Pattycruise

I am doing a b2b with Santorini at both weeks. Week 1 we have a royal excursion-so no worries there week 2 we arrive 7am and have a 10am outside vendor excursion…. Is this something we would make? I see you mention not getting off the ship until 5 so you booked something via royal. Is it that bad? Please describe the tender situation for Santorini. Thank you!!

@TexanTwoStep was this the type of letter you sent to Royal-I love it!! rikers-tell me you’re from NY without telling me you’re from NY.

Normally the excursions are pretty punctual. Is there a chance to put the child into adventure ocean “just in case”? I’m not familiar with that program as my kids are grown

This just occurred to someone on my live sailing from June 17. No points showing, despite having a certificate. They had called the casino a few times and were told they had no points and to wait. I encouraged them to call c&a and it turned out they were issued a new C&A number, so the points were under that. C&A had to merge accounts and said it takes 2 weeks. Meanwhile certificates are good for 30 days

Start with crown and anchor—-sounds like you’ve been issued a new crown and anchor number and the points went to there. You can’t fix it with the casino until C&A merges the account-they will tell you it takes 2 weeks. If you find yourself sailing soon the loyalty ambassador might be able to expedite that. Sorry to say that this has potential to become a continuing problem, obviously you monitor your stuff, continue to do so. crown and anchor 1 (800) 526-9723

When I had this email it turned out my cabin was assigned-in the proper category. The email form was just incorrect. This happened twice. the first time I was unaware. The second time I checked before calling. Honestly-check and then call right away as Waaaytooo mentioned. Better to be safe than sorry. it amazes me how Royal can manage to screw up so many different ways. I’m glad this forum is here to learn things.

I’m a “nostalgia” person. I was very disappointed when tickets to ball games and concerts pretty much went away. There’s nothing like going through a desk drawer and finding concert tickets you’d been to-showing them off to family. Tickets to the World Series?-priceless!! looks like there’s a possibility shore excursion tickets will be next to go. I’m attaching photos of a FB post. What a shame- I’ve kept the tickets of the excursions I thought were great and the ones from Europe that were “ok”-especially so I wouldn’t repeat those “ok” -I have a terrible memory. I know some people won’t care about the potential change but there are others who will. Maybe this experiment will fail.

You shouldn’t have a problem. Their policy talks about alcohol for b2b (consecutive cruiser). It should be the same policy for non alcoholic. Security doesn’t seem interested in how much is in bags….i think they are more concerned with true prohibited items.

If you plan to use the gift cards to help pay for a cruise you’ll need to ensure your register is open and people are gifting before your final payment date so you’ll have time to apply the cards. See attached file for payment due by dates

I’ve never heard of this. Host have discretion to bump up your certificate, not your points. you can easily check to see if she “has your points”, or if she has her own points by logging into casino royale. if you and your spouse receive the same offer you can combine them to get an upgrade-

I recommend you get him to commit soon. Cancelling close to sail date now leads to a $200 non refundable deposit on his future comps. I’m not sure how long that punishment lasts for.

Where are you on day 2?

Go to the spa raffle on day 1-embarkation day. Throw in a raffle ticket and you may win a service or $$ off. It has been my experience they also do a managers special that is about $159 and includes “x” minutes of a massage and potentially other items that escape me. I did a back to back to back recently and the managers special changed each week. You could tell the week they were desperate to sell because it wasn’t only offered for port days AND they offered more extras with the massage. Seeing how those offers varied week to week in the same shop I’m sure they vary from ship to ship too. used to be on sailings where the spa wasn’t s selling a lot you’d see some mid week offers, again that would vary by sailings.

It was last year on embarkation. Haven’t sailed here since

Shrimp cocktail. I love shrimp but I won’t touch the t ones in the dining room. The shrimp cocktail in Chops is great. Only had one bad experience-they served it undercooked.