Atlantix2000

No, the price will update to the current price (up or down) as prices/sales fluctuate. That's pretty much how the cart at every online shopping store works. The only way to guarantee a price is to make the purchase. (Yes there have been some isolated reports of the sale price staying but I wouldn't count on it.)

Guessing this was a gift from your Travel Agent? Doesn't change the answer though. Most restaurants have a cover charge that covers the full meal (not including alcohol). At most cover charge restaurants that means order whatever you want including multiple entrees but Chops reportedly only includes one entree. Some restaurants may have a few (1 or 2) items that have an additional upcharge beyond the cover charge which would not be covered by your voucher. If you have an alcohol drink package, you just show your Sea Pass card (room key and on board charge card) which should have either a printed DX (for deluxe drink package) or a similar sticker. Then order whatever drinks you want.

So, uh, post the ship and the room number so we can do more than speculate!

Google the ship name and dates of your cruise to see if you can find anything. It's always possible a group will rent a specific venue for a private event (wedding/reunion/corporate event/etc) for a specific time frame or the length of the cruise. It's also possible a large group has bought a partial charter of the ship in which case several venues may be unavailable. It's not common but does happen. Generally, these things affect specific ships on specific sailings. For the example in this thread, a Jewish group has arranged for the Bistro to be a Kosher restaurant for the duration of the Aug 20 sailing on Oasis which almost certainly coincides with a major Jewish holiday but this does not effect the entire fleet.

Keep in mind that the Solarium pools on ships that travel to the colder climates are typically indoors (I haven't specifically checked for Jewel). The outdoor pools are typically unusable or very unpopular in cold weather. If Royal didn't allow kids to use the Solarium's indoor pool for 3 hours, they would basically be unable to use the pools for their entire cruise. That's not family friendly at all.

This is the kind of question that cannot be answered without more information (like what ship, what dates, etc). The answer for one ship today may not be relevant to your ship when you sail.

That's great for balcony class rooms (which is the usual question of this type) but this poster wants to know about the interior rooms. I have no idea if they follow a similar pattern or not especially since it isn't even obvious from the deck plans where the door is on some of the cabins.

I believe (but may have this backwards) that the even categories are rooms that only sleep 2 people. So the 4Vs sleep 2 and the 3Vs sleep 3 or more. There's no need to separate by color because the size of your party will determine which ones are shown to you when searching.

If you're not a big drinker, you may not be able to the drink package "worth" it but it depends what you drink. If you ONLY drink cocktails, then at $14/cocktail, you'll likely need 5-7 per day depending on your specific trip. If that's a 7 night trip, that's going to be hard to do if you're not used to drinking alcohol like that. However, if you also make use of the other beverages like bottled water, soda, and specialty coffee, then the math gets easier, but it's still a lot of liquid. So consider if you normally drink that much (and not just alcohol).

Too late now, but NEVER send your only copy. There's nothing special about the first/original. All you need to send is a certified copy (in other words, not a copy machine copy).

I would say the customer service representative's definition of "modified" is something was visibly changed (a cabin reassignment, etc). However, their computer software's definition of "modified" probably just means someone pressed "save" regardless of whether anything actually changed (and "save" might even happen auto-magically when someone opens and closes a reservation). So they can both be right and the software is also probably just doing its job when it auto-magically cancels Royal Ups for reservations that have been "modified". Of course, you HAVE asked for them to work on your reservation which is probably incompatible (from the software's perspective) with maintaining a Royal Up. So I would recommend that you'll have to pick which path you want to continue.

What do you click on your phone to reach the cruise planner? A web browser (like chrome, firefox, etc.)? If so, that's no different than doing it from a computer. If not a web browser, than you must have Royal's app.

What resolution are you looking for that you think Royal can provide? Royal contracts with vendors for a certain number of spots on their excursions. People can and do cancel all the time but you're looking for 4 spots on a trip 2 months away. If you're waiting for 4 spots to be open simultaneously, you're not likely to get that. You can try buying them one spot at a time and hope you reach 4 but that may not be possible. Royal can't magically make more spots open so calling them isn't really going to help. You can absolutely book the trip through the same vendor (and probably half a dozen other vendor too) and likely save some money in the process. The only difference between booking through Royal vs booking on your own is what happens if you don't make it back to the ship on time. The ship will wait for people on Royal's excursions. They won't wait if you book with a vendor directly. You don't even need to be on an excursion though, if you lose track of time and miss the ship for any reason, you miss the ship. That said, tons of people get off the ship without booking an excursion through Royal and it's pretty damn rare for someone to miss the ship.

