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Oh, bugger, we will be on another cruise that we won't give up. Otherwise, what a bargain - what a deal!!!
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Loved the movie Eat Pray Love from 2010 with Julia Roberts & James Franco but put my own spin on it with Cruise replacing Love, lol.
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Well... I quit smoking :D so the money we would have spent on cigs every week goes into a savings account.
Talk about adding up ;)
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Congratulations to you! I hope that the quitting and savings go well for you!
:)
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Be aware of the difference... The Travelon sheet dissolves. It's just Soap sheets... but in a nice small case.
The Purex 3-in-1 sheet becomes a Dryer sheet (anti-static, softener).
Amazon still has 20-packs of the Purex for under 7 bucks, sourced from a "closeout" place. When they're gone they will be gone.
Thank you for pointing out the difference. I have both and the soap sheets are great for a small item or two to be hand washed in the sink. :D
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In case anyone's thinking of purchasing CCL stock in order to receive the OBC' date=' now might be a good time to look at the stock as the price has been falling the last two days. May be a good buying opportunity.[/quote']
Wow, thanks for the tip. We are looking to buy and was hoping it would go down, and it has certainly gone down!
thank you
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Had to renew one of ours. We mailed it 8/13/13 and opted for overnight return delivery and got it 9/1/13. Pretty fast. Less than two weeks considering the mailing time.
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I don't know about all cruise lines, but if you check RCCL's Cruise Compass (bottom left corner, if I recall) you'll see the name and phone number of the port agent for the particular port you are visiting. Oftentimes, there is also the phone number of local law enforcement.
I always make a written note of this information when I get off the ship at a port. If ever I would encounter a problem while visiting a port, I know who to reach out to for help and how to reach them.
Great idea. On our last cruise to Alaska, I took a picture of that information for each port with my phone. Had it at my fingertips if needed - thankfully it was never needed. I'll do the same for our upcoming cruise to Panama.
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Found an even better price for the same thing on Amazon.
I just found the Travelon brand at TJ Maxx for the same price as Amazon without shipping.
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Thank you very much for the wonderful information. More ideas for my list.
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Hi! I have now uploaded the Excel document. Go up to post #171 and you should be able to get the full document there. If you can't access it, let me know and I'll be happy to email it to you. :)
Thanks, Sherri, sorry that I missed that. I was waiting in the doctor's office and was using my phone and didn't read through all of the posts. This looks really great (and quite similar to my own) and I appreciate you sharing it!
Sue
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Thank you so much. Always wondered what some of the window suites looked like.
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OK... I now know that I can't upload an Excel file (which is what my cruise planner is formatted in ), so if anyone would like the .xls file, please reach out to me via email and I'll be happy to send you the entire file. All the tabs are pre-formatted so that once you plug in your sail date and your ship name on the first page (Travel Info), this info populates corresponding cells on the other tabs. It also has a preset reminders tab that will take your cruise date and automatically calculate reminders for certain activities that you need to do pre-cruise at different intervals (1, 2, 3 weeks prior). In the meantime, I will attempt to post .pdf's of the individual tabs. Crossing my fingers and hoping this works. :)
Missed this for our spring cruise and just booked a November cruise. If its not too much trouble, could I request the file too! :-). Sesrandall@yahoo.com. Thank you so much in advance!!
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Thanks for sharing.
You are welcome!
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Thank you for sharing! We will be in that cabin on the Aug 31st Star to Alaska.
You must be getting pretty giddy :D by now. How are your plans coming along?
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Very nice cabin with extended covered balcony. Would book again in a heartbeat!
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I was able to increase the size of each document (scroll down the page a bit) making it a bit easier to read. Still don't know why the pages are washed out on the left side....also posted photos of our Mini-Suite E729 on the Star....
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The scans aren't great, but I could read them. The far left side is washed out, so I couldn't always read times for events, but I could still read enough to give me a good idea of what's happening when.
One question: The dining times for embarkation day do not list a dining room open for lunch. Do you know if they were serving lunch in one of the MDRs? We have always enjoyed that wonderful embarkation day lunch and are looking forward to sharing it my my mother and aunt in July. I will be disappointed if they are not serving it on the Star this summer!
