RoyalGreg

Thanks everyone for sharing their experiences. I did cancel the UDP, and all of the restaurant reservations were immediately canceled as Ryan79 said. After adding the UDP to the cart, I was actually given the opportunity to book all of the restaurant reservations before checking out. It was much easier than the previous method where you had to go into your orders and then modify the UDP and add each reservation separately. So kudos to Royal IT for making that interface easier.

We booked 2 packages at 310 + tax = $731 total. The new price will be 286 + tax = $675 So a savings of about $55 total. The cruise is a 9 nighter, and embarks in July. Entertainment isn't available to book yet, so I suppose we'll still probably need to move reservations around anyway. I'll try to check on the current availability of restaurant reservations to see if anything is completely booked up. Thanks for the advice!

Does anyone have experience canceling the UDP (to rebuy at a better price) after making reservations? Do you lose all of the reservations? The UDP on our cruise has dropped ~$25, and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth repricing and taking the risk that we may lose our reservations. Thanks for your help!

Believe it or not, if you want to see Six on a cruise ship, you're actually too late. The licensed Broadway production was actually on a couple NCL ships. Unfortunately, they've also been cutting down on their entertainment, and I think they removed the show in '23 and early '24. NCL has recently (last year or so) removed other Broadway and West End productions as well. However they put Broadway musicals on their two newest ships, Summer (Prima) and Beetlejuice (Viva).

Thanks for the advice! I guess the plan will be to try to make the reservations, talk with the host, and then hope for the best! We're good at rolling with punches (or maybe I should say waves?). Also thanks for sharing your adventure on the group cruise!

When you were able to do "take out," did you make reservations for that time first, or were you able to just walk up during operating hours? Also love hearing about all the shenanigans from your live blogs

It definitely sounds like you've found a good compromise.... However, if your teen is really looking for the quintessential cruise experience, then you should go on a night when they're offering french onion soup and escargots.

Wondering what your current experiences are when trying to order Izumi sushi to go with the UDP. In particular, we would love the ability to pick up some sushi during the lunch time hours to save for an early evening snack. We'd prefer not to have to make a reservation and sit down if possible. Is this currently allowed? Is it ship/host dependent? Can we just walk up and order sushi to go? Should we make reservations, and then just ask the host to put in the order to go? Or will we have to sit down? We will be on the Symphony (not referring to Sushi in the Park).

I just want to put out a little positivity and write about a great experience that I had with a shoreside C&A rep. Feel free to share your own positive experience I emailed C&A because our status wasn't showing on our Set Sail Pass for an upcoming cruise. I knew the response time wouldn't be immediate, and I have no qualms with the 4 business day turnaround. Thankfully they were able to fix the issue right away, and our status is showing properly. Not only were they able to fix my problem, but they also identified another problem. It seems that my birth year was incorrect for this booking, and so they alerted me to this issue and advised me to contact my TA. Identifying this error now, instead of at the port, likely save me a lot of time. They also correctly pointed out that my wife has 2 C&A numbers assigned (one was auto-generated when she signed up for C&A before her first cruise, and the second # was assigned to her after her first cruise). The rep was able to identify the correct C&A number that actually has her point total, and use that one for our upcoming cruise. Of course I thanked the C&A rep directly, and offered to fill out a survey, and suggested that they can pass my thanks on to their manager.

Maybe Disney discounts kids/passengers 3-5 less than other lines? You certainly don't have to do the work, but I'm curious to know the pricing of your (similar) Icon sailing in 2025 for 5 in an infinite balcony. I'll bet your sailing in 2024 is nearing a sell out, so the current pricing of your cruise is probably crazy. @TheMaxRebo Seeing your new edits now. Thanks for the info. The conclusion is that current pricing is CRAAAAAAZY! Enjoy your sailing on the Icon in 2024, looks like you got a steal! Just for fun, I took the same Feb 1, 2026 date that I captured earlier. Here's the pricing for 4 in an infinite balcony (I was unable to choose 5 pax):

Actually...... Icon appears to be worse: Disney pricing is for 2 guests including taxes and fees: Royal pricing is based on double occupancy, and then you have to add taxes and fees. That interior becomes $4,782.30 for 2 adults: Going out to 2026 (Disney hasn't scheduled that far) the same Icon sailing (leaving Jan 31) is $4,471.60 for 2 in the basic inside. The inaugural Treasure sailing is exorbitantly priced. I figured comparing non-holiday sail dates would be the most fair method.

@Irvy The DBP can be priced differently for each ship and each sail date. So for your sailing it may be $75, but for my sailing it came down to $70 with this current sale. If you keep watching, hopefully yours will drop too.

Thank you all for reassuring us. We've been going back and forth on getting the dbp for our cruise. The pricing has been fluctuating between $80 (20% off) and $75 (bogo), and it finally came down to $70 (30% off with the Labor Day sale). We decided to pull the trigger, and will still have a potential black friday sale to watch out for as well. We just got worried after seeing all the cocktail prices hiked up only on the Anthem. Thank you all for reassuring us that the cocktails will be included (and the pricing will likely match the rest of the fleet when she returns to Cape Liberty).

I think they raised the package from $13 to $14 recently. Hopefully the pricing is UK specific (I'll be boarding in New Jersey). Normally I wouldn't give it a second thought, but with all the recent changes in the cruise industry, RC Group most definitely included, I feel like it's getting tougher and tougher to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Just noticed that all of the cocktails are listed at $15 on the Anthem currently. I'm not onboard, but have a cruise scheduled in a few months. Can anyone confirm whether they're actually charging $15 now? Will these be included in the drink package? Will they charge the $1+tax overage? It's clear that the drink package is intended to include all the standard cocktails, but this pricing seems to be above the limit. I took a look at the pricing on the Odyssey (also quantum class, and also sailing in Europe), but all the cocktails are priced at the expected $14. Here are screen shots from the app: Schooner bar, Pool bar, and Boleros.