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So far I have been able to access it without any issues. It shows my recent instant reward certificate and some random offers. I still prefer the old site though.

On Freedom in July, the casino staff asked for cabin number but did not swipe cards. They wrote it down. Just back from Symphony last week and there was no swiping or asking for cabin numbers.

Right...that's great that the points are correct but you still are left with an issue that hopefully will not involve hours of your time to resolve. If you end up in limbo, then rather than talking to numerous reps, I hope you can get your call escalated and resolved. Your paper copy should make that happen pretty easily

I recently had an issue with my club royal points not being posted after a cruise and spoke to at least 5 agents who all told me it was being looked into. They had been posted to a duplicate account. After weeks of numerous phone calls I politely asked for a supervisor. I was told they could not put me through to anyone but I continued to press the agent and they finally escalated the call. The supervisor reviewed all the notes in my file and assured me it would be fixed. Within 24 hours he personally called me back to confirm it had been corrected. It might be worth calling again and asking for the call to be escalated. Good luck.

I'm not sure if Celebrity will match, but if you go to urcomped.com and sign up, you can upload your offers from Royal and they will respond back to you with offers from different cruise lines. From what I understand, in order to book any offers on Celebrity (through urcomped), you must not have booked and sailed with them directly in the last 24 months. Good luck.

I second @OCSC Mike on his being a fan of Paradise Beach. The all inclusive price of $68 pp gets you entrance to the property and truly all you can eat or drink (you can upgrade to the top shelf drink package but we've never felt the need to). Includes loungers by the pool or chairs and umbrellas on the beach....they have lots of seating to choose from. For $85 you can purchase a daybed which we always do. If you go on their website and choose the date you are going, you can scroll down and see what day beds are available. You pay half of your total cost to reserve and the other half when you arrive at the property.

Just getting all caught up on your current adventure Sabrina. Fantastic about your upgrade at Disney and your RU win!! Would Freedom on July 11th be an option? I know you just sailed it earlier this summer but since it sails out of Miami, you could spend 2 nights at the Intercontinental and then hop on Icon on the 18th? Otherwise, I think Reflection and Wonder are great options too. Enjoy the rest of you holiday.

I purchase a coffee card whenever my current one is about to run out and have never had an issue using it on any ship. I had one from March that I just used on my Freedom back to back this month. You shouldn't have any issues.

That's been our experience as well - most are very talented. Stephen is just very unique the way he adds percussion to his performance .... he does so with his feet. Just adds to the overall performance. He's also very good at interacting with the crowd. You can find him on instagram at stephenburkemusic and he usually posts what ship he is going to be on. Enjoy your vacation on Utopia.

We have cruised many times with Stephen as the pub performer - he is fantastic! He will be heading to Quantum starting July 7th so you're going to miss him by just a little bit. Hopefully you can catch him another time.

Now that sounds like a much better design!

That sounds like a good plan - these rooms are not worth upgrading to IMO, unless the location is better based on what is left for a particular sailing. There is room to stack packing cubes below the clothes that hang so you should be able to manage with what there is to work with.

We were on the December 14th Icon sailing in an Interior Plus cabin. There are no drawers at all. It is the worst cabin we've been in as far as storage. There is no storage at all in the main cabin area. Then you go behind the wall that the TV is on and you have a vanity with one drawer and then an area with hangers and a few shelves that are actually baskets. We have packing cubes so we just stacked them but I wouldn't pay anything extra for this room. The bathroom was nice and the shower was good but beyond that I would not recommend this room.

You could do a mock booking on royal's website and if the category of stateroom you have been assigned is still available, look to see if any cabins are near each other. If you happen to find 3 that work for you, you could contact your TA and ask them to make this request to royal on your behalf. Perhaps you only need to change 2 of the 3 if you can find 2 near the third that is assigned. Specifically sate that this should not result in any increased costs as you are staying within the same category.

We were in this situation last year. We left Honolulu and arrived back in Vancouver but due to a medical evacuation on the ship we arrived later in the day. The value of reimbursement you stated above is what we were offered as well. We did not have Air 2 Sea flights so we just made our changes directly with the airline and then submitted our receipts to the email address provided on the form. I will say it was a bit of a long process. Lots of back and forth in which I honestly felt could lead to some people just giving up. Each time someone responds, it's different from the last person so that it is a bit frustrating. While we could have incurred much higher costs by staying in a hotel (they offered that as part of reimbursement) we opted to fly home that same night which was cheaper than getting a hotel but we were still out of pocket from what Royal was willing to reimburse. It took about 3 weeks for our refund which I'm pretty sure went right to our visa. Royal was very particular about $$ amounts so I would be cautious about using points - that was part of our issue in that we used some Visa points and Royal did not compute that value. When sending everything in for reimbursement, they wanted everything in PDF form so start off with that and clear explanation and hopefully they will process without many back and forths. We could have tried to claim the rest through our insurance but we didn't bother. Good luck and safe travels home.