Comments on: Breakfast In New York http://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew Clarkhttp://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41662 Andrew Clark Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:28:32 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41662 Please replyHey John,I am just catching back up with all your posts and just read about the 9 and 12 year olds in the cabin alone.I must be getting old, (i'm 30) but my first instinct was 'wow, what's up with the parents?.' But then I got to thinking about my first cruises when I was 11 and 12 on Premier Cruises' Oceanic, when the ship held around 1500 people and the kid's clubs were 10 or fewer kids. I fondly remember making new friends the old fashioned way (rather than through organized programs) and wandering the ship throughout the day exploring and playing and having a great time. For pete's sake, I had my first kiss in the movie theater of that ship. My sister and I had to meet up with my parents for dinner and at various times, including bed time, but we were given a little freedom to have fun, and we did.I think this is one of the times when your general concerns about the sissification of society applies, and really it shouldn't be a big deal that the kids were in the cabin alone, after all, they were in the cabin at 12 am, not roaming around so late at night. The part that bothered me the most was that the parents didn't allow the kids to have any fun after dinner and just stuffed them in the cabin, that is just sad.Thanks for all you do,Andrew Clark Please reply

Hey John,

I am just catching back up with all your posts and just read about the 9 and 12 year olds in the cabin alone.

I must be getting old, (i’m 30) but my first instinct was ‘wow, what’s up with the parents?.’ But then I got to thinking about my first cruises when I was 11 and 12 on Premier Cruises’ Oceanic, when the ship held around 1500 people and the kid’s clubs were 10 or fewer kids. I fondly remember making new friends the old fashioned way (rather than through organized programs) and wandering the ship throughout the day exploring and playing and having a great time. For pete’s sake, I had my first kiss in the movie theater of that ship. My sister and I had to meet up with my parents for dinner and at various times, including bed time, but we were given a little freedom to have fun, and we did.

I think this is one of the times when your general concerns about the sissification of society applies, and really it shouldn’t be a big deal that the kids were in the cabin alone, after all, they were in the cabin at 12 am, not roaming around so late at night. The part that bothered me the most was that the parents didn’t allow the kids to have any fun after dinner and just stuffed them in the cabin, that is just sad.

Thanks for all you do,

Andrew Clark

]]> By: sue muller aka suefrmNarrowsburghttp://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41661 sue muller aka suefrmNarrowsburg Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:52:44 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41661 Hello John, John or Stephanie please reply Long time no hear! After doing much thinking and coming up with some decisions, we have come to the sad conclusion that we will not be able to make it to bloggerscruise #3 on Dec.3. However we are extremely hopeful that we will be able to make this Saturday's breakfast with you and Stephanie in NYC (my town)**** Stephanie any extra info that you might have for us bloggers would be greatly appreaciated: you know where to go, or meet, cost, where or what lot may be a good parking lot to park in, etc. (Maybe you could put it on yourFB page?)**** Anyway, John ,Stephanie, and any other BLOGGERS who will be there, hope to reconnect and see many old faces, that we had such a great time with on the Blooggerscruise in Feb, of this year!!! Muchos Huggos, Sue (Muller) frm Narrowsburg Hello John, John or Stephanie please reply
Long time no hear! After doing much thinking and coming up with some decisions, we have come to the sad conclusion that we will not be able to make it to bloggerscruise #3 on Dec.3. However we are extremely hopeful that we will be able to make this Saturday’s breakfast with you and Stephanie in NYC (my town)**** Stephanie any extra info that you might have for us bloggers would be greatly appreaciated: you know where to go, or meet, cost, where or what lot may be a good parking lot to park in, etc. (Maybe you could put it on yourFB page?)****
Anyway, John ,Stephanie, and any other BLOGGERS who will be there, hope to reconnect and see many old faces, that we had such a great time with on the Blooggerscruise in Feb, of this year!!!
Muchos Huggos,
Sue (Muller) frm Narrowsburg

]]> By: Tucson Larryhttp://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41660 Tucson Larry Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:24:38 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41660 John Please respond,So he we are 1 month from our trip. Things were a little rocky causing us to cancel and then rebook our trip. We of course miss will fishing off the cove balcony, a small price to pay. We chose to make this trip because we had the best time on the last bloggers trip. The five days seemed more like ten. We first met you on our Med. Cruises (liberty 06, and 07 freedom) and have been spoiled ever since. We are making this trip to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary and look forward to spending our time with you and your sometimes zany friends.I want to thank you for including us in the bloggers cruise.As you suggested I am dropping this note to you requesting Ken for a 6 o’clock sitting (I assume this coordinates with the blogger events) and a table for two if possible.Susan & Larry Orenstein Cabin #6381 John Please respond,

So he we are 1 month from our trip. Things were a little rocky causing us to cancel and then rebook our trip. We of course miss will fishing off the cove balcony, a small price to pay.
We chose to make this trip because we had the best time on the last bloggers trip. The five days seemed more like ten. We first met you on our Med. Cruises (liberty 06, and 07 freedom) and have been spoiled ever since.
We are making this trip to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary and look forward to spending our time with you and your sometimes zany friends.

