Thank you all for the nice welcome. Looking forward to spending time learning about cruising(a whole new way of travel)thru LCT. Question: have any of you done Motor Coach Tours? Curious to know if cruisers and people who travel by motor coach are two different animals or what, As you know if you read my intro. i am a tour director(the one on the mike at the front of the coach saying on the right is(omg what is that on the right!!)my biggest fear is that I will have complete brain freeze(has happened) then the gratuities are definitely affected!! You see I do accept gratuities, in my business you do not live by wages alone, believe me!! Hey I need all the $$$ I can get for this upcoming cruise(my husband thank goodness is coming thru(my BIGbd present) Later Jeanine