Lovetocruise2002

I hope all is well with you! I will be thinking about you...

He is! The whole crew will on that one.

Keep us posted on whether or not it’s the full show….

Sorry you felt bad towards the end of the cruise. Not the best way to end, but glad to hear that you are enjoying on the mend. Might I suggest booking the last 7 night sailing on Wonder before it heads to Miami? 8/17/2025

Oh boy...I am most confused now. I think you guys are all correct, it is full Sky on Utopia, Icon, Star. My conclusion? I will not be booking a Sky Junior on any ship. Forget the shady "is it full Sky" "is it not" nonsense, I don't even want to be on Deck 6! lol

Yeah, that screams steer clear to me

Don’t thank me. I was deceived too! This whole time (until recently) I was under the impression that Sky Junior got full Sky benefits, just located on a lower deck. It was @Baked Alaska and @F1guynz who pointed it out that the shadiness was in the details. My sister almost booked a Sky Junior on Utopia for a sailing that we have together next year. I am glad that I convinced her to move to a GS. I would have felt bad if she stuck with that booking because she wants access to the suites area and CK.

Have you stayed at these locations before @tonyfsu21? Are they overrun with kids? Dated? I am looking for a place for this July (no kids). Magaritaville Orlando has good rates but I am not sure how many kids are running around there in July. Conrad Orlando is my preference but I am not willing to pay their rates.

You'll just have to find a way to make it up to her lol

Oh no! That was the RS booking right?

I feel like I have the right to step in here...That's not Dim Sum!

I think it was @GregD's blog where we discussed that and I said I was right there along you guys in that we stopped going too.

We are flying in two days early. Going to rent a car and hang around Orlando for a bit. Driving ourselves to the port and dropping off the rental car at Enterprise on Mullet Road. They have a shuttle there to the port. It's exactly what we did last year for Wonder except this year, Hubby doesn't feel the need to go to Hollywood Studios. Thank goodness!

Oh no! We are just going to miss you. That is the day we get off Adventure.

Nonsense. You wouldn’t have gotten that blue band if it was what bad. And you just have to keep practicing. It took Hubby at least 3-4 cruises where he was solely devoted to the FlowRider before he got somewhat decent.

I agree with this. Same with the CK menu. As much as I love certain items at both places, a refresh would be nice. Someone in the Royal Caribbean Dining FB group for my Oasis sailing next week said they got an email advertising the seafood tower as an addition to their UDP. They did not include a copy of their email, and I have no clue how true that post was. It would be an awesome surprise if they brought that back too.

There's a lot to unpack here. You did not mention if you are visiting all the parks at Disney or just a selected few. That is going to have impact on where you might want to stay. If you want the benefits of Early magic hours, parking, late evening hours, early Genie+ access, etc. then you will want to stay on Disney property at one of their resorts. We usually choose the resort that is closest to where we will be spending the majority of our time. When the kids were younger, it was a resort that was close to Magic Kingdom. We chose that because 3 of those hotels (Polynesian, Grand Floridian, Contemporary) are on the monorail loop and parking is the worst (IMO) at MK. If you don't plan to visit MK, then you might select a different one. If you want to stay off Disney property, there are a few hotels that will still give you park perks. The Dolphin/Swan/Swan Reserve all fall under that. When we sailed Wonder in July 2023, Hubby wanted to visit Hollywood Studios only and we had no kids with us. I wanted nothing to do with Disney Resorts, so the Swan Reserve was a good compromise. It kept us away from the Disney resort craziness, but we still had the perks at the parks. If there was more info in your post, it might help others to give you better suggestions. Walt Disney World is beast and so complicated. More info is needed. Are you travelling with kids? Will you have car? What parks do you want to visit? Do you care about the perks offered to Disney Resort guests?

You can book Celebrity at Next Cruise, however, I don't believe the open bookings from Next Cruise are interchangeable between cruise lines. For an open booking, you get a reservation number. That reservation goes with you when you apply that open booking. The cruise that you select will have the same reservation number as your open booking and the booking date will actually be the date that you purchased the open booking. So because reservations numbers are not interchangeable between the two lines, logic would say that you cannot use your open booking to book X. However, I would be pleasantly surprised if someone else has different info and is able to do it.

This is the latest update that I have:

Thanks for the tip. I supposed that would be a game time decision on that day. Once we start driving we can take a look a traffic and see which option is better.

Did I mention that I am very jealous, and I want to be like you when I retire lol One day dry dock!

Woohoo! Awesome! Congrats!

Never mind my previous post. I should have read the article first

I always wonder if we tip on the printed receipt if the bartender gets that.

I don’t think they were saying that it would cause someone to miss the ship, but they were comparing it to Brightline possibly being faster if one got stuck in traffic.