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4 Days leeeeeeft!

Thanks! I didn't want to ask but it's hard to get specific info like that right now.

So, I feel awful asking about this because I know tons of people are dealing with things way worse than me, but I'm going to Miami in two weeks to get on Icon and driving down from Kentucky. Anyone know if will things be safe and okay if I'm taking the Florida Turnpike assuming yet another hurricane doesn't hit?

I'm on Icon at the end of October...man, between this and hurricanes I'm stressing out that I might not get the cruise I've been planning for a year.

I'm pretty sure that stuff doesn't open up until like 3 weeks beforehand, if it's even going to be available. UDATE: Incorrect, I just went in and was able to reserve things, so try again!

I thought about doing that for a casita, but ended up not going for it since no one else was in this thread yet. Wouldn't mind grabbing one for Roatan port day since we're not really going out to port that day.

It's weird, I've had both of my cruises now send me an email about needing coast guard inspection and to arrive a couple hours later, but both times I was already going to the port and there was no delay whatsoever getting on the ship.

Okay, but why does it make zero sense? I've seen plenty of people say this, but no one has said why. If I bring peso, I would intend to spend them, so I don't see myself coming back with them.

I know this has been asked before, but I'm going to Mexico, Costa Maya, Honduras, and Cozumel. I know these places accept dollars, but, does it make sense to get a couple hundred dollars worth of pesos to bring with me? Right now the exchange rate is 18 pesos per $1, so wouldn't pesos go a bit further and then I wouldn't get screwed by the exchange rates the store might give?

Final payment day coming up! 102 days left!

Wondering if anyone else is going on this cruise who might be interested in doing a casita. We're not currently planning on going anywhere for Roatan. Thought it might be fun to do a casita since port days are cheaper. There are three of us, so it'd be a lot of wasted space with just us.

That's not what he was saying, but yes I let myself get upset over something stupid. Shouldn't have said that. I'm not going to comment further.

Hopefully you'll have an early check-in then. Not hard to get!

Yep, I always get an early check-in time since I check-in at midnight the night it opens. It's not that hard. If you want to show up early, get an early time. Otherwise, follow the damn check-in times.

They already have masses of people standing around. And the "last minute emails" don't work because they DON'T have strict adherence to the boarding times and everyone knows it. It would only take a month of them turning away people until it's their boarding time for people to get the message. Otherwise, don't bother having check-in times because it just means people who actually show up at the right time get pissed off because certain people think they're more important than everyone else.

I've gotten those emails the past two cruises and showed up at the normal time and got on just fine. The second time I didn't even see the email until I was on the ship. I would just go by your original check-in time.

The mindset that causes the back-ups to begin with

It wasn't until we got through the porters and I went to park in the garage that I realized I could have just turned left to go up there instead of doing the U around to the porter area. I was sooo mad, but will probably do that next time.

So, back in May of last year, we went on Harmony of the Seas. The Miami terminal was utter chaos. We had a check-in of 10:30, but there were a ton of people there. We drove and waited for probably 30 minutes to even get to the porter and then we had to wait in a long line to get to check-in. Once actually in the terminal, we were on the ship within like ten minutes. I recently saw a video of some vloggers going on the Icon in Miami and they took an Uber, drove right to the porter and got checked-in within ten minutes for the entire process. Were we just unlucky the one time we went or were these vloggers lucky? I think they had a later check-in, but still, it was like no one was outside whatsoever.

Interesting. Like I said, doesn't really matter either way, but good to know! Were there themed events like costume parties or anything outside the decorations?

Hey all, booked on Icon during Halloween week. I'm just curious, not that it matters either way, but anyone know how generally busy is that week as far as being kid-heavy? Is that a holiday lots of people cruise on like other holidays such as Christmas or Labor Day? Just wondering since it's not a federal holiday or anything so no one generally gets it off by default from work or school.

WTF. It's 54.99 on sale for mine! It's normally 80 freaking dollars. Utter rip-off.

It's definitely subjective. I generally enjoy the food all over the ship. I think there have only been a couple of times where I had to complain about how bad something was and they replaced it no problem in the MDR. My last cruise was last year May. I'm going on Icon in October, so I suppose I'll see if it's true that the quality has gone down since then. I will say I HATE the new menus in the MDR, but that doesn't really have to do with the quality, more so there's usually only one or two things on the menu I am interested in now.

The Icon has an entire Suite Neighborhood. There's the Grove and also mention of a Suite Lounge on the RC page about it. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/cruise-activities/suite-neighborhood-icon

Well, that's good. Personally, I don't think I could handle 9 months on a cruise ship, let alone one of the smaller ones like Serenade, but nothing I've seen complaints about are, like...novel. It's just people who don't know that's how things are.