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The change from 7 nights to 6 nights is enough to trigger options like that. Changing a port of call while maintaining the rest of the details typically is not.

Great idea! I love my split-sole Bloch dance sneakers, could definitely weather some spilled drinks and roughly textured anti slip deck surfaces!

Ooo I cannot see the video! . I can just imagine the ‘Tango Look’ though!

That was awesome. You have the tango look on your face.

Omg no one cares or bothers with check in times. That's been my experience, my family's, friends, co workers, and virtually every cruise vlogger on Youtube. So much ado about nothing. Just get to the port when you want.

They are fun once. After that it's the same thing every time.

In your contract it states that they can change itinerary with no notice at any time.

We have a trip in August & just received notification yesterday that Labadee was now going to be replaced with Grand Turks for our itinerary. Just glad it wasn't Nassau

Just told Hubby this morning that we are headed to Grand Turk in July in place of Labadee. He is excited because it looks like there is a Flowrider at the port area, much like Puerto Plata.

That's a fair point. Obviously there's less regular need to move between the adults-only area and the waterpark than the waterpark and the splash park. But it seems to be a lot more complicated than that. For example, what then do you do with all the Boardwalk balcony rooms? That's a couple hundred rooms that would look out over the adults area. I don't think the adults looking to get away from children would enjoy having dozens of kids in rooms above them staring down and making noise, and you definitely can't make all those rooms adults only. So, my guess is putting the adults area there was an impossibility that would've demanded a redesign of the whole ship. They spend years designing these things, so there's rhyme and reason to everything and logistical things we don't know about.

#1 - I don't think they're ever going to install nets. While these incidents make news, I don't think suicide rates are any higher on cruise ships than anywhere else (in fact, they're probably lower). It's not a cruise ship problem. It's a mental health problem. #2 - Not to be morbid, but to be fair to our friends in the animal kingdom, my assumption is anyone jumping off a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean would probably drown. Sharks are out there, for sure, but they're not typically aggressively hunting humans.

I liked the CL on Indy between the crown view and the outdoor area. Although when we were on her in 2022 the automatic sliding door to the outside wasn't working so you had to manually pry it open, lol. The warm snacks were also awful. Everything is a trade-off I guess. I'm used to Oasis class with the CL in the basement and I'll take Wonder's virtual window, nice food spread, and TWO coffee machines at this point over a nice view. I don't actually lounge there for long anyway... I usually just grab my cappuccinos and pastry to go in the early AM and pop in at night to check the snacks and maybe sit there eating them for 10-15 mins.

‘Six floors down would have been a great spot to have the Adults Only Area and had the little kids area right behind the waterslides where the Hideaway adults area is now. That would have made much more sense.

Yep, but those snacks look preeeety good. Better than EX

I did think about this when I first saw the design. The objective was to split up the usual high-traffic areas to prevent anywhere from being too crowded -- which it does a great job of -- but for anyone with kids of split age groups, this does present an issue. But... these ships are increasingly built to be like theme parks with distinctly different areas. And if you've ever been to Disney or any other type of theme park or water park with kids of different ages (where one wants to ride coasters while the other wants to meet Cinderella, or one wants to be in the kiddie pool while the other wants to go on slides), you know you either need to split up or compromise. To me, it's not that different from any other Royal boat where there are things to do all over the ship. I often find myself going with one kid to karaoke while my wife takes the other to play sports. Then there are times when we say to one of them, "too bad, we're going to stay together and spend time as a family now." It's just a reality of being on a massive ship with a million things to do. I've gone on cruises with just my family of 4, to groups as big as 5 families, all with kids of various ages. It's hard and perhaps even unrealistic to keep everyone together on a cruise when there's so much to do.

There are hibachi lunches. You should be able to look in the cruise planner as it will only be available on sea days. I would book asap because the spots fill up much faster than sushi.

It is refundable cash credit. You can also go to guest services and cash it out at any point of the cruise.

I remember that commercial with Ray Charles

This is part of our tango routine the day we learned it. It's not polished in this video - just recorded so we could remember the steps at home. VID-20240127-WA0000.mp4

For me, an opportunity to stay aboard a semi-empty ship with a few good friends

Hope you enjoy your cruise! I am doing same ship from Barcelona in july.

Interesting. We did the land and sea on the Radiance last year and the land excursions were available in our cruise planner. But we did book the trip in 2023. It may be a thing that Royal hasn't confirmed the land excursions for your trip yet. Perhaps a call to Royal might confirm this.

we got 10:30 on Allure out of PC for 3JUN boarding.

We were a group of 15 on Icon in February…….. 8 adults and 7 kids. All the kids except 1 were 11 to 14. The other 1 was 4, it was a HUGE INCONVENIENCE that for the 4 year old to use the kid’s pool area, 1 or both of her parents had to be 6 floors below the rest of the group and their older kid. I totally agree …….. putting the little kids pool area down there was the most stupid idea ever.

I don't think it is refundable. However, you can transfer it to a slot machine in the casino and then cash out.