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More changes in our cruising schedule. We moved from March 1, 2024 on Adventure to March 7, 2025 on Adventure. Still going to the ABC islands and our travel agent was able to get us the same aft balcony cabin. Yay!! Edit: Damn... only 812 days to go....

Note to self: Make sure to have all my ducks in a row if I ever travel to Israel.

I've been researching this quite a bit. We're cruising from Ravenna in October 2023. Our plans are to fly into Venice and take the train to Ravenna. It's about three hours and has one change in Ferrara. Currently around 30 Euros. Here are some links to conversations about getting to Ravenna:

We just fill a clean mug then dump the coffee from the mug into our travel cups. Even if we held our cups a foot away from the dispenser, I feel like someone would give us the hairy eyeball. Lots of people waiting to be upset about things.

Going along with our "two cruises a year until we retire" plan, we are now booked up until fall of 2025....but I feel like another one may sneak in there somewhere....we have flight credits to use.

We booked flights to Europe through Air2Sea a week or so ago. The Air2Sea agent couldn't pick seats nor could we pick them directly on the airline websites. We paid for the flights and were immediately able to pick our seats through the websites. Paying immediately wasn't ideal for us, but we wanted to be able to choose our seats for the flights since they are long ones. We were assured that the flights we paid for are refundable. The airlines are TAP Air Portugal and Lufthansa, so they may have different regulations than US ones.

We’re happy. The 2025 Southern Caribbean itinerary we wanted to change to showed up.

@FionaMG Thank you for the information. We’re cruising out of Southampton in Oct 2024.

I'd like to say I feel it in my bones that tomorrow is the day.....but I was soooo certain that when I looked early this morning, I was going to see the new schedules.

On our first cruise ever, we bought Royal Caribbean travel mugs onboard to carry our coffees around with us. Much better than a paper cup.

I resemble this

I had to get up at 1230 this morning for work. I had to check before I left the house.

Our travel agent has done so many things for us and we are are very grateful for her. Some of the things that come to mind are the times she has spent helping us change cruises, answering questions, changing existing cabins, adding people…the list goes on and on.

We took a cab. I can’t remember exactly what we paid, but I do know my cfo was pleased with the cost.

Somehow our youngest is 22. I’m not sure how that could have happened since I’m pretty sure wife and I aren’t yet 30. And how is it possible we’re booking grandchildren under the ksf promotion???

My wife uses the same combo and doesn’t see it either. Ww haven’t been able to find a way to fix it. I know this doesn’t help your situation, but you’re not alone.

Thankfully we’ve built time into our travel itinerary, although we’d hate to lose a day’s worth of being a tourist in Ravenna by being stuck in an airport.

The connection time makes us a bit nervous too. Whoever emailed me back when I asked said 55 minutes is their minimum between flights. I guess we’ll see.

@FionaMG Great info, thank you!! We have a short connection time (1 hour 10 minutes), and while it concerns us, we are ready to go for it We are booked through TAP Air all the way to Venice. I contacted them yesterday about the short connection time and was told we’ll be fine. In addition, we used Air2Sea, so we’ll have their help if anything goes wrong. We are leaving four days before the ship sails, so we have time to deal with any delays. Lastly, we picked upgraded seats as close to the front of the plane as we could (just short of first class) so we can deplane relatively quickly. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.

We’ve received this on the last couple cruises we put Royal Up bids in. It’s a change from the unsuccessful bids just showing canceled or expired. Based on what I’ve read here as well as personal experience, I believe it’s just Royal hedging their bets (in the off chance they can make a few more bucks) rather than any real possibility of an upgrade. In other, I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Yes, there are instances where people have been upgraded when they bosrd, but I believe those instances are very rare compared to the amount of people who aren’t upgraded.

7 different ships in 10 cruises. Soon to be 8 in 11 Rookie numbers.

We can’t wait for them to come out for actual bookings. We have to move a cruise from March ‘24 to Mar/Apr ‘25. We’d like to move it to that Adventure one.

We love being close to the elevator.

Thank you. That makes sense now that I think about it.