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This is correct. I believe you are not supposed to hand anything from the balcony because most likely it will end up in the ocean.

Hey we are the same cruise! You are gonna LOVE Anthem, its our second cruise on her. She is beautiful, HUGE and has so much cool technology. Two 70 at the back of the ship is one of coolest rooms/part of a ship on the ocean. Don't forget phone chargers or Kindle/iPad chargers if you plan to bring that kind of stuff. Oh we always bring air fresheners for the room. I know that's a weird small thing but we like to have one for the room/bathroom. The Port is very efficient, last time we sailed on Anthem we were on the ship in less than 30 minutes from arrival at the port.

Anthem for some reason even with being a very new ship does not work with the new app, at least I don't think. Really makes no sense but I believe Anthem doesn't work with that app. Thanks for the suggestion.

Oh wow that just convinced me. Why waste our time. Thank you for the post.

Thanks guys, I did hear most of the time they make you retake the pic any way at the terminal. I think we'll probably skip it but might try just to see how it works or if it works.

How do you take your picture before hand and upload it so you don't have to at the cruise terminal? Is it a pain and does it help save any time? I assume you can do this with your cell phone? Thanks for any help.

Ah that does make perfect sense, I didn't think of that angle but those things should still be in the cruise planner as well so we can order those things from there. Just my opinion. I order flowers every time we cruise and you get a personalized card with it that is very nice but only 50 characters. I wish it were just a tad more, 75-100 but hey it's still nice.

Oh good its not just me that gets this.

Every cruise, which our next is next month [21st], I order flowers for the cabin my wife and our son. You can't do that from the regular cruise planner page. You have to go into the Royal gifts page which is not the easiest to find. Its almost like its completely separate system. They should just integrate it with your regular most often used, easy to find cruise planner. Anyone else experience this and find it odd? Any reason for this or its just another case of Royals awkward website?

Ah ok awesome, have a great cruise!

Excellent, thank and its done. I had the same confusion the last time we were on Anthem. 104 bucks for 2 for 5 days. I know that isn't cheap but its not terrible either. We have 150 on board credit so it was free anyway really. ?

I noticed the internet package has a pretty good discount. We are getting the 2 device plan. It says price per adult but I'm confused because asks which guests? I mean its a 2 package deal so I just check my name I guess? Not 2 people just me correct? That is confusing. Thanks for any help.

Are you on Anthem? We are 31 days out from Anthem.

Great replies, the excitement builds and builds. Then its cruise day and you just can't wait to get on the ship. Then you go through the boarding process and once you are board you are on vacation on a big beautiful cruise ship and its relax time. Its have fun time, its do whatever you want or do nothing at all if you want. I love that Royal does push you to do anything. Yeah they let you know what is going on but there isn't any bugging you do everything.

The best thing about pre cruise is the building of excitement. You book and you are super excited, you are going back on a cruise, but usually you are still months away or a year away. It's the building ever day to the cruise that's incredible. Usually 30 days out it's bonkers time with excitement. We are 32 days from Anthem and it's really building here. We are all talking about it everyday. God cruises really are the best vacation and Royal Caribbean is the best cruise line.

Super fast on Anthem. We had the 2 device plan and my son watched his Kindle the whole cruise without a problem, and if I remember very little to no buffering. My wife and I shared the other and had really no idea. I was quite impressed and will have the internet going forward. We are on Anthem next month and will be getting the 2 device plan again.

Hey guys bringing my old thread back up cause I have a new question. I notice that there is overflow parking outside in front of the terminal when the garage is full. Do you know if you can elect to park there even if you are early enough to get into the parking garage? Just curious about that. We have decided to get to Cape Liberty really early, shooting for 10 AM on the money. Leaving the house at about 9:20 should get us there at just about 10 AM.

I see the 150 on board credit when I go to my cruise planner page. Oh wow I just checked my edocs out and it does say prepaid gratuities for myself and my wife. Just our son has to be paid for on the cruise. That is interesting. Our TA paid the first 2 gratuities.

Mine says there same but we got 150 on board credit and free prepaid gratuities for 2 guests. We only have to pay my son's gratuities. It doesn't say anything about any of that on my edoc.

I just checked for all of 2020 only Empress does 7 day Bermuda cruises from NJ and I that ship ain't got me.

Thanks guys, all interesting info. Appreciate it all. Getting so excited now in 38 days we'll be back on the beautiful, the gorgeous Anthem of the seas! I really wish Royal did 7 days Bermuda cruises like NCL instead of 5.

Great advice, thanks. I will do just that.

Exactly what I was thinking. There is a ton of pages not needed to board. Thanks for the help. I have cruised many times now but don't remember all those extra pages but maybe I never paid attention and just printed what I needed to board. Thanks again.

So now that we are close to our cruise, 38 days I see there are edocs on our countdown page. We are all signed in and there is that where the info is we need to print out for boarding. The edocs don't need to be printed out for boarding correct? That's just info that is useful for knowing about the cruise port but nothing to show to staff at the port to board or am I missing something? Do you print those out and bring them out anyway? Thanks for any help.