DoomSlayer

I looked there, someone may have beat me too it.  It was fun trying to find it though.  My wife and I ran up there to look as soon as we checked in with the muster station.  Thanks for setting it up though, it was fun trying and it inspired us for hiding the ducks and easter eggs we brought on board.  I would have never thought of the game room.  I am shaking my head now that you mention it.  You had a great clue, it just didn't click in my brain.

Just got back last night.  I assume you were talking about Wonderland for the restaurant.  Was not sure on the other clue to be honest, although I looked all over the rock-climbing wall, flow rider, and ice rink thinking that could be the family fun area.  Unfortunately, I could not find anything 😞  Competition was fierce with all the kids on spring break looking.  We hid about 30 ducks ourselves on the trip.

I think they use White Night to prank people.  On my last trip, White Night corresponded with Italian night in the MDR.  Saw quite a lot of people that dressed up with red stains after dinner.

I think they use White Night to prank people.  On my last trip, White Night corresponded with Italian night in the MDR.  Saw quite a lot of people that dressed up with red stains after dinner.

LOL  Could you imagine trying to use it at a freestyle soda machine.

So here I go...."telling" on myself.  Sheesh...
I made the rookiest of rookie mistakes.  I double-booked (overlap) cruises !  I still can't believe I made such a stupid, rookie mistake but I sure did !
When I booked our annual tier casino cruises yesterday, I booked the 9th and the 16th of March B2B on SY.  All was well until I realized that we had JUST booked a 10 night EX cruise (an instant casino comp from leg #1 of this trio) for 3-20-25.  That means that I would still be ON SY when it was time to board EX.  OMG, the panic !  I felt like I was going to be sick.  I had JUST spent HOURS on the phone with Club Royale to get these 2 bookings (plus fix another comp that had gotten totally FUBAR, but that's another story....) made and now I had to go BACK and move the March 16th to March 2nd.  I was fully prepared to have to pay a $200 fee to move this cruise but it had to be done....moving the EX cruise was not an option since there was no other 10 night cruise in the casino offer to choose from.
I got BACK on the phone with Club Royale and honestly, it could not have gone more smoothly.  No change fee, she simply changed the sail date and that was that. I didn't deserve such an easy fix to a TOTALLY avoidable blunder on my part. The only problem was that there was a very small upharge for upgrading from the interior offer to the XB, Ocean View Guarantee for this sailing. For this particular cruise, the XB was slightly more than the 4V (which is the way it usually is.....I just got super lucky with my original bookings) but I gladly paid it to have my mistake behind me.  In retrospect (this is not an excuse....just an explanation) this pricing upcharge is the reason that I originally chose the 9th and 16th instead of the 2nd and the 9th.  The fact that I was already booked on EX never entered my pea brain.  Anyway....crisis rectified.  We are still on B2B on SY but slightly earlier than we were, originally.
UGH

Good advice as well.  When I try this it's very hit or miss on the amount.  Most sailings are $25 or $0 extra FP when I ask (which definitely isn't worth it imo) but I've hit one that was $200 extra FP.
I completely forgot to ask about FP this time though since it was the prime cruise and not an online or instant offer.  I guess I just went completely brain dead when I booked this morning because I didn't ask about the GTY or FP, which I almost always do.  Let me know if you are successful getting any FP this time and I may have to call back in (again).

Glad you were able to save some money.  One thing I learned to is to ask if they have GTY incentives when you call in.  Last trip on Symphony, they gave me about $300 for doing a GTY ocean balcony instead of picking my own.  GTY's are not too bad in my opinion for the higher category rooms.

Glad you were able to save some money.  One thing I learned to is to ask if they have GTY incentives when you call in.  Last trip on Symphony, they gave me about $300 for doing a GTY ocean balcony instead of picking my own.  GTY's are not too bad in my opinion for the higher category rooms.

AGREE !  They made it SO confusing by not making it clear that the list they cite is a list of EXCLUDED sailings.  If I had not already read about it here, I would have totally believed that the cited list was a list to choose from, NOT a list of what was excluded.  Leave it to Royal Caribbean to make a simple thing SO confusing !

