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WE first met Ricardo when we were invited to the Naming ceremony on the Independence in Southampton. Have seen him several times since. Have also met Raj. They were both very good concierge.

Saw Jaquie Yabut last year on the Independence. Hope to see her again as we are on the Independence in May and June 2017 sailing from Southampton

We are British and like dressing up. I will have my tux and my wife will have a good dress. I have a white dinner jacket as well as a black one and will wear a different one if there are two formal nights on a cruise.

On our last cruise on the Independence in November, my wife was complemented by different passengers on her dress on different nights.

She takes a different outfit for each night.

Two years ago we got a phone call from RCCL saying we had won a cruise. My OH wouldn't believe it, even thpugh we had been sent an email to confirm it. Rang RCL and asked to speak to the person who had phoned us. This confirmed it was not a scam. So we had a free 11 day cruise from Southampton to the Canaries on the Independence. This included gratuties and free parking.

We live in England and enter for the competions provided by RCCL on their website.

I have never seen Chocolate Covered Strawberries for free on a RCL ship, I must not be in the right places at the right times. :(

We get them delivered to our cabin. We also get chocolate biscuits. These are free. This is because we are D+

You don't get it back, you get a credit toward a future cruise, which you have to take within a year. Of course, if you cancel before final, you get 100% back. I assume that those in the U.K. and others who have non-refundable deposits also have other insurance rules.

 

 

 

Yeah, that's a tough one. We usually figure we'll fall back on the 75% credit if something happens to a family member within final payment. If something happens before, we'll ok with the cruise and will have to eat the cost of rescheduling airlines (would have to do that in either case).

 

Hope your dad is hanging in there.

We are from the UK. We have an annual policy which covers us for travel world wide. We have to declare any pre- existing medical conditions before the policy is issued. Had to use it once when my OH sprained her ankle in Greece. Medical expenses are up to ten million pounds.

THe USA insurance seems much different to ours.

Won a cruise on the Independence sailing from Southampton to the Canaries in November 2009. This was in a competion organised by RCCL.

Everthing was free including the gratuities and the car parking.

Only had to pay for the drinks.

There is probably a fire door or other emergency door which goes across where the coloured tape is.

YEs, I have to reiterate that the majority of people were lovely. some people (and it was mostly the blue-rinse brigade) were just very very rude. also, they were ALL british.

 

I would have told the woman who told my wife to shut up where to go had I been there, I wasn't there at the time sadly, she told me about it later.

 

these sort of people though are best ignored. It's none of their business what I want to eat, or how old I am, or why I think i deserve to cruise, being only "lower middle class, what, what, what...."

We have been on many cruises with RCCL and agree that the British are the worst. Being British ourselves and silver surfers, we are always on our best behaviour. My wife is very good at putting people in their place with a few choice words.

We enjoy meeting and talking to Americans. On one cruise at dinner, we met a Vice Chairman of the company I had worked for in the UK. We still keep in touch.

Towncar,

You haven't mentioned that they will need an interpreter as they will not understand the Scouse language.

It was our silver wedding and we had docked at Pireaus in Greece. My wife had sprained her ankle so we went to see the doctor when we got back onto the ship. He asked if we had seen the Tv. When we got back to the cabin, my wife tried to say I had the wrong channel as it was being shown on most of them on the TV on the stateroom.

Have just found this thread.

Normally have an inside cabin but will comment accordingly.

Will be on the new Eclipse on 24th April and Century on 3rd June 2010.