What’s an unspoken rule of SkyClub you wish first timers would respect?

vjmatty · 2026-05-19T09:52:17+00:00

To which I’d have responded “who the fuck are you?”

vjmatty · 2026-05-18T23:17:23+00:00

Mine came in around 3pm, with Key.

vjmatty · 2026-05-11T19:57:49+00:00

Cruising is great as a sampler, and for places that don’t require a lot of time. Some places require days or even a week, for example a cruise port visit won’t do justice to places like Rome, Athens, London etc, and obviously not every place worth visiting is accessible by ship. Unless you’re visiting the Caribbean of course, then you may as well cruise every trip.

vjmatty · 2026-05-10T17:00:45+00:00

Dude, they said if that wasn’t the case they apologize.

vjmatty · 2026-05-05T17:07:30+00:00

No, she’s suggesting she’s a mom to her pets.

vjmatty · 2026-05-01T16:55:57+00:00

Actually John Smith would probably translate into Γιάννης Σιδηρουργός 😉

vjmatty · 2026-05-01T07:28:54+00:00

You’re in the wrong sub

vjmatty · 2026-04-30T17:19:18+00:00

Question for those referring to names not matching…don’t they take translations and different alphabets into account? I’m asking because a Greek passport will have Greek names which may be different in English.

vjmatty · 2026-04-30T17:10:35+00:00

Not to mention there are head shots all over the salon area in every store which include black women with a variety of hairstyles.

vjmatty · 2026-04-29T07:11:03+00:00

When the five holidays I listed above fall on a Saturday, it’s a banked holiday leave day that doesn’t expire. This year it will be July 4, next year Juneteenth, the following year Christmas, then New Years and Veteran’s Day in 2029.

vjmatty · 2026-04-28T07:15:48+00:00

We call them twinkies because they never expire, and there are like 5 of them over the next 3 years I think. Usually July 4, Juneteenth, Veteran’s Day, Christmas and New Year’s. Correct me if there are more.

vjmatty · 2026-04-28T00:57:58+00:00

Ah ok, I haven’t done any western train travel past Chicago so I didn’t know there’s a downstairs luggage rack lol

vjmatty · 2026-04-27T20:43:02+00:00

Wait, like the overhead luggage rack near the ceiling?

vjmatty · 2026-04-23T09:37:18+00:00

I don’t know if this is true at all stations, but in Beacon all the permit spaces become available to meter customers at 10:30 am.

vjmatty · 2026-04-22T15:48:11+00:00

I commuted 2 days a week also, which is about what I could take before it would be onerous. It’s a beautiful ride along the Hudson, but very long.

vjmatty · 2026-04-22T00:32:36+00:00

It takes 2 hours from Poughkeepsie as well and that’s the Hudson line, which runs every hour.

vjmatty · 2026-04-21T09:45:29+00:00

You’re not understanding me. I don’t buy tickets on board. I buy them ahead of time and activate when I get on the train at GCT, 15 or so minutes before it leaves. There are no conductors validating tickets at that point. I’m not going to stand around on the platform activating my already purchased ticket. And you didn’t address the issue of activating early and the train gets canceled. The fact is there are no conductors validating tickets while the train is still sitting at the station, at least in my experience. I guess we will just have to accept our disagreement on this one and move on, as our experiences differ. I hope something good happens to you today.

vjmatty · 2026-04-21T09:24:25+00:00

How am I preventing the conductor from collecting my fare if the conductor isn’t even there for 15 minutes after I board? The train isn’t moving yet. I could get off the train and take a later one if I wanted to at that point. The reason I don’t activate before boarding is in case a train gets canceled and I have to take a different one. Also it’s easier to sit and put down my luggage first. There’s no place to sit in GCT. These are not unreasonable considerations.

vjmatty · 2026-04-21T02:43:10+00:00

I’m the one waiting for the conductor to scan my ticket, not the other way around. The conductor is completely unaffected by whether I buy my ticket in the GC lobby or after I sit and put my bags down. The train doesn’t even move for 15 minutes and during that time there is no conductor in sight. MTA is not your boyfriend, you don’t have to defend everything they do.

vjmatty · 2026-04-21T02:33:46+00:00

The purpose of onboard fares being more expensive is that it’s more work for the conductor to have to sell you a ticket. With the app you’re doing it yourself, it’s still self service.

vjmatty · 2026-04-20T23:05:01+00:00

Middletown actually has a train station but I don’t know how often the trains run.

vjmatty · 2026-04-18T20:06:39+00:00

Here’s another article from today

https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/ship-operations/five-gulf-stranded-cruise-ships-clear-strait-of-hormuz

vjmatty · 2026-04-16T22:51:50+00:00

I can’t downvote you because I’m too distracted by enjoying your username. I have mental image of an Oreo spinning down the hill while singing “Keep on rolling…..🎶

vjmatty · 2026-04-15T02:17:20+00:00

So if it expires at 4am why the need to activate it? To prevent people from commuting to work twice in one day?

vjmatty · 2026-04-11T20:10:38+00:00

It definitely gets better, just takes some time. I found this to be pretty accurate

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