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Looked for an existing thread before I posted this, but couldn't find one.

From Fox Weather: https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/cruise-ship-rescues-14-stranded-sea

D+++ = PET (Pin Envy Tier)

Depends on which ship. On Oasis and Allure it may fit because the TV swings out from the outside wall between the windows and the balcony door, but on the newer Oasis class ships (Harmony and Symphony) there is a TV wall between the bed and the sofa that chews up a lot of space

A newbie sailing solo in an interior, OV, or balcony that does the full WC would be D++ (~550 points) by the time they departed the ship. If they were solo in a JS or better, they would be a Pin.😎

It probably will only be scheduled once on their short cruises, but it is well worth adjusting your schedule so you can see it.

Did not know there was an aviary there. Is it new? And, can you get to it without doing the bridge?

We always call room service and order dinner from the MDR menu on the first night and have a nice relaxing meal on our balcony. One of the nicer perks of being in a suite on smaller ships.

When itineraries are first released, prices are typically at the lowest cost they will ever be. As soon as any demand hits the booking systems, prices will inevitably rise as prime cabins and categories are booked. If I do a mock booking today on any of our existing bookings (which we always book as soon as the itineraries are released), every one of our 2025 and 2026 booked cruises has more than doubled in price, and half of our remaining 2024 bookings have more than tripled. I really feel sorry for people who have to wait until late in the cycle to take a cruise, because of work requirements or school schedules, etc. They only see the higher prices, and the perpetual sucker "sales" that make it look like they are getting a deal - when the reality is that they are getting royally sc%$#ed.

He would have to be the world's smallest stateroom attendant - I can't even fit our suitcases under the bed with all of the spare bedding that is always stored there😇

Never, if we can avoid it. We try not to book any cruises that go to the western Caribbean unless it is a long voyage down to South America, and Cozumel gets in the way. We rarely leave the ship in that port.

Probably would have used a different word than spoiled. More likely that people were lulled by 0% interest rates and 1% inflation into the conviction that prices would never change. With overall consumer prices up more than 35% from their pre-covid days, the reality is those prices are never coming back.

On our 28 day B2B Panama Canal adventure on Serenade in November, the onboard cost savings over the course of the 28 days exceeded 60% of the total cost of the two cruises.

IMHO, seasoned cruisers do not leave a particular cruise line because of anything other than the lack by the cruise line to do anything other than sail, rinse, repeat every other week. For us, it is the uninspired repetition, not price that is causing us to look (and book) elsewhere. If it had not been for RCL salting in some new destinations and longer durations into its itineraries (like Bermuda, the ABC islands, and St. Kitts out of PC, and Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama out of Tampa), we would already be booking more on other lines and a lot less on RCL. Our cruise calendar (once we run through our existing bookings) has exactly zero RCL cruises penciled in. 😇

We had to double the size of the bucket that holds our bucket list😎 Cruising has taken us places we never dreamed we would ever see in our lifetime (and our respective careers have taken us all over the world - or so we thought)😇

It is only money. Memories, however, are priceless.😇

Only if you zero out the ~$200,000 it cost us to get to Pinnacle😇

More than likely. Just did a mock booking on a 7 night out of PC on Wonder, and the per person price for a 2Br Aqua suite was over $14,000 for the lowest priced cruise

A CLS is not a Star class suite. Crown Loft Suite Large two-story suite with panoramic views Extra guest bathroom on main level Sky Class amenities

I don't think those "parents" see their children as anything more than an annual tax deduction.🙄

Nothing. The only "drawback" is for those people who only want to sail on RCL's amusement parks at sea, and Allure thankfully avoided being "amped" because of the pandemic. 😇

~$350 for two people on a 7 night cruise.

We have neighbors that cruise MSC frequently, and in their opinion, the only reason why they cruise that line is because of the YC.

The only saving grace for us is that we always book while onboard as soon as the next tranche of itineraries is released (it is the only way we are able to justify always booking GS). Every one of the 21 RCL cruises we have booked through April 2026 have more than doubled in price (and some have tripled) since we booked. If we were to look at booking those same cruises today, we would seriously consider other cruise lines. We just booked a cruise for January 2025 on X in a Retreat suite that is at a lower cost than the current price of any of the RCL grand suites we have booked, and the suite perks on X are much better than the suite perks on RCL. Once we run through our current bookings, we are switching our cruise bookings to Silver Sea, Regent, and Oceania.

Probably the only reason why we would ever even consider sailing on that class of ship. We used our last milestone cruise on Wonder (worth ~$5,800 for a standard balcony), but will use the JS milestone that we receive in September for one of the older, more friendly ships (unless we can use it on a Celebrity cruise - which I doubt).