Starry Eyes

Did the quoted price match the prices you saw online for an Infinity Family Balcony for four for that sailing? I look at prices online before I call to book a cruise. Were the agent to come up with a price substantially better than my research, I’d suspect a miscommunication or other issue… I’d definitely get an emailed invoice and review it with the agent before hanging up.

That’s the first time I’ve heard Radiance Class called Brilliance class instead.

It was a “Diamond Event” that served wine, soda, and peanuts….they were only held on the ships without Diamond Lounges after D’s lost access to CL. As DL’s (with all the DL features) were added to the ships, Diamond Events gradually disappeared.

Well, I think they should name the 340 (or 350) point level. They are already giving added benefits at that level. I don’t think they should change the threshold for D+ from 175 to 350 as trburks suggested. Doing so would either (a) send a lot current D+’s back to D (creating resentment) or (b) grandfather those current D+, so soon a bunch of D’s would have more points than many of the grandfathered D+’s they meet (creating resentment).

Maybe the OP will come back if we get to page 5🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oops, I cant’t edit the typo in the above post. The last line should say “aren’t due OBC, too”

I don’t need to re-reread. I had mentioned the three vs four in my other post. I did not miss it. I think the OP is trying to get get the tape reviewed to get the new cabin for the same price…plus they are here asking about OBC. I do not know if they will succeed in getting the cabin at the same price, but if they do, they are due OBC, too.

If they receive a cabin for four at the same price, the fourth person can go in the cabin, too. Have you had your coffee this morning?

I believe on the day you called an Infinite balcony cabin for four would have been priced substantially higher than an OV balcony for three. So, due to a customer service agent error, you receive an Infinite balcony for four at the lower price of an OV balcony for three, you will already have received a substantial benefit from the agent’s error. You would be getting more than you paid for due to the error; I would not think you deserve OBC in addition.

Have you considered parking at an off site lot for this particular cruise? That would be my solution if I were on that cruise. The off site parking will cost a bit less and the parking shuttle will drop you off and pick up up at the correct terminals. Spend the savings on the ship. I know GTO-Girl had a good experience with shuttles between terminals. Others, including myself, have experienced significant delays.

Yes, there is free wifi inside the terminal building (both terminal 1 and terminal 5 for Royal Caribbean at Port Canaveral). I will warn you it may not be very fast wifi especially if many other guests are sitting in the terminal using it. I have not speed tested it.

Hmm, I thought a substantial number of posters are rather calm about it.

Royal Caribbean has four ships in Port Canaveral this year (yeah), sometimes two the same day. They also need to split up the ships to keep from overwhelming the parking garages by the terminals. So, Wonder and Indy have T1. Mariner and Jewel have T5. It sounds like you boarded at T5 and did not like it much. Pretty standard terminal building, other than guest entrance on second level. It was dry the mornings we boarded, but, yes, you should come prepared for the weather that day. Same if you board in NJ or AK or WA etc. They all have weather. In my experience if you are waiting in terminal 5 when boarding starts, Suite and Pinnacle guests are called to board first, followed by D+

Ah, yet in the actual benefits list there will probably be a footnote stating Pinnacles access will be dependent on capacity controls. I’m still a couple hundred points from PC; I won’t count on having access when I get there. My points are growing from joy of cruising with no great rush to reach PC due to my low expectations.

Your idea of announcing a future date like March 2023 for this change would make sense if D+s were really going to be allowed into the CL’s in the interim. But we have not been allowed in on recent sailings and Royal knows how the numbers look for upcoming sailings. If very few or no D+’s would be allowed into CL’s because of capacity limits between Dec 16 and March, better to tell the truth now: no more D+ in CL.

Were that the only benefit afforded D, D+ and PC members, perhaps I would see the issue, but you and I know there are other benefits. Also in years past D, D+, and PC previously all had the exact same happy hours; now there is a progression in the benefit.

I understand that my fellow D+ do not like to see benefits disappear. Still, I think it is worse business decision to list the benefit (with fine print some may never notice), have members (perhaps naively) anticipate to CL access before their cruise, then disappoint most of them with a letter in their cabin denying access to the CL. If there was bound to be a letter in your cabin denying access on every one of your future cruises, better to just formalize the situation so current D’s know they won’t get CL access when they reach D+

My sailings lately have been capacity limited anyway, so we did not have access as D+. This saves me the trouble of reading it in a letter in my cabin😉

And by my way of thinking, as final payment approaches, it may make more and more sense to switch to a lower nonrefundable rate because you are into the penalty phase, the benefits of refundable deposit are eliminated or diminished. I chuckle when I make a last minute booking (way into penalty phase) and the phone rep talks to me sincerely about whether I want to book with refundable deposit. If I have to cancel, how ever I book that cruise, I’ll lose way more than the deposit. They should be selling me insurance.

In addition to poocher’s question, doesn’t the cruise contract limit the cruiseline’s liability for luggage to a specific (and rather low) dollar amount? Doesn’t the entire travel industry (including the cruiselines) encourage people to purchase insurance to cover their luggage and other losses? Though still inconvenient, insurance should also help defray cleaning and/or replacement costs. Do those of us that still chose to travel without paying for extra coverage for our luggage deserve to pay a price for that choice if and when something happens? (We chose travel medical and evacuation coverage and consider ourselves self-insured against other losses.)

Oh, you are going after this single post with a vengeance. Your idea would cause enormous delays and be very costly. What else would you ban if somebody implied a spill spoiled some of their luggage/clothing….perfume, mouthwash, hair care products? As to the wine, rule that it goes in the carry on bags (already done). Have porters confirm that wine (and meds and passports) are in carry on bags (already done). Cross pack your own luggage and if your luggage is not waterproof, use ziplock bags to protect contents.

Really? Every single time I started a thread over the years asking a question or for a tangible bit of advice, I received at least one reply from a helpful seasoned cruiser. It was frequently helpful when I was a newbie and it still is now and then. I have not dreamed it. If there was the occasional joke of snarky comment tossed in, too, it did not matter; I encounter that elsewhere on the internet and also in the real world.

You would think there would have been multiple impacted bags, as it must have been quite a bit of spilled wine leaking from the passenger’s bag if two of the OP’s cases were soaked. If none of the bags contained a broken bottle, it suggests a bottle broke in somebody’s luggage before the cruise (flight, perhaps), bottle was removed, and already damaged luggage was checked (perhaps planning to pin the damage on the cruise, while exposing other peoples luggage to the mess.)

I think that policy might it worse, not better. If they cannot bring it aboard in their carryon luggage, some may pack it in their checked luggage, hoping it will slip through, resulting in more breakables in checked luggage.

But some posters do not ask advice for a problem or pose a question. They just make a statement in a thread, sometimes giving it a provocative title. It elicits responses. While you label it pouncing, I think it is exactly what the OP expected and intended. If they’d asked for advice on this thread, they likely would have received advice. Had they posed a question, people likely would have tried to answer.