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I don’t see why not. If anything, you can show them that you still have luggage in your room to retrieve after the day in port.

Understood, but Royal (at least an underling) is saying that local authorities required it. Nine days is bogus as one can sailing Europe, Panama or back to back longer than 9 days.

8566. How much more view would be obstructed by being closer to the hump when looking towards the rear in 8184?

I’ve received Royal Up offers as far as 75 days out from sailing. Other times I didn’t receive it but was able to bid going through their website once within 30 days of sailing. The odd thing is there’s a couple times I’ve sailed with a friend and he’ll be the one to receive the emails for Royal Up even though I’m the one that booked the trip. My email address and loyalty number is entered and only his loyalty number is used for him when booking. His name is alphabetically before mine and he is a higher loyalty member than I, but I don’t know if either of that matters.

I’ve taken the tour. I enjoyed it and interesting to me with the guide sharing historical facts and tidbits. You drive by USC, downtown LA and stop at a little Mexican market. Then you go to the Walk of Fame for a little exploring, which is pretty neat to see and experience, and then to a farmers market by where they tape The Price Is Right. To me it’s too long at the farmers market (wasn’t hungry and wasn’t going to buy fruits/vegetables/flowers for the trip home), but there’s also higher end shops next door if I remember correctly. You get to drive by where Brad Pitt worked when he got to LA, the tar pit and see the road that looks at the Hollywood sign. It’s a nice, comfy bus and wasn’t even half full when I went (ship was at reduced capacity then too). I was solo and it was only $25, which was cheaper than an Uber ride to the airport.

I think the pub sucked in trying to shame customers in tipping instead of paying their workers. What if those people got bad service or were from a country that’s customary to not tip? We EXPECT a tip in America is the custom some might say, but do Americans follow other countries customs and not insult the workers by not tipping when overseas?

Pretty sure you called it fraud in the post before that and went down that road. I was saying if they wanted to implement it it doesn’t have to be deceptive. It’s deceptive now because if you choose to not prepaid the gratuities, they still charge you daily once onboard and you have to cancel it. At least that’s my understanding.

What people tip/don’t tip, I don’t care. I was responding to DallasGuy’s “Best case scenario is a cruise line tries to make gratuities mandatory but not include them in the advertised base fare and let it go to court as a deceptive advertising practice” by listing it so it’s clearly transparent and you called it fraud. And now it’s bait and switch from being transparent? Hmm.

Because people like to see a lower advertised price so they can compare to other lines and this allows them to be truthful and competitive.

How is it cooking the books if they list taxes, fees, port charges and gratuities as additional? It’s just making it mandatory.

How is it fraud? Does anyone know what each port charge is, what the tax is based off of and what fees are? It’s just being transparent and adding gratuities to the total. Seems no different than restaurants putting in mandatory 15% tips for serving groups of 8 or more.

What if Royal started with changing the taxes, fees and port charges total to include gratuities? The price per person advertised for booking still remains the same and total price remains the same as with prepaid gratuities selected.

You have my permission. I’m a fellow Royal Caribbean cruiser. Diamond at that. Hope that helps. Enjoy your cruise. 😀

I heard bookings in Australia the tips are included (no option for pre-paid gratuities) so no way (or need) to remove. Are there bookings from other countries that gratuities are built into the fare that people know of? I don’t know the answer but I would say it depends on where the sailings are from.

The more the merrier: Adventure 6.

Or team challenges in addition to scavenger hunt like completing: round of golf, zip line, rock wall climbing to first bell, lap around track, boogie board, ride the carousel, go down slide, etc. Only one person is needed per team to complete or however you want.

In my case, I agree. I booked two balcony guaranteed rooms. The in-laws, who had never cruised, got assigned a room on deck 11 and I got an obstructed view room on deck 7 on Ovation.

No excursion needed for Cabo shopping. The tender takes you to the marina and there are tons of shops there. The beach is nearby also.

I don’t know how Royal came up with their requirements, but you are also many days from land on sailings between Vancouver and Hawaii and no testing or vaccination is required (unvaccinated 12 and over currently can’t sail transatlantic or transpacific). It’s their ships their rules, but I don’t see how a picture of a test or someone vaccinated 2 years ago matters much.

Change it online. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/reservation/lookup

Is that just for balcony rooms? The bed was by the bathroom in our junior suite on Navigator.

I agree. And for the crew to train for muster drills for every cruise (2 nights, 3 nights, 4 nights, etc) is a lot of repetition . I don’t know anywhere else that trains so much if they do the full exercise.

Sales happen all the time. You can book and then rebook if you find a lower price. Booking early at least guarantees a spot, which can sell out. The previous cruise before yours is coming from Hawaii. Ships cannot go from one US city to another unless it visits some South American port (distant foreign port or something like that), therefore it can’t end in Seattle from Hawaii. It can certainly sail from Vancouver and return to Vancouver, but Royal’s smaller ships sails those trips. I would assume the Quantum class sails roundtrip from Seattle versus Vancouver is because it can get more passengers to sail and at a higher price.

@PCWalton1 Can you change the reservation online for one passenger to your name so that you can then call to cancel? https://www.royalcaribbean.com/reservation/lookup

On their website it states vaccinations are not required for sailings with exceptions of Canada, Bermuda, Transatlantic from Europe to US, etc. during that time period of late August on and continued easing of protocols. Even if you don’t think there’s a change, at least Royal agrees there’s a change in protocol and are refunding those booked and will not meet the vaccination requirement.