ms Nieuw Amsterdam and Zuiderdam in Port Everglades February 8, 2020

[St Pete Cruiser]

I got here in time to see Sky leaving, without toots as usual.  I see others heard departure love boat tune, so guess that is all we get from her.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Guess the only Love Boat toots we are going to get were the ones when she was at the dock.

[mocruzer]

Nothing from Sky heading out.  

[St Pete Cruiser]

Just now, Krazy Kruizers said:

Guess the only Love Boat toots we are going to get were the ones when she was at the dock.

Great mines think alike.

 

[travelnap]

Looks like Sunrise is backing up.  Sky Princess makes more noise than Carnival.  I guess they are now the fun ships.

[65 Gator]

4 minutes ago, fatcat04 said:

Yes. We have premium too. I'm going to reload. This is silly

Reloading will not help.  I, too, have premium and have experienced this for a couple of weeks.  Rumor has it that there are bandwidth problems with Comcast and there will be constant buffering until it is resolved...  Sorry...

[65 Gator]

Here is a statement from PTZ about this issue...

 

 

[fatcat04]

3 minutes ago, 65 Gator said:

Reloading will not help.  I, too, have premium and have experienced this for a couple of weeks.  Rumor has it that there are bandwidth problems with Comcast and there will be constant buffering until it is resolved...  Sorry...

Comcast.. say no more. 🙄

[St Pete Cruiser]

Tampa/St Pete weather is clear skies and lower humidity this afternoon, better than Ft Lauderdale for now.  Just back from Ft DeSoto which is the southern tip of Pinellas County, which is a great place to watch the Tampa ships just after they pass under the Skyway Bridge.  Sadly, no HAL ships here for the first winter season in over 30 years, but Veendam returns next season.

Captain Albert, onboard Veendam, reports that Veendam will be doing a South America cruise from Tampa next season which does not show on the HAL site, at least so far.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Where we live, Comcast (xFinity) is 100% better than Verizon.  I had to give up Verizon many years ago -- they kept knocking many of us off the internet and watching TV was a nightmare -- cut us off there as well.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Storm clouds over the port area.

[fatcat04]

3 minutes ago, Krazy Kruizers said:

Where we live, Comcast (xFinity) is 100% better than Verizon.  I had to give up Verizon many years ago -- they kept knocking many of us off the internet and watching TV was a nightmare -- cut us off there as well.

We had Comcast internet for years because there just was nothing else. Horrible. Went out every time it rained. Customer service was nasty. We switched to AT&T as soon as we could and have never looked back.

 

OTOH, we had DirectTV for tv and they were fantastic! One of the best companies we have ever dealt with. I actually apologized to them for leaving when we cut cords and switched to streaming. We only switched because we found we just didn't watch enough tv to justify the monthly bill. 

[Krazy Kruizers]

9 minutes ago, fatcat04 said:

We had Comcast internet for years because there just was nothing else. Horrible. Went out every time it rained. Customer service was nasty. We switched to AT&T as soon as we could and have never looked back.

 

OTOH, we had DirectTV for tv and they were fantastic! One of the best companies we have ever dealt with. I actually apologized to them for leaving when we cut cords and switched to streaming. We only switched because we found we just didn't watch enough tv to justify the monthly bill. 

 

Looks as though companies are better in some areas compared to others.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Slow today.

[fatcat04]

1 minute ago, Krazy Kruizers said:

 

Looks as though companies are better in some areas compared to others.

So true. I think the Comcast infrastructure here is just old and outdated and they can't keep up with the competition in a very quickly expanding market.

[travelnap]

Departure toot from someone.

[travelnap]

Zuiderdam is underway.

[St Pete Cruiser]

Zuiderdam headed out.

[Happily@Sea]

NA on the move - should be lots of strong toots today between NA and Zuidy.

 

Did they change the locations for the 2 Dam ships?  I can't get the port schedule up.

 

This is Zuidy.

Edited February 8, 2020 by Happily@Sea

[VMax1700]

What is happening with the cameras and ships?

I had to go out for 20 minutes (we have a general election here and I had forgotten to go to vote).  When I got back the cameras are frozen and the ships are still there!

[Krazy Kruizers]

We need a zoom -- Zuiderdam is on the move.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Nieuw Amsterdam is also on the move.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Nice zoom on the Zuiderdam.

[mocruzer]

Serious lag on the webcams today.  Hope PTZ get the problem fixed...    

[mocruzer]

Zuidy tuning into the channel.