Are you sure they have to be adults? I haven't looked carefully at the rules lately, but I think the kids sail free promotion is basically the equivalent of getting guests #3 and higher free but guests #1 and #2 are still full price. I don't think guest #2 has to be an adult though (Guest #1 must be an adult of course). So one adult with 3 kids in a single room should get 2 of the kids free.

I can't imagine removing gratuities for a 2 year old. I'm quite confident that when my son was that age he generated more trash than me, made greater messes at the dining table, and created a far messier bedroom. If anything, the gratuities for a 2 year old should be higher!

We don't know the context of this statement from the safety officer. There's a big difference between "holding children in front of the open windows" (meaning standing behind the railing and lifting the child high enough to see out while the child is also behind the railing) and "holding children in front of the open windows" (meaning standing or leaning past the railing).

Is it $12.99 per person and order as much food as you want? If so, what stops 1 person from ordering enough to feed their family and taking it to go? Or do you have to eat there?

First, I have a hard time believing a 216 mile, 3.25 hour Uber ride would be the most cost effective travel option between Orlando and Ft Lauderdale. Second, with the airline industry's track record these days, it's generally not recommended to fly into your departure city on the same day as your cruise. Flying into a different city on the same day seems like a VERY bad idea. If you have any issues with flight delays, traffic, or even just finding an Uber willing to make that trip, you could end up missing your cruise entirely. If you must fly same day, please research flights into Ft Lauderdale or Miami. Those airports are so much more convenient for cruisers.

And NEVER, EVER send you only copy of your birth certificate with your passport application. Seriously, you should never have only one copy of important documents. Have multiple birth, marriage, and death certificates so you can use them whenever they are needed. Legally, there's nothing special about the original birth certificate. A certified copy is a certified copy. (And of course, a copy machine copy is worth nothing)

Keep in mind that while this appears to work for now, you are using a loophole to get around the rules of the dining package. You are supposed to be trading a lower price for the inability to book your reservations in advance. If too many people keep doing this, Royal will close the loophole because it directly costs them money.

There's nothing stopping you from ordering food for as many people as you like. I mean there's probably an unpublished limit. I seriously doubt they would let you order 100 dinners but ordering for your family is quite normal.

This is an odd story but the part that puzzles me a bit is that after being given new cards, some people didn't know which cards could be used to get on/off the ship? Maybe I'm misreading but it sounds like the bartender took away the old cards so I'm confused how this situation occurred. I guess it doesn't really matter but I would generally assume that if new cards are printed, the old ones are deactivated. (This is a different situation then getting extra room door only cards.)

Sometimes they will let you in and do all the check in stuff but then you will sit and wait because they aren't ready to let people actually board. Hence why you get an Arrival Time not a Boarding Time.

I'm assuming your port of embarkation is Seattle not Vancouver (which is obviously on land in Canada). If there's an issue it would happen at boarding (or a few days before when Royal sends the passenger list to Canada's immigration authorities). Simply staying on the ship while in Canada isn't a solution because you are IN Canada whether you are on land or not. If Canada tells Royal they will deny entry to your husband, then Royal won't let him board. I'm not familiar with the term "physical control" so I have no idea if that would be flagged by Canadian immigration.

Indeed, they do plan both itineraries and dry docks years in advance. Freedom was amped (and thus dry docked) in 2020 and must be dry docked every 5 years so the ship is due in this time frame. They may have been planning for 2025 beyond currently released itineraries but if that proved impossible they may have to take what they can. I don't know what happens if they fail to dry dock by the end of the 5 year period. (Do they have to pull the ship from service or can they get a waiver as long as something is scheduled? Anybody know?) The pandemic no doubt messed up the 5 year cycle for a lot of ships so the dry docks are probably still backed up for the next couple years.