Katems75

Why can't you take a handheld steamer? It's just basically an electric teapot that has steam...how is that dangerous or likely to start a fire? How is it worse than a hair dryer or curling iron?

What is a 'Shack Burger' and a 'Shack Crispy Chicken Sandwich' in comparison to a 'Beef Burger/Cheeseburger' and a 'Crispy Chicken Sandwich'??

Newbie here...do you tip the person who drops the food off right then and there? Or is that part of the gratuities we are all charged per day?

Thank you! Do you also feel the L shaped area opposite 8172 is a cleaning storage closet?

Your wife is absolutely correct in wanting the living area by the balcony and not wanting to be near the elevators! However...8566 IS near the elevators! Why not choose a 'green' room further down from them?

Would that be noisy? Crew going in and out of it all morning as they clean rooms, and the door to it slamming shut?'

I'm in room 8172 but am concerned about what the unmarked, 'L' shaped area could be. I've heard those can be noisy crew areas and one should avoid unmarked areas for that reason. Does anyone know for sure? If it's a crew stairway with a constant slamming door that will not be fun. Also, my mother swears Port side is better. I am a newbie and have no idea but it seems more people say Oasis class ships dock starboard side so there's more to see on Starboard and that in general Starboard is better. I know it's subjective, but is there a consensus on which most people prefer?

My mom sails May 13 on Harmony. She's solo but of course booked into a cabin for two on deck seven (ocean view balcony). She really wants deck eight but also wants to not be across from anyone, not near elevators, on the port side, and have the bed next to the bathroom. She has all that on deck seven, but most of the rest of us are on eight so we'd like her to join us up a deck if possible. Right now there are only two cabins on deck eight for 'two' people and one is starboard and the other is across from other cabins. There are, however, lots of port side cabins on eight for FOUR people (and we all know those cabins have the bed by the bathroom) and many are not across from other cabins. At what point would it be possible for her to try and switch into one of those rooms? Is calling the best way to do it?

So refundable is NOT refundable once you're at 74 days or less to your cruise?? Refundable fare doesn't sound very...refundable...

How do you remove the automatic gratuities if you want to leave cash instead?

This is Harmony, which obviously isn't Anthem, but for us two connecting ocean view balconies was cheaper than the junior suite.

We repeatedly asked about canceling the father without mentioning the baby and were told his $616 fare would not be returned, but would be spread amongst the other two adults due to it being a pricier room category (pricier simply because it sleeps more people, still same size room and same size balcony).

Thank you all, for the comments. Rooms were originally booked with RC as individual rooms and then moved into a group and I guess that supposedly gave a discount of cruise fare for one person, so like a $1200 discount or something. Probably not a great perk as perhaps going through a TA would have given us more discounts. Yes, it was more than eight cabins. We had not paid in full yet, but have now. There was no option to remove baby and father and move the other two adults to a double. In fact they said if we removed them the dollar amount would remain the same because it would be two people in a quad and they would therefore have to pay more for being two people in a quad. Baby was free already with KSF, and father was $616. They said that $616 would be divided and applied to the two remaining adults. And yes, I had a similar question a few weeks ago when we wanted to just cancel the mom. What I did not know and what RC did not explain to me, was that putting the father and baby together with the two other adults would then reprice the two other adults. Live and learn, I guess. The original adults were in a room for $2600 and are now in a room for $4300 with father and baby (who again may not sail). That $4300 remains their cruise cost because there were no other rooms to downgrade them into [the rooms are the same as far as ocean view balcony]...it's just their original only slept two, the new one sleeps four...I also find it really weird they don't have the magical couch that sleeps two in every room no matter what). Again thank you for listening. If we ever do this again we will do it differently for sure. Have a great week ahead, everyone!

Definitely NRD as we booked that way and then moved it into a group. Also, we apparently seriously screwed up as originally there were two rooms for this party, with four adults and one baby and we cancelled one adult a few weeks ago and moved the baby and other adult to the group of two, but also switched rooms cause we needed a quad. I didn't realize this would reprice everyone at the price of a few weeks ago vs. September when the original cabins were booked. 😞 Very much a newbie here.

