not-enough-cruising

Not October 25, 2025 but sometime in October 2025

The cruise lines are already providing "boatloads" of money to the Bahamas (nearly 100 million dollars annually in port fees alone in Nassau). This VAT will not trickle down to the people, and can very well lower the annual revenue historically provided to the citizens directly

Aren't all taxes a way for the government to line their pockets?

A passport card is perfectly acceptable for a closed loop cruise on any cruise ship. A passport book is more dynamic If one were to need to fly back to the US

They will size the bracelet for you, no engraving offered on the ship

Every ship I’ve even been on the staff say they are the tops in the company.

Love it!! This was when the insanity really began to show.................

I did not realize you could board downstream with an A2S booking; I assumed it was just completely forbidden. Thanks for the information (I have never used A2S) but what is the distinction that allows it to happen if you use air to Sea?

Now you are changing the parameters of your argument. You were called out as wrong, and pivoted. A citizen must prove citizenship Good day

You missed the part where the post you quoted quantified it as FOREIGN born US citizen, you must, in fact, have their passport. This is due to the fact that they can not produce a US born birth certificate to accompany their photo ID when on a cruise for example. Even US citizens by birth need a passport or EDL to enter the country at land crossings.

Just book an imaginary friend, easy peasy

VAT has been charged on Coco Cay for some time now.

There is a different GTY class for neighborhood balconies VS ocean view balconies.

Not confused at all, it appears you can book a cabin for EXACTLY the advertised price

Royal's normal occupancy is between 108% and 110% regularly. This article does not support your argument. It does however cite the few cruises that had to bump people due to an inventory miscalculation (as stated above from the time when the post Covid bookings began to take off)

Yes, no problem

The article posted was published immediately following the incident. Australian health officials and Royal (I assume) didn’t want the “C” word mentioned. Several articles published in the weeks following (most notable crew center and other industry publications) stated the real reason for the inventory crisis.

You are extremely overstating the number of people being "bumped" from their cruises. If you researched a little deeper you would see there is little to no correlation in "involuntary denied boarding" between those that paid to secure a specific cabin, and those that booked a GY rate. The article you quoted has as much to do with a Covid outbreak among the crew and Australia's overzealous Covid rules than it has to do with a GTY booking.

"rampant overbooking"? "bumping insurance"? Really doesn't seem to be much change in pricing for the last 4-5 years to me I would temper your expectations for pricing on your alternative vacation options; everything I have looked at recently is much more expensive than 12-18 months ago.

pre punched card stock is significantly more expensive

Not for UDP reservations it isn’t.

Tens of thousands had cruises cancelled during the pandemic; a large percentage of us ultimately had to file fraud claims to get monies back. I is close to $50,000 in claims Not knee jerk and NOT lazy

I always get 10:00 or 10:30

I have not seen the cans of water since the early days of the post pandemic start up. Nothing but plastic bottles the last 6-7 cruises.

Works in Galveston