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As mentioned might not be an apples to apples comparison on the room. The 3rd party TA group is probably going on group discount. Also for the room a balcony in one location doesn't equal a balcony in another. A room front of the ship will be cheaper than midship. A balcony on deck 5 might be cheaper than one of deck 8.

When did you book your cruise? While I've never done this, my understanding is you can transfer your reservation to a travel agent within first 30 days or something. That might be a way to get your deposit transferred over and then repriced via this 3rd party company

You can watch them now, but nothing is recorded. You’ll have to rewatch them the day of departure to get the ticky mark

This happened to us on the Wonder last year,quite frustrating

Unless it's a pretty significant itinerary change, I wouldn't hold my breath

Would like to try it one day. I can see the pros and cons. I’m the early riser, but usually go to top to walk around and watch the sun rise

We go with connecting staterooms, having that 2nd bathroom is a must.

While not on the drink menu, I like a hummingbird (got the bartender to make one last cruise). Outside of that boring rum and coke

I'd probably go with the owners suite as it's closer to the elevators. Which ship are you planning to go on? We were on the wonder with a boardwalk balcony a few rooms away from ATS. The water show itself became extremely annoying by day 2, being in the room when they show is going on isn't something you'll want to do (outside of the first time watching it)

We'll be there around halloween (or so the wife tells me). Good that is sounds like it's still warm, not sure I'll go swimming though

Just now, TXcruzer said:

To add on to your very sensible approach; one of the children is 6, therefore “Pullman compliant” the younger child could sleep on the sofa. 
 

Was just about to post that. One cruise we had 2 pullmans and a sofa. My one son didn't want to sleep in the pullman so he sleep on the sofa. 

Only Royal IT can mess something up like this. Wondering if they've done something like changed the password policy (i.e. you need to have a special character in it), but don't want to code something that lets you login with old one and takes you to the change password page.

4 hours ago, Cakemeister said:

Hopefully I'll still be alive at age 79 for this one.

My house was in the path of totality for 4/8/24, but it was completely overcast. 

We were in the path of totality as well. Cloudy up to maybe 10 minutes before totality when the clouds started to break up. Had a big blue patch of open skies go over our house starting a minute before totality. We got lucky

I've had to get a safe unlocked twice, once my wife typed in our wrong code on locking it and forgot what she typed in, the second time previous passenger left it locked. In both cases it required an officer to come down and unlocked. In the case of the previous passenger leaving it locked, it was the housekeeper waiting at our room saying she's waiting for the officer to come and unlock the safe, both cases the housekeeper had no ability to do it

I like it, hopefully they keep it up. I'd be willing to give these staff a tip when I see them

When we got one I think they just assign you one, didn't get to choose

Good to hear. Remember our first few royal cruises they had the T-shirt and the walk. One of charities I give to off my pay. Looking forward to it again

IOn our case the ones who were quarantined got FCC, the others didn't but enjoyed the ship

I’ve always brought chocolate onboard, never had an issue

We got the daybed on our last cruise. They just assigned it to us from what I remember

At Port Everglades they have a park 'n go right outside the gate to the cruise port. Seems to allow you to book for whatever length you want. 

We snagged a JS that overall was cheaper than the balcony last week. The JS was 50 more in price than the balconies but came with 750 OBC

Just bought a few Montecristo #4 and Romeo Y Julieta #2. Was hoping it would be warm out this weekend. Youngest son’s 22 bday. Was looking forward to sitting in the back yard, fire pit on, cigar and a glass off Dalmore. Too bad it rained/snowed

3 hours ago, melski94 said:

If it comes back to you, try to come back here!  Our next couple cruises are fine but it’s fall of 2025 when I’ll have a single kid.  They grow up too fast.  

I had to go back an watch some of his video's   Found one he did on the Wonder of the Seas where the owners suite has replaced the curtains with a pocket door (not sure if that was the one I thinking of though)

I remember watching one of Harr travel video's and seeing a one bedrooms with door. Rremember him talking about it being a curtain door on previous ships being changed to real door on that ship and give extra privacy from those staying on the sofa. I just don't remember which ship(s). 

I tend to go early in the morning. maybe 6ish, before sunrise. Not many people on the track at that time and I usually find as the week goes on there are less and less. Like watching the sun rise. In the Caribbean it's amazing how fast it heats up once the sun rises. I found being windy was hit and miss. Some days it's not walkable, other days are fine