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Kurtp13

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  1. Sailing on Adventure in Nov. I didn't book any speciality dining. I tried a 3 day dinner package on our last cruise and didn't think it was worth extra expense. The thing that I would like to know is if the windjammer is overwhelming on that first day, can i do a walk in lunch in Chops? I don't really want to prebook. If the windjammer isn't nuts I'll just go there. I have never seen a discount on Chops lunch. I assume the on board cost is the same as prebooking. I think walk ins are available on other days but I'm just not sure if they are also available on embarkation day. Ok don't want the key so that isn't interesting to me at all.
  2. Billy sells them too if you want to support him. https://shop.cruisehabit.com/collections/frontpage/products/magentic-hooks-hang-wet-clothes-or-other-items-from-your-ships-stateroom-ceiling
  3. The family wants the longer sailing? I would say go for what they are asking for.
  4. That's what I thought. An idea whose time has passed. I'll stick with cash
  5. Back in the day I used to tip a little extra and hand out phone calling cards to the servers. Sometimes I would give them out to bartenders or a favorite Johnny Rockets servers. I assumed I could buy them in bulk cheaper than they could. And that would allow them to call home. I remember getting this suggestion on another website That was before the rise of intenet calling. So I didn't think there was any value to them any more. But someone brought them up on a Facebook cruise ship site. Either I'm wrong or this person is behind the times. Is there still any value to these cards?
  6. I always worry about someone outside of the allowed circle of covered people in the travel insurance getting sick. My father in-law was very sick just before my final payment and we decided to cancel just in case. Obviously we wanted to spend time with him and we are a 10 hour drive from our former hometown. He passed before the cruise would have occurred. But I don't think I would have been covered if we cancelled and he was still 'just' sick. We would have elected to stay back and cancel just to be on the safe side. We made the right decision and ended up rescheduling a few months after things had settled down. So not everything going to work out depending on the coverage. Cancel for any reason is quite expensive in comparison so I still have not used that option. I'll stick with fully refundable fares and assess the situation before making final payment, then buying insurance. My primary goal with the insurance is medical and fly out coverage.
  7. My agent secured an OBC for the confusion. It was a crazy mess and had me watching everyday to make sure my reservation was still active and not inadvertently cancelled. If I was a new customer I would have had a terrible first impression. I am so looking forward to this cruise so hopefully with this behind me it will be smooth sailing from here on out.
  8. I had multiple odd value refunds from Royal for cruise planner purchases and OBC adjustments due to a canceled cruise. The last one occurred near my final payment date and was an over credit to me. But it was so confusing they couldn't get me a value for the final balance due for almost 4 weeks. My travel agency kept thinking each time I talked to them it would be resolved within the phone call. So I had several calls with 1 hour+ waits on hold. About 5 hours total. Finally I received a final balance number but they didn't sound confident. I paid it. Then on followup call I got another final balance number. And I paid that. Crazy. I now have a final invoice but since I was past the final payment date by weeks I was a little concerned they would cancel despite the issue being their fault. You know like the right hand not knowing what the left is doing. The travel agents couldn't believe it was so complicated and frankly RCCL had me confused as well.
  9. Thanks. On Allure I never went there even though I planned to go. So I wasn't sure of the layout. To many places to explore on Allure in a week. No worries about the lack of smoothies on Grandeur. All of that is just window dressing for the main attraction of the cruise.
  10. I got a little tired of the flavored drink mixes in the tropical bar drinks on the last trip. I will only have the Refreshment package this trip and was hoping for something that wasn't quite as sweet. A real fruit smoothie could be made without all the sugar
  11. I did that from Orlando and returned in Ft. Lauderdale. Took the car rental shuttle to the ship after dropping off my wife and luggage. So I didn't have to carry anything with me to the terminal. It worked well but the car agency had changed locations and did not inform me. That caused some delay and others had the same issue. I had the rental set up a long time in advance.
  12. Does the spa on Grandeur have smoothies? I heard Allure had this when I sailed in April and we could have used the Refreshment package to get them. But I didn't think of that during that trip. So I'm wondering if this just exists on larger ships.
  13. I did this on the last cruise on Allure and loved it. But how would this work with My Time Dining? I don't expect to have the same servers every night.
  14. Certain countries/Port locations are known for local items that are low priced to pick up when visiting. Like in Cozumel I would pick up vanilla or Kaluwa. Or in Jamaica I might get rum or coffee. San Juan i would get Rum also. Is there anything like this to get while in Nassau?
  15. I expect to have someone meet us in Port Canaveral when we have a port stop on Grandeur of the Seas. Will they be able to drive to the ship area to pick us up? Can they just follow the cabs in? Is there a sidewalk from the ship to outside of the port area (Just in case they are not allow to drive all the way in)?
  16. I saw that and wondered if it were some legacy menu as background for the page layout. Similar to a place that might show their hamburger prices from the 1950s. But it appears too detailed for that. If I can get a beer for less than $2, the heck with the drink package. Haha.
  17. On the schooner bar menu, what am I missing regarding the 'Hoist up a beer' page. Many drinks are listed as less the $2. Are these shot glass sized beers.? What's up?
  18. Bump for this topic. I am doing the refreshment packages on the next cruise and it has an R-Bar.
  19. I checked my Adventure sailing on Nov 2019 and it's listed at $65/day. It's an 8 day so it's even a little more expensive. I will be watching closely for a sale.
  20. Sp I have a followup question, On Allure the life jackets were not in my room. Are they still in the room on the other classes
  21. We recently sailed on Allure after a long break from cruising. That muster drill took place in Studio B for us. But previously I remember taking life jackets to outside locations. On other ship classes are muster drills still the old fashioned `grab a life jacket` style or are do they all take place in the ships venues?
  22. From my trip report: o Tried to use Lyft for a ride to car rental area at the FLL airport. My phone data service was terrible and it appeared others were having the same problem. I set up a ride, hit enter and the signal crashed requiring me to try again. The cars that were picking people up were not marked and that caused people to step out into the traffic lane and turn around. My brother in law does this on the side and he has stickers on his car so it can be identified easily. Cost would have been somewhere between $8 -$10. After some attempts my wife finally said let’s get a cab. Good call. The trip was $12 and we just jumped into a readily available cab. Saving a few bucks wasn’t worth the aggravation we were having for such a short ride.
  23. I thought I understood this package but maybe I don't. When you buy 1 BOGO package are you buying a dinner for 2 people? Here's what I thought: For 2 people you buy 2 packages. 1 for each person. Then 2 dinners are scheduled for both the 1st and 2nd nights with no exceptions. Maybe it's somewhere in between. Can the first dinner be used on either the 1st or 2nd night and the remaining dinner any other night? I purposely avoided this so that I could meet my waitstaff in the MDR.
  24. I received this note weeks prior to my cruise after my request for a window seat. After getting one assignment I asked if it was near the service area because I wanted to avoid that location. "I have moved you to table 618 on the same deck, by the window (it is a table for 4). This table is farther from the service station that the previous one. Also, like the previous one, this table is in the private Dining Room. a quieter area inside the restaurant." There must be a fairly consistent layout for the room. I couldnt get a map either.
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