{"id":575,"date":"2026-07-26T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:23:25","slug":"unlisted-perks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/26\/unlisted-perks\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlisted Perks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On our most recent cruise, I was provided with a <strong>$50 spa credit (on port days only) for cruising in my birth month<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know if this is new, or because we are Gold level Castaway Club. I state that because we have cruised in Daniel&#8217;s birth month as Silver Castaway in 2024 and did not receive this. Or it could have been to drum up sales as I doubt many folks stayed onboard during port days in Alaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The credit was for me only and couldn&#8217;t be transferred to anyone else. As many folk know, spa services aren&#8217;t cheap and while $50 is nice, it wouldn&#8217;t even cover half of a service. While I did not go into port most of our port days, I&#8217;m not really a spa person. We made a point to get our mani\/pedis before the cruise (as it is much cheaper (with tip) than on board!) I&#8217;ve had bad experiences with massages onboard, don&#8217;t need facials, and am not up for trying some of the other spa services that cross into &#8216;health&#8217; territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be fair, I did go to an open house to learn more about options using acupuncture, but it was just fat shaming and talk about health issues I&#8217;ve already been working on with my docs and a nutritionist.I opted not to pursue it, as acupuncture is covered by my health insurance and much cheaper than onboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Has anyone else had this perk recently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our most recent cruise, I was provided with a $50 spa credit (on port days only) for cruising in my birth month. I don&#8217;t know if this is new, or because we are Gold level Castaway Club. I state that because we have cruised in Daniel&#8217;s birth month as Silver Castaway in 2024 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,53,17],"tags":[35,28,39,55],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disney","category-people-of-size","category-travel","tag-cruising","tag-dcl","tag-disney","tag-spa-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubynymphaea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}