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What others do has no bearing on what you do! Integrity comes from within based on your own sense of morality :evilsmile: :halo: - not a 'quid pro quo' assessment. No one is forced to purchase either soda or alcohol packages.

Oh dear.:(

You don't have to pay extra on the items that receive the 18% auto gratuity (and it's not added to ALL onboard purchases). But that money doesn't go to the same service personnel as the daily gratuity charges.

C'mon then,tell us all what an auto gratuity is,what do you pay it on,is it drinks,is it food,who gets this 18% auto gratuity,hurry up footballs on in 10 mins and there's a queue at the bar.

Reading threads about this topic for more than a decade on here I doubt the numbers are changed much by these. It´s always about the same about the pro-tipping and no-tipping crowd. Yep a certain percentage will remove them and yep the percentage will vary with where the ship is sailling from, but overall, nope I don´t think it´s a majority.

 

I sure hope you will be honest about what you are doing onboard as well and not only at Guest Sevices, but also in the face of whoever is serving you.

 

Oh, just to save you a surprise, a 18% gratuity will be added to your onboard purchases and there is no way of getting that one removed.

Wow 18% on purchases on board x a couple of thousand of people on ship why pay extra :confused:

Thanks everyone for your help:)

Just booked b2b from southampton on navigator,9 night inside and 5 night suite both gty.

Will we have to take our luggage off after first leg,thanks

Tommy, 99% WANKERS 1% are ok,hope you are ok

reason its always empty $4 plus for a pie

Interesting... I believe they read them... we need more NON SMOKIONG threads...:D

Why ?:confused:

So are you posting to tell us about levels and points or what?

Another outstanding reply by an experienced cc member.

Using that logic, I guess we can do away with the washrooms and all just pee in the sea! :eek:

Never peed in sea ?

What about gel can you use this as well,

first time on P&O.

I believe I NOW have the attention of the Casino Club Royale. Final tab was over 10,000 points last cruise. Others have their Genies, I now have a Senior Club Royale Representative, handling my cruising. Each time we talk, I bring up smoking. First is to tackle smoking at the Casino Bar and NOT Playing. After that, we will go for more. I have their attention now.

Don't play then,go to Vegas instead:p

Well, if you do that, you are just screwing that person because he has to turn in those tips to the pool to be distributed to others, and he will get much less than you intended him to have. Just leave the automatic tips on, and everyone will be happy. :)

No they do not have to turn those tips.

Got a brochure on Crystal yesterday. Seems nice, maybe the OP should consider them. 14 day British Isles in Aug 2017 for $5,500 pp

Why would he want to do that ?:confused:

Another anti smoking thread, well done. Don't believe a word,people on here are so gullible.

Oh Dear,what a bunch of cheer leading, unhelpful,nasty people you are

Same old replies,dead horse ,pepper grinders,were are the rest of your audience,ha ha ha your so funny 'POOF' ,lets see how long this thread lasts,?

OK then. Castro Cuba can deal with the rest of the world without US tourists and US cruise ships. Zero loss to US. Let's keep it this way.

Visited Cuba 2004 for 14 days,beautiful country,beautiful people.Your right keep away:D

Just as clarification, you don't have to prepay but gratuities will be added to your account each day. You can go to guest services and have them removed but I personally hate that this is possible. This is the salary of the staff onboard and in many cases, they send the money home to their family in many different countries.

Oh Nooooooo:(

We love going on cruises and we work very hard to save the money to go on our once a year cruise. We're diamond, but very seldom use the Diamond lounge because we usually have someone with us that wouldn't be allowed to go with us. We are the ones that look like every cruise is our first because we can't wipe the smile off our faces. We're still in awe of the ship, even if it's a ship we've been on 2 or three times before. We are taking lots of photos and wearing the dreaded lanyard. We are still amazed at the job the crew does to make our much anticipated vacation special. I'm always up early and would never think of admonishing anyone from the crew getting a cup of coffee. We listened, on our July cruise, to a table next to us with four young people (related) berate the waiter and asst waiter, the head waiter and complain about how the food was prepared...EVERY NIGHT. We were SO uncomfortable just listening to it that we almost stopped eating in the MDR. We made sure we told these folks what a great job they were doing and apologized for the rude foursome. We also sent cards to Royal mentioning the outstanding job these MDR folks did. They endured every insult with such grace. When I see some of the cabins, as I walk down the hall and the doors are open, I'm horrified for the cabin stewards. It says something about your character (or lack of) when you treat people in the service industry poorly. There's no excuse for not respecting them. None.

griffy116, What a great post,:)

Why are you all so gullible:confused:

Empress' casino is non-smoking.

 

Enchantment is reportedly experimenting with being non-smoking.

 

On Majesty, we had a notice in our cabins saying that they are going to enforce the "smoking only if you are gambling" in the casino. In other words, you can't treat the casino as a smoking lounge.

What about Navigator?

Hilarious! So what was in the wife's pipe???

It was just tobacco we got from a cafe in Amsterdam:eek:

They should ban cigar smoking on ALL ships.

Twelve thousand plus posts and this is the best answer you can give to the OP shame on you:mad:

My wife and I both smoke,drink and gamble,we were on Navigator this year and we were both enjoy playing slots in the casino .One night we were both very drunk,we had been sharing her drinks package,we were on WOLF RUN,my wife's fav machine in the smoking section,my wife lit her pipe and some woman complained about the smell,so she put it out and had a cigar instead,3 hours later and 10 rum and cokes we cashed our $1.50 out and went back to our cabin.

We had a inside virtual balcony,I opened a bottle of brandy what i smuggled on board and had a nightcap,I lit a cig,had a smoke and flicked it overboard only to bounce off the screen and land on the bed and burn a hole hole in the sheets.We were fined $250 ,luckily we had prepaid our grats,so it came out of that.Oh we complained about soot on our balcony for 3 days and they gave us 25% off our next cruise and a free meal in chops:)