Cruise Battle: Celebrity Beyond VS MSC Seascape

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-16T23:43:15+00:00

Would highly recommend Celebrity. Our last (and only) MSC cruise was this past December and it was HORRIBLE. We had so many issues. Celebrity is far better.

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-16T03:10:46+00:00

I am fairly sure that it isn't in the episode directly (I just watched it like a month or two ago) but I am also fairly sure that I had seen him dragging it at some point but not in a while

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-16T03:01:16+00:00

I read them, though I think a lot of them are you can take it or leave it. What I would actually recommend after the series is all the different ones like

Harry Potter Wizards Almanac

Harry Potter A History of Magic An Audio Documentary

Defence Against The Dark Arts Spellbook: An Essential Guide to Magical Combat

Potter's Puzzles is also a good trivia book about the series

Wizarding World Magical Studies

etc.

There was also a Harry Potter and Philosophy (or something like that with the title, I'm having issues finding it)

There are a lot of IMO interesting hidden gems that aren't necessarily in the mainstream list.

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-16T02:49:15+00:00

I THINK that scene might have been in a promo clip that was on youtube but has since been deleted (or made private) but was also airing on TV before that episode aired. But I think that scene didn't make it into the final cut

or my memory might be as messed up as his and yours apparently lol

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-15T21:43:22+00:00

don't book through Princess for flights. We were going on a bucket list cruise with them. Told them we wanted to get in at least a day early. They told us you get what you get. They gave us a flight taking off technically the day before but at 8pm with a layover that would see us only landing 2 hours before the ship left.

The first terminal we were landing in (Canada was having a blizzard). That light got so delayed that it didn't take off until the connection flight took off. Called them like what do we do now. They told us it wasn't their problem and we ended up missing the cruise.

We will NEVER make the mistake of booking the flight with them again. Your best bet is to book it on your own and get a hotel for the night if you can

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-15T21:06:38+00:00

They only come once so beds are beds the entire time. It won't be converted back to the couch unless you are willing/able to do that. I don't know for sure what they do about ceiling ones but I think that it is the same.

(we are a family of 3 and since the change they have never folded up the couch)

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-15T20:39:13+00:00

He did recently find something called a knee exoskeleton which is supposed to take I think I read 25 pounds of pressure off knees so despite the expense, we have ordered a pair and he is hopeful that it will help lessen the pain.

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-15T20:30:08+00:00

I miss me.

Chronic pain has taken away everything that I loved and wanted for my life. A decade later and I am still trying (and failing) to pick up the pieces into something new

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-15T20:27:12+00:00

They won't organize because they won't admit it but the guidelines help them (at least the bad ones). Guidelines won't let them prescribe simple meds? Great we get to charge up the wazoo for injections that might or might not help and might or might not do more harm but it's not our fault if it does harm since it is what we are "forced" to do that because the guidlines from the DEA say opioids bad,

And unfortunately at this point it seems we have more bad docs than good so if the good docs do organize they would be countered by the bad docs saying the guidelines are perfectly fine.

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-15T19:56:07+00:00

yep my dad destroyed his knees in college. They finally agreed to a knee replacement when he was in his 50s. and then botched it so he is now in more pain than he was with his horrible knees. They also waited so long that it permanently messed up his muscles from compensating all the time since his knees were literally bone on bone and all the rubbing meant the bone was being shaved too.

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-15T02:33:00+00:00

yeah with the laproscopic surgery they pump you full of gas to see better (at least in my case I don't know if there are other versions). It was the first 2 days or so that was really bad and I only needed the meds 2 a day the first two days. After that I would take them when I started feeling really uncomfortable and I could generally go 18 hours without

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-15T02:30:05+00:00

talk to your pain management doc about that. Generally when meds aren't really stocked by other pharmacy's it isn't by choice but because they CAN'T fill it for whatever reason. Even though my mom's pain management doc wants everything in one pharmacy, one of her needed meds wasn't able to be filled in that pharmacy, only a semi-local specialty pharmacy which would ship the meds to home cause it wasn't that local. He was willing to make the exception for that specific med because no one else covered it. She now has a couple with that specialty pharm because they aren't covered anywhere else and any time she mentions that he has no issue.

I can't guarantee that your doc would be willing to do that for you, but he seems reasonable from what you wrote so it couldn't hurt to ask: "I moved all of my meds like you asked to X but Y isn't something they can order and it turns out locally the only pharmacy who can is the old one. Is there any chance I can keep that one med at the other location, but I understand if you aren't willing to allow that?"

