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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

We do the earlier one for more evening time. Also don’t want to go to bed too full

I love them all equally

Jamaica has always had warnings. Went there on our honeymoon many years ago and noticed the soldiers patrolling outside the resort. Talking to the resort driver about it he  basically said it's know not to mess with the tourists because if you do and the soldiers get you the rest of your life won't be pleasant. As long as you stay to the tourist areas it should fine

Distance wise it isn’t too far, time wise not so close. Plenty of hotels around the airport, but it would be a bit of time to cover the distance. We’ve stayed in Jersey city a few times and visited Manhattan. You can take a ferry across, more relaxing.

We bought those, definitely worth it

Not sure the right hand knows what the left hand is doing with Royal sometimes. Never had a switch like that, but on one cruise the earlier dining was suppose to 5pm (stated when we booked and reflected in our papers). Once on board the sea pass card had it as 5:30pm. Ok no biggie. Go down the first night and the MDR manager was in a panic because only a handful of people had shown up for the whole MDR. Apparently Royal changed the early dining time to 5:30 (reflected on the seas pass card), but didn't bother to tell MDR or kitchen they switch it who were preparing everything to 5pm. Lets just say the first night the food was a little off

I've never gotten this incarnation on the drink package. I think I got the beer package once long ago when they had it. For us the price is not worth it given what we spend a la carte, would rather just save the money and go on another cruise or upgrade to a suite

Depends on what you mean by "best". Ourselves we wanted someone we wanted somehow who provides great service who we can trust. Might not get as many "perks" but they know what we want and offer helpful suggestions

From my experience, outside of shows, everything you can book shows up immediately (excursions, drink packages, dining etc)

If I was Royal I'd look over if any of these tik tokers causing drama broke any rules and if so I'd give them exclusive opportunity to do the remaining tik tok's from the brig. They can tik tok how they've been given access to part of the ship that pinnacle members don't

Would like to do the CLS suite to experience it. Currently it's a hike to get to any cruise port so we're doing only one a year, would probably pick the CLS in the immediate term

13 hours ago, SpeedNoodles said:

Nice! There were many times we were unable to get onto an elevator on Deck 17 because so many people rode them up in order to ride them back down.

Definitely a common problem in general. Watching Matt's video on the Icon with the destination elevators seems like a massive improvement

I just tried a few mock bookings on different cruises and picked the same room for both a single and two adult. They were essentially the exact same price, excluding the port fees (found that the single was a few dollars less)

Myself I wouldn't buy anything over a couple of hundred on the ship or in ports.

My wife likes playing the slots. I found it more cost effective to just buy a bunch of slot machines and put them in my games room  

Kind of a novelty at first, up until my last cruise never really used it. Last cruise my one kid had just turned 21 so we used it a lot (that was his go to bar)

We've always picked our room and prefer mid to aft. First cruise we had one in the front, waters were rough and got bounced around quite a bit. No interest in GTY if there is the possibility it could be in the front

20 hours ago, Geezer Of The Seas said:

The ABC local affiliate that did the original story posted a follow up piece on their website. The man's spouse admitted to the reporter they DID NOT purchase travel insurance, saying they rationalized they didn't need for anything other than trip cancelation, never entertaining the possibility of a medical crisis.

Do you have a link to the follow up piece? Few things seemed off in the original

Never had an issue getting the table size we request, however we let our TA do it when we book

For traditional dining, correct you have your table, no need for an addition reservation. The MDR does serve breakfast every day, but only lunch on sea days. It is only one level of the MDR that serves breakfast and lunch (cruise compass will tell you, thinking deck 3). You just show up for those, no reservations needed