FionaMG

Did you find you preferred one direction over the other?

Maybe they're referring to the fact that you lose a couple of hours sailing west to east as opposed to gaining when you go the other way? Anyway it looks like a great itinerary to me. An ocean to ocean Panama Canal cruise is way up at the top of my bucket list. I'd just prefer Miami/Fort Lauderdale over Tampa but that's purely because, for us, Tampa is much more difficult travel-wise.

Yes, the all access tour is crazily expensive. I had it booked for our Odyssey cruise in May 2022, the first time it had shown up after the restart. It was priced at $98, but they cancelled it just a week or so before the cruise. Not giving soda in lieu of alcohol is indeed ridiculous. I would be pretty annoyed about that.

Don't worry. There will be another sale in a couple of weeks, and every couple of weeks after that. Sometimes they call it a [insert name of special day] day sale, if there happens to be one, but otherwise they just tend to call it something like [random percentage] off cruise favourites sale. It's just a case of keeping track by logging into your cruise planner once a day at a convenient time. I usually do it on my morning coffee break; only takes a minute or two.

They must be doing it one ship at a time. Still nothing for Symphony yet.

Super Bowl is on day 2 of my cruise so maybe @Ampurp85 is right and that could be causing a delay.

Still waiting for mine. Hope you managed to get what you wanted.

Same for me on Symphony sailing on February 10th. I've been refreshing the entertainment page on the cruise planner hourly.

That is very possible especially if you like to eat at a popular time. Go expecting at least short wait. We usually book our times and eat later once the rush is over but even then we've had to wait for a bit on occasion. Happy New Year to you too!

Yes, you are understanding it correctly.

I would do that if they offered a lower price without the alcohol.

Ooohhh, you lucky thing!

That veggie bowl is one of my favourite things on the breakfast menu.

The 16th of December 8-night sailing had JR Collom & Nate Weatherup according to the entertainment flyer posted on a live thread on cc.

Congratulations. Great choice for your honeymoon.

Our room assignment is central park balcony too. We have done boardwalk before but not central park so it will be a new experience for us too.

Yes! Given the time difference, I didn't check in until the equivalent of 1.45 am EST (6.45 my time) but I did also get 11.30 am which I'm very happy with.

Check-in is open.

I haven't seen it on anything else either.

When I was on Anthem soon into the restart (September 2022) they had a buffet on one side of the MDR every day. On a 12-night cruise it quickly became our go-to. Yes, it was a much smaller buffet but it had all the basics and was so much more civilised than the WJ. But, sadly, when I was back on Anthem a few months later they had discontinued it.

It seems to vary from ship to ship and even from sailing to sailing whether they have breakfast, brunch or a combination of the two. I've been watching the 8-night Symphony sailings in the app to get an idea of what to expect on my own in February. A couple of weeks back, they had brunch in the MDR on all four sea days, whereas on the sailing that just recently ended they had brunch twice and breakfast twice. From past experience, we've found that if you get in to the MDR by about 8.45 am, you can be in and out reasonably quickly; any later than that and it does take ages.

The thing I like about it is that it continues past the usual closing time for breakfast in the MDR. As we tend not to be early risers, we're often too late for breakfast in the MDR. The thing I don't like about it is that my favourite items on the breakfast menu are not on the brunch menu.

My pleasure. You will find this is a very helpful community with a wealth of cruising experience, so feel free to ask questions whenever you need to.

The intern is looking after things while everyone else is at the office Christmas party.

On Symphony in February. Diamond is a big step up in terms of perks so congrats on reaching that level soon. Of course, it doesn't get recognised until the cruise after the one where you hit the required number of points but it's exciting nonetheless.