germanyboy

Already prepaid to my account.

Franski, I have more ocean cruises under my belt then river cruises, so I hope that the ocean cruise lines don’t start picking up on the extra day’s Tipping.But I do see your point on the behind the scenes people getting the ship ready for us.

I am confused.  Looking at my upcoming April Viking Lofn  river cruise, and my account offers prepaid tipping for $126 dollars per person. Viking site says 12 euros a day for ship staff, 2 E per day for Program Director, total 14 E, which comes to approx $16.00   16 X 7 nights is $112.00 I called Viking and they said they are doing that as 8 days of cruising, 16 X 8 equals $128, so a $2 savings.  But why do they consider 1 meal, and maybe 4hours onboard the last day a full day.  We already are paying a full day tip for embarkation day, which starts at noon. So for 21 hours, first day on and last day off,  they charge 2 days of tips? 

What do others think and what have you done about it.  Ocean cruises , you end up tipping for number of days, which equals number of nights.

And I am not a tip stiffer, I will tip onboard, but just wondered about this. And I do always tip my steward and main waiter additional cash.

Our recent trip on a Friday, the four hour trip took almost 6 hours. we had to stop twice and wait for the train to go by the other direction and once we had to stop and sit because they had a check engine light and they had to figure out what was wrong with train. and another half hour to leave train, called one car at a time

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When I go up for early morning coffee and danish I take My two Starbucks cups and the cardboard cup carrier from Starbucks. Enough room to put several Danish on it. People see it and ask me where the Starbucks is, and I say back on land, but they do say that's a good idea..

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On a Hawaiian cruise from one of the ports we got invited through our cruise critic connections party, because we had so many people there

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from a previous thread using search gluten free beer

According to Celebrity's website, the premium beverage package includes a beer they refer to "Estrella Damm (GF)", which is a bit confusing because Estrella Damm is a lager beerbrewed in Barcelona which contains gluten. However, the brewer also makes the similarly-titled Estrella Damm Daura, which is a gluten-removed, rather than a gluten-free beer, similar to Omission. I would think (or at least hope) that if Celebrity is identifying a beer on its website as GF, then they know which one to purchase. I'll be on the Millennium next month so I'll be able to confirm whether they have it stocked. My wife will be thrilled if they do because she loves it.

We had about 200 pictures from our cruise, about 100 were decent, and 30 were really good

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And finally, from the website beyondships.com A wonderful profile

http://www.beyondships.com/Celebrity-Mercury-Profile.html

And it also has 4 profiles on the TUI Cruise ships, MS 1,2,3,4

And they have lots of pics and tours in their profiles

http://www.beyondships.com/cruiseships.html

Mein Schiff II news

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1916687

More Mein Schiff

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1410838

And a report on the final 2 cruises of Mercury

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1351897

Just a little OCD in what I save to remember

And another old thread.

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1941225

And I am looking for a couple that showed some of the renovation fromMercury to Schiff

Have just been reading through all of these posts.

 

Just knew that there would be folks on here with fond memories! Will check out the deck plans tomorrow. :D

 

Thank you all SO much - keep the ideas coming :-)

 

I am guessing that we will end up this cruise with TUI or the Edge / Connie

 

Decisions, decisions, decisions

 

Thanks again

 

:)

Here is an old thread about Mercury that I saved after our cruise on her in 2010

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2443379

You can buy 8&1/2 x 11 magnet sheet at office supply store and then just print your sign out and stick it on the Magnet

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Our first cruise was on Mercury in 2010, it was an eighteen Night Panama Canal trip...San Diego to Baltimore.

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Her profile says Delaware

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Changes made from SW We are currently accepting air reservations through August 6, 2018. On February 15, 2018 we will open our schedule for sale through October 1, 2018. This date is subject to change! Please check back frequently.

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I saw SW flights past early September open on February 8.

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Medical and Services Association offered by my retirees group.Want $390 for 1 year family plan. Emergency Air transport, transportation for recuperation nearer home, Trans for escort, non injury transportation, vehicle return, minor children return, return of physical remains, organ retrieval and organ recipient transportation. Good for sea, air, and land. Is this a good price? Anything lower and as good? Have some coverages on credit cards, but this covers all travel away from home.

We are taking Amtrak to Vancouver for a week before the cruise. Location was great for 7:45 am train

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We decided to be adventurous. I booked the American hotel Seattle, a hostel, near Chinatown and Amtrak station. Besides bunk rooms and dormitories, they have a few three berth suites with private bathrooms for $110.

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I was told on a six day leg from Hawaii to Ensenada, that if the 3 morgue spaces were filled, then it was free ice cream so they could clear out freezer space because we were at the point of no return, ad to go on.

Another interesting fact when we showed up at dinner with a drink from the bar outside they will take it from you and carry it to your table for you

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We take the wine to Blu, trade in value is $35.00 toward something else

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I was born in Germany and came to USA as a boy. See my signature.

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And Therma Wraps can do a good job too

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