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Answering my own question here but yes there are plenty of monkeys at Shipwreck bar. They come out around noon though so if you’re there before that you’ll likely see a lot of mongooses.

Anyone have issues with this cruise? It suddenly got dropped from my list of future cruises!!!

Anyone have any great recommendations for excursions here? We did the train the last time and it was fun but we’d like to see more of the island and or some great beaches if possible. thanks!

Has anyone been here recently? I'm curious as to whether the monkeys are still around? Thanks!

oooh...one more please???

Interesting. We’re pretty new to Royal and the previous few ships have all had true mini fridges. It was a much better experience because food safety was never an issue. Sometimes you just want to bring back something from those speciality restaurants….

We just got off Navigator and our room no longer had a mini fridge. It had a “cooler” which definitely didn’t really cool anything down. It certainly wouldn’t be safe to store any leftovers. Is this a new change? It’s the first time we’ve seen these….

Well the cruise is now over. After making a very late port at Ensenada on Day 2 of the cruise, we headed northward and spent our day at sea in the Santa Barbara Channel. This was much farther north than we initially expected to be heading, but Captain James announced that it was outside of the area affected by the storm. We spent the day circling the waters in the channel and the water was very calm. At night we headed back to the Port of Los Angeles and definitely sailed through a part of the storm causing it to be pretty rocky. We got back to port safely though. thanks for all who responded!

This has been a very interesting cruise so far. There have been three “alpha” calls since 4am. One resulted in a medical evacuation via USCG helicopter. We were literally offshore from Ensenada just circling in the water when they decided to evacuate this individual. We veered north back to the border and a USCG helicopter was able to land and bring aboard the individual to take them to a hospital in San Diego. Now we’re back on track heading south again toward Ensenada to make our port time at 7pm. I’m assuming that this is more of a formality since we’re required to make an international stop and are trying to get out of Mexico ahead of the storm.

For those who are interested the word is that they are planning on changing the order of our sailing. day 2 will be in Ensenada for a very long port day instead of our day at sea day 3 will be at sea instead of a port day at Ensenada. I suspect we will be going far west to avoid the storm thanks to all who replied!

As of now we haven’t heard anything and are preparing to board in about an hour and a half. I’ll keep y’all updated on this unexpected change!

Thanks for the reply. Does Royal prorate a cruise that is shorter than was scheduled?

Sorry for the repeated posts. I posted something similar in the roll call section.... We're about to leave for our sailing on Navigator for a 3 night to Ensenada tomorrow. It now looks like Hurricane Hilary is going to be directly in our pathway. We're still a bit new to sailing and have never had this experience before. Any ideas how Royal will handle this situation? I'm thinking that at the very least that Ensenada will likely not happen. Or will they cancel it altogether? I know that I'm asking people to predict the future, but I didn't know if anyone has gone though a similar incident before....

On this sailing and realizing that we are about to sail into a potential hurricane…. Any word on how RCI will handle this?