The Bistro- Off topic and fun posts!

[May B]

54 minutes ago, Keith1010 said:

Bistro on Endeavor.

 

How many of you can eat just one?

 

 

Keith

 

I can! That’s my best eating habit, limiting my quantities. Thx for asking!

 

[rafinmd]

7 hours ago, May B said:

 

I can! That’s my best eating habit, limiting my quantities. Thx for asking!

 

Me too.  For me it would be the oatmeal raisin.

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from a 2013 Veendam cruise out of Boston.  It was taken in Boston August 17, 2013 before boarding the ship:

 

 

Roy

[nancygp]

  Maybe buy Rosh Hashanah dinner from Ken and Ziggy's, why cook ityourself? (Take the carrot souffle, leave the kugel.

 

that’s my plan but I’ll be able to pick our dinner items up in person!!! 😉

 

Nancy

[KenzSailing]

Who was that masked man?

[rafinmd]

It looks like I will have 3 sunrises in a row from the same cruise, a 2013 voyage on MS Veendam.  On August 18, 2013 the Veendam was in Bar Harbor Maine.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from a 2014 cruise on MS Statendam, a combination of Radiance OTS Vancouver to Seward, returning 2 days later on the Statendam.  On August 19 we visited Glacier Bay:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's photo is from a 2013 cruise on MS Veendam.  On August 20, 2013 we visited Halafax, Canada.

 

 

Roy

[KenzSailing]

Just noticed the wrapper on the sandwich bread I have states "free from artificial preservatives." This implies that, at some point, the loaf was the prisoner of nefarious artificial preservatives. I wonder if it cut the fence, or tunneled out?

[May B]

2 hours ago, KenzSailing said:

Just noticed the wrapper on the sandwich bread I have states "free from artificial preservatives." This implies that, at some point, the loaf was the prisoner of nefarious artificial preservatives. I wonder if it cut the fence, or tunneled out?

You are too much!

 

Well, ok, I’ll amend that statement. You are fabulously exactly enough.

[Keith1010]

Just because it is Friday. 
 

[rafinmd]

I have a sunset today instead of a sunrise.  This was taken August 21, 2019 from the Empress of the Seas after visiting Costa Maya, Mexico.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my 2014 Alaska round trip, North to Seward on Radiance of the Seas and back on the Statendam.  On August 22 the Statendam visited Ketchikan.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from a 2007 Alaska trip.  It was taken on the ferry Tustumena sailing from Homer to Dutch Harbor:

 

 

Roy

[KenzSailing]

I just worked the terms "hooch" and "sawbuck" into a single post.

 

Another 2000 words, and I'm the next Dashiell Hammett.

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my 2019 getaway on the Empress of the Seas.  It was taken August 24 as we docked in Miami.

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from my 2018 Grand Alaska and Panama trip, near the end.  August 25, 2018 was Crystal Symphony's maiden call at Bimini:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Another sunrise from my 2018 Grand Alaska Panama trip.  On August 26 Crystal Symphony was at sea from Bimini to Charleston:

 

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

I have no sunrise for August 27 and am going to August 13, 2015.  I was on the way to a Blount Cruise from Portland to Saint John and on August 13 I overnighted in Boston before taking the train to Portland.

 

 

Roy

[TxDarlin]

Hello all. I didn't know where else to ask this question: On Crystal Serenity, what is used as the door key to your cabin? It is the standard "credit card" sized ID card? 

The only place I used something different was on a Princess ship...they had a device called an OceanMedallion which could be worn on a lanyard, as a necklace on a chain, or worn similarly to the "tracelet" on Crystal ships.

 

Thanks a bunch

[rafinmd]

1 hour ago, TxDarlin said:

Hello all. I didn't know where else to ask this question: On Crystal Serenity, what is used as the door key to your cabin? It is the standard "credit card" sized ID card? 

The only place I used something different was on a Princess ship...they had a device called an OceanMedallion which could be worn on a lanyard, as a necklace on a chain, or worn similarly to the "tracelet" on Crystal ships.

 

Thanks a bunch

You may want to start a new topic on the main board but in the past we have always (right up to the shutdown) it has always been the credit card sized ID.  It may have changed under the Covid protocols but I don't think so.  I last disembarked Serenity about 2 weeks before the shutdown,

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is among the last from my 2018 Grand Alaska Panama journey.  August 28 was Crystal Symphony's last sea day traveling from Charleston to New York.

 

 

Roy

[BWIVince]

4 hours ago, TxDarlin said:

Hello all. I didn't know where else to ask this question: On Crystal Serenity, what is used as the door key to your cabin? It is the standard "credit card" sized ID card? 

The only place I used something different was on a Princess ship...they had a device called an OceanMedallion which could be worn on a lanyard, as a necklace on a chain, or worn similarly to the "tracelet" on Crystal ships.

 

Thanks a bunch

According to the trip reports Ive heard from Symphony and Serenity so far, they still are using the mag stripe on your cruise card for the door locks on the staterooms, and the wearable tracking devices are unrelated to the doors, unlike the Ocean Medallions.  
 

According to Keith’s reports, the stateroom doors on Endeavor are using the near-field contactless cards to unlock (that you just hold up near the lock and don’t insert), but it sounded like those were also separate from the tracing wearables as well. 

 

Vince

[rafinmd]

Today's sunrise is from the snakebitten 2012 trio of Crystal Symphony cruises that featured a very stormy Transatlantic, a missed call in St. Pierre, and the Superstorm Sandy debacle.  It started with an Eastbound transatlantic on QM2 and August 29 was our first sea day.

 

 

Roy

[TxDarlin]

15 hours ago, BWIVince said:

According to the trip reports Ive heard from Symphony and Serenity so far, they still are using the mag stripe on your cruise card for the door locks on the staterooms, and the wearable tracking devices are unrelated to the doors, unlike the Ocean Medallions.  
 

According to Keith’s reports, the stateroom doors on Endeavor are using the near-field contactless cards to unlock (that you just hold up near the lock and don’t insert), but it sounded like those were also separate from the tracing wearables as well. 

 

Vince

Thank you, just wanted to know what kind of gear I needed to bring to manage my door key. I hope more ships go with something more like the Ocean Medallions. You just had reach for the cabin door and it was unlocked and ready to enter. Very cool. 😎