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This looks a lot like the room I had on Symphony. 

Here's some footage of Hideaway. There's a lot happening. LOL. 

Suite lounge/Coastal kitchen doesn't look great. 

I couldn't imagine being on vacation, policing what other people are wearing and then creating an account just to make a post about what other people are wearing. 

I just purchased two days passes for our Icon cruise next summer. I don't mind paying a little extra to escape the kids. LOL. 

We’ll be on this sailing. Can’t wait!

Booked a Sky Junior Suite for the July 6th sailing on Monday morning. I'm glad we did not wait since rates have increased since then. 

We booked a Sky Junior Suite for the July 6th sailing. I'm glad we booked on Monday since rates have increased since then. 

Looks like there’s another cruise planner “sale” starting tomorrow, however, looking at the first sentence in the fine print, the offer is only for new bookings made during the same sail window. 

https://creative.rccl.com/Sales/Royal/Promotions/Snapshot_of_CruisePlanner_Offers.pdf

1 hour ago, Pattycruise said:

There is a slight delay in the connection with Facetime when you first connect.  My daughter understands this and she patiently waits for the connect to "connect", my husband gets very frustrated when I Facetime him because he expects an instant connection (no matter how many times I warn him to have patience)-so I end up hanging up on him and just make the phone call.  I use surf after midnight typically and it is fine on Oasis, Anthem was more of a problem, one time to the point I went to the Voom desk to complain (even phone calls were bad) and he  mused "oh that is when the crew logs in for their free internet maybe I should stop them from doing that" My instant response was absolutely not, I can talk to my family any time of day.  I've also successfully used ZOOM during cruises with just a surf package.

Thanks for this. Realistically I don’t expect the speed to be great, especially when you consider how many other people are sharing the same Wi-Fi connection. I’ve read the Wi-Fi on symphony is pretty good so I guess we’ll see. I just wanted to see if using FaceTime was possible with just surf. Hopefully the kids won’t want to talk too long lol 

24 minutes ago, steverk said:

We've used surf for FaceTime many times and rarely have an issue. In fact, we're using it this week. That said, general surfing can be very slow.

About a year ago we had the opportunity to compare surf with surf and stream side by side. There was no noticeable difference,  but ships have more people now and surf is slower than it was.

Thank you. I'm only getting the internet package so we can facetime the kids. I have no plans of streaming or doing much surfing. 

Hello. Taking my first RC cruise in a couple of weeks on Symphony. Has anyone had any experience with the Voom Surf package and using Facetime? Just wondering if it's absolutely necessary for me to pay extra for "Stream" just to use this function on my iPhone. Any feedback is much appreciated. 

Hello! First time RCL cruiser. If I have the unlimited dining package, can I make reservations on the app once I'm onboard?