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The website states: "Take an air-conditioned ride through beautiful downtown Costa Maya, as your knowledgeable guide offers a short history of the city on your way to your snorkeling adventure." - How long is the ride to the catamaran? - Is it on a bus or a taxi? The website states: " After your exciting snorkel adventure, sit back and relax on the catamaran with a complementary drink, as you enjoy a scenic cruise back to your awaiting ship." -Will we have a ride back to the ship on land? Or will the catamaran take us back to the port? Thanks!

The website makes it clear that we will be picked up from the port in a taxi. We want to go on an excursion where we won't be in the vehicle traveling through Mexico. This excursion is five hours and we want to know how much of the excursion is driving in a cab and how much is actually playing! -How long will we be riding in the cab to get to our destination? -How long do we get to ride the ATVs? -Will we take another cab ride to the beach adventure? -How long is the cab ride back from the beach to the port? Thanks!

This will be our 3rd time on MOTS, but our first time in Jamaica or Labadee. 20 Days to go!!!!

Hi, If you are looking for a group to join on Facebook for this sailing, please visit out group and join in. We would love to have you on board with us! Don't forget to say hi and feel free to ask whatever you would like. https://www.facebook.com/groups/marineroftheseasmay62024

Anyone Going to Royal Caribbean on September 9th-September 15th from Mariner of the Seas departing from Port Canaveral? Me and my husband are going. Uber seemed cheaper if we get one more person with us. ($15-$20/person). We are staying at Country Inn. Please reach out. Thank you.

Hello All I have cruise booked with the mariner of the seas July 21st out of Port Canaveral (this is my first cruise with Royal Caribbean) and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions where I should book a hotel. I am trying to find something fairly close to the terminal. Thank you

Excited to celebrate our 15th anniversary & our oldest boy’s 6th birthday with our family of 4. Andrew (36), Ambere (35), AJ (6), and Alex (2). This will be Ambere & my second cruise and the first one with our boys. Our first one was a 4 day Bahamas on our honeymoon aboard Sovereign Of The Seas (RIP) in 2008. Excited to go back to Nassau & CocoCay & see Bermuda for the first time!

My husband and I are going on a 4 night cruise (boarding day, Sea Day, Cozumel, Sea day) - Which of those days would you all suggest is the best day to do a dinner at Chefs Table? This is our first ever cruise and I am clueless about what to expect each day.

My husband and I will be on this cruise, kid free, for our 10 year anniversary.

Booked and soooo ready to go! Never been to Labadee!

We are less than a year out, people! Who's sailing to Puerto Plata, Labadee and Coco Cay?

For today's birthday sailing I booked Jamie's for embarkation lunch. We don't have the UDP because quite frankly I wasn't that jazzed about the specialty dining on this ship for 5 nights. Can we order more then 3 apps and all share? Or is it one per person? Is it the same with the lunch offerings? Thanks so much, reservation at 1200. I figured better to ask late then not ask at all. Thanks everyone!

Since my introduction to participating in a live blog with @Lovetocruise2002 on her Star Class take over I'm going to document our family sweet 16 celebration cruise. Note: Daughter celebrating, me still scratching my head looking at baby pics thinking where in the heck did the time go? I had her when I was 40, so shocked and happy! Please be kind and don't do the math! Best thing that ever happened to me, after meeting hubby of course, married 30 years in August....together 32 years. Harmony to celebrate our Anniversary 01 August! Mariner of the Seas June 13-18, 2022 Cabin: 1804, it's been a 2X canceled cabin due to pandemic really happy to sail from this perspective. Bringing my motion patches just in case. VP Ocean view Panoramic Suite. Royal Up Bid: Royal Suite still pending, while that would be nice I'm perfectly fine trying out the cabin I have. Antigens negative yesterday, so happy! Stepping off the Allure last Sunday we all felt good but were just a little nervous, all for naught! Concierge contact and host Dudley! Yay, we met him on the first sailing of the Adventure out of the Bahamas back in June 2021. Our only request was a private table for the three of us in the MDR. There are no birthday decorations at all on board as reflected by the cruise planner so I am just bringing some small sweet 16 items to decorate the cabin. The Labadee cabanas are really high so we are just going to skip breakfast and go over early for some chairs in our hidden nook. Embarkation lunch at Jaimies Italian. We have never dined there. We are doing MDR for a change for dinner. Asked for a table off to the side as it usually gets really loud in there. Itinerary: Leaving out of Port Canaveral Terminal 5, Sea Day, Labadee, Sea Day, Coco Cay, Port Canaveral. A quick sailing, I will want to stay on for sure! I asked Dudley if I could bring him anything and he needed some laundry detergent and such, I purchased and packed to discretly give to him, I was so happy he felt comfortable enough to ask. It made me feel good to get something he needed. We are driving over from Tampa FL to Port Canaveral today and staying in the Hampton at Port Canaveral. With the sailing embarkation on a Monday Interstate 4 is never fun, but on a Monday just no! Would rather arrive a day earlier I'm just more comfortable because you just never know! Please be patient and kind, this is my first time doing this blog thing alone, I will try to channel my inner Sabrina to make it as fun as possible. Mariner here we come! Cabana prices are high! Last pic was me last week in Labadee, that is what I plan to do this entire trip....I love the water!

