ZBrady

Best Solarium pool in the entire fleet, imo

I've seen this from some other people as well - that if their Annual Tier Offer is still on their offer list, that page still shows the exclusion, but using the lookup code feature yields the updated list, as you mentioned. Definitely interesting!

We were SHOCKED when we were able to book this cruise using our Annual Casino Tier Offer - when the certificates were first available, all Star and many Icon sailings were on the exclusion list. However, recently Star sailings in 2026 were removed from the exclusion list. My wife and I will be sailing with our two daughters - ages 5 and 3 at the time. My wife and I were on Icon last summer and are very excited for our girls to have the experience of an Icon class ship. Looking forward to seeing any of you on board!

My wife and I have booked this cruise as a casino offer - just the two of us this time without our two young children! This will be our 10th cruise with Royal Caribbean, second on Harmony (previously in July 2022) and second time out of Galveston. Looking forward to seeing any of you on board!

Agreed - some are saying that their offer page hasn’t updated to not include that language, but my instinct is it is user error is more likely as opposed to different offers floating around. We’ll see!

We had seen some talk about this other places and were able to switch our Prime Annual Certificate to Star for March 29, 2026! Some are saying they are expecting these to be cancelled, as if their removal from the exclusion list was a mistake, but I’m not sure of the validity of that.

In the app, the current sailing does show the Dine Like an Icon menu for Day 2, which includes Lobster, in addition to the traditional Royal Night menu on Day 6. Unfortunately I can't recall if we experienced this on our sailing last May. I want to say we did, but can't be for certain.

We are looking forward to experiencing a new ship, a new class and a new home port! Our family of four (kids ages 4 and 2) is booked in two Spacious Oceanview rooms, courtesy of Club Royale. Currently we have Paradise Beach and Jaime's At The Blue Reef reserved for our port days - we are going to go without the drink package this time, so hoping to utilize these all-inclusives instead.

We are! See you on board.

The experience today at PC was awesome! Downstairs before security they scanned SeaPass and passport, did not have to retake pictures. Then we got a sticker, which allowed us to skip the check-in counter once we were upstairs.

Agreed! I could spend the entire cruise in the Oasis Solarium pool, but have no interest in being in a pool in a climate controlled room.

Unless my math isn't mathing for Wonder February 2025, the new 'packages' are savings for one person by themselves but not for 2 people when using Zoom 1 Person 2 Devices.

A good option would be to look at a recent Cruise Compass for a Mediterranean sailing; I don't know your exact sailing but it looks like there are some on the site from this summer - https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/cruise-compass Otherwise, you can look in the app at a current sailing (My Trips tab > Don't see your cruise? Let's add it now > Browse our ships > Select Ship > Select current sailing) that is on a Mediterranean itinerary; those will show the current menu that can give you an idea.

Potentially, for sure. But I wonder if what is happening in practice is families are mainly booking the room for the location/configuration and the amenities are an added bonus; then after this change families will continue to book the Surfside Suites despite the change in benefits. Could have a misread of the situation/demand, though.

The anecdotal justification I have seen is that there were too many children on the Suite Deck, so reclassifying the Surfside Family Suites presumably fixes that problem. Personally, this is a plus for us if the change in amenities brings the price of a Surfside Family Suite down.