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About time.

@Matt @SpeedNoodles please stop this. It’s not a good look.

How many days prior to your sailing did the entertainment open?

Re: flight times and Air2sea not booking the earlier flights. I believe they do this to save the issue of possibly having to rebook a lot of passengers if the ship is delayed. So they give a cushion. I use their earliest flight as my guideline if booking elsewhere. seems to me you have some decisions to make. 1- ignore Air2sea timeline for flights and be prepared to fix things on your own and pay for it and still potentially get home later than you’d like 2- book using Air2sea guidelines -pay the price and someone may have to be tired at work check out how many seats are left in the plane-that May help you to figure out if prices will only confine to go up. I recall we flew in 2 days early for cruises out of Alaska and Puerto Rico because pricing worked out the same for the cost of the hotels for my family of 5 with the cheaper airfare than it was going to cost for the flights for day of or day before. It gave us more vacation at the same cost. Hopefully you’ll find something that works for you

Yes, it does. call the casino Royale and ask them to put the OBC on. I’ve had this happen a few times. One time NC gave me lower than should have been OBC and the casino Royale actually caught that!

A 3 month old next cruise reservation would have automatically lost its OBC. To keep the OBC you must book within 60 days of purchasing the reservation.

Teens aren’t allowed to complete the drilll in the app…as they are underage. Go figure. at one point my daughter had a funny message about that from “legal”! I do believe you can mark them as done in the app.

It’s referred to as the “white card” in the Club Royale Facebook group (not official group for club Royale) there is discussion that this card will be done away with. Who knows! On Anthem they told me to just tap my card at a machine my husband was going to play so I could do get his points. there’s always rumors that this is not permitted (yet the hosts offer this) enjoy getting one of you to signature!!

We did not dock at midnight last month, the casino was still open.

Both of our tier cruises were booked using a next cruise reservation #. Both show the OBC. Maybe I got in under the gun before club Royale said no. I actually had an extremely competent rep, and had one booking done and the other almost complete when I realized I forgot to give her my next cruise reservation numbers. She apologized to me for not asking if I had a NC reservation # and I kept apologizing to her because I felt it was my screw up in the first place. as far as “if you book a cruise at next cruise with the certificate you are fine”I’m not sure what that means. I’ve read that the Tier cert and inbox offers cannot be booked at next cruise. The onboard instant certificate can be booked at next cruise-or currently within 30 days of your sailing if you purchased the reservation while onboard the sailing the certificate was issued. Also inbox offers can be used with a Next cruise reservation #.

They did it for me and my husband. it will be interesting to see if they undo it

Personally I wouldn’t order it. There’s no telling if it will be in your cabin when you get there, if delivered while you are out to dinner. I do get the Diamond plus wine or champagne and any time that’s been delivered it was in ice with 2 glasses. they delivered cheese and fruit once, no idea what time but by the time I made it back to my cabin the wrapped Boursin cheese had separated-leaving liquid on the plate and there were no crackers, so useless all around. I like chilled chocolate covered strawberries. I was actually in my cabin for their delivery once and they weren’t even cold, so now I know they aren’t necessarily cold and just sit for hours before I get to them. It used to be the strawberries sat on a doily on the plate and I could just throw them in the cooler on the doily since the plate doesn’t fit but doilies seem to have gone by the wayside -also won’t work in interior cabins on older ships with no cooler!

Thank you for that info. We are on Enchantment and messaging feature only worked day 1 and 2 then poof-it’s gone. Very frustrating.

I did the your, we did not have a full day. on the ride over the guide on the bus said when we get off the bus to take the space center bus to the back of the property where “the good stuff is”. So we did exactly that. It was a good move because we saw all that then made our way back to the main section snd we chose what we would see based on our time left AND we were close to our bus so we didn’t have to worry about trying to catch it had we done the back of their property last. the big souvenir shop had a former astronaut signing autographs and taking pics. I believe it was no charge. Not on that.

In the Facebook casino Royale group the UK residents were reporting being told their offers will start becoming available April 24.

When I was on Grandeur in January the wings were inconsistent. My daughter ordered them and lived them. The next night we tried to order 2 orders of wings and 2 other entrees and we were told we could only get one entree each. We don’t do room service typically and I was not there when she was told this, or I would have argued wings were an appetizer. Anyhow that night they were not cooked the same and the sauce was not correct on them. your experience may differ based on what others are saying.

Taken from a group I am in

Looking forward to sailing on Liberty. I’ve never been.

Booked. Looking forward to seeing what the hoopla is all about.

No difference if you paid for a cabin. comp cruises I’m sure you know but share for others reading, refund port fees and taxes if you cancel. The upgrades-I believe fall into the Royal cancellation policy-I’m not 100% on that. Perhaps someone else can weigh in, or call Club Royale a few different times and hope you get consistent/correct answers

Prime gives a 5% discount to the extra cabin, as long as you are sailing on the same sailing as you. Meaning you cannot get friends a 5% discount if they are sailing without you onboard. mid price out Costco snd then club Royale to see who has the better deal

I’m on Enchantment-it’s our first night- and a gentleman at the table ordered 2 entrees. He was told one at a time. Our entire table was served, the waiter never came around to ask “is your meal satisfactory?”. The gentleman was served his second meal. The assistant waiter cleared the plates and no comment made when he took my barely touched food. I never saw the gentleman get a second plate, or I would have spoke up. interestingly everyone at our shared table is either D+ or Pinnacle . Do waitstaff know? There were other service issues as well. No head waiter on our entire dining room. Did they do away with them? Maybe they’ll show up tomorrow?

I enjoy Chops. The lunch is 1/2 price of the dinner..cheapest to buy it in the cruise planner, and the filet is slightly smaller than the dinner menu. some items are not on the lunch menu (lobster bisque comes to mind). I LOVE the jumbo shrimp cocktail, it reminds me of shrimp in the MDR all those years ago . as for CK, I had a JS on Anthem in February and do not recall filet on the menu. Maybe it was served the first night? We were dining in the MDR and after our first night there decided to take advantage of CK, which still offers the classics. In addition to their menu.

I spoke with the digital director on Enchantment -purely by accident, not knowing his title. The app came up and when I mentioned I was dissatisfied with it he said they are updating the app and it should be available before the end of our cruise (April 28). he did not mention what is being updated, just that they’ve heard the passengers complaints and acted. I told him I’d love to see things like the top tier items added so it can be scheduled into “ my calendar” and that’s not happening “unless it’s in the cruise compass you won’t be able to add it”. I also mentioned I’d love to be able to add our own items into “my calendar”-ex. Meet Mary 9:00am poolside. Again, not happening. can’t wait to see what the improvements will be.

Not all ship/sailings are blacked out for summer. I know Oasis was nearly sold out for the one week I wanted in July. I’m so glad I didn’t book a paid cabin for 2 of my kids and then try to get 2 more cabins with my Tier and my husband Tier cruise-it wouldn’t have happened.