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25 minutes ago, WannaCruise said:

as soon as we got a room, we switched to another in same category for better location

Royal avoiding the work of doing this might be a big part of why GTYs are getting slower.

Change the stateroom number on the tags or (better) get new blank tags and put the correct number on them (this way they're not pre-sorted to a particular section of the ship if your new stateroom is in a very different area).

13 minutes ago, Icon vaccation said:

Thank you. The plan is for my son to make his account when he is 13 so he can also get full access to the app instead of just using my account. 

That makes sense. The Royal Caribbean account for purposes of using the app is not the same as a Crown & Anchor account. 

Once you know your C&A number, you can add it to your RC account profile.

2 hours ago, RCIfan1912 said:

Ah before 8 am. That is pretty early. I like to eat breakfast in the 7 o'clock range but wife and kids on vacation do not.

I hit the Windjammer as soon as it opens (I've had "washy washy" folks ask if I am okay if I show up ten minutes after it opens rather than being at the front of the waiting for the door to open line). I get my table of choice and plenty of fresh food. About the time I'm done with my breakfast, it's time to grab an appropriate danish and several pieces of properly soft bacon to take back to the cabin for my wife, along with her fru-fru morning coffee.

We haven't sailed much since becoming D+, but we haven't seen this perk show up on any of those sailings.

There are certain items both my wife and I are fairly sure to order when they appear (moreso her).

In general, I do not decide until sitting at the table based on what speaks to me at the time. Anytime lamb is an option, I will order it. Lamb one of the few foods I have found to (nearly) always be better on cruise ships than when I prepare something similar myself. The other thing cruise kitchens do better than I am capable of producing is Indian food (it helps greatly that many of the chefs are Indian) so often that is the menu option that jumps off the page for me.

There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator.

Only a fraction of people will find this funny.

One final notification last night thanking us for our patience with the wave of notifications.

1 hour ago, Mark_A said:

I have 250 points  I only received one block, and that was on Navigator when I hit 210.  it's a nice block, but I am thinking I am missing the first one. Oh well.  I hit 280 this summer so, hopefully I'll get that one.

My wife didn't get her block for 140. Follow up with C&A didn't help. Follow up with LA on a later trip got no action. Follow up with the LA on her cruise where 210 was reach (with block delivery option letter properly received) re-verified the information for 140 but nothing came of it. This September is MY first cruise since 210 was reached - I plan to be a pest about it. If the LA's response isn't sufficient, I will request that they call the C&A office directly and put me on the line.

I received a number 19 just BEFORE getting 17, and just got 18 three minutes later.

In the past ten minutes, I have received four app notification that read "head - test segment #" and "content - test segment #"

They have been numbers 13, 14, 15, and 16 (what happened to 1-12?).

Clicking on them takes me to the Book Flights page at royalcaribbean.com (which happens to be "unavailable at the moment").

15 hours ago, Sailor_to_Cruiser said:

If you have to turn it up to hear it, put it to your ear instead.  Then you don't have to shout over the windjammer background noise.

Stop making sense!

Besides, how can one gorge oneself appropriately using just one hand while the other is physically holding a phone?

21 hours ago, Ryan79 said:

I have yet to EVER hear someone on speakerphone who I cannot hear every word of their conversation (from both parties)

I like to chime into the conversation. If it's THAT loud, I was clearly intended to be part of the interaction.

On 5/22/2025 at 11:12 PM, KristiZ said:

Welcome to the boards!

That box allows them to use facial recognition to group all your photos that are taken by the ship’s photographers together for you to view and/or purchase.

Which happens whether you allow your self-provided boarding photo to be used or not. It just happens earlier in the cruise with that permission granted.

16 hours ago, WAYNO said:

Labadee is among my least favorite ports.  Simultaneously, it's among my Wife's favorite ports.

Wonder how many couples could/would have this situation when talking about Nassau.

The vouchers are not physical vouchers. You will have them automatically loaded to your SeaPass each day (they expire daily, so use them or lose them).

Enjoy.

If what you ordered from Amazon didn't match the description (in a negative way), would you just keep it or would you return it for a refund?

Take the same approach for purchases from the CP.

16 minutes ago, SplashOfWater said:

I just left the Norwegian Aqua yesterday and my NCL points were updated today. No reason why Royal can't do the same.

Maybe NCL recruits away the competent programmers.

The key question is whether your kids like cruising or if they're only interested in the "theme park/water park" aspect of being on the ship.

If they enjoy cruising, they will enjoy being on a Celebrity ship. If they're only interested in the bells and whistles, they will tell you they are bored.

42 minutes ago, PPPJJ-GCVAB said:

Strange because when you look at the port schedule there were no ships docked on the 12th!  However that ship looks like an MSC to me just not sure which one?

The screenshot posted was taken on the 12th. The Google Maps photo was not.

Look at your own house the same way - the photo won't be today, but some point in the past.

4 hours ago, mills10 said:

I've been getting that error and sometimes when it does "work" it shows me 10 days worth of menus for my 3 night cruise in a couple of weeks. 

Better than the normal "here's the first three days of menus on your seven night cruise."

Checking bags or not is up to you, but as others have said it is a great idea for most of your stuff.

We put tags on everything, including the carry-on bags we're keeping with us. If you leave one somewhere, the tag helps identify where it belongs.

14 minutes ago, Chocoholic said:

Guest Services definitely has their work cut out for them. I'm trying my best to not have to bother them.

Good on you. They're underappreciated and often unfairly criticized.

Maybe they're updating the menus fleetwide, just in time to make all of @PG Cruiser's work on the visual menus obsolete!

14 hours ago, Chocoholic said:

We set sail in 10 days, I hope it updates soon! I'm trying to avoid spending my first day standing in line at guest services. 

This close to the sail date, you may not have the information update. One option is to check to see if excursions are available for Nassau on the day of the revised port. 

I'm sure Guest Services isn't looking forward to all the folks needing to make changes to reservations, either.