Pattycruise

I've used the consent form from Royal when a friend of my daughters cruised with us. I also had the parent sign a separate medical release form so that I could make immediate decisions if necessary and I carried a letter from the parent saying I had permission to leave the country with the child. We had it all notarized so that all bases were covered. Didn't end up needing any of it (thankfully) but I felt better knowing I had it. That being said, my Mom travelled outside the country with my daughter and forgot all of the permission forms and no one ever questioned her. Just got lucky I guess. 
Kate

If you can see your FreePlay and your OBC on your booking confirmation you have won half the battle!
OBC should show on the webisite when you log into cruise planner
IF you do not use your OBC prior to your cruise it will show up as a negative balance in your account on the app when you board the ship and connect to ship wifi.
-$200 means you have a 200 credit.....when it becomes $200 balance owed it will show without any negative in front of the #
Freeplay showing can vary but it will never show in your cruise planner or on your Royal app, it is a casino thing.
For me, some cruises it is loaded onto my seapass card and I can see it when I log into the slot machine.  Other cruises I do not have my freeplay loaded and I have to go to the CASHIER to ask them to look it up and load it (Do not bother with the host).  Bring your booking confirmation showing your freeplay in case there are issues when you are onboard, if there are issues-then you go to the host and hope they can get it fixed.
BTW-if you wanted your freeplay as chips you need to go to the cashier and ask, they will give you promotional chips.  You can also split your freeplay between chips and slot money.
Note:  Slot play-a lot of the machines (not all) will not let you cash out the freeplay you download onto it to be able to use it on another machine.  SOME machines will put the freeplay back onto your seapss card if you log out.  Be aware of not putting large amounts onto a machine that you now decide "I want to change machines" but discover you are stuck there because you can't take your freeplay with you. Always look at the "credit" once you cash out and see if you left freeplay on the machine.

kinda bummed we're not going to Labadee from the Oasis, love hanging out there so were just sailing tomorrow, we have definitely slowed down since the news, but it will be alright, hopefully things will get better for Haiti. 

"Oh," but they said.  "This would never happen. " How dare you folks ask such a silly question?"  😉

Whoops

I am used to paying the charges for any upgrades upfront with new casino bookings, so no surprises there.  I'll call in to see what I can do after we get the certificates next month.  I already have 4 cruises for next year booked anyway (3 from casino offers, and 1 I am paying for over Christmas) and was having a little problem trying to figure out how to squeeze in the annual comp cruise, mainly because of limited PTO with work.  I know it probably would not be the same value as if I used the certificate for a new booking, but trading it in for something that can be potentially be applied towards the Christmas cruise may be a good option for me.  Thanks for the response!
I would be ok if I can get $500 in my situation.  I guess I will find out next month when I call in.  Thanks for the feedback.

I saw them for sale on Quantum from the same venue.
From memory there were two sizes and one was $30 and the other $50.

If I had known I would have had more Labradoozies.  

To make a lond story short and I've posted for advice a few times... I had a 2011 cruise missing.  I went to loyalty desks snd called and nothing.  I finally wrote and followed up with email and after I sent a group picture taken on cruise, they found me!  Got the points and waiting for status to update!  Thanks Mika!  Even got OBC foe next cruise!

Is it a Sunday morning? And not the NYC marathon? You have a possibility but:
The ship must dock on time
You would have to be one of the first to walk off your luggage
Have transportation lined up
Its about 45 minutes to the airport assuming all things align.
Personally I’d book a flight that’s later.
 

Is it a Sunday morning? And not the NYC marathon? You have a possibility but:
The ship must dock on time
You would have to be one of the first to walk off your luggage
Have transportation lined up
Its about 45 minutes to the airport assuming all things align.
Personally I’d book a flight that’s later.
 

