Bob Burd

yes. It doesn't have to be just used on the machines. Any of the bars will fill it up.

My memory is gone. I don't remember if it was there or not. I believe there was something i'll call past where the lounge chairs were and it was a paid option. IF that is the day beds, then I think it is there. I hope someone else can let you know. IF it's on the planner as an item to buy, then I would also assume it's there.

Yes it has the free lounge chairs. A bar there. Volleyball net. towel station if I remember correctly. Food which was very good. It also had these rafts out in the water that you can use if I remember it was that beach. Fun getting in and out of the raft. Had a swim out bar too. I think you could walk it. If my memory is wrong about any of this. Please correct me anyone.

I concur with SpeedNoodles. My wife and I went to each beach last week and found that South Beach had very few kids, if any. We liked that one the best as it was the least crowded as well.

I was just looking for an answer to this question and you beat me to creating the post. if I can add, is there any with free parking or free shuttle to the port?

I also played craps and poker. Poker gets you no points. I look at it as entertainment. But it certainly is not fun losing!!! So if you are looking to gain enough points to make a prime status in the casino royale, then i'd include some slots. I think prime status is 2500 points. If you are looking to enjoy yourself. Do what makes you happy. I went into this particular cruise to see if I could get enough points to get a 'free' cruise. So I played slots more than anything and I was lucky with some days even ahead. Toby above is right, if you bet 3-5 dollars a spin you accumulate points faster. I didn't bring that much money with me to do that consistently. I hope that helps and I would do whatever makes you happy as you on a RCL criuse! One tip is if you play a lot of card games and you think you are not getting enough points, see the casino host and they might be able to adjust it a bit. Others on this forum would have better knowledge on that.

slots by far give you the most points. I disagree how they do the points on card games and craps but my opinion doesn't change things!

Thanks to everyone that answered as that helped a lot. It was my mistake for not asking specifically what the rules are from the casino host. I was assuming, and you know the saying, that it worked like when we went last year and earned points. That you go to the casino royale site and there are $ amount off the cruises all thru the year. This cruise actually was a free cruise from the casino royale site even though she had only earned a 100$ off offers for this past year. Thanks once again. I had a very helpful person on the phone last night and they gave me a one time exception and we go on Freedom in November.

Thanks for the info. I'd still like if anyone is on board to send a picture of the sheet for my own benefit of where I missed that. On the sheet they put in my stateroom door I see where it says that. I had talked to the casino host a few times and I wish one of them had mentioned that.

I'm not quite sure how this is supposed to work. I gambled last week on Oasis and Oasis had a sheet by the casino host that had point values and what you can get for it. I should have taken a picture. If you are on Oasis right now if you could send me or put the picture of what that sheet says, I'd appreciate it. I had about 900+ points. I knew it gave me 250 off a new cruise but it also said you are awarded a free interior room. I'm on the phone with Casino Royale and I'm not confident I'm going to get the correct information. The sheet they put in my room was before I got to the level of the free interior room. Does anyone know the rules of this? Did I need to book it at the next cruise office on board? Do I need to book the cruise by 30 days from the end of my cruise? If so, I did not see that on the sheet at the casino host. Any information would be appreciated.

I have both ready. I have an older phone and I'm not taking the chance of it having issues. The paper seem to go very quickly as the bar code is a lot easier for the staff to click then then phone it seemed.

I just got off the Oasis on Sunday. They were over 100 percent occupancy. This was our first time on an Oasis class ship and it did not feel too crowded most of the time. I was pleasantly surprised about that. I was able to get lounge chairs near the pool and was pleasantly surprised. There are some lines for main dining room and wind jammer especially the first couple of days. Then I think people realized all the other places you might want to get lunch. We live in NJ and I have to say getting to the port was a breeze. Once you get near the ship, there was a wait to finally get to the ship but not too bad. We took our own luggage getting off the ship. We left our room around 715 and I walked basically right off the ship and to my car and was home in about an hour and my house is an hour away. Shows were busy and I suggest reserving all the shows you want that first day. I would suggest if you do Mytime dining that you do that before you go on the ship. If you do any specialty dining I would suggest doing as soon as you get on the ship as they were limited in the spots open. I did not try royal up this time, but I did talk to a guy who did 'win' the royal up he was going for. I have no idea what his bid was thou. Enjoy your cruise.

