Carlos A.

The most interesting thing is this:

"The Cruise Ticket Contract or Booking Conditions applicable to your cruise purchase are now determined by your Primary Country of Residence"

So, different rules depending on where you live.

I've received this notification too but can't figure out the changes they made.

1 hour ago, Ampurp85 said:

Isn't Atlantis in Nassau? PDCC is in the Bahamas but not in Nassau, so this beach club will be located by PDCC. I imagine people will choose the cheaper one when both ports are on the itinerary. 

Royal Beach Club will be in Paradise Island, in Nassau, not in PDCC

As far as I can remember the only "perk" I've used since becoming Platinum and then Emerald are the Bath Robes, and the only perk that seems to be interesting to me once becoming Diamond are the drinks vouchers. 

It has to be competitive with the Atlantis Day Pass... if it cost more that $250 people maybe would be going to Atlantis instead. 

1 hour ago, Ryan79 said:

Still have to pay. Junior suites are more just glorified balcony rooms as opposed to a true suite so you aren’t going to have full suite perks with that category.

Except that balcony rooms doesn't get you double C&A points. 

Did you made a bidding for an upgrade with Royal Up? Maybe that's it.

1 hour ago, CanHardlyWait said:

But then you could have found yourself in the cabin next to the family from hell. You just really never know what worse is then waiting around the corner.

Yes but one noisy neighbor is a random chance, a structural noise problem is a certainty.

Or you could find a bad review for the specific cabin you got and then ask to be moved. As I said, YMMV

I had assigned an interior cabin that had some reviews that described it as a very noisy cabin, specially in the early morning, so I just called and asked to be moved to another cabin that didn't had that problem.

6 hours ago, Ryan79 said:

Good for Carlos that things worked out for him in the past. This isn’t the past. Cruise ships are at 100%+ capacity these days so switching a GTY cabin to a better location after you board the ships isn’t as easy as it used to be. Pretty hard to switch to a better cabin, if they don’t exist. Even if there is availability, you will get even worse options than when your cabin was assigned. You are banking on people with better locations being no-shows. Good luck depending on that!! 

In my case,"The past" was yesterday so...

You don't have to wait to be on board to do this, do it now. Call.

Don't listen to Ryan, once you've been assigned you can call and asked to be moved to any other same category cabin available, as many times as you want.

I've done this several times, once I even got an "upgrade" without asking and without paying anything extra from an Inside to a Virtual Balcony but YMMV.

20 hours ago, Rptgeek said:

Interesting - I took the screen shot from my cruise planner. 

 

I ended up reserving the key for our cruise  - based on what I see that is included.  If items are different when we get on board do I have any recourse with Royal Caribbean? 

See 11 second video of what I see below:
https://app.screencast.com/p5YQI1v2pv93r

With that you could ask for some kind of compensation if they don't honor the perks you can clearly see on your CP.

I guess being a smaller ship with less activities than oasis or quantum class available they have to add some perks to give some value to the Key and charge the same as in other ships.

Agreed, the lunch is mediocre at best and it's always the same.

If you have kids and you're in Quantum class or Oasis class and they want to do all maybe is worth it. 

It's Capt Johnny Faevelen on Harmony Of the Seas

For my 2024 TA cruise room service isn't listed:

• Priority access into the terminal (within booked arrival time) on Day 1.
• Carry-on bag drop off and delivery to stateroom. Drop-off your carry-on bags in the Main Dining Room until 1:30pm.
• Exclusive welcome lunch in the Main Dining Room featuring the Chops Grille Lunch menu.
• Private time at onboard activities including Rock Climbing, FlowRider and more.
• Priority departure at tender ports of call from ship-to-shore.
• Seats in the exclusive VIP seating section at shows in the Main Theatre, Aqua Theater, Studio B and Two70 (reservation is needed).
• VOOM ® Surf & Stream 1 Device high speed internet.
• On debarkation day, enjoy an exclusive à la carte breakfast and choice departure.

Maybe they've  just assigned all the GTY cabins.

I had a GTY reservation, yesterday there were plenty of same category cabins available, today they diminished by a large amount and I noticed that I got assigned a cabin number. I'm 100 days from my sailing. 

It looks like they're removing the ultimate abyss... or at least part of it.

Funny they never took down this commercial for the "Amped" Allure on their Mexican youtube channel:

On 3/20/2023 at 1:49 PM, dr martini said:

so many different crew and passengers across so many ships, some sailing multiple times a week so your mileage may vary etc etc

all that said, I really thought these made a big difference on our Freedom cruise a month ago.  we were able to find a chair when we wanted to.  my tenth cruise overall (seventh with Royal) and first time seeing these signs, I really thought they made a difference and was happy to see them.  it's at least a gesture in the right direction, a shrug, haha hey something is better than nothing and this is a nice easy, passive (mostly) non-confrontational acknowledgement of the problem.  they're also bright pink and fun and very straightforward, now let's make something like this for the (now all but defunct) dinner dress code 

IF YOU ARE NOT SURE AND ARE THINKING ABOUT ASKING, THEN NO, IT'S NOT IN THE DRESS CODE.

 

Maybe there aren't so many chair hogs on Freedom because its doing 3/4 nights cruises with only one sea day on the 4 nights and having port days almost every day.

In my case I received a phone call to my cabin a day or two days before getting there asking how many people would be in the beach bed. Then I received a letter with my beach bed number already assigned and the instructions to check in on the beds desk.

38 minutes ago, Lexster said:

Satellite internet sucks, period. When you have thousands of people in such a small space potentially trying to access the same uplink, it's going to be slow. The technology just doesn't exist to be better than it is.

FOS had satellite internet a few years ago and didn't sucked as much as it does now with starlink... 

If your are looking for a calm place I would recommend the South Beach Day Beds. They're even cheaper than the Chill Island ones and are exactly the same. 

Any place can be dangerous in deed. I've just been on Miami for a short cruise and decided to go with my wife for an evening walk on Lincoln Road just to be trapped in the middle of a fight that almost turned into a shootout. 

Just got off Freedom and had the same experience, It's UNUSABLE, at least you could do a Speed Test, int FOS they've blocked Fast.com and Speedtest.net, why? I just can't understand why.

The Voom internet desk manager had zero options besides the paper shown above, but al least he agreed with me, restricting the speed doesn't work at all. I've been on FOS before/after Starlink and I can say that now it's just garbage.  

I've always thought that it's pretty much inspired by the "Dumb ways to die" video and characters: