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Was finally induced to get the RC Visa after booking at Next Cruise on Wonder last week. Have a couple months for the OBC to show up in CP before our next cruise.

Thanks, @OCSC Mike. We are booked on Anthem out of Southampton (UK) on May 19. So we should be able to check in at midnight GMT 45 days from sailing which would be comfortably in the early evening in the central US. Wasn't sure if all cruises were locked into RC HQ (Miami) time for determining midnight 45 days out from embarkation. Good to know that isn't the case. The app is easy to use and works great for snagging an early boarding time. The app has taken ~2-5 minutes after midnight at the embarkation port to open up check-in for me based on recent experience.

You rule-breakers!

Perfect...we only have one mantle.

Interesting variety of experiences with receiving crystal blocks--or not. Have my fingers crossed that blocks are still a thing for RC when my wife and I cross 140 on Wonder in February...and, @Lovetocruise2002, if we luck out and get one (or two?) onboard they'll be going home in our checked bag...

Thanks @OCSC Mike. Good to know my wife an I aren't the only ones without our check-in time being shown in our Guest Ticket Booklet...I think I'm done with my first, second, and third thoughts about this...

Thanks @Ampurp85 and @smokeybandit. This must be the first time I looked through the Guest Ticket Booklet for anything other than cabin assignment and luggage tags. Seeing that the Cruise Summary page of the booklet (page 3) shows a line for "Check-In Appointment" lead me to believe that the summary page would confirm this detail as well, since I had checked in 45 days prior to sailing (and ~15+ days before receiving the Guest Ticket Booklet). Instead, the summary page just indicates "Request a check-in appointment at www.royalCarribbean.com/onlinecheckin" in the line for my Check-In Appointment. This still seems odd to me given that all the other details on the Cruise Summary page are provided and accurate (e.g., dining time, stateroom, deck, room category, reservation ID, etc.). So this omission/conflicting information jumped out as a potential red flag for my check-in appointment until I went back to the app and saw my original appointment was still there...have learned the hard way to not assume much regarding how online systems operate and to double-check information more often than not. Besides this inconsistency, the Cruise Summary page is handy and provides a good snapshot of your basic cruise info. Would appreciate learning if anyone has seen their check-in time confirmed on the Cruise Summary page of their Guest Ticket Booklet.

My wife and I just received the PDF of our Guest Ticket Booklet for an upcoming cruise later this month and I noticed it does not show the check-in appointment time we reserved when we checked in using the app 45 days out. Wondering what other cruisers may or may not be seeing for their check-in appointment times in their Guest Ticket Booklets. Our TA didn't know why our appointment time wasn't shown in the booklet. Maybe this is just another sporadic/unexplainable RC IT issue. Good news is that the app still shows our correct appointment time (11AM). Thanks!

This is such a helpful and timely thread...wife and I will be checking in on the app next Wednesday evening (11PM central, midnight eastern) and will try jumping straight to the arrival time (and adding our other info later). We tried this for our last cruise in January and ran into error messages out of the gates, so we ended up checking in a couple days later. This will be a trail run for the app check-in process for a large family group cruise coming up early next year. Don't want to fumble navigating the app for that one... Profile icon it is!

Thanks, All -- perhaps R Bars have not been the most memorable of bars. But I remain intrigued by the retro concept. Guess I'll reserve judgment until I get my first drink at one in the Centrum on Serenade in a couple months...and find out what retro concoctions they offer.

Hi -- Wife and I will be sailing on Serenade for the GC in October and it looks like this ship still has an R Bar. This is our first Radiance class cruise. Maybe this bar type is still common on this class of ship, though we have never come across one, sailing mostly on the larger ship classes. We really enjoyed Champagne Bars on Oasis class before they mostly all were converted into bionic bars (no thanks--unless really bored and have the DXL...even then not much fun). Thinking the R Bar may be a throwback in the vein of Champagne Bar that would be fun to experience before they go bionic one day, too... Have any (good, great?) experiences at R Bars? Any off-the-menu (or on-the-menu) specialty drinks they might offer that are unique to R Bars? I suspect they all are locked into pretty much the same ship's/fleet's drink menu, but maybe not. Thanks!

Never considered this option. Usually just go with fancy/$13 drinks for each Diamond drink. Good to know about the volume beer value afforded by the 50% off coupon!

I'll take all the signage I can get to tell me where (and when) I am!

Hi @Pattycruise, thanks for your reply. I have been using the website for pre-cruise reservations. And I just noticed that when I clicked on the cruise planner button yesterday, I must not have scrolled down a little to notice cruise planner buttons for both reservations. So I quickly and inadvertently clicked the first CP button I saw and could reserve for our friends but not my wife and I. I just logged back in and scrolled down to click on our actual reservation and I can book for my wife an I after all. But the error message still prevents me from booking anything for our friends, possibly due to them being in a different Group ID that they are also not aware of. Not a big deal, just a minor snag. Will ask our MEI agent about it after the holiday... Besides the error message issue, this is essentially another of my "Oh, never mind" replies to a discussion I started, lol...note to self: just pay better attention to what you click. Have a great new year!

How can we remove a guest from cruise planner reservations for dining, shore excursions, etc.? The RC website is not allowing us to make a reservation for another couple that I was able to add as guests. Yesterday, we received the error message that they are either using another currency (not true) or have a different group ID (may be true) which prevented me from making any reservations for both couples. I just logged back in while we were on the phone with the other couple to make our own individual reservations for the same specialty restaurant. Problem now is that my wife and I show up as the secondary reservations labelled with this error message. Our friends show up at the top and I can reserve for them, just not for us. I have not found an easy/obvious way to remove guests or otherwise de-link someone from the cruise planner reservation site after I added them. I think that would be the easiest solution for us to book our dining reservations if I can find out how to do this. Believe me, we know from experience that the RC website can be unpredictable from time to time. But this is a first to be locked out from making any reservations under you own login because you attempted (and failed) to make a reservation for added guests and now appear as secondary guests under your own account. Yikes... Any suggestions appreciated...would hate to rely on wait until tomorrow to see how the website behaves, but that may be plan A... Happy New Year!