Sherry, I'm quite sure that they were serving lunch in one of the main dining rooms, but I just can't recall which one. Sorry for the foggy memory. I don't recall if we ate there or in the Horizon ... I usually do a journal, but I just checked and didn't record anything in it that day after we left our hotel on embarkation day. :confused:
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I have a PC and went up to 400 percent and it was larger, but still blurry, and too light, wish I could have read them. Thanks for trying!!
I may try to rescan them. Not sure why they turned out like that. Of course, I didn't realize it until AFTER I had scanned them all, lol.
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Thanks anyway, unfortunately, the Patters came out so light I was unable to read them.:(:(
On my computer, I can zoom in on them and read them pretty well. I use a MAC and hit command and the + sign and can read most of the pages. Hope that helps....
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No, I'm sorry we don't. I meant to take photos each night, but we only ate in the dining room a few times. Sorry...... :(
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If anyone is interested, I've scanned the Princess Patters from our round trip Inside Passage with Tracy Arm Fjord from Seattle on May 18-25, 2013. Hope this helps those planning their summer cruise!
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I make mistakes nearly every cruise, but two stand out. Somehow I got on Majesty of the Seas once with only the bra I was wearing and no other. I had to wash and wear it and blow dry it with a blow drier. Worse, it was black, so I couldn't wear any of the pastel shirts I had brought with me. Luckily, it was only a four-night cruise.
Perhaps worse, I took my Advair asthma inhaler on an eleven-night Panama Canal cruise. The first night I happend to notice--entirely too late--that I had only about five inhalations left on the indicator, when I would have needed twenty-two for the cruise! I kept using the inhaler on empty, getting just fumes. Somehow fortunately I didn't have an asthma attack, but now I make really certain to check the number of inhalations left on the Advair before I pack.
Going on a cruise without prescription meds is about the worst mistake you can make packing.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I am OCD and organized to the core! Or so I thought! I forgot to add my Advair to my list for our upcoming cruise in two weeks! Thank you for reminding me to check the number of doses left!!! :)
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I am a planning nut. I have an Excel workbook that I use to organize myself and my DH before each cruise. It is broken down into several spreadsheets (tabs).
Tab #1 is the oh-so-important PACKING LIST, organized by suitcase and carry ons (mine vs. DH). The items are color-coded (his are blue, mine are pink) and for items that I still need to purchase before the cruise, I click the "to-buy" column and it sends that item to a separate spreadsheet (tab) called "SHOPPING LIST". Since I tend to lay the open bags in our guest room and begin the packing process over the course of a month before a big cruise, having the list there is helpful. I can check things off as I put them into the bags.
As for the SHOPPING LIST, I have an alert set on my calendar to check my shopping list at 3 months and again at 2 months prior to cruise to begin looking for any items that still need to be purchased.
Another tab on my cruise organizer is the ONBOARD TIPS list. This is very helpful when cruising on a large ship with so many options. The tips list includes all the dining and activity venues as well as whether there are fees involved, if reservations are required, best viewing places for outdoor shows, secret spots, all sorts of CC tips that I gather from lurking in the months leading up to a cruise.
My TO DO tab is my reminder to do things like setting dining or show reservations, making payments, booking excursions, prefilling Rx's, notifying bank of international travel, etc.
The last tab on my cruise planner is my SCHEDULE. Just prior to leaving, I fill in the blanks on this document and print it out in triplicate (because we always end up changing something after we get on the ship). It's a glimpse of the entire cruise itenerary. It includes any dinner / show / activity reservations we've made at a glance on one page. It also contains our Hotel, Flight, Travel Insurance, and Transfer information and all emergency phone numbers for TA, cruise line, hotel, etc.
Of course, all that is subject to change once we step foot on the ship, but it's good to at least have something to go by. And for me, planning the vacation is half the fun!
Wow! And I thought that I was organized! I'm OCD and I'm loving your spreadsheet. Would you possibly care to share?
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Price reduction, nothing I can do at this point?
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I found a lower fair a few weeks after we made final payment (Oct 15 of this year). I called my travel agent, who called Princess. We ALSO received a total credit of $350 within 3 days. :)
I guess it all depends upon which way the wind is blowing....but it sure doesn't hurt to ask! :eek: