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I guess currently it mainly related to the Spectrum Of the seas . In Spectrum they published the golden and Silver cabin types , the interesting thing (and that is why I used cabin and suites type) in the golden you can see even rooms that are only balcony (golden balcony) or golden suites. Which mean you can choose to have the perks of suites while not require to be in a suites , (or maybe just be in JS) ( F.Y.I @Lovetocruise2002 ? ) Its seems that beside the Golden dining room for the golden cabins they are also adding Silver dining room (and lounge) for the Silver cabin type (JS mainly), this one is still speculation as RC did not discussed it yet (And I can not see it in my cruise planner). As I committed to check such things, I booked an October cruise on Spectrum OTS so I can report back ?). Here you can see deck 16 that contains the golden cabins/ dining room and deck 14 which show the silver dining room and lounge

Hi , Sorry for later answer , our cruise did not brought us to Hanoi so I can not answer on it. the dock port for Ho Chi Minh is around 1 hour from the city if it helps. Make sure you have the name of the port also printed in the local language just in case , also you can install the Grab application which is the most common taxi ordering application in this rejoin

Maybe they roll your passport very tight, entering into a bottle and hope it will reach you after some time ? I guess , they have some kind of procedures before pooling off , checking which customers did not board , fetch there passports and leave it with RCL agents in ports or with the port authorities. what is strange to me is that RC allowed to go to you safe without a permission , so maybe the procedure is only for people that are calling before to say they are not going to make it .

I am not from the US and I am using my driving license as identification in ports that require it. All they ask is some kind of government issue id , they are not saying which government ? Anyway , if they accepting my driving license I am sure they will accept your UK DL as long as it has picture on it.

Could be , although when I was on Hong Kong cruise to Singapore I paid normal fee , many things are different in China based cruise (they are charging for activities which are usually not charges in other cruises)

I wonder , RCL can automatic open your safe if you are missing the ship ? Anyway , on most ports I also leave my passport on board but I take a copy and also I take a picture of the section in the CC were it list the phone number of RCL representative on each port.

The Voom price I guess is also driving by the capacity and the demand , for example , on my cruise from Japan to China they are selling Voom currently at 18$ for one device !

Well, its a ship well maintained, if you are not expecting a flow rider /zip line , Broadway show etc , you are on the right ship Pros : Excellent service, nice solarium , lots of public spaces , wonderful chef table (it has separated room), well maintained, not too crowded Cons : mediocre food options during late night, suitcase can not be pushed under the bad, missing some of the attractions and promenade. I was on the Rhapsody last year and return to it this year , I like the port option which the Rhapsody goes to

First of all , Vietnam is a very nice country to tour , second , which ship you are going to cruise ? We took this cruise in the past with Voyager , all the ports were docked ports and it was very fast to disembark from the ship. Two of the ports were quite far from the destinations and in one of the ports the taxis were not allowed into the port.

I Guess if this is/will become a common approach RC will soon solve it by forcing Soda packages for everyone under 21 if all the other in the cabin have the Ultimate drinking package, just like they started a year ago to demand that if one person in a cabin is buying the ultimate drinking package all the rest above 21 must buy it.

Thanks, The reserve seat waver should be change to show r reservation waver , which mean , the key people still need to reserve the show while start class can get to any show without pre reservation.

The certificate will be available only from April. The Prime Benefits are available from the time you earned it

Usually while tendering RCL open more than one location to board the boats , they just need to better organize it with separate place for the key/suites. I found it to be a bigger issue while the ship arrives to the port late or for short period and everyone tries to gout at the same time.

Things that works for me : 1. Sleep well before the flight , do not try to be tired to better sleep in the flight , it will not change 2. Do not consume Alcohol During the flight. 3. When landing , try to walk as much as you can under the Sun , the Sun light trick the body to reset its clock. 4. Go to sleep around 10 PM at local time. 5. I take from time to time melatonin 0.3 mg , but this is something you should discuss with your doctor first (although its dose not require prescription)

Noting wrong to have Genny in the room ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genny ?

For Rhapsody August it drop from 50 to 47. Also they offer many discount on other items.

I updated the table , adding the D/D++ (I have not included all the benefits of D and D++ as they are not relevant for the comparison) .

Regarding Concierge clubs , they already started to change it on the Vision , at least there was some people that were saying that on Rhapsody they changed it few month ago. they will need to do it as there more and more people with diamond plus and by switching the concierge to suite launch the do not need to revoke any benefits from D+ . Regarding adding C&A status , I will try but I will need to switch to another tool or to split it to two pages .

I have updated the table per the comments , added also SKY class to separate it from the other ships suites.

I still struggling to decide if to take it to our Greece Island cruise as we have few tendering ports, but not sure if it worse it on a Vision class ship. For my Japan cruise from China I would really want to use it to skip some queues (and there will be queues there) and for the internet , but the key is not offer there yet (hope it will appear later)

I asked the same questions few days ago and the non official answer was yes, you are getting two devices , but might be good to check with RC as it is a major benefit of the program , opps , just saw @Lovetocruise2002 answer , which is the most official answer (for sure more reliable from any RC phone representative ? . Also , I guess since the internet price per device is going down as you add more devices , the price compare is different

Correct , only the last day breakfast.

Thanks, I have fixed it. I guess my memory starts to betray me ?

Regarding the special location for breakfast , this is one of the items I am not sure , I think I read in the past in one of @twangster Live blog , but it required to be verified , I can always correct the table.

I know its not first discussion about the Key and I guess its not the last one . To help deciding if the key program making sense or not (at least for me) I created a table with all the benefits comparing the key to the different suites . I was not sure on one or two items so please let me know if something need to be fixed here. hope its helpful.