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From the posts below (ok, I guess above) you mention it's visa thing, if you want some additional confirmation (to make you feel at ease) there is government website to find if you need a visa https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp Ran a few scenarios, depending on the country of the passport you'll get this question below. Seems that via cruise ship has less restrictions How do you plan to travel to Canada? By air, via a Canadian airportBy car, train, bus or boat (including cruise ship)

I wouldn't take Royal's word on it. In the end it's the Canadian Immigration who decide and Royal does not send the info on the passengers onboard until a few weeks before sailing. There was another thread about 3 weeks ago somebody got an email about a week before their cruise denying them boarding for issues. Best to call immigration and get it worked out now.

Keep hearing about these amazing wings, going to have to order RS to give them try.

Haven't been on the Odyssey, but have been on the Anthem. For us we prefer the Oasis class. We didn't like the Esplanade. The shows at Two70 were hit and miss. Didn't realize cafeTwo70 even existed until we just happened to walk down to Two270 one day around lunch. In fairness to Anthem, we did go on it like 2 months after it came out, so a lot of bugs to work out

If the shows are fully booked, still show up as there is standby line. There will be people who reserve but don't show.

We've never gotten any reminder emails for last payment, then again when we put a reminder in our calendars and book an appointment with our TA to pay it in full 3 weeks it's due (just in case). You mention your wife called RC and found the reservation was cancelled. What prompted her to call? Not sure what email she uses, but hotmail is notorious for putting stuff in the spam folder

Read the thread and it motivated my to replenish my humidor. We're in St. Maarten this summer and will have to pick up some DAS

I think I'd be able to do Vision if it originated int he island and had a port stop every day, also if it was just me and wife. Been to most of the ports, but it was a while ago. One of them is where they did some filming for Pirates of the Caribbean, we did an island tour and they took us by the location (don't remember which one it was, maybe St Lucia). St Croix was interesting, we docked at Frederiksted, you get off the ship and your right in town, I don't even recall there being any secured area at the port. You don't get swarmed by vendor trying to sell you stuff

My oldest son got invited to do that by the head waiter on one of our cruises (either Freedom or Oasis), there was no charge. I swear they also gave him cookbook as well, just can’t find it

Given the number of sea days, I'd myself would be doing the Anthem out of Bayonne.

Only used it once. The airline changed our connecting flight which didn't work for us. Had no issue getting A2S getting it to change it, they worked with us no problem.

Hmm, op doesn't have a lot of posts, but their first post back in may 2021 claimed they already did 35 cruises. Also said they had one booked for Oct 2021, but above says this Feb was their 35th cruise. Complaining about the food from a cruise 4 months ago, then saying they're going to Carnival

As DoomSlayer said you have 3 countries involved. I know our government has been messing around with Mexico and visas recently. You might want to check out to see what is also required to enter Canada https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/visit-canada.html https://travel.gc.ca/assistance/questions First link sounds like a passport and US green card might not require one, however if the names don't match you might need something else. Third link provides a phone number

How many RCL ships were at the pier? I could see if they have 3 or 4 and they were all from the RCL might be easier to do it at the port (would probably take less crew members)

Well, if I was in charge I'd have to think like CEO, would be trying to look at win/wins I remember a time where they multiple levels of drinks packages (beer/wine, spirits, everything). Not sure why they went away from that. While I can drink enough to recoup the cost of the current package, my liver doesn't want me to do that . This causes me to pay as I go and for the most part I really don't drink much on the cruise. Maybe has some in the middle type thing (i.e. 10 drink card). Fix the website. On page 1 I can look at prices for inside, outside, balcony and suite. If I filter for balcony, having page 5 asking me again is somewhat annoying. Enforce rules that they have, whether it's chairhogs, dining attire, etc Have some type of all in fare option.

Every cruise I've ever been on has been different in one way or other, things offered on one might not be offered on others. First Royal cruise I was one had a buffet type setup beside the pool one night at 10pm, haven't seen it since, but it's not something that would let ruin my cruise. Menus have changed a few times, some WJ's are better than others. The handful of changes they've made recently don't bother me and honestly probably won't affect most people in a super negative way. Unless I get asked to go down to the engine room to get on bike to help propel the ship I'm not going to be too upset.

We started on DCL. When docked in first port in Nassau we were beside this behemoth of a ship call Oasis of the Seas and my first impression what Hot D@#n I need to cruise on that bad boy some day. How we got to Royal is we wanted to do a Bermuda cruise of out New York area. At the time it was NCL or RCL. I didn't like the NCL pricing at the time and Bayonne seemed to be a far easier location to get to. Since then we've done Royal, but I wouldn't say I'm loyal. We are are looking at other cruise lines to experience something different in terms of ships and itinerary. Having said that I haven't completed my bucket list on RCL yet, still need to get that Royal Loft Suite

For my wife, she is a tea drinker, but is somewhat picky. She always brings a bunch of teabags from home in a sandwich baggy. Usually I say she packs for too much, but in case I let it slide so I don’t have to listen to her complain

I kind of see both sides. It does seem like the typical one and done we see a lot of. This has however brought out some information on what happens when Royal does a charter (thanks to Twangster and Bazza). RCL really seems to tell you to go pound salt, I would have expected a more sweeter offer. After seeing that I would probably post the same thing

To hedge my bets, if we're taking more than one suitcase I divide it so we each have clothes in each suitcase in case one gets lost. If they all get lost, well it wasn't meant to be

Seeing what gets offered if the cruise ship gets chartered, I'd honestly be quite PO'd at Royal.

Outside of a world shutdown, I've never had a cruise cancelled. If anybody has experienced it, what does Royal offer?

Myself I'd do it before to prevent prevent any surprises

Sure why not. My wife and kids use forks whenever they had sushi. I don't see the crew caring Me on the other hand I had more pressure to learn. I worked on the border of Chinatown in Toronto and then worked up in Markham. Some of those restaurants really didn't have forks.

This thread has pique my interest. As we haven't departed from outside of North America yet, we are starting to look and Australia is definitely one destination we're exploring. For this tipping included vs separate, is this based on the departure country of the cruise or based on the location of where your booking from?