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I have been told by employees at Royal Caribbean and Celebrity that the Quantum Class ships were originally designed for Celebrity. That is why there is similarity between the Quantum Class and Edge Class. As many have also said on here, personally the Quantum Class is my favorite Royal Class of ship. I especially love 270 for both breakfast in the morning, relaxing in the afternoon and enjoying the view, and entertainment in the evening. Also, I want to rave about the Junior suites on the Quantum Class and their split bathrooms. I also love that Royal has a newer, beautiful class of ship that has fine touches. It's also smart of Royal to have different ships for different needs. Cold vs warm weather, young children focused vs more adult focused. Even if Royal is a family brand it doesn't mean that's all they have to do. It is important for people to research or to have a travel agent to research the right ship for them. If you have children in your traveling party, then definitely book a ship with all the slides, skating rink, etc. Twangster did an amazing job breaking down the size differential between Quantum and Oasis Class and the restrictions in venues/neighborhoods that imposes. Just because it is spring break in the Caribbean, doesn't mean that every ship has to be for families that want all the bells and whistles. I was on Odyssey with my 10 year old nephew over Christmas and he loved it. We did the research, saw the activities in Playmakers, and other activities in the ship, and knew it would work for us. If my nephew needed slides and everything else, we would have booked another ship. I will agree though that the elevators on Odyssey were horrible. Even the captain joked they are a horrible design choices.

Also, anything that is confiscated, unless it is illegal, will be returned to you at the end of the cruise.

I just did a price match this morning and saved $500. Do not use the form though, you need to call Royal Caribbean as someone else mentioned. Customer Service Agents need to be able to pull the current price of a cabin, not look at what it was a few days ago. The only exception to this is when Royal screws up. I once called for a price match but my price was lower than the current price. I told them don't change it but they did anyways. I called back and Royal was able to change my price to what it was previously. In the last year, it has become rarer and rarer that I find a price that went down. Almost every single time, when I book far out, that is the best price I get. Prices are only raising and not decreasing with their "sales", this is because of dynamic pricing. Closer to a sailing, less inventory, higher price (even with the perpetual "sale"). Another way to get a price match is to check for additional discounts such as age, resident, military, etc. Often times these discounts can't be used on top of the current promotions but sometimes they can. It's always best to ask.

Not only will this person be put off at the next port, but this person will also be flagged and will never be able to board any cruise ship on any cruise line ever again.

Your TA would have received this from Royal and they should have passed it onto you, either through the original Guest Copy of the invoice or added to your invoice/documentation from the specific TA.

The itinerary time will be ship time. I can't say for sure but it's a good chance that there will be a time change on the ship at some point to bring it to the local time. Changing ship time and not having the same time as local time both have their issues/difficulties. When I was on ship in December, I believe that ship time and local time were the same. So the ship is expected to arrive at 8 am, then it takes approximately half an hour to be able to start tender operations. That's if everything goes smoothly and as expected. As other people mentioned, excursions, suites, Diamond/Diamon Plus, and The Key all get priority before others that got up early that morning for tender tickets. Then once you actually get on the tender, you still have to get tendered to the port. Long story short I strongly believe you won't be able to get to the port for 8:30 to meet the 3rd party excursion unless it's a private excursion and they are willing to wait for you.

I was just on Anthem in May and the Izumi menu was greatly reduced. No noodles of any kind and there was no gyoza.

I am not saying your TA is wrong about not being able to downgrade your brother's room to an interior but I will say that I have booked clients in a balcony and then they changed their minds and requested to move to an oceanview. As the final payment hadn't been made, and there were oceanviews available for the number of passengers, I was able to change their room from a balcony to an oceanview. Two things come to mind in this situation, there aren't any interior rooms that will allow the number of passengers for your brother's room (I am assuming 4 or 5 which greatly limits availability). The other thing is that going from the current room to an interior will most likely reduce the commission the TA will earn, while upgrading would most likely increase the commission. If the booking has been made within 30 days you can change your TA or move the booking to Royal.

Congratulations!! We had a similar situation. We had booked a cruise for December 2024 for ourselves and our adult kids (son and DIL) when the itinerary opened and we got a great price. A couple months later we found out that they are expecting and due this year. The room we had booked for them was a two-person capacity room though and by this point rooms had doubled in price from the initial itinerary release. I called Royal and they said that once the baby is born (and we have a name), just call them and they will add the baby without needing to change rooms/categories, and without a reprice, and a crib will be in the room for them. I even got this in writing when I messaged them through FB.

We were looking very closely at these two sailings and decided to go with AD for 12-27-24 over New Years. Just a little more price wise, two extra days, and the better itinerary of the two.

I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about Wonder of the Seas naming ceremony? I am assuming that since Beyond just had their ceremony, something will be announced soon about Wonder's. Has anyone been on a naming ceremony cruise before? What are some of the things that they do on it other than the official cracking of the bottle on the hull?

There is a chance that Ovation is is being chartered the week of July 12th and as such public bookings aren't available.

Thank you very much @Neesaand @KristiZ! @NeesaI agree completely about the Chops Holiday menu. On Cruise Planner the sample Holiday menu looked the exact same if not less options than the regular menu. Guests are being charged the $99 pp for the bottle of champagne. At least the Giovanni's sample Holiday menu had some new options just for the Holiday meal. I still don't plan on spending $95 pp for it though.

Hello, my husband and I are regular cruisers, but we booked our first holiday cruise on the Serenade (December 24-31). We booked the Unlimited Dining Package as we normally do but I have some questions about specialty dining on December 24 & 25 as I know those are the Holiday meals. Are we able to dine in Chops and Giovanni's those nights but get the regular meal without the champagne or in order to dine in the specialty restaurants those nights will we have to pay the holiday meal prices ($99 & $95) on top of what we paid for the UDP? When we purchased the UDP months ago, the courtesy dinner reservation was made for Day 1 (December 24th). Fine print on cruise planner says: · Not valid for premium experiences including: Wine Pairing Dinners, Taste of Royal, and Mystery Dinner Theater. · Holiday Celebration Dinners are not included with this package. Looking on Cruise Planner, the Chops Holiday menu looks to be the same as the regular menu, while Giovanni’s does appear to have some different options on the Holiday menu. On another note, for sailings that start on December 24th, how does the Diamond Plus BOGO work if you can’t dine in specialty dining and BOGO is only for specialty dining on Day 1 and 2?