Royal Caribbean Cruisers -- How Are Things Where You Are? (was "Routine" ​ 😁 ​day in lockdown... how was yours?)

[HBE4]

14 hours ago, dbancroft said:

My wife and I celebrated our 42nd anniversary on Oct 2nd. Just had dinner at home with grandkids. We watched Dr Odyssey it was nice seeing Shania Twain.

 

5 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

Just watching the second episode of Dr Odyssey and it’s getting better. Shania Twain was on it and a past cast member from Glee. Still some very unrealistic aspects (fire place in the Captain’s room and lit candles), but this week episode was a singles cruise and it did provide some laughs. 
 

Part way through this episode it started to remind me of Hank MD (a house Dr in the Hamptons), but on a cruise ship.  Lisa agreed with me. 

 

I love love love Shania Twain so I'll make sure to watch it. I had just posted a very wordy review of my thoughts of the show on the Dr Odyssey thread. Basically not typically my type of show but found somewhat enjoyable. I wouldn't expect much in the way of realism from this type of show. The creator - Ryan Murphy - also created Glee & American Horror Story so it's kinda cool that a past Glee cast member show up. Can Lady GaGa or Jessica Lange be far behind? ☺️

 

Oh, and Happy Anniversary to @dbancroft

 

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[Ocean Boy]

6 hours ago, A&L_Ont said:

Just watching the second episode of Dr Odyssey and it’s getting better. Shania Twain was on it and a past cast member from Glee. Still some very unrealistic aspects (fire place in the Captain’s room and lit candles), but this week episode was a singles cruise and it did provide some laughs. 
 

Part way through this episode it started to remind me of Hank MD (a house Dr in the Hamptons), but on a cruise ship.  Lisa agreed with me. 

I understand they did a cardiac catheterization on a patient. All this medical equipment must be why they couldn't afford to put slides, a rock wall, and Flowrider up on the top deck.

[Ocean Boy]

3 hours ago, helen haywood said:

Yikes!  Not me!!  That’s the middle of the night!!!  🤭

I'm at the hospital by 5AM every day.

[DaniDanielle]

4 hours ago, Luckynana said:

Happy 42nd Anniversary, Dave and Dawn. Here's to many years of happiness!!!❤️

+1

[h20skibum]

4 hours ago, helen haywood said:

Yikes!  Not me!!  That’s the middle of the night!!!  🤭

 

2 hours ago, HBE4 said:

 

 

Same. I woke up around 6:00 am, looked at the clock, rolled over, punched the pillow and went back to sleep for another 2 1/2 hours. 😇

 

1 hour ago, Ocean Boy said:

I'm at the hospital by 5AM every day.

Most days, by the time 6:30 rolls around, I will have bee up for three hours. Three newspapers read, half pot of coffee gone, and I will have spent a half hour in the hot tub already watching Fox and Friends.  
 

 

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[helen haywood]

I’m happy there are people I can count on to keep an eye on the world in the wee morning hours.  I’ll take over later…

 

Aside:  if I started my day with MSM I’d go back to bed…

[ATG]

I have a question that I hope someone knows about. Next summer we are sailing on Independence out of Southampton. We plan to spend about 4 days in London afterwards. I happened to check the RC site for booking hotels and they are WAY cheaper. One hotel was £340 per night on the hotel site and $360 on RC. I double checked that I had the currency right. Has anyone used them? What was your experience? I’ve booked flights through RC and had no problems, but these prices are so good they make me cautious.

 

[HBE4]

2 hours ago, helen haywood said:

I’m happy there are people I can count on to keep an eye on the world in the wee morning hours.  I’ll take over later…

 

I got the midnight shift! 👍😄

[h20skibum]

1 hour ago, ATG said:

I have a question that I hope someone knows about. Next summer we are sailing on Independence out of Southampton. We plan to spend about 4 days in London afterwards. I happened to check the RC site for booking hotels and they are WAY cheaper. One hotel was £340 per night on the hotel site and $360 on RC. I double checked that I had the currency right. Has anyone used them? What was your experience? I’ve booked flights through RC and had no problems, but these prices are so good they make me cautious.

 

Maybe it depends on what hotel you are looking at.  When we went, we stayed at the Park Plaza Victoria Station.  We booked direct.  I did a quick check on Royal’s site and on the hotel site, and they were fairly close in price for a few days I selected in July.

 

We thought it would be convenient to use the Victoria Station tubes to get around, but we only used them once.  We ended up walking everywhere, but then we love to walk.

 

Don’t know what your transportation plans are, but we used International Friends for a tour of Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge, and Windsor Castle after the cruise, and they dropped us and our luggage at our hotel in London.  
 

We had thought about using the tubes from Victoria to go to LHR, but after riding them we had the hotel arrange a black car service to take us to the airport after our stay.

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[Sunshine3601]

21 hours ago, dbancroft said:

My wife and I celebrated our 42nd anniversary on Oct 2nd. Just had dinner at home with grandkids. We watched Dr Odyssey it was nice seeing Shania Twain.

Happy 42nd Anniversary.   🎉💐

[Sunshine3601]

15 hours ago, sgmn said:

So upset that next year there's no 14 nights from Southampton down into the Med with Royal Caribbean. Just one 12 night Madeira and Canaries and a few 9 night down the Atlantic coast of Portugal and Spain.  

It was our first to Canaries, was booked two years ago but had to cancel due family issues.

 

We were very lucky with the weather, warm and sunny even on the last two sea days back to Southampton 

I wasn't finding much of interest for next September or October with Royal.

 

We've been wanting to give Celebrity a try.  I'll check out their fall cruises for that area this weekend.

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