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We had booked a junior suite GTY and that’s what we ended up with.

I hit 30 days out from my cruise a couple of days ago and now notice that the deck, room number and muster number all show up on the app.

Normally, when they grant the exception, they will require the other spouse to purchase the Refreshment Package. That's what they did to us.

We have been twice on Odyssey, both times were for Mediterranean cruises, and we absolutely loved it. There is so much to do onboard that you need to force yourself to be bored. You will love it!

Our 8 night cruise this past summer, day 2 was formal night and day 6 was dress your best.

I doubt it. Prepaid cards are a risk. Update. Just got off Independence yesterday. I had a prepaid digital MasterCard worth $100 that was in my Apple Wallet so I thought I would give it a try and see if I could use it to pay off a portion of my onboard account. Short answer is yes and the remaining balance was charged to the credit card on file when I checked-in. The only thing was that they needed to enter the card information manually as their system was not able to accept Apple Pay.

What I can tell you is that my wife likes playing 3 card poker and I play blackjack. Even though we play the same amount of time she always earns double the points I do. Of course I play minimum bets and increase slowly and I have no idea how much she’s betting per hand.

I was going to try the bar code trick for our January cruise but first added the Set Sail pass into my Apple Wallet. When you do that, the numbers appear at the bottom of the pass without doing any scanning.

Our family is in the same position as you, husband, wife and 3 boys. What I did is what FionaMG mentioned in her post, that is I purchased a 4 device plan plus a single plan as this was the cheapest way for us to do it at the time.

The $77 price takes into account the second package 50% discount. In fact, it should mention this in brackets next to the price, “price reflects discount”.

I believe what you could do is, before disembarking, use your prepaid Visa card to pay part or all of your balance owing for your cabin. If the there is a shortfall, then this will be paid with the credit card on file.

There are 2 main pools plus the solarium pools. However, the solarium pools are really more for lounging as they are not deep at all. The pool closest to the back, Splashaway Bay, is the one with the live music and the middle pool has the screen and it's under the North Star "arm" when not being used.

The short answer is yes. We are on a comped cruise later this month on Independence and we received an email to Royal Up about 45 days from when our cruise is to take place. We didn't bid as we upgraded our comped cruise to a junior suite.

Maybe you should consider buying one DBP and a refreshment package. You cannot do this online but will have to call in to get it done. My wife and I did this last January, which came in handy, which was our first cruise as Diamond and we had a few sea days. She had the package and i got use of 8 vouchers. Things are different for us now as we're each Prime members as well and can get drinks in the casino complimentary.

We used www.cabroma.com a few times and have been very happy with their service.

Prior to 2020, we would always look for the best airline and hotel deals but that changed when at the end of 2019 my wife attained Super Elite status with Air Canada. That changed the dynamic for how we travel as her benefits makes it unattractive to fly with another airline, even if cheaper to do so. She travels for work, she's in China right now, and also has loyalty benefits with Bonvoy. Add to that credit cards with Air Canada and Bonvoy rewards and we're kind of hooked. Once travel resumed after the pandemic, we were able to use a lot of the accumulated points we earned and now we're back to accumulating again.

Yes but you need to call and request this but you will need to buy one refreshment package as well. We did this on Harmony earlier this year.

When you go to the top tier event, they show it on a screen. I even took a picture of it because i couldn't believe how few top tier passengers were on the cruise.

On our August 20th sailing on Odyssey, there were 8 pinnacle, 56 diamond+ and 188 diamond for a total of 252 out of approximately 4,950 passengers according to the stats they posted at the top tier event. Really small percentage of total.

We've been on Odyssey twice and absolutely love the ship. There's plenty to do on the ship and the highlights, as mentioned, are Music Hall and 270.

Sorrento & Amalfi Coast by Motor Launch In theory this should have been a no-brainer spectacular excursion. However, it turned out to be an excruciatingly long and tiresome day. In short, RC tried to pack too much into the day for sites that were too geographically dispersed to be properly enjoyed. We ended up spending most of the day on the bus instead of enjoying any of the locations we went to. We first went to a limoncello facility for an unscheduled stop along with several other buses from different cruise ships. Then we continued into Sorrento for another unscheduled stop at a furniture shop and then free time. We then went for lunch at a local restaurant where the food can best be described as bland. On top of that, my son asked for olive oil to mix with balsamic vinegar to dip his bread and was told that it wasn't included with the meal! After lunch back to the bus for an hour and a half bus ride to the port in Salerno to catch a ferry to Amalfi. We had an hour in Amalfi before heading back to the ferry and another bus ride back to the ship. We complained to shore excursions along with a few other families and did receive some compensation for our trouble.

Back in 2011, we were on a Disney cruise and it actually happened twice during the same sailing! First time, we were leaving St. Thomas and my youngest son says "dad, it looks like we're turning back to port". Sure enough, we did in fact turn back and had to let off a family where a family member had a medical emergency. Then a couple of days later, we were heading towards Castaway Cay and the captain announces we have to divert to Grand Turk to let off another ill passenger and family. We saw the ambulance take the passenger away.

Last year on Odyssey we were also in a JS and would go to CK almost every night. We did the MDR once and never went back, the other times we were in specialty restaurants. We would reserve the next night's supper with the host when we left CK and never had an issue. You will love CK!

This has never been an issue for me and have never been asked about my meds when checking in either.

Got mine 7 days after our Aug. 20-28 Odyssey cruise. Funny thing is that for 2 of my sons, even before this past cruise, the points total on the app were wrong. When we went to the Loyalty Ambassador onboard she said that within the system it was showing the correct amount of points but the app wasn't updating for some reason. I checked with my sons once I got my Odyssey points and their apps were still showing the wrong amount from before the cruise. I've had them logout and log back in but that didn't do the trick.