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13 hours ago, Husky1987 said:

Looks like your wife should be the one making the solo cruise....

Exactly! I have taken my mother-in-law on 19 nights of cruises plus did a couple of girls cruises with my best friend. I have 27 more points then DH. Has has my points but if he cruises without me all that does is add points to his lower total - not raise my total or our overall total.

DH and I always use our Diamond Plus specialty dining bogo offer on the first two nights of our cruise. I see that they also offer a 3 night specialty dining package that is reasonably priced and just about the number of nights we are looking for on an eight night cruise. Is there a way to do both of these? Once on board can we ask that the first of the three nights package start on day three or four AFTER we have used our BOGO? 

12 hours ago, patrioticgirl said:

The Feb. 25th sailing is perhaps a private charter. ( https://adc2021.aventuradancecruise.com/ ) 

There is a 6 night cruise available for booking for March 6th-12th on the Royal website. 

Thanks for the info. That actually makes me feel better! 

We are on the 8 night Jewel cruise leaving March 12th. 2022. We were able to check in last week, and chose a boarding time. However, the app shows no ports, no calendar, no excursions, no dining and we are unable to upload our proof of Covid vaccination and there are no digital boarding passes. Since Jewel is not even sailing right now, do you think we should be worried? The scheduled cruises ahead of ours are Feb. 20th - 5 night, March 1st. - 5 night - seems that the February 25th. and the March 5th. sailings are missing. 

Mask Standards

Your mask should be at least two layers of tight weave fabric with loops that fit over your ears in accordance with health guidelines. The mask should fit your face closely and cover your nose and mouth but allow you to breathe easily. Note that neck gaiters, open chin bandanas and scarves, and face masks with valves do not meet health authority guidelines and will not be permitted.

I am looking for recommendations for a hotel for our cruise out of Miami. We live in Central Florida but don't want to risk the four hour drive the morning of our cruise. Since we work the day before, we won't be arriving at the hotel until 10pm. Just looking for a CLEAN, safe hotel with free parking that won't cost us an arm and a leg. No need for fancy or elaborate as we will literally be walking in and going to sleep and getting up the next morning for our 11:30 check in time. Thanks for any help. The reviews on all the travel sites can be misleading.

The live music on Royal cannot be beat. Everywhere you go there are live bands and orchestras. 

The Broadway production shows - Mamma Mia/Grease/Cats/Hairspray etc. are not just typical cruise ship production shows. These are full length legit Broadway shows. When Cats was installed on Oasis, Andrew Lloyd Webber came onboard to inspect it and make sure that it was exactly the same as his land based shows. Many of the shows have had cast from London West End in them. 

You will get nothing. RCI can change ports at will for whatever reason they want. An upgrade? Seriously? You think offering you a many hundred dollar cabin upgrade would be acceptable? Sorry, you either accept the ports they are going to now or you cancel and rebook a year or two from now when port stops might be more stable. 

Since our big box travel agent doesn't participate in the Royal Up program this cruise is the first time we have had a chance to bid. Our initial bid started out saying "Pending"  and now is says "Recieved". Does this mean anything? Not expecting to win the bid, but it was fun trying! Our cruise isn't until March.

21 minutes ago, John&LaLa said:

 

My wife has the 6 passenger family OV booked as a solo for the world cruise. 

 

She likes her space😁

You are going on the world cruise John?

You can always ask your server to bring you a zero dollar bill to allow you to tip on your account. 

I wonder if these changes are only for the large Oasis class ships or for smaller ones too? We sail on Jewell in March and have both Antigua and Labadee on our itinerary. Guess we might be going on a very different cruise than we signed up for!

Does anyone know if 18 year olds get Diamond Plus benefits on board? For example do they get the five drinks per day? (Obviously virgin ones!) What about the two days of free wifi? Thanks for any input. 

While they often let a child "age up" to go from the 3-5 into the 6-8 or other group, I don't think that there is any accomodation at all for a child who is not 3 by the first day of the cruise. I believe this is for insurance purposes and they are very strict about this. So no, I don't think you have any chance at all that your daughter will be allowed in Adventure Ocean. She will have to stay in the nursery and you will have to pay by the hour for her to be there. 

When we did our 16 night TransAtlantic cruise I ordered an inexpensive foam mattress topper from Amazon. Cost me around $50. I put the box with it in a small duffle bag and checked it in as luggage. That couple of inches of memory foam made all the difference in the world. At the end of the cruise we just left it on the bed. Not sure if they threw it out, left it there or the cabin stewart kept it, but when we cruised a year later in the same cabin it was gone. No way was I going to be uncomfortable and have a sore back for 16 nights! Worth every penny!

39 minutes ago, LGW59 said:

Or because of the length of time for this cruise AND the financial obligation that RCL passengers are making to do this, perhaps they could hire a few teachers, elementary, middle and high school levels.  I mean this sincerely, they could definitely do it and I think it would work.

Sorry, but do you really think that the 99% of the passengers who are NOT travelling with school age children would want to see their cruise fares go up to pay the salaries for these teachers? 

How about they are announcing a new special discount?

2nd. passenger at 60% off!

Revolutionary idea, right?

November 20th. Mariner is still closed to me. I can't even find the spot on the app that says what day it will open any more. 

If we couldn't get wifi then we would have to cruise less. On a cruise my husband is up working every morning from about 6AM to 9AM on weekdays from the Viking Crown Lounge! He takes meetings all over the world and is able to deduct that time off of his used vacation days. I am able to wifi call my 88 year old mother-in-law everyday like I do from home and she loves that. Different strokes for different folks, but we love our wifi.

1 hour ago, Ashland said:

I may be wrong but thought I read an extra day at sea.

That would give us three sea days and one port. Seems strange.

We are on the 5 night Mariner cruise out of Port Canaveral just before Thanksgiving. We were supposed to go to Labadee and Nassau. With the political unrest and now the horrible earthquake in Labadee, I am guessing that port will not happen. Do you think RCI will only take us to Nassau on a five night cruise? It would be awesome if they added in CoCo Cay, but it looks like it is pretty busy that week. Personally we will be happy just floating around in the ocean at this point!

Any thoughts? 

I just completed the check in for our November cruise. Is it strange that the only check in time option was 3pm? I completed the check in process in the first 15 minutes the check in window was open for us. I wonder why there we no choices of times - just the 3pm slot I had to take. Am I missing something here? I understand they have to stagger everyone for health checks, but I thought that by starting our process at 12:15AM I would have had an earlier time. Just wondering. 

1 hour ago, hotsauce126 said:

 

Right because Florida has 22 million people

Florida's population makes up 6.6% of the USA population. (22 million out of 333 million - roughly)

Florida is currently making up 20% of all new USA Covid-19 cases last week. 

2 hours ago, ilovetotravel1977 said:

You only have to wait 28 days.  The four months thing was because they were trying to get more people with one dose quicker. Now that we have hit our initial target, the last month has been 28 days.

Yes, that is how it is NOW, but for millions of Canadians who were at the front of the line, THEIR two doses were months apart. I will be honest and say that we have concerns for our Mom that she is fully protected. 

I wonder what other countries will also think about Canada delaying the second dose to months rather than weeks? My mother-in-law waited almost FOUR MONTHS between her first and second dose of Moderna in Ontario.