Dry docks have gotten harder as the ships get bigger and there are more of them. Back when all ships had 1,000 passengers or less there were more skips that could accommodate then. When Carnival did the latest dry dock of the Panorama in Portland they had to remove the stack before it could get under the bridges
I would never book anything online but wait the one day to get my CVP on it. I trust people not systems. This is the same thing that happened to us a year ago on board with so called future cruise people
We make sure we don’t tell anyone. Do not want a bunch of waiters singing to us in the MDR. Same with birthdays. We have both coming up on a July/August cruise
On most ships including the Ruby the morning breakfast staff works in Crown for dinner Sabatini’s for breakfast. This has been the case on our last 5 cruises over the last year and a half
The no casino is a real loser for us. We cruise suites on Princess and always have either a walk in closet or multiple closets with doors. Also always get make up tables and mirrors
It really doesn’t matter to us we dress the same regardless of evening. I don’t have ties anymore and wear pants and a button down shirt every night for dinner
My other issue was the passenger who ordered multiple appetizers, soup corse, salad course, main and two desserts. Dinner took forever and we gave up after 2 nights
Those are bad but my favorite ones were the couple who declared that “their” table was a non drinking table and the racist who made comments about the race of the servers. Both of those we ran from
Back when we had TD and got a bad table we would go to the manager and request a different restaurant and table. We had some bad experiences glad TD is over