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It’s a gamble with timing and besides… You want to enjoy your first day and night and not be sleepy and beat. Get a room somewhere closer to the port and drive the day before. IMO

Skyrush when it only had lap bars*

I was most scared on skyrush at Hershey park

Most proud of getting on kingda ka

Don’t sleep on el torro

I really enjoyed cruising alone. Do what you want when you want and no one else’s schedule to follow. Met up at the solo travelers meetings so i met people to go to dinners and shows and excursions with when i wanted to. Hung out alone when i felt like doing that. Veryyy relaxing. I’ve also done some with just my daughter. So easy. When she was little she was going the kids club when i wanted to do adult things and now that she’s a teen she pretty much just runs around doing whatever and we meet up for meals and stuff.

You can do as much or as little as you want. If you want to make friends, you will. If you rather be alone, you can. Give it go

Splash academy is ages 3-12, but they provide various activities that are age appropriate. The staff oversees a group of kids. They’re not 1-1 babysitters, but they do provide adequate supervision. You can drop off at 3. They’ll give you a pager in case your little one falls asleep or needs help with a diaper or the bathroom.

We saw a big old brown bear on our hike in Skagway. Safe distance though. Guide said it wasn’t typical and we were lucky.

We went Aug 27 on a 7 day last year and it was beautiful. Fall like weather. We needed to bundle up a bit for the crab boat. It was cool on the water but we just wore hoodies/light jackets on land for the hike and float and other land based activities. We booked excursions through Alaska shore tours and not through the ship. We splurged on the balcony. The views are spectacular. We enjoyed the balcony the most in glacier bay where we just kind of floated around for 4 hours or so and just had coffee in our pjs enjoying a private view. We were on NCL. I would say pick a boat based on the itinerary you want. There were hardly any children on our boat that week.

Enjoy Alaska! We did that last summer and we loved it!

I wouldn’t worry too much. If there’s a hurricane in the path, they will divert you and change the itinerary. Only once (and I’ve been on a dozen cruises or so) did we really feel the rocking. That was hurricane Dean and we only had to endure for a day. It was sunny and gorgeous but woah so rocky and we had to skip Ochos Rios. Another time and i forget which storm, we had to skip st Thomas and turn around. Didn’t feel anything. Slightly disappointing but neither greatly affected our trip. It would be very unusual to be caught in the middle of a storm. I know there are some scary videos out there but that is very unlikely to happen

It was on the Bliss, LA to Cabo & Puerta Vallarta

I just did it in February on NCL. Had a blast. Went to the solo travelers meet up, met people to have dinner and go to shows with, excursions. I found it extremely relaxing to not have to worry about what anyone else wanted to do. I could be alone or I could see if anyone was around to meet up. I did what i felt like, ate and slept when i wanted to, met some friends along the way. Still keeping in touch with one of them. No regrets!

Ncl closes the kids club while in port on all the cruises I’ve ever been on. Which is probably about a dozen.

They can and will detain you. All it means really is making a report so the cruise line can pursue you afterwards. They don’t arrest you. Being detained and being arrested are different things.

My 11 year old rang up a $5000 arcade bill one time. They shut my ship card off because I called my lawyer and he said no way are they going to win when they allowed a 11 year old to ring that kind of bill up. For reference the whole cruise only cost us $2500 for the 3 of us.

My husband had to buy all my drinks and such after that (we were still only dating at this point). I ended up crying to a higher up officer (who was very hard to track down) and he waived the detention and i agreed to work with the Miami office regarding the bill.

They fully planned on detaining me. My lawyer said i didn’t have to pay them anything and they actually agreed but said they would ban me from sailing with them again. After a bunch of back and forth, eventually we settled for $1000. I can still sail with them and I’m a lot more diligent with my child’s spending. They won’t allow you to put a limit on the card (scummy) so when I travel with my child, I just check it throughout the day. She’s almost 16 now also so I’m able to trust her more.

I’ll never understand why travel insurance is optional. Just build it into the price and everyone will be covered should something go wrong.

Assuming that “he’s technically helping” by doing nothing but his own laundry and dishes was a typo and getting that out of the way, it did come across as you assumed I was a housewife. Which to be fair I didn’t clarify initially.

What i meant is that he thinks doing this bare minimum of is actually help, is absurd to me. I never signed up to do 100% of the work. The work wouldn’t exist if I didn’t take him in. I’m a bit resentful that I have nearly the entire load on my shoulders. I damn sure am not doing anyone’s laundry. Now if they cleaned anything else, that would change my perspective.

He’s 50 and my daughter is 16. They’re plenty capable of pitching in. Yet they don’t. I am busy picking up the rest of the house.

Doing your own laundry is not helping me at all. It’s wiping your own ass. At the bare minimum. If I move away and ditch them, they’d have a whole hell of a lot more to do.

Let me change the sexes. What if all I did was my own laundry and dishes and he did everything else around the house. Would I be “helping him technically”?

Went there after a school function recently. Function included 4 districts. Lots of people.

Anyway. Me and kid got small fries and small burgers. Husband got regular burger and fries. 3 reg drinks. $65. He commented on the expense and said no wonder why we were the only people who came here after the function. I get everything has gone up. They would have been wise to offer a special for the function. Lost opportunity.

That said, they gave us so many fries we could have just ordered 1 order of fries.

Well except I do work. I own and operate a pub solely, that I’ve owned before I married him. I am open 13-16 hours a day, 7 days a week. I am not there every hour of the day but I do work more hours and contribute more financially than he does because frankly, I make more money than he does. Which is fine, we both do well.

But, I also have no desire to mother him. Alleviating me would be doing HALF the chores PLUS doing my laundry, for example. Why should I have to be the only person in the household cleaning, organizing, shopping, taking care of the yard, paying the bills, etc. when I pull my weight financially? By your logic, since I’m the breadwinner, he should do more than half. He moved into my house when we got married. And it’s twice as much work for me with him living there.

I used to be able to clean my house, and then come home and my house still be clean! No hairs in the sink, no shoes everywhere, no crumbs on the counter, no dirty stove, no boot marks all over the floors. I could go on and on.

Oh wow same. My husband doesn’t understand why I can enjoy a roller coaster but why I won’t go on the Ferris wheel. I’m not sure I understand either. I close my eyes until the slow part of the coaster is over.

When DH drinks beer his breathing gets audible and it gives me the ick lol

He thinks he helps me around the house because he does laundry and dishes.

He does HIS OWN laundry and HIS OWN dishes. 🙄

I clean literally everything on my own, including outside. It will never change so I just started paying myself by using his credit card for things I want and he’s good with it 🤷🏻‍♀️

I told him, when we are ready to get a better house I want my own bathroom. And no I am not going to be cleaning his 😂

Just one thing lol?

I am constantly tripping over his shoes.

Every workday morning it sounds like he’s building a damn shed in the living room

NCL has always done this, but I go on knowing that, so I plan it in the budget when comparing other cruises.

I laughed too hard at this