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I was able to have this reward applied to my cruise! Thanks everyone. I'm adding a note in case anyone else is confused by the language they use in the future.
When the MyVEGAS app says:
"Reward must be used within 90 days of purchase."
The word "purchase" refers to the act of converting loyalty points (in the app) into a reward.
You can accumulate loyalty points in the app just by letting slot machines spin (lowest bet in Lucky Pinata and Rapid Gold had a very even payout for me). There's a maximum time to accumulate loyalty points each day.
Once you reach 50,000 loyalty points (it took me less than a week), you convert them to a $100 on-board credit reward. The app asks for your email address and name. You get an email with 5 questions about contact and cruise info. You send the answers to [email protected]. It looks like a real person reviews them and applies the credit to your cruise. The credit shows up in the header at the top of the cruise planner web page.
It's a pretty easy way to get a $100 discount.

My phone (running Android 13) lets me lock the time zone, so it won't change time based on location. I discovered that on a Western Caribbean cruise out of Galveston where the ship did NOT switch to local time.
My watch (Garmin smartwatch) can get its time zone info from GPS or from my phone. Once I locked my phone's time zone, the watch honored that.

Kraken is already kind of sweet. Mixed with soda it tastes a bit like root beer.
The bartender kept making my glass taller, and increasing the amount of soda, as the day went on.

That's just normal Texas driving LOL 🙂

I left on the Adventure on 11/14 and came back on 11/19. Leaving was a breeze. Arriving had some bumps.
It was raining when we the boat unloaded, and they make the passengers depart on the side of the terminal, not the front. The front is next to the north parking lot, where my car was, so I had to walk outside in the rain to get around to the front. People were huddled up against the building waiting on rides or something, making everyone who was walking go out in the puddles.
The parking lot has arms for entrance and exit, and the rain made it so that the exit arms wouldn't open. I sat there watching the guy swipe his card 50 times with no success. He asked if I had my parking ticket (from when I arrived) because the QR code on it might open the gate. I said I didn't know, but if I did, it was in my trunk. Eventually I got out in the rain to dig through my backpack in the trunk, but didn't find the ticket.
Eventually the gate arm just raised by itself.
Traffic on the way in was light. Traffic on the way out was very slow.

I just played in a Hold'em tournament on Adventure (11/18/2022), so I have recent info.
$100 buy in, plus $50 to double your stack. Everyone doubled.
Ten minute rounds. Blinds go up fast. An aggressive strategy is probably best.
One table, ten seats. Sign up as soon as the casino will let you. Don't wait until the day of the tournament.
We had one tournament on the first sea day. The second sea day had one scheduled, but some players complained a lot and they added another.
Our tournament lasted about an hour and a half.
First two places paid out. First place was $840. Not sure what second place was.

So, I have to laugh. The dear cruise gave me a final gift; COVID. Something to remember it by…thank you! So, I am not sure if that was food poisoning (I still think so) or the start of COVID, but def have COVID now. I genuinely had to laugh at it!  

No helpful advice, but you have my sympathy. Health problems are the worst, and amplified when they are expensive. 😞

Hey guys, little bit of a vent post.

I went on my first cruise last year from the 30th of december to the 8th on allure, and it was the best time of my life, it was also me and my wifes first vacation in 10 years.  it might sound strange but our first stop was coco cay and when i was floating around in the sea i literally felt stress leave my body, after an incredibly stressful year. 

Well we decided to spend our savings on a jumbo trip this november, for my wifes 50th birthday. We were leaving on the 6th of November and back to backing it with a second trip leaving from the 13th.  

Unfortunately, life decided to kick us in the teeth a bit, first i had a hospital trip in march for 5 days with norovirus and cdiff, then our dog had an emergency surgery, then our fridge died, then our dryer died, then in september i needed emergency shoulder surgery, resulting in me needing to recover for the next 6 months. 

We managed to get refunded with the NRD getting given back to us in cruise credit, but all our savings got eaten up by the non stop issues.

So here i am, feeling bad for the wife, obsessing about where our ship is in the ocean on https://www.cruisemapper.com/?imo=9383936 feeling all kinds of guilty and down. 

Anyone have any suggestions on which cruise we should spend our 800 FCC on? Anyone experienced similar? We arent sure we are gonna be able to afford a cruise even with the cruise credit next year. Sorry for the depressing post 😄 just figured this might be a good place to vent. 

Welcome to the world of Royal Caribbean IT! 😂

Aha! That was it, thank you!
As a part time UI developer, that's a needlessly confusing design.

Make sure you aren't doing this from the main page before you actually hit "plan my cruise".  If you hit "plan my cruise" and then look at the top, your order history should be added to that drop down list.  If it's not even there, call Royal Caribbean to reprice it.

From a sign in Cunard, the "fancy" dress was not only for esthetics but for practical reasons if you went overboard.

Yeah, that seems wrong. And $100-$200 per room seems like a crazy low price for stealing most of a day from your vacation.

Yeah, that seems wrong. And $100-$200 per room seems like a crazy low price for stealing most of a day from your vacation.

Yeah, that seems wrong. And $100-$200 per room seems like a crazy low price for stealing most of a day from your vacation.

personnally I find it an insult to give a different OBC based on cabin type.  As if Suite Guests were more put out than anyone else LOL
Geez.    

If the cost is the same then I would chose by distance.
1. North
2. South
3. Pier 14

DBP now covers drinks up to $14, the website verbiage is outdated. You will only be charged the difference for drinks over $14.

I'm sitting here at my home office desk and a Macallan tasting sounds pretty good, with or without bottles to buy.

Thank you! I saved $31 and upgraded my internet access from Surf to Surf+Stream!

My daily coffee is either Sidamo Guji or Ethiopian Harrar, both natural process, bought as whole, green beans. I roast them in batches of 12 ounces (just to full city roast, just as first crack dies down) so the roasted beans are always between 2 and 12 days old, stored in special containers that allow them to outgas CO2. I grind them immediately before brewing. My water is a consistent 212F, and my drip brewer simulates a pour-over. It's the best coffee in the world.
I fully expect to hate the coffee on my first cruise, much as I hate coffee almost everywhere except my house.

I have never cruised. It never seemed like my kind of vacation. I signed up for one because some friends are going and I really enjoy hanging out with them. We make our own fun. We also enjoy a drink.
My friend group is the #1 reason I want to go on this cruise. The unlimited drinks package is the #2 reason. I would still go without the drink package, but I wouldn't be as giddy about it.
I don't plan to get drunk on my trip. I learned in high school that drinking too much makes me feel bad, and I don't want to waste my vacation feeling bad.
If I have a good time, the drinks package might be the reason I come back for a second cruise. So RCI may want to hang onto that.

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