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I think I would do the second night in Princess cays...........

We received upsell to mini from balcony on 10 day Royal sailing Feb 28 ...$159 p/p.... jumped on it. already had good casino rate.

We are excited to do 25 day TA. Planning and booking excursions. Anniversary sale and extra OBC. Our year for several cruises...welcome to the years of retirement!

$17.10 for elite !!

sorry anniegb about your suite experience....you should have complained to the hotel manager instead of the concierge...he is the person in charge of overseeing all hotel problems...

Our cabin steward replaced our shampoo, conditioner, soap in our suite on the Royal in Dec 2017. You will also get the Princess Lotion. We needed a few more bars of soap and I left our cabin steward a note and he left them and always saw that we had all of those extras when things were running low. The suite life was sweet! You will love it! We normally dine at a large table of cruisers at the late seating. We had to get accustomed to the CC Dining with our two person table. We met a family in Sabatini's our first morning and they invited us to dine with them for three evening meals in CC. Geoherb and I will be in a balcony cabin in a few weeks on the Regal. After reading this post I am realizing that I'm going to miss the suite life!

Sam is this you? If so we are the family that also had a suite. Miss you both....we are sailing on Royal again end of Feb.

We are already missing the suite life!

You will be still right next door with balcony. It is a mechanical space. Balcony is super huge. And forward facing is awesome. We have stayed in L102 and twice on the Marina deck M101 and the ...as I call it the heliport Mack daddy MINI M108. You will not be disappointed.

we snagged a 15 day Hawaii cruise r/t LA with a last minute deal ( 4 weeks before sailing) with a $1099 for ocean view cabin and we were happy.

I have to wonder if our health and funds will hold out long enough to ever get this credit. Somehow I doubt it will happen. :(

Thrak.. you are still so young ...DH is 76 and we have 4 cruises booked this year....and I see you have some upcoming....it will happen.....we are now at $50 and working toward more

you will love it on the crown....staff is amazing ....10 days last November .........would do again

We have found it's always good to keep checking for price drops and promos after booking with the S&S. Some times you win and some times the price does not change enough to re fare. Last year prices did not change much.

This year big difference in switching to anniversary sale vs the S&S we already had booked. Could be the cruises we booked that played into better prices. Both are TA and one is 14 days and one is 25 days. We saved over $1000 p/p on first one and also received an extra $600 OBC for first TA.

On second TA we saved $1500 p/p and received $600 OBC

So the Crown has Club Class? I thought that was not until April 2018? Were you in a suite? Wondering if new beds. Got mixed answers, some say unsure and others no

Yes crown has club class and we were in a suite and bedding was wonderful

So sorry your Vines experience was not as expected. We sailed on the Royal December 10-20 and had the most awesome staff..maybe new staff?

you will get an email once they accept your referral. It will show up in your cruise personalizer and once they cruise it will become available for you to use. You might have to call once they cruise to get to get it added on.

Last fall we sailed on a ship that had a terrible outbreak of the Noro on the cruise prior to our getting on. They did a deep clean of the ship and delayed boarding and sailing and we could not get into rooms until after 3PM. No new cases turned up and we were on her for 18 days.

on the ROYAL they also have the super Tuscan wine dinner held in Sabatini ( they close it to public that night) I think $60 p/p and it is amazing food and wine parings. We did it last December and sailed with our daughter and a friend of hers. They sang happy birthday to her and brought her a cake. It was the night of her actual birthday.

originally bottled water for suites was tied into the club class roll out. If the ship had started club class then bottled water came with suite...........now I think all the club class roll outs are complete.........so bottled water should come with all suites.

Cash offers are based more on slot play than table play. Cash offers are now free play monies at the tables or in machines. Based on level of play. Hubs plays blackjack and unless he plays slots ....does not receive as much in free play money.

This is based on our cruises in November and December. No longer cash to play but free play money uploaded to machine. You do not start accruing points until you spend your free play down. If you cash out....winnings go into bank and left over free play goes back into free play.

One of these cruises was a VIP casino cruise and drinks are given out while you are playing.

the other cruises we both received several comp drinks

we also dropped the s/s for this cruise and with the casino discount we saved over $2000 from original booking and ended up with $600 OBC from anniversary promo...win win for us and still have our balcony

Have a wonderful cruise! We sailed her 10 days before Christmas and booked another 10 days for the end of February. Looking forward to your posts!

last year we were offered 3 upsells to a suite and we took them all.... one from mini (not club class and 2 from lead in balcony. We are also elite....so not sure how the dice roll on this

sometimes specials on port days

sometimes there are discounts after boarding if you book multiple treatments

If you have not been on the Diamond before.....be sure to check out the izumi baths....small charge but so worth it

go to web site

It will list current points

click on Rewards and benefits

click on start using points

click on statement credit

screen will show purchases available for redemption and days left to use

click on redeem now nd screen comes up with redemption amount and points to redeem

click on redeem

you will get the credit in about a week

Good luck