HeWhoWaits

Lift & Shift came too late for us. Would have been great as the identical cruise next year is 75% higher price. Even with 125% FCC there's a significant extra cost for the same trip.

Those suites require more than 4 people and can't be booked online anyway. The price per person might be accurate for full capacity of the cabin, as third guest and beyond all pay a significantly reduced fare compared to the first two.

And when you get 125% FCC on the rebooked price for the cruise being cancelled, you'll have enough to really go big!

FIFY

I've see the same issue on other boards. The originals are on a forum site that requires you to be a member to view. That is causing the pictures to fail on here.

Smaller dollar figure refunds = processed almost immediately. Anecdotally, most expensive refunds = delayed. Heck, even the two cancellations requested for our group on the same cruise (submitted about 3 minutes apart) were processed in the system as cancellations over a week apart (the less expensive one first). No $$$ have made it back yet. Will be interesting to see how many days that takes from each being cancelled in the system.

The original published "promise" for the first cancellations was "within 30 days" (NOT 30 business days) - approximately 4 weeks. The new pronouncement is 45 BUSINESS days - approximately 9 weeks. The time to get your refund has more than doubled from what was originally announced. The first information we received in the second wave also stated "within 30 days of cancellation" but is now changed as well. No wonder so many are up in arms about the process.

Any speculation on which poster is Ms. Freed? Could be a fun exercise.

Unless the required check-in at the muster station is monitored by a crew member, what's to stop somebody from checking in their entire party. Goes counter to the thought that everyone needs to know where to go. Less of an issue with younger children as they will (theoretically) always be with either adults from their group or at Adventure Ocean and be escorted.

Also interesting that the child price is higher for the Spanish version than for the English, even without lunch. As for me - I would purchase the Spanish and plan to understand ~2/3 of the narration. And then I would watch more Univision to refresh my listening skills in hopes of getting it closer to 75%.

Depends - do you touch the restroom door with any part of your body that MIGHT come in contact with your hands after washing but before you get to the buffet?

That would not be considered chronic asthma. It is allergy-induced asthma. No issue. My asthma, however qualifies as chronic because I HAVE asthma all the time, regardless of the fact that it is well-controlled by my current medications and exercise. @SpeedNoodles is cleared to cruise, @HeWhoWaits may have to figure out how to minimize the chances of being "discovered."

Well, we DO tease our northern neighbors a bit, but they deserve it. Eh?

I am not aware of any law regarding the rapidity of issuing a refund. As for banks, once the refund is submitted to the bank by a company the bank has three (3) business days (from COB on the day of the refund) to make funds available if the amount is less than $1000*. The time is extended to seven (7) business days for larger amounts (meaning 9 calendar days because there is guaranteed to be a weekend in there). If a refund is issued after 5:00 p.m. local time for the financial institution, it is the beginning of the NEXT business day so there can be four to ten (4-10) full weekdays before the money must be available to you. *This was the amount that was in effect when my wife retired from banking. It may be higher now.

We had two separate bookings on the same cruise that was cancelled. We executed the required request to cancel rather than take the FCC for both within a few minutes of each other. One (the one involving less $$$ that Royal has to return) was cancelled in the system and we have received the Cruise Planner cancellation email. The other (more $$$) booking still exists with no Cruise Planner cancellation email.

Hear about it all the time on these boards. Have NEVER seen it.

I'd accept Coco Cay and Labadee as stops if it meant multiple sea days onboard. Best option available since cruises without a foreign port aren't allowed.

Posted by a former co-worker on a different platform: Perspective on the virus: 1. Half of us are going to come out of this quarantine as amazing cooks. The other half with a drinking problem 2. I used to spin that toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune, now I turn it like I'm cracking a safe 3. I need to practise social distancing with the refrigerator 4. I still haven't decided where to go for Easter - the living room or the bedroom 5. Every few days, try your jeans on just to make sure they still fit. Pajamas will have you believe all is well in the kingdom. 6. I don't think anyone expected when we changed the clocks, we'd go from Standard Time to the Twilight Zone 7. This morning, I saw my neighour talking to her cat again. It was obvious she thought her cat understood her. When I got back into the house, I told my dog and we both laughed. 8. My body has absorbed so much soap and disinfectant lately that when I pee, it cleans the toilet. 9. I'm so excited it's time to take out the garbage. What should I wear? 10. I hope the weather is good tomorrow for my trip to "Puerto Backyarda" cos I'm getting real tired of "Los Livingroom" 11. Classified ad: Single man with toilet paper seeks woman with hand sanitizer for good clean fun 12. Better 6 feet apart than 6 feet under....!!

This is about 10 days old, but... (no, I am NOT a fan of either not-so-Big Blue or THE!!!!! Ohio State University)

@mathbees wasn't wrong!

How is Christmas like a defective alphabet? No L

It most certainly IS airborne. Otherwise, there would be no need for filtering N-95 respirators (commonly incorrectly called "masks").