maine tail...And X calls itself the culinary brand 🤔