Jump to content

emeraldcity

Members
  • Posts

    3,752
  • Joined

About Me

  • Location
    Ohio
  • Interests
    Travel,dancing,meeting people
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Royal Caribbean
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Hawaii!!!!!!

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

emeraldcity's Achievements

3,000+ Club

3,000+ Club (3/15)

  1. So now that it's determined where the current passengers will disembark, how does the cruise line deal with the obvious PVSA violation. Do they file for an exemption?
  2. On the 23-day Explorer TP (2018) a survey was left in cabins one week into the cruise to take the temperature of the population and solicit feedback. One suggestion I submitted at that time was implemented within days. Have they done anything of that sort of this cruise?
  3. Actually, I had reached the point where I wasn't thrilled when I returned to my cabin to find a towel animal. But I believe the steward makes them to do something a little special for the passengers in their assigned rooms, and I didn't have the heart to say "don't bother". So I hit upon the idea of returning the gesture and enhancing them to give the attendant a little surprise in return. Our attendant on the Vision told us it made her so happy. And the latest batch on the Explorer were so fun, that our attendant had to call her supervisor to the room to share them. He told me he'd taken pictures of all of them. I asked at our dinner table how many towel animals everyone got. The answers varied between 2 and 4 for the 13-days cruise. We got 6 ... one every other day. I suspect Lilian was looking forward to what we'd make of them.
  4. Yes it does. My pillow is wonderfully fluffy and I'm adept at squishing it into my suitcase. It recently went with me to Rome and then on the Explorer TA to Miami.
  5. Don't focus on Colon. Focus on Panama City. We flew into Panama City and had a very enjoyable stay in a boutique hotel. The morning of departure, we booked a private transfer to the port that included a stop at the Visitor Center at the Miraflores Locks. Frankly, it's a shame that cruises that go through the Panama Canal don't factor an overnight in Panama City into the itinerary. Those who have been there might recognize the condo building in my avatar. 🙂
  6. September on the Harmony, the winning team for each trivia game got ONE highlighter. The staff member was annoyed they were expected to be so stingy.
  7. This is a page from the operating manual of the Grandeur 2012 when she sailed out of Colon on 7-day sailings. We were on one of those sailings (called "Spanish immersion cruise"). There were very few Americans on board (think 25-30). All the announcements were in Spanish first and then English. We have such great memories of the people we met on board ... even though we spoke no Spanish (beyond "No espanol"). I hope they continue those sailings. I'd love to do it again. They had trouble filling up the ship, which is why they discontinued those sailings, but we scored a great deal on a Grand Suite due to the price drops to fill them. Special note for those doing shared table dining: Be sure to contact dining reservations prior to the cruise to request a table with English-speaking guests.
  8. Thank you for your responses. I was hesitant to post anything about it because I was sure I'd be told to "get over it" and be advised I needed to be more sensitive to the needs of the young family trying to work with a cramped cabin. If I run into the situation again, I will call guest services. I just kept trying to picture whether or not a scooter or wheelchair could get by that thing and I thought someone would say something if it was a problem. But I suppose I was that someone who should have said something.
  9. I really do try to avoid posting anything negative, but why was it permitted for the occupants of a nearby cabin to keep their child's stroller in the hallway? I know the cabins are cramped, but this was a balcony cabin and they could have folded the thing up and stuck it out there when not in use. Their cabin was one of the first ones off the elevator lobby, so everyone in that hallway had to negotiate around it for the entire sailing. I hope nobody farther down was in a wheelchair or a scooter. I was under the impression that due to a possible emergency, all items of a personal nature needed to be stored in your cabin.
  10. I often have people ask me what was my favorite cruise, and I can't give them an answer. How do you compare Alaska to The Baltic or New England to the Panama Canal? But then someone asked me "If there was only one cruise that you could ever repeat, which one would it be?" And I shot back "Greek Isles!" I didn't even have to think about it. I had done that cruise on the Radiance in 2017 and it exceeded my expectations. And then my daughter called saying her hubbie didn't want to go on her Odyssey cruise to the Greek Isles and did I want to take his place. I leaped at it. We went last October and I treasure the memories of that cruise. Rome is one of the best places to book a BNB instead of a hotel. Look for something near the Campo di Fiori, as it is very centrally located. We walked everywhere. I'm headed back to Rome shortly and I've scored another great BNB cheaper than the hotels. Many of your BNB hosts will arrange transportation from the airport to the apartment. And I've done a shared van to the port once, but I used the train last time. Very easy and a much nicer experience. As for the ports, we did Athens (once in their lifetime everyone should have the experience of standing on the Acropolis and marveling at the Parthenon), Santorini (it is every bit as beautiful as the pictures), Mykonos (so incredibly charming, you would swear Disney manufactured it to match some movie), Ephesus (do the tour that included the terrace houses ... you won't regret it). I loved the Odyssey. A bit bigger version of the Quantum class. The 270 lounge is really unique. I enjoyed the shows there. And it was --hands down-- the best place for breakfast. The 270 cafe was never crowded. You collected your food, then went to the lounge to find a nice table with that incredible aft view. Enjoying breakfast while sailing into the caldera as we made our way to our Santorini anchorage was an incredibly picturesque way to start that day. The only negative experience was the trip home. Virtually everyone I interacted with at the Rome airport made it clear that I was just a package that needed to be processed and that processing would take place when they were damn good and ready.
  11. Two weeks ago I booked on board about 3:00 in the afternoon of boarding day. I wouldn't recommend waiting much past that as it does fill up.
  12. For entertainment, my two favorites are Symphony and Odyssey. There ae other shows I enjoyed on various ships (who doesn't like Mamma Mia), but if I was booking based on entertainment only, I would pick one of those two. Did anyone else get the impression that the team that put together the aqua show on the Symphony was the same group that created the Harmony aqua show?
  13. My experience has been that when you approach the desk where they are handing out stickers for the various coaches, they ask how many are in your party and then they make sure that your party all gets the same sticker.
×
×
  • Create New...