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For example, I have a $500 RC gift card, do you know if I could use it for my deposit if I book the cruise while on the ship?

I would be using it to pay for a new cruise, we are looking at booking a Europe cruise for May 2022. I wasn't sure if I could book the cruise while on the ship and then just use my gift card while I am with there on the ship booking it.

I have a Royal Caribbean gift card that I would like to use towards my next cruise purchase. I have heard the struggle to use a RC gift card and I am not too keen on using it. However, I am going on a cruise in 40 days (YAY!!) and I was wondering, if I book my next cruise while on the ship, does anyone know if I can use the gift card there?

I agree - more testing will make the cruise safer. I am the type that would rather be safe than sorry. It would be much more inconvenient to have your cruise end early due to COVID rather than being tested before. Especially because both vaccinated and nonvaccinated are getting the Delta variant, I don't see why there is a problem with everyone getting tested prior to boarding.

Perfect, that is exactly what I was wondering about! Thank you so so much. Now I have to figure out how I can get my shopping in, might need to change some excursions lol.

Wow thank you so much for this! I know you said you stayed on board, but by any chance, do you know how it worked for after excursions? I wonder if there were specific lines to guide you back on the ship once the excursion concluded.

I was wondering, has anybody been on a recent cruise and been unvaccinated? If so, how was the experience? We have an upcoming cruise and have paid our final payment. We have every intention of going on the cruise and are going to be unvaccinated. I was wondering, for those that were unvaccinated and on a recent sailing, how was it? Did you feel like you still got the cruise experience even though you were limited? I was wondering how the dining situation was in the MDR and how it was visiting ports. We plan to have excursions in every port except CocoCay. *I do not want any judgement towards being unvaccinated and do not want this to turn into a vax debate*

Just looked at my calendar and my aqua park at Labadee is missing too! I had it booked but I do not see it anymore and there isn't an option to book it either. I am on Allure in September.

We may be doing opposite itineraries. Once we have plans more set in stone, I would be more than happy to share what we did and hotels we liked. Ours is Rome to Athens May/June so it may be a little too close in terms of hotels but leisure things to do, I would gladly share what we do.

For those that had their Labadee destinations changed, where did you get it rerouted to? We are supposed to go to Labadee on Allure in September but I have seen that other itineraries are being rerouted to other ports. I saw most people get changed to Nassau. We are already scheduled to go to Nassau so I wonder where we would get changed to.

Those are amazing. Thank you so much!

My response wasn't clear at all, my bad ?! We are boarding in Rome but the cruise ends in Athens. Sorry for the confusion.

We leave out of Athens, otherwise that would have been our plan too.

I am also apart of our specific cruise Facebook page and I think there are about 200 people in the group. Everyone that has commented is in the same time slot. We have 4 in our party but I am the only one in the FB group which I am sure there are others in the group like that too. That's why I was wondering how busy it would be. Hopefully not that busy though!

Checked in for our Sept 12 cruise and got the 1:00pm. I feel like everyone says they have the first time slot.. I wonder how crowded it will be at 1:00pm.

I am on Facebook. That would be much appreciated if you could post some of the groups. Thank you!

I am going on a cruise out of Rome next May. We will be flying in a few days early to explore the city. Has anyone else some something similar? If so, how did you get to the airport? We were hoping there would be a RC excursion that would take us to the port. If anyone has any insight or advice, that would be greatly appreciated!

My Sept 12 on Allure still shows Labadee and Perfect Day! Fingers crossed. Will keep yall posted if anything changes.

I see that on Allure, the Solarium bistro is open to all but the Solarium pools and whirlpools are only allowing Vaxed... does that mean unvaxed can go in the Solarium but not in the water?

I wonder how they will monitor people going back to port. My excursion in Nassau lets you stay at Atlantis longer if you want to and you can catch a cab back. I wonder if unvaccinated people will be allowed to do that still? This will be very interesting to see play out as there are more cruises departing.

I'll never win the raffle at the spa on the first day ?

My favorite excursion I have ever been on was in Costa Maya. We did an ATV tour. It had stormed very hard prior to the excursion so the ground was all muddy. We were flying through puddles, hitting the riders (in our party) behind us with mud. By the end of the excursion, we were sore from laughing so hard and COVERED in mud (and most likely cow ?). It was so fun and funny, I still burst out laughing when we look back at the pictures. I am pretty sure we threw away all of those clothes too.

We did Ephesus on another cruise line but it was so beautiful and a fun stop. I loved Istanbul too, we didn't do an excursion but just wandered the city. Turkey was breathtaking.

I will never get a drink from the bionic bar, I'd rather talk with the bartender. I will never pay for specialty dining, I've already spent so much money on the cruise and there is already food included - why spend the extra money?

I just read an article that the president of Haiti was assassinated! I wonder if this affect us visiting the port of Labadee. We have a cruise on Allure that stops at Labadee in September. I hope we can go but wonder what will happen if we can't.