NoobCruise

I wish that was the case in my attempted booking. I would book a GTY $5300 icon room in a second if i knew I would get an ocean view room.

Thanks WAAYTOOO but I don't think I was ever given an option for ocean or neighborhood. We are pricing Icon cruises next year and if I am remembering correctly once I selected the category of balcony it gave me two options pick your room (which i guess would be type of balcony as well) and a guarenteed balcony with no further options.

Does a guaranteed balcony really mean that you could get an ocean view, or a central park, or royal promenade, or boardwalk? Is it just me or is that a ridiculous amount of variance? It seems like quite the gamble. Assume that you won't get an ocean view I guess? Is royal promenade any better than an interior room?

That is certainly interesting. I have been to CocoCay twice in the past couple of years and both times our ship was the only ship there that day. I guess that streak will come to an end.

That's some eagle eye pixel peeping. I am not sure that's a real picture of the ship, not that it matters. If it's on the deck plans I am sure it will be there.

There is going to be a lot of drunk dads going down this slide. I predict this get closed before the end of the year.

One night! A man can dream!

Found it! Maybe. This looks like a slide to me.

I personally am all for having more slides and fewer staircases.

LoL. I will politely disagree. I don't want to be anywhere near these separated shoulders or dislocated joints.

Since I posted this message I have seen the show in person, and while I am ashamed to admit initially I did try to cover my 5 year olds eyes during the bone breaking I quickly realized it would draw more attention to it. It was fine. Maybe the bone breaking was toned down after launch or maybe since my boy enjoyed it I cared less about it. There were definitely noticable "ooohs" from the audience (for lack of a better word) in disgust at certain moments. All that said I would see the show again. It's pretty lame and I found the shirtless gymnast far more offensive than the bone breaker. I didn't appreciate the show being wordless.

I am hoping to go from Zero to Prime during the week of Feb 24th!

If he booked it I thought it would be top of mind. Jeez

After the Royal math how much does that work out to with taxes and port fees for 2 adults?

Nice work. Basically this means for me if you drink cocktails the drink package makes sense since you typically only have to drink 6 drinks a day to break even. If you drink beer, or seltzer then you are up to 10 a day and that might not make sense for many people.

For me it (RC website) always asks me the number of state rooms, then the number of adults and kids on a page before your pick your room type, once you pick a room type, you get to the page with the price and your names, sex, address, etc and the price never changes for me on that page anymore.

When it comes to pricing a RC cruise on their website I swear I use to remember that sometimes the price would change when (fake) checking out and get lower, when you added your Crown and Anchor number and sometimes it would go lower when you would add your state residence if it was a state that RC operated out of like New Jersey. I ask because for at least the last six months or so when pricing dozens and dozens of cruises the price never has gone lower when you add your C&A # or state of residence. What's going on here? Did they stop these discounts? Or are they adding them in after you have actually paid? Very confusing.

Agreed about the falling prices. They will never site any numbers but early bookings on Star will be a fraction of what Icon did. And I wouldn't hold your breath for another press release touting record breaking sales or demand as royal did in the wake of Icon's sales. As for the definition of price gouging what you cited was the illegal form of price gouging. What Royal is doing is a cash grab which is certainly price gouging.

It's price gouging and is generally considered a bad business practice because it alienates your customer base.

Because historically you get the best prices on the first day they are offered. This is a huge shift in their business practice.

I get the Icon pricing. They started low or reasonable and then skyrocketed because it's the first new ship class in a decade. A new class ship with new bells and whistles matter when it comes to demand. I don't get the Star pricing. On the first day of booking the prices didn't start out reasonable and then skyrocketed, they started out already skyrocketed. A two year out Feb 2026 ocean view balcony was nearly 6 grand. More than a $1k more expensive they our similar Icon cruise we purchased weeks if not months after launch for $4,400. It's not a new class of ship, there is already an Icon so there will be no major wow factory or new demand. Yet they expected more demand? and priced it like it would have more demand? Makes no sense to me. What's the second or third Oasis ship? I don't know. No one cares.

How did the early Star pricing work out for you?

The pricing is out of whack but I trust that it will reset slightly in a few years. It is never going to be what we want it to be but the market will set the prices. People pay insane prices for cabanas at coco cay and they will continue to pay those prices so that's why they are so expensive and will continue to be. Cruises in general are a different story. Once you are anywhere close to a $1000 a night cost, people will go elsewhere. Let's be honest I definitely would have booked a cruise on this ship if I felt the price was tolerable. It wasn't and they lost a passenger on this cruise. I certainly won't make a difference but it sounds like many others didn't book for the same reason. Also probably won't make a difference but in a few years with bidenomonics kicking in we will get back to prices that won't make you vomit.

Townhouse for 7 days or a Cybertruck for the rest of your life!

Same. I thought I was being ripped off with a $4,400 Icon booking. I didn't cruise for most of my life and with prices like this it looks like I will be going back to that approach.