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There have been some comments that people who bring liquor, wine, beer, water or soda on board are cheap skates. I am sure that there are others who find a way to cut cruise costs. How about bringing lounge chairs and umbrellas so they don't have to pay the guy on the beach his $5. Or the ones who only eat at the buffet and remove the dining room tips from their charge account. I am sure that some of you can think of more. This isn't here to be flamed but for fun!

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Make your own bed.

 

When the cabin steward isn't looking, get fresh towels from his storage area and empty the waste baskets at the same time.

 

And you can always get ice from the storage area or the Lido.

 

Thus you don't need the cabin steward and you can remove that part of the auto tip as well.

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Passengers will have 2 days prior to the cruise ending to remove their tips. After that it's too late. Once the tips are removed the passenger must wear a tee shirt the rest of the cruise and off the gangway that says

 

"I Removed my Tips"

...and a bar code on the forehead.

Cheers

Mark

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There have been some comments that people who bring liquor, wine, beer, water or soda on board are cheap skates. I am sure that there are others who find a way to cut cruise costs. How about bringing lounge chairs and umbrellas so they don't have to pay the guy on the beach his $5. Or the ones who only eat at the buffet and remove the dining room tips from their charge account. I am sure that some of you can think of more. This isn't here to be flamed but for fun!

Opinions are good..everyone has one & is certainly entitled But name calling? WHY? I'm with you... what good can come of it?

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Hijack a walking tour.

 

Just follow along behind and get all the benefits of the tour, including the tour guide's narration, without having to pay a cent. Hey, bring the whole family and you could really save a few bucks. :)

 

Blue skies ...

 

--rita

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Don't think that is the right term.

 

Soda, water and wine are allowed and bringing them aboard should nt be criticized. We generally bring along cokes and 7 up for in the room use only but still visit the bars nightly.

 

With beer and liquor it is more of the "getting one over on the man" attitude than anything else. We had two people in Nursing School that prided themselves on the fact that they never purchased a text book during the course. One day they wanted to borrow one of mine to look something up and I told them to go to the bookstore. They thought I was a real horses butt for not letting them use my books. I paid for mine and if they wanted the information they could go pay for it also.....

 

It is a problem that will never be solved and will continue to have posts until all of us are dead and buried....

 

Ruth & Jim

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Hijack a walking tour.

 

Just follow along behind and get all the benefits of the tour, including the tour guide's narration, without having to pay a cent. Hey, bring the whole family and you could really save a few bucks.

 

Blue skies ...

 

--rita

 

 

 

 

 

So funny you say that.

 

We hadn't booked any tour in PEI last year and were walking in the 'downtown' area when we realized we were among a walking tour. We didnt mean to and really didn't want to but I got to thinking people would think we were trying to do just what you say.

 

The guide was in period costume and there was a group of maybe 12 or so. I'm sure they would have known we didn't belong there.

 

Obviously, we 'exited' quickly. :D

 

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Go to office depot and buy a pack of garage sale colored dots. Just find out which color they're using that day and pop one on your lapel. If the ship is using a color you don't have,just venture into town and find a group from another ship and maybe you'll have their color?

 

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Go to office depot and buy a pack of garage sale colored dots. Just find out which color they're using that day and pop one on your lapel. If the ship is using a color you don't have,just venture into town and find a group from another ship and maybe you'll have their color?

 

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Where on earth do you get those amazing graphics? WOW

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There have been some comments that people who bring liquor, wine, beer, water or soda on board are cheap skates.

 

I haven't seen comments related to the breadth of your assertion. If there are those that have the opinion that I am a cheapskate because I bring wine and water aboard, then that's their problem as far as I'm concerned. If they really want to make an issue with me about being cheap, then they have enough cannon fodder since I do go for the "cheap" seats. If someone wants more fodder, I rarely book a HAL excursion, I rarely go to the casino, I rarely buy photos, I don't buy at the art auction, I don't play bingo, I don't enter into the raffles, etc.

 

I consider these to be thrifty and frugal choices, but the important thing to me is that they are all within the acceptable behavioral guidelines that HAL has established for its pax.

 

Where the rub for me occurs is when someone openly challenges the behavioral guidelines that have been established by HAL. What's the point? If you can't live by the guidelines established but insist on sailing with HAL and encourage others to follow your lead, what label do you think is appropriate for that behavior?

 

In the posts I've read from you on this, what I have gotten is that you could afford the costs of purchasing what you want on board, but you are not doing so, and encouraging others to follow, because of some matter of principle that you have rationalized but the rationalization doesn't make sense to me because the rationalizations are about some other guy. IF you can afford the costs of getting what you want on board, then what is YOUR problem with complying? Absent a succinct statement of where your values have been compromised AND your insistence in compromising the values of others, there's ample justification for applying the label cheap, IMO.

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Go to office depot and buy a pack of garage sale colored dots. Just find out which color they're using that day and pop one on your lapel. If the ship is using a color you don't have,just venture into town and find a group from another ship and maybe you'll have their color?

 

All you need to do is to look surprised if anyone (other than the guide that has a count) points out that your sticker is missing. I haven't tried what you suggested, but I have lost a sticker.

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I went to our local Borders Books to buy guidebooks to plan our Alaska trip. One of them was obviously used, and there were even notes penned in and sections highlighted! That's a *very* liberal return policy! I bet the same person bought a gown for formal night and returned it post-cruise!

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We hadn't booked any tour in PEI last year and were walking in the 'downtown' area when we realized we were among a walking tour. We didnt mean to and really didn't want to but I got to thinking people would think we were trying to do just what you say.

 

I had the same experience on PEI. Unfortunately a quick exit wasn't practical as the tour was going where I was going. I parted ways shortly afterwards.

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Hijack a walking tour.

 

Just follow along behind and get all the benefits of the tour, including the tour guide's narration, without having to pay a cent. Hey, bring the whole family and you could really save a few bucks. :)

 

Blue skies ...

 

--rita

*sigh* My hearing isn't good enough anymore:D

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It is a problem that will never be solved and will continue to have posts until all of us are dead and buried....

 

Ruth & Jim

 

Well, we have to have something to talk about. It's part of our nature. How's the weather (we can't talk politics, so that's out)? ;)

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Well, we have to have something to talk about. It's part of our nature. How's the weather (we can't talk politics, so that's out)? ;)

 

 

I'm in Florida and it's about 96 degrees with 100 percent humidity. The A/C is cranked up and the electric meter is spinning like a top.

 

It was only a month ago we were in Alaska,it seems like we never went. I have to keep looking at my photos to convince myself we actually went. Other than that it's stifling hot.

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I'm in Florida and it's about 96 degrees with 100 percent humidity. The A/C is cranked up and the electric meter is spinning like a top.

If we're just looking for things to talk about on this thread, let me mention your sig line. I love it. I have the same slogan (Idiocy -- Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups) on a big "demotivational" poster that hangs in my office. The picture is a group of skydivers forming a circle in freefall. :)

 

I found it funny.

 

Blue skies ...

 

--rita

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There have been some comments that people who bring liquor, wine, beer, water or soda on board are cheap skates. I am sure that there are others who find a way to cut cruise costs. How about bringing lounge chairs and umbrellas so they don't have to pay the guy on the beach his $5. Or the ones who only eat at the buffet and remove the dining room tips from their charge account. I am sure that some of you can think of more. This isn't here to be flamed but for fun!

I'm waiting for someone to try to book a "Standing Room Only" reservation. No room, no bed, no closet just hang around the deck and wait for an available lounge chair for sleeping.

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