WeMissSeaView

7 hours ago, JColquhoun said:

Hi there, I was on NOS a few months ago and loved our Suite concierge, Can anyone tell me who is currently the Suite Concierge on Navigator?

 

Thank you

Navigator is currently in drydock in Singapore.  She is scheduled to start sailing again from LA on April 12th.

2 hours ago, Biker19 said:

Any RCI ship home ported in LA will likely use the same terminal/pier which Navigator uses now at San Pedro.

Any ship home ported in LA will also need a shore power hookup.  Quantum currently does not have that.

QUA

The only check in I have seen at the Seattle Airport is for the Royal transfers to the pier.

As you can see by my name, I truly miss the Sea View Cafe.  Took a cruise on the Radiance to eat at Sea View Cafe one last time.

1 hour ago, crzndeb said:

Glad you got one. I never did receive my Wonder block from Oct./2022 cruise. Oh well, win some, lose some. I did fill out a form on the cruise, as they were out, but it was never mailed either. Guess it won’t be now.

Call C&A.  That happened to me on the Wonder in 2022 and C&A mailed one to me.  Or, if you sail on the Wonder again explain what happened to the LA.

6 minutes ago, Charles4515 said:

Don’t know why people are surprised. Celebrity and Royal say it could take up to 30 days for points to be added. 

True.  But in the past when a past cruise points changes from “0” to a number, the total points also changes.  This is the first time that it did not.

Same thing is happening on the Royal side.  I goy off a three night cruise ten days ago and the three points have not been added to my total.   Under past cruises, it shows that I earned 3 points for the cruise.  

18 minutes ago, Stem to Stern said:

You would think Celebrity could make it easier to find the points history.  

Good grief!🙄

My 5 points for December webinar are there, but not showing up in the total yet.

Same here.

7 minutes ago, HappyTexan44 said:

Well, according to their own bean-counter reports, they are spending less on food per passenger.    Considering how much inflation has hit my grocery bill, it seems impossible for the quality to have *not* tanked if the food budget has gone down.  

Reminds me of a place I used to work.    A manager would get a great idea for a morale booster, once they cooked steaks for everyone for some company anniversary.   A high-up manager mandated that the steaks be 'huge, as in hang off the edge of the plate."  The steaks were less than a 1/2" thick and shoe leather.  I took it home thinking my eat-anything cat would enjoy it.  Nope.  He didn't recognize it as food.   One other time they got everyone white polo shirts with the company name on it.    Fabric was so thin and transparent that even men wore an undershirt underneath.  

 

Did it survive the first laundry trip?  I had one that fit my six year old after being washed once in cold water.

It is not just the Navigator.

14 hours ago, Ex-Airbalancer said:

But how much did those 360 points cost 🤔😱

Still 130 points away from Elite plus , 

we did get screwed out of 28 points on one cruise 

First booked an OV than there was a price drop and upgraded to a balcony for the same price ( not with the upgraded bid) with the travel agency 

Celebrity opinion since we book an ov we only get points for an ov 

and under the opinion that since it was with a travel agency and not a bid up promotion we should get the balcony point 🤬

 

 

Same thing happened to me on two cruises that were back to back.  I am still mad about those points that I did not get.

8 hours ago, Saab4444 said:

Cadiz is in Spain.

My mistake, it was Spain close to Portugal.  I do not know if the conversion can be done anywhere else.  Whatever ship starts regular service from California will have to have the conversion done.

10 hours ago, fac429 said:

 

Interesting!  (Though I have to admit I have no idea what these are.)  Does Quantum already have these, or would they need to be installed to sail out of L.A. as well?

Navigator is the only Royal ship that has it currently.

Ovation will have to have shore power connections installed to sail out of LA for more then 5 cruises.  Navigator had it installed while in dry dock in Portugal prior to coming to LA. 

My e-mail shows 954 points. When I log in it shows 996 points, which is correct.  Strange that there is a 42 point gap.

The question is, will they pay a dividend or just pay off debt?

2 hours ago, EdandMary said:

I would love to find a clear Symphony or Sovereign block but neither seem to be available, even on EBAY

For the record, Sovereign is only available as a V1 clear block.  The blocks started in 2007 and Sovereign left the Royal fleet in 2008.

7 hours ago, mljatsea said:

I'd forgotten about the webinar. Is there still time to watch? If so, can someone send me the link. I've lost it.

 

Thanks,

MESSAGE #7607

14 hours ago, not-enough-cruising said:

That's curious, our part received 2 blocks on Wonder the week of July 23. both were clear

 The LA advised that he only has the colored blocks now.

Currently on the Wonder and the blocks are the new color blocks.  When I was on the Wonder in March 2022, they were clear blocks.  The number of clear Wonder blocks may be a low number.

On 7/25/2023 at 2:47 PM, SherriZ366 said:

There are over 500 Pinnacles on the President's cruise.  

Cruise started with 547 Pinnacles and 12 made Pinnacle this cruise, so there are now 559 Pinnacles on the President cruise.  Numbers on other ships may go up after this Sunday.

35 minutes ago, topnole said:

Of course if you bought it then you are making out great.  However, at the time it was unknown if Royal would even survive or if cruising would fundamentally change forever and/or cease to exist for the mass market.  Luckily things got back to mostly normal.   But there was certainly a lot of risk involved, and that is why you now enjoy the reward (as it should be).  

I agree.  It was a roll of the dice.

1 hour ago, frank808 said:

I look at the first 100 shares bought at $19.50 as cruise OBC. We have already gotten back out initial 100 share purchase in cruise OBC with the 20+ sailings. The credit we receive for our future RCL cruises is just free money. I don't know of another investment that I enjoy so much which rewards me at least 5% ROI for each cruise.

Fortunately, many of us were able to purchase OBC stock far from the 5 figure amount mentioned by topnole.  I was able to purchase 100 shares for less then $2,200 in March 2020,  I am enjoying cruising with free money on each cruise.

7 hours ago, BND said:

We bought our shares solely for the OBC.  We only follow what it's doing out of curiosity.  We're meeting with our CFP in about 30 min and he sees the stock the same way we do.  We have other stocks in our IRA's that have been much more profitable.  

We did the exact same thing and bought  200 shares at $21.  When we explained the OBC to our financial advisor, he agreed it was a no brainer.  We sail a lot and by the end of this year we will have earned more OBC then the stock cost.

13 minutes ago, bruzin_for_a_cruizin said:

$100 barrier is passed.

 

Currently holding 200 shares at $79. I'll be hanging on to 100 shares of RCL for the OBC until the end of time, but I might sell 100 shares if it goes up another $10 or so. That'll cover the cost of a cruise for me and the wife!

I have 200 shares bought in March 2020 at $21.  If I do sell shares, I will keep 100 for the OBC.  I will earn enough stock OBC by the end of this year to cover the cost of the stock purchase.