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Only one of the port side OS is under the Dog House.

None of the OS are under the open deck area on Radiance. They are all aft of the elevator banks. The ones on the starboard side are under the WJ annex, and the ones on the port side are under the Dog House area. We have had OS on both sides on that class of ship, and have never experienced any excessive noise (and we pretty much live on our balcony).

Agree. The way the survey questions were constructed, my takeaway was that they were evaluating status match parity, but not any points combination. Since we always sail in Sky Suites on X and GS on RCL, points really don’t mean much to us anyway.

Deck 3 is a combination of early traditional seating and My Time Dining. Decks 4 and 5 (both are "balcony" levels that look down onto deck 3, so in my mind, deck 3 would be the main floor) are early/late traditional seating. If you booked directly through RCL, you can call them and make your request, or if you booked through a TA, they will have to make the call.

It is rarely open even on cruises where there are actually children on board😄

Interesting that both DW and I have received two surveys from Celebrity in the past month asking whether granting full matching status between RCL and Celebrity would entice more RCL high tier cruisers to move over to Celebrity.

Yes, it is quite nice. Parking garage isn't big enough to handle the number of cars that show up every week, however.

We had just gotten off of Harmony at the end of February, and were on our way up to Ponta Vidra to watch the Players when they suspended play after the first round.

I think you meant March. RCL announced the shutdown the second week of March 2020 (the 8th or 9th if I remember correctly)

It’s not about losing $12,000, but risking $12,000 in the hope that your return will be sufficient to warrant the chance to get a “free”cruise. Unless you walk out of the casino with every $ you walked in with, that “free” cruise becomes quite costly.

What happens to people who were scheduled to board in Dubai for the entire third quarter of the WC? Are they getting a vote? Are they even going to be able to do that leg?

Never seen that high a payout on any slot I’ve ever played.

So i would have to cycle $12,000 through the slots in one tear to get a free interior, or I could cycle $0 through the slots and take that $12,000 to book six interiors a year instead? What am I missing???

Typically the 4/3 rotation out of PC is Monday/Friday and Friday/Monday departure, and the 7 nights out of T1 are always a Sunday departure. Currently, Allure is doing a 4/3 Monday/Friday and Wonder is doing 7 night Eastern/Western Sunday/Sunday rotation out of T1.

Tractor Pull: More than likely that short "ultimate" weekend cruises on Utopia will be populated largely by a demographic that believes wearing a shirt with sleeves is considered "formal wear; begins downing whatever booze is available long before the sun comes up - and continuing all day long into the night; have never found a four letter word that can't be inserted into every sentence; only speak with "outside" voices regardless of where they are; and shovel food in their mouths like there will never be another meal so fast that their mouths never actually come close to closing while they chew. Other than that, the only other "plus" is that you can get a "contact" high just by sitting on your balcony down wind from the THC vape coming from the balconies around yours.

We have a Retreat Sky Suite booked on Equinox for next January that was about $2,000 less than a JS on Star (and about the same price as a balcony cabin) sailing the same week, and on Equinox everything is included - on Star you get nada.

Pricing is currently quite (obscenely) high fleetwide - all the way through April 2026.😱

Unfortunately, on our B2B's out of PC on Adventure, one leg is always a 6 nighter, and about 50% of those are more like tractor pull conventions.

Probably best to wait until Laura channels her inner John with actual details from what he received onboard the ship.

Not sure anyone actually reads your posts, other than to get their morning ckuckle😅

But surely you know how they do it for sure😇 BTW, all 7 of the upgrade bids we have won were the minimum bid permitted, and two of those were won within a week of the sail date, so your second 100% sure statements simply have no basis in fact.

Just motors and devices that use 60Hz as a pacing function (like plug in clocks). Typically charging devices convert incoming AC current to a low voltage, low amperage DC current.

Absolutely true, and that is why US devices that are all designed to run at 60Hz have issues on board.

Have they changed time zones since leaving LA yet? They are geographically at least two removed from Pacific time by now

The only devices that can withstand 220 to 110 conversion are those that have the capability built into them. (Usually clearly marked 110/220V 50/60Hz on the UL certification label) The problem with using an after market adaptor (unless you spend a lot of $$$ on it) is that the ship’s 220 is 50 Hz and our 110 is 60 Hz, and what you are buying is merely a step down transformer - us old folk used to call that a rheostat). The inability of the adaptor to change from 50/60 cycles per second will generate additional heat on the motor, and increased load on the heating element. In short, the motor runs slower, the elements run hotter, and the device can’t handle that for long before the thermocouple safety overheats and shorts out the device.