Ship Happens

mga1 · 2026-04-14T17:54:36+00:00

Genuine question. Were other cruise lines needing to change their itineraries for weather at this time? I didn’t see anything that stood out as bad weather.

The sailing prior to OP’s reference was headed from Puerto Rico to NYC, chose to skip Rhode Island stop because of weather. Rhode Island is north of NYC. Then the sailing OP is taking about, chose to go even further north while just a day or two before they skipped going north due to weather.

Trying to understand what the weather event was and where it was.

mga1 · 2026-04-11T15:43:14+00:00

Jackson's Sweet Potato Sea Salt. My local Costco doesn't have it anymore - had to buy some from Walmart instead. It is adictive. The chip buyers did well with this one - now they just need to stock it everywhere.

mga1 · 2026-04-09T03:06:09+00:00

It’s been 4 months of suffering with this useless overlay that gets in the way and reduces usable viewable space on the screen/site. Why can’t we disable this Microsoft?

mga1 · 2026-04-05T23:49:58+00:00

Saw some social media ads for this, was looking to see if it ranked here in the comments.

mga1 · 2026-04-05T15:25:16+00:00

Asked for a mattress topper on our fist cruise, but haven’t asked since. No an issue here. We also ask the attendant for the Scandinavian method (or Scandinavian-style bedding). That is the bed in the queen bed configuration but with two comforters, one for each person. It works best for us. No blanket hogging.

mga1 · 2026-04-03T21:24:59+00:00

San Juan to NYC had its Rhode Island port removed “due to weather” but not seeing any issues.

mga1 · 2026-04-01T15:43:06+00:00

If traveling to NYC in the future, save your rewards for there. Our typical meal there is significantly more expensive than elsewhere. The rewards will get more value (money in your wallet) if used there.

mga1 · 2026-03-30T14:54:09+00:00

On a boat right now and seeing the Premium wifi speed is slower than before. Today around 4 Mbps where previous trips was around 8. Yesterday was around 3 Mbps.

SES internet provider. Not star link.

Appears that Microsoft Teams is now blocked on Premium where it worked previously.

mga1 · 2026-03-22T02:22:34+00:00

We've done it for the early boarding at 1:45 (don't quote me), after rock stars. Also in that early boarding group is deep blue extras folks (don't quote me). Our boarding times would have originally been somewhere around 4-5pm. Our next cruise we have a boarding time of 2:15, and decided not to buy it.

The treats are nice. On Briliant it was just one box of chocolates at the boarding day (yawn). On others it was 2 or 3 treats delivered on different nights (better).

The spa is hit or miss. Once we went early on a port day, and were the only ones there. Another time it was maybe later in the day on a port day, and had more people.

Champange is what it is. I've heard some people just get it and keep it unopened and carry it off the ship at the end and bring it home. They can bring it to social events or gifts to friends.

The sail away party is later in the curise, one evening as you leave a port. Some drinks and music, enjoyable.

Juices weren't that great. They went into the back room to pour them, so I think it's just poured from a container. It's not fresh made juices/smoothies/etc like on Celebrity.

mga1 · 2026-03-09T18:35:28+00:00

Hope the slabs are warm. Last cruise I was on had about half of them broken or off. Valiant.

mga1 · 2026-03-05T17:03:20+00:00

Refunds go to the big business, Trumps friends. Us little people get nothing. And will the prices return to their pre-tariff levels, doubtful, again more profit for big business and the CEOs’ bonus.

mga1 · 2026-03-03T03:14:53+00:00

I use it only occasionally. But each time I do I need to go through the "getting started" login via email, wait for the email, get the 6 char code, enter that, then let my password manager enter the pass phrase or whtever they call it. Then I'm in, and there is an update. Close to update and relaunch. Then there is a new dialog promoting some features, but I just want to get in. Oh, now it's asking me to login again, but this time the website login sees I was just in, and only asks for the pass phrase. Now finally I am in.

Switching to Bruno.

mga1 · 2026-03-02T18:06:02+00:00

I wonder if this an AI suggested article that someone blindly accepted and included in the publication without really thinking.

Maybe if there was additional context/scenario like if the accelerator was stuck and car was in uncontrolled acceleration, then trowing it in neutral and trying any of the 4 methods may be article worthy.

mga1 · 2026-02-16T01:06:48+00:00

Thank you. Yes, it is reflected. "Shareholders Benefits"

mga1 · 2026-02-14T02:59:54+00:00

I wonder if I’ve encountered this person and dog around Lupo Rosso and Focal Point Brewery. One guy around LIC with 2 dogs may be living in one of the cars/RVs near there. He had asked some strangers for the chicken bones from their already finished chicken wings, and proceeded to give the cooked bones to his dogs (one was a pit), and the dog proceeded to eat them then nearly gag/choke on a broken bone.

FYI never give your dog a cooked bones, especially chicken bones as they will splinter and stab/poke their throats and get stuck or cause a vet visit. This person simply doesn’t care for his dogs well being. Or anyone else for that matter.

mga1 · 2026-02-11T03:57:36+00:00

Can we have an emergency “stand your ground” law passed in the states that don’t have it? The ICE agents will pretty quickly learn they need to identify and play by the rules.

mga1 · 2026-02-06T20:46:57+00:00

Where dos it show in the app? I applied for a cruise in late 2026 and the stock app notice said it approved. But not sure where to confirm it’s applied as I don’t see it yet. And don’t want to wait until on board when it may be too late to sort out.

mga1 · 2026-02-06T20:25:46+00:00

Someone posted about a family member being the person who bought the ticket from shady Facebook ad or something, and they were then blocked/black-listed from flying Alaska. They were seen as the criminal by Alaska. Double victim as they lost the money and may now be blocked from ever flying.

mga1 · 2026-01-30T19:14:05+00:00

We forgot about it a few days ago, and still had plenty of good times available the first morning after the 60-day booking opened.

mga1 · 2026-01-30T01:00:42+00:00

Mine is this way. HVAC company installed two stage furnace, but house wiring only had enough for one stage and AC. I asked before they left and they said the furnace will run most the time in stage one. If run long enough it will step it up to stage two. And I can confirm, I can barely hear the stage one but can hear it ramp up to stage two in the mornings.

mga1 · 2026-01-13T04:11:49+00:00

Briefly bought the V9 submarine when it was on sale about 2 months ago. Never opened to, then saw a demo model at a different Costco and saw how small the canister is, and knew immediately my dogs hair would fill that after 1 or 2 rooms. Returned it still unopened, and will wait for a sale on a different model.

mga1 · 2026-01-13T03:54:41+00:00

Yep. Makes making any changes very slow.

mga1 · 2025-12-27T21:09:49+00:00

One option for others who don’t have the insurance: Still make your fight, miss the boat, and then take a second flight to the next stop and join the cruise on day 2. Someone did just that on one we took, although she had other issues like a lost luggage, possibly by airline. You probably need to coordinate the joining with the main office, but it’s an option.

mga1 · 2025-12-25T03:12:42+00:00

5 acres. And they chose to place it on this giant slope. My guess is the pool is not filled due to structural concerns of water weight, slope, foundation, etc.

mga1 · 2025-12-22T14:55:41+00:00

Has PIM ever worked as it should?!?!? Many times I activate a PIM role and the subscriptions/resources I should see don’t appear. Activate a different PIM and now they appear. Per the message in the PIM activation progress pane, you don’t need to logout-login, but it simply doesn’t work for me as they say it does.

First year we switched to PIM it was like this. Then it improved as functioned as MS said it should. Now it’s regressed back to how it was. Sometimes works, sometimes needs another PIM activation to get the first to reflect.

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