timf2001

The Vegan restaurant is a stand in Indulge, not a full-service restaurant. The Thai restaurant replaces Food Republic. A few of the restaurants and bars have shuffled locations, but are largely the same as on Prima and Viva.

RoyalUp appeared on my reservation page 75 days prior to sailing. I never received any other notifications. Whether or not there are cabins still for sale should not affect whether or not you get an offer. They regularly take bids on sold out cabins. Booking via a travel agent that does not participate in the program is the most likely reason you wouldn't see it.

It is too early since you are still over a year from sailing. There should be more excursions added as the date gets closer.

St. Kitts added a second dock a few years ago, which makes tendering much less likely.

In my experience, the 3 night dining package never goes on sale below the standard 20% off. They recently changed from gratuities added at checkout to gratuities included, but the total price stayed essentially the same. It's best to lock it in as soon as you can as it can sell out or the price could increase.

I sailed in both an Edge Villa on Celebrity and Yacht Club Duplex on MSC in the past year. Crowding outside of the Yacht Club on MSC was a serious concern. It's hard to do a fair comparison though since my Celebrity sailing was well below capacity. Celebrity is clearly the more upscale experience, from the decor and furnishings around the ship to the quality of the entertainment and excursions. However, the Yacht Club service was every bit as good, and the private areas had better offerings. I certainly can't complain when it cost half of what Celebrity did.

I would just take advantage of the free hot tub in Spice H2O. Adding pools or spas to the thermal suite would require significant structural work, which is why they are going with water features and extra heated loungers instead.

10190 is even farther from the slides than 10910. They will not be an issue.

This is exactly why there is a dry dock scheduled for November 2024. I would not be concerned about being on the first cruise after this, as it should be mostly technical work with nothing major on customer-facing areas.

In the future, you definitely want to sign up for Move Up as early as possible. My last accepted bid was awarded a full 30 days before sailing.

You shouldn't need to merge the accounts if no points were ever credited to it. Once you switch to the proper number, the new number just gets abandoned.

You don't need to call. All you need to do is log into the person's Latitudes account who was assigned a new number and search for the reservation. It will then link the reservation to their proper Latitudes number.

No Moderno, and Q is part of the food hall rather than a specialty restaurant.

The Black Friday sale seems to only touch lunches and Unlimited Dining. The C&A discount they had a couple weeks ago on individual dinner reservations is better than what is offered now. I too have never seen the minor dining package (3 day in the case of my reservation) ever go on sale below the standard pre-cruise discount.

I noticed the "base price" of the drink package just went up $5 for the first time since I've been watching it, probably so they can offer a bigger "discount" for Black Friday and still net out about the same.