Cruising With JT

100%. For myself and many others I am sure, where we want to go is ON the Navigator of the Seas ? It can have 4 days at sea and I'd be okay with that lol!

Are there any updates to the next class of Royal ships with Project Icon? From what I recall, they will be smaller than Oasis-class but larger than Quantum-class? Excited to hear more about what they will be like and can't wait to sail on these one day in the future!

Luckily for me the flight to LA is only 2 hours (from Seattle)... much better than flying across country but we have to do that for other ships such as Symphony and Oasis that we have booked... this likely won't be the only time we do Navigator out of LA... I am sort of tempted to do the b2b for the first time.... 3-night followed by 4-night...followed by Disneyland... not sure if wife will be OK with that but yeah 4 days is so short! I am likely not getting off at any of the ports...

@twangsterLooks like you're spot on with the 3 and 4-night itinerary predictions. I was checking Nav sailing in the Caribbean and all 3-nighters leave on Fridays and 4-nighters on Mondays. I so wish I lived in South Florida or LA... nothing like getting off of work early on a Friday and sailing away on a ship for a few nights before returning Monday morning and back to work...that's the life... one day... I am up here in Seattle and we've only been lucky once with a 3-nighter back in September 2018 on Explorer of the Seas. Left Friday, day at sea and Victoria and came back Monday morning... miss it and wish they did it more often up here in the Pacific Northwest.

Sounds good to me. Thinking of doing a 4 or 5-night cruise first followed by a 2-day visit to the happiest place on Earth in November.

Thanks twangster. I would be okay with the 4-nighters as well. I think 3 is too short! We'll see what options become available when itineraries are released. Definitely booking/depositing the day they are released though!!

Ah! These posts are getting me excited! I also hope they release the itineraries earlier in the week versus making us wait until mid-week or end of week. Don't pull a 3/29 again ? I am wondering about how the 3/4/5 day sailings will be setup... will they do them in order? Like first sailing will be 3 nights, then 4 nights, then 5 nights, then 3 nights, 4 nights, 5 nights? Any thoughts on that? I am looking for the 5-nighter, ideally before Thanksgiving assuming they sail at the beginning of November.

This is all I see on the Internet page. This appears to be for 1 device only, we scored the same $17.99/day deal on a sale recently for 2 devices!

One thing I am noticing about the new UI though, not all options for purchases are appearing. For example, on the Internet page, I only see 1 offering for VOOM Internet Surf and Stream, 1 device... the same offering with 2 devices which we already purchased no longer appears? Odd.

I scrolled down and signed up via this area on the page, not sure if this is it but it's worth a shot ?

Thanks. I just messaged their C&A admins on FB to see if I can get any traction that way. Looks like you can't just "sign up" easily.

Thanks. I always check spam and they are not there.... interesting. Do you know how I can sign up?

How do you guys get these Crown & Anchor society emails? I have been a C&A member for years but have never received one?

Same... I find it a bit interesting they are only doing this for certain ships... why not just the whole site/fleet wide? Lol.

Hey all! Did anyone else notice the new UI for Cruise planner? I just logged into my account for the first time in a few weeks and I am digging the new look! Excited to browse arouns and see what else has changed...

Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas February 2022 Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas TBD! Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas February 2023

The news today explains the delay in not releasing the itineraries the week of 3/29... now let's hope they actually release them net week 4/12 as they say so ?

Just sharing the pic from Royal Caribbean as well. Wow they are sailing starting November 2021 and not June 2022? Crazy!! Good news ? Let's see if they will actually sail though... hopeful.

Honestly I would be shocked if any cruises sail from US ports in 2021. I hate to be pessimistic but I feel like I am being realistic. We all want cruising to start so bad from the US and even with all that has been done the past few weeks the CDC still came out with a joke of an update. It seems so obvious that cruises are not sailing from the US anytime soon, but they will from non-US ports. I am totally okay with that, I just hope they move my Symphony cruise early next year away from Miami instead of cancelling it. I don't mind flying a little bit further like Nassau to get on a ship, flying all the way across the county as it is! ?

Just called Royal Caribbean, glad that the hold time was like under a minute. The lady I spoke to was very nice, she did confirm that there has been a delay in getting the Nav sailings out of LA posted on the website as they are still working on some critical details, guessing it's related to some of what was shared above. They want to make sure they get everything right when they are released but as of now no definite date on when they will be released. She did say that majority of incoming calls have been around the Navigator out of LA which in a way is to be expected given the anticipation. So a little more holding on friends, hope to see Nav bookings in the near future and I am counting on this thread being bumped when that does happen!

Thanks twangster, appreciate you sharing your experience. I will try calling Royal today to see what they say to me. It's a bummer if it is end of April, you lose that excitement of when they were originally supposed to get released and are just now just like whatever and hope it comes out soon. They should make that info public so people aren't wondering. We can't be the only ones out there wondering why Navigator out of LA isn't posted yet. Royal needs to do a better job with their marketing/Public announcements IMO. When they said back on 3/17 I believe, that day we would get the "news we've all been waiting for", it wasn't that sailings were going to start, it was the Nav out of LA which is exciting but their commitment for the week of 3/29 didn't even happen, and a few days later on 3/19 I believe they announced Adventure would come out on 3/24 which it did, thankfully. Can't wait until Nav out of LA comes out offiically to everyone!

Yeah I don't think wearing a mask forever makes sense. Viruses are here to stay, masks aren't. Covid will become an annual shot just like the flu shot etc that people get, it just caught humanity totally offguard and humanity failed at controlling it hence the 2+ million deaths worldwide and counting. My thought around vaccines is, yeah I want to get it, but what's the point of being vaccinated if we have to still wear masks? Does the vaccine not work like we expect it to or do we just not know about the long-term impacts it has in actually preventing Covid transmission? Those who choose to not get vaccinated or cannot get vaccinated understand the risks that they are facing if they get Covid. I want to go on a cruise as bad as the next person but I also understand that if I am paying thousands and thousands of dollars, I don't want to be restricted from actually enjoying the vacation. Regardless of what happens on a cruise ship, masks or not, I am definitely wearing one on an airplane. Airplanes are gross IMO, cruise ships are not, IMO. It's too bad the cruise industry has such a bad rep and only those who are passionate about it truly understand how safe and clean it actually is. I have been on 12 cruises, and have gotten sick on 0. I have taken land vacations and I have gotten sick multiple times since the hygiene process on land is no where as strict and enforced/recommended like it is on cruise ships. Get me back at sea, but please get rid of the masks and social distancing if we are all fully vaccinated.

Itineraries will be released the "Week of 3/29" -- did they make the whole week April fools or something? I don't think I have ever anticipated the release of any cruise sailings like this one, and they are nowhere to be found! Come on Royal, stop keeping us waiting...

Wow, well said. Thank you.

I will absolutely cruise with other vaccinated people (and not go on a cruise with unvaccinated people), but a mask would be a deal breaker. I love cruising and the whole thing about mask wearing, social distancing, and limited onboard experiences doesn't sound like something I want to be a part of. It wouldn't really feel like a vacation given we are constantly wearing this thing on our face and the thought of not being around others on a ship is kinda weird, ruins the cruise experience IMO. Definitely willing to wait as long as possible until those restrictions are gone.