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$16k bed and detached guest house. That's how you Surly.

So the beds have LED lighting that illuminate underneath, presumably so you can locate things like slippers, socks, etc.

Last night I come into the bedroom, she is sleeping, her side of the floor is lit up like daylight, and it took me a few minutes to locate her bed remote so I could douse the light.
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I was definitely in the NO CRUISE camp up until this year.  Did a Royal Caribbean cruise to Mexico a few months back, and it's changed my opinion.  I'm still not planning on anything Carnival, especially out of Florida.  But there's something for everyone on board, and with the kids, it's a great alternative to dragging ass around Walt's torture park.

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2 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

I was definitely in the NO CRUISE camp up until this year.  Did a Royal Caribbean cruise to Mexico a few months back, and it's changed my opinion.  I'm still not planning on anything Carnival, especially out of Florida.  But there's something for everyone on board, and with the kids, it's a great alternative to dragging ass around Walt's torture park.

Not a big fan for cruises either, but did an Alaskan Cruise for my wife's birthday a year or two ago (second I've ever done besides being on a Navy ship).  Norweigan.   If you have the money the key is to find the "exclusive" cruising package and pay for it.  Norweigan has something called "Haven" where you are in your own (badged entry) section.  Have your own restaurant just for Haven guests, own bar, own pool, several hot tubs and the top deck of the ship is only for Haven guests (best view on the ship).    You can go anywhere but retreat back there.  Also, you have a butler, concierge and head of the line (express elevator) exit and entry to the ship when leaving for excursions.  So instead of fighting 3K people to exit they express elevator you to the exit front of the line and express you back onboard and up your special elevator.

It was nice and avoided the "commoners".  We did outside restaurants and events, including our own escort and seating to the shows/musicals.  Did we get an occasional side eye from the masses...yes.  But that made it even more enjoyable.

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2 minutes ago, ABSR said:

Not a big fan for cruises either, but did an Alaskan Cruise for my wife's birthday a year or two ago (second I've ever done besides being on a Navy ship).  Norweigan.   If you have the money the key is to find the "exclusive" cruising package and pay for it.  Norweigan has something called "Haven" where you are in your own (badged entry) section.  Have your own restaurant just for Haven guests, own bar, own pool, several hot tubs and the top deck of the ship is only for Haven guests (best view on the ship).    You can go anywhere but retreat back there.  Also, you have a butler, concierge and head of the line (express elevator) exit and entry to the ship when leaving for excursions.  So instead of fighting 3K people to exit they express elevator you to the exit front of the line and express you back onboard and up your special elevator.

It was nice and avoided the "commoners".  We did outside restaurants and events, including our own escort and seating to the shows/musicals.  Did we get an occasional side eye from the masses...yes.  But that made it even more enjoyable.

Did your wife enjoy the escort, too, or was that just for you?

We were definitely amongst the commoners, but it was a smaller ship (Mariner of the Seas) and the crowd wasn't bad.  It probably helped we didn't wander around much after 8pm and stuck to the pool deck or shows.

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10 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

I was definitely in the NO CRUISE camp up until this year.  Did a Royal Caribbean cruise to Mexico a few months back, and it's changed my opinion.  I'm still not planning on anything Carnival, especially out of Florida.  But there's something for everyone on board, and with the kids, it's a great alternative to dragging ass around Walt's torture park.

We have friends who LOOOOOVE cruises. Mainly because there's free childcare. Don't blame them thought. Their 9 YO is emotionally unstable, and the 6 YO is secretly snorting Colombian marching powder, because he never runs out of energy.

These friends also drop their kids off at their gym's kinder care room, and go get dinner before coming back to get their kids.

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10 minutes ago, Superhero said:

We have friends who LOOOOOVE cruises. Mainly because there's free childcare. Don't blame them thought. Their 9 YO is emotionally unstable, and the 6 YO is secretly snorting Colombian marching powder, because he never runs out of energy.

These friends also drop their kids off at their gym's kinder care room, and go get dinner before coming back to get their kids.


I keep racking by brain wondering how their kids could have turned out an emotional mess and a perma-ADHDer. 

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12 hours ago, Superhero said:

We have friends who LOOOOOVE cruises. Mainly because there's free childcare. Don't blame them thought. Their 9 YO is emotionally unstable, and the 6 YO is secretly snorting Colombian marching powder, because he never runs out of energy.

These friends also drop their kids off at their gym's kinder care room, and go get dinner before coming back to get their kids.

TBF, we didn't drop the kids off alone even once during our cruise.  I don't need them learning all the four letter words in a single day.

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16 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

I keep racking by brain wondering how their kids could have turned out an emotional mess and a perma-ADHDer. 

 

The daughter has crazy mood swings. She'll go from shy and sweet to drawings dead parents on her bedroom wall. She's a year younger than my boy, really pretty, and our families are close. We thought it would be cute if the kids could get together in the future, but now... no thank you.

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18 hours ago, Superhero said:

We have friends who LOOOOOVE cruises. Mainly because there's free childcare. Don't blame them thought. Their 9 YO is emotionally unstable, and the 6 YO is secretly snorting Colombian marching powder, because he never runs out of energy.

These friends also drop their kids off at their gym's kinder care room, and go get dinner before coming back to get their kids.

Being stuck on a ship with so many people sounds like hell to me at my age.  Did some cheap cruises in college 25 years ago.  Was enough for me.  I don't care for being around a bunch of people, especially that class of people.  Don't go to large cities either.

Now, I want to be in the mountains either in winter skiing or in summer hiking, swimming/boating in mountain lakes, and fly fishing.  Or on a beach on a small island without too many people.

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My dad and stepmom are massive cruise people for 2 near-retired folks who don't travel with their kids or grandkids. I do not understand it. 

Like 2 big ones per year (Europe back to US or Asia to US) and then like 3-4 small ones either through the Gulf or via the Panama Canal from the Gulf to LA.

Maybe they're secretly swingers and we don't know about it. 

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Viking thinks my late father and his late FIL who would be about 120 now are sitting around the house with millions sitting in the bank. Every single day they bombard me with booklets about how I need to cruise Europe’s waterways. I'm not kidding when I say I discard about 50lbs of their catalogs annually.

+1 on Norwegian Haven class. Its awesome.

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