Mine showed up 1pm today. I am waiting on my brother to show up so I can book a S2S, I was looking at a Sy sailing and an Indy, with plans to upgrade them both, so thanks for that. 

I didn't expect our certs to show up until this afternoon (according to the release schedule) but they both showed up early this morning.
I spent ALL morning on the phone (we are in Falmouth and I used the ship's phone to call) BUT we ended up with some great results.  I was able to book both Dan's and my Prime comp cruises for B2B SY sailings (Miami) and we were able to get XB (ocean view balcony guarantee) for -0- upgrade as the XB category for our cruises was lower than the 4V interior room on both of our cruises !!!  We are on 3-9-25 and 3-16-25.
I am not a huge fan of ANY kind of GTY but in this case, it will be worth it, no matter where our OV balcony is. Yes, we will have to change rooms but we saved probably $1000 by opting for the XB over a chance to choose our cabin.  ANY balcony will beat ANY interior !
So be sure to check and see if the cost of an upgraded category is actually less than the interior fare, which is most likely what your offer is based on, if you are Prime.

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It depends on how they entered the US in the first place.  They will sometimes take pictures at their original port of entry for non-US nationals that are used in the Facial Recognition terminals later at the cruise ports.

Take it and watch for price drop, especially during Black Friday period. We've been there few days ago for 19.99.
Seems like lower end Beach Club but without fancy lunch, children and taste of exclusivity. IMHO only for heated pool is well worth the money under $50 (I hate cold water).

Absolutely in my opinion.  We got in for $22.99 per person a few weeks ago as the price dropped last minute before our cruise.  We really enjoyed the heated pool and spent most of our time in there.  It was our first time to experience Hideaway Beach since it opened.  My wife and I both agreed that anything $50 or less per person is a no brainer for Hideaway Beach for our future trips.

The original iPhone X is not supported with iOS 17.  iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max are.  Apple only guarantees 5 years of iOS updates, and the iPhone X was discontinued 6 years ago.  OP is going to have a lot of apps that won't work over the next few months unfortunately.

Sort of.  Apple tends to encourage developers to use the latest major version of the iOS when compiling their apps, which most developers do.  It does not stop users of older iOS versions from downloading and using older versions of their Apps for older iOS versions.  However, if the developer changes APIs or data structures in their newer app, or takes advantage of newer iOS features, the older apps can become useless as they no longer can communicate properly with the servers.
Apple likes to control the user experience as much as it can.  Since they control the hardware and the iOS, they can do this pretty effectively and force users to conform.  Their target goal is to get users to replace their hardware every 2 to 3 years.  This sucks, because their hardware is actually really good and has potential for a longer lifespan if it is cared for. 

And that's why I stick with android.

The original iPhone X is not supported with iOS 17.  iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max are.  Apple only guarantees 5 years of iOS updates, and the iPhone X was discontinued 6 years ago.  OP is going to have a lot of apps that won't work over the next few months unfortunately.

I believe Apple is still providing security updates for iOS 16. Not sure for how much longer though.

Sounds like an Apple “problem” and not a Royal one. You cannot expect for Royal to make current updates to their app, but have them be compatible with obsolete and vulnerable versions of an operating system. There is obviously something in the app programming with 17.0+ that is incompatible with older versions of iOS. You are going to find this same issue more and more with other apps as time goes by. Royal didn’t intentionally set out to create an app that was purposely not compatible with 16.x just to screw people over. 

Royal Caribbean recently required a force password change on most of its users, I would recommend trying to log into the website and seeing if a new password doesn't fix it.
Also, if your iPhone is no longer getting Apple updates then you open to security vulnerabilities. I would highly recommend getting a new phone ASAP.

The original iPhone X is not supported with iOS 17.  iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max are.  Apple only guarantees 5 years of iOS updates, and the iPhone X was discontinued 6 years ago.  OP is going to have a lot of apps that won't work over the next few months unfortunately.

That's a good video comparing RC, Carnival and NCL, though the headline is basically due to how RC best managed its money during the shutdown.