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At approximately 1:30 am, a cargo ship hit the bridge causing a collapse. My prayers go out to those transversing the bridge at the time of collapse. This waterway is a major shipping port for goods and cruise ships. Lets send our prayers to those affected. 

I have booked a few balcony and suite gty. The sooner you pay it off, the sooner you will be assigned your room. Gone are the days of being assigned room at 30 days out or less. 

 The big upside to this is that you can switch your room for no fee as long as it is in same catagory. The rooms have codes, like 4d,2c, etc. 

I paid off a cruise for anthem. Got assigned a balcony on deck 12. On anthem since things are inside i prefer deck 7. 2 decks down to all the action. Only need elevator for jammer and pools. I had a wide choice of rooms and drcks since we are still far out. 

They will have 2 more sales one being the buy one get one free and the best sale they will have 30% off

5 minutes ago, coaster said:

Problem with that is when folks called Royal's customer service to confirm, the too good to be true message was not conveyed.  Royal's own staff thought package was legit at the price advertised. Why would the callers be wrong to not question it as being truthful?

Because alot of the call centers are located outside the USA. limited english, reading from scripts, no knowledge of the dollar. They do not have a clue. This is a failure on royals part. 

Sorry I am late to this party. For some reason i could not get into cruise critic. Kept getting an error. I noticed the premier pass saturday morning. I tried logging into cruise critic for answers. Unable to log in i started googling it. Saw it offered on celebrity. Hey royal owns that, maybe it's true. Message royal, was unclear about how many needed to buy it. As you can see royal told 1 package 2 people. And the proof is a screen shot. Then i went on fb and posted there. I have not been contacted by royal about any cancellations. And i was specific on my ship and sail date. 

  The $18 bev pkg was up for maybe 8-12 hours. I remember them giving up and honoring it, basically because they have no way to look across all bookings and just search deluxe bev pkg. They would have had to go thru every booking and physically look to see what each person paid. 

So until royal contacts me about a refund, i will hold out hope. 

Still cannot check cruises. Keep getting white screen. This also means no booking cruises. Smh

3 minutes ago, cruiselvr04 said:

If Royal doesn’t have enough crew they need to stop their bookings.   We haven’t experienced this yet but haven’t been back at 100% capacity.  Our cruise this summer will be a test I guess.  We had great service on our 2 cruises since the re start.   On GOS in December and will not be happy if this is still true.
 

This I agree with 100%   If they don't have the crew don't allow the bookings. Simple supply and demand will push the price of cruises up. Making it financially beneficial for rccl. And customers will recieve the service they are used to. They need to utilize a practical passenger to crew ratio. 

How can a company make money if you can't book a cruise. Ridiculous 

10 hours ago, JessyCruises said:

Thanks for the heads up.  I have been trying to check mine all day but as soon as I click on a sailing, all I get is a white screen

 

I also am getting a white screen. Rebooted phone. Switched to chrome. Nothing works

Over chill beach. There is a plane and cannon. This is where the purchased guides go

I also have restrictions. My first cruise worked out fine. Don't order an appetizer. Order whatever meal i want for dinner. I eat only veggies and meat. No dessert. Easy. 

But they don't list costa rica on those boards. 

I got the message they are still suspended. I'm on your 4/30 enchantment. On the other face site they is a general meet at the r bar at 1 pm

On Nassau we orignally had blue lagoon booked. As we got closer to our cruise I noticed pearl Island was there and sold out. We had been to pearl island before and loved it. Being the literall first 2 people on the boat,  and loading on deck 5 right across from shore excursions. We walked straight over ( before the drink)  we have learned ftom cc that a few slots will be held open for onboard booking. So we cancelled blue lagoon and swapped out for pearl island. Was so excited. 

When we arrived at nassau we had to be out early on pier. Hubby wasn't happy about an early wake up. We skipped breakfast, just got coffees. Once on pier we were told mask required, copy of proof of vacination required. Some people didn't bring thier proof of vacination on boat, cause they downloaded it to rccl site. 

Things change alot, but I will share what i encountered. If you are taking an rccl tour that leaves from inside the port area. And returns to inside the port area. No one asks to see your vac card. I would suggest you take a photo of it. That is acceptable. This was true last Oct and this cruise. 