I want to thank you for including us in the bloggers cruise.

As you suggested I am dropping this note to you requesting Ken for a 6 o’clock sitting
(I assume this coordinates with the blogger events) and a table for two if possible.

Susan & Larry Orenstein
Cabin #6381

]]> By: Jackiehttp://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41659 Jackie Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:38:52 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41659 Hi Steph, (Reply Needed) Can you be more specfic as to cost of breakfast and name of place. Tried to contact you on socialnetwork and had a problem getting to site. Please email me at bkmgr50@aol.com with details. Hi Steph, (Reply Needed)
Can you be more specfic as to cost of breakfast and name of place. Tried to contact you on socialnetwork and had a problem getting to site. Please email me at bkmgr50@aol.com with details.

]]> By: Bobbye & Mike Gheahttp://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41658 Bobbye & Mike Ghea Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:28:37 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41658 There isn't anyway I would have left our kids or leave our grandchildren alone in the room with the great programs offered on the ship. Too many things could happen. We are traveling May 2, 2010 on the Freedom and Oct 2, 2010 on the Dream and both are definitely too far away. Change of subject. The serenity deck.... I was on the serenity deck... laying out.. then food was being thrown. deck chairs bounced on and kids being chased around deck chairs... the place was full of kids. I complain.. and I get.. " well this is a family ship" Now, don't get the idea I don't like kids, I do. I have 7 children and 13 grandchildren.. thats why I enjoy the serenity deck for a few minutes... lol... If it was enforced or was what it was advertised to be... So my question is .. Is it or is it not an Adults serenity deck? There isn’t anyway I would have left our kids or leave our grandchildren alone in the room with the great programs offered on the ship. Too many things could happen.
We are traveling May 2, 2010 on the Freedom and Oct 2, 2010 on the Dream and both are definitely too far away.
Change of subject. The serenity deck…. I was on the serenity deck… laying out.. then food was being thrown. deck chairs bounced on and kids being chased around deck chairs… the place was full of kids. I complain.. and I get.. ” well this is a family ship” Now, don’t get the idea I don’t like kids, I do. I have 7 children and 13 grandchildren.. thats why I enjoy the serenity deck for a few minutes… lol… If it was enforced or was what it was advertised to be… So my question is .. Is it or is it not an Adults serenity deck?

]]> By: Kim Risleyhttp://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41657 Kim Risley Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:19:38 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41657 Dear John,It's been a while since I have been on your blog and since our cruise on Valor. I did a review on my blog and posted it on Cruise Critic. I hope our next cruise to be on Carnival Dream or Freedom. Carnival has always been a nice cruise line for us. Here is my review of you cruise ---> http://www.kudos2fly.com/2009/09/20/carnival-valor-sept-6th-13th-2009/ I hope you enjoy it, I know you probably don't have a lot of time to read it.There are two little points I would like to say. I don't really think its a Carnival thing more of a port of Miami thing. One is we had $20 dollars in quarters taken from one of our bags. We normally bring $20 in quarters to play in the slot machines and have always put it in our check luggage. Well it wasn't in there when the luggage got to the room. But we didn't make a big deal about it, being we thought maybe we left it at home. But got home and never found the quarters. But that's one lesson for us "don't leave change in you bags". Just it never was a problem for us before to do that.Another thing is the lasted time we cruise from Miami, after getting off the ship finding our bags was very easy. Just look for them in the middle of the room. Now they have a carousel. The problem is people take luggage off the carousel thinking it's theirs and don't put it back. It was mainly the porters we saw taking bags off but not putting them back.. My husband had to go look for a garment bag of ours. This added about 45 minutes to our time.. Which didn't make me happy at all.. LOL hubby told me to scratch my made spot. ;-) Other then those two things we had a wonderful cruise. And no I'm not tell you this to get compensated for the money. I was going to write Carnival but this is more of a "public" forum and want people to be careful in what they pack in their bags.We look forward to our next cruise... Dear John,

It’s been a while since I have been on your blog and since our cruise on Valor. I did a review on my blog and posted it on Cruise Critic. I hope our next cruise to be on Carnival Dream or Freedom. Carnival has always been a nice cruise line for us. Here is my review of you cruise —> http://www.kudos2fly.com/2009/09/20/carnival-valor-sept-6th-13th-2009/
I hope you enjoy it, I know you probably don’t have a lot of time to read it.

