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Sailing on Explorer of the Seas 11 night Southern Caribbean sailing the Southwest portion Have a stop in Colon Panama and have been looking at this tour - Authentic Expedition to an Embera Indian Village Anyone with recent experience for this tour?

On my future cruise it shows the 3 specialty restaurants, Steakhouse, Cucina Del Capitan, JiJi's all available to book pre-cruise. My question is are they the same price if purchased on board as in the planner (i.e. no pre-cruise discount for booking before cruise)

Belive me it is a PITA for Royal to do in Galveston, bar shut down for 10-15 minutes in some cases to change out bottle with Texas Tax Stamps. It is interesting I was on a Royal ship on their last 2 Galveston sailing before heading with no passengers to Florida. Next to the last sailing they ran out of some types of liquor, then On last sailing they just used up the rest of the Texas Tax Stamped liquor

Just an FYI when sailing from NOLA Royal eats the state sales tax and the last on Carnival in 2019 you could use their drink package, but they charged you the State Tax separately.

@Charles4515 and @BillOh I'll gladly retract my "never" and suffice that word with "almost" never. As at least one of you also stated to do sois against RCCL's contract agreements with the tour providers, which btw is very lucrative. Most reputable companies won't risk to loss of business that would occur from losing the contract

Only embarkation day and the next 2 full days on a 7 night cruise at full non-discounted price.

Usually not. Also you will never be able to book independently with the same providers as Royal uses.

@DavidOrawan one other thing you have consider with Royal’s pricing is as @Cdude said CCL and it's childern line have a limit on drinks, Royal no limits. NCL even when part of included is a lower level package that you still pay gratuities on, and if you want good liquor you need to pay an upgrade to that package. MSC I'm not knowledgeable. Yes Royals DBP is much more expensive now than say 3 years ago. Some will benefit if for no other reason than, knowing up front the cost, no surprise end of cruise bill. Maybe just not having to think of cost in the decision, do I have a drink or not. I hope whatever you decide it works out for you

@Solo1959 which specific VPN software

I can't turn on wifi calling on my Android? It works anywhere else I have wifi access with my phone in airplane ✈️ mode and wifi calling turned on

But they should be. Call them what you want, service charge, resort fee, housekeeping & dinning fee. Carnival should not allow them to be removed.

Not a dinosaur. Web sites are far more function than phone apps in almost every instance.

Sorry stand corrected on that issue. It has been a while, before covid, since I sailed Carnival. And Thank you for correcting/educating me. I sail alot and my line does not have a spot for KTN. I am hear because I am planning another Carnival cruise. May I should just read more. Have a good day

@AstoriaPreppy @FTLCruiseGal I have a different opinion than both of you. First a redress number (KTN-Known Traveler Number) would not have helped this at all as there is nowhere in your cruise profile to store this number to be used. 2nd point is the DHS check is done one of 2 ways, either Carnival sends or inputs a list of pasengers to DHS (could be electronically) and a computers system checks for matches on the banned list. Then contacts Carnival. Or Carnival security has an "current" list of banned names that they then compare to the passenger list. And any matches get denied boarding. Most likely the first match electronicly, is last name; first name that is then kicked out and needs to be checked further. This further check could be manually, matching other associated info, middle initial; birth date; etc Seems like the names matched (between husband and son) and someone failed to perform the secondary checks to verify. I under stand this more than most as my name has a suffix and many times I have been confused with my father. For us a saving grace is neither of us have a record! Bottom line in my opinion, Carnival made a mistake, which they admitted, and more importantly they FAILED to address this issue promptly. The first part is understandable, the 2nd is just bad customer service on the part of Carnival's security. OP should be better compensated for this failure. Just my opinion and if yours differs that OK.

Both of which are very good shows and well worth seeing at least once.