WAAAYTOOO

Made it to the airport and the United Club, which is already getting interesting. 

not sure what’s going on there….😂. But I’m sure that will be me at some point tomorrow.

Others have already posted tibs and tabs about this but I don't think there's a thread devoted to it...at least, not that I know of.
There has been a CP "sale" going on for a couple of days.  It is "on again/off again" but it's back on today.
BUT - BE CAREFUL.  Some of the dining packages include gratuities in the "list price" and some do not so be careful cancelling something that you already have until you know for SURE that it's going to be a savings.
1.  It appears as though MOST of the packages - UDP and 3 night, already include the grats.  If the grats are included, it will say so below the advertised price.  If it says "Gratuities Included" then the final price will simply be the number of packages that you are purchasing, multiplied by the price of the package(s) you are purchasing.  If it says "pre-cruise savings", the grats are NOT included in that price so you will have to calculate the total price to see what the final $$ will be.
2.  It APPEARS as though the requirement to eat at least one meal on nights #1 or #2 is gone.  The CP no longer required me to choose a "first" meal time.  That's a good thing, IMO.  Hopefully you can now use your packages on any days/nights that you choose.
3.  It appears as though all of the individual restaurants still require you to calculate gratuities....IOW, the grats are not included in the posted price for individual restaurants.  Some of the individual restaurants that I checked were less $$ than when I first purchased and some were not.  Just be sure that you know what you'll be paying BEFORE you cancel anything and/or purchase at the "reduced" price.  It seems like the package prices include grats.
4.  I was not able to use any of my available OBC when I purchased/repurchased my specialty dining.  It gave me the option of using the OBC but the final price was never reduced by the amount of the OBC so I am HOPING that the OBC is still there.  This is uncertain to me at the moment.  Hopefully the OBC will reappear in a day or so.
5.  As far as I can tell, the ability to make pre-purchased dining reservations ahead of time has still not been implemented.  I was never prompted to make any specific reservations.
6.  Other items in the CP may also be on sale.  I have only looked at dining so I am unaware if other areas of the CP are similarly affected.
The prices are pretty good (considering the upward trend for specialty pricing) and I saved quite a bit of $$ by cancelling and repurchasing but it took me a while to figure out the secret code.

Update on this one.  It seems that they DID use the available OBC for these purchases even though it didn't seem like it was, at the time that I purchased.  I just reviewed all of the purchases I made online yesterday and the ones where I wanted to use OBC, do show the OBC calculated in the purchase price.  So ignore this statement from above.

Had a great cruise!
Service was awesome, sooo many nice, helpful crew members.
We didn't have a bad meal.  MDR food was outstanding every night.  Our waiter and assistant waiter were amazing all week.  Two rolls from Izumi throughout the week, both of them were amazing.
Just a couple quick thoughts, more to come later...maybe.

3 more sleeps!

We are checked in. My great nephews are checked in.

Our points from our Apr 12 cruise are in our Club Royale account this morning. They appear to be correct.

# 2: I wouldn’t want to find out. They may drown and then get gobbled up by Nessie the 17’ great white who is looking for an easy snack. Either way, not a good outcome. 

I highly doubt they are removing people for a first offense of smoking- most of the time they don't even respond to reports of smoking. So either it was more than just cigarette smoke OR someone reported it over and over until security finally caved and came by.  Hell, our room attendant saw my wifes cigarettes on the table and told her "if you smoke on the balcony, just make sure the neighbors aren't out and keep the butts in an empty can and not over the side"   Of course, my wife only smoked in the designated area, but were definitely thrown off that the room attendant even suggested it! 

Not every bed can be split, some rooms, particularly suites have beds that cannot be split. 

Thank you for the confirmation…and warning.  Been a lot of discussions past few cruises with couples questioning if Icon is truly a family packed theme park.  Apparently there is truth to the rumors.
I’m out.

Thank You. Thats what I mentioned in other post about 3 night dining package and not having  1 or 2 night courtesy reservation. It was about $30 less than I I have been looking at these last few weeks with gratuity so I purchased it. I thought the courtesy res not there is maybe that is because they may be allowing to reserve ahead of time down the road as they have been talking about. 
I have had to refresh a few times as I’m looking at internet package which is a good deal right now.  
I’m happy with our DBP/Refreshment package as we got the best price on the Diamond Member sale. 

I love a bowtie on a doggy.
I have to say I admire how resourceful you are: you teach, bake, dance, cut hair, sew and then all the regular things we mortals do like cook and clean 😂🤣. 
I am with you on "fluff" books for cruises. I always try to find some short stories because that way I don't have to be too invested and can people watch. I gave up on the Wheel of Time years ago and recently Stephen King's Fairy tale because they were just dragging. I was always so sleepy after about a chapter. 
Hopefully the drive down is smooth and uneventful. 

DS came downstairs this morning and DH was working on his laptop. He said, "You know it's the day before vacation when I start my packing list!" He's the perfect combination of engineer and procrastinator. That list won't be done until this afternoon, but it's going to be an organized and color coded masterpiece!🤣
I added a couple books to my kindle - Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum #30 and Maui Murder. I like fluffy, don't have to think about it kinds of books on a cruise. I'm also 2/3 of the way through the 8th book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I think I've been working on this one for a year. I just can't seem to get more than two or three pages read at a time without falling asleep. At 800+ pages each, I feel committed to finish all 14 books though. I'll probably go ahead and take that one too since we're driving, and I don't need to conserve the space that a paperback takes in the suitcase. Maybe if I read it in a lounger by the pool instead of at bedtime I'll get further?
Today I need to hem a pair of pants (I've been putting that one off for about 6 weeks), give DS a haircut, and drag out the suitcases. Our doggos are not going to be happy about that, and I waited as long as I could to not stress out our older pup. He is 14 and has gone deaf, can barely see, and is starting to have hip problems. Fortunately, he still does well at the kennel and in doggy day care when we travel. The other one is about 6 and has enough energy for both of them.

