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I usually get to see the BT/ESPN games when in the Caribbean not Sky.

As well as being under the red duster they also have a bow which is hard to miss

4 hours ago, P&O SUE said:

Talk on Facebook groups that the large flags on the P&O ships is one of the reasons. A T/A apparently said it.

I’ve often thought in this age of terrorism it does mark the ships out!

 

The other lines haven't cancelled as yet so that might be so.

Cary Grant's Walk don't run lives again.  My first TV memory is watching the 1964 games in Tokyo.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk,_Don't_Run

Lunch, explore, unpack if pos and always  check where my muster station is before the drill.

18 hours ago, HBE4 said:

 

Sometimes I wish it was still the 20th century.

 

I'd love to to go skeet shooting off the aft deck. And drink from plastic straws. 😉

Apart from the little problem of letting a passenger have a loaded weapon I understand that the wadding used floated and ended up choking marine creatures.  Princess is meant to have a simulator on a ship or two and Royal Caribbean says it offers skeet shooting excursions in some ports.  

As for straws it is going to either have to be paper or bring your own, an aluminium, stainless steel or titanium one is preferred though. 

10 hours ago, DebJ14 said:

 

I have a stack of RCCL playing cards from the Rhapsody, Splendour, Voyager and Mariner that go back at least 10 years.  They were in our cabins when we boarded those ships.  I also have really cheap radio with earphones, several fanny packs etc from when they used to give gifts.  Now as Diamond we get a can of Sprite and a cookie we can't eat.    It is not like we got the playing cards or gifts for sailing a lot.  We only made Diamond last year and that was only because we got double points for booking suites on our last 4 cruises.

 

I inherited a stack of unopened playing cards from my parents who died in 2010/2012 and were Diamond Plus when they passed away.  They never played cards, so there is no way they would have gone to GS to ask for them, so they must have been in the cabins too.  We don't play cards either, so I know we didn't go looking for them.

I received a free pack in my room on Royal Caribbean right up until the mid 90s but wouldn't bother now as there are so many free card games you can down load.

Not sure of the answer for you but Celebrity  have booked me on a 10am flight from Dubai to London after a night stop over for a Dec cruise so they expect to get you off that ship pretty early..

In the old days of the early eighties when you boarded the ship everyone was offered a guide  to show them to their room.  A bit difficult to do these days with the amount of people they sail with now.  

10 hours ago, etoilefj said:

Would you say you got more for the $$ doing the excursion? Trying to figure out what the VIP part means and if we want to spend the money for 3 of us to do the excursion. The luggage holding alone is a big plus over trying to sort that out ourselves.

Thanks

It was for me and my sisters family, you moved round in a group and were given free time at all the major exhibits plus as I said when you needed a bus to see things they had one set aside for you so no queuing. 

it is being shown on RTVE in Spain, BBC in the UK and Fox Sports in the US

When I did this a couple of years ago it wasn't a set loose tour, you did have lots of free time but you moved around the place as a group.  Such as when the coach took you out to see the pads and crawlers they had one set aside waiting for our group.  

The excursion had us waiting outside the door for KSC to open and we had plenty of time.

10 hours ago, Host Clarea said:

 

GMT would have been correct if you had been in England (or near that same north/south line).

Unless like now we were on BST

1 minute ago, Seville2Cabo said:

Not sure what this means. What excess charges?

A UK term.  Nearly all insurance has an initial amount that you have can't claim so your claim is $500 but you have to swallow the first $50 so get $450 from the company.  if there are two peoples stuff in one bag insurance companies can say that is two claims so in my example you would have to deduct $100 instead of $50.

10 hours ago, smplybcause said:

 

I was going to say inquiring minds want to know what the one item removed was...but no one else asked so I guess it's just me 

it was a sports watch I had unwisely chucked in because I had a day room and was going to repack before flying.  The only whole bag I ever lost for good though was lost by American Airways.  It supposedly missed a transfer and vanished, while the two bags it was travelling with came home solo on the next flight to us.

Please keep receipts, American wanted them for anything worth more than $100 and my insurance company wanted them for everything.  Oh and those of you who split bags for safety will face two excess charges if a one bag goes with two peoples possessions in it.

Happened to me in the early nineties on a cruise from Miami.  Delta called me six weeks later to say that my bag had flown from Miami with Delta and had been abandoned on the carousel at another US airport I suppose when whoever took it realised it wasn't theirs.   

I had to pick it up from Heathrow and make a declaration I hadn't seen it for so long it could have anything in it so was requesting a customs search.  Nothing had been added but the lock and one item had been removed.

Always make sure your details are available somewhere on or in the case.

The best seems to be the one you had your best cruise on so to me it would be a pre stretch Enchantment and the worst would be Grandeur.  

The sockets are US but they also have a single Euro 2 round pin as well.  Normally kettles are for UK and Oz sailings only, but you can always ask.  I usually pay my tips up front but if you don't do that they will charge them automatically.  the climbing wall you can often just show up if you have signed the waver (you can do so online before you go).  Med cruises can be a bit more formal but they don't normally worry to much what you turn up in.  I would trust the airlines weights and you can add to your flight booking as soon as you have the booking codes, just go through the airline website.

Until a few years ago you could enter your check in details as soon as you had a number but they changed it to ninety days before sailing.  You can of course book things such as shows, excursions etc as soon as they appear in your planner.

10 hours ago, CatBelle said:

Do you know what time does the bus pick you up when you book Fly and Sail program? I don't remember from other cruises

It depends but they will either hand you a note telling you the time when greeting you at the airport or it will be at the hotel when you check in.  I have found it normally between 11 and 12.

It used to be very common for the ships to carry lifeboats that could switch to tendering and some still do.  They are very useful if the itinerary/situation goes wrong.  last time I was on one was the Celeb Eclipse five/six years ago when they found they had booked a mooring with the wrong depth at St Thomas.  It took them an hour or so but they had a tender set up and people going ashore.

11 minutes ago, snaefell said:

We are booked on Anthems repo cruise in April from New York to Southampton,soon after we booked RCI dropped Halifax from the cruise for,IMO,a stupid reason which to us pretty much ruined the cruise,all other stops we have been to recently or can do easy enough from the UK,RCI will let us swap to another one of their cruises but we have to pay £150 which makes us more annoyed but while looking for another cruise that looked good I was quite amazed how many of the cruises out of the USA are so short,we wouldn't consider going on a cruise less than 12-14 nights,lets face it it takes that long to get anywhere interesting from the UK by ship,but it could explain a number of things.

Americans tend to have a lot less leave days from  work than European workers so the longer cruises do have an older look.  Of course if you are crossing the pond a week might not be enough anyway.

11 minutes ago, snaefell said:

 

grab one of the re positioning cruise from Boston to FL or Tampa they are 11-12 days, though you would have to cruise in October to do so.  I am doing that on Brilliance next year.

I found that after my transpacific it was one of the easier times I have had leaving a ship.  Australian immigration had come on the ship at the last stop and really I just walked off with no holdups. 

1992 when Majesty and Monarch were new mega ships.