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as many here have learned if the cruise industry has your $ and Covid type things occur () you’d have difficulty getting your $ back quickly. If you are concerned you might spend the money prior to final payment maybe open a travel account at your bank to put the money away. If it’s a matter of having too much in the bank (like college FAFSA) then consider to pay it now. Otherwise I don’t see a benefit of paying it early. all travel agents I’ve used always ask for payment 7-10 days prior to final payment. It gives a cushion for them to work with when making the payments to Royal

Odd, I’ve repriced a number of cruises with OBC from next cruise and did not lose the next cruise OBC. I have lost other OBC that was a promo at the time of the booking like CAS $25 or $50. Ive also repriced a next cruise booking and kept the next cruise OBC AND picked up other promo OBC.

https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/booking-cancellation-refund-policy Non-Refundable Deposit Fares Outside of final payment, when a non-refundable deposit cancellation occurs, the full deposit amount will be held in penalty. Any additional payments made will be refunded. Should you choose to change your original ship and/or sail date, if you booked directly with us, please contact our Consumer Outreach teamwhere a representative will assist in making the desired changes, while also applying the qualifying change fee(s) and collecting payment, if not already done so. If you booked via a travel advisor, please contact them for any booking changes.

When onboard, back in the fall, I wanted to book more than 3 cruises, which is not permitted. the “work around” was I could book 3 and the others could be booked using my husbands name (his allowance). So typically each person on a cruise can book 3 cruises.

I think you mean “why wouldn’t you” yes, it would be smarter to move a reservation, I go believe there is a small change fee.

Given the airline horror stories nowadays I think a day early is prudent. if I fly to Miami in hurricane season I would be concerned about the weather there, so I’ve always gone a day early,. If I fly to Florida from NY I worry about the ice/snow here and leave a day early. This past January I had to leave the night before my flight to be closer to my NY airport to escape an ice storm in my area. if you are “set” on day of Id advise travel insurance.

Interesting when I’ve traveled with more than one person they asked for each set of documents by the person being checked in,

I agree. Having the pre cruise test I decided it was best to not go to Europe early and explore since a positive test would keep me from sailing. Had the US lifted the test to return policy earlier I would likely have stayed longer post cruise, Europe’s loss of income.

According to this article https://www.avidcruiser.com/cruise-reviews/big-ship/royal-caribbean-cruise-line/oasis-of-the-seas/ “Running about half the ship’s total length, the promenade aboard Oasis resembles the mixed-use shopping/entertainment/residential districts in any number of American cities, and acts as a central boulevard for the ship…”

I’m booked on Celebrity for later this month. I did receive nice OBC and had also hit an amazing sale for excursions a while back. I’ve now learned “the hard way” to not use OBC on excursions as when it came to a reprice on the cruise at a current sale I stood to lose the OBC, which meant a loss of excursions, which Celebrity-had applied a portion to each excursion upon checkout. I would have had to repurchase excursions at the current rate and a significant cost increase. So if the need to use OBC on excursions is strong maybe check out each excursion separately, so not all excursions are impacted should you try to reprice after losing OBC. I also think the “all inclusive WiFi and drinks” on a European cruise is a gimmick and waste of $. Most hours will be spent exploring towns (utilizing my phone plan) and drinking will likely be at a minimum since off the ship most all day and the need to get up early and go. The Elite status looks like it included some sort of a happy hour daily somewhere as well as free WiFi each Elite guest-I think-2 days each. no, I did not research this sailing. I joined a relative who had already booked and “just signed up” ( very unlike me) I share my experience so others have food for thought.

I googled gif Oasis since it’s the same class. Here’s a video of 9640. I gif watch a video for Oasis 9642 s as bad she said the balcony is larger than standard and has had 2 chaise lounges and that is not typical

It does appear so

Sorry I didn’t think to look for it this morning when you posted elsewhere I guess I really needed my coffee!!

Interestingly I did a search on this blog having recalled this topic. Found a link from Matt (from back in March) and it must be a “renewable link” here it is! Scroll a bit down to see the FCC. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/terms-and-conditions/promotions interesting that I can’t see the actual “sale”, just the terms and conditions maybe I’m not looking at it right. But it has what you need

Royal stock owners can also use ownership of their 100 shares towards Celebrity OBC.

It might be better to ask the FCC question under News/Rumors as it's own topic..or here under it's own topic

https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/if-i-am-not-up-to-date-on-vaccinations-in-europe-where-will-i-need-additional-testing go into "health" in the Royal app and click through, you will likely find everything you need (after a lot of searching). Note at the bottom of the page it says a $55 cost.

oooh, I've never seen this. I did see the life craft in the water-while I was up in the NorthStar on Anthem- when drills were happening in Nassau. Oddly, Oasis has not been doing their drills in Nassau lately, or the last 3 cruises I did between May and June were anomalies. They did them at CoCoCay.

your guess is as good as mine!

I have a Canada/New England cruise with a port change from Halifax to Sydney. The email came out about the change-a little over a week ago. All of the Halifax excursions are still listed "Halifax Peggy's Cove" and the name of the port says Sydney. I had to go online to see if Halifax was anywhere near Sydney (it's not) before I called Royal to inquire- "when are the new excursions going to be uploaded?". Royal IT was notified and a ticket number issued. I'd also love to be an IT (but I know noting about it) but if they would just send me on cruises and pay me to check out their websites and monitor boards like this for complaints/improvement suggestions I'd be super happy!

Interesting. When I was on Anthem back in April you had to be up by 8:00am on port days to book the free NorthStar. I was told iFly was never free....I did not press that issue because I was not interested. I'll keep in mind the need to book these for my Feb cruise on Anthem. Thank you!

Urcomped.com is another website, unrelated to Royal Caribbean. You can sign up for an account with them. When you gamble onboard and receive a certificate (offer) for $ off or a free cruise certificate (offer) you upload it to the URComped website. They will ask you about your gambling and they provide additional offers for either $ off or free cruises from other cruise lines, land casinos and/or Royal. I am new to the URComped website so I cannot address much more than that. I learned about them from a facebook group of Royal Caribbean gamblers.

Congrats! Offers do have expirations, so if it is a "July offer" it is good for 30 days, the question is 30 days from when? (30 days to redeem the offer) Other might be more clear as to the expiration date. If you are not understanding the offers I would advise you call the casino number and ask them to explain it to you. And if you do not understand what that person is explaining and they "can't get it to make sense" say thank you, hang up and call back to ask someone else. Something I do not think I mentioned above, you can combine some offers to get one upgraded cabin. I do not have experience with this but it's something like 2 free cruise interior offers can be combined for a free balcony. Definitely something worth asking the casino #.

So did they honor the price you purchased at and you can maintain UDP?

I find the app annoying in that once you’ve reserved a show it does not show up to book anymore. I get it, you can only reserve once but you can go on standby. It’s hard to standby for something when you don’t know it’s running! On a side night this was the experience on my app, but not my friends, yet we had both seen the comedy via reservation -same day/time/I could not see any additional shows she could.