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  1. As long as you aren't using a beverage package to buy drinks, you can put both of your drinks on either card. Since you have the HIA package, you must each put your drinks on your own card. No sharing. No. On cruises years ago I was able to plug our wireless headset transmitter into headphone jacks on the back of the TVs in the cabins, with difficulty. Now they are mounted so tight to the wall that you can't get to them, even if they are still there. They are never on the sides of the TV. In my experience in hotels, more recent TVs don't even have a headphone jack, although they do have a digital audio (fiber optic) outlet plug. In general, those tables can be moved, although we have had cabins in which the "coffee table" was affixed to the floor, er, deck.
  2. I like plain seltzer. It was available last time we were on the Koningsdam. I often had to search from one bar to another to find it. The bar in the Lido had it more often than others. I would pick up two cans whenever I found it. Club soda was much more readily available.
  3. Let me clarify re:Android phones. First you put your phone in Airplane Mode, so you won't inadvertently connect with their expensive Cellular at Sea service. Then you turn on Wi-Fi. If your phone has the Wi-Fi Calling feature, you can then use your Wi-Fi package for texting and voice calls. I have done that on our last two cruises.
  4. I notice that the OP asked about the "regular internet package". I wonder whether our experience using the Premium plan are relevant. BTW, we have always been able to use Wi-Fi calling, but we always have the Premium plan.
  5. I used this one on the Koningsdam last year. Shoe organizer
  6. I haven't sailed since last year, so it's possible that the mounting of the TVs has changed to make it possible to get to an HDMI port, but the remote they provide is a simple aftermarket unit, like this, and there is no way to change the TV input from the network connection it uses to an HDMI port. I have been unable to find any manual controls on the TV itself.
  7. OK, but he is embarking in San Diego on a 15-day cruise, followed by a Caribbean cruise. I don't understand how the 15-day repositioning cruise differs from the regular 14-day cruise. What am I missing?
  8. How does a repositioning cruise differ from a regular Panama Canal cruise? We have been on three PC HAL cruises (would have been four if I hadn't been kicked off because I caught COVID during the eastbound trip), and they have always been 14 days each way.
  9. How do you cast to the cabin TV? I thought it was hard-wired to the ship's network, not connected via WiFi to the network we access.
  10. No, that's the only one I have ever measured (to settle a bet). It seemed to us to be the same size as all the other "queen" beds on HAL ships, i.e., slightly shorter and wider than our queen at home. I have never measured the king beds on the ships, either, but they are certainly much larger.
  11. I measured the "queen" bed on our last cruise. That was on the Koningsdam. It was 6'4" long x 5'8" wide. A standard queen bed is 6'8" long x 5' wide.
  12. We carry wireless headphones whenever we travel, so my wife can watch TV while I read. On a couple of HAL cruises I was able to plug the transmitter for the headphones into the TV headphone jack by loosening the TV mount and getting my arm back there to access the jack. On recent cruises, however, the remodeled rooms have recessed the TVs into the walls such that there is no possibillty of getting to the headphone or digital audio jacks. None of the TVs have had any accessible jacks on the edges. By the way, the remotes for the cabin TV has no access to any menus on the TV itself such a Input Source, Audio Out, etc.
  13. Thanks for the information. I have learned something new. I guess all I can offer is that ever-so-helpful response, "Works on my machine"!
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