Baked Alaska Posted July 11, 2018 Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 Anybody have any ideas or speculation when the rest of 2020 will be released? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princevaliantus Posted July 11, 2018 Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 The deployment/opening schedule for sailings is as follows, IF RCCL keeps it as last year: Short Caribbean Summer 2020 - Winter 2021: November, 2018 Northeast, Canada & Bermuda: Summer 2020: December, 2018 Europe Phase I & Alaska: Summer 2020: December, 2018 Remaining deployment: Spring 2019 Sweety 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted July 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 30 minutes ago, princevaliantus said: The deployment/opening schedule for sailings is as follows, IF RCCL keeps it as last year: Short Caribbean Summer 2020 - Winter 2021: November, 2018 Northeast, Canada & Bermuda: Summer 2020: December, 2018 Europe Phase I & Alaska: Summer 2020: December, 2018 Remaining deployment: Spring 2019 Thank you @princevaliantus. It's. So. Long. Away........................... ugh........................ accio7 and Adriana 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted July 12, 2018 Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 Looks like fall accio7 and JasonL 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincipalTinker Posted July 12, 2018 Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 The fall? I am glad they are so specific..... WAAAYTOOO, mworkman and accio7 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accio7 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 On 7/12/2018 at 6:45 PM, Matt said: Looks like fall Thanks for the confirmation, looking to book either a Bermuda cruise for October 2020 or a Southern Caribbean cruise for December 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe01 Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Fingers crossed they come out soon and that 'Fall' means September. Hoping to do a solo cruise on Indy in June 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ1231 Posted August 10, 2018 Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 Any chance RCCL will add additional ports in Alaska? We loved our cruise on Radiance and want to go again but hoping there are other ports we can visit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted August 10, 2018 Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 18 minutes ago, KJ1231 said: Any chance RCCL will add additional ports in Alaska? We loved our cruise on Radiance and want to go again but hoping there are other ports we can visit. Occasionally Sitka appears on limited itineraries. Sailing out of Seattle generally will call on Victoria which typically isn't offered on the one-way North/South cruises. Don't discount the Seattle round trip Alaska cruises. I've done both and enjoyed both very much. My pattern is Southbound, Seattle round trip, Southbound, Seattle roundtrip. 2020 is unknown. With more and bigger ships doing Alaska it is possible more ports or lesser used ports may become more common. Baked Alaska 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ1231 Posted August 14, 2018 Report Share Posted August 14, 2018 On 8/10/2018 at 10:26 AM, twangster said: Occasionally Sitka appears on limited itineraries. Sailing out of Seattle generally will call on Victoria which typically isn't offered on the one-way North/South cruises. Don't discount the Seattle round trip Alaska cruises. I've done both and enjoyed both very much. My pattern is Southbound, Seattle round trip, Southbound, Seattle roundtrip. 2020 is unknown. With more and bigger ships doing Alaska it is possible more ports or lesser used ports may become more common. Thanks - another line offers a 14-day (all cruise - no land) that includes most of the Radiance ports and adds Anchorage, Homer, Kodiak, Sitka and Victoria on a r/t from Seattle. Would love to do something similar on RCCL.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweety Posted August 14, 2018 Report Share Posted August 14, 2018 I would love to have a cruise from San Francisco to Alaska. Maybe a 12 day round trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonemanbob Posted August 17, 2018 Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 Bigger ships means less ports. To get a true Alaskan experience consider a cruise on a small ship cruise line. Also whale watching on a small boat excursion is worth the money. The big excursion whale watch boats don`t have the horsepower to turn on a dime and rush to a sighting. We are loyal to Royal most of the time unless we want to get a great experience like we did in Alaska and in some other countries. San Fran to Alaska round trip won`t give you many stops. One way will offer several stops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted August 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2018 2 hours ago, fonemanbob said: Bigger ships means less ports. To get a true Alaskan experience consider a cruise on a small ship cruise line. Also whale watching on a small boat excursion is worth the money. The big excursion whale watch boats don`t have the horsepower to turn on a dime and rush to a sighting. We are loyal to Royal most of the time unless we want to get a great experience like we did in Alaska and in some other countries. San Fran to Alaska round trip won`t give you many stops. One way will offer several stops. Agreed. We are doing the soundbound next summer on Radiance. Not interested in the whale watching (if we see them, super), we will be stream fishing at each port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweety Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 Husband and I are looking forward to seeing the new schedule. He gave the green light to book three cruises in December: Summer 2020, Holidays 2020 and Spring break. I asked does B2B count as one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjac Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 Nope a B2B is considered two cruises. Sweety 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweety Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 33 minutes ago, rjac said: Nope a B2B is considered two cruises. Are you sure? I need another opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLMoran Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 If your husband is going by the number of invoices you're paying off, and he sees the bills / emails / statements, then B2B counts as two cruises (separate bookings and reservations). But if you're the master of the treasury and all he does at the end of the day is hand his paycheck to you for bill payments, and he never so much as sees a statement... well, then you just have one unusually long itinerary and he can find out the realities of the B2B disemarkation / re-embarkation when the day comes. Sweety and Boston Babe 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjac Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 If the first week is, for example, Eastern Carib and the second week is Western Carib that's two cruises. We've done this a couple of times in the past. Sweety 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLMoran Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 1 hour ago, rjac said: If the first week is, for example, Eastern Carib and the second week is Western Carib that's two cruises. We've done this a couple of times in the past. @rjac, you are taking this FAR too literally! Can't you see that @Sweety doesn't want cold reality, and is looking for a loophole to sneak in a fourth cruise without her husband realizing? Help a gal out with feeding her cruise addiction, already! Sweety 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjac Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 Just now, JLMoran said: Help a gal out with feeding her cruise addiction, already! Well, she can always use the age old excuse "oops, I made a mistake" or "oops, I was confused" and rather than loosing the deposit argue that it would just be best to do the B2B. JLMoran and Sweety 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLMoran Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 Btw, @Sweety, if you ever want to "sneak" in a B2B in a more covert manner, check out HAL's itineraries. I found after looking through a bunch of their Norway / Iceland offerings that they have listings for longer (14-28 night) sailings that, when you dig into the itineraries, are really B2B or B2B2B combinations of various shorter itineraries. Those would show up as a single booking / invoice, and honestly the ones I looked at were really nice for port stops, days spent in the fjords, etc. I'd imagine they may well have similar offerings here in the states for combined eastern/western Caribbean or other options that are easily combined from a common port. Sweety 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jce2 Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 I could have sworn that at one time i saw an official RC graphic showing future release dates including Alaska 2020 as being December 2018 but now I simply cant find it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 Sweety, a B2B only counts as 1 cruise. I'm positive about this. Sweety 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princevaliantus Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, WAAAYTOOO said: Sweety, a B2B only counts as 1 cruise. I'm positive about this. To further clarify, IF the booking is for two cruises that are listed AND priced as ONE, then it is counted as one as there will only be ONE payment. IF it is two separate listed AND priced cruises you want to do B2B, then they count as two since you have to pay them separately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweety Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 38 minutes ago, WAAAYTOOO said: Sweety, a B2B only counts as 1 cruise. I'm positive about this. Thank You! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted September 10, 2018 Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 6 hours ago, princevaliantus said: To further clarify, IF the booking is for two cruises that are listed AND priced as ONE, then it is counted as one as there will only be ONE payment. IF it is two separate listed AND priced cruises you want to do B2B, then they count as two since you have to pay them separately. Counselor, we are joking. JLMoran, Lovetocruise2002 and Sweety 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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