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On 4/30/2020 at 3:54 PM, Ourusualbeach said:

9 nights and no Wonderland. 

No wonderland?

On 5/1/2020 at 10:43 AM, Biker19 said:

Where did you get that info? That max passenger count for Odyssey seems way off, should be less than 5K.

Odyssey is right around 4,900 max passengers I believe. (plus crew)

3 hours ago, Sorcerer Tim said:

When we were on Allure in October I had a cigar up there most days and several people were smoking. 

Do you recall there being a humidor up there by chance?

Does anyone know if the Suite Bar/sun deck on Allure still allows smoking? 

22 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

Not sure how you are disagreeing.  While I have no experience with Saflok, what you say about their programming is typical of all systems, but if a card is programmed for two cabins at the same time that other keys are issued for each of the two cabins, they will not lock each other out.

 

AssaAbloy (formerly VingCard) is one of the most commonly used cruise ship locking systems, and this allows for master keys, and sub-master keys (a housekeeping deck supervisor can have access to all cabins on his/her assigned deck) and sub-set keys (a steward only can open a smaller block of cabins on a deck, or a room service person cannot access crew cabins), and these are just given "expiration dates" of when the crew member is due to get off the ship.

 

The pax cards and crew cards are programmed on the same machine, just using different card stock.

In Saflok there was no way to program 2 separate rooms, unless you were granting supervisor level privileges. My understanding the same was true of others such as Vingcard in their magstrip form.

Especially once you introduce the Oracle/Micros aspect with room charges. On the hotel side the room number would be scanned and interfaced with the Micros for room charges.

On the ships w/ their Folio #s im not sure how that info was stored on the magstrip track.

On newer ships such at Quantum with RFID readers im sure these limitations have gone away and im assuming the locks are hooked in via POE? 🤔

On ‎12‎/‎27‎/‎2018 at 6:46 AM, chengkp75 said:

CAN the card be programmed for two cabins?  Yes.  Your cabin steward's card not only opens his/her cabin, but also the passenger cabins in the block he/she is assigned to.  Maintenance crew have cards that open their cabin, as well as every passenger and crew cabin to allow them to fix your toilet, etc.  It is completely possible to program two cabins on one card.

 

WILL they do this for a passenger?  No.  Barring signed and witnessed permissions from all parties in the two cabins, they won't consider this for passengers for liability reasons, and even if you provided permissions, they would likely not allow it.

Technically most cabin access systems don't work that way. Saflok for example programs at room level, you give the key access to room xxx until xx:xx time on xx/xx/xxxx date. The door locks themselves only know their room number and time.

If you create new keys for a room before the previous ones expire, the new key tells the lock to lock them out.

Certain locks can be programmed to allow any room # key to access them up until set expire time (for a pool or exercise area etc)

Then there are Housekeeping and Master keys that have access to everylock.

I grew up cruising in later childhood. My wife and I have done numerous cruises (all on Royal) w/o kids. We'll be doing our first cruise since having the twins on an 11day Anthem cruise. Needed to do a JS to have enough room with the Pack N plays...not sure that's a market they want to get away from! They wouldn't want to push us as customers away as they've invested a lot in getting us to cruise in the first place.

I am at a loss as to why you would think this kind of stuff was "new." There have been changes all along; some for the better, others not. It wasn't that long ago that specialty restaurants were a totally new concept. There have always been marketing gimmicks. The old WOW sales, in my opinion, weren't any better or worse than the current BOGO sales. In the end, they're all just gimmicks to try to attract bookings.

 

 

 

Specials for the latest and greatest ships have always been hard to come by. There's a lot of demand for the latest and greatest, therefore not much opportunity to get it at a discount. This is not only not new for RCCL, but it's the way things work in just about every facet of a free market. The hottest trendy restaurants don't offer coupons; the big blockbuster movies don't offer discount tickets; etc.

 

 

 

There's always a laundry list of things that someone is complaining about. Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem to be a longer list now than a couple years ago; the details have just changed a little bit. If things change, people complain. If things don't change, companies become obsolete.

Web said!! We wouldn't want Royal Caribbean to become obsolete, would we?

Supply and demand. Trying to discourage people waiting until last minute bookings.

It's a very simple concept.

It's not discrimination.

It's about the bottom line, and satisfying the owners (shareholders.)

Free internet, free Devinly Decadence (maybe, but not yet confirmed). What's next? Free drinks???

On our cruise last week (1/3-1/11) they were walking the Royal Esplanade with trays of complimentary champagne cocktails.

Its my understanding that there are over 1000 diamond members on this sailing. There were "only" 400 on the 8day I took last week and it was crowded-over flowing into the music hall a bit as well!

Went through security @ EWR. Got flagged on the X-ray belt so it required a bag search. The TSA agent swabbed it, and apparently the test machine didn't like it so we got a full body search. Craziness lol

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on night 140 this was waiting in our room after dinner! The thing is heavy!!

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I just called the new Embassy suites as their rates are only $152 (military) the person I spoke with said parking would be free, they have a car service they contract with and she said it was about $65. I asked if that was per person and she said no. I want to double check that but if it is correct that would be a great deal. and you get a free cooked to order breakfast too. Has anyone stayed at this hotel yet and use the car service?

Don't forget about the nightly cocktail reception :)

On quantum - do they provide them automatically in non-suite rooms, or do they have to be requested?

Well that's neat, didn't realize they gave them out this early. I'll hit 140 during my Quantum sailing! Thanks for the info!

I would appreciate it is someone forced themselves to go to Chic and taste the Carrot Cake Trifle. Tell me if it's as delicious as it sounds.:D

We'll give you a third opinion if needed in Jan :D

I think this is a great idea....or at least somehow incorporate the names into venues around the newer ships.

This may be rumor... but I think I remember seeing a show on TV talking about one of the newer (oasis?) ships using the Crown & Anchor sign from a retired ship?

If true, that's very cool.

Does anyone happen to have a photo from either of these rooms?

From excursion ZL88

Rental includes 2 floating beach mats, lunch buffet at Columbus Cove Café, Dragon's Cafe or Café Labadee, water cooler with 6 bottles of water, the use of beach towels and the service of a cabana attendant

Btw the website for booking does say 6 bottles included per cabana...they probably only put out enough to cover the registered guests, im sure you could ask for more though.

Hey, if everyone on Cruise Critic chips in a few thousand dollars each...

I'll toss in a few thousand! Make our own cruisecritic cruise line :)

46!!!!!!! (45 until flight!!!)

50!!!!!!!!!

Eighty!!!!!!! 8 0!!!!!

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one-hundred and six!!!!

A daily countdown for me, been almost two years since our last cruise.