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.

Express Boarding lanes at Port Everglades. They still re-took every photo and manually checked passports. Both times in Miami they did not retake picture and scanned passports - that experience felt much faster while this one dragged.

Express Boarding awarded for Port Everglades tomorrow on Freedom.

I am sad to report that I am unable to give my personal opinion on the comfortabity of the benches. My wife and I arrived about an hour before show time and were able to snag a particularly comfortable lounger right in the center of the theater. Highly recommended!

I heard some people talking today that they were walking around the ship offering it for 50% off a few hours before dinner. Obviously just word of mouth but wouldn’t be surprised, they’ve been offering speciality dining at all 5 meals we have had so far this sailing.

Let the record show that a Dyson Airstraight worked perfectly fine with and without a EU adapter when plugged into the 120V AV outlet on Icon.

Followed all of the directions from the article and got Express Boarding for tomorrow. Nothing better than RCB!

Earlier this month there was a sale that brought many packages down around $70, that’s about the bottom of what you’ll see recently on traditional/typical cruises.

Bot account, me thinks

That could be! We are staying on for Costa Maya and Cozumel and I’m expecting a decent number to as well. Didn’t necessarily expect that for CocoCay as much but could be. Alternatively it could be due to mostly families on board and not as many ‘adult only’ groups.

I'm curious what the logistics of this look like - when you come back after already checking in, do you walk through the same lines again or can they push you through another way?