I've seen the cakes in La Patisserie on Anthem for sale.  Never tried to order one.
My daughter just had the birthday package on Anthem (thank you Royal for the BS with the BF sales and buying her a chocolate cake and decorations as an apology!).  I'm not a huge cake fan, but it was OK (from me that's like a rave?).  It seemed the other 7 people enjoyed it-even my husband who is a vanilla cake guy.  Do yourself a favor, pack your own cake plates and forks, or get them from Windjammer,  The cake was delivered with 2 plates and 2 fork sets which was not enough for us
 

I've seen the cakes in La Patisserie on Anthem for sale.  Never tried to order one.
My daughter just had the birthday package on Anthem (thank you Royal for the BS with the BF sales and buying her a chocolate cake and decorations as an apology!).  I'm not a huge cake fan, but it was OK (from me that's like a rave?).  It seemed the other 7 people enjoyed it-even my husband who is a vanilla cake guy.  Do yourself a favor, pack your own cake plates and forks, or get them from Windjammer,  The cake was delivered with 2 plates and 2 fork sets which was not enough for us
 

Mine is on May 31, casino comp also for a GTY Suite.  Still waiting to be assign..  I guess I have to wait till after April 16 check in date.

Hi all, I just wanted to report back that I just got cancellations of all the My Time dining reservations I had made, and when I went in to the app, I saw I now had Early Seating dining.  We actually hadn't even been able to get on to the Early Seating waitlist when we booked, and it was only a week ago that our TA said she had been able to add us to the waitlist. Super thankful this piece of things worked out as I had hoped!

Is it a Sunday morning? And not the NYC marathon? You have a possibility but:
The ship must dock on time
You would have to be one of the first to walk off your luggage
Have transportation lined up
Its about 45 minutes to the airport assuming all things align.
Personally I’d book a flight that’s later.
 

Is it a Sunday morning? And not the NYC marathon? You have a possibility but:
The ship must dock on time
You would have to be one of the first to walk off your luggage
Have transportation lined up
Its about 45 minutes to the airport assuming all things align.
Personally I’d book a flight that’s later.
 

Is it a Sunday morning? And not the NYC marathon? You have a possibility but:
The ship must dock on time
You would have to be one of the first to walk off your luggage
Have transportation lined up
Its about 45 minutes to the airport assuming all things align.
Personally I’d book a flight that’s later.
 

Thank you Pattycruise.  I booked with National Express.

I called today Re: my August Symphony and moved my GTY neighborhood balcony which was assigned as a Central Park Balcony to a Boardwalk balcony.  Ive done both before and like each category are but I prefer a lower deck and more aft .  They did this with no issue.
I did  try to move to an ocean view balcony from my assigned Central Park balcony (it was a $12 difference between them on the website) but my original booking was  GTY neighborhood balcony so it would have cost me $900 to move to an ocean view balcony as they  went by the original booking category for the change.  Didn’t hurt to try! 

I called today Re: my August Symphony and moved my GTY neighborhood balcony which was assigned as a Central Park Balcony to a Boardwalk balcony.  Ive done both before and like each category are but I prefer a lower deck and more aft .  They did this with no issue.
I did  try to move to an ocean view balcony from my assigned Central Park balcony (it was a $12 difference between them on the website) but my original booking was  GTY neighborhood balcony so it would have cost me $900 to move to an ocean view balcony as they  went by the original booking category for the change.  Didn’t hurt to try! 

Take a look at National Express to see if it meets your needs.  I took them from the Central Bus Station to Southampton.  It looks like you can do something from Heathrow.   The earlier you book the cheaper 
https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/destinations/southampton/london-to-southampton

Update: Looks like they retroactively applied the Double Points for me... I was doing all the pre-cruise day check-in stuff and found out I had 36 points which looked super weird to me, because it was originally 22.

Hard to believe. Thanks for the warning.  If I ever look I’ll be sure it’s on a day when I have a lot of room for frustration!

Hard to believe. Thanks for the warning.  If I ever look I’ll be sure it’s on a day when I have a lot of room for frustration!