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  1. It would be good if the app would let you see how many towels you have checked out.
  2. First, thank you to Kellie in Texas for notification of the OBC deal yesterday. I have a NextCruise certificate and I had been looking at a suite for particular cruise in 2026. Now the aggravating part. Yesterday the price went up by $490 when they added the $700 OBC. Today the OBC is gone and the price has miraculously dropped by $490 to the previous price. Pricing fun and games. I feel like I have been played, although I did book the cruise since I came out ahead a little bit, and now I have $1,000 OBC (including NextCruise OBC) that I can use to pay for the gratuities and internet service for four people.
  3. Book the rooms as you suggested - one prime member in each cabin. You cannot officially move people later, but on the ship they don't care where anyone sleeps. They will give you a spare key for each room if you ask at guest services. This is common practice. It is only a key, it cannot be used for room charges or to get off and on the ship. The person sleeping in the "wrong" room can use the spare key. Officially you and your husband will be in separate rooms but one can use the extra key to access the room where you are actually sleeping. Onboard charges will still go to the room listed on the booking.
  4. I have been looking at three possible cruises on various dates in 2025 and 2026, each in a grand suite. With this sale they have added $700 OBC, but the price of each suite has gone up by exactly $490. They increased the price for the first two passengers, the price for a third and fourth has stayed exactly the same.
  5. Maybe they are fixing the inequitable problem with the specialty dinners included with Premier - you get two specialty dinners, but a person on a 7 night cruise also gets two specialty dinners even though you are paying more than twice as much for Premier on your 17 night cruise. Shouldn't you get five specialty dinners?
  6. There's really not a lot of things you can do on an Oasis-class ship that you can't do on a Voyager-class or Freedom-class ship. The Oasis-class offers more spaces with places like Central Park, and some more activities like the water show and comedy club, but otherwise they have a lot in common. Flowriders, rock walls, slides, pools, casino, ice rink, royal promenade, theater with shows, specialty restaurants, etc. etc. are available.
  7. The suite concierge has a desk in the suite lounge. They have office hours, they will be present in the lounge for a few hours in the morning, and in the evenings during happy hour. I'm guessing since you have Voom included you are on one of the big ships that takes reservations for the shows. Normally the concierge will have made show reservations for you, but with the late upgrade this might not be the case. If you receive an email from the concierge you can request reservations at CK by email reply. Otherwise on boarding day you can stop by CK and make reservations for as many days as you want to eat there. You only need reservations for dinner. For breakfast you just show up. I don't know the schedule for lunch if they are open every day or only sea days, if at all. If your luggage tags aren't updated in your account then the porters at the pier have luggage tags they can put on your bags.
  8. The NextCruise offer is $200 in OBC or $200 off the price of the cruise. It is possible they gave you $200 off the price of the cruise, although it is not listed in the promotions applied. Yes you'll need to call to find out if they did give you a $200 discount or if they need to add the OBC to your booking.
  9. If this is a cruise for 10-14 nights then the standard deposit is $450 per person, or $900 total. NextCruise reduced deposit of $200 ($100 per person) is only good for non-suite cabins. If you book a suite you have to pay the full deposit, although the $200 is credited towards that deposit. If you purchased a NextCruise certificate for $200 then you should have been charged $700 deposit plus given $200 credit for the NextCruise certificate. But - to use the NextCruise certificate you have to call the number listed on the certificate and make the booking. If you just go online and book a cruise the $200 on the certificate is not applied. It appears you booked a suite for a 10-14 night cruise and either the NextCruise deposit of $200 was not applied correctly, or you did not book per the NextCruise certificate instructions by calling the designated phone number and supplying the certificate number. Edited to add: Based on your $180 gratuity at $18 per night this is a 10 night cruise. The NextCruise bonus OBC for JS for 10+ nights is $200, not $100. But if you did not supply the certificate number when booking that would explain why the OBC is not showing up.
  10. You should bid at least the minimum bid to have any chance of winning it.
  11. For what it's worth I have been on Freedom of the Seas in a balcony cabin directly under one of the cantilever hot tubs and we heard nothing, no noise from above.
  12. It is more complicated than that. There can be a whole cascading string of cabins involved in bidding. While you are bidding to move up to a bigger suite someone else is bidding to move up to your panoramic suite. So while your bid for the bigger suite could be the highest bid, it's possible that the bids for your panoramic suite are really low and they can make more money by accepting a lower bid from someone else whose cabin is attracting higher bids. This is one reason why you can bid on cabins even though it appears there aren't any cabins of that type available - because if someone moves up their cabin becomes available for someone else.
  13. What did you do in Bonaire and Aruba? Did you go to the ice show?
  14. There are two categories for spending on kids' Seapass cards. One is for the arcade, and the other is for everything else. There is an automatic $50 per day limit for the arcade. You can adjust that higher or lower. It is a daily limit, not per cruise. For all other spending on the Seapass card you can turn it off to prevent any spending, or place a limit. I am not sure if it is a daily limit or a total credit limit. You can disallow all spending during your online cruise check-in. If you want to place a limit you need to visit guest services.
  15. If your cruise is canceled due to a worldwide event your money will be refunded. Book the cruise and prepare the same as you would for any vacation.
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