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I have a buddy who has done this type of cruise a few times. He says it a weird feeling as it's snowing when you leave, but next morning after breakfast you can go in shorts on the deck

Haven’t tried the new menus yet, but will in a month. Looking at them each night there are 2-3 things I’d like from each category, which is consistent to before. Gut feel is I’ll probably be happy with them

I've never put it in airplane mode, just turned the data roaming off.

I’d go with Hawaii and extend to arrive 4 days early. I figure it would be easier to book the icon in the Caribbean later on. Not sure how many Hawaii cruises there are, but I’d think more rare

Sailed over Halloween, for use they had decorated Studio B and did a costume contest/party there. Lot of people dressed up and many costumes were quite good. Not many kids on the sailing though

Here's a situation where Royal could provide a better search. I just looked at the promotion page and it called out Kids sail free*, I can see the confusion. Why not provide a filter checkbox, (i.e. Kids sail free cruises) which filters out the ones that aren't applicable

Koopman testimony struck me in that he wasn't working with Royal at the time, not like he was a an officer on board that day (how the heck did lawyers find him in particular). Reading a cruise law site I see this "Royal Caribbean had tried to counter this aspect of the Wiegand’s case by arguing that Officer Koopman is a disgruntled ex-employee who shares an attorney with the Wiegands, so his testimony should be discredited." Looking at his linked in page he went from a CSO on the ships to a few some smaller jobs, does look like he didn't leave Royal voluntarily, which supports Royal's statement. In the end there has to be some concept of common sense, which this grandfather didn't appear to have

I just went in and did the update now, never got TOS notification

Never had an issue ordering more than 1 thing for the included price. The last few times I went the service has essentially been non existent. As Nessa said you'll only get a few fries or onion rings and ordering more will come at a snails crawl if at all. Last time we went there was a few tables being occupied and us. After sitting for about 10 minutes time for somebody to come take our order , the one table got up and left. The manager confronted them as leaving saying you've ordered you can't leave. The husband started yelling they ordered over 40 minutes ago and they weren't going to wait any longer. Ended up giving JR a 1 on the post cruise survey

Was on the Adventure in the fall and definitely agree, the pizza was really bad. Found Cafe Promenade overall was disappointing whenever we went (after shows).

I like it on the cool side. For the most part I find them very comfortable and sometimes I actually wear a hoodie when walking around the interior of the ship (find the theater always cold). She'll need to cover up. The only exception is I find the Oasis class tend to be on the warmer side. I guessing having do to the neighbourhoods and the door constantly being opened letting in the hot humid air. I find of seas days it's really warm to the point of being uncomfortable

We’ve been able to do the checkin and e-muster with just one login, it asks you which passenger you are (can multi select). Never tried the messaging but think you’d need unique ids for that to work

Nice. We’re at 10:30am.

Hotels booked - check online checkin - check entertainment booked - check convert money is USD - check excitement building - check just need to find a Buc-ee’s on the route down

Extremely wise words. My youngest's passport expired in early 2021 and we renewed it immediately. Kept getting asked why would we do that seeing travel is essentially grounded. My response was 99% of the people think like that so the passport office is empty (we got it in a few weeks) and we'll be able to hit the ground running when it opens up. Fast forward to 2022 and you have lineups at the passports offices a KM line and people getting in line at 4 am.

We just did check in yesterday. Even though Royal has all that, you have to re-enter it all on checkin

I'd imagine they hug the coastline, so not that close. Not sure if you watch La Lido Loca, but Tony was doing a trans atlantic a few months ago and the cruise ship stopped over the wreck and did a tribute, that might be a cruise you'd like

My understanding is you can apparently rebook (for a fee and differences), but given the cruise is tomorrow that window could be closed. Royal does specify their policies on your cruise contract. As some have said you might be able to cruise on a birth certificate and photo id. In the end it's not Royal's fault if somebody doesn't have the proper documentation.

While I've had to get cards reprinted, I never had that issue though. Honestly I think the concierge should have gotten them reprinted for you on day 1. Not trying to defend the bartender, but who knows what's going on behind the scenes. I could see them getting in trouble for not pointing out the the wrong card and serving you.

Only done one cruise with it and many without. Never regretted not having it as I like to disconnect.

Have to agree with everybody else. It's not reasonable for RCL or the TA to know the entry requirements for every country and for every situation. Given they could change over time time, I wouldn't trust them if they did. In the end the up to the person travelling to do the legwork. There have been multiple threads on this topic just in the last few months. As many said your safest/best bet might be see if you can transfer to a different cruise and pay the $100 penalty. This might help as well https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/visit-canada.html This link below has 2 examples of DUI https://ircc.canada.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=159&top=8

Never been to Coco Cay, fingers crossed nothing cancels it for 3rd time on our summer cruise. Have done Labadee 3 times and I find it extremely relaxing. Royal was suppose to be building a new private island or beach or something west of Labadee (or at least that's what our waiter told us last cruise). Maybe that'll increase cruises going in that direction

For the most part I won't buy anything outside of souvenirs when on the cruise. A few times the wife has bought jewelry, but something we can't find up here, but nothing to an extreme price.

I see both sides, having the split between the ship and port responsibilities isn't ideal. Wonder how frequent this is, the number of lost bags per any given cruise. If it's a low number (something I can count on one hand), from a PR perspective Royal should just cover it. Comparing to the airlines/airport, they have a bar code on the tag they put on your luggage they scan at multiple points. Maybe something like that should be done. Royal scans the tag when they pick it up from the hallway, when put it on the luggage cart to leave the ship and the guys in the terminal scan it when they take it off the luggage cart. At least it gives them some traceability

I've never liked the luggage pickup, always the most stressful part of the cruise. If it's just the wife and I, we carry them off (ok, mostly I'm the luggage mule). When the kids were younger didn't have much of a choice. In the end we did buy airtags for our last cruise.