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I have found it depends on the cruise. My cruise this year doesn’t include the grats in the price. But, my cruise next year does 

10 hours ago, TeeRick said:

Looking for feedback on pricing (per night per person) for the UDP on ships without a Coastal Kitchen. 

Just got ours for $36.75 pp per night including gratuity for our 8 night on Freedom next Spring. 

3 hours ago, ChittyChittyBangBang said:

Pre - cruise reservations has not been implemented.  During our recent b2b on Adventure OTS sailing 3.31.24 reserved as usual UDP slots on ship after boarding at Chops.  During HH I provided Crown Concierge(Vanessa) our 2nd leg 4.5.24 UDP reservations. She indicated a new software update would roll out during our 1st leg allowing direct UDP reservations while onboard.  I was doubtful! Checked the mobile application continuously. Nothing!  Now It's turn around day, consecutive cruisers round about to Homeland Security. Back on board ship, scan new card by security for 2nd leg!  Immediately opened mobile application and BINGO!  Yep! Hurray, was able to book all UDP dinner reservations myself on the mobile application 🙂  GREAT!  Hope this helps!

How easy/difficult was it?  We all know how Royal IT can be…

If you like coffee, Don Ruiz Coffee up across from Castillo San Felipe del Morro. Soooooooooooo good!

12 hours ago, UKCatFan said:

I tried that. Said I couldn't reuse a password, so clearly my password is still in there somewhere.

Weird…it let me use mine when I changed it.  Constancy at its best. 

4 hours ago, Capt_BJ said:

Dunno about it closing but it was struggling last time I went in and THAT was probably 2 years ago. Lots of empty units ....  The nearest decent mall is Melbourne Square but that's nearly 25 miles away and is nothing special, just 'healthier'. You might be better off with Florida Mall even tho it is Orlando .....

You say “healthier”, I say thriving. Compared to our closest mall in Vero, at least. 😜

7 hours ago, Tree_skier said:

I use Allianz and have an annual policy. However, my daughter had coverage through Kaiser Permanente.  My SIL is a state employee and their coverage is fantastic. 

That’s awesome!  I’m a Florida local govt employee and we have no such thing, sadly. Been using Nationwide cruise and thankfully haven’t needed to use it. 

1 hour ago, Tree_skier said:

Under $1200 !  You got off cheap. On my last cruise in December my daughter had a medical emergency and Royal billed us $2700. 
 

Thankfully, insurance covered 2629 of it.
 

we were very impressed with Royals medical team.  

Which insurance company do you use?  

There is most certainly a hallway. There are some videos on Youtube of that area on deck 3. 

1 hour ago, BALCONETTE said:

I just found out that you can text iphone to iphone without cellular if you have wifi.  Is that the same while onboard if you have the internet package?  With no fees from provider?

You can also Facetime. 

Carry it on so you don’t risk it exploding in your suitcase and drenching the suitcases around you. 

They aren’t offloading the passenger until the air transport gets there?
 

We had several medical emergencies when we were on Adventure a few weeks ago. Left Dominican Republic and had to turn around and go back a few hours after we left to evac someone. Couldn’t make St. Thomas because of it and went to San Juan, where they evaced someone before we left. Later, were going to divert to Miami on the way back to Canaveral to evac a crew, but they stabilized. 

4 hours ago, GlasgowCruiser01 said:

 

 

Whoever it is, I'm glad they do Captains Corner unlike some!

There wasn’t one on Adventure last week. I was very disappointed. 😒

When we boarded this week, Johnny Rockets and Chops were both open. 

1 hour ago, Hogbay said:

Maybe you should listen to the interview. 🤷‍♂️

48 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

Bonded means that the cat was played under the Captain's responsibility to not get ashore.  Just like a Bonded warehouse.  Has nothing to do with the cat's feelings. 

My bad for trying to make a joke…

It was “bonded” to the captain, which means it was the captain’s cat…..which means the captain walked right on with it and wasn’t hiding it from everyone. Probably why RCL is picking up the tab…

I believe that’s there more as a disclaimer that Royal can swap out what is delivered to your room with the bag and not the other way around. I wouldn’t count on them switching out the beers for something you want instead. 

3 hours ago, Ocean Boy said:

Your day at Labadee sounds a lot like my day at Labadee.

And a fine day it is!

1 hour ago, Charles4515 said:

When I was at Barefoot Beach a few years ago it was not he same. It was an upgrade with shrimp etc.  but it would not surprise me if they had cut it back. I have not been there this year. 

I have a strong suspicion it varies with the ship, too. I was on Allure in an Owner’s Suite - probably our only time as we treated ourselves last October since it was our first cruise back.  We had looked forward to Barefoot access and the better food. When we got there, I was surprised to see normal burgers and hot dogs. I thought it was strange and if that was upgraded, what did the regular buffets have. So, we went to look. It was the exact same. Not one thing special about Barefoot when we were there. But, a few weeks later, I saw someone on a different ship with what I would have expected. Oh well for us. 

16 minutes ago, PompeySailor said:

I know at Barefoot beach they have an upgraded offering compared to the other buffet 

 

Nope. Not when we sailed. It was the EXACT same as the regular buffets. I was disappointed since it had been billed as upgraded. 

1 hour ago, OCSC Mike said:

 

This part was really necessary, thanks.

 

There could be food I didn't know about like I mentioned, there could be a nice place to go for a walk (like the tiny nature trail on CocoCay that's still there but no one mentions), the shopping may be better than I'm aware of, etc.

 

We love CocoCay despite not being beach or pool people, largely for the food.

 

Duh! 🤣

We are not beach people, either.  My husband insists we get off the ship each and every time we stop there. So, we lather up with our sunscreen and are usually back on the ship in about an hour - we just go down in our normal clothes and not swimsuits.  We wait until there are no lines at the gangway.  We’ll walk down to Dragon’s Breath and then down to the Artisan market.  There is a “nature” trail, which is a short walk up a hill, which we usually “hike”.  We eat lunch back on the ship. It is much more calm and cooler than the buffets on Labadee. IMO, I don’t think you’ll be missing anything if you take a walk and head back to the ship. We’ve never felt like we’ve missed anything. FWIW, CocoCay has MUCH better food than Labadee. 

We moved back to our original sailing today. I reached out to my TA and she hadn’t gotten the email from Royal yet. Maybe it was mixed in with the January cancellations and she just hadn’t sorted through to it yet. Either way, I was able to get my original room and am happy. We had gone from an 8 night to a 7 because it was the only thing that fit my schedule and didn’t get any compensation for the loss of day since prices skyrocketed since I had booked. Now we’re back to our 8 with no Labadee or Coco. Very happy to have the extra sea day again. It’s one of the things that made me want to book that particular sailing. Keeping my fingers crossed that they don’t re-cancel it. 

2 hours ago, Billy Baltic said:

Studio B is deck 4

It’s on 2 and 3.  The Guest entrance is on Deck 3. When you go in, it bottoms out on Deck 2. 

46 minutes ago, 1025cruise said:

3. Please don't disturb your neighbors, use headphones.

1,000,000% agree!  Please be considerate of others. What might be reasonable to you, might be too loud to others trying to relax in quiet. 

1 hour ago, molly361 said:

Back before COVID even if you didn't want any of the price protected cruises you could switch to any cruise you want and still receive a pretty good OBC for the inconvenience 

Figures.