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Embarkation day!! Exciting stuff , second cruise for icon , enjoy !

Since Utopia is what considered ultra Oasis, I doubt things from Icon would be added. Icon is a different class. At most Utopia will mirror Wonder with maybe a few updates.

Just as a follow up, FYI saw today that I did get an email from the Concierge team offering to help book things, but we had already done that obviously from the previous thread you can tell, but it was an informative email 

Thank you! Yes, one would think the concierge would book these for you, but perhaps that's changing too. Hope you enjoy the cruise.

What shows were you able to book online?

I was able to book all  seven or eight of the reservable shows several comedians, the Wizard of Oz and the aqua show.  but being in a sky class suite, I’m still surprised I haven’t heard from the suite Concierge to do it for me.

Wow. Just wow.
The only thing I see RCCL did that is questionable was to let you board in the first place.  
They gave you a second cabin.  You only paid for one.
RCCL is not responsible for your relationship.
Of all the ridiculous complaints I've seen from first time posters, this one takes the cake.
Suck it up buttercup.  You and your friend ruined your vacation... not RCCL.

I fail to see where any of this is the fault of Royal Caribbean. 

that's exactly what i needed to know  great news   we look forward to being able to share that unique experience with extended family again( just a bigger group!)

Just got off the Oasis yesterday after boarding on June 10th. We were hearing that the ship was around 90ish percent full. I can honestly say that the staffing may not be 100%, but we had no issues. Had My Time Dining at 7pm and was seated immediately every night. Dinner took around 1.25 hours on average, but could have been faster if needed and you asked. Always found seats in the buffet and only had to wait about 8 minutes one day to make sure we washed our hands. Overall they seem to be getting things done. I will say the line was longer for MTD if you did not have reservations.

We were on the May 29th Oasis sailing. We had MTD, didn't have issues. Sometimes there was a short wait but we never waited over 15 minutes. I'm sure they are short-staffed but I never noticed any major effects. 

I did everyone’s on my phone while we were driving to the port. Ditto the safety briefing.

Thanks figured it would not be an issue and I knew this group would have some insightful comments 

There is no verbiage in the CDC Conditional Sail Order or Healthy Sail Panel recommendations that even mention B2B.

To always have one in my hand. LOL

This promo isn't going to convert infrequent cruisers to suddenly becoming frequent cruisers booking multiple cruises every year from now until the end of time.  
If someone was booking multiple cruises every year they were already well on their way up the ladder.  
The infrequent cruiser isn't going to crowd the lounge consuming benefits on the ship they aren't sailing on.  Let them be Diamond and if they earn it through this promo so be it.
"Jane and Joe only booked a cruise once every two years but since becoming Diamond they now book four cruises every year" - NOT!!!  However if this was the outcome Royal would be very pleased.  

I don't think Royal would have come up with this promo just to scale back perks a year later.  "Congratulations you are now Diamond but we are removing the perks so really you are no better off".
The simple truth is C&A works and it works well.  
If the cost of C&A perks was concerning or on the bubble the last thing they would do is inflate the ranks just to pull the rug out from even more people.
Guests may complain of crowded lounges during happy hour (they are never crowded during the day) but to Royal that is the picture of success.  The program works.
Most people who will attain Diamond from this promo would have attained it in 2021 or very soon into 2022 without the pandemic.  Net effect is no change. 
Some people will be in a position to go crazy and level up D to D+ or D+ to P a year sooner.  They are the minority but if this promo gets them to book cruises now so what?  They were going to get there anyways so during a period where the company can use some additional cash flow so what if a select handful can level up a year ahead of time?
Look at the interest this promo has generated.  It has the makings of being very successful and creating more new Royal bookings (and less competitor bookings for those that sail more than Royal).  Offering it to new bookings only would have created massive work efforts to rebook existing cruises so they created a win-win by extending it to existing bookings.  

I disagree, to dilute requires there to be a value (i.e. rare baseball card not rare because new cards of same kind flood market). Someone else reaching Diamond doesn't takeaway from your status/perks.
Regardless how you feel, someone point out we all basically lost out on 2020 cruises so double points in 2021 is just re-balancing the cruise universe ?

And that's why I have a "guy"!!  In my case, I am working until we are both eligible for Medicare (which we now are!!!).  Private health insurance can be very expensive.

Didn’t mean to start a financial conversation or a debate.  But you really need to talk to your financial advisor and have them explain it to you, it’s not a look it  up on the Internet kinda thing, that’s what you pay them for .  You both only  got parts of it right 
anyway my point was you don’t need to wait if you have the funds saved and that’s the only reason your waiting till 59 1/2. 

Haha. At one point I thought I had mistakenly stumbled upon a AARP blog! ?

Didn’t mean to start a financial conversation or a debate.  But you really need to talk to your financial advisor and have them explain it to you, it’s not a look it  up on the Internet kinda thing, that’s what you pay them for .  You both only  got parts of it right 
anyway my point was you don’t need to wait if you have the funds saved and that’s the only reason your waiting till 59 1/2. 

Didn’t mean to start a financial conversation or a debate.  But you really need to talk to your financial advisor and have them explain it to you, it’s not a look it  up on the Internet kinda thing, that’s what you pay them for .  You both only  got parts of it right 
anyway my point was you don’t need to wait if you have the funds saved and that’s the only reason your waiting till 59 1/2. 

Thinking out loud...  If it was just two people in the suite and you wanted five entrees delivered to your cabin they will probably do just that.  
I could be solo in a GS and order 12 orders of chicken wings and it would be delivered.
On the flip side understand in doing so you are abusing the benefit by doing so.  The long term effect is that they could remove this benefit in the future because of this kind of abuse.  Suite benefits are clearly stated to be only for suite guests in the suite and not family or friends in other cabins no different compared to having everyone showing up at the suite pool deck seating or at the suite lounge.  It is expressly against the policy.
When people abuse these benefits changes are made.  This is why.

I will be doing exactly that  a 25% return on $ is as good an investment on anything for such a short period of time and the $ is going there anyway!