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I entered all the new Esprit cruises this morning, and the new fares.

There may be an anomaly or two based on it being new data and the Crystal web site is always a crap shoot.

I was only planning on updating for Crystal Esprit, but I found these other fare changes this morning: Fares drop on V7329, Amazon Escape, https://dc.bigdogfoto.com/rollcall/dollar.php?trip=3013 Some fares drop on V7223, Suez Canal: https://dc.bigdogfoto.com/rollcall/dollar.php?trip=3014 Some fares ...

I just read on that other message board that Esprit is going to be re-positioned to the Caribbean starting sometime in 2017. The new itineraries are not on the web site, although the old ones are still there. That's odd, since the new itineraries are supposed to go on sale in a few days. So until th...

Another new undocumented BB Code is this: [margin=200}]{TEXT}[/margin] Where the margin value is a variable representing the number of px to indent. So if you want to indent, or just make things look pretty, you can do this: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent,...

On November 13 , Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence; that request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that some day he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his friend, Oscar Madison. Several year...

Note: fixed spelling, livingstone, not livingston!

Thank you, May B. You made my day!

This was a twelve night cruise, round-trip from Miami. There were stops in Nassau, Hamilton Bermuda (two overnights), Norfolk, Charleston (one overnight) and Port Canaveral. Here are my photos: https://bigdogfoto.com/bdfoto/bdfoto4.php#user=drib-international,coll=288 There's a travel log video in t...

Yes, I'm posting a review of a Crystal cruise I took two years ago. But next I'll post a review of a Regent cruise I took earlier this year, and later an Oceania cruise that I will take next month. And then you can see and contrast these three cruise lines. The Serenity cruise was from Boston to Que...

I just received the brochure for Oceania with the new cruises through Fall 2018. I started to enter them into Roll Call, and so far have completed both O ships, Riviera and Marina. I'll try to get to the R ships in the next couple of days. https://dc.bigdogfoto.com/rollcall/rollcall.php?line=oceania...

Hey boys and girls, this is your chance to win some free dribnuts swag! Simply post the captions for each of the four panels shown here: https://dc.bigdogfoto.com/images/captioncontest1.jpg You can enter until January 1, 2017, or the date there are ten unique entries from ten different board members...

Any fashionistas out there that would like a dribnuts' shirt or product of their own, they are available for sale on Cafe Press here: http://www.cafepress.com/fotkipus Cafe Press makes a profit, but I have not marked-up the price of any dribnuts merchandise there. So nothing goes to me. And if you w...

The drib critic readers digest (dcrd) is a daily email of posts made within the last 24 hours. An email is sent out at 11 pm Pacific Time. And it looks something like this: https://dc.bigdogfoto.com/images/dcrd.png Note that quotes are removed from dcrd to keep it short, and links are removed, inclu...

May B about to embark on Crystal Serenity! http://bigdogfoto.com/photos/drib/friends/0000_00_00_friends_grab_bag/medium/02016_000083755_muriel_(may_b)_about_to_embark_on_crystal_serenity_4.jpg http://bigdogfoto.com/photos/drib/friends/0000_00_00_friends_grab_bag/medium/02016_000083756_muriel_(may_b)...

For when use have a very large image and don't have time to shrink it: http://bigdogfoto.com/photos/public/album_sampler/2016_10_08_dribnuts/00010_000083556_010_not_enough_sea_days_4.jpg This original is 1024px, but shows above as 600px. But it still has the original resolution, so the text reads we...

So I did another update run tonight just in case - and it found 4 cruises with 21 total fare changes. I'm not going to apply the transactions, though, because they look like mistakes - a C1 for less than a C3, for example. Then some of the cabins aren't listed in sequential order on the crystal site...

What do you think of my poll - interesting to see that Seabourn is coming up quite often as an alternative - Drib - isn't that one that you patronise from time to time? No, I haven't been on Seabourn before. I always thought that their ships were too small for us. Plus they have a lot of longer cru...

Hey FT's a Drib Critic too - am I the only Drib Nut? - not sure if that's an honour or a penalty! Currently, there are only two ranks on drib critic. The default is drib critic. But if the member was ever in a dribnut comic strip, I change them to the rank of dribnut. Whether that's a promotion or ...