CrimsonCruiser

I once saw balconies at lower costs than ocean view cabins. It's gotta be something in their marketing/algorithm/supply/demand thing and all I can say is - grab it now because that will almost for sure be gone tomorrow

hmmm.....nahhhhhh lmao

Maybe they were short on supplies that week and had to limit what they had to the MDR and Windjammer where people are most likely to go. Unfortunate, but something these things happen.

I feel like I really need to hear more about just choosing to disembark early.... Like..I just....what.....

I did nothing but sit here and catch up on this and I AM EXHAUSTED! I don't know how you manage to always be around the drama but this time you were around ALL the drama! LIKE ALL OF IT! a whole year's worth! I get now why Chicago had a random summer day this week - it was god giving you the break you DESPERATELY needed after all of that!

Just curious where one goes for this.

Did you have to plan out how many singles you'd need for this or did you get lucky that 61 was the magic number? Also, this is really cool and I hope Dion enjoyed seeing when they walked in

Just booked our boarding day lunch as well because $18.86 per person is a very reasonable price for the amount of food, calmer experience and guaranteed seat Lol

I will echo what others have said about the cruise planner always shutting down 48 hours before boarding day. And I will add that Royal does not hide this information. It's at the bottom of every page on the cruise planner, and, in the final week or so before your cruise, it's on a banner at the top of the page. They desperately want you to know. Heck, I think they even blast your email with "time's running out" emails....

Unfortunately, they are not allowed to keep alcohol in their rooms, so if you gift it to them, it will be kept until the end of their contract. I found this out from the staff in Jaime's after we recommended a wine to our server. They can drink in port and partake of the crew bar and even the guest bars, but no alcohol in their rooms. I, sadly, don't have any suggestions though. We got a free bottle for booking at next cruise on the first day and though I had intended to sip on mimosas every sea day morning, we ended up never opening it. And since we had to fly back home we didn't want to risk it exploding on the plane. We just ended up leaving it in the room in hopes it would be retrieved and reused.

So I think the confusion might come from what "first" and "last" name mean? In more universal terms, "First" name is the name you are called when your friends or parents want to address you and "last" name is surname or your family name. Middle names is whatever name or names appear between those two names. So with that in mind, I would believe that you still only write your "first" name in the spot. But as Matt said, a travel agent (or even a call to Royal) would be best to sort that out for you.

Hmmm...I feel like I'm a little bit in a minority here. 1 - I don't have kids BUT...I do believe in proper discipline and treating others with respect. So, that said... 2 - I don't think I would have done anything but tell my own kids that what the others were doing was inappropriate and rude. 3 - I don't feel that what the kids did was even worthy of calling security. Kids, especially kids around other kids that they are trying to impress, do things like this. It's not okay, but they weren't endangering themselves or others.... Heck..I was a pretty square kid. I followed the rules, was the favorite of teachers everywhere, shy and read more than I played. But I had those pals that I wanted to be "in" with that would dare each other to pretend we were drowning to see if the lifeguard would come over (VERY DUMB I REGRET THIS) or I'd join in and roll my eyes at said lifeguards if they blew their whistle at us for playing too much and then bad mouth them to my friends because it was "cool" to be "bad". It is quite literally what teens and preteens do and I think the comments here that are acting like this one action of preteen girls is enough to be afraid of a whole generation are going a bit bigger than the situation calls for. To reiterate - i am not giving them a pass with a "kids will be kids" thing. They were rude and it would be GOOD if their respective adults told them as much. But such an action isn't a sign of a failing generation....it's a sign of them doing the same thing every generation has ever done before them and will continue to do after them...

https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2023/09/29/royal-caribbean-rename-diamond-lounge-crown-lounge Looks like it is just a name change (for now?) I have to imagine something else is changing after this....I just feel it in my bones

The doors are still locked but there is almost always someone standing at or near the host desk that will open the door. You can give your room number and they will seat you.

I would NEVER play with my money like that! These people are CRAZY!!!!!!!! HOW DID THEY NOT MAKE THIS CLEAR UP FRONT!!!!!! THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR SUCH MASSIVE CHANGES AND UPHEAVALS!!!!!

Ooooh! I haven't opened the app in a while since our next sailing isn't til August 2024 so I hadn't noticed this! Nice!

Now I'm wondering when...and where...and are we considering slip dresses (which are 100% styled after nightgowns) as pajamas.... Do elaborate my friend.

While I don't have the credit card terms up in front of me, I'm pretty sure the basics apply - double occupancy rate for an interior room.

I actually didn't know there were small breeds that were trained as alert dogs. This was helpful to know. I will be better about judging seeing small dogs in "service animal" vests. That said, any service animal that is actively working (aka in vest) is usually quiet, calm and non-obtrusive, right? So if I see a yorkie in a vest wandering all over and barking at strangers...can I assume the owner is a person abusing ADA rights?

ooh ooh - I actually follow a tiktoker who is a type 2 diabetic and has a medical dog. She has both a monitor and the dog and the dog not only alerts her (often times before the machine) but can also help get her juice if she needs to raise her blood sugar but is too foggy to get her attention, can help comfort her when she has the side effects from a crash or spike, and can alert her in a car so she can pull over and address the spike/crash before putting herself or others at risk. And, of course, the dog is trained to get help if she goes into diabetic shock or whatnot. Her tiktok is abbey and darby and it's been really helpful for me to learn things like this I wouldn't have known before.

I really do think living near a terminal is the biggest key. A lot of the cruise lines have low last minute pricing, especially on short 3 or 4 night sailings. If you're a even a 4 hour drive from a port, that's doable. Take 1 day off from work (if you can't work remotely), pack a bag, hop in the car and boom, you're there. Where as for those who have to fly, last minute flights are not nearly as kind on the wallet as last minute cruises. Then factor in that you have to get there a day in advance (so additional PTO used if you can't work remotely) and lodging for that one night and that costs and time outweigh the benefits. Choosing lower cost cabins definitely help as well. Because we can only make a cruise once a year we sail in Grand Suites almost all the time - to really feel like we're splurging - but for that cost we could get at least 2 sailings in interiors depending on the ship.

yes it is possible to get the stateroom attendant to open the doors between balconies. They don't open entirely to make one huge balcony, but there is a door that opens to allow for easy walking back and forth.

that was NOT what I expected when I clicked this topic....I was certain it was going to be about something as "normal" as people leaving their trash around the ship..... what was even in the bag that it had to be disposed of at sea? That doesn't just seem rude and against the rules...seems suspicious to me

This may not be applicable, but I had a card that a site wouldn't take because the site - even though it was the US site - ran cards through their home base in Shanghai or Singapore... Maybe RCG base runs through the bahamas? (literally guessing)

I think the hard part with Thrill Waterpark tends to be the lines and feeling like you've gotten enough runs on the slides to justify the cost. I would personally think at $200/person in the middle of peak season...no...not worth it.