Donsyb

This. I never understand when people say a CD is a big part of their cruise. They aren’t even on my radar 🤷🏼‍♀️

Although disappointingly, only 3 and 4 night cruises......

Anyway it’s now 15th May and still no Singapore cruises 😞

Did you find it easy to get a good US TA from the U.K.?

I think you need to check the definition of DISASTER in the dictionary…… we don’t do the windjammer, but had no issues on either of our oasis class sailings, both of which were at capacity

We’ve also never had a problem getting a 2 top on RC 🤷🏼‍♀️

What was wrong with Oasis? We loved it.

Spectrum is showing in China

Wasn’t it originally week commencing 13th May they were supposed to be out? Hopefully shouldn’t have long to wait 🤞

It was there in 2022 when I took my first post Covid cruise and was still there last year. The new mid seating would seat us better than either early or late though, so might consider that if it’s available for our next cruise.

You can still make MTD reservations through the cruise planner (or at least you could when I last cruised in December). We booked all of our MDR nights in advance.

We had MTD dining on wonder in December and it was great. We book for around 7/7.30 and there was either little lines or when there was lines, it moved quickly.

Not quite an FCC for the full value of your cruise though, which is what they claimed they got!

Someone was moaning about this on FB and were 100% blaming Royal for it. They claimed they knew someone “high up” at RC and got a FCC for the amount of their cruise because of it, but most people called that as BS 🤷🏼‍♀️

They’re saying they can cruise in a different RC ship for less. So why shouldn’t they do that if they wish? Not everyone is desperate to sail the newest and biggest at any cost - doesn’t make them less “fun”.

We’re also U.K. based and hoping to get at least 5 nights from Singers in Jan 2026 - my OH’s 50th birthday and our 25th anniversary 🤞we were booked on it for new Year 2020/2021, but obviously it was cancelled 😞

Whilst I have read of issues on here, it’s worked great whenever we’ve done it. Longest we’ve had to wait is 10 minutes.

There isn’t a combined package like there is on NCL. As others have said, you can prepay gratuities at the time of booking if you wish. You can also prepay for a drinks package (which will include gratuities). The price for the drinks package isn’t set and can change by sailing, but seems to be between $65-80 per person per day based on prices people have paid. There are regular offers such as x% off or buy one get 50% the second etc. you can buy and then cancel and repurchase if the price goes down.

I believe it has changed based on some things I read on here

I’ve never heard of anyone without reservations NOT getting into eat with MTD so think it’s extremely unlikely.

Prices are on the app. Eg radiance shows Soda is $3.50, virgin cocktails $7. Doesn’t show coffee prices - they were $4-5 last year

The one time I wanted to get the price drop, they said I would have to cancel and rebook. We would lose the deposit and OBC that came with our original offer, so wasn’t worth it.

They seem to be replacing vintages with Giovannis wine bar on the newer ships eg wonder and icon

Soot has been reported to be an issue at the aqua theater. We didn’t have the problem there but did when we were watching the Flo rider

If you have never had service that deserved a tip, you must be very hard to please! Anyway my point is relevant for the OP - if they don’t pre pay and don’t remove gratuities completely they will have to pay the higher amount of $18 pppd