ChrisK2793

We’re on Wonder right now and you can serve yourself for about half the stuff in Windjammer

Yes you can …….. instead of returning them the night before, just swap them out for clean dry ones and you won’t have to worry about getting them in the morning before your excursion. It’s only the night before you go home that you need to make sure all your pool towels are recorded as returned.

Thank you ….. Congratulations to you as well!

Here’s a tip: As soon as checkin opens ……. One of you go into your app checkin area and grab checkin times for everybody in both of the linked rooms ……. In the app checkin area you can just scroll thru each person to get each one a checkin time without doing anything else of the checkin …….. then you can come back later for the rest but you have you preferred checkin time locked in ………. This can only be don’t in the app, online you’d need to complete the rest of the checkin info to get to a time selection.

We’re on that cruise as well!! Never been on Celebrity before, but booked Beyond for Thanksgiving’s in 22/23 and Easter’s in 23/24! Along with our son who will be 11 right before the first one. Also staying in Sky Suites. Can’t wait to try out Celebrity and Beyond!!!

All the bartenders and servers we talked to about it on Symphony in February said they hated it and that it took a lot to get used to …… especially when they started making them double mask with an N95 ….. so I guess it’s all in who you talk to and how comfortable they feel with you to tell the truth about how they really feel. I’ve noticed the more you tip them and talk to them like friends, the more they open up to you as the week goes by.

It’s totally fine if a card has the same handwriting for both doses. My son’s does as well because Walgreens messed up his card on the 2nd dose and a new card was totally written by the same person. He’s cruised twice with that card and no problem at all. Sending a picture of one card and then boarding with a new replacement card is fine as well. For our first cruise in October, I sent in a picture of both my card and my spouses cards that I took the day we got our 2nd shots in March. By the time October came, I’d had them laminated and the heat from that made the stickers on them with the vaccine information almost unreadable. I got new cards for both of us and the new cards had the stickers in different places and handwriting that wasn’t on the original cards. Royal took them for us to board with no problems at all even though they looked nothing like the pictures I sent in the app. At the dock, they don’t compare the cards to the pictures you sent, they just look at them to make sure they’re valid cards. The card I’d be concerned about is your folded up blue one. If you can get a new one in time, I’d get a new one just to be on the safe side.

Even not amplified ….. I’d still much rather take a weekend cruise from Port Canaveral on Allure than on Mariner or Independence …… I could see my family doing a lot of weekend cruises every year if an Oasis class ship does 4/3’s regularly only an hour drive from home.

‘We live in Orlando and would probably do a lot of weekend cruises throughout the year, especially on long school holiday weekends and in the summer ………. We don’t really care for the older, smaller ships even if it is just for a weekend. I wouldn’t be surprised if Royal moves Mariner and Independence somewhere else once they have Allure here doing 4/3’s. You can’t fit the passengers from both on the one ship and give them so many more options for everything ……. Especially if Allure gets amplified before then.

Personally, I’ve always thought it was ridiculous for people to go to a specialty restaurant on the ship and then expect the servers there to go get them food from somewhere else. I’m not trying to be rude, but they work hard enough. I can go buy lobster at home, but if I need to eat it that badly on my cruise, I’ll go to the MDR to eat it when it’s the night for it …….. or else I’ll go eat at Hooked Seafood and order it there.

100% agree! The only specialty restaurants on Odyssey are Chops, Giovanni’s, Izumi, and Wonderland (which is tiny and not the usual atmosphere like on an Oasis class) ……… another negative is the very small pool area on Odyssey ….. it was PACKED when we were on the ship with 40% Capacity ……. I couldn’t imagine what the pool area would be like when the ship is full! ….. I don’t think I’d sail on Odyssey again for a Caribbean cruise.

And be careful of your phone’s clock ……. Your phone will auto change the time to the time zone of the port …… most times the ship time stays in the time zone of the city you left from ……. If you aren’t very careful with that, you can miss the ship

When we went on Odyssey out of Port Everglades Terminal 18 in November, we got there a little after 10am and there were already quite a few people outside in the different lines. Nobody was allowed into the building until 11am, not even those of us in the suite guest line.

UGH …… I hope they don’t make Allure replace Wonder in Port Canaveral after April 2024! That would be horrible! We finally have a nice ship near to Orlando with Wonder coming! Harmony is just eh, and Allure is even worse because it isn’t amplified for the kids and doesn’t have the new suite neighborhood Wonder has.

I recommend @Sharla

Yes, the Rapid Diagnostic ID Now test is an NAAT PCR test that’s am accepted PCR test on Royal

They also have to be the special ones from the companies Matt mentioned ……. proctored over video with a live person …… who emails you official written results …… you can’t just take the test yourself and take a picture of the test ……..meaning you can’t go to the pharmacy and buy an “Abbott BinaxNow Covid-19 At At-Home test kit” that they do sell there.

‘You have to purchase them on the ship and they’re $5 each. Haven’t seen them since the restart after Covid though.

Oh I just noticed you’re in Belgium ……. You’ll have to call them at the phone number for your country. That’s the number for America. But that is how you go about changing to another room when you’ve booked directly with Royal.

All you have to do is call Royal Caribbean at 866-562-7625 ……. Choose option 4 and then option 3. Then give the person your reservation number and tell them that you want to upgrade to another room. They can switch it for you and give you the new price.

‘Do you know you get FIVE FREE $13 drinks every day as a Diamond Plus? That’s $65 FREE every day! You get early access to the seating at shows, you get cabin discounts when you book your cruises, free behind the scenes tours when they start back up ($100 plus per person value), choice of amenities to be left in your room every cruise …….. even the few times we haven’t stayed in suites, it’s never takes us longer to board than 20 minutes in the regular line ………. We only just became Diamond Plus this week and are VERY HAPPY with what we’ll get on our next cruise in a couple weeks on Wonder!

How is the food? We were on Symphony 2/12-19 and the food at both the CK and the specialty restaurants was the most mediocre to bad that we’ve ever had on a cruise. I even spent 2 nights sick after eating …….. once from I think the tuna tartare in Chops which did taste a bit off and I didn’t finish it …… and once after eating at Izumi.

6,680 MAX

It’s still an absolute zoo …… we were on Symphony 2/12-19 with only 2900 people on board …… every time we’d walk down to the the pool from the 17th floor during times it was open, as we’d pass the 16th floor on the way, the line for Windjammer was beyond ridiculously long. LONGER than I’d ever seen it pre-Covid. I couldn’t imagine waiting in a line like that for the quality of food they serve!

I just called back today and this time I got thru within 5 minutes and it got taken care of with no problem