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Royal Caribbean has some playlists on Spotify with different themes based on various cities around the world. My favorite is the CocoCay playlist!

I've never specifically asked about bed rails, but with my young toddlers, we just put lots of pillows around them and tucked them in tight. Never had an issue. I know you mentioned your toddler sleeping on the main bed, but if you have the convertible sofa in your room, that bed is lower to the ground, so less distance to fall if they do roll off.

Does anyone have a favorite lesser know free food item while cruising or Food Hacks.  
Pre covid I would make Ranger cookie ice-cream sandwiches. 

I miss the DreamWorks characters/parades. They went away after I was too old to care that much, but now that I have kids of my own, I would have really loved that extra excitement for the kids!

I miss the DreamWorks characters/parades. They went away after I was too old to care that much, but now that I have kids of my own, I would have really loved that extra excitement for the kids!

I had the same thing happen on our October Odyssey cruise. Keep pestering the [email protected] email account. I finally got a link with our photos about 3 weeks after our cruise that was sent to me from a customer service representative. Then about 2.5 weeks later, got the automated email with the link to download the photos that I think was what we were supposed to get to begin with.
On a positive note, and I don't know if anyone else lucked out with this, but when I got that first link from the CS rep in response to my constant emails, I was able to access all 105 photos from our cruise, not just the 50 I had picked out and paid for. When I got the automated link for the downloads, I was only able to download the 50 photos we had chosen on the ship. 

I was able to use my D+ drink voucher for an espresso drink on disembarkation morning (around 7am) at the Windjammer bar on Harmony on 2/26.

Yes - photos from the ship's photographers at the ports of call are included. Cococay will usually have photographers roaming around the beaches and pool area and those pictures have been included every time we get the package.

This was the reason I liked it too! A bartender will alllllways give me a drink and a shot at the same time but haughtily puts their foot down when I ask for the extra shot to be inside the drink. The bionic bar makes no judgement!! 

I understand it happens on airlines, it is no less unacceptable.  At least with an overbooked flight, one can get a rather generous offer to simply take the next flight in a couple hours, not have an entire week or more affected.
I had an overbooked flight from DFW to LAS a few weekends back, when it was all said and done DW and I got to Vegas 2.5 hours later than planned, and with $3200 American Airlines credits in our wallet.

On an aligned topic, we are on week 2 of a B3B on Oasis.  Today I asked my room attendant if we would still be able to get D+ wash&fold laundry done twice a week….that I had heard they were going to once a week w&f.  She said she had never heard anything about once a week service and that we could submit our laundry twice this week.  Yippee !!  We’ll see if it changes next week….

In my opinion they needed/wanted to open the Casino earlier then 10:30PM🤣

We were also on this cruise.
As a direct comparison of my previous cruise on Symphony just a few months back in November, this one felt much more busy despite being both at "full capacity". Will also agree with sentiment of others on the chair-hogs as we had to circle the pool deck multiple times like vultures to get chairs as soon as someone stood up with their things (and again in comparison, wasn't a problem on symphony in November)... It was a long weekend right? President's Day in the US? Family Day in Canada? School breaks?
It was also tough getting reservations on specialty dining at preferred times despite trying to sort things out even as early as noon on embarkation day. And when we did dine at the restaurants, they were practically half-empty - so not sure why there was no available reservations unless staffing was the factor and is still an issue.
 
In any case, really enjoyed the port stops. But still bummed we didn't stick to the original 10PM all-aboard time that this cruise was originally scheduled to leave Curacao and Aruba before being adjusted to 6PM. The stops served as a nice preview for us to plan a non-cruise return for a more extended stay.

Yes, definitely still make reservations and be aware they will open up the D+ reserved seating to everyone else 15min prior to showtime (definitely for AquaTheater shows, unsure if they also open up in other venues as I didn't use that seating recently). 

Wanted to share an interesting tidbit from our Harmony cruise last week - it was our first cruise as D+ so we went and made a night 2 reservation for Chops as soon as we got onboard. We discovered later that night that they had accidentally made the reservation for night 3, instead of night 2. When we tried to get it switched back to night 2 (since the D+ BOGO is only good on the first 2 days), there were no available reservations. However, the solution to this was that our account was charged for the meal on day 2, and we kept the reservation for day 3. Very interesting as they explained the computer will only let them give the BOGO discount on the first 2 days, so as long as the card is charged in that timeframe, in theory we could have the reservation on a later day. 
So, not sure if this is a standard workaround for the D+ BOGO or if they were just being accommodating to us because they messed up our initial reservation, but I'd be interested to see if anyone else has done something similar (paid for the BOGO meal on day 1 or 2, but had the reservation for a later day).

Well she got the escorted departure at least.

The big question is did she get Crown and Anchor points for the sailing?! 🤣

I wonder a lot of things about this. Like had she been using the cards awhile? How early did she book the cruise? How large was the group traveling with her? Was she always like "drinks on me!!" I  mean list goes on.........biggest one is did she commit credit card fraud just to cruise. I need to know that most of all.......I need to know the signs in case this cruise addiction spirals out of control.

On one hand...shame on her. Stealing is bad.
On the other...I get it tho! Gotta scratch that cruise itch 🤣🤣🤣🤣 (and because this is the internet and it needs to be stated, I AM joking)

Has anyone noticed that the D+ laundry benefit is now "Only valid on the day of the ship’s Wash & Fold laundry promotion?"

We were also on this cruise! Agree with the comments on the towel animals - we got 2 the entire 8 days and they seemed to be the bare minimum (a stingray and a small mouse). As an adult, I don't really care that much, but we also had young kids, so they were really looking forward to the towel animals after getting so many of them on previous sailings. We enjoyed all of the shows we saw except the magician guy on night 2 or 3 (can't remember). He was really cringe-y and just had some lame jokes that fell flat and were borderline inappropriate in a family setting. We had first seating in MDR, which was at 5:00pm. I don't remember ever having first seating be that early. Usually 5:15 or 5:30. We went to MDR the first 2 nights and again on second formal night, but service is just too slow with little kids. They brought out fruit cups for the kids every time and were good about getting all the kid food first, but each time we were there it was almost a 2 hour dinner. Other than those 3 nights, we just ate a the Windjammer for dinner, which was really great food. At the pool decks, I didn't see any staff clearing off chairs around the kids pool area - I even saw one person come and tie her towels around 3 chairs then left, and she never once came back in the 3 hours I was there. After awhile, other people came by and I told them the seats were available because no one had come back in awhile. But, perhaps if we had brought it to the staff's attention, they might have removed the stuff. 
Overall a great cruise! Can't wait until the next one!

I either need a wider table or I need move the TV higher on the wall.  
I have some duplicates too that I am trying to trade for a few missing ships.  
The old block random size issue becomes apparent when I stack the blocks wrong.

 

If I have to make the towel animals myself I am going to end up with a bunch of snakes! 

On Harmony now and our room attendant told us they are going to single daily service starting next sailing (2/26). He currently services 18 cabins on this sailing (twice daily service) and will have 24 cabins next week with single daily service

UPDATE: My TA followed up with Royal Caribbean directly and discovered that not only do we not have to pay for the room change, Royal is actually allowing us to add in the infant to our existing stateroom! 
 
Thanks everyone for the responses.