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We watched it 2 months ago on 5 night cruise to Bermuda and have not seen anything inappropriate for kids. IMHO the whole show is not kids show, but nothing inappropriate. Great show!!!

27 cruises with RCI and 7 with Celebrity. Both are massmarket, Celebrity is a premium massmarket. It has better quality of food, some premium touches like when you come to Solarium towels are usually placed on loungers and such. Celebrity has nice kids clubs, but no slides and things like this. Large Royal ships of course have unmatched entertainment , but we were extremely impressed by entertainment on X Edge. Larger Celebrity ships remind me of Quantum class of RCI by design and entertainment. I LOVE how Celebrity "revolutionized" its staterooms, including insides. It feels luxurious.

This is a no I think. Kids under 18 will have the same status when they sail with their parents.

I do not think they should have your points. They will will have your status while sailing with you. So they will be Diamonds on your next sailing with them I believe.

There was a topic on NCL board

By the way about other lines https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1122/~/policies-for-shipboard-water-sports Carnival's Twister Waterslide™ Ships: All ships (excluding Carnival Luminosa™) Minimum Height: 42 inches | Maximum Weight: 265 pounds (Carnival Sunshine®, Carnival Vista®, Carnival Panorama™) Minimum Height: 42 inches | Maximum Weight: 300 pounds (all other ships) Blue Lightning (with mats) Ship: Carnival Celebration™, Carnival Jubilee™ and Mardi Gras™ Minimum Height: 48 inches | Maximum Weight: 300 pounds Orange Thunder Ship: Carnival Celebration™, Carnival Jubilee™ and Mardi Gras™ Minimum Height: 48 inches | Maximum Weight: 300 pounds Kaleid-O-Slide™ (with rafts) Ship: Carnival Panorama™ and Carnival Vista® Minimum Height: 48 inches | Maximum Weight: 265 pounds The Cat's Hat Slide (with rafts) Ship: Carnival Horizon® Minimum Height: 48 inches | Maximum Weight: 265 pounds Fun Things Slide Ship: Carnival Horizon® Minimum Height: 42 inches | Maximum Weight: 265 pounds Speedway Splash Racing Slides Ