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I am currently on Enchantment OTS, 7 night sailing from Rome and there was no lobster in the MDR on our entire sailing. We are on our second formal night and they replaced the lobster with “large” shrimp. Never in all our years of cruising have we ever not had a lobster night. I am beyond disappointed and hoping this is not where we are heading.

What was the Athens excursion you did? Our cruise ends in Athens so we will have 2 days to try and see as much as we can.

I've never sailed on Enchantment before but heard it's a great ship for relaxing, especially after those long days in Med. ports.

Unfortunately, we are unable to use a TA since our cruise was booked over 30 days ago.

When Royal Caribbean cancels your sailing do they provide other options for you or do they just give you your money back? If they cancel your sailing and give you options, do they pick an itinerary with similar features - like port of departure or dates? For example, we are scheduled to be sailing on Brilliance OTS in October 2023. It is no longer listed on the website and I am not feeling optimistic about it actually sailing since its been weeks without it showing on the website. I am wondering if we will get options if they do indeed cancel our cruise. The only other one that has a similar itinerary is Odyssey, which also leaves out of Rome, visits Turkey and Santorini and is only 6 days before our current sailing. I wouldn't mind this change at all, but there is one that is a round trip from Venice that I would not be as happy with.

If you are a beer drinker, it is cheaper to get the bucket of beer than multiple individual beers.

Yay for answering my own question.. I called Royal Caribbean and they said "they are changing the stateroom categories, still sailing as is with same dates, ship and itinerary."

Not to sound dumb but what is inventory maintenance?

We recently sailed on Harmony of the Seas in January. We will be sailing on Symphony in April. They are both Caribbean itineraries. We ate in the MDR every night, we love the MDR. Does anyone know if the dinner menus will be the same or some variation?

There are 2 pairs in our travel reservation, one pair is going to be in Sea Class and get CK. Will us, not in Sea Class, be able to join them for dinner in the CK?

We were there last week and it was a great time! We found a cab in the downtown that gave us an island tour for $30 per person and they stopped at Maho. It was AWESOME! Completely lived up to the hype. We were sad we didn’t get to see a plane take off but the landing was very cool.

Hi Everyone! I just got off a 7 night cruise on Harmony of the Seas. Being an avid cruiser and watching extensive Royal Caribbean Blog YouTube videos, I thought I was a professional but there were a few interesting things I learned on my cruise this past week. First thing, since we weren't able to book entertainment prior to the cruise I was nervous that shows would be sold out before I even had the chance to get on board. I learned that as long as you are connected to the cruise WIFI you can book the entertainment. With that being said, while we waited for our group to be called to board, we booked all of our entertainment BEFORE we even got on the ship. Second thing, if you are planning to drink beer but not purchase the alcohol package, I recommend purchasing the bucket of beer, compared to the price of regular beers, you are getting 1 beer for free! A crew member told us you could use your Crown and Anchor 50% off a beer coupon for the buckets and he let us redeem it but when we tried again later, with a different crew member, they said that was not a valid option. I forget the gentleman's' name but hey, it doesn't hurt to try. Third thing, if you are planning to do the stand up flowrider, don't wait until the end of your cruise. On my sailing, they gave newbies 2 tries per day to try and stand up longer than 1 minute. They made this rule so people #1 wouldn't be getting hurt and #2 not be wasting everyone else's time by constantly getting back in line to be struggling all day. They also told me that they do flowrider lessons to learn how to stand up. Once you achieve the longer than 1 minute ride, they give you a bracelet that lets you ride the rest of the cruise with no problem or quotas to hit. Not a tip, but a cool thing we were able to witness, in order to reduce the COVID positive percentage on the ship, they would transport our COVID positive crew off of the ships when we got to port. For example, we were initially told we wouldn't be going to St. Thomas because of our COVID numbers, then a bunch of crew were taken in tenders to Rhapsody when we were docked in St. Marteen and new crew came on, leaving us under the 1%, allowing us to go to St. Thomas, woohoo! I hope this helps anyone going on a cruise in the coming days/months/years. I would be happy to answer any questions y'all may have in regards to cruising last week.

Can you use your phone to show them the results or does it have to be printed?

I am waiting to hear back about that cruising too! Fingers crossed we both get it.

We booked our COVID test for this Friday last week. Only way we could ensure that we would have an appointment. I also scheduled a backup test later that evening just in case we missed the appointment for whatever reason. The slots fill up quickly so I would book as early as possible.