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Just for fun, we're at the 90 day mark for our TA and i though i might as well check-in! I see that now they have included the below statement for your health acknowledgment.
 

Good on them ?
Basically stating you have the information beforehand and if you board ship then you do so with this knowledge and at your own risk so dont go filing lawsuits 

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very Happy and Healthy 2021!  May this year bring us all back to the sea...enjoying what we love the most with...family, friends, each other...celebrating good times, and CRUISING!!!   ?  ?️

Thanks for the kind words

Wishing everyone a fantastic new year. May those who suffered loss this past year due to the pandemic find peace. May those who have lost jobs because of it find new and better work. May those who have suffered from empty wallets and empty stomachs find both full again. May those who have dealt with more stress, fear, sadness, and anger than they’ve known in their lives find peace, joy, and relief.
 
And please, may we all turn to cruising sooner than hoped for.

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year! 

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very Happy and Healthy 2021!  May this year bring us all back to the sea...enjoying what we love the most with...family, friends, each other...celebrating good times, and CRUISING!!!   ?  ?️

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very Happy and Healthy 2021!  May this year bring us all back to the sea...enjoying what we love the most with...family, friends, each other...celebrating good times, and CRUISING!!!   ?  ?️

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very Happy and Healthy 2021!  May this year bring us all back to the sea...enjoying what we love the most with...family, friends, each other...celebrating good times, and CRUISING!!!   ?  ?️

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very Happy and Healthy 2021!  May this year bring us all back to the sea...enjoying what we love the most with...family, friends, each other...celebrating good times, and CRUISING!!!   ?  ?️

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very Happy and Healthy 2021!  May this year bring us all back to the sea...enjoying what we love the most with...family, friends, each other...celebrating good times, and CRUISING!!!   ?  ?️

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very Happy and Healthy 2021!  May this year bring us all back to the sea...enjoying what we love the most with...family, friends, each other...celebrating good times, and CRUISING!!!   ?  ?️

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very Happy and Healthy 2021!  May this year bring us all back to the sea...enjoying what we love the most with...family, friends, each other...celebrating good times, and CRUISING!!!   ?  ?️

I concur with Hagar...takes several days for the "resolutions department" to manually apply FCC's.  Sometimes you even have to call more than once to be sure that the "back-end" staff are actually working on it!  It's strange that this huge corporation still has to get certain things done MANUALLY!!  Patience helps...but it will get done!

Interesting choice of words ?

Refunds of cruises is variable for me. 
In cases where I have a refundable deposit before final payment and I choose to cancel I have been getting refunds in 7 to 21 days.
Refunds of cruise planner purchases are back to pre-pandemic timeframes.
I had over 20 cruises booked with them going into this pandemic.   There have been enough WTF moments dealing with various cancellations that it has soured my opinion of the cruise line.  Around 75% of those 20 bookings cancelled gracefully.  I'm down to 4 cruises booked that are non-refundable and I'm hoping they eventually cancel so I go through the refund process as painful as that may be.   
Where I struggle with refunds is when Royal introduces shenanigans when cruises are cancelled.  I've had a couple of cruises where Royal is playing games.  In separate cases they have covertly changed refundable bookings to non-refundable and you only have 24 hours to catch when they do this or they refuse to switch it back.  Then the cruise is cancelled and they only allow FCC or change the options since it was not a refundable booking (which it was).
For two other cases where they cancelled the cruise and we requested the refund option they ignored that and proceed differently. 
One was issued as FCC despite requesting a refund.  Eventually this was resolved and a refund was issued 78 days later.
The other is pending resolution.  This time they chartered the ship for a 2022 cruise and they gave us three options.  The option for price protection was to a date that had no cabin availability for what we had originally booked.  How they thought this was equitable or doable remains a mystery.  We chose the refund option.  Following up several weeks later they claimed we were not eligible for a refund since we cancelled the cruise.  They chartered the ship and they cancelled the cruise.  After escalating they have stated they will refund our deposit in 45 days.  Time will tell.    
To be completely honest I've lost faith in Royal Caribbean.  I've cruised them a fair bit and up to this point they would always do the right thing when things went wrong due from everything like hurricanes or a crane fell on a ship. 
I get the company is struggling and navigating uncharted waters but that doesn't give them license to lie, cheat and steal.  All I want is honesty and fairness even if it takes months to do the right thing, the thing they say they will do but then they proceed in a different direction making false claims and refusing refunds that are clearly due.  
My personal approach right now is to book nothing more with Royal until the pandemic is clearly over and everything is back to normal.  Once bitten twice shy sort of thing.  
I like Royal in general but they've lost their way in this pandemic.  Once I see them getting back to the Royal I used to know I'll come back.

I had B2B Symphony cruises in Feb.  One was a casino comp and the other was a regular priced cruise.  @michelleis going to L&S the regular priced cruise to butt up against one I already have in Feb 2022 to give us a new B2B.  I called on the casino comp and they would not move it (price protect) so I just cancelled it for a cash refund.
It's so weird with the casino comps.  Sometimes they will allow you to move them forward and sometimes they won't.  Today they wouldn't.  I should have known that they were never going to let me cruise in a JS for $258 PP on Symphony !  It seems so short-sighted to me though... it seems that they would rather have me move my casino comp forward and keep my money than to deny me that opportunity and have to refund everything.  Whatever.  Too bad that I lost that great casino deal...there was $150 free play on that one, too !  Dang...

Hello.  Yes the FCC will carry to April 2022 (I am contemplating doing the same thing and spoke to RC staffer and that was confirmed).

Hello.  Yes the FCC will carry to April 2022 (I am contemplating doing the same thing and spoke to RC staffer and that was confirmed).

Yikes, a full year without cruising.  Who could have ever imagined !!!  ☹️

Me, too....with some onboard credit to compensate...

2.5 hour drive to get a Pumpkin Spice Latte?!?!? Now that's dedication!! ?
 
Seriously, though, glad you were able to make extra time yesterday so that today is a nice leisurely trip. May all the remaining steps along the way be equally smooth!

This is very exciting news !!  I think you're making the right decision.  My advice is.....don't wait any longer than you have to.  The price of our new build has already gone up $5K since we signed in Sept.  They simply cannot build them fast enough down here.  It's a balmy 75 degrees here today. My daughter (western MD) sent a video of a steady snow.  NO THANKS !!!  SOOOO glad to be down here where it's warm.