There are two little points I would like to say. I don’t really think its a Carnival thing more of a port of Miami thing. One is we had $20 dollars in quarters taken from one of our bags. We normally bring $20 in quarters to play in the slot machines and have always put it in our check luggage. Well it wasn’t in there when the luggage got to the room. But we didn’t make a big deal about it, being we thought maybe we left it at home. But got home and never found the quarters. But that’s one lesson for us “don’t leave change in you bags”. Just it never was a problem for us before to do that.

Another thing is the lasted time we cruise from Miami, after getting off the ship finding our bags was very easy. Just look for them in the middle of the room. Now they have a carousel. The problem is people take luggage off the carousel thinking it’s theirs and don’t put it back. It was mainly the porters we saw taking bags off but not putting them back.. My husband had to go look for a garment bag of ours. This added about 45 minutes to our time.. Which didn’t make me happy at all.. LOL hubby told me to scratch my made spot. ;-) Other then those two things we had a wonderful cruise. And no I’m not tell you this to get compensated for the money. I was going to write Carnival but this is more of a “public” forum and want people to be careful in what they pack in their bags.

We look forward to our next cruise…

]]> By: Janet Willishttp://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41656 Janet Willis Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:22 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41656 John, We are sailing on the Dream 2/27/10. My sister and I booked cabins next to each other-7219 and 7223. Carnival is telling us that the balconys cannot be joined together. We notice in pictures, that we have seen on line, that there seems to be a door that could be unlocked between the balconys. Is this true of all balconys?. This has me very worried, as the ship is so full there is no other cabins to move to. Thanks so much John, We are sailing on the Dream 2/27/10. My sister and I booked cabins next to each other-7219 and 7223. Carnival is telling us that the balconys cannot be joined together. We notice in pictures, that we have seen on line, that there seems to be a door that could be unlocked between the balconys. Is this true of all balconys?.
This has me very worried, as the ship is so full there is no other cabins to move to.
Thanks so much

]]> By: Templedhttp://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41655 Templed Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:49 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41655 Hi John (reply if you like)Regarding filming in NYC... You'd be surprised at how little attention you will be given. We have film crews running around the city constantly, and while some may be curious... most people will just go about their business.... and if you're in your underpants... well... that's nothing new for NYC. LOL Been there... done that ... got the T-Shirt.Cheers,Dave (from Manhattan) Hi John (reply if you like)

Regarding filming in NYC… You’d be surprised at how little attention you will be given. We have film crews running around the city constantly, and while some may be curious… most people will just go about their business.

… and if you’re in your underpants… well… that’s nothing new for NYC. LOL Been there… done that … got the T-Shirt.

Cheers,

Dave (from Manhattan)

]]> By: Lynn Homannhttp://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41654 Lynn Homann Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:55:43 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41654 John, Please reply -- I sent a post in response to your reqeust on the 21st with my cruise details., I have not seen it posted. Can you confirm if you recieved it? I sail in 5 days!! Whoo Hoo! -Lynn Homann John, Please reply — I sent a post in response to your reqeust on the 21st with my cruise details., I have not seen it posted. Can you confirm if you recieved it? I sail in 5 days!! Whoo Hoo! -Lynn Homann

]]> By: Leanne (Please respond)http://johnhealdsblog.com/2009/10/28/breakfast-in-new-york/#comment-41653 Leanne (Please respond) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:33:10 +0000 http://johnhealdsblog.com/?p=11742#comment-41653 Just wanted to mention that Ryan O'Neil and Ali McGraw actually skated at Wolman Rink in Central Park. There is, however, ice skating at Rockerfeller Center as well - if you don't mind waiting a while. They do it in timed shifts - I believe 1 hour increments. Just wanted to mention that Ryan O’Neil and Ali McGraw actually skated at Wolman Rink in Central Park. There is, however, ice skating at Rockerfeller Center as well – if you don’t mind waiting a while. They do it in timed shifts – I believe 1 hour increments.

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