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HeWhoWaits

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  1. 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.
  2. Order history is an option if you click on your initials in the white circle at the top right.
  3. Air2Sea is an entirely different organization. Those folks would indeed be TAs, albeit specializing in air arrangements.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. We went to see them more than once. Take that to mean what you will.
  7. 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!
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Those costs would likely be lumped into the category of "non-recurring items" so there won't be any breakdown required.
  11. 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."
  12. 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.
  13. I've said/typed it before and I'm sure I'll say/type it again: Royal IT is barely/rarely competent.
  14. Good luck getting any more money out of that cruiser after the fact!
  15. IT tickets were opened for the same issue a month ago. More of the "Royal IT is rarely competent" situation.
  16. So they still haven't fixed the issue that I noted in this thread (which happened three times on the same cruises):
  17. Another case of Royal IT being barely competent. Or is that rarely competent?
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Ovation MDR menus were available on the app until about ten days before our May 20 sailing, when they disappeared. They showed back up a couple days prior to the sailing.
  21. And now the option exists to have the block shipped to you or to decline receipt of a block.
  22. You kid, but she didn't know about the blocks until I told her what to ask the Loyalty Ambassador on her trip this month on Mariner with friends. Only one of us frequents the forums - the other does the extra cruises that accelerate the points accumulation. She was unhappy that the 140 block won't be on Freedom. That's why multiple trips on Freedom (only one with me) were added - to cross the 210 threshold on Freedom next summer.
  23. To date, I have not sailed on the same vessel twice (that will change in July on a 4-nighter on Freedom). I prefer to base trips on the itinerary. My wife already has three sailings on Freedom with four more scheduled (including the one with me in July). It's her favorite ship and she wants to make sure she hits a multiple of 70 points to get a block on "the right ship."
  24. The mini golf you mention isn't just any old putt putt course. Bermuda Fun Golf consists of holes based on famous holes at 6 courses in Bermuda, 6 courses in the US, and 6 courses in Great Britain. The trickiest hole on the course for me was the Rode Hole from St. Andrews.
  25. But the requirement to follow overly strict protocols to sail IS a CDC requirement. Cruise lines could opt to not require testing but that would limit the ability to meet even crazier requirements from CDC.
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