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Dug isn't saying you are wrong for you feeling like you can't go back. All she's talking about is the phrase that was stated on the first page. "Once you go concierge you never go back!!!"
For some people, words have real meanings, and that phrase can be irksome. I know people who wouldn't book the level for "fear" that they would never enjoy a different level of cruising. The phrase is cute, but it should be left to specific individual people, not the blanket phrase.
Not sure who said they were cruising extra. For me only booking a V when it's a few hundred more than the other category we're thinking of, that's not getting us on extra cruises LOL.
I like the way you put all of that.
Except that the only people we meet while on Disney cruises have been in the concierge lounge, LOL. Everyone else everywhere else just seems to be into their own things. We don't end up going to the bars (too tired!), we aren't pool people when on Disney cruises, etc.
Others have said it and I'll reinforce it. Of course you can take the drinks from the lounge. Every MDR night in October I took my glass of wine from the reception and brought it to the dining room. It's hard to really call the offerings in the lounge breakfast lunch and dinner, but then I remind myself that since we're vegetarian, the offerings are pretty skimpy in terms of things we can have. Probably colors my view of it.
She's annoyed by that phrase. She has good info and experience to impart. You always mention that there are perks that aren't listed and are often just given but you won't tell us what they are so no one expects them... Dug and I apparently haven't gotten any of those mysterious perks; we aren't wrong to mention that. She and I have had our experiences, and the phrase "Once you go concierge you never go back!!!", as was said in one of the first replies on this thread, doesn't apply to either one of us. My family has *easily* gone without concierge. I wouldn't *choose* an inside cabin again, but that's because it makes me sleep even better on a cruise, and I don't pay to go on a cruise so I can sleep. [Been there done that with our one-week-after-the-wedding honeymoon cruise, when I was already brand-newly pregnant, reacting to the hormones like crazy, and was fully asleep by 8pm every night (I'm a nightowl by nature). Barely even remember the cruise I was SO exhausted.]
She shouldn't avoid giving her good and useful information, just because some think she's bitter. (bitter?)
I have stated clear reasons why I will not have a " spoiler" on extra services, and other concierge posters have taken the same view. A lot may depend on the length of your cruise, your other requests, your concierge host. Plus when anything is posted on this board , the surprise goes so if you expect it that moment is lost, and annoyance creeps in that someone else got it I am entitled to it, and leads to upset. One thing we did get did eventually get posted by another person here so I confirmed it, that was we got free coffees and drinks at Cove Cafe all cruise. Now I didn't post it here in August , but was on my cruise blog, as if someone didn't get that they would be upset, and someone was upset as soon as it was posted. I have time and again given the advice, speak to your concierge host about your needs then see what they do. If you make too many requests they may charge, but if you do not you might get pixie dust. The last thing " some" posters may be further upset that concierge has more in advertised perks compared to non concierge.
