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Pretty sure the only non-facial debarking I've had recently is in Tampa, but they all sort of blur together so I can't be 100% on that. I do recall some terminal in FL that usually has facial, had a tech outage and we had to show our stuff but it didn't really slow things down very much.

Do you mean the free Voom on Enchantment that he promised in 2017 isn't going to happen?

I think it's more likely an influencer is trying to drive revenue by creating controversial headlines that create a lot of clicks, discussion, interaction and ultimately ad traffic.

I looked down, saw it on my lock screen with the slider bar and thought to myself "I've never seen that before". So I didn't do anything to enable it.

I carry two phones at the moment, an iPhone and an Android. My iPhone has international data roaming while my Android has a US only domestic plan with no international coverage. Off the ship I activate my iPhone hotspot and I join my Android to my iPhone so both phones have internet access while off the ship. On the ship I have a multi device Voom plan so both of my devices have Voom based internet access. Consequently I can't confirm this works without internet access. I can say that yesterday was our 2nd last port of call for this voyage and I didn't see the countdown notification at our first two ports of call but this new feature may have come in the latest app update. I can add that I updated the Royal and Celebrity apps on both my Android and Apple phones earlier in the day yesterday. We were at a beach bar with real Starlink so I took the opportunity to update all apps on both phones on the high speed bar Starlink compare to the Royal speed throttled Starlink on the ship. My Apple phone, freshly updated, did not produce the countdown notification, just the "It's almost time to set sail!" notification. My Apple phone: Two friends, both Android users, one from the US and one from Australia did not get the countdown notification on their phones but I don't think they updated their apps yesterday.

Dragon Link giveth, but Dragon Link mostly taketh.

Just at Maya Chan a couple days ago and booking it again for May.

Proof that an Apple Watch is not a watch that can keep time on it's own. The ship is on Central time. Orlando time is one hour ahead. I left my iPhone in the safe and went down to deck 6. My Apple Watch is now displaying Pacific time. My iPhone and my Samsung phone are both on Central time, ship time. When the Apple watch lost its connection to the phone it changed to Pacific time were Apple is headquartered. Terrible software programming.

I was in Costa Maya two days ago and Cozumel today. No issues. There is some misinformation being spread online that contradicts the actual state department website.

Smoking casino?

I'm on Icon and can't find Miss Kitty Gold. Just Kismit/Karma Kat. Maybe they were too kind for too many people? Agreed.

There has always been something wrong with my account. Late last year they had me delete my account, create a new, never used email address and create a new account using that email address. That fixed Celebrity so I now get X emails but it didn't fix Royal. Now, after every cruise I need to remove my CAS # and re-add it to my profile before my points go up. I get the points, they just don't show until I delete/add my number. Eight cruises into 2026 and I've had to do that trick for every cruise. It's getting old. All of my cruises appear in my profile and I'll get emails when I check in or boarding day reminder emails, but CAS and casino related emails I don't get. Royal IT is very broken.

I had issues with my first two eligible X sailings where neither of my Points Choice transfer submissions didn't happen. A week ago I was talking to CAS about other matters and inquired about my PC transfer. I was told it can take 30 days and they wouldn't look at before 30 days. After 30 days it still hadn't happened so I was visited the Loyalty Ambassador on board a ship. Fortunately I had taken a screenshot after submitting the PC request. That screenshot with the date and time stamp proved to be critical in order to prove I had made the request. The LA took a picture of it and submitted it to a shoreside resource they have for Points Choice issues. Yesterday the LA left a message on the ship's phone and my crystal block, based on getting the points moved over from X to Royal, was waiting in my cabin. Today this popped up on my phone: As expected they added the point to Royal and took them away from X. Bottom line, take a screenshot when you make the request. You may need it later.

Talk to guest services on board. Sometimes ships come and go from different terminals so they run a shuttle to move guests back to their vehicles. They also will offer shuttles for S2S guests. Without knowing the ships in port that day it's difficult to predict how it will play out for everyone so the best advice is ask at guest services.

Moving to a different ship is often called side-to-side versus back-to-back. It depends what terminals in PEV. 25, 18 and 19 are walkable. Typically if no Edge class ships are in port, Reflection uses 25 and typically Jewel is at 19. They share a parking garage so if that is where you end up it's definitely walkable. If one ship gets put down at 29 then you'll need the shuttle.