Was anyone on Mariner of the seas may 23-28? The last night the captain said he was going to go faster because of a medical emergency and I’m just curious what happened.

So I have some cruises in my app - we sail in Mariner this year, but the app doesn’t open to allow me to see dining, etc. Yet our sailing next year on Allure DOES have that option. I also see the allure sailing has the “my sailing tag” on it but the Mariner doesn’t. Any thoughts on why this is happening or how it can be fixed? Thanks in Advance

If I am reading things right, in order to sail with children 12 and older they must be vaccinated? Okay, so is the company going to refund my four after this date sailings? My daughter is 15 and while vaccination isn't off the table we want to wait for additional education before we give her this vaccine, so clearly our sailing 01 August 2021 is a no go. I paid with my FCC's please, will they be issuing refunds now? As an adult I am vaccinated, but I want to do my due diligence not be forced into something before I am ready. Thoughts? Anyone in the same boat here? @Matt am I understanding this correctly?? @Sharla what now?

Hi All - planning a 9 day cruise summer of 2022 and booked 4 spacious balcony cabins together on the Mariner. Does anyone know if the balconies can be connected by opening/removing doors? Any issues? Thanks

I'm going on Symphony of the seas in March 2022. I looked at the port schedule for CocoCay and it looks like the day I'm visiting (March 18, 2022), both Symphony and Mariner are docking. How crowded would that be with 2 ships, especially the waterpark? I know Royal frequently docks 2 voyager class ships (ex. Navigator and Mariner), but I don't know about an Oasis class + Mariner.

For those of you have sailed on the Voyager class would you prefer a 2 bedroom grande suite to the 1 bedroom? I really wanted to book the panoramic in front but the two are unavailable. I REALLY prefer 2 bathrooms with our teenage daughter but it's only 4 nights. I watched the you tube videos and am not sure I would enjoy the aft balcony as it appears very obstructed. Also can you smell the exhaust, feel the rock of the ship more? Thanks for your thoughts. Seriously I would stow away in the bottom of the ship to sail already.

Since only sailing the Oasis class I have never sailed the Mariner before. As far as the Grand Suite on this ship, what are the main differences ? Will I need to book embarkation lunch for a more relaxed lunch? Internet also not included? Is there a suite lounge? I know there is no Coastal Kitchen, what do you do in this case? Thank you ahead of time!

We were set to go in August, but ended up cancelling on our fully refundable reservation before all of this got crazy back in March (you really could see the writing on the wall). So happy to reschedule for the end of April! Got the same itinerary (double dip at CocoCay), and while I doubt we'll see a repeat of the two-day pass for $69 in the cruise planner, we did get a good price for our drink package at $53. Oh, and our room is bigger (got the spacious, panoramic oceanview this time) and we are oh-so excited to have something to look forward to again. Hooray!

Okay, crazy question I think. Can anyone here remember the type of car on the promenade of the Mariner? Anthem? Are they the same as on the Harmony? Curious minds want to know. Any additional ships cars identified will also be greatly Appreciated. We love this random stuff! Thanks in advance ? I resort to anything I can to lure my husband into booking new sailings?

Our previous sailing on the Harmony we had our WOW bands scanned at muster (they squished us in the rear) in guest services area and it was worse then awful and long....then, to add insult to injury so to speak they sent us multiple "threats" accusing us of not being there. Finally we were issued an order to appear to watch that dreaded movie again, just a nightmare! Does anyone know where the muster station is for cabin 1252 on the Mariner? Also 1752 on the Harmony? I want to plan to attend with the sea pass cards and make sure they are correctly scanned this time, thanks so much!

We are going on Mariner in October 2020. Does anyone know the cost of the Escape Room onboard? Is the room worth it (good puzzles, the rooms actually put together well?)?