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Here is the list of actual Platinum level benefits/offerings (details that are not provided on the generic C&A sheet on Royal's website). These are preloaded onto your SeaPass card.
They used to give you this sheet as part of the welcome onboard paperwork in your cabin, but for some reason (at least for us last week on Oasis) we had to request it at Guest Services.

 

I feel like the actual reason isn’t social distancing in the sense of not having anyone next to you, but more to spread people throughout the ship to reduce choke points and balance the number of cabins a stateroom attendant is working with (since that’s a potential vector). Or else, as others have said to create a quarantine area. 
 
I would be a bit surprised if the cruise lines are gunning to get rid of vaccine requirements already. No doubt they will eventually, but I feel like they want the requirements to keep spread on the cruise ships low and keep them out of the news. But who know. 

Hello Everyone,
I have a couple sailings over the next few months and wanted to see what everyone has been seeing for onboard offerings.  We will have a couple of platinum level members with us, so that's what I am interested in, but Im sure others may want to find out about the other levels on recent sailings.  
Thanks everyone! Enjoying these being the questions we get to ask these days instead of wondering when we get to sail!
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Perhaps the most unnerving thing leading up to the cruise are the constant stream of emails asking for vaccination status, even though I've filled it out at least two times.
My wife and I get the same emails, and it is astounding to me that there are this many emails after having filled out the forms.
I get why they send so many, but one would hope/think/assume/pray after filling it out, the system would be smart enough to stop sending me reminder emails.  I know, I know.... 

Lol it was literally in the post. For some reason I think @Matt and @twangstergive each other finger guns when they cross paths. 

Delorean of the Seas?
 
1.21 gigaknots!

Please let us know if the onboard prices and percentage off figures matched up once you get back to our time.

and this is where they got the idea for the Flowriders...

Yes, the pilots said so via the union. Sorry if that doesn't jive with your personal opinion, but it's the truth. Not sure who else needs to say the same thing before you believe it.
And since this thread has gone down the covid conspiracy path, it's now locked. Keep the political discussions and opinions out of this site. Thank you.

Royal has been managing hundreds of thousands of booking for years.  If that was common place we would all have heard stories about it by now.

I have definitely worn nice shorts with a collard shirt in the MDR. I'm on vacay, pants are for work! 

That actually one of the best thing happened due to C19 . To many times we all saw people grab food on their hands or even returning food to trays. If not for C19 prevention at least for Noro .

I was thinking more along the lines of capacity within "zones".  Maybe they have some new air recirculation requirements and need to limit capacity in different zones so they need to redistribute.  Doesn't necessarily prevent putting folks into cabins next to each other or rotating which cabins are used from cruise to cruise, but they may determine they can only have a certain amount of capacity in a section of a ship -- kind of like adhering to a CDC version of lifeboat capacity.

I can’t speak to the cruise context (yet!), but masking has absolutely been demonstrated to be effective at reducing (but not completely eliminating) the spread of COVID. Particularly indoors. I agree that outdoors it is more “theater” - very little transmission happens outdoors. 
 
Testing is also effective, though not perfect. Every positive case that is kept off the ship reduces the risk for others. But I won’t be sad when they go back to only testing unvaxxed kids. Hopefully as the cases continue to drop! 

I feel like the actual reason isn’t social distancing in the sense of not having anyone next to you, but more to spread people throughout the ship to reduce choke points and balance the number of cabins a stateroom attendant is working with (since that’s a potential vector). Or else, as others have said to create a quarantine area. 
 
I would be a bit surprised if the cruise lines are gunning to get rid of vaccine requirements already. No doubt they will eventually, but I feel like they want the requirements to keep spread on the cruise ships low and keep them out of the news. But who know. 

I can’t speak to the cruise context (yet!), but masking has absolutely been demonstrated to be effective at reducing (but not completely eliminating) the spread of COVID. Particularly indoors. I agree that outdoors it is more “theater” - very little transmission happens outdoors. 
 
Testing is also effective, though not perfect. Every positive case that is kept off the ship reduces the risk for others. But I won’t be sad when they go back to only testing unvaxxed kids. Hopefully as the cases continue to drop! 

Every time I see Waterpark prices I laugh at how clueless I was when booking for our February 2020 cruise.  “Is $24.99 a good price?” 😄😄😄

Given that the union leaders are usually the ones supporting and organizing sick-outs and protests... yes?

My thought is that with all the breakthrough cases being reported that they are creating an answer before the issue gains more momentum.
and personally, regarding the company's tracking of 141 cases out of 500k guests...it says to me that those who had the infection and did not report it (or didn't know they had it) were operating like things were before. I can't say for sure, but before March 2020, if I had a cold or something a few days after a cruise, was it because something spread or I was just run down. (I did get pretty sick a week or so after a November 2019 sailing on Symphony). All of this cat herding is so old, I can't even.....at least RC is managing the problem as well as they can at this point. I just hope they can start making money again soon.

It's tough once they learn how to read! 😂

I wish I saved the paper we got in the room with the kids' benefits, but it was definitely on there because I then had to explain to them why 5 virgin pina coladas per day was not going to happen

I can’t speak to the cruise context (yet!), but masking has absolutely been demonstrated to be effective at reducing (but not completely eliminating) the spread of COVID. Particularly indoors. I agree that outdoors it is more “theater” - very little transmission happens outdoors. 
 
Testing is also effective, though not perfect. Every positive case that is kept off the ship reduces the risk for others. But I won’t be sad when they go back to only testing unvaxxed kids. Hopefully as the cases continue to drop! 

I'm with @Matt - crew likely won't say anything, but the guests are going to be judging you. 🤣
I always do nice jeans or khakis with a button down shirt or polo at a minimum any time I'm going anywhere besides Windjammer for dinner.
Then again, I'm also one of those people who prefers to "dress up" when flying, as well - I refuse to be the guy in pajama pants and a t-shirt, regardless of *how* early my flight is.

Welcome to the message boards.
Shorts in the main dining room is one of those "third rail topics" that has very strong opinions, in part because Royal Caribbean leaves the exact rule vague.
Like Celebrity, the rule is not exactly enforced. So would you be able to get away with wearing shorts in the main dining room? Probably. Do others have thoughts on the appropriateness of it? Yup. 
Personally, I would not wear shorts to dinner in the main dining room. But I have no problem wearing jeans or khakis with a polo/short sleeved collared shirt.