Once again the windy day affected us. Beach was a little choppy. Once again not dog paddle friendly. There were no blow up toys to play on. The paddle boards were up by the chairs and the big trampoline was missing. When I asked about the trampoline they said is was destroyed the week before by spring breakers. The bartenders said people also had gotten up on the bar and they couldn't get them down. They are so glad that week is over. 

Now the employees at pearl island told us damaged trampoline was taken in. Someone who snorkled said it was submerged. 

When we went in oct it was a small boat taking us over. This time it was a double decker boat. Being the first boat to arrive we did notice some trash around the island. Also there was not enough seating for eating. I would give them another chance. Everyone is adjusting to the larger crowds. 

This couple gave us a run for our money on outfits. And they definately won. What a bunch of classy  nice guys. 

We are 70's nite fanatics. Love the music , vibe, and dance. We go all out. And usually seen pulling people out of the sitting crowd to dance. Wigs and all our best night. Hubby has platform shoes with gold fish in the heels and he attaches lights to it. 

Like someone mentioned before the crew on this sailing was outstanding. The crew on all the ships are always very nice. It just really seemed like they were extra special nice. 

An example is hubby was looking for something in the windjammer. He stopped one of the workers and asked if they have any where would it be. She said she would get it for him. She went to another venue to go get it. I mean that is above and beyond. We don't usually ask for things. I mean there are so many choices in the windjammer. But hubby thought he just didn't see it. 

Tuna,duck,flounder and tuna

Formal night lobster and scallops. Ck

I'm making myself hungry. 

Octopus appetizer. Best i ever had. So tender

Food porn time. Butter pecan ice cream dessert. Ck

I'm gonna jump around a bit. Cococay. Love this place. We are beach people. This is the first time that we didn't book anything. I just wanted to get as much of the island in. And we literally walked the entire island. My last two times we booked a chill island cabbana, and a day pass to the beach club. I found the current strong at the beach club. Not dog paddle swimmer friendly. You book the club for the food. 

So let me start with the note to myself. Chicken sandwhich is only at the snack shacks. I love this sandwhich, and we had to hunt it down. 

It was a windy day, and the color coded flag set out in the chill beach area was yellow. Not a good day for doggy paddling. We brought snorkel gear but only hubby went. We explored the entire place. And ive decided if prices aren't too crazy i love the chill beach cabbanas. But i am not paying $800 for 2 people. So maybe a day bed next time. 

Oh i almost forgot. We arrived at cococay 2 hours late at 11:30. 

Pt caneveral was very late in restocking the boat. We left late. So that affected our arrival time. Bummer, but things happen. And we got to be on a cruise. 

In port canveral we stayed on the boat

The guitar guy from the pub in hubbys jacket

4 hours ago, Sunshine3601 said:

We met in the Music Hall the night you had on Flamingo outfits.   🤩 Loved your outfits throughout the whole cruise.     You really need to do a b2b, we love them.

Ahhh the music hall and the perfect couple contest. That was alot of fun. And first time I participated in these sort of shennanigans. There is a video out there in the web. I actually had someone from the audience give me a champagne while the game was going on. I had finished the glass i came onstage with. I think they were enjoying our performance. We kicked butt on the timed games giving us the win. We showed them young whipper snappers. The prize was 2 rccl water bottles. Over the years we have collected these items, so we gave a water bottle to each of the other couples participating. We had so many laughs. 

Weeelllll since it's already been brought up.... we dress up every night for dinner. I have to coordinate my clothes to hubby's. It was here on cc i first saw the flamingo suit. I showed hubby, he wanted it. The rest is history. We bought the flamingo suit and money suit at kohl's (online)  he has a flag suit he didn't wear. The rest are regular suits from various places. My flamingo dress was from amazon, that is also the place i got the crèche for underneath. Also were i can get scarves to match him. We do like to have fun and be silly, and a little tipsy. If you turn your noses up at our outfits, your not our kinda people. Those that give us thumbs up and such we will stop and have a drink,talk and yes pose for pictures. 

With the money suit we will buy million $$ candy bars and hand it out to the staff. Just part of the fun. We were also able to get some staff to put on my husbands jacket.

It is also nice to have staff remember you from before covid from another ship. And this shout out goes to Elvis in the schooner bar. Sorry about the sideways. I'm tech challenged.