Reply To: A Newbie Guide to Cruising AND getting there & back again

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For those of you who already have Mariner Club numbers and informed Scarface of same, you *should* have your JCCC2 reservation tied to it by now. I checked last night and thanks to Scarface and the rest of the Home Office monkeys, my JCCC2 reservation shows up on the HAL website under my Mariner Club account.

Also: noticing that many of the spa services are difficult as hell to book online. Most show up as not available on any day of the trip, at any time. I’m reasonably sure we haven’t completely overbooked the spa, but there you go.

The spirits offerings (and I’m assuming the wine as well) are dreadfully overpriced. Almost $40 for a fifth of Jim Beam? Really? That’s at least 100% markup from retail even in a high-liquor-tax state like Texas. While I don’t officially condone the violation of HAL policy regarding bringing alcohol on board, Sea Monkeys are a clever lot. I’m going to throw some random items out at you: clear packing tape, bubble wrap, sweatshirt, jeans, cookie tin, favorite towel/blanket/woobie, large zip-style freezer bags, ThinkGeek “meh.” flask.