MrDan

Our grandkids of 8 and 11 months will be with us on our cruise next week, and moms are wondering about packing baby food. If we ask, will the main dining room be able to puree some fruit/veggies/etc that the babies could eat? I would guess the answer is yes, but does anybody have experience with this?

I'm looking at booking a shuttle for our group of 7 back to Fort Lauderdale airport following our cruise on Freedom of the Seas. My question is, what is a good time to reserve the shuttle for? What time do you usually get off the ship if you aren't in a big hurry? It's our first cruise with Royal Caribbean.

UPDATE: This afternoon I still couldn't get a boarding time, but I just tried again tonight at 11pm central time and got 10:30am for all ten of us. Very happy with that. 41 days out. Thanks to everyone who chimed in! It's weird how it seems so random...

Thanks - that's sort of comforting to know I'm not the only one who didn't get an arrival time option at 45 days. I'll keep checking every now and then. I was definitely planning on entering everybody's info before we leave - I was just under the impression I should try to get that arrival time ASAP after check in opened up and that people were usually able to do that.

45 days out. Depart June 13 on Freedom out of Miami. First cruise with Royal Caribbean. I also tried logging out of the app and logging back in.

I was using the website and switched to the app. I have names, birthdates and home addresses entered for all ten of us so far. I click "arrival time" on the app and it just says "Not quite ready for you. Check back closer to your cruise to select an arrival time and complete check in." Is it common that they open up the check in process on one day for entering information, and then on a later day to pick your arrival time? rc-screenshot

Follow up - I did finally see a small link that said "missing some info? finish check-in later" and I clicked that for all guests - But then I got a page that said "we're not quite ready for you. check back closer to your cruise." I definitely plan to eventually enter all the info eventually - just wanted to get our boarding time ASAP. By the way, it's our first Royal Caribbean cruise.

Hello! Our check in starts today, and I thought I had heard you could temporarily skip entering all the passport and other info and go straight to getting your boarding time. Either I can't do that, or it's not obvious how to. We have ten people in our traveling party and it would take me a while to gather all their passport info. Thoughts?

UPDATE: She just spent over an hour on hold with Royal Caribbean to be sure, and they told her since it was a closed loop Bahamas cruise she was okay.

We are taking our grown children on Freedom of the Seas (Bahamas) in June, and we just happened to stumble across this rule that your passport supposedly needs to be good for 6 month after your travel dates. One person in our group has their passport expiring in August. So is this a real concern we need to have? We sail in less than 8 weeks, so getting a new passport isn't realistic at this time, right? Does she need to bring ID and birth certificate at this point? Other options?