splashsmom

You are correct that we are heading toward Bermuda. I believe that the captain said we will get close between midnight and 1 am when a rescue vessel will arrive for the patient transfer.

I was so excited to see that you were doing another "live from" because your reviews are so much fun to read! Then I realized that we are going on the same TA! Looking forward to meeting you on the ship. Have fun and safe travels. Joan

We were very happy with Airport Pickups London and plan to use them again.

While the venue itself is still two stories, the upper level is used for Chef’s Table. The Chef’s Table guests enter through the Crown Lounge.

Agree. We were recently on a B2B, so had early access to our room. The door to the room next to ours was wide open with no crew around and with the new cruisers' carryon bags (dropped off by the Key program) in plain sight.

When we have had the daily coffee credit on some other ships, we received physical vouchers. However, as previously mentioned, a daily coffee credit was loaded on to our seapass cards on the recent Anthem TA. What was odd, to us at least, was that the coffee posted on our account just like the drink "vouchers" for Diamond through Pinnacle. Even odder, we were in a suite, and the "free" drinks provided to suite guests in the concierge lounge on the Anthem also posted on our account like the D/D+/P vouchers. It took a bit of sorting to know which were our actual vouchers, and which were the additional "free" drinks.

We had stateroom 8181 on Celebrity Infinity as well. It was perfect for Alaska. Thanks for the video!

I don't have an issue with this if I knew that 100% of the increase was going to the crew. However, Royal doesn't rank high on my trust meter these days.

Vigo and Lisbon were affected: Vigo arrival is now 10 am and Lisbon arrival is now 8:30 am. Departure remained the same.

We were notified in March of this year that the time in some ports for the October 2023 Anthem TA were modified in order "to maintain a safe and comfortable speed." I appreciated the advance notice. Is there a reason why Royal didn't think speed would be an issue for subsequent cruises down the East Coast? Were they hoping that the issue would have been resolved by then?

I have not been able to get cans of soda with the soda package. If I see a server bringing me a can, it usually means they have charged my drink vouchers in error.

Serenade - same front and back

Boarding pass showed Sea Class for Wonder. I wasn't surprised, though, by not being allowed in the suite line for an Oasis-class ship at PC (though I would have liked a heads-up), because "back in the day", Oasis at PC only allowed Sky/Star classes and Pinnacles to go through the suite line. Back then, though, there were special signs they used to indicate such for the Oasis boardings. I didn't see any such signs for the Wonder boarding.

We were not allowed in the suite line when sailing in a junior suite on Wonder out of Port Canaveral in April.

Thank you for posting about the change to "pay as you enter" for T5 parking. Good news that I must have missed if it was published earlier.

We were in a junior suite on our Wonder cruise, and as Island Lady mentioned, the doors were propped open when we went to CK right after we boarded to make dinner reservations. That was the first surprise. The second surprise was that they were already taking reservations at CK before 11 am. The third surprise was that we never had to do the dreaded junior suite knock on the CK door for the three dinners we reserved because the doors were always open. A question that I have for you - were your seapass cards specially keyed for the elevators that went to the suite deck? Our room was on deck 8 so we tried to take the elevator up to CK. Without fail, we would always get the elevators that would only take us to deck 16.

It was plenty for the 2 of us: 2 wonton soups (instead of dessert), 2 firecracker shrimp orders, the two rolls, and two teriyaki bowls. Ordering ala carte may bring different results.

We did not have the dining package on Wonder, but did pay in advance for Izumi sushi. Under the prix fixe menu, we had 4 pcs for spicy crispy shrimp (probably paraphrasing) and 5 pcs for futomaki rolls. We previously (before the change) had 8 pcs under the prix fixe menu for each.

As stated, with the Wonder at PC, the Key will allow you an earlier check-in time and earlier boarding. If I recall correctly, you also can sit in the suite area in the terminal if you arrive before boarding. Having a junior suite on the Wonder did not get us any of the above (which was expected), including going through the pinnacle/suite line for security. If we ever have another junior suite on the Wonder, we'll probably follow your lead and get the Key.

We were just there recently with Wonder and Liberty. While crowded in some areas, it was not oppressively so. We didn't use beach loungers, but food lines seemed to be short, and even the pool looked pretty manageable, except around the swim-up bar. Wonder arrived after Liberty; you may wish to check the timing of your ship's arrival.

We were on this cruise, as well. Great review from 7680. OCSC Mike - I believe we exchanged some foodie comments regarding Playmakers on another ship. I agree with 7680 that the onion rings were very good at Playmakers (if they serve them when they are at least warm), as were the jalapeno poppers and the famous Campfire cookie. Nachos were lacking. Bar service was very good. In fact, we found bar service to be very good around the ship. We also ate at Mason Jar for brunch on embarkation day, and I agree with 7680 that you can plan out your menu exactly as you would like. If I recall correctly, we had 3 entree-type dishes to share between the two of us, no hesitation from the crew. Great experience.

We use valet parking at the Port of Tampa, which tacks on just $20 to the total parking charge, regardless of cruise length. That has been a great option for us. Because of that, it's been a while since we self-parked there.

Port of Tampa is $15 per day. Like Miami and PE, they don't charge an extra day.

Very nice video. Thank you so much for sharing.

Our Royal Up award was rescinded. We were doing a side-to-side and received no notice that the Grand Suite we were awarded was taken away. We found out when we were scrolling through the app for the second leg of the side-to-side (while on the cruise for the first leg) and happened to notice that the stateroom # had changed on our set sail passes for the second leg. Luckily we caught it just before the 48 hours cancellation timeframe during the post-COVID restart and had the option to cancel if we so chose as the new room they assigned to us was inferior to the room we originally selected (and paid an additional amount to select). I am very hesitant to do Royal Up after this experience.