HeWhoWaits

The ability to test for cruising is getting tougher - Walgreens now only allows a three day window for scheduling and CVS will only give free tests if you're having symptoms or were referred by a medical professional. The three day scheduling window creates difficulty scheduling a test for the one day that exists between our July 4 Freedom and our July 9 Explorer. Previously, we could have scheduled a test for July 8 as early as July 1 but now the window to schedule doesn't open until July 5 - while we're at CocoCay. Guess I'll be using a Diamond free day of Voom just to schedule the test.

At most they will check the date. Not sure the date was checked when we sailed Ovation in May, just that the name matched and it said negative.

You can test any time after midnight TONIGHT. At 12:01 a.m. it will be Saturday which is two calendar days prior to your sail date. For our Alaska cruise in May, we did our test for 9:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday for an 11:00 a.m. PDT boarding on Friday. That's 53 hours before boarding.

The menu in the app says it is Patron Silver tequila, triple sec, margarita mix, and watermelon syrup. Also found it at the Pool Bar on ships that haven't rebranded as The Lime & Coconut.

It was in the clarifying post by the OP. So Air2Sea is just Royal's Expedia or Travelocity.

In the context of the original example, though, Air2Sea was mentioned. The agents at Air2Sea most definitely DO access SABRE to make the reservations, unless they are booking the same way that we would if we made an online booking directly with the airline or through a website like Expedia or Travelocity. That raises the question as to whether Air2Sea is an agency or a booking site with more restrictions than a traditional TA would have.

Including a reprice even though the GTY rate is less than you paid. Once a stateroom has been assigned, your rate is no longer GTY but the rate for that stateroom. We found this out when the GTY price for our May Ovation cruise became $202 per person lower than what we paid.

Order history is an option if you click on your initials in the white circle at the top right.

Air2Sea is an entirely different organization. Those folks would indeed be TAs, albeit specializing in air arrangements.

And even then, there are no guarantees you'll get the lower price. Once final payment has been made, the repricing request has to go into some sort of approval system. We tried to get a reduction on an upcoming cruise. Made the call on June 2 and was told "it can take up to 14 days for the request to process. You will receive a new invoice when it has processed and the difference will appear on your account as OBC." As of today (19 days and counting), nothing has happened.

Better to be getting emails so you know to follow up. We only learned about a wonky charge when we called about something else, only to be told that there was a balance due on a cruise. NEVER received any communication from Royal on that one (and it happened THREE times in less than two weeks).

We went to see them more than once. Take that to mean what you will.

The week after you sailed Ovation, we had a Led Zeppelin tribute band called Led Zepagain. They played Music Hall a couple times and the main theater one evening. You missed out by one week!

My favorite ship is whatever ship I am on at the time. If not on a cruise, my favorite is the next one scheduled. My wife's favorite is Freedom.

Don't know the answer to this, but ask yourself if there is a benefit to buying the DBP (at any price) when you already have five free vouchers as Diamond+. This will vary by person, but you might do well to purchase the Refreshment Package instead and if you exceed five alcoholic selections any given day just pay for those as you go.

Those costs would likely be lumped into the category of "non-recurring items" so there won't be any breakdown required.

We've had refunds issued to a different card that was used with Royal, but never to someone NOT on our reservation. For example, we typically use one card to pay for the cruise itself and a different card for Cruise Planner purchases. We've had CP refunds issue to the cruise card instead of the "original form of payment."

I'm not a small individual and I've never had a problem with the size of the seats in the theaters. Definitely larger than coach seats on airplanes which push the limits of what I fit comfortably. That being said, I doubt many would refer to me as "fluffy" so YMMV.

I've said/typed it before and I'm sure I'll say/type it again: Royal IT is barely/rarely competent.

Good luck getting any more money out of that cruiser after the fact!

IT tickets were opened for the same issue a month ago. More of the "Royal IT is rarely competent" situation.

So they still haven't fixed the issue that I noted in this thread (which happened three times on the same cruises):

Another case of Royal IT being barely competent. Or is that rarely competent?

Given that approximately 25-30% of what has always been called "the common cold" was already caused by coronaviruses, aside from the particularly strong effect this version (these versions) had on some people it could be argued that this was always an "everyday virus." The fact that they came up with vaccines to lessen the impact of the virus puts the old "there is no vaccine that can prevent the common cold" mantra into the arena of myth.

Your son can order anything and everything on the menu. Age of the passenger is not relevant. And if the chicken fingers on the children's menu happens to strike your fancy one night for dinner, you are allowed to order that for yourself. On our recent Ovation to Alaska, on multiple nights I wasn't enamored of any of the desserts so I ordered the kids' banana split with just chocolate ice cream.