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If you are booked through MEI, there are sometimes group hotels for pre-cruise. Being the planner I am, I like to book my own as a safety option in case nothing comes up. For this cruise, since we are on the 2 day sailing prior to the group, we have booked our own at Homewood Suites. When it comes to other hotels in the area, we have stayed at Staybridge Suites and found the accommodation quite nice.
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Balcony Chairs Zip-tied to Recline Only
Marc Van Niekerk replied to RCDM-123's topic in Royal Caribbean Discussion
We just got off Odyssey yesterday and this was one of the most frustrating things. Our chairs were zip-tied as described and it made them very uncomfortable. -
Here is what i posted earlier today on Facebook: Captain has informed us that Odyssey has passed through the front that gave us 6-7m waves and 50kt winds. While in the windjammer we had several times where the ship listed and carts rolls free and trays of water glasses slid to the floor. During breakfast in the MDR on deck 3 there were a few occurrences where the waves were hitting the ship over the windows. Some of the bottles in the pub took a dive too. Captain says we’re all real sailors now.
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To be fair, we have based our research on a similar time frame this year instead of next. Air 2 Sea is always a good consideration, and we will investigate. Travelling to a US airport tends to not be very economical for us in our searches for US ports because of the time, distance and weather factors. It may be a different story for Europe in summer. We also just learned that Iceland Air while a great cost is a bit of a unicorn in how they ticket their flights. Usually, when we book (even with Air2Sea) the Locator ID provided is active within a few days on the airline site for seat selection and other items. Iceland Air does not activate until 'ticketed' which happens for them when they are paid in full which is not the case for Air2Sea.
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Sushi Class - is this the new normal?
Marc Van Niekerk replied to Smokey79's topic in Royal Caribbean Dining
Did this on Harmony in Feb. It was about 20 people, 2 long tables with 2 chefs leading. I found it pretty much in keeping with what I would have expected. I also thought that the quality of the ingredients was very good, and the quantity of sushi I made and ate was certainly worth the cost of the class. -
Booking MyTime while waitlisted for Early Seating
Marc Van Niekerk replied to SLM's topic in Royal Caribbean Discussion
We recently had this same situation. We had My Time for our cruise departing this weekend and had booked all of our meal times when they became available on cruise planner. A week ago we got cancellation emails for all our reservations and when we looked it was because we had been changed to Early seating. We did have our TA confirm too that the change had happened. I can't tell you if we were passed over at any time but I can say we did get the change we had been waitlisted for.