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After you hit Pinnacle, you become Third Officer and on up. At that point, pins are replaced by stripes. Once you hit First Officer, the Captain lets you steer the ship every second Tuesday of the month and lets you lead a Q&A session with the passengers each Friday since you know everything you need to know about RCI by then.

You just answered my first question: How are you in your 40s and able to take off a month of vacation time?! That seems excessive even for Canadians, lol. Enjoy! I’ll be following your voyage to get psyched up for my Oasis trip July 15.

Thanks for sharing! Excited to board Oasis next month. You mentioned you like seltzers, but didn’t have any on your list. Barring supply chain issues wherein there’s no guarantee on what will actually be in stock onboard, did they have hard seltzers on the menu? White Claws (or similar) is my husband’s go-to.

I just read all 4 pages in anticipation of what could have resurrected this after 3 years. I kept waiting for the reveal of Stevie’s return 3 years later. Is he still wearing the Bingo shirt? Did he return to RCI with vengeance in mind, rueing the day he “won” a crappy T-shirt? Did he just win Teen Jeopardy with his vast geographical knowledge? Is he interning this summer on the crew after having made life-long kinships? I’m kind of disappointed to just hear about other prizes. I’m curious what 16-year-old Stevie is up to.

Thank you! Calling C&A was a snap. No wait and got the kid’s C&A number right away. The phone number is 800-526-9623 in case anyone else has this issue.

Doing our checkin. My and my husband’s Crown & Anchor # auto-populated in the Crown & Anchor # field. However, my child’s did not. When I purchased the cruise, I recall locating her C&A simply by populating her name and birthdate. Otherwise when I go into the app or site, only my C&A is visible as the cruise owner. How do I locate her C&A in order to put it in checkin?

Don’t the majority of the single people in their twenties use the dating apps nowadays? I wonder whether the current location feature on Tinder or the other dating apps would work at sea and hence return other singles on board for her to potentially match with? However, I have no doubt as soon as she comes across other “kids” around her age—especially others bored on vacation with their parents, lol—they’ll immediately gravitate toward each other and start chatting.

Good luck to you. I hope your symptoms don’t worsen. I’m sure that it must be scary worrying about being stuck in Italy. Their protocol of needing to test negative on day 7 when you’re already positive now sounds confusing—because you can, and in many cases will, still “test positive” even when you’re no longer contagious. That’s why you can provide a certificate of recovery to RCCL for 90 days after being positive because many still test positive for that long even though you wouldn’t be contagious after day 10 (or whatever the current guideline is). Are you sure that your husband just doesn’t need to test negative on days 5, 6, and 7? That’s pretty standard—should show up by day 5, if not by day 7, you’re in the clear. Again, I’m only going by US CDC guidelines and have no clue about Italy. It just doesn’t seem likely that they expect someone who is positive to suddenly test negative by day 7.

I assumed the box of chocolates was a regifted “tip” from another passenger. 😆

They’re overcompensating for the prior soup containers—flashing around a wealth of cups. I’m glad you made it through the week. I hope you and your husband both feel better once you’re home.

We did a 12-night Mediterranean in October. I definitely didn’t pack 24 outfits! I wore the same thing for dinner. You’re already going to be dressed nicer for walking around Europe than you would be in the Caribbean. I just brought a few different items to change into just in case.

I hope you feel better quickly. All things considered, you seem to be in pretty good spirits so far. I have to say I’m pretty impressed that you were so responsible—seems like even the crew was, too. I hope you order a beverage soon. I’m dying to know whether it arrives in a soup container. I feel like we’re slowly putting together a puzzle with these little details like the soup containers, no bedskirt, and the mysterious red phone cord… 🕵️‍♀️

Modern-day marriage of nobility. My dowry includes Pinnacle status. Pinnacle=duke/duchess: the Duke/Duchess of Somewhere, both addressed as Your Grace. Diamond plus=marquess/marchioness: the Marquess/Marchioness of Somewhere, addressed as Lord/Lady Somewhere. Diamond=earl/countess: the Earl/Countess [of] Titlename, addressed as Lord/Lady Titlename Emerald=viscount/viscountess: the Viscount/Viscountess [of] Titlename, addressed as Lord/Lady Titlename. Platinim=baron/baroness: Baron/Baroness Titlename, addressed as Lord/Lady Titlename. Gold=baronet: addressed as Sir Firstname, his wife as Lady Surname. Credit Regency world They don’t call it Royal for nothing.

If you don’t want to call, you can email rcldining@rccl.com with details including your name, reservation number, ship, and sailing dates. It will take a few days for them to respond, but they did recently change me from MTD to Early seating.

For my upcoming cruise we also have early seating and two late afternoon stops with excursions that won’t get us back until after dinner time. I’m planning on us just eating in the Windjammer those two nights. I get it’s disappointing. But they can’t possibly adjust the times to account for it—or the late seating wouldn’t eat until like 10:00. It’s not fair to them to expect others to get “first dibs” on their time slot. I’m actually surprised to hear MTD is an option! I wouldn’t have thought that would be possible to elbow into their seatings, either, because they would also have a specific number of people they have to sit nightly and now the Early crowd is throwing off their seatings as well.

I see that the app has a chat feature to stay connected with your reservation party. I believe that the app will connect to the ship’s wifi without paying for the internet package, is that so? Has anyone used it to keep in contact with their kids onboard? Does it “ping” like a typical messenger, or do you just need to regularly check to see whether anyone posted something to the group?