DaKahuna

Agree 100%. The first time I tried it at a luau it reminded me of paste. If you do want to try it for the experience, I hear that mixing small cubes of tuna (ahi) into it helps improves the flavor. Did not work for me but YMMV.

We saw Sonic Odyssey on our first cruise. They did a special performance that was unannounced, until the day before. We enjoyed it but would not say it was something that we would watch again. Goddess was wonderful as well. We also saw that on our first cruise along with "Starwater". All of those were well done. Yours is the first that I have heard of. I would not be surprised if there were more cases but no one saying anything about it. We saw whales on both of our sailings. Mainly from the Suite Lounge (all the way aft on deck 12) and from Coastal Kitchen. I overheard one person comment about how much they had paid for a whale watching trip and although they had seen lots of wildlife they did not see whales. Oh, how i wish i could have seen that. Our worse was a lady on one of those scooters who kept nudging forward around on between people when she saw the smallest gap. No one confronter her though.

My experience was that it did work on Celebrity but heard reports that it did not on some ships, just not the one I was on.

@bobmacliberty I think you are going to have a wonderful cruise. Expect to have to deal with a lot of moisture, e.g. rain, mist, etc.. in the mornings in Alaska. We were fortunate to have great weather in Seattle and Victorica as well as most afternoons on our recent Alaska adventures. Kauai is much more laid back than Maui or Oahu. Unfortunately, I was only able to get there once in all my years of living in Hawaii and that was on a golf outing where we played 36-holes a day for two days. Some things to try in the food department in addition to Hulu pie are: Huli-huli chicken Macadamia nut pie kalua pig manapua tako poki (or salmon, ahi, etc...) loco moco spam masubi "plate lunch" - my favorite is the mixed (kalbi, bulbogi, and chicken) p.s. Please tell Romana (Suite Concierge) and Margaarette (Coastal Kitchen Ass't Maitre'd) that Toshiko and John said hello! They are both fabulous ladies.

Back when you were required to fill out the customs forms and hand in to a customs agent, I reported the purchase of some jewelry for my wife that exceeded the limit. I expected to be called aside to pay some taxes but he just looked at the form, put it with the others and waved us on. If I understand it correctly, if you make purchases that go over the customs limit, you should go to Guest Services and ask for a customs form.

As someone else said, if you want to point out poor service by an individual, the post cruise comments are the most effective way to do so. Those comments are taken seriously and are taken into consideration for things like promotions, shore leave, reupping of work contracts, etc.

Not that I have observed. During the day I have worn shorts and t-shirt but in the evenings I am usually dressed for dinner and wear long pants and a collared shirt. I have observed others similarly dressed.

I would definitely recommend that if you are interested in doing this, you make the reservation but as soon as you get on the ship you go to the restaurant and verify they can accommodate. The reason I say this is that the Sushi Lunch is a pre-set selection of menu items and as someone mentioned earlier, are prepared in advance. While when ordering of the regular menu they will ask about allergies or any food restrictions, I do not believe they do that when the menu is a fixed course.

I once again apologize for being absent for the last day or so but I did want to close out this review. All in all we had a very wonderful cruise on the Quantum of the Seas. It was our first sailing on a Quantum class ship and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The observations about drawer locations and the B2B or Consecutive Cruiser experience being the only real negatives. Service, food, and staff were absolutely wonderful. Granted sailing in suite class is different than sailing in something other than a suite but even our experience outside of Coastal Kitchen and the Suite Lounge were wonderful. From the time we left the ship until we arrived at the United Lounge was approximately one hour. That was including the time waiting in line to go through customs and immigration. There were only two agents checking passports at the terminal. One would think that the number of passengers being unloaded would warrant more than two agents, but it does not appear to be the case. It was interesting to watch people cutting in front of others, even when changing lines when they thought the other line was moving faster. One would think that after a seven-day cruise people would be more relaxed but that did not seem to be the case. We had taken advantage of the Luggage Valet service offered by the port of Seattle to have our bags delivered to the airline directly, since our flight was not until after the 1200 cut off for Luggage Valet. We did not see them from the time we set them outside our door Sunday night, until we pulled them off the conveyor belt at the airport. One note, even if you are eligible for priority bag service, if you use Luggage Valet, they do not tag your bags for priority. Also, for anyone who does not know, there are two different Clear terminals at SEA-TAC. The one in the middle of the terminal is for non-TSA Pre. The one for folks with Clear and TSA-Pre is at the far left. We went to the wrong Clear terminal the first time and when they found out we were also Pre-Check they told us it would still be faster to go to the other Clear terminal, so we did.

Don't do me any favors with regard to Wonderland. That's all on you. I stand firmly with Bob with my opinion of Wonderland. If they want to pay me to go there, then I might, just might mind you, consider going but no promises.

We just earned ours for 350 pts on the cruise that ended Monday. Should be interesting to see how long it takes for us to receive ours. We took advantage of multiple lift & shifts and ended up with 7-day B2B that gave us 28 points each!

I am pretty sure you can but I would see if you get any of the onboard booking benefits. I would recommend you ask.

I think you are going to have a wonderful time. Enjoy your cruise, I know we really enjoyed ours.

We did not even have a B2B meeting on Quantum. There was a letter delivered to our stateroom with instruction on where to go and when. Then again, no testing was required for ours so a meeting was really unnecessary.

Typically you are notified two or three days proor to sailing if your bid was accepted or denied.

It was our pleasure meeting you and your lovely wife as well. We really enjoyed the many discussions we had, even if we still disagree about Wonderland! We made a booking for Harmony in February 2023! Fell free to join us.

We just got off of Quantum of the Seas and unless your toddler is over five feet tall, there is no way they are going to reach to child lock on the balcony doo. I am 6-foot tall and the child latch latch was higher than my head.

We could see the line to enter Tracy’s from our balcony, with three cruise ships in port there did not see to be an “off hour” Maybe next time.

So you are saying that two under 18 children can be booked as 3rd and 4th guest even if they are staying in a different stateroom? Wish we had known this, we had to have one adult in each of the two adjoining statrooms and all four paid standard fare.

I think our all aboard was before 5 pm so, going at 4 might not have worked for us.

Interesting. On our last pre-COVID cruise, our 18 year old grandson and 16 year old granddaughter were not considered minor children for booking purposes, cruise fare, but were not adults for all other aspects.

Both cruises included a stop in Victoria, BC. There is a couple on board who are on their fourth week and will be sailing next week as well. No testing except for the one done two days prior to their first cruise.

I have seen nor heard anything related to COVID cases on either cruise.

I was informed that the engine maintenance will be completed in time for the transit to Australia.

Then your dinner menu will be different each nice.