What won't you do?

[Randyk47]

No more Caribbean cruises...been there, done that too many times. :)

[oaktreerb]

The first thing I do when I get on the ship is identify the casino and figure out how I can walk through the ship without going through the smoky casino. On the Amsterdam they allowed smoking at the bar in the Crows Nest. Another area to avoid for me.

[mamaofami]

Me 6 and DH 7.

[dmcfad2]

We skip the Mariner brunch.

We skip the debarkation talk.

We skip the crew show.

We skip art auctions.

We bypass photographers, but will pose when we are looking and feeling good and may even buy a photo.

We don't pick up our free photo of the ship.

I would rather not have towel animals.

We hope to skip the master chef's dinner/dessert parade. No luck so far.

We hope to skip announcements. No luck so far.

This could have been written by me......except I love the towel animals :D

[Cruising Ham]

...I never go to the show on the first cruise night...

Why not? Not challenging, just curious.

[BDsquared]

No more cruiseline shore excursions! I felt like a shlub after my first cruise when we discovered how much we could save and enjoy ourselves if we booked on our own!

[AlohaPride]

I won't book a cruise shorter than 10 days. With all the effort it takes to get off this rock in the middle of the Pacific, 7 days is just not enough.

 

I won't book another cabin with a balcony. I couldn't get my husband out on it to enjoy it with me, so we never used it.

 

:D

[startwin]

Why not? Not challenging, just curious.

 

 

I've seen it too many times - it's always the same. "Let me entertain you". :)

[Krazy Kruizers]

We haven't had the photographers take our picture on embarkation day, or in the dining room or around the ship or at the gangway in years.

We know that we will never buy them.

[Cruising-along]

No more Caribbean, once was enough

No cruise shorter than 10 days

No spa, don't need the sales pitch

No Mariners brunch

[Irish Eyes Are Sailing]

Seems to be lots of people in the witness protection program on HAL ships:D

 

Or they are undercover spies.:D

[serendipity1499]

We don't let the ever present photographers take our picture.

 

Normally No photographs for us either, especially on embarkation!

 

Cheers...Betty

[Saphire]

-We won't go to dinner in the Lido again. It just isn't special enough.

-We will never go to the MDR for breakfast on the last morning. Much too long of a wait!

-Won't do the spa raffle again, and we also avoid many of the photo ops.

[CowPrincess]

We won't do the Pinnacle for dinner again.

 

We won't do the lower-cost wine tasting again.

 

We won't feel that we need to attend everything listed in the daily program.

[Ship's Wake]

I will never show up for the buffet a couple of minutes before posted closing hours.

 

I skipped dinner in the dining room one night on an Alaskan cruise to be outside watching the beautiful scenery. Showed up to the buffet at 7:57 or so and literally had the crew closing the screens on the buffet exactly at 8pm.

No exaggeration - I had to beg them to serve me.

 

Learned my lesson.

[OlsSalt]

We find many, but not all, of the port lectures interesting. No, they are not there to just sell shore excursions. On our last cruise in fact she kept repeating these two divisions were very separate operations.

[Scrapnana]

Will not:

do anything related to the spa

listen to shopping talks (walked out of last one)

eat first sitting

[sppunk]

We won't:

- visit the Caribbean, even if free
- sail FROM New Jersey or New York on any cruise shorter than 14 days
- eat at Pinnacle on Eurodam
- pose for photos / buy photos
- attend any production show
- do any Mariner / suite brunch/happy hour/etc

[igraf]

Interesting that negative references to the Caribbean came up several times in this thread. We live in California and always take a land trip to Hawaii whenever we desire to see tropical islands. I think that we are making the right choice.

igraf





[quote name='sppunk']We won't:

- visit the Caribbean, even if free
- sail FROM New Jersey or New York on any cruise shorter than 14 days
- eat at Pinnacle on Eurodam
- pose for photos / buy photos
- attend any production show
- do any Mariner / suite brunch/happy hour/etc[/quote]

[HamOp]

[quote name='igraf']Interesting that negative references to the Caribbean came up several times in this thread. We live in California and always [B]take a land trip to Hawaii[/B] whenever we desire to see tropical islands. I think that we are making the right choice.

igraf[/QUOTE]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="4"][COLOR="Blue"]So glad to hear the new interstate highway from LA to Hawaii is finally done. :D
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[COLOR="Magenta"](I knew what you meant, but couldn't resist. :o)[/COLOR]

[Typhoon1]

Buy photos form the photo gallery.

We've cruised enough times and don't need a drawer full of useless paper.

[Crew News]

No ship's photographs on embarkation
No ship's photographs with folks in bear, eagle, pirate, moose, bear, etc costumes
No cruise DVDs - I make my own digital memories
No shopping lectures
No bingo
No bar crawl
No art auctions
No onshore shopping at Carnival Corp stores
No Lido Restaurant on embarkation day
No Ochio Rios vendor harassment
No whale watching in Victoria BC - no comparison to Juneau
No glass-bottomed boats - boat speed in shallow water gives me motion sickness

[AlohaPride]

[quote name='igraf']Interesting that negative references to the Caribbean came up several times in this thread. We live in California and always take a land trip to Hawaii whenever we desire to see tropical islands. I think that we are making the right choice.

igraf[/QUOTE]

If I lived in Cali, I'd for SURE take the 15 day Circle Hawaii as often as I could. All those sea days = Heaven. In fact, the 15 day Circle Hawaii is on my bucket list and I LIVE in Hawaii. ROFL

[Taxguy77]

:D[quote name='iancal']-we breeze by the photographers

-we never attend any of those events just to get a free glass of that horrible wine or champagne

-we never attend those shopping promotions disguised as port talks

-we never shop at those so called approved stores during port stops[/QUOTE]

[COLOR="DarkRed"]A lot of people agree with these!:D

Bingo used to be OK, but the last cruise (HAL) they kept an enormous % of the money played. :mad: [/COLOR]

[PatsyAnne]

No plank walking, no matter how much DH encourages me to try new things.