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By any chance have you explored other ruins? We booked Chacchoben and also Tulum’s ruins in Cozumel. I hear the journey from Cozumel to Tulum is quite long. Not sure if we should do 2 days of ruins in a row

I enjoyed my Independence of the Seas cruise in November. Was there something specific you didn’t like in the buffet? In my experience, buffet food tends to be more plain to appeal to more people. Exceptions are the Asian cuisine, which I always enjoy. I thought the MDR food was very good and served warm and didn’t order room service. As for MDR service, we enjoy the dining experience and like to give ourselves about 1 hour and 45 minutes to eat so we can chat and slowly enjoy one meal and courses. But we did have a show one night where we needed to be out of there in a hour and they were able to accommodate us. I think there is a staff shortage just due to people who test positive, but overall I really enjoyed my cruise. At the end of the day, we are traveling during a pandemic and I felt like RCI did a good job with the circumstances

Thanks! I’ll definitely be checking my account often! It’s just weird how for my booking, Costco called it “shipboard” and not onboard. Did they call it onboard for you? Either way, we don’t prepay gratuities so we 100% have something to apply it to!

Thanks! We’ll probably apply that to gratuities!

Thanks! Would we be able to apply that shipboard/onboard credit towards the gratuities if we don’t prepay? I think we’ll book Wonderland in advance and then use the dining credit at Sabor or Jamie’s!

I plan on doing wonderland for the experience. There have been reviews from vegetarians that are positive. Unless it’s Chops…I think you can find something in all of the specialty restaurants. Johnny rockets has a boca burger too which is super neat

Do they advertise in the cruise compass compass about the different nights?

I know about onboard credit and you can spend that in the cruise planner ahead of time, but I booked a cruise through Costco Travel and I have $50 worth of Shipboard credit and $50 worth of dining credit. Doesn’t look like I can use it ahead of time, which is a bummer because we want to do Wonderland and it looks like you get a discount from booking in the cruise planner ahead of time. Does anyone know if you can use the shipboard credit towards dining as well or if there is a way to get this added to your cruise planner?

I’m going to Labadee for the first time this summer. We reserved a kayaking excursion and the covered beach lounger for 2. Considering canceling the lounger since there are free chairs like cococay, but for $50 we initially booked it for fun. I want to do more research on the different beaches there and if the lounger is where I want to be.

Thanks for mentioning about cancelations. With the current environment, it’s always important that 3rd party excursion companies will give you a refund. I will definitely look into these options

Thank you! This was actually one excursion I was looking at!

I have a cruise next September with stops in Cozumel and Costa Maya. We would prefer to book our excursions though RCI and am looking for peoples personal experiences and recommendations. I live in Florida near the beach so I’m not looking for beach only excursions. If it stops in the beach for a bit that’s totally fine and sounds fun, but would like more variety. We would like to see the ruins, possibly go to Tulum, maybe Chichen Itza? i know some of these are a bus ride away, but this may be one of the only times we go to Mexico so I do want to see as much as possibly. Not really interested in the dolphin swims, open bar, and ATV ride type excursions either.

The comedian on my cruise called it the “dipping sauce band”

I was just on Independence of the Seas. A smaller ship, but less family oriented activities. I don’t think I’ve seen less kids on a cruise ship. I’m assuming because they can’t get vaccinated/extra tests required. But when I walked past adventure ocean there were always kids in there. i saw older kids and teenagers by the slides, sky pad, and flow rider, and sports courts. We did have ice skating too and the pools and hot tubs were busy. There are a lot of vaccinated only areas (which was basically kid free zones) on board

You can book internet for 2 devices under one person. The surf will probably be all they need. I booked it for 1 device under 1 person and you can switch back and forth. I’m sharing it and you login and can just switch devices you’re connected to. The internet isn’t always the best. I had trouble with snapchat and Instagram, 2 apps your boys will probably be wanting to use