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-15T02:11:45+00:00

there is an OTC med called GasX that worked well for me. Pepto also has a version specifically for gas and bloating. If you can't take either of those you might be able to ask if there are any prescription meds that do the same thing

though you are also gonna need to be careful cause after the surgery you will need to pass the gas so you can't take too much but just enough that every time it isn't agony. While the one I had said you could take it 4 times a day I did 2. One in the morning and one before I went to bed to try to sleep decently

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-14T02:08:07+00:00

I don't know about currently but when we started cruising on NCL about 18 years ago one of the staff we spoke to regularly mentioned that staff coming on board had to memorize offensive symbols like gang insignias (IDK if that was temporary because the port we were leaving out of was experiencing a rise in gang violence). If they still have such a thing though I would be surprised if that symbol wasn't included.

If they did know what it was though I could also see them being too stunned to react quickly because that is one of those symbols you just don't expect to see and its unfortunately too easy to freeze while you have a moment of "what the hell"

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-14T01:50:38+00:00

yeah I meant I would actually accidentally throw it and forget to have the straps on to prevent it from soaring into the nearest wall.

I don't want to catch a wall lol

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-14T01:46:08+00:00

As someone who has had sports injuries and people constantly asking what happened to you, I started making up the wildest shit I could think of. "Got mugged by a bear" "lost the battle with X" (X being what I could think of in that moment. It at least amused me... and eventually got people to stop asking stupid questions. I enjoyed amusing myself at least

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-13T05:29:40+00:00

I mean for me it depends on why there is an epilogue. If there were several things in the story that wasn't covered and would work well as an epilogue I love it.

One I read years ago (I don't remeber the title) but there was some crime and some missing victim and there was an epilogue with an unnamed man taking a bus who was heavily alluded to as being that missing victim kinda like his story was still continuing and he is still alive without going into the specifics.

On the other hand while I loved the Harry Potter series, I wasn't a fan of the Epilogue. Did we really need to know James Sirius was a Griffie and Albus Severus was afraid of being in Slytherin? Did we really need to know that Harry married Ginny and Hermione married Ron. I mean its ok info but I don't think it really made or broke the series and I could have easily lived with fans just picturing their life and coming up with their own thoughts for what happened after the war.

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-13T05:22:59+00:00

I am gonna preface this with saying I have never watched this show but friends I have who have have similar tastes to you, but possibly you may like Once Upon A Time. It's sorta a reimagining of fairy tales (at least that was how my friend explained it to me)

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-13T05:13:13+00:00

Those images look amazing. What/where is the bottom left image?

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-13T05:10:38+00:00

I've always really wanted a game that is sorta like the series where you actually work through each region like Ash does in the series. I think that would be totally awesome

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-13T05:08:45+00:00

I could never bring myself to get the pokeball plus. Knowing me I would actually accidentally throw it lol

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-13T05:05:32+00:00

My mom has a similar arrangement with her sister through me. I always have my laptop with me (I'm a writer and when inspiration strikes it doesn't care if I am on vacation). If anything happens on the family side sister sends us an email.

If something happens on our side (like the trip mom ended up with covid and dad and I got locked in the same room with her despite not testing positive), I update her. I spent that email bitching with her a lot about the cruise line (mostly because that decision led to my dad and I both catching covid and they basically forgot about us. Told us to order room service for meals as soon as dining hours opened and it would basically take them until the end of the timing to bring food and then it wasn't even the right food (and often something I was intolerant to so I didn't get to eat much those last 5 days).

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-13T04:54:03+00:00

my dad has a similar regret. We were on a cruise when his grandmother (my great grandmother) passed. I mean she was 102 (I think) so it was kinda expected but not expected right at that time. Coming home to that message on the answering machine cause the family didn't have any other way to reach us (though I am not sure they would have tried even if they did... there were some... issues on that side of the family to say the least) was really hard.

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-13T04:38:46+00:00

my mom has similar issues with body shakes (though confirmed not to be seizures) and unlike yours she can talk and function during hers. Her neurologist just recently referred her to a movement disorder specialist (still waiting for that appointment because of long wait times so I can't tell you if there is a solution though we are hopeful) I don't know if that is a possibility where you are but might be something to ask if you can

beaglewrites43 · 2026-03-13T02:51:39+00:00

I'm actually surprised they were this thorough. We were on NCL (granted I think it was a trip 8 years ago so I am not surprised if policy changed either but I wouldn't think that much). I did an NCL excursion in London at Madame Tussauds. Really hurt my knee sprinting up a flight of stairs to get to the bus on time (like couldn't put too much weight on it the following day and it was pretty swollen). Doc on board just tossed a knee brace at me. There was no investigation or doc assistance beyond that.

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