Lovetocruise2002

This thread has prompted me to go back to my live blog from SY NYE last year. This seems like something I would have documented. Sure enough, I did. 
Our suite concierge reached out to us a few days before sailing with the price list for promenade venues. The prices were not pretty. I am willing to bet they will be even uglier this year 😔
 

That was mine (and Hubby's) assumption. Too many shows in the theatre and Love and Marriage got the boot to the afternoon. Either way, Ricky Matthews is always hilarious in that role!

This thread has prompted me to go back to my live blog from SY NYE last year. This seems like something I would have documented. Sure enough, I did. 
Our suite concierge reached out to us a few days before sailing with the price list for promenade venues. The prices were not pretty. I am willing to bet they will be even uglier this year 😔
 

All my credits from 11/8 showed back up on my card within a few days. However, on 11/17 I made another purchase/refund, and that one refund is still missing. I reached out to Royal over FB over the weekend and they said that, "The refund is in process, but funds have not been disbursed yet." Then I asked them what sort of timeline I was looking at for funds to come back to me. They responded back with, "7-10 business days". That was on Sunday 11/26. I will unfortunately have to follow up with them again if I don't see it in 7-10 business days. So annoying.

Finally booked flights. Prices are down about $600 from last week. Little bit of points, little bit of cash. I'm definitely disorganized this cruise, working on fixing that. 
And hey, lay flats on the return. Rare for Miami to Newark flight. 

Glad to hear that it is on at night on Odyssey. On Wonder, it was in the afternoon and that was strange.

And he can never find out! Or we will never hear from @SweetPea again 🤣

Does Batman never learn????? 🤣

Glad to hear that it is on at night on Odyssey. On Wonder, it was in the afternoon and that was strange.

I will try to update tomorrow with some pictures from our time in curaçao. We are in Aruba all day though so it might be Thursday when back at sea. However, we had a great time on our private excursion today. Crazy Uncle and Aunt unfortunately didn’t make it as Aunt wasn’t feeling well, but it was great. Will fill in some details later. Got back on ship about an hour before all aboard. Went to Windjammer for dinner, yes @Lovetocruise2002 we ate there for dinner. Sorry @OCSC Mike no pictures. Now about to watch Love and Marriage show! 

We are going to that tonight at 10:45! 

I realized I really did not tell you details on my cruises.  Here is what I am doing.  If you have any questions, please ask.
9 Night Aruba, Curacao & Cayman Cruise
Edge Single Stateroom with Infinite Veranda
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sea Day George Town, Grand Cayman Sea Day Oranjestad, Aruba Willemstad, Caracao Sea Day Falmouth, Jamaica Sea Day Fort Lauderdale, Florida 10 Night Ultimate Southern Caribbean
Edge Single Stateroom with Infinite Veranda (same cabin)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Sea Day Sea Day Philipsburg, St. Maarten Roseau, Dominica Bridgetown, Barbados St. John's Antigua Basseterre, St. Kitts Sea Day Sea Day Fort Lauderdale, Florida

I am confusing the dinner crew.  There is way too much food on the ship, so I have been going to dinner and only getting a main course.  Tonight, dinner took me 20 minutes from start to finish.  It is not like I am not eating.  Today was one of my workdays.  I got up this morning and went to the Buffet and found a good table with the soft bench.  Then I spent the next 6 hours working on my computer.  I am a computer programmer, so it was real paid work.  I was also able to attend three different meetings.  I did not eat any meals, but I started with Bacon/sausage and toast.  that lasted the first 2 hours.  Then I got some fruit and grapes for the next two hours.  Then the last two hours was meat and cheese.  Now it is 7:30 pm and I feel good about what I got done today and am going to bed early.
Tomorrow, I have a shore excursion that starts at 8 am and lasts 6 hours.

End of July or early August depending on the shipyard. 
At some point the shipyard will go firm on a handover date and then Royal will bake that into the schedule.  That may have happened already (shipyard commitment) or may be about to happen soon.  Only Royal and the shipyard know at this point.  

From opening schedule for deployment the week of December 4th release is for sailings July 2025-April 2026.
This should lead one to assume Star will begin sailings sometime in July 2025

Not sure but I got the month from a reliable source. Maybe you trusted me posting that?
@AlmondFarmer's logic is pretty sound too.

However…if you ever decide to try, we are going to photo or video evidence of that 😄

The Effectors is the show that I am most looking forward to next month. I didn't really think I would care for it, but after seeing Effectors 2 on Wonder in July, I am really looking forward to seeing what type of special effects are in the first one.
And we love Ricky Matthews! We cruised with him years ago, I cannot even remember which ship it was now, then we ran into him again on Wonder in July. I was so excited when I saw on his FB feed that he was headed to Odyssey until January. You are right, he is hilarious, has an awesome energy to him. Go watch the Love & Marriage show with him too, it's always funny.

I thought so too! But then I saw Tony's post and thought that I assumed wrong...

I thought so too! But then I saw Tony's post and thought that I assumed wrong...

My understanding is that it will begin in July. 🤷‍♂️

Unfortunately the source was Wiki which is not my favorite and most reliable source.

I’ve never used Air2Sea but am Exec Platinum on AA.  It is amazing how often they reassign seats and it greatly annoys me.  Sometimes the departure time changes by 15 minutes and my seats get reassigned.  I log into aa.com frequently to check seats.  I have observed it happening even more with British Airways where I have no status other than OneWorld.  My last Europe trip I had AA going to Philly connecting to BA and made sure I had 4 hours between flights and AA reassigned me to a later flight with only 40 minutes between flights.  The original flight was still available.  I had a heated discussion with AA and got back on the flight I originally booked.  Once a reseller like Air2Sea books you use your airline booking reference number to stay on top of your flights.

I just decided while looking at these pics that Hubby and I will try hard to move our once a year anniversary cruise in July to Celebrity, starting in 2025 (cause I already have July 2024 booked). Unless Royal comes out with something really enticing. Just the room pics alone, this is way more our scene lol. 
With the girls, we will still remain on Royal. They would be bored out of their minds on X.

As someone who doesn't do Broadway (with a few exceptions) I was actually looking forward to Effectors 2 on Wonder and I agree it was pretty cool. We had ages 9-70+ with us and it kind of had a little something for everyone (a bit less so for my wife's parents but you get the idea). I'd like to see the 1st one but given my cruise habits it's highly unlikely we sail on Quantum class anytime soon. I'll settle for your review.