JohnK6404

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's at $21.99 right now for our 2021 Symphony and Oasis cruises. Grabbed it for Symphony last night and may have to grab it for Oasis too this weekend... I'm not confident we'll see the under $20 price point going forward until some sort of normalcy returns. Also wondering if they will actually start to limit the Key under the current climate/restrictions and they will start to sell out.

Oooh no... I guess I better consider making the DBP purchase sooner than later before they get greedy. Decisions, decisions... We got the DBP a couple of months ago for 4/2021 Symphony for $44 (now it's $53)... 10/2021 Oasis is $46 (might have to grab that) and 2/2022 Odyssey is $50 (as @SpeedNoodles just mentioned)...

Same for our 2/2022 Odyssey sailing! ?

Oooo... I really like that itinerary... I was telling my wife about that one! Our 8-night FEB 2022 Odyssey sailing is very similar (Aruba, Grand Cayman & Curacao)... I also really like the 8-night Mariner itinerary that stops at both Labadee and Coco Cay plus San Juan, St. Kitts and St. Croix!

I know! ? We too love the 8-NIGHT Mariner options out of Port Canaveral in 2022! The last 2 itineraries look very interesting as well! Hmmmmm.... so tempting!!! Bermuda, Nassau & Perfect Day! Aruba, Curacao, Dominican Republic & Labadee !!! Labadee & Perfect Day! ? Plus San Juan, St. Kitts & St. Croix!

I guess only 2021 sailings are currently impacted? My 2022 sailing of 8 nights is fine... I guess they figure this will all be sorted out by then...

Try Quantum class for sure. Anthem is based out of Cape Liberty. Like stated above, Odyssey will be based out of Florida. We booked Odyssey for FEB 2022 out of Ft. Lauderdale and can't wait! It will be our first Quantum class experience.

Last memory... May 26, 2019... a sad goodbye to Allure after an amazing cruise as we waited to board our Southwest flight home from FLL... ?

We love the Trellis Bar too! Our first drink on Allure back in 2019... Lava Flow! It was our go-to bar as well throughout our cruise.

Welcome! We're booked for the April 24, 2021, sailing on Symphony! Can't wait!

I can answer the first part of your question, although Pre-COVID... We had booked Harmony for APR 2021 (Port Canaveral) and Royal subsequently cancelled most of the APR Harmony sail dates due to the moving up of the 5-year routine maintenance dry dock. Royal froze the cruise fare allowed us to pick any Oasis class sailing out of FLA during that month of APR plus added $200 OBC as compensation. We switched to Symphony (Miami) and just wound up paying a nominal adjustment to port fees, expenses, etc. We didn't have any CP purchases at that time so I can't speak to that.

Yep... same with us... just a tease, LOL! ... and you have to love the pricing rollercoaster... went from $53 earlier this week back up to $71... I'll grab it when it goes back down.

Just an observation... As @MiguelB pointed out, you can get the balance, but ONLY if you have not applied any of the FCC from that particular FCC certificate to another booking. Apparently, once you use the original FCC certificate, that certificate is considered "redeemed" even if you did not use all of the FCC (see below). They will only issue the new FCC certificate (for any remaining balance) after you sail on the booking you applied the bulk of the original FCC to... we applied most of our FCC to our 4/24/21 sailing and here is what I just pulled up. It makes sense since the FCC balance will be reissued under a new certificate number after we sail on 4/24/21 (fingers crossed!).

Watching the day of the week tiles on the elevator floors advance... Thursday, Friday... very sad. ?

Yes, you are correct. You are supposed to receive an e-mail with a new FCC certificate number for the FCC balance once the cruise you applied the bulk of your FCC to is completed. For us, we have to wait until we complete our 4/24/21 Symphony sailing before we'll get the balance of our FCC. I read somewhere on the forum that the deadline/expiration date to apply the balance of the FCC is extended based on when the new FCC certificate is issued.

Social distancing would not be an issue for us if that's what it takes.

OK, not completely related (at least the same 2 ships)! I stumbled across this cool pic and wanted to share without creating a whole new thread for a pic (click on it for full screen)... Allure and Oasis under construction at the same time back in OCT 2009 at the STX shipyard in Turku, Finland. What a sight that must have been! I'll bet you'll never see two simultaneous major builds for the same cruise line at the same shipyard again!

Here's my timeline FWIW and may differ for your Odyssey cancellation... Our 5/31/20 Oasis sailing was cancelled by Royal on 4/16/20. We received the e-mail from Royal with our FCC certificate numbers on 5/22/20. We called our TA on 6/10/20 to have Royal apply the FCC to our upcoming (hopefully ) 4/24/21 Symphony sailing. As the TA was handling that FCC transaction with Royal, they (Royal) mentioned that we also have our 125% OBC from the Cruise Planner purchases available which we also applied to that same cruise. The OBC will not show in the Cruise Planner until you instruct Royal to apply it to a specific booking. Once we applied it to the booking we wanted, it showed up in the CP a couple of hours later (they tell you up to 72 hours). I initially thought we were supposed to receive a second e-mail from Royal when the OBC was ready, but we did not receive one. It will appear in the CP as credit...

I have looked at Junior Suites and from what I recall, just the one bath... here is what Royal lists for a "J4" cabin:

Quick note... Harmony is the only Oasis class ship that does not have a pool in the solarium...

... Matt just posted this today... for those that miss this great content, see the "Royal Caribbean Blog" tab at the top of the page... buffets are here to stay in some form: https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2020/07/01/there-will-be-buffet-royal-caribbean-ships-when-cruises-resume

Just for those that miss the great content on the "Royal Caribbean Blog" tab up top! Matt posted this today... 95% of all crew have been repatriated... 97% by 7/15/20... https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2020/07/01/royal-caribbean-have-repatriated-95-of-its-crew-members

Yeah, they're quick to cash that check. ? I'm sure things will be ramping up now that they are returning to some level of normalcy. I'm just glad we did not need our passports.