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I have never seen all of their chairs used. So, yes, plenty.
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I just got messaged yesterday from both of ours and they are both still active and not anticipating a move anytime soon. Great news as Mr. Morsi’s is our favorite on South friars beach but we certainly understand the love people have for both of them.
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My Serenade experiences are somewhat different. On two separate cruises on Serenade, they turned people away on the first night if they didn’t have reservations. They didn’t ever care if you showed up at time of reservation, but they did care if you had one. We found that as long as we had a time booked, we could go any time and were always welcomed. As other poster said, table for two not always available.
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There has been a general price increase for 2019 in the Cruise Planners.
Also on drink packages this week for our cruise in fall of 2019. Spring cruise has old pricing.
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How are cruise docs (luggage tags, etc.) being delivered with the new web site. I may be missing something but I can’t see them anywhere? Have printed Set Sail with no issues. Thanks.
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Going to be on the Oasis of the Seas in November and one stop will be St. Maarten. Wanted to know opinions of the beaches there, specifically Orient Beach and the beach near the cruise dock. Also how long of a cab ride is it to Orient Beach? And where is the best point or points on Orient Beach to find a taxi back to the cruise dock? Any other beach recommendations and/or advice? I'd like to be able to swim in some really nice clear waters that are relatively calm. Have a nice underwater camera that I'd want to use there.
We pay a hair more to reserve a chair at Holland House Hotel on main beach at port. . Great service, chair, drinks, best bathrooms, internet on beach, great folks who followed through hurricane recovery and did wonderful job restoring.....we have loved them for years. Can make reservation on line. Lots of places cheaper but not as good chairs and often really loud music.
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Consider.......April 2019.....Vision Galveston to Barcelona....super value considering current RCI PRICING. Jr. Suites only $400 more than Balcony. Come join us.
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My wife and I are going on the Serenade in February. Just wondering if you had my time dining. This is the first time we tried my time dining. I prefer a set time but only 8pm was available. Looking forThanks!
My experience on Serenade (two cruises) is that as long as you have a MTD reservation for that evening, they will seat you virtually any time. We were only two so larger group may be a problem. First couple of nights, they were turning away anyone without a reservation, regardless of time.
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This happened on Sept. 10 when we checked in for our 1:05 pm flight on American to Philadelphia. The agent was pleasant and when she saw the RCL luggage tag asked us about the trip. We saw nothing in the question as our impression was that she was being friendly. The subsequent questions were unusual.
Q: How was your trip--no problem.
Q: Which countries we visited--no problem.
Problematic questions.
Q: Turned to my wife and asked her what was the cabin #, as though my wife was hiding something.
Q: How did we book our cruise.
Q: When I answered that I booked it on line, she proceeded to ask me the web-site address. Rather than prolong the discussion I told her that it was via RCL at RCCL.com.
I was tempted to tell her that it was none of her business, but since we were close to the weight limit, I played along.
As we completed our check-in, we wondered if we were selected for this process as we could not check-in on line on Brilliance and instead were advised to check-in at airport.
At our gate, there was an irate member of the UC Irvine, California water polo team that was incensed by some inane questions posed by a AA agent to her.
Wonder if this is new as part of the overall security package.
We've been thru Barcelona Airport and never experienced this process.
We just returned from Colombia and these are exactly the kinds of questions we got both from the counter agent, immigration and gate agent. And, they were excellent at bouncing questions between both my wife and me. Seemed to just be enhanced security.
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Need to make it on board , did same package last 2 cruises had no problem getting restaurant and times we wanted
We had a different experience on navigator. The reservation was not made for our first two nights and they made us accept a really challenging time although we went to the specialty restaurant reservation desk as soon as we boarded. We were unable to get to two of the specialty restaurants at all at any time during the cruise and other reservation times were not conducive to getting to the shows etc. since this was our only experience of using dining packages, we were quite disappointed and wondered if it was an exception. Looking forward to seeing other people's points of view as we have chosen not to make such reservations on upcoming cruises. We have just booked what we wanted at full price but would love to use the packages once more.
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One of the perks of having your reservation turned over to a TA, this type of thing can't happen. At least, I've not ever seen anyone report it.
Just had it happen with my TA. They tried to raise price almost $2,000. Thank goodness for original receipts. Hate that we have to watch this kind of stuff.
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We were on Freedom Dec. 4th,and my husband went to use the ones on RP. The regular diet coke was out! We were still in port! Really? Saw alot of people frustrated by this- they did not get any till 2-3 days later. He had the premium drink package-or would have cancelled. Did they pick some up at our first port-GC?
My experience has been that every department has a schedule of when they are allowed to go to "supply" and replenish. Sometimes,it is two or three days away from when they run out. We have seen this multiple times in bars when bar tenders could confirm a wine or liquor they were out of at that specific bar is actually in the supply area but they weren't slotted to pick up for a couple of days. The better managers will find a way to transfer between bars, windjammer, pool but others won't take the initiative.
