Chadster

The 125% will be based on the cruise fare, so should be $4300 less the taxes.
When it is issued that FCC belongs to you.  You can book direct or tell your TA you want to use it and have them assist you.  If your TA says they can do it, find a TA that can!  Some Big Box places may not want to deal with the FCC.
No..you have to put down a deposit.  There has to be a booking created to apply the FCC towards.  You front the money for the deposit and then the FCC gets applied to the rest of the cruise fare.  You will get the remaining FCC issued as another FCC to use towards another cruise.

Changed from Grandeur on 5/14/20 to Adventure on 6/4/2020. Still going to New England and Canada!

AHHHHHHHHH! Thanks to quick work by @AnnetteJackson and Kelley at MEI (and of course, Sharla, even though she's off on her getaway!), I was able to leverage MEI's presence on/sponsorship of this board to snag one of the aft balcony cabins that popped up for the June 4 sailing of Adventure of the Seas! I went from booking myself into an interior cabin on Grandeur a little over a month ago to the exciting notion that I'll get to have a great view as a newer ship with more options for dining and activities sails away and along! It wasn't a free upgrade, of course, but when all is said and done, I'll have spent just $400 extra to be on a newer ship and have an aft view and spacious cabin, plus a little to get myself up to Cape Liberty!
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH, MEI TEAM!!! ?
Maybe now, I can breathe and take a break from obsessively watching availability and pricing, all while plotting and planning. I tend to get laser-focused on things, and I certainly have been with my upcoming cruise. What a ride -- but oh, my, what a sailing it'll be at the end!

Matt and the entire Royal Caribbean Blog community he created is a huge benefit for all of us.  We are a family.  And we need to stick together in times like this.  Well said, @SpeedNoodles.  Here is how to support @Matt and this community:
https://www.patreon.com/RoyalCaribbeanBlog

After being at sea for so long I bet 30 days on land will be strange ?

AHHHHHHHHH! Thanks to quick work by @AnnetteJackson and Kelley at MEI (and of course, Sharla, even though she's off on her getaway!), I was able to leverage MEI's presence on/sponsorship of this board to snag one of the aft balcony cabins that popped up for the June 4 sailing of Adventure of the Seas! I went from booking myself into an interior cabin on Grandeur a little over a month ago to the exciting notion that I'll get to have a great view as a newer ship with more options for dining and activities sails away and along! It wasn't a free upgrade, of course, but when all is said and done, I'll have spent just $400 extra to be on a newer ship and have an aft view and spacious cabin, plus a little to get myself up to Cape Liberty!
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH, MEI TEAM!!! ?
Maybe now, I can breathe and take a break from obsessively watching availability and pricing, all while plotting and planning. I tend to get laser-focused on things, and I certainly have been with my upcoming cruise. What a ride -- but oh, my, what a sailing it'll be at the end!

We were in a Central park view, the little window with view to Central park on Oasis for May 10th. I noticed the prices have dropped quite a bit. We were trying to go to a Central Park balcony because the price was 600 bucks cheaper than what we paid for the CP view cabin but they don't issue refunds or on board credit which is what I thought they'd do. So our TA thought that didn't make monetary sense so he got us into a ocean view balcony. MEI Travel is excellent by the way. John Ames is excellent!
Now we just have to hope more cruises don't get cancelled. Man am I excited!

Chalk one up again for MEI! Just got a e-mail from my agent Danette, cruise dropped another $400 bucks for a total of $1800, which is about a 33% savings! Let's hope that this craziness ends by Oct and we can actually enjoy the savings!

Update:  This is frustrating as there are people on my roll call page saying that they just spoke to Royal this morning and they are getting the 125% FCC even though they cancelled earlier this week.  I am still waiting for word back on mine...

Taking my FCC all the way to the biggest cabin on the ship!  RLS here we come!  08/23/2020!

Oasis of the Seas - July 18th, 2020
Replacement cruise for Adventure of the Seas, March 14th, 2020!!!

I just got off the phone with Club Royale. If anyone was using their free prime cruise that just got canceled good news they are issuing it back to us and we get to use it up until March 2021.. Which would mean next year I get 2 Prime Cruises! I am so happy Royal did this. Makes missing my cruise a little bit easier. 

Thanks for this perspective! I've had a rather rocky road getting toward my first cruise on Royal, but now I'll get to go back to a blank slate and figure it out.
Good thing for me that I love logistics and planning! ?

Just booked Oasis in July in a 1 bedroom Aquatheater Suite!!! Got a really good price. Deposit + FCC and the cruise will be paid for!!!
First Oasis class ship as well.

Per RCCL's Facebook folk, it's just those within the 30-day window. Others before July 31 still qualify for the "Cruise With Confidence" policy announced last week.
 

Here's hoping we're still going!  Scheduled for April 16.....still at the stage of..."If the boat sails, we will be on it"

That 125% future Cruise credit has me like ...

Cancelled Grandeur for April 4; scheduled for Oasis Sept. 27  then Grandeur again Oct. 29.  I pray we can go on these. ?

So I missed Perfect Day at CocoCay in 2019 due to Hurricane Dorian.  Now I missed it in 2020 due to COVID-19.  Hopefully I have better luck in 2021!

Thanks for this perspective! I've had a rather rocky road getting toward my first cruise on Royal, but now I'll get to go back to a blank slate and figure it out.
Good thing for me that I love logistics and planning! ?

Ditto.....the planning and obsessing is half the fun. ?

Thanks for this perspective! I've had a rather rocky road getting toward my first cruise on Royal, but now I'll get to go back to a blank slate and figure it out.
Good thing for me that I love logistics and planning! ?

Thanks to Jo-Ann Hall from the Navigator Facebook group for finding this out, here's what she posted... "For all of you in the same boat I am (pun intended) who has just had their cruise cancelled, I was actually able to speak to a RCCL guest services agent a little bit ago. They are offering two options: 
1. either a full refund or 
2. If you take a cruise credit instead of a refund you receive an additional 25% on top of what your cruise was. They aren’t processing it over the phone, he stated that we would all receive emails today or tomorrow and it will give us instructions how to get either one. He said if you do the refund it will take about 30 days to receive it. 
Of note, he sounded exhausted, defeated, and apologetic. Please everyone try to be extra nice to these folks. They aren’t at fault and they’re going through the same hell we are."

WHAT?!?!?! This day officially sucks. We have a 14 Night B2B on Grandeur in early June to Bermuda/Canada and New England.

Oh well, there goes my $18 mistake drink package.  I guess i'll never find out what it's like to have the unlimited drink package...