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    Marine Traffic Tracking app

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted

    I did try that but it’s not showing ship info like I’ve seen before. But thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to be sarcastic. Like I said, i originally found the ship tracker from this site. I’ve downloaded several apps before asking this question and couldn’t get the actual ship name etc.

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    Oasis Deck 6 or 7 Forward Hump Port side?

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted · Edited by TigerCruzin

    Is one deck better than the other? How bad is the view with the lifeboats right below deck 6?  Any noise issues on either deck in that area?

     

    Trying to find the best fit for friends joining us on this cruise. They are very low key and laid back, but I want to give them the best options and pros/cons.

     

    Also - could save $449 by taking cabin with a * - room for up to 4?  What is the difference in that cabin and one without the *?

     

    Thank you!

    American Express Cruise Privileges Program

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted

    I booked our cruise under this program in December 2021, for Oasis 1/5/23 sailing.

     

    I could swear RCCL was offering $200 OBC for our Ocean View Balcony.  In addition for booking through Amex CPP, I expected to get the $200 OBC they offer.  

     

    I'm being told that the only OBC I'm getting is the AMEX.  However, the T&C says this will be given while on the ship.  There is $200 OBC in my cruise planner, but Amex/RCCL is saying that is the AMEX credit and its all I will be getting.

     

    Looking for data points on others who have booked with the Amex Cruise Privileges Program. What has been your experience with this OBC?

    Amex offer - $350 off $1,000 - expires 12/31/21

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted

    I grabbed this offer as soon as I saw it a few months ago ($500 off with $1500 spend).  We haven't booked anything since covid cancelled our March 2020 cruise.  We'd been looking at options but have been disappointed in lack of longer cruises. Just this week came across Oasis 10 day out of Miami for January 2023. 

    I stacked this with the Amex Platinum Cruise Perks ($200 OBC/Champagne from Amex), RCCL Platinum Balcony Credit and current 30% off sale. Then paid $1,500 to get the credit - already received acknowledgement. Maybe they will run the deal again next year before final payment is due.

     

    Looking forward to boarding Oasis for the first time.

     

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    Cabin Waitlist Notification

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted

    I just received an email that a cabin I was interested in when booking our upcoming cruise (3/23) has become available. As of now, we are planning on going and I'm currently on hold to see what the "prevailing rate" is. My question for the group is, if the price is less than what I paid for my original cabin, how is the over payment handled? Also is there any issues if I take the change now, but in the end decide not to sail? 

    Need to change our cruise - 2 cabins

    in Royal Caribbean International

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    22 minutes ago, Desert Cruizers said:

    I am seeing one problem if I am reading your information correctly. In order to move people to another cabin, one of the original people in that room needs to remain on that booking. In regards to you & your husband as long as it is before final, you may move your booking & deposit to a different cruise I am afraid if you move your DD to your room, they will be repriced. Best thing is to contact whom ever you booked with to get the proper information. What is the price difference between the original booking & 11 day. 

    The original cruise was a 7 day, so not really apples to apples. DD would not be going on the 11 day, even though she was originally in our cabin on the original booking. The problem is possibly nobody originally in cabin #2 will be going on any cruise if we can't find a date that works for them. Hoping to move DD to that booking so that we might be able to use it to switch the reservation to another cruise (different from the 7 day and 11 day) to include just DD, DH and I as a last resort.

    Need to change our cruise - 2 cabins

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted

    Originally booked a cruise onboard for 2 cabins (DH, DD and myself- cabin #1; DS, DS, FIL - cabin #2) We were given separate reservation #'s even though we paid for them ourselves. Approaching final payment end of December and have determined that nobody will be able to take this itinerary.  Due to school, sports, etc. We haven't been able to find a replacement that everyone can go on. DH and I have found an 11 day cruise that we would like to change our cabin to. However, DD can't go do to school/sports.

    Question - Can we move DD to cabin #2, then rebook our cabin #1 reservation to the new 11 night DH & I have found? 

    We want to continue to look for a replacement that we can all go on. However FIL is no longer able to go at all.

    Questions -Would we be able to change the reservation to something just our immediate family would use? If that isn't possible due to schedule conflicts, would DH, DD and I (only child living at home) be able to use that cabin #2 reservation for a different cruise with just the three of us?

    $7.95 Room Service Charge

    in Royal Caribbean International

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    No one here has any inside information that would substantiate that assumption. Rather, all we can say is that they are not going to use unsolicited, non-normalized customer feedback to run their business. And that's just smart business practice. The reason why you survey guests and rely on that market research rather than unsolicited complaining is that the unsolicited complaining may misrepresent the reality. It may overstate the extent and depth of dissatisfaction because only those dissatisfied are providing feedback. It is well understood that folks who are unhappy will express their unhappiness an order of magnitude more than those who are happy will express their happiness. Scientific surveys, with normalized sampling of the target demographics, is the only sound way to factor customer input into running a business.

     

    That's not what The_Big_M indicated. (I also don't recall seeing "Free Room Service" specifically as part of the list of stated inclusions when I booked a FOS cruise recently.)

     

     

    There's no comparison between what Justice Scalia was talking about and this, and I believe Justice Scalia would say so himself if he could speak from the grave. This is not bogus, but rather it is just bad new for consumers.

     

     

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    The heading at the top says "fine dining included in your cruise fare"

     

     

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    $7.95 Room Service Charge

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted

    Interesting. I knew that there were nothing to the legal accusations being thrown around by Americans, but I wasn't sure about what folks were saying about other country's consumer protection laws. It would be surprising to me to learn that those accusations were true; it makes sense that for consumer protections to apply that the amenity (in this case, the fact that room service is "free") would have to be, as you said, a "stated inclusion".

     

     

    Actually, they did previously say it was included in the cruise fare.

     

     

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