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We are on the 1-13-17 & 1-23-17 cruises on Serenade. It has always shown terminal 18 but this week it changed to terminal 25.
Confirmed this morning by a cruiser currently on board for B2B on tomorrow's cruise Roll Call. They were told at their B2B meeting 25.
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So if I book and prepay an upcharge restaurant and change my mind while onboard, what is the latest I can cancel and get full refund?
When we did just that in the spring on Indie, they would only apply credit to shipboard account, not credit to card I had used to charge it.
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Going to be on Freedom for the first time in a week :D
I have gotten addicted to a drink called a cucumber sunrise at the Alchemy bar on Carnival. It became my pre-dinner cocktail. Does anyone know if there would be a bar on Freedom that could make it? Most of the ingredients can be easily found, just not sure if the watermelon syrup and cucumber can be found at any of the bars on Freedom. I listed the recipe below:
Cucumber Sunrise
2 0z ABSOLUTE VODKA
1 0z FRESH LIME JUICE
1 0z MONIN WATERMELON SYRUP
2 CUCUMBER WHEELS
0.75 0z ORANGE JUICE
Muddle cucumber wheels in a shaker, add all ingredients with ice then shake and strain into a glass with ice.
Many of this class ship have a "mixologist" on board in one of the bars. And, most of the bartenders would enjoy giving it a try.
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While most items weren't discounted more than the sale a few weeks ago, I was able to save a few additional bucks on several shore,excursions on three cruises.
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There is no set time. Might be more than 120 days before the cruise or less than 90 days.
Thank you. I'm surprised it's moderately short period of time considering the size of the ships. Once again, thanks.
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I'm sure this has been answered, but I couldn't find it. What is people's experience when Cruise Planners are available for dining and entertainment prior to a cruise? Thanks.
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we did the day pass at the Sonesta Maho last September. It was a pretty good deal. I t was all inclusive (drinks and buffet lunch). We had several frozen drinks and beers. The pool at the time was being worked on but we did not care. We were there for the beach and airplanes. The resort is literally right next to the famous Maho beach where the planes land right overhead. We got the passes through resort for a Jaital dot com. This included round trip transportation. We told the driver what time we wanted to get back close to the ship for some shopping and he was there on time to pick us up.
FYI, we have used Jaital with great success website now says day passes at Sonestas now only available off season. I wonder if hotel enforces that.
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I found an issue late this week where if I go to their new promotion site where you "explore" the different parts of the ship to play in their online "game", and then try to go back to the main web site, you can't and the page appears blank. When I deleted the Royal site's cookies the RCL page worked again. I tried to explain this to C&A, but they couldn't understand and I gave up trying to help.
Removing cookies just worked for me. Thanks.
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:eek: or is it just me ????. Can't get on it all day.
I have multiple reservations. Can get into some and not others.
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I've been having trouble as well. I have this link set up to the page that lists all their ships, I can log in to my account from here.
"Our usual each" posted,this earlier as a workaround to get to RCI website and cruise planners. Worked for me. Thanks.
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Hi, thanks for the info. Just saved another $50 on the deluxe beverage package- $40 per day!
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Freedom January sailing Deluxe at $38
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Arrived in Split, Croatia at about 8 AM this morning and after a quick breakfast headed over to the Star Theater for the Krka Waterfalls and the Town of Skradin excursion. A bit pricey at $149 pp, but maybe the best tour of the cruise. An hour and a half bus ride out of Split brought us to this lovely National Park. The basics are that a large tributary river
confluences with the Krka River and forms a series of 17 cascades over 1300 ft of river. The descending walk on elevated Boardwalk for most of it's length traverses beautiful parkland surrender by gentle falls. It's incredibly beautiful and restful. You can swim (wade really) at the base of the walkway, but you'll obviously need your suit and not slip water shoes to go in. No one in our group chose to. There's nice restaurants, snack shops and the ever-present souvenir shops at the bottom as well.
After a 45 minute free time break (for a much-needed beer!) we rejoined our lovely guide (Eileen; funny, informative and a real treat!) to make our way down to the little boat (60 passengers or so), boarded and made the 30 min. motor to Skaden (very pretty!) for a very nice lunch of an appetizer of ham, cheese, a slaw salad, a dinner plate of scalloped potatoes. A nice meal at the Zlatne Skoljke (golden she'll I'm told!) on top of a great tour!
One of my top two excursions on the tour: I'd highly recommend.
On the bus now back to the ship and getting hit with a quick developing storm. It was absolutely beautiful at the park so we lucked out all around!
Once again we're going to miss the main port city, but well worth it!
Dinner at Manfredi's again tonight! Wahoo!
Nazdravlje! (Croatian!),
Bill
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Thanks for all of your posts. We have been traveling with you but doing different excursions, so fun to read yours.
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Seaside YC Drink Package
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Just left two weeks in Seaside YC. There is a $$$ max at Champagne Bar, but what we ordered was $2 over that amount and we were never charged.