Hi to Todd and all. I have indeed been absent from the board, as I have been actually cruising (on the VTC) instead of just talking about it! Well, I just returned this evening, jet lag and all, so this will be brief and on one topic only.

Do not book a cabin at the rear of the Voyager. They are beautiful, with larger balconies, but they vibrate worse than the Navigator ever did (to my experience) when the ship must cruise above about 15 knots. At 20 knots, one must start padding things like the TV and ceiling moldings with towels and dinner knives to stop the buzzing and rattling. At about 21 knots, the cabin develops a zig-zag motion on a horizontal plane. This is not a roll or a pitch, but a jerking from left to right, etc.This made Carol actually ill with nausea, and its side effects left her so dehydrated that she had to see the doctor several times and actually have a hydrating I.V. in the room administered by a nurse. When considering this, keep in mind that we have cruised the notorious "vibrating Navigator" twice and were actually caught in Hurricane Floyd on another line, and neither of us got sick. So we are not subject to seasickness at all. But this WAS bad!

Being somewhat of an investivative guy, I checked around the aft of the ship when the vibration/jerking was most pronounced in our suite (784 on deck 7 and all other suites on the aft) and found that the motion gradually disappeared as one went foreward toward the laundry room (check the deck plans on RSSC's website). By the time one went far enough foreward to be in the laundry room, the motion was completely gone. I checked the other suite decks, and found the same to be true. And the motion was present at La Veranda above (which is to the aft).

So my advice is don't book one of the suites at the aft of the ship until something is done to repair this problem. And, be very suspect of booking any suite to the aft of the laundry room location on any deck.

This is kind of like the old joke of "Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?", as other than this the cruise was great, as I'll mention later. But I just wanted to get this warning out as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Richard