It's not just Club Royal, it's Royal Caribbean in general.  I guess that was obvious, but just wanted to point that out in light of my post above.
 

Flight is on time and I'm happy to report that I'm packed and I didn't for get my tie or my underwear. 😉 Sorry @SweetPea, I couldn't resist......

Same

Others have already posted tibs and tabs about this but I don't think there's a thread devoted to it...at least, not that I know of.
There has been a CP "sale" going on for a couple of days.  It is "on again/off again" but it's back on today.
BUT - BE CAREFUL.  Some of the dining packages include gratuities in the "list price" and some do not so be careful cancelling something that you already have until you know for SURE that it's going to be a savings.
1.  It appears as though MOST of the packages - UDP and 3 night, already include the grats.  If the grats are included, it will say so below the advertised price.  If it says "Gratuities Included" then the final price will simply be the number of packages that you are purchasing, multiplied by the price of the package(s) you are purchasing.  If it says "pre-cruise savings", the grats are NOT included in that price so you will have to calculate the total price to see what the final $$ will be.
2.  It APPEARS as though the requirement to eat at least one meal on nights #1 or #2 is gone.  The CP no longer required me to choose a "first" meal time.  That's a good thing, IMO.  Hopefully you can now use your packages on any days/nights that you choose.
3.  It appears as though all of the individual restaurants still require you to calculate gratuities....IOW, the grats are not included in the posted price for individual restaurants.  Some of the individual restaurants that I checked were less $$ than when I first purchased and some were not.  Just be sure that you know what you'll be paying BEFORE you cancel anything and/or purchase at the "reduced" price.  It seems like the package prices include grats.
4.  I was not able to use any of my available OBC when I purchased/repurchased my specialty dining.  It gave me the option of using the OBC but the final price was never reduced by the amount of the OBC so I am HOPING that the OBC is still there.  This is uncertain to me at the moment.  Hopefully the OBC will reappear in a day or so.
5.  As far as I can tell, the ability to make pre-purchased dining reservations ahead of time has still not been implemented.  I was never prompted to make any specific reservations.
6.  Other items in the CP may also be on sale.  I have only looked at dining so I am unaware if other areas of the CP are similarly affected.
The prices are pretty good (considering the upward trend for specialty pricing) and I saved quite a bit of $$ by cancelling and repurchasing but it took me a while to figure out the secret code.

Exciting news about Hard Rock !  This is the first I’ve heard of it.  Woohoo.  We used to stay at the Hard Rock when we were still flying in.  I really hate that they got rid of the outside shopping/eating area.  We quit going there once they shut all of that down…

Others have already posted tibs and tabs about this but I don't think there's a thread devoted to it...at least, not that I know of.
There has been a CP "sale" going on for a couple of days.  It is "on again/off again" but it's back on today.
BUT - BE CAREFUL.  Some of the dining packages include gratuities in the "list price" and some do not so be careful cancelling something that you already have until you know for SURE that it's going to be a savings.
1.  It appears as though MOST of the packages - UDP and 3 night, already include the grats.  If the grats are included, it will say so below the advertised price.  If it says "Gratuities Included" then the final price will simply be the number of packages that you are purchasing, multiplied by the price of the package(s) you are purchasing.  If it says "pre-cruise savings", the grats are NOT included in that price so you will have to calculate the total price to see what the final $$ will be.
2.  It APPEARS as though the requirement to eat at least one meal on nights #1 or #2 is gone.  The CP no longer required me to choose a "first" meal time.  That's a good thing, IMO.  Hopefully you can now use your packages on any days/nights that you choose.
3.  It appears as though all of the individual restaurants still require you to calculate gratuities....IOW, the grats are not included in the posted price for individual restaurants.  Some of the individual restaurants that I checked were less $$ than when I first purchased and some were not.  Just be sure that you know what you'll be paying BEFORE you cancel anything and/or purchase at the "reduced" price.  It seems like the package prices include grats.
4.  I was not able to use any of my available OBC when I purchased/repurchased my specialty dining.  It gave me the option of using the OBC but the final price was never reduced by the amount of the OBC so I am HOPING that the OBC is still there.  This is uncertain to me at the moment.  Hopefully the OBC will reappear in a day or so.
5.  As far as I can tell, the ability to make pre-purchased dining reservations ahead of time has still not been implemented.  I was never prompted to make any specific reservations.
6.  Other items in the CP may also be on sale.  I have only looked at dining so I am unaware if other areas of the CP are similarly affected.
The prices are pretty good (considering the upward trend for specialty pricing) and I saved quite a bit of $$ by cancelling and repurchasing but it took me a while to figure out the secret code.

I am so sorry this happened to you. Their billing "system" is so F'd up for a company of this size. They need to just pause all transactions for a week and set up a new payment processing system with a whole new team because what they have in place now is a joke. I am currently at risk of losing thousands because of a $150 they can figure out how to process  🤬

I don't know what to expect but.........why get the UDP if you plan to eat most of your meals in the CK?

When it happens on a balcony it seems like it's usually someone screwing around, like trying to get to another balcony.

I noticed that even the 3-night packages have a discount, something that I've not seen in forever. I wish they had done that in time for my Symphony sailing back in February. 😕

So, Ben at RCI was great.  We got the lower rack rate ($836) for a move from inside to outside, and $150 in onboard credit.
I had this vague recollection of an onboard credit when we booked on Voyager OTS in August, but hadn't seen it anywhere in the paperwork.  Well, I guess it showed up, too, because we now have a total of $250 onboard!  FTW!