You may be wondering why I am posting about Radisson's "new and much higher" fares that came along with "all inclusive" on CC, and don't say a word about them here. After all, I know many who are present on this board also post and read CC.

Here's the reason. This is Ngaire's board, and she has respectfully asked us to post only happy posts. I like Ngaire, and want to respect her requests. My posts concerning the 2007 fare structure, and the new SSS "benefits" and the new "discount" structure are not "happy posts." So, they don't belong here.

On the other hand, a board named "Cruise Critic" is one that invites criticism of lines, ships, and cruises. So that is where my present posts about Radisson belong.

In keeping with the spirit of THIS board, I have had many great times on Radisson. And I wanted them to become "all-inclusive" perhaps more than anybody, and now they will be. But I never wanted them to become unaffordable to some of us, or for their pricing to cause others of us to cruise less than before. So now, the only "happy" thing I can say is that I hope the matter of their pricing irons itself out, so that the kind of posts I have been putting on CC will no longer be justified.

Thanks,
Richard