Hello, We are big group sailing. Our final deposit is due TODAY, the cruise is May 13 on Harmony. One of our party has one room, with three adults and one baby--ocean view balcony quad room. One of the adults (who is the father of the baby) is not sure he can get the time off and so he and the baby may not end up sailing. We will be calling shortly, but hold times for the group number on the weekend are HOURS long (we have experienced this already). So! I am hoping in the meantime experienced Royal cruisers will chime in to alert us to all our options and to questions we should ask Royal. --If we outright cancel the adult and baby, will we lose the $500 deposit on those two? --If we leave them on and they no show at the port, will we get ANYthing back money wise? (The adult is costing only $616 grand total and the 'kids sail free' baby is costing $138 grand total which is just her taxes and fees). --If we outright cancel them today, will Royal then move the remaining two adults to a double room? Will it cost any extra for the two remaining adults to move to a double? --If there are no remaining ocean view balcony doubles available, will they leave them alone in the quad room or will they force them into a double in a different category? --If we cancel them, and at the last minute they learn they can go, would it be possible to just add them to other rooms in our party that have space (two adults each have their very own double room even though they are just one person so there IS space in some of our rooms). If we did that, would we have to pay anything to add them, considering the single adults are already paying for double rooms with only one person in them? --If we add them to the existing single adult double rooms, can they then sleep in a different room, or do they HAVE to sleep in the room we technically put them in on paper? I don't know for certain the answers to the above, but my GUESS is that we would lose $500 deposit on the adult and baby BUT if they no showed we would get taxes and port fees back. So since the grand total of he and the baby is $754, and port fees and taxes for both is a grand total of $276, $754-$276 is $478. So it looks like we would end up losing $478 if we kept them on the cruise and did a no show, but if we took them off we would lose the $500 deposit which is more than the $478 we would lose by canceling. AND, then if we tried to add them at the last minute and they were NOT free to just be put in the two single adult double rooms, we would surely end up paying more than if we had just left them on. I feel like it does us absolutely no good to cancel them, whether or not they sail. Am I correct?? I feel like there will be no money savings to do so, and in fact we will lose about $22 by cancelling because of losing the $500 deposit. Unless I am wrong!! I don't know for certain the answers to my above questions. If any of you can untangle this mess and advise the best course of action it would be very much appreciated AND it will help us know the right questions to ask when we get a rep on the line. And if there is anything we have not thought of please say so! Booking a different cruise for these two and transferring the booking is NOT an option. THANK YOU!!!

Was the food good?

Thank you, that video was very helpful! And she thought of an option I hadn't...just ONE nightstand between the beds. However, I think after seeing this that I will probably leave the bed together. I don't like how the closet door gets caught on the bedding and even though there was only one nightstand between the two, I can see that even if the other was there, too, the amount of space between the beds is very minor. I think I'd rather have the larger aisles on either side of the beds. If anyone out there does have a pics or video of both nightstands between the beds I'd still be curious though!

HI! Looking to see what a bed in the ocean view balcony on Harmony looks like separated. Like what happens to the nightstand?? My room will have the bed by the bathroom if that matters. We will be a mother/daughter pair so we can have the bed either way. My thought was that keeping it as one piece would allow more usable floor space but maybe not. Maybe one bigger aisle in the middle of the bed would create more space, or the illusion of space, than the two tiny aisles on either side of it?? Thank you!

You are both beautiful! Congratulations! Did that $20k price tag include the honeymoon suite and cruise for the two of you? That seems super high for just the items you listed. Were the opening and closing scenes of the ship stock footage? The ending is particularly beautiful but I'm trying to figure out how your videographer would have filmed that. I have to ask...who is your officiant and why does he say it's his pleasure to pronounce you husband and wife AGAIN? The way it was handled was inexcusable and the photo mess is also inexcusable! I'm so sorry for all that stress!! Congrats again!

Anyone else just watching the anchor spin and spin and spin while trying to look at cruises??

Other classes have identical rooms? So are the beds by the bathroom or balcony in those classes??

Really?? American drops their prices to MIA? I'm coming from upstate NY to Miami in May... When do you think they'd do this? And is it usually significant?

Sounds like you need to take the cabin on either side of the one you were looking at then!! 🙂 The square footage is broken up in my opinion if you have the bed by the balcony...you have the open living room area, then the bed which is almost as long as the space it's in, and then the open balcony. That just makes me anxious, lol. I never thought about the wind howling, but that's a good point! I've only been on one cruise and that was Oasis and my bed was by the bathroom. My next cruise is Harmony in May and I already switched my room to make sure I was next to the bathroom again. The RC call center girl actually told me I could just tell my cabin steward to switch the bed and couch when I get on board, lolol! She sounded less experienced than me with just my one cruise under my belt!

LOL, my cheat is to say 'right is wrong' because I prefer the bed by the bathroom! I don't like having such a tiny aisle to get to the balcony. I want the open space with the couch to lead to the balcony so we can go in and out easily. I also use the fact that 'left' has four letters and so does 'good'. To each his own! 🙂

Well it's a group cruise...if the coordinator of the cruise (Grandma) pays the big final payment for everyone by credit card does that mean her card is linked to all the individual reservations and sea pass cards? She definitely doesn't want people buying anything on board or in port that will end up on her credit card. Once the cruise, itself, is paid for everyone is on their own for any extras. Again, fear is that if she uses the card to pay it'll be linked to everyone's sea pass...