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As others have said, the sky is the limit on scenes, backdrops, or impromptu sittings/settings. You are the customer, tell them what you want. Every time I've taken a photo home, I am given the choice of prints or digital. If you have purchased a digital package, they are there to make money. If you want it printed, it will be printed. It may or may not be an upcharge, depending on the purchase.

It's a combination of both. Typically when boarding or in the evenings before dinner, you can get a photo done in front of a backdrop. At ports they offer them outside in front of the ship, they also go around to dinner tables. Sometimes they will offer them in front of a staircase, sail away party, on the promenade, or other places around ship. Prints or digital depends on the package you select, read the details.

So wait the photos for the photo packages are all in front of fake backdrops? The way they make it sound on the website is that they are all over the ship and it even says "ride" photos (I assuming zipline or the abyss) Can anyone let me know so I can cancel my photo package if I need to? Also I still can't get an answer as to whether it is just digital or if I can have any printed (on the ship) instead of digitally.

Rhapsody out of Puerto Rico, southern Caribbean port intensive cruise on November 10-17

If you had two prime certs, you could combine them for a higher category, if you don't want to waste on a shorty.

Having been on Oasis last year and plenty of other Oasis class ships with 150CP: I can say there is no six-course menu. There is Chef's table with multiple courses and wine pairings. But 150CP has a pretty paired down menu and in some instances, they don't allow you to order more than one entree.

Call whoever you booked your sailing through. Call your travel agent if you booked through them, or Royal Caribbean directly, if you booked directly through them.

I was just thinking the same thing.

Every time we cruise and I see the photo prices in like "what a F-ing racket". I mean talk about profit.

If I want to change my MDR dining from my way dining to a set time, how do I go about that?

$100K and you still have to drag around a Freestyle cup for the soda machines.

This happened to us on Mariner last summer. We had rainy weather for much of the trip. The last day at sea was very nice. Everyone was excited to finally have some sunshine. Not long after the pools opened, it was shut down for the same reason. It stayed closed all day. So the entire ship was down to one pool for families (not including the adult pool). It was so crowded. Everyone was really upset by this. I really wish people would be more careful about this with their children.

The entire Oasis class are large ships marketed towards families, too.

I guess thats one down side to a large ship marketed to families. Statistically, there'll be mroe people taking their little kids to the pool whrn they should not.

We saw DSB on Anthem a few years back. They are really good. We went multiple times!

Multiple (bordering on endless) Facebook posts week after week, that at least one pool on Icon has been closed every single day of every cruise. This is due to parents allowing children who are not potty trained to go in the pools. Apparently many times it's the main large pool. Once it happens it's closed for the entire day to clean. People please don't be selfish. If your child is not potty trained, stick to splash pads. It literally takes a pool for 7000 people out of commission for the entire day. Selfish and ridiculous.

But somehow not nearly has hovering as they were before the shutdown.

Hello. I will be join the Royal Caribbean Blog group cruise in Oct 2025. While I know it is over a year away, I will be celebrating my 15th wedding anniversary on October 10th while on the cruise. We actually celebrated our first anniversary on Oasis in 2011. So I got to thinking, maybe take my wife to 150 Central park for dinner like we did for our first anniversary. In 2011, we dined there and enjoyed the 5 or 6 course meal with a wine pairing for each course. My question is, do they still offer a wine pairing with the meal, or do they have a standard wine menu? If they still have it, how much is it extra? In 2011 my wife and I went in thinking the price was gonna be one thing and ended up spending over $300 for the both of us. Let me know your thoughts.

Photographers on the ship are very similar to salesmen on a car lot. They are there if you want them to be or not.

Would agree on the "hand-me downs". But will take what ever we can get.....

Just a side note, as someone who doesn't buy the pics, I still enjoyed taking a few candid ones around the ship when the photographers popped up- me and my kid playing mini golf, the family in the boarding terminal, hanging out at playmakers.... never even went to look at them before, but now you can look at the photos right after they are taken right in the app. So that was cool- I'd look at them on the app, then still not buy them- BUT it'll save you a lot of time down the line if you are buying them, you can check them out as they are taken instead of going at the end of the cruise and scrolling through them all.

Wizard of Oz was Amazing! oh and Rover left us a friend in our room. Tonight we have chops at 7:15 and then we are going to see a journey tribute band called DSB in the music hall.

Just curious if any beaches in Cozumel offer decent snorkeling opportunities or if one really needs to take a boat/excursion out to reef areas to see many fish or much sea life (assuming no reefs are close to shore). In our case, simply the opportunity to see some tropical fish in a not-too-distant-from shore area would be nice. We've enjoyed some nice near-shore snorkeling in Trunk Bay in St John, but was wondering if Cozumel had anything at all similar to offer. Thanks!

It's good to live in Florida? There's Oasis class ships everywhere with the possible exception of Lake Eola in downtown Orlando.

Or have a bystander take a photo on an outdoor deck at sunset, and get a more realistic backdrop for 1/10 the price.