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Agree...from what I've seen you aren't outside on your balcony, but it's just a big window that opens. Nice views when it's closed but personally would prefer a traditional balcony. Really loved following everyone's posts and appreciate all the details, photos and sharing your experience and opinions. Really excited to go on her at xmas time. Ship seems beautiful with even more variety of food venues, bars, etc etc. Love the big windows and openness of this ship too. And of course our kids will just love the waterpark. I also like how they have a separate "tot" area that should spread out the kids a bit. Thank you all for taking us along.

We had Simeon as a CD on Symphony in 2019 and I remember him saying he is usually the comedian but was filling in a CD. He was really funny though so not surprised you saying he was good.

I'm looking at the deck plan.....Can you enter Absolute Zero on deck 5 (no Playmakers)? Or is it only accessible from deck 6 (Playmakers)?

So great to be following along and enjoying Icon through all of you. Seems like a beautiful ship with just "Wows" all over. The Windjammer on this cruise too is first class! Question about the sofa bed. Has Royal stopped the trundle style sofa beds where a double sofa turns into two separate mattresses? Or maybe it's just your room (as your looks like it's more of a double bed)? I sure hope not as for our Icon booking we had to go back to a single room and our kids sharing a double (sofa) bed won't work. The trundle style is perfect as they each get their own mattrtess.

I know this is an old post, but appreciate you posting and your follow up as we are in the same situation. It's been 3 weeks since our cruise. DH and my cruise include the points for the sailing; however, our kids points have yet to be updated. I called and they said we need to wait 30 days (which seems ridiculous and have never heard that before). I check our younger one's account each day and no change. And I know at this point, waiting 30 days will do nada.

Thanks for posting. I find it fascinating hearing about your adventures and how they run the ship on a 9 month cruise. I'm enjoying following along. I knew there were segments, but didn't realize they had segments that are just a few weeks long.

So excited for this review. We are on Icon next xmas so great to join in the excitement in the meantime. Hope you all have a wonderful cruise. Well, of course you will!

DH and I tried to do the "Taste of the Caribbean" last July on Navigator. Sadly, they didn't have enough people to run it (as they close the Bamboo Room ), so it didn't end up running. They did give us a free drink though in it's place.

Sabrina, waiting to fly home and I've now read your blog. It was so wonderful meeting you and @recogneyes in person! So glad it worked out. It's fun reading your experience on the ship and hearing your thoughts as every family can experience things differently. And of course, always interesting hearing your about your suite experience. Btw, I agree with you on The Book. The singing, dancing and special effects were great, but the show was I don't know....odd. (And I also did a double take on the "person" lying in the Solarium...lol). Too bad about our Haiti day weather but overall can't complain as certainly better than back home. Safe travels back home and hopefully our cruise paths will cross again.

Happy to report that we just did check in for WestJet, and like your scenario, when we got to bags, it showed $0 for the cost of each bag. So it was in fact included.

Thanks. Maybe Air2Sea misaligned the ticket with EconFlex. It's hard to tell as it doesn't seem like a one to one mapping (i.e. since the price isn't the same if you check on the airline's site directly). Or maybe we'll get lucky and it will in fact be included. However, we haven't pre-paid anything as we though they were included. Will just pay it when there if not, and will double check next time at booking if we do Air2Sea again.

Yeah...it's just that Air2Sea listed the first bag as included. Guess next time, I should confirm with them when they send the invoice.

This is what I mean by what I captured at booking time via Air2Sea (This happens to be WestJet booking) and then

Question for anyone who has booked Air2Sea. When we did the booking on Air2Sea, it definitely showed that 1 bag is included (I assume per person). I have screenshots of this and I do remember checking a few times. Since we booked with WestJet, we had to wait until we paid off our cruise to book our seats. This all worked fine, except that when looking at our flights, it doesn't seem to show that any bags are included and it even recommends that we prepay. Did we miss doing something when we booked our seats? Or does this happen often? We fly out in a few days so I guess we'll see for sure if our bags are in fact included but doesn't seem so from WestJet emails (and even Royal's confirmation doesn't mention bags).

Silly question (and I apologize if this was already mentioned). We don't get internet at all as we like to disconnect from the world....but with Diamond, do we still get 1 free day without buying any internet? Or it's only if you purchase it then 1 day is free?

We quite enjoyed Adventure...mind you, have yet to have a bad Royal cruise. For Adventure, it was just DH and I, but they have the waterslides, and standard stuff like flowrider, mini golf, rock wall., ice rink. If I remember right, it has one less pool than Freedom class but still a great ship. I wouldn't hesitate.

Thanks. I do check regularly but maybe I still missed it. Have an awesome time.

Following along as we'll be on Odyssey end of December. Great that you are finally getting on her, and how nice to be going with family members. Question...at what point were you able to book iFly and North Star? I don't see it in our cruise planner yet and thought we had to wait until we board....but sounds like you've booked them beforehand. It's cruise day for you! Have an amazing time!

Nothing really great for what we book. Good deals but didn't book.... photo packages, refreshment package, lunch specialty (wanted to book Hooked lunch but DD was totally not interested), CoCo Cay beach club an Thrill Park for March were half price (don't need either) Ok (but not great) that we booked - Maya Key Private Island (Roatan), All Access Tour (wanted to try this once and it was reasonable on Liberty), also booked a Roatan excursion for Dec 2024 but not sure if we will keep that one (but good price so booked for now) P.S. - Didn't actually do any re-pricing of bookings as our current ones were cheaper than Black Friday.

Symphony Oasis Anthem Independence Allure (but will see if Wonder, Odyssey and Icon takes a spot above once we go on them)

We stayed at Crowne Plaza at San Pedro. Nice hotel with good breakfast. One thing, and maybe it was just us, is that it was a very quiet, almost strangely deserted area. Not sure if it's just the time of year or day of the week that we went. It was a bit creepy. But we did find a good restaurant in the area for dinner, and it was neat to be able to walk to the port (took an uber morning of, but we walked day before to check it out).

Yeah, they're wonderful, eh? lol

Exciting! We paid ours off a couple weeks ago. This is also our first time trying Air2Sea. We booked WestJet and it's one of the airlines that doesn't let you book seats until you pay for the flight (via Air2Sea) as it needs the tickets issues. So finally able to do that. Luckily we were fine and able to get decent seats together.

Fellow Canadian here but next year's cruise will be the first time we will be visiting Halifax. We're debating on whether to book a tour that goes to Peggy's Cove, or there is a Historic Walking Tour or an Architecture Walking Tour that could be interesting. I've also heard for Halifax there is no need to book a tour as there is a nice nice waterfront and museum right at the port (would be interested in the Titanic exhibit). Any thoughts or suggestions?