We have been on 3 cruises this year and we had to upload our vaccination info. We have a cruise on 9/11. I received the sailing checklist email today and it mentions to make sure you upload the vaccination doc. I've looked multiple times the past 2 weeks on both the online and the smartphone app and I do not see where they ask for that or to upload. Is it not needed anymore since it's past the Sept 5th date where everything after that date and that the cruise is less than 10 days? I don't want to arrive at the terminal and find out I messed up.

I had this issues about a week ago when I called and they said none available. I went back into the website and i clicked on the redeem button on the website that shows your casino royale certificates. I got lucky and got the cruise after i had called and they said they had no more allotments like you stated. It can't hurt to try to redeem with the redeem button. good luck.

Thanks everyone for the comments. An update to this post with some good news. When I didn't get the cruise thru calling casino royale, we clicked on the redeem button on their website. I figured it could not hurt. The next day we did get the cruise we wanted thru the redeem button and I was very happy and I called right away to pay to make sure they didn't take the reservation away!! I then called to upgrade and was able to get a balcony room at no extra cost. So even more happy. I figure it's ok to post this as they wouldn't take it away after I paid! We leave in a few weeks on our first cruise on an Oasis class ship, the Oasis no less.

My wife has a free cruise certificate for some cruises in September. We wanted a particular one and called last night. They said the offer is not available anymore due to the ship having a high capacity or something along those lines. Does it behoove me to try and call a few more times as that status might change? or is it not going to be available and I should not bother. She also has a number of 100 dollar off certs but if I remember right, you can't use more than one per booking. Correct me if I'm wrong please. Thanks, Bob

I had the question when I was on board recently which I think is what you are describing. You are on your cruise and you earn points. You then cash those points in free play lets say on day 2 of a 5 day cruise. Your points for your cruise goes back to zero on the cruise. BUT, they do not go to zero on earning for the 'yearly' total of all points or even if they have a promotion just for that particular cruise. So you play more and earn points for the next few days and before you leave the ship you cash in your free play again. You are back to zero. But your overall points does not go down and are accumulated. You go on another cruise or look online you will see you have x amount of points to get to the next level. That's how I believe it works and how it seems to work from my experience. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Even on the Anthem leaving from Cape Liberty.

@twangster thanks again for all the examples. The airline one is a good one. But I do have another 2 examples below. Does this example satisfy the PVSA. I take a cruise on Ovation from Hawaii (5/2) to Vancouver (5/11). I disembark Ovation and I get on Radiance on 5/11 in Vancouver and this is a roundtrip back to Vancouver. I believe I'm good. I also could switch the ships and do this. Leave Hawaii on Radiance on April 30th and get in Vancouver (5/11). Disembark and then get on Ovation (5/11) which ends in Seattle like my original question(but 2 ships). The full trip is Hawaii to Seattle which is one American city to another, but do I get past the rules since I'm going on another ship? If it's no good, does going on another cruise line on one leg get past it? Thanks for the input.

Thanks!! I'll take a look.

Twangster. Thanks for the reply even though I don't like the answer!! lol. I was hoping since you have to completely get off the ship on a B2B, that it might be ok. So the issue is leaving from one US port and ending in another US port? I was hoping that since there is a stop in a foreign port in the middle it would be ok. Now you are going to make me look at Sydney!! Thanks once again for the answer and all the answers you provide for people.

I've read articles about doing this kind of cruise where its says you can be in violation including the Twangster one. I saw a comment from the Twangster article where there was a comment from someone where they said Royal canceled one part of their cruise when they were doing a B2B of Alaska/Hawaii. I would not want that to happen. I'm a bit OCD as I'm an analyst by trade so I just wanted to check before doing something like this cruise.

The wife and I are thinking of doing a B2B to Hawaii and Alaska. The 5/2/23 leaving from Oahu (Maui, Hawaii, Vancouver) and finishing in Vancouver on Ovation. Then doing an Alaska cruise on Ovation leaving from Vancouver(Vancouver, Sitka, Juneau, Skagway, Endicott Arm and Dawes glacier, Ketchikan, Seattle) and end up in Seattle. We live on the East coast and that would kill 2 birds with one stone going to the West Coast. Would the PVSA law forbid me from doing that kind of B2B? I would not want to book something and then have one part of it canceled. I know #twangster wrote on the blog back in October of 2019 on Hawaii, but I still not sure if I'm allowed to do this B2B. Thanks for any help.

There is a way to have them refund when a mistake is made. I also play for maybe 15 minutes a day. Every now and then over the years I might buy a bunch of chips for a dollar or two. I've used the app to get 3 cruises so far. I tried to have my wife use her account to get the OBC, but RCL flags that and we got our points back for that.

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