SharonN

But I think they're leaving us in Hawaii. Hopefully the replacements are just as good as they are.

Well it's really not working this morning. Wanted to check on the excursions for a future cruise and it tells me I have no mariner credits, no future cruises (there should be 5) and no past cruises (there are many). Frustrating for sure.

It's working fine today but was out most of yesterday afternoon and then you had to go thru a specific logout/login sequence to reconnect. But over all it has been great and so much better than previous years. Bound to be an outage here and there.

Not too good today though 🙂 Went out just before lunch and just came back up now for me.

We had to make our own flight arrangements but got much better flights than if we'd waited for them to have time to do them. But they did pay us back for them.

HAL did provide compensation for the 2020 WC passengers when we had to get off the ship in Perth just over 1/2 way into the trip. They paid us back for our flights home and offered us a 125% credit of the entire cruise fare or 50% credit and 50% cash back. We thought it was more than generous since we'd had 1/2 the cruise and it was great until we got to Australia.

They've also dropped the 2 Israel Ports from the 2024 World Cruise and replaced them with Rhodes, Greece and Bodrum, Turkey. Somewhat Surprising they didn't change the ports of Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt or Aqaba, Jordan.

You'll be very lucky to have him aboard. We had him on the Voyage of the Vikings in 2018. Hopefully he'll do his sermon that uses balloons which is very good.

That's what I thought on the 2020 WC but missed it for my 3rd time then (first try in 2008 and 2nd in 2013) so still haven't made it there. Hopefully someday I'll figure out another way to get there from land/air 🙂

I don't think the problem was with the App it's that they were asked to change to a time that has no time zone associated with it. Manually changing the time to not match other systems in the world would cause other problems. They should have had us change it 1 hr (Alaska timezone) and then to the 1/2 hr which is Marquesas Time.

There is a Classical Duo scheduled most days on the Zuiderdam right now in the Explorer's Lounge so probably similar to what they used to have. Haven't been by there when they're playing so don't know any more than that.

The 7:30 show was almost full at least downstairs I couldn't see the balcony.

He said it (and his later talks this cruise) would be available on TV tomorrow. They scheduled main seating at 5 which means we'll be late on port days since mass is also at 5.

She must have moved on because whoever, the Billboard Duo was last week on the Koningsdam, they were the worst ever. Everyone we talked to said how bad they were. I tried to listen to their "Country" set one night and walked out after 3 songs it was so bad. She was mumbling and skipping words and the 2 acted as if they'd never met each other before that night.

You could tell she spent time getting ready for her turns. I hope she's on the World Cruise 🙂