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So Royal Up is open for my Alaska cruise in Sept. We are in a Jr. Suite already (wife has to have a tub 🙃). I know the Jr doesn't come with any perks but I am not convinced the perks of upgrading are worth it. If the cheapest offer is accepted to go Grand Suite that's another $1000 (anything nicer is more Royal is another $3000 and no way I would do that unless I hit the lottery, lol)

Ironically I am the opposite of most, I need a late check in time for our Alaska cruise in Sept. Ship departs at 8pm and our shuttle service to Seward will have us there around 4pm.

Well our OBC (refund) already hit our account today which is nice since the rep said it wouldn't post for 14 days. I was able to cancel our drink packages and internet and get refunded for those and repurchased with the OBC. Prices were the same (bad) as what we had paid already so it didn't matter. Still have several hundred left to use which is good. Does anyone know when OBC from redeeming RC Visa card rewards post to your account? I redeemed our rewards points for OBC about 2 months ago (to this reservation ID of course) and as of today it still hasn't shown up in our cruise planner.

We are definitely interested in this as well. Is it offered on all ships? We are on Radiance in Sept

Yeah we prepaid tips when we booked so that is done as well. Everything for our cruise is booked and paid for completely. I'll look around for the casino deal. I know we will use some of the OBC for laundry while we are on the ship guess maybe give the wife some spa services too. I'm sure we will figure it out.

Well that went well. 20 mins on hold got an agent and 5 mins later form has been submitted and we will get $654 of onboard credit added to our reservation (price changed between when I posted this topic to when I was able to make the call so we lost out on $18, lol). Said it will take 14 days to post to our account. Can this be refunded back to my CC after the cruise if we don't use it? All of our stuff is all paid for and I have no idea what we will use this for on the ship.

I would say moved the booking to another sailing as I have the same reservation ID as I did for the original booking in December 2021.

Well my original booking was Dec of last year. In May when the NFL schedule was released we had to change cruises (Alaska cruise and we are taking in a Seahawks game for my wife) so we rebooked then. This cruise sailing on 9/16 is now cheaper. I am guessing because of the rebook in May and since we have gone past final payment date that we cannot get any credit back on this cruise?

In the last several weeks I have seen a lot of posts about price adjustments and people getting denied or just a runaround in general. I checked my cruise price today and it is $672 cheaper than what I paid. I am past my final payment date (was 6/19) I am 72 days out from sailing and my cruise completely paid for at this point. What is the exact language I should use to get a price adjustment? If it was only a small savings I wouldn't bother but it being $672 its worth the time on hold on the phone.

yep got in on the last AMEX deal for $500 (used 2X as it was on my card and my wife's). This time just Norwegian no Royal. In addition I just made our final payment yesterday so this would have been a nice little savings but oh well. Can't win them all.

I'll just keep checking but still get the notice that sailing must be within 30 days. We are Sept so there is plenty of time anyway. No big deal.

I am confused about those who are getting offers for Aug cruises. I thought you had to be sailing within 30 days to do Royal Up

Wish ours would drop. We are in a gty suite and suites are sold out for our cruise so no way to check.

We have a cruise in Sept to Alaska. Leaves out of Seward. We are arriving in Anchorage the day before and have a train from there to Seward at 6:45am arrives at 11. I realize this may be a "gamble" but I think its far less of a gamble than flying in as others have said. I am not that worried about making it in time. Theoretically if I want to I could just rent car and drive there in about 2 hours as well.