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Buying before is your best option for the lowest price. As far as accessing your DVR from the ship, we have been able to view recorded shows on our DVR while on the ship and also use the FOIS app to watch live Bruins and Celtics games that weren't available on the ship. Not sure about XFinity but worked for us with FOIS.

The blue is dek, for decaf. I have never seen any other options than those two pods on our cruises in suites.

Lots of pictures in this forum of the pods. These are the ones we had, though this is someone else's picture.

If you can find Lavazza Dunkin pods, bring them, but a K-cup will not fit in those machines. Nespresso pods won't either.

Wow! A whale breached off of Rye Beach, New Hampshire this morning and capsized a boat! No one hurt but the video is crazy. https://www.wmtw.com/article/incredible-video-breaching-whale-lands-boat-new-hampshire/61679090

Just checked the set sail passes in my apple wallet and they have RR under packages for the sailings we have purchased the refreshment package.

It should have a DX is you have the deluxe beverage package or RR if you have the refreshment package. You should check your account to verify that you do indeed have a drink package.

There definitely will be a decent amount of kids. We sail from Bayonne a lot and most sailings have lots of kids these days. Add the kids sail free endless promotion and Odyssey being new to Bayonne, expect lots of kids.

Most passengers will NOT be back by 2pm on a cruise like the OP is taking. Most days, they don't sail until 7pm or 9pm. With multiple tender ports, I would look into booking cruise line excursions just because of logistics. I would also be careful about booking and cancelling excursions if there is a price change because you could get locked out of an excursion you really wanted to take. To the OP, with these port times, a 6pm dining time is going to be tough. The Windjammer might be a good choice on some of your longer port days or book a later reservation in the Solarium Bistro, which is also a free venue. You might also find that you are eating dinner in port on some of those wonderful islands.

Once you have your cabin assigned, you should still be able to bid. People have reported that after their cabin was assigned, the bids that they submitted prior to their assignment were canceled and they were able to bid again. That was not my experience with a WS GTY, though it was pre-covid, and things could be fixed now. I was assigned a 2 BD GS but had made bids on a GS and OS since I figured I would be assigned a JS as is what usually happens. I was able to cancel my bids myself but was nervous I would still "win" a cabin that was now a smaller suite than the one we had been assigned with our GTY. We will not bid on Royal Up anymore prior to being assigned our GTY cabin.

Call and see if you can get the cabin released for your party of two. I was able to do this in the past when there were no balcony cabins showing for two but many if you were a party of 3 or 4.

We were on Liberty in May and there were scooters and carriages and wagons left in the cabin corridor constantly. Between all that stuff and the stewards carts, it was an obstacle course. The huge wagon could have been folded to take up less space but it was open the whole cruise and was used to store some stuff out in the corridor. We felt the entrance to the cabin was one of the smallest we have had on any ship, just the width of the door until you got past the bathroom door. Getting a scooter into the cabin will be a challenge.

I have walked off the ship at a port of call will a large suitcase in the past with no issues. I did have one port security person comment that he hoped I wasn't planning on bringing that back full of alcohol, but other than that comment, it was no issue. I have also reboarded at the same port of call with a large suitcase and had no issues bringing a suitcase back on.

Have the beaches reopened? They were still saying on the news this morning that debris is still washing up in some places.

He is one of the lead actors promoting the film.

According to the Alaska port schedule, they were docked at Ward Cove West., which is a distance from downtown. https://claalaska.com/?page_id=1551

Many people sleep on sofas on ships. The newer style sofabeds have removable bolsters on the back and a trundle that pulls out to make the sofabed big enough for two, so one person is sleeping on what you sit on when it is set up as a couch. From the picture of the cabin that was a two person cabin and is now a three person cabin, the third berth looks to just be the same style sofa that is used for the trundle style sofabeds. It likely doesn't have a trundle that pulls out. Those sofas are much more comfortable than the old futon style sofas that they folded down to make a double bed.

We have seen bears at Icy Strait Point on a whale watch. Ours was a private morning excursion in May and we saw a mama and two cubs along the shore of a cove wear there were whale bubble net feeding.

Thanks for updating us. You are not whiney at all. I am sorry it isn't improving, constant pain like that is horrible. I hope it improves soon. Whine here all you want if it helps! 🤩

@Coralc I hope you are doing better and your pain has decreased. I haven't seen you post, so was wondering how you were doing. 🙂

We don't use all of our vouchers either, so I too use one for my morning mocha. 😄 We have also taken to bringing a few unopened beers back to our cabin at the end of the day for DH. I know some people will bring beer home, but that just isn't worth it to us.

If you want to bring your one bottle of wine each onto the ship, there are two places that sell wine in the Seaport. Massachusetts is weird and most stores can’t sell wine/spirits. You have to go to a liquor store (package store) or wine store. We also have weird blue laws that prohibit selling before a certain hour on a Sunday, so depending on what day you are sailing, keep that in mind. 🙂

I agree, that area is a lot of warehouse type buildings and construction. I would be really careful walking and crossing in some areas because of access to the tunnel and silver line. Over on Seaport Blvd there are a lot of restaurants plus Harpoon Brewery and a park plus the Trade Center.

We did get a letter when we cancelled using cruise line insurance, Royal said the notification automatically happens between the two companies. As far as the daughter not sailing, isn't she just a no show and that is why they are only getting taxes and fees? We were told that we had to cancel prior to the ship sailing if we were going to file a claim, whether it was a medical claim or a cancel for any reason claim.

I googled it after he used it a second time. I had thought it was just another typo in the first post because of the spelling and usage.