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« Last post by Host Mike on June 07, 2023, 07:35:56 PM »
Emerald Princess – Day 7
• Cabin door LCD computer crashed for the third time in the last seven days, on its own.
• Cabin housekeeper from the Philippines calls my dear wife (DW) with a word that sounds like “mom.”
• The likely reason for the ship slowing down could be that it was ahead of schedule or that the ship is having generator problems like last nights extended power outage in the back of the ship, apparently on all decks.
• The gay like cruise director Hernando came out on the stage sashaying last night. The Motown Princess Theater show, called Sweet Soul Music was heavy with Stevie Wonder selections. The show appeared to include booth enhanced singing and enhanced band instrumentation. In other words what the audience heard was not what I actually believed was created on-stage. The audio level was really high and the strobes were flashing the audience. The booth had cut back on the extreme bass notes so the seats weren’t vibrating.
• The Comedy Juggler “The Mighty Quinn” is back again tonight for maybe the second or third time.
• When the ship maneuvered into dock position this morning everything in our back hallway behind what walls and ceiling were rattling like crazy.
• There was a very long line in the terminal of passengers and crew waiting to catch the free shuttle to Walmart. We rode Uber to town at a cost of around $9 each way which now includes a mandatory booking fee.
• Last night the ship computer said it had a 5 pm opening in Da Vinci. After it showed our pictures on the cabin TV and said to click the button to reserve the screen froze and said it couldn’t find our passenger record even though it found our pictures. We went anyway to the dining room and saw lots of empty tables. This tells me that the ship’s reservation system is badly flawed.
• Heard from two elderly widows who said Princess EZAir got them to LAX one hour late causing them to barely make the ship departure.. They said that they arrived at the ship around 4 pm as the ship was preparing to sail and no one offered to help them with their luggage either at the terminal or on the ship..
• Kilauea volcano, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted last night. That volcano is maybe 20 or so miles of where we are docked. I don’t believe that it is any kind of show stopper right now.