steeltitan

Interesting report on Cabana 1. My wife and I and another couple rented Cabana 1 this past weekend and also had some issues with location. We had multiple people asking to use the slide, but unfortunately it didn't stop there. We had people take our floating mats several times that we had to retrieve and we had several people climb up the ladder of the cabana. All of the people were fairly shocked that we didn't really want them on our cabana. For $1,699 this is not the expectation we had. It should be noted that the attendants and the lifeguards were very attentive in helping with these situations all day, but frankly they shouldn't have had to worry about them. They suggested we mention it in the satisfaction surveys, which we did, because we weren't the first with issues. Curiously when we brought these issues up with the concierge staff on board it was the first time they had heard of this type of situation, but we were told when the CEO of Royal is on the island he expects cabana 9 or 10. Realistically any cabana beyond 1 ( at least in the A group of cabanas) had no issues because our party served as the buffer. It is also made that much more frustrating by the fact that cabanas were being offered for as low as $800 just prior to sailing. We reserved the cabana immediately after booking the cruise to lock it in and certainly we understand market pricing, but knowing that people who paid less than half of what we paid didn't have to fight off cabana intruders is a tough pill to swallow.