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The classics are still there just not every night. So like shrimp cocktail is now only 3 nights instead of all 7 for my cruise next week. I am willing to give it a shot and see what happens. Not that I have much choice since with my luck this started on the ship I am sailing. My understanding for GF you should tell them about this allergy and they have special stuff they can sub out.

I agree steak is the only thing I was looking at, however they did get rid of shrimp cocktail every night and that is going to disappoint my son. He absolutely loves shrimp cocktail. They do still have it 3 nights. Also, Salmon was his backup when he didn't like other stuff, so he will just end up with something off the kids menu if he doesn't like the normal stuff. They do have a variety of fish every night so he will like that. Overall it isnt too bad, but people are complaining about the limit on tails, but honestly it is a better and larger tail you are now getting. I wouldn't have gotten more than one anyways. We will probably get one for the kids to share and eat what they don't eat. I planned to pair it with steak anyways.

Not sure we didn't get that perk, I am sure deals rotate around. We did use our OB credit when booking activities.

Because we are going to Honduras testing is still required for non-vaccinated 12 and older. I also received a similar e-mail, but it stated the below: Pre-cruise All unvaccinated guests ages 12 and older must present a negative COVID-19 test result taken within 3 days prior to sailing. Fully vaccinated guests and guests ages 11 and younger are exempt. Which doesn't effect us since my son is the only one not vaccinated and he is 5. So no testing required for us.

This post makes me very thankful that I don't drink a lot. I may have 1 or 2 drinks the whole cruise. That is why the drink package would never be worth it for me. Even if money wasn't a factor 2 drinks max per day would be it for me. I had unlimited free drinks so many times at this one work conference and I had a drink or 2 each day if that. The first night it was one, the second it was 3 that I never finished any of them. The third was 1. Maybe it is because I have young kids, I just can't drink like I did in college.

Agreed, because Carnival and Disney both allow you to do more than 4 under one reservation online.

I was excited too, did you have to call to book it? I noticed you couldn't do 5 people online.

I agree with this. Putting the kids clubs within that kids area will really separate out the ship making it so kid-free adults will be able to enjoy the ship too. They do have the new family room that holds 6, but it is not suite class. I feel they want no kids in the Suites. I was disappointed in the suite options as I always am with RC. Putting them at 4 cuts out my family of 5. This is so annoying. I was SUPER excited that they finally allowed me to put all 3 kids in my booking on the same room only to hit the page where it says call RC. This is a huge miss by RC and I feel if they want to cater to families they need to make their website better and allow families of 5/6 be able to book on their website in the same room.

For me I am getting a large Gift Card, I get % back for having the higher costco membership, and I get a % back on my CC that is thru Costco. I think I determined it was over $1000 I was saving booking thru Costco. So while the cruise itself was the same price with just a little onboard credit, the GC and cash back was too good to pass up. We are booking two cabins so RoyalUp was never something we could do anyways since we wouldn't guaranteed to be near each other if we did RoyalUp. So the one negatives to Costco didn't matter to us.

Interesting. The lunch menu on the website is smaller and doesn't include kids menu. Does anyone know if Lunch and Dinner are the same?

Nice! You live in a prime location or viewing. We are thinking of going to Shiloh's but it will depend on when we wake up and how bad 50 is. Kids insist they can deal with traffic and waiting. Parking is my main concern.

I would want to see what kind. Sometimes they do sirloin and then tend to overcook it making it so my kids are very meh about it. They prefer nicer cuts and medium rare to rare which is hard to find with certain cuts at places.

Thanks everyone. Without them listing the kids menu I don't want to even attempt that one. So guess we will do no specialty this cruise. I don't like how they don't list the children's menus online.

I mean this post is literally started with a picture of fireman and clearly the person taking the picture was not where they should have been and looked to be very much in the way.

So it says when I go under lunch for Chops that kids must eat of the kids menu, but as adults we can have unlimited entrees, right? So I could order extra for myself and give to my kids? I wasn't going to do any specialty, but I could do lunch for around $60 for our family, but it won't be worth it if my kids can't get steak themselves.

I have done that route on launch days before and you need to give yourself some time. We are planning to go to launch but plan to stay far away from beeline as that is a mess on launch days.

OK, so I had read from someone that it wouldn't be a big deal we have 5 since my son is only 5. But then I read somewhere else that they are super strict and have bands and you can only get into the bed area with bands as there are attendants. So which is it? Is it super strict or if my 5 year old son is with us they won't blink an eye? I mean we don't need two beds. I understand capacity issues but my husband and I can clearly fit on the bed with our 5 year old and the two girls in the chairs. So while 5 adults wouldn't work, with 2 adults and 3 kids it seems silly they would want us to book 2 beds. It isn't like we are getting a free service per person or anything like specialty food or drinks.

It has been listed on my November cruise for months now, but at almost $200 pp we passed on that. Not worth it.

I guess I like to play around with options more. See which decks have which cabins I may like and where they are on the boat and the different prices Like how much extra is it to do a small upgrade or move locations. Websites allow that without a lot of back and forth.

Still have to talk to the travel agent lol I am a techie so for me anything outside of being able to do it via a website is annoying to me. Back and forth with a travel agent is annoying. We just did two rooms this time as that looked to be the cheapest, but with Kids Sail Free I imagine one room would be the cheapest. Would be nice to price compare cruises and rooms more easily on RC. I used Costco this last time because I saved a TON of money.

Which again is a dumb thing about RC. There are a lot of family of 5 out there and it would be nice if stuff could be done online. I really don't like speaking with people over the phone lol

Did they require floats for the younger child? If so that is also something to consider. My son isn't a fan of life jackets (they ride up to his chin) and he is too big for puddle jumpers now. So that would be good information for parents to know. It is one thing on a boat not in water, but in water he is not a fan, luckily he is a very strong swimmer so he very rarely needs them in water.

How do unvaccinated have it easier? They have always had to do more testing than vaccinated. Also, why do you need to test again at port? My understanding is only unvaccinated test at port to get on ship.

Supply and Demand. If there happens to be a tour that is less popular that one excursion may go down, but the norm is prices go up as they get more booked.

Depends on the child. My 4 year old did a Dolphin thing at Sea World. I wouldn't hesitate to take him to a Dolphin encounter in the Bahamas if they allowed him. Just check the age restrictions on the tour you are booking. But some 5 year olds might be scared or no listen. So I really think it depends on whether your grandson listens and follows rules. My 4 year old has a cousin only 3 months younger and they are vastly different and there are things my son does that his cousin just is not capable of doing because he doesn't follow directions. Like my son was able to forge a knife where his cousin played in the little kid area while all the other kids did knives.