I just won't be on the cruise........
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Move your head close to the screen. Do the perfect blue squares appear to be distorted? Absolutely... this is due to the black lines in the back moving and twisting it in your mind. What an eye trick!
Several from NJ are on this thread, me being one...........
Good news and bad news from my visit to the doc today. Good news is the rash is healing nicely and I "CAN" return to work tomorrow, bad news is, one of the side effects from the Lyrica is possible weight gain. Well, I gained 8 pounds since last Monday, like "I" need to gain weight.......
I go back in a little over two weeks to see the doc for my next follow-up visit. He also gave me another scrip for a 30 day supply of Lyrica. I wish I didn't have to take this, but I need it to help keep the burning sensation at a minimum. Oh, the joys of aging..........
I did laugh at that. Hasn't this company heard of the DisBoards for goodness sake?!
I seem to remember seeing someone, either here on the EB thread, suggesting a petition. Does anyone know how we could do this via the boards? And who it could be sent to?
I feel for ya Andy. Lyrica must be a steroid, right? I was put on Prednisone for my asthma several years ago and gained 20lbs in 1 week.
It was all down hill form there.
The doc didn't say exactly, but that's my guess............ok Roger or Mike, help me out with this one, is Lyrica a steroid?
I was on Prednisone before, so I know what you are talking about. The hard part is getting the weight back off.
Cheryl
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The doc didn't say exactly, but that's my guess............ok Roger or Mike, help me out with this one, is Lyrica a steroid?
I was on Prednisone before, so I know what you are talking about. The hard part is getting the weight back off.
Just duplicating my post from the WB thread, for EB cruisers to see:
I've just come off the phone from an incredibly frustrating telephone call with DCL. Joseph of DCL Guest Communications, from whom I've received the e-mails I've previously posted about, telephoned me. (Mostly, I think, to ask me to stop bothering him by e-mail!) We talked for about 20 minutes (their transatlantic phone bill, not mine, I'm glad to say) but just went around and around in circles.
He insisted that the original cost of transiting the Panama Canal was not included on an individual basis. I said I did not believe that over $200,000-worth of transit fee was not taken into account when pricing the cruise per passenger. He agreed that it would have been taken into account, but tried to make it seem as if it would have simply been included along with every other cost over a year to reach their cruise costs in general, not for this specific cruise. When I said that I didn't believe that to be the case, that this is a fee specific to just these 2 cruises, he just kept waffling on about how it was never included on an individual basis.
I pointed out that someone within DCL Finance would have known exactly what the fee was and would have costed it to the cent, as they will do with every other cost involved, before deciding on the cruise price to be charged to passengers.
I also pointed out that they are charging us twice - the cost of the original fee, however it was included in the cruise price, and the extra $100. He insisted this isn't the case, and just kept repeating the line about it not having been included on an individual basis. It didn't matter what I said or asked, he either couldn't or wouldn't answer.
According to him, he is sorry that I am disappointed and feel this way, but it is simply my 'perception' of the situation and not the 'reality'. When I said that I knew that many other people, from both the Westbound and Eastbound cruises, also believed that DCL are charging us twice, he told me that he had not heard of anyone else contacting them!
I told him that I thought it was a great shame that Disney were being so underhanded and treating their loyal customers so badly simply in order to make an extra few dollars out of them. Of course, he didn't respond to that - presumably they don't have stock answers to that in their manual. I thanked him for calling and we ended the conversation.
If each time one of us contacts DCL we are told we're the only one complaining, even when we know we're not, then maybe we should somehow get together and submit a complaint en masse.
oh so he wants the REST of us to email him then.....Thank you so much for sharing this. Do you have Joseph's email address so we can send him a little note.
DH learned about the new ride at Kennedy. He had nixed a trip there during early planning, and now wants to add it back to the itinerary.It's a good thing I planned for a "relaxed" trip. Does anyone know if it's possible to do a water park (in the morning) and Disney Quest (in the afternoon) in the same day? Pthththt.
I have been over to the WB site seeing what their take on the panama tax and found this very good email with response from DCL.
This response is totally unacceptable.Yes the new tax (charge) was designed for the cruise industry to pass on to the passengers. We still have to pay to go through the canal. The passenger has to pay the charge either 1) in the cost of the cruise or 2) as a separate surcharge. That is OK with me, I accept that I have to pay passage through the canal. But what really gets me is DCLs insistence that this is an increase and not a new method of collecting the tax. This is not an increase it is a restructuring of how the fee is calculate per passenger not on The Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System (PC/UMS) based on net tonnage which it is now. DCL had to figure in to our fares each of our portion of the PC/UMS fee (approximately $70-80/person). They are therefore charging us almost double for PC/UMS that they anticipated paying plus the new method that the PC has decided to assess the charges. DCL is basically saying that we are just going to keep the money that we have charged you already and you get pay the new method.
Anyway the other site is doing an email campaign and John (Jhalklas) is locating a higher contact person to email to versus the standard email responses that people are getting.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHERYL!!
