RFerrington

You cannot reserve BOGO reservations in advance. Go to one of the specialty restaurants when you board and book the reservations. As long as there are 4 D+ involved, you will be able to cover 8 people regardless of the others’ status.

No. The discount is off the full onboard price so you must wait until after you board to apply for the discount.

We recently tried Hideaway. I paid $19.99 PP IMO it is not worth paying extra for. I did like 2 things: Heated pool Some overstuffed furniture other than those 2 things, there is nothing there that I can’t get for free on the “regular” side.

Welcome to Club Royale ! If you want to choose your own room or are considering an upgrade, I strongly recommend against using the “redeem online” link. This amounts to basically a Guarantee reservation. I have read that some people have requested a specific room in the “comments” section and been successful, but there’s no guarantee that you will be awarded your requested cabin when doing it online. The cash value is just that. You are entitled to apply the cash value of the certificate to a new booking. In the past, you used to be able to use the certificate (either the “full” value or the cash value) to an existing booking but recently there have been only a few reports of being able to use the annual tier cert on an existing booking. YMMV You can always upgrade your tier comp to a higher category. In the past, there was a “casino rate” applied to comp upgrades but those days are over. Nowadays, you pay the full retail price difference between the value of your comp (typically a 4V category for Prime) and whatever the current sticker price of the upgrade you desire. No discounts whatsoever. Something to keep in mind. Sometimes (rarely) the cost of a higher cabin category will actually be less than the cost of your award (the 4V I mentioned earlier). For example, I booked both of our annual Prime tier comps on Symphony for March 2025. For both of these bookings, an ocean view balcony guarantee (category XB) was lower than the interior (4V) so we will get an OV balcony at no additional cost as opposed to a dungeon inside ! So be sure and do some research (and ask the rep with whom you speak) to see if there are any “hidden” upgrades. These are rare…so you have to do your homework.

The staff that I really feel sorry for are those poor servers in Johnny Rockets who have to stop and do a silly routine from time-to-time. They always look like they would rather be ANYwhere else.

I am skeptical that any dining package for a cruise a year away would be sold out now. When a package does actually sell out, it will generally remain on the website with a “Sold Out” banner across it. It may have just disappeared from the website for some bizarre reason. Check back periodically. I’m guessing it will reappear soon.

The same exact thing happened to me with a comp cruise I booked a few days ago (it was an instant reward cert as opposed to an annual tier comp) I made the rookie mistake of not waiting to get the confirmation before hanging up (I was calling from a cruise ship and the confirmation was taking waaaytooo long to get to me) and when it finally arrived it showed a big balance due. I called back and it took an act of God to get it fixed. I ended up with a nice refund which was nice. It was a FUBAR booking all around…but I got it straightened out, finally.

The XB category (OVB GTY) for SY for 2-9 and 2-16 were actually lower than the comp interior category (4V) so the upgrade to the ocean view balcony guarantee was $0 to upgrade !

Thanks

Thanks. I guess it’s Adventure, not Indy. Too many different cruises I guess !

Indy has Izumi located on the Promenade where is no proper kitchen so the Izumi menu on Indy is much reduced.

Not unless you’re Star Class. There will probably be a bottle or 2 in your suite when you arrive but they won’t be replaced unless you’re in a S.C. suite.

Pinns still have to use a voucher for drinks unless they are in a full suite, so that’s the reason the servers might ask to see your Seapass card….if they don’t know who the Pinns are. Yes, if you are staying in a suite they should not be using a voucher for drinks in the CK/SL. I guess the single exception to this rule would be if you wanted a cocktail during non-Happy hour hours…then they might want to use a voucher.

I saw it but I count figure out what it was…just deleted it. All Royal promo emails are garbage anyway.

Ok. That’s standard. Always been a $15 upcharge for hibachi for UDP.