SpeedNoodles

Ha, I'm married to law enforcement and am a 911 dispatch supervisor. Y'all don't scare me with your speech pattern It's all good.

That's fine. Just saying, it's a really good way to get hold of them, lol.

The best way to get hold of them is not phone or email, it's actually through social media (their official Facebook or Twitter pages - by direct messaging them). They typically answer within a few hours. I've never had them not answer in 2 hours.

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This isn't a place where you can formally file complaints as it is a fan site and not affiliated with Royal Caribbean, but maybe someone will have some advice for you!

Midnight Eastern.

I'd recommend going through a good travel agent to help you with your booking. They can get these answers without you having to put in all of the time.

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Forget the suite perks. I just don't know how we'll ever survive without two bathrooms in our cabin again.

I don't have kids, but I'd imagine that there's a phone number for Adventure Ocean that you could call from any shipboard phone occasionally? Or, if you plan to have an internet package, the staff could text you if your kids were jonesing to leave?

I've been in the spring, summer, and fall. I don't think there's a bad time to go on an Alaskan cruise. If I was forced to give an answer, my ideal time, personally, is the week of June 21, on which the summer solstice falls. I find the longest day of the year to be kind of magical (and this is about the only time you'll read me get sentimental on anything here, so document it, lol). I've seen whales and seals all of those months, although I've only seen Orcas and huge dolphin pods in September (but that's simply one experience one year - I wouldn't book a cruise based on that very non-scientific observation). Prices are lower in the shoulder season (May and September), so if that matters to you, there ya go. I suspect 2024 dates may come out in late 2022.

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You book it under one person. Enjoy!

I know nobody will believe me, but as a former zookeeper and someone who still has a friend involved in a very respectable sloth rescue, physical sloth encounters are so bad for the animals. It's so incredibly stressful for them, not to mention the pressure that increased desire for sloth encounters put on wild populations. I won't debate it, it's up to each individual to decide to do what their conscious allows. I just hope people think about it first.

If I were you I'd decide what features I'd want to be closer to. If you want a shorter walk to the elevator bank, choose cabins closer to those. If catching a little glimpse of the Aquatheatre is important, go for a pair farther aft. As far as floor, would you rather be close to the pool deck, or to features like the Boardwalk or Central Park?

Just the beginning, on embarkation day.

You have to have two different accounts. Just log off the first one when done and sign into the second one. You can use the same device.

Only if you are returning to a country that requires a test to return home (and then it doesn't need to be prior to disembarkation, just prior to you flying into your country).

If you sail on Monday, you can get your test Monday, Sunday, or Saturday. Your best bet, if you have time, is to order the at-home, proctored covid tests. Then you don't have to worry about a lab being open or not. I have no trouble scheduling tests on Saturdays or Sundays, though. Only do rapid antigen tests (if you are talking about fully vaccinated passengers and not unvaccinated children), because the results come back in 15 minutes.

And now you know why most of us now use a good travel agent.

June protocols are not out yet. You will get an email (or your TA will) when they are. Matt also posts them in his blog (main page of the site) and someone always shares them in the Royal Caribbean News and Rumors section of the message board. But most people believe that chances are close to 100% that vaccines will be required for a while yet.

You order it the night before. Most people use the door hangars and just leave it hanging on the door (the time it needs to be out is printed on them, I don't recall what time it is, but it's reasonable).

When is the cruise? If it's this spring then that option may have just been chosen by too many people already, so is, in effect, "sold out". If not, and you haven't booked yet, you might try booking through a TA or by calling Royal directly and maybe they can choose it for you.

Continental Breakfast is complementary (coffee, danish, etc). Otherwise there is a charge (except for suites, which we were in).

That's what I'd do.