Ian T

I'm pretty sure you cannot get the 20% discount for Diamond in the pre-cruise planner as the prices are already discounted and you can only get 1 discount; "offers cannot be combined." That's what they told me on the last cruise I was on. You're almost always better off still booking in advance than the 20% onboard. I hope this helps!

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Stores in my state charge for plastic bags. Some don't offer them at all anymore leading up to a new law next year that bans them completely.

 

Not sure if this will help but the escape room on my January Symphony sailing is showing up in Onboard Activities rather than Entertainment.

Thanks everyone, this is really helpful!

we did just discover on odyssey that you can use a drink voucher and automatically get 20% off bottles when combined with diamond benefits
same....a drink voucher and $4 gets a pitcher of beer which is 5 beers...

For dining reservations.....don't do what we did.   We went to Izumi thinking we were booking hibachi.   Nope, we had a reservation for sushi.   Luckily we caught it and changed in time.   Teppenyaki is the name of the hibachi on Odyssey (maybe some or all ships).
As @BrianB posted above, make sure to specify when you use a Diamond voucher.  
Congrats on becoming Diamond and enjoy Symphony, she's a great ship.

Ditto about the restaurant reservations…especially with a group. Go right to the restaurant host desk as soon as you board and make the reservation. Just have everyone’s cabin numbers. Reservations fill up quickly, especially for groups.
Also ditto for the coupons. Unless specifically noted, they are one and done. Just tell the server which one you want to use…your free Diamond drink, or your percentage off coupon. Do that for every drink you order so that the server doesn’t charge you for a Diamond drink if you’re only getting a soda or bottle of water. Save them for the alcoholic drinks.
Congratulations on achieving Diamond!

1-2. I’ve never used a % off, just my 4 free drinks, but I’d advise you to mention anything you want to use just to make it clear. Your free drinks may come off automatically (and you may not want them to if, say, you’re buying a soda & want to save them for $14 alcoholic drinks). I always say “Pina Colada, Diamond drink please” or something like that when I order.
3-4. The concierge likely won’t be in the DL when you board & you want to make reservations ASAP so you’re much better off going to a restaurant.
Congrats on achieving Diamond and enjoy your new perks!

I have not heard anything yet - and I am keeping a close eye as I live across the pond - however I was looking at a sailing on Freedom in May and the following advisory appeared at the top of the Promos and Offers page, which I noted only references testing requirements for unvaccinated guests.

This got me thinking so I selected a number of other sailings (different ships and embarkation ports) and the advisory appeared on all of the sailings in April and May but not for those in March... could this perhaps be a sign that pre-cruise testing may become a thing of the past for vaccinated guests come April, I wonder?

Please order another 6 pack ASAP!

Well, if I decide to order another 6 pack of E-med test kits for my upcoming cruises you can be sure those pre cruise testing requirements will go away! 😎

These changes while understandable have thrown a spanner in the works for many people! 
Hope everything works out for you all. 

Yes. Day before disembarkation. Register at guest services. Results delivered to room just after dinner. PCR test. 

Thats good to know! 
@Ian T just a heads up that the PLF on the UK.Gov site for re-entering the UK is a bloody nightmare! 
Also if flying BA or parnter companies ignore Verifly emails complete waste of time 

I just want to congratulate @Matt on reaching 100,000 YouTube subscribers. ? It goes to show how entertaining and informative your videos are, and I for one am excited for the opportunity to once again join in your cruise experiences now that you are sailing again... and I look forward to seeing your well deserved silver creator award on display in your office! ?

I just want to congratulate @Matt on reaching 100,000 YouTube subscribers. ? It goes to show how entertaining and informative your videos are, and I for one am excited for the opportunity to once again join in your cruise experiences now that you are sailing again... and I look forward to seeing your well deserved silver creator award on display in your office! ?

I just want to congratulate @Matt on reaching 100,000 YouTube subscribers. ? It goes to show how entertaining and informative your videos are, and I for one am excited for the opportunity to once again join in your cruise experiences now that you are sailing again... and I look forward to seeing your well deserved silver creator award on display in your office! ?

