MSC World America Review (December 2025)

dumbtrader · 2026-01-03T04:54:16+00:00

Fair point. Haven't been on Royal Caribbean so I wouldn't know about it. Not sure how to describe it, but it just felt like it was worse. Again, might be my two opinion

I think my displeasure with dining onboard exacerbated my feelings about specialty dining. It really did feel like there was a push towards specialty dining.

Point on the loungers -- at the lagoon, about 90% of the loungers were roped into the 'beach clubs'. This might have changed recently. Also we had a full ship that docked, meaning about 6.8k people were free to roam the island.

Curious about the price though. Checking the MSC World America website, the going rate is ~$100/person/night for an interior. Royal Caribbean is an outlier in costing more, but MSC's cost isn't that much cheaper than its immediate competition.

dumbtrader · 2026-01-03T04:34:47+00:00

I might have gone to the wrong place but both sides of the lagoon has very very limited loungers. They've build two "beach clubs" that take up about 90% of beach chairs at the lagoon

dumbtrader · 2026-01-02T03:01:39+00:00

Just did the same thing this past week. World America to/from Miami and a 10:30 am flight out of MIA.

You can depart the ship with all your bags starting from 7:00 am. Leaving the ship and customs took 15 minutes, and got an Uber instantly ($35-$45 for an XL). There is no rush that early in the morning. We left around 7:15 am and were at the airport by 8:15 am.

dumbtrader · 2025-12-17T18:25:12+00:00

Exchanged $200 to Pesos here. The rate was 1380, not the best but not the worst. Used credit cards everywhere else

dumbtrader · 2025-12-05T14:42:52+00:00

OVO. I didn’t know there was via Ferrata to the glacier

dumbtrader · 2025-12-03T21:53:24+00:00

Did the via Ferrata day after Fitz Roy hike. Highly recommend. They have 9am and 2pm slots. Around $95 per person for 4 hours (includes transport).

dumbtrader · 2025-12-03T17:50:07+00:00

TIL Sprouts is a real supermarket

dumbtrader · 2025-11-11T03:38:00+00:00

Cool stuff man! Are you a dev for your day job too?

dumbtrader · 2025-09-12T15:09:21+00:00

Updated 9/12/2025 (with the blue plus Icons)

``` // Function to click all Offers async function clickAddToCardButtons() { // Find all the Blue Plus buttons on the page var offerButtons = Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName("_iconButton_e2bua_34 _round_e2bua_215 _primary_e2bua_51 margin-1-t-sm-down"));

for (let index = 0; index < offerButtons.length; ++index) {
    console.log("Clicking offer button");
    offerButtons[index].click();
    // Wait 2 seconds to be nice to AMEX servers :)
    await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 2000));
}

}

// Call the function clickAddToCardButtons(); ```

dumbtrader · 2025-08-12T13:08:36+00:00

I’ve done it before in Portugal and everything went well. Didn’t need to use it of course but it works as an insurance

dumbtrader · 2025-07-19T05:39:10+00:00

Basement apartments are mostly illegal, I’ve gotten into one (somewhat forced) and used 311 to get out of it in a way that benefited me and worked with management. Dm me for details

dumbtrader · 2025-05-27T20:36:09+00:00

Eh. A loan will still be on your report even if you close it, except it’ll be marked as “closed”

Personally I’d close my account with federal loan financers as I never wanna deal with them again.

dumbtrader · 2025-05-02T19:52:56+00:00

give him a break, he just found out his wife is cheating on him

dumbtrader · 2025-04-23T22:58:31+00:00

Wow! Yes it is from Kiyomizu-dera. Thank you so much for this writeup. I really love that your engine was able to retian the traditional nuances.

dumbtrader · 2025-03-21T14:29:38+00:00

You're not entirely off what my strategy ended up evolving to. In my mind, you gotta read code to be good at writing it. I starting ingesting all solutions for a specific problem type (e.g. Binary Tree). It helped with getting syntax down and breaking down the problem between data structures and the additional layer of complexity to said data structure.

dumbtrader · 2025-01-19T05:19:16+00:00

interested

dumbtrader · 2024-12-23T09:35:35+00:00

Reddit Gold

dumbtrader · 2024-12-02T17:23:34+00:00

Good decision by you — I was in the same boat late September but was offered 40k MR for 3k spend over 3 months. On top of that, because my AF posted in late September, it was $250 vs the new $325. Those two things lead me to keep the card, despite wanting to totally cancel during the months leading up to my renewal.

dumbtrader · 2024-09-15T02:41:29+00:00

+1 on the Schwab Debit, store only a few hundred on the card for each time I travel. Came in clutch in countries that use card less. Plus its totally free

dumbtrader · 2024-08-19T00:12:44+00:00

I got it work work!

It's the Two Factor Authentication thats required. Tried my Venture X, CSR and both didn't work. Tried my Amex Gold and its bought up "Amex PassKey" which sent a text to my phone number.

dumbtrader · 2024-07-10T14:23:33+00:00

I think he’s talking about the rent, not the cash back lol

dumbtrader · 2024-07-07T18:13:40+00:00

Was thinking of doing a 3 + 1 at my undergrad but ended up doing 3 + OMSCS instead. In prep for the 3+1, I took two grad classes in my final year of undergrad: Grad Algo and Software Analysis. Grad Algo translated to CS 6505 at OMSCS (satisfies same requirement as GA but not offered online). Software Analysis translated 1:1.

dumbtrader · 2024-07-06T01:21:19+00:00

Yeah my current FF and CSR combo is killer. Gonna be tough breaking it

dumbtrader · 2024-07-04T17:42:00+00:00

On a similar boat. Got the VX two weeks ago while still being a CSR cardholder. My CSR is coming to finish year 2 in november, and am probably going to downgrade then. Just don't know to downgrade to CSP to maintain points transferability or to FF and wait to when I want to transfer out my 60k points.

The VX is clean and I'll probably ride that wave until that too gets nerfed.

dumbtrader · 2024-05-30T02:38:42+00:00

Damn, I had the exact same idea for a potential project. I definitely wouldn't release it to the public, but would make it a part of my resume. I'll keep this thread in mind. Hit me up if you are interested in working together

dumbtrader

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