https://www.fodors.com/community/ en Sun, 17 May 2026 11:54:44 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.fodors.com/community/images/misc/rss.jpg https://www.fodors.com/community/ https://www.fodors.com/community/cruises/why-i-am-not-looking-forward-to-first-big-ship-cruise-1735572/ Thu, 14 May 2026 07:36:25 GMT Two friends and I signed up for a group package set up by a friend that will have painting classes the days we are at sea, we also know several... Two friends and I signed up for a group package set up by a friend that will have painting classes the days we are at sea, we also know several others in the group. But we did read the fine print buried in different places on the cruise line’s website,
the good news is our cabins are midship so less boat rocking.
we did not understand that we could have opted out of the almost unlimited beverage package. We don’t drink so will be drinking a lot of mocktails.
the package also included $50 credits toward excursions which you can do much less expensively onmyour own.
The cruise line is promoting their dinner theater but never says what movies are being shown.
we also get three meals at specialty restaurants which require reservations. If we had looked sooner we might have been able to make reservations. Supposedly we can still get in line to make reservations once we get on board.
if you open the cabin door while the balcony door is open everything will get sucked out of the room.
we get 150 minutes of wifi unless we buy more minutes. Reports are both good and nad about reliability of shipboard minutes. And someone always answers to put the phone/tablet down and enjoy the cruise.
Top of ship appears to be an amusement park.
it will probably be too cold to use the swimming pool.
i requested wheelchair assistance but have no idea if I will be able to walk to excursions for mobility impaired people on vehicles that do not have storage space for rollators, etc.
one crew member recently either fell overboard or committed suicide.
Group leader told us location of our classroom but got the name wrong. Someone on the zoom meeting noticed the error. Wherever it is starts with B.
i am bringing post its to leave messages on cabin doors since I do not understand hiw we can contact each other if we don’t buy more minutes. Someone gave us app optins that are much better and cheaper to use but my phone is probably too old. Will try Whatsapp.

I dutifully downloaed cruise line’s app to get travel documents but could not primt liggage tags. Thanks to facebook discussions found out different way to print them. Based in the five duplicate emails I figure their tech support needs to be fired.

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