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I recall reading this somewhere, but I could be dreaming. Is there somewhere on the app where you can view the cruise activities or daily activities of the cruise before yours to have an idea what activities are happening on what night. It would help better plan nights, and know what nights to make reservations for shows before getting on board.

How close to sailing are you advised of your room number, or location. How is this advised does it just appear on your app or check in page?

If you get an undesirable cabin location how much wiggle room do you have if any to ask for another?

I know there used to be a "Wine Package" many years back, and it disappeared as the drink packages took force. I thought I saw recently someone message that the wine packages had made a return, and were being offered on day one of the cruise. Can anyone confirm or deny if they have seen this?. If so any information on what the prices were, or what the package entailed.

What are people's experience with sold out tours. Does more availability come up later? Do they make spots available to book while on board. Or is it a case of once they are booked up, it is gone, and no spots will become available unless there is a cancellation?

35 minutes ago, KevinK said:

How about bring your own wine?  You are allow to bring 2 bottle of 750ml wine on board.  On my recent cruise, I bought two bottles of wines with me and bought it to my dinner on formal night.  My waiter open them for me with no cork fee.  Or you can drink them in your stateroom and ask your house cleaning person to bring you a corkscrew.

Yes we fully plan to do this, but not to sound like complete alcoholics, but we plan to have wine with dinner each night, and on a 9 night cruise those two bottles we bring only cover us for 2 nights.

15 minutes ago, smokeybandit said:

You can find the base wine list under the MDR menus in the app. 

Great tip thanks I did not know this.

Does anyone know if the wine list is the same for all ships across the fleet? Is it maybe the same depending on ship class, or maybe its based on the sailing port?

How often is the wine list changed?

Does anyone have a picture of the wine menu from a recent sailing.

Thanks.

20 hours ago, Atlantix2000 said:

BOGO 70% off is just another way of saying 35% off (when booking double occupancy).  Royal's current deal is "up to $350 off + 30% off every guest".  Doesn't sound very different to me.

As an update. I checked a price of a cruise on Monday pre sale... and today with their "Greatest Deal Ever".... exact same price.... shocker.

Does RC usually run "Black Friday" deals?

On 8/29/2021 at 12:39 AM, crabkitty said:

We just docked back in Barcelona and I figured I’d jump on and share our experience with everyone. Would love to answer questions as I’m sure many of you had questions similar to what we had.

Overall, we had an incredible time and have almost nothing but good to say about our first “post-covid” cruise.

On our ship, that carries over 6000 passengers, had 900 on board. We heard we picked up 300 more in Rome, but can’t confirm that. We hear there’s 600 on the 8/29 sailing. The ship was unbelievably empty. We bid the lowest amount on a RoyalUp suite and won. So, we were spoiled with a bigger room and incredibly empty ship. Everyone paid so much attention to you. No lines at slides, empty mini golf, empty rock wall and flow rider… you could do anything you wanted. Shows were well attended, but still so much seating available.

One of the only complaints we had, sorry had to add it in, was the push for specialty dining. The first two days, literally every crew member that saw you, would give you a 5 minute spiel about the packages. It became very annoying. After day 2, we only heard it here and there.

Excursions had to be through Royal Caribbean, but they all went smoothly. Not my style of tours, but we were happy to see all of the sites. The tours were even smaller groups and some people didn’t even get off the ship. Shopping was usually cut out, as we weren’t able to go out on our own. We still managed to get some good souvenirs. Heads up on the churches… you don’t go inside. So ignore the “wear pants and sleeves” rule, or at least ask about it.

Testing went well. We had a test at the beginning and the end. A couple passengers did test positive and were immediately removed from line and weren’t allowed on the ship. You get your results before they even let you on. Nerve racking, but once you get the results, it felt so good to just get on board.

The new muster drill is AMAZING! You just watch a couple safety videos on the RC app and you get it checked off near the entrance of the ship. Takes 2 minutes.

Everything on the ship was open. Masks were required at all indoor spaces, so if you just hang out outside, problem solved. The staff was not even super strict about pointing out if a mask falls below your nose, etc. We even took our masks off at most tours, because it seems Italy is only “requiring” it for cruise passengers. In Florence, it blew me away how many tourists there were and we were the only group with masks.

Play bingo and go to the contests and auctions, because there’s no competition on the ship. Attend the casino drawings and raffles. We won more stuff on this cruise because our chances were so much higher. We even won a $1200 painting (3 groups at the raffle)

As always, food was amazing, shows were awesome, crew was all smiles, and everything felt very normal for cruising. Can’t wait for masks to become non-existent.

Let me know what else you want to know? For those holding out… just go. It will be worth it to be on an empty ship.

First off let me include my gratitude for all the wonderful updates you have provided to us with future sail dates. It helps ease some of the stress of the unknown. I have some follow up questions of my own.

1. For daily temperature checks, I was under the impression this was for only non-vaccinated guests. Are you confirming that all guests regardless of vaccination status had to have daily temperature checks?

2. For testing it is my understanding that no test has to be taken before arriving to the terminal. That the only test you had to take or show evidence of is the negative result taken at the terminal. Basically asking do I need a negative test before arriving to the terminal?

3. I was wondering if you took home copies of the Cruise Compass? If it would be possible to share in this forum we would all be appreciative of this to see what activities are being offered. I think I saw on the August 15th cruise there was no musical. But have seen crew hired for a Grease musical that may not have started yet.

4. The other thing that I found surprising on the August 15th cruise compass I saw was that there was live music, but a disclaimer that there was no dancing. That you had to listen to the music and remain seated in your chair. Can you confirm if anyone was up dancing, or was it only chair swaying during the music.

5. Can you advise which excursion you went on where you didn’t go into the church, and not required to “cover up” was that the one in Florence. As that disclaimer was on the tour we booked as well, and we assumed it was because we were going into the Duomo.

Thank you again in advance for the wonderful help.