ChrisK2793

That wouldn’t be fair at all to children who can’t be vaccinated at this point.

Normally we book a suite and have the concierge make all our UDP Specialty restaurant reservations before the cruise. However, for the Odyssey Thanksgiving sailing we had to take a Junior Suite because no full suites were left. Since you can’t get the concierge to book your reservations in a JS, instead of getting the UDP, I was thinking I’d just book each restaurant individually to guarantee our dates and times. Here’s my questions ….. Do I need to book a reservation each night for my 10 year old son as well? Or can I just book the nightly dining reservations for me and they’ll charge him $10 per night like with the UDP? My spouse can’t make this cruise so it’s just me and my son, and I figure every table is for at least 2 people, so I was thinking it’s not like they’d have to move us to a 3 person table. Do you think it would be a problem if I only made nightly reservations for myself and both of us showed up? Would my son still be $10 per night like when the adults get the UDP? Or do children have to pay full price when the adults don’t have the UDP? Thanks in advance. ???

If there are 2 of you eating at Izumi, I guarantee you’ll be stuffed even without using the entire $70 that you’ll be allowed to spend for 2 people. That’s $35 per person just for the food ….. drinks are separate. Even when I went on a cruise in 2019 without my spouse and with just my at the time 8yo son …… he ate off the kids menu for $10 and I wasted a lot of my food for $35 because I couldn’t eat it all

They also charge gratuities on the advance purchase UDP now ……. I’m 99.9% sure before they didn’t if you purchased it in the cruise planner.

Has anyone else noticed there’s now a way to reserve the Unlimited Dining Plan for kids at the equivalent of just under $10/day? Gratuities are also added at checkout now. See the pic in my other post below.

Where on the RC site does it say you have to wear masks throughout dinner? I haven’t been able to find that anywhere. I’m not even sure why you have to wear masks at all if everyone except children are vaccinated on the cruise. Either the vaccine works or it doesn't. That’s why so many people don’t want to get the vaccine, the CDC acts like it doesn’t actually work when they know it does!

Even before this Odyssey was ALREADY supposed to cruise out of Rome for the month of May before moving to Israel in June

RC now lists cruise dates out of Rome for Odyssey from May 7, 2021 all the way thru October 2021 ……… then a 13 night Transatlantic from Rome to Ft Lauderdale beginning on Oct 31, 2021

One more question. One of the cruises we’re looking at only has a couple junior suites left and no regular suites. Will junior suites receive 4 points per night as well?

So if you book this time frame, do they double the suite points as well to FOUR points per night?

Gov. DeSantis suspends all remaining local COVID-19 orders NO MORE local mask mandates anywhere in Florida https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2021/05/03/gov-desantis-suspends-all-remaining-local-covid-19-orders/ The CDC, which has encouraged Americans to get vaccinated, recommends wearing masks in indoor public spaces because “the vaccination status of other people or whether they are at increased risk for severe COVID-19 is likely unknown.” DeSantis said that sends a message that vaccines don’t work. “Because if the vaccines worked, that would be your ticket to basically live normally and make decisions for yourself. That would be the message that actually would work with people,” DeSantis said. “So I think that they’ve sent a message to say, You know what get vaccinated, but it really ain’t gonna do anything for you.”

‘QUOTE FROM ARTICLE: “We won’t be seeing any fancy new features as the focus will be mainly on the propulsion and navigation elements. The majority of work will be done by Navantia workers rather than subcontractors. No doubt social distancing will be followed during the upgrade and strict health protocols to make sure workers remain safe and healthy.”

https://www.cruisehive.com/royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-to-begin-shorter-dry-dock-after-delay/39619

And yet they always seem to be the first ones to report things that have ended up being true 99.9% of the time

The original article clearly says the FCC being offered was for 125% of the fair paid ...... do you REALLY think the charter company was going to give the nurses an extra 25% out of their own pockets for next year’s cruise if Royal had already refunded the money to the charter company for the nurses?

^^^ EXACTLY ........ you just proved my point ... all the charter company could do was offer the nurses a Future Cruise Credit as they did, ..... UNTIL Royal agreed to pay the charter company the money back for any nurses who wanted a refund instead of a Future Cruise Credit. So just like I’ve been stating ..... the charter company couldn’t offer the nurses a refund with money they didn’t have ...... Royal had the money ............ So it the charter company ORIGINALLY told the nurses they had to take a Future Cruise Credit, it was because that’s obviously what Royal ... who had all the money ... told them to tell the nurses.

You do realize pretty much every business has a statement at the bottom of their emails telling you that it’s illegal to publish or share their private communications, right? Neither company published the communications between each other. It still boils down to who actually had the nurse’s money at the time of the cancellation ..... and that was Royal ....... the charter company couldn’t give refunds of money that Royal had without Royal returning the money to them first ....... unless the charter company paid the refunds out of their own pockets ..... so I’m going to stand by my original opinion ....... that Royal probably in the beginning told the charter company to only offer them an FCC and then only reversed course after the nurses had a fit because they wanted their money back.

BUT ...... what was Royal offering the charter company in the beginning? It would have been Royal who had the nurse’s money at this point that would have been paid to them by the charter company. MAYBE Royal originally told the charter company that they could only offer the nurses an FCC and then Royal reversed course and allowed the charter company to offer refunds ONLY after the nurses had a fit. It wouldn’t be the first time Royal tried to play hardball and then backed down after people threw a fit .......... like with the $18/day deluxe beverage package mistake they weren’t going to honor until people went insane about it. I wouldn’t be so quick to let Royal off the hook without knowing what went on behind the scenes.

Here’s 2 new news articles from today https://www.businessinsider.com/carnival-royal-caribbean-banned-from-sailing-up-to-3-months-2020-4?amp https://cruiseradio.net/cdc-extends-no-sail-order-for-cruise-ships-indefinitely/amp/

https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/royal-caribbean-extends-operations-suspension-141602627.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cruise-line-analyst-jumps-ship-164252724.html

‘I don’t mind paying extra for better

‘The suite area at Labadee could use a MAJOR overhaul.

We’re in a crown loft facing the rear of the ship right now on Oasis, getting off this morning. Ours is 1738 which connects to the Star Loft next door. When the Aquatheater Show is going on it is VERY LOUD in the room. The one night this cruise that we were in the room while it was going on, you could hear the music BLASTING from 830 to 930pm and again from 1045pm to 1145pm. We didn’t care overall because we’re not usually in our room at this time of night and were only in it that night because our 8yo wasn’t feeling well. But if you have a child who goes to bed at 7pm, I could see BOTH the Star Loft and the ATS being way too loud for him to sleep anytime the Aquatheater show is going on.

I don’t understand this ....... it sound like whoever booked it just wanted to make the COMMISSION on the cost of the extra people who they know aren’t going. I currently have a 2 bedroom grand suite booked on Independence in august for THREE of us ...... the room holds EIGHT people ...... at no time was I told I have to book 5 more fake people in the room to book it ..... SOMETHING IS SUPER FISHY HERE