259 Allure of the Seas Review, Cruise Tipping + Cruise News
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Kerry Stange joins us this week to give us a comprehensive review of Royal Caribbean largest cruise ship Allure of the Seas. Kerry and his wife recently returned from a seven-night Eastern Caribbean sailing. Kerry goes into detail about embarkation out of Terminal 18 in Port Everglades, first impressions of Allure of the Seas, the stateroom, dining venues, entertainment, and ship experience.
Listener Question:
I am looking for direction on the issue of tipping. We no longer use the Dining Room for our meals. We take our meals in the buffet or specialty restaurants. We are generous with our gratuities at these venues for good service. A large portion of the tipping schedule is for dining room personnel, a service we do not use. What would be your recommendation in dealing with this discrepancy? We are told the gratuities are still circulated amongst all cruise personnel? Do we lessen the amount of tipping collected less the dining room portion?
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Transcript
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| 0:25.8 | Hey, what's up? |
| 0:26.4 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:27.2 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:30.0 | If you are listening for the first time, well, thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:33.5 | If not, welcome back, my friend. |
| 0:35.8 | On this show, we'll get a review of the largest cruise ship in the world. Yes, the Lower of the Seas. Carrie Stang will be dropping by a little later on in the program to talk all about the ship and the review. And we'll get a listener question about gratuities on your cruise and how it aligns with the main dining room and the dining venues. But first, as always, Stuart Sheron the cruise guy. What's up, Stuart? Hey, Doug, how's it going? Good, man. So, |
| 0:57.8 | last week, we were both up to the wee hours of the morning watching Quantum of the Seas be revealed |
| 1:03.2 | for the first time to the public. So what's the status of her now? Well, right now, she is being fitted |
| 1:08.7 | in the wet dock area of the shipyard in Poppenburg. |
| 1:12.5 | You know, she was temporarily docked with the starboard side. |
| 1:16.3 | Then she was flipped around. |
| 1:17.4 | They did some azipod testing of her, you know, bow and stern thrusters. |
| 1:21.6 | They spun her around. |
| 1:22.7 | She's now port side, and they've just been feverishly working on, you know, installation and completing the ship |
| 1:30.7 | and preparing her for the next step, which is to float up the river M's through Germany, |
| 1:37.3 | up to M's Haven in the Netherlands, where they'll finish her, do sea trials, and then that'll |
| 1:43.9 | be probably the middle of the end of trials, and then that'll be probably the middle of, |
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