Rob&Ana

We are on an Aug 15 sailing and they changed Labadee to Turks & Caicos for us.

One our last few cruises the host's all said they were working on unifying the system between X and RC. One said it might be by August this year. I know X just made some changes to their system making it more like RC....who knows....

One our last few cruises the host's all said they were working on unifying the system between X and RC. One said it might be by August this year. I know X just made some changes to their system making it more like RC....who knows....

One our last few cruises the host's all said they were working on unifying the system between X and RC. One said it might be by August this year. I know X just made some changes to their system making it more like RC....who knows....

One our last few cruises the host's all said they were working on unifying the system between X and RC. One said it might be by August this year. I know X just made some changes to their system making it more like RC....who knows....

One our last few cruises the host's all said they were working on unifying the system between X and RC. One said it might be by August this year. I know X just made some changes to their system making it more like RC....who knows....

Not sure this is the case as we are on Jewel and starting the next sailing they will start this new system. This is the info that we are being told at this time while onboard.

No, the info is that the new system (if there is a high count of D, Dp and Pin) will be enacted as of the next sailing. Like what's happening on Wonder.

But they come in really great boxes....and they do look kind of expensive....

This is really sad, slowly Royal is pushing out it's best employees. The same thing is happening on the ships. It really is too bad, the question is how much are we willing to accept before we look elsewhere....

This is really sad, slowly Royal is pushing out it's best employees. The same thing is happening on the ships. It really is too bad, the question is how much are we willing to accept before we look elsewhere....

This is really sad, slowly Royal is pushing out it's best employees. The same thing is happening on the ships. It really is too bad, the question is how much are we willing to accept before we look elsewhere....

Just got an email today stating they would not accept self administered tests for transatlantic sailings....
"Accepted Tests 
Guests can take advantage of telehealth antigen tests to satisfy their pre-cruise requirement. Proof of a negative test can be the printed or digital results. Unsupervised self-tests will not be accepted for transatlantic sailings. To learn more about our accepted tests, "

 

Less desirable location is a relative term. As long as I am on the ship there is no undesirable location.?

So I have not sailed those specific rooms I have been on deck 2 of many Voyager Class ships and these are very quiet cabins, please note that there are no interior rooms on this deck so that's 50% less traffic down your hall....You are close to the elevator but I would say you should be OK with your choice. 

We feel really bad for the overworked crew members. Our 3 weeks on the Serenade of the Seas was very enjoyable and it's always better to be on a ship then at home....in our opinion. Let's hope they can get the staffing issues resolved soon but in the mean time we will still keep sailing.

We found a similar situation on Serenade of the Seas a few weeks ago. MTD line with reservations was very long at least 40-60 min for some people to get a table, lots of shortages and many bars closed because they had half the bar staff on board. The crew did an amazing job but I felt they were overworked and the managers and top officers were pitching in to help reset tables etc. We had an amazing 3 weeks aboard but maybe the solution would be to not load the ships up so much....maybe at 70% capacity.
I hope they are able to get more staff as the ones on board were being worked quite hard.

Anything charged to your Seapass card will consume your OBC (refundable or not). 

We feel really bad for the overworked crew members. Our 3 weeks on the Serenade of the Seas was very enjoyable and it's always better to be on a ship then at home....in our opinion. Let's hope they can get the staffing issues resolved soon but in the mean time we will still keep sailing.

We will be sailing on a few RC ships this holiday season and I feel confident that the text in the (RC App, under Safety) is quite clear that they will provide free of charge a test to international passengers that require one.

We will be sailing on a few RC ships this holiday season and I feel confident that the text in the (RC App, under Safety) is quite clear that they will provide free of charge a test to international passengers that require one.

Carry on is more relaxed on a cruise then a plane because it does not have to fit in an overhead bin like on a plane. 
My suggestion would be to put wine in a roller bag style carry on.  Two in one bag max.  The other adult can also have two in their carry on.  
Security often has a stream of people going through so two separate bags that have two bottles each looks compliant.  One bag with four bottles raises a flag.  

We will be sailing on a few RC ships this holiday season and I feel confident that the text in the (RC App, under Safety) is quite clear that they will provide free of charge a test to international passengers that require one.

When we were on the Ovation recently is was vaccinated guests only.

There is still a lot of spread out there in the wild.  With cruise lines ramping up capacity a large outbreak would be a death blow.  It's taken so much effort to get to the point where turning a profit is getting closer and closer.  They simply can't afford to screw this up.  
My parents retirement home went into lockdown today with 5 new cases.
Despite how badly we want to be done with the virus it isn't done with us regardless how much we want to pretend that isn't the case.