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Prices are creeping up on bubbles and tips, but the real headline is a five-year-old who out-cruised us all to 700 loyalty points. Plus Build-A-Bear trauma, a Symphony drug bust, and the return of Trevor's infamous TSA bullets.
What they covered
Topics on deck
Bottomless Bubbles hike
Quiet gratuity increases
Cheers package memes
Five-year-old loyalty legend
Build-A-Bear sticker shock
Symphony drug bust
Drug-sniffing dogs
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- Bubbles by age bracket — Bottomless Bubbles jumps to $11.99/day plus a 20% service charge for 17/18+, while kids stay at $6.95 — which the crew flags as.
“age discrimination.”
- The quiet gratuity creep — Standard tips slide to $17/guest/day and suites to $19, and no one announced it.
“that was kind of a quiet increase and this is like the fifth one in… a couple months.”
- Cheers gets the meme treatment — The $69/day package is doomed to one joke forever.
“everyone knows it's six seven now.”
- The five-year-old legend — Aiden of Atlanta racked up 700+ Crown & Anchor points sailing Star of the Seas.
“it takes cruisers decades to reach these points and he did it without even thinking about it… congratulations to aiden's adults… who are adulting.”
- Build-A-Bear gut-punch — The onboard workshop lands an emotional and financial haymaker.
“build a bear hit me hard… I was not emotionally or financially prepared to go to that event.”
- Symphony drug bust — Five men bound for a festival at sea got flagged before boarding.
“arrested when drug-stiffing dogs flagged their bags.”
- Tom's thrift-store dog alert — A secondhand Goodwill bag set off a drug dog in the boarding hall.
“the lady's like putting on gloves and it's like really.”
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- "Avoided death and stroke this week" — Trevor's back after missing an episode, and the mutual survival check-in becomes the cold-open bit.
- The TSA-bullets saga returns — Trevor's infamous airport-ammo story resurfaces, and Tom offers a retraction — "I judged you harshly."
- SpeakPipe gremlins — More Facebook-group and SpeakPipe housekeeping, with a nudge for the tech help — "Brandon get on that buddy."
- Sell the kids a Cheers package — A mock pitch to exploit the age-based drink pricing gets floated.
- Panama Canal countdown — 327 days to the Island Princess sailing, now with a Seahawks prediction bolted on.