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We have a 9 Night Western Caribbean Cruise booked for 28 Feb 2025 on Serenade of the Seas. About a week ago we noticed that all of the Costa Rica shore excursions disappeared from the planner. There was a healthy number of them listed 2-3 weeks ago and now nothing. We were not planning on booking any just yet, only perusing; but the sudden disappearance has us slightly concerned. Puerto Limon is still on the itinerary so we aren't in panic mode yet. Anyone else observe this on other upcoming cruises that stop there?

Starting the Roll Call

Hey Sandra, You meant Port Liberty, not Ft Lauderdale, right?

Spoke with RCCL website & app support Saturday 1/28/23 and they were not aware of the problem, but were able to confirm what I reported. They also were unable to access or book any Specialty Dining options in the Cruise Planner for the 2023Apr30 Serenade sailing. More to come...

On Serenade April 30 and no specialty dining options come up in the cruise planner at all. We just get the page image below. No problem with our Liberty sailing in September... Might be a web page issue. I will be contacting tech support and update here.

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Okay, cruised Odyssey in March. The Chef's amenity was not memorable. But when we sailed Mariner to Bermuda on 9/11, Day 3 someone from showed up at our cabin door with chocolate covered strawberries and fresh petits fores. Scrumptious! We Mariner!!!

Just saw @KruisingKrystal posted a smoothie question about Odyssey yesterday. Even though Odyssey is out of the question, I'd still like to know about using vouchers on ships with a Vitality Cafe.

Can C&A drink vouchers be used for smoothies or health drinks at the Vitality Spa? We're on our first cruise as Diamond next week on Odyssey, and was curious if anyone knew.

We will be sailing Diamond for the first time in a couple weeks on Odyssey (20Mar2022). A few days ago I saw a post from @Matt about Royal bringing back some C&A benefits, and among them was the "Chef's Choice Gift/Amenity". I am guessing this is probably some additional/nicer treats other than the Welcome Aboard cookie plate we had been receiving under Emerald. Am I close to being right with my guess?

We made it to Labadee on Feb 15 on Mariner. Captain Tor said ours was the third docking since reopening. IT WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS WE COULD EVER REMEMBER!!! Spent the entire day on Adrenaline Beach.

Just a few minutes after my last post, went back into payment history and it showed PAID IN FULL.

Yep, I fired up the app and paid the remaining balance...and got got the error saying payment couldn't be confirmed.

Is it just me, or is anyone else having problems paying a remaining balance online or via the app? Got the email reminder about making final payment for my March 20 Odyssey cruise due February 20. So I thought I'd go ahead and get that out of the way a little early. I fired up the app, clicked the button to Pay remaining balance, entered my reservation number, last name, and when I try to select my ship, no ship names appeared in the drop-down. I even entered the departure date and still no luck. It won't let me past without the ship name. I feel like Heimdall the Gatekeeper is blocking the portal. Ugh... Before anyone suggests i shouldn't sweat it, my TA will handle it, I booked this cruise directly with Royal. I tried going through the C&A website and selected to pay via the Manage my cruise link. Still no ships show up. I tried all the cache clearing & security tricks, tried 4 different browsers. ROYAL. PLEASE. TAKE. MY. MONEY! I don't have time to sit on hold for an hour tomorrow!

Enjoy! Not a Carnival fan myself. Our first Carny cruise was in 2018 on Sunshine out of Charleston, SC. Ship was nice but felt claustrophobic with few open interior spaces, mediocre entertainment and a lackluster-monotonous MDR and Lido. Ate at Guy's Burger Joint most of the time. My wife just canceled a May 2022 cruise with my daughter and granddaughter because of Carney's confusing and mysterious limits on exceptions for unvaxed children under 12 and medical exceptions. For all 2022 sailings, you must file for an exception by Feb 17, 2022. The exception is held in suspense until you pay your cruise in full before 45 days to sail. Two weeks before the sail date they will tell you if your exception was granted. If not, you are only offered FCC and no refund option. Nope!

I noticed a few weeks ago that Celebrity posted their Fall 2023 Eastern Canada & New England Itineraries, but Royal hasn't yet. Any idea when that might happen?

Sorry, I meant the graphic at the bottom of your post showing which RCL ships you have sailed and are booked on.

PG Cruiser, I love the cruise tracker widget you have at the bottom of your post. Is that something tied to an app or some other thing you found on the interwebs?

Congratulations! We are on the brink... Mariner 2/12-17 will be that cruise for us where we cross over the Diamond threshold, but even more excited to travel as Diamond a month later when we sail Odyssey March 20, and again on Mariner to Bermuda in September!

With the news about the construction delays in the DR, has RCL added Labadee back to Anthem's 2/11 itinerary? I am on Mariner 2/12 and RCL never changed our itinerary. Just curious.

Exciting! We're booked on Mariner February 12-17 for our 40th engagement anniversary, and scheduled to port at both Coco Cay & Labadee. We dreaded getting notice of an itinerary change to Nassau, so this news about Harmony in port on Thursday is fantastic! Last time we were at Labadee was 2018, so glad to be heading back.

Same here Tony! The C&A double points deal has been the deciding factor for us. We're on Brilliance over New Year's and will end that cruise at 79 points. Oh so close! We had booked Odyssey for March 20, 2022 and would have boarded Mariner September 11, 2022 at but we really wanted to be at when we boarded Odyssey. So we booked Mariner over Valentines Day to achieve that.

Sailed Allure Aug 29 and won a JS bid with a very modest bid. Ship was only at 30% occupancy with <1800 passengers and <1100 crew, so not surprising we won it. We've made bids in the past but have never seen them solicit a second offer.