All the promo emails they send should have the subject line begin with "no your cruise isn't canceled" just to avoid mini heart attacks several times per week

I just want to congratulate @Matt on reaching 100,000 YouTube subscribers. ? It goes to show how entertaining and informative your videos are, and I for one am excited for the opportunity to once again join in your cruise experiences now that you are sailing again... and I look forward to seeing your well deserved silver creator award on display in your office! ?

I just want to congratulate @Matt on reaching 100,000 YouTube subscribers. ? It goes to show how entertaining and informative your videos are, and I for one am excited for the opportunity to once again join in your cruise experiences now that you are sailing again... and I look forward to seeing your well deserved silver creator award on display in your office! ?

I just want to congratulate @Matt on reaching 100,000 YouTube subscribers. ? It goes to show how entertaining and informative your videos are, and I for one am excited for the opportunity to once again join in your cruise experiences now that you are sailing again... and I look forward to seeing your well deserved silver creator award on display in your office! ?

IMO, unless something bad happens (not likely) by December, in the US anyway, we could be seeing a complete relaxation of the current CSO wrt shipboard sanitation regulations (what the authority and jurisdiction of the CSO springs forth from). 
My view is that by early fall, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) in the US will have been ended, possibly even sooner than that but, I'll go with "early fall" for now. Depending on what happens globally with vaccination programs and roll-outs the WHO will declare the pandemic over but regional epidemics still a concern. 
What that means for Americans is that the CSO, as we know and understand it's provision today, will be cancelled by the CDC, significantly improved by the CDC and merged into updates to current sanitation and infection control regulations or ruled by the court in FL currently hearing FL's law suit against HHS/CDC as unlawful. That will result in the CSO being enjoined. Favor improved/merged .... that option may come out of the current mediation effort assigned by the Federal court hearing FL's law suit. BTW, I believe going forward there will also be Congressional hearings on lthe CDC itself and limiting the authority of the CDC to impose policy like the NSO and CSO. I doubt that will happen again.
IOW, you (and the rest of us) won't likely be dealing with any of this in sailings from US ports. COVID vaccine seasonal schedules will be as common as flu shots. COVID as a disease will become influenza like. The difference bing more transmissible with a higher death rate but manageable.  What we will be dealing with is significantly safer cruising when it comes to infection control and ship sanitation. Silver lining if you could call it that.  

I think this is spot on. My take is that Fain knows something the public doesn't and that is something to do with relaxing of some of the stipulations within the CSO as we move forward. Fain talks about 1000% better dialogue between the CDC and the cruise lines. That's code for the idiots at the CDC are starting to deal with real world data and what RCL (and others) have offered all along as sensible infection control and risk reduction measures to allow a re-start is being adopted within the CSO.
I've argued that Celebrity has a better approach than RCL and that Fain should take a page from Luttoff-Perlo's play book .... everyone needs to be vaccinated to board. That's fine for Celebrity that has a much older passenger demographic (late 40s is the median age) and rarely has a lot of under 16s. It's not fine for RCL who I suspect is providing the CDC with rational input on the risk of the under 16 cohort of transmitting the virus as in creating a large outbreak on an RCL ship. RCL may know it's going to get a break on that from the CDC, something exactly like you are suggesting. 
I'd add that a good metric for the CDC to throw in with what you suggest is that the county (make sure you read that as COUNTY, not country as this metric should be regional) the cruise port is located within have a %positivity below 5%. If that criteria is met, un-vaxed, under 16s as well as everyone else can cruise after a negative PCR. I'd prefer that a second test after 72h be performed to catch leakers creating as close to a perfect bubble  that is reasonably achievable. 
Side note, Broward Co., home of PEV, has a % positivity rate of under 3% and has been maintaining under 5% for weeks. To my knowledge, Ports of Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville and Canaveral are all in counties with circulating virus metrics below 5%.
Your still dealing with a proportionally higher risk of a COVID outbreak aboard ship if you allow a mix of vaxed and un-vaxed passengers, introduce questions of who needs to mask and who doesn't and introduction of COVID after a cruise port is visited. Maybe Fain has a plan to deal with that. If he does, he's not telling us. 

Ironic since the drink package might be the only thing that saves such a cruise. ?