sleepy425

https://www.royalcaribbean.com/content/dam/royal/resources/pdf/minor-traveling-without-parent-or-guardian-form.pdf This is the form to have notarized. They've never asked for it, but we always have it if the kids are traveling without one or both of us.

Celebrity had a suites area in June 2024. It was totally empty. Celebrity employees kept walking through the crowd looking for suite guests to take into there. But us lowly RC suite guests had to wait with the masses. It was definitely a bummer that our one time in an actual suite got us no benefit, and at a port where it really would have been useful! We got there super early, we were there before they even started letting people in. And I was very thankful because the crowd behind us was crazy by the time we got to customs.

Update: Went to buy it and it automatically adds an adult if you purchase for a kid. May just end up getting it for my husband, I don't think he has been on a ship with a Playmakers yet. Between that and being able to get some sushi he will make it worth it. My husband and I are going on a 7 night Symphony cruise with just my 11 year old daughters. Normally we have all of our 5 of our kids and multiple rooms, so we get a few free meal credits from our travel agent and my husband takes as many kids as we can get in for free. This time we will only have 2 credits, and he doesn't want to choose which daughter to bring. (I'm a vegetarian and weird about food so I prefer to have the same waiter and eat only in the MDR. I never go to the specialty restaurants.) Since we will have to pay for one child to eat this time, I'm wondering if getting her the unlimited dining is a better choice. Do kids really get the $20/day at Playmakers?

My husband is an alcoholic. We usually pair him in a room with my mom. They call in to purchase so she gets the alcohol package, he gets the refreshment package. I do drink, so he has been known to go buy me a drink at the bar with his sea pass card. Nobody has ever said anything to him during the transaction or after.

Maybe I'm the odd woman out on this one, but I find the ships warmer than they were years ago. I always needed a sweater in the main dining room over my dress, but now I don't even bring one on the cruise. I do bring a hoodie (or buy one...their ship specific hoodies are actually really good quality!) for going outside at night, but inside the ship I feel like it is plenty warm. (Orrrrrr maybe I am becoming a woman of a certain age and it is just hot flashes)

Just went on Adventure over NYE and we were able to get not opened beers with our Diamond vouchers.

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I haven't done it, but I do go to Disney often. Our plan for after our trip in December is to Uber to a Disney resort (if you want to do Disney Springs, choose Saratoga, we want to do archery and rent canoes so we are doing Fort Wilderness) and leave our bags with bell services. We will spend a few hours at the Fort, then take another Uber to MCO. This ensures we aren't waiting for a bus to fill up with people at the port, and also lets us go to MCO at the time that works for our flight.

Prior to our Alaska cruise we stayed at the Hampton Inn and Suites by Hilton Vancouver Downtown. We thankfully had points to use up so we had no out of pocket costs. It was directly across the street from the soccer stadium - my husband waited until the exact time the game was starting and was able to go online to a reseller site and buy $11 tickets. We walked to the Vancouver aquarium one day, and that area was amazing. We wish we had planned to spend more time there. All around the hotel were small hole in the wall restaurants that were delicious and very reasonable. There were also plenty of barbers in the area, which was good because my sons never got haircuts prior to the vacation. The ferry over to Granville Island was nice, and the kids loved walking through and eating at the market. If we go back we will definitely stay at that hotel again, it was close to so many things. We walked to the port one day, but took Ubers the day of the cruise because with 9 people and lots of luggage it was less stressful. We did round trip Vancouver, so I can't speak for Seward.

We took the city bus to Fortress of the Bear and the bus driver was NOT happy to have tourists on the bus - he only let a certain number of us on and complained about us the whole ride. But it was a lot cheaper than booking through the cruise line! The bus dropped us off and then picked up exactly an hour later, and it was plenty of time to see the bears and still make it with time to spare. I like that we went because the entrance fee goes to help the bears, but I wouldn't choose to do it again. The walk around the National Park and around town was great. It was around 4th of July so there was a great area with many local vendors (including the reindeer cart everyone talks about - it wasn't in the normal spot due to the holiday). In Juneau my husband, dad, and 5 kids enjoyed the tram to the top of the mountain, then hiked for a while up there. My mom and I walked into town and saw a sign for free transport to a brewery - the ride there was great, we saw gorgeous sights and lots of bald eagles. I do wish we had gone to see the glacier, though.

I took $500 from each of my kids and bought them stock when it was around $40/share (and used the rest of their money to buy index funds). I figured this would get them excited about the stock market. I really didn't anticipate it going up so much, and now they have big dreams of how they could spend this money. They're 11-14 years old, so no actual need for money at this point. I'll just let it ride out for a few more years and they can keep day dreaming how to blow it. I am kicking myself for not buying some for myself at the same time - silly me did the safe move and put all of mine in the index funds!

We had them for Christmas 2023, definitely cannot be opened.

It was offered on Brilliance June 30, 2025. As others have noted it was the last few days of the cruise. We were in Alaska, so that isn't as much of a drinking cruise as a warm weather destination.

I've been watching prices since I booked our NYE cruise (which was as soon as the cruise was booked). The aquapark, coaster, zip lines, and jet skiing are now the cheapest I have seen (I had the aqua park/coaster combo booked for $27, but now it is $25 if you book separately). We were at $95 for jet skis, now it is $68. We aren't doing the Zipline, but it was at least $90 and at times over $100, now it is $65. Worth checking if you are (hopefully if it doesn't get canceled) heading to Labadee.

My dad just texted me our NYE Adventure of the Seas cruise is going to Cabo Rojo, DR instead of Labadee. But I have no idea where he got that info. Anyone else hearing that? I checked the port schedule for Cabo Rojo, and don't see any ships going there in December. Am I looking in the wrong place? ETA: he just got back to me, SOME sailings on Adventure and Oasis will get Cabo Rojo as an additional stop instead of a sea day, not as a replacement for Labadee. So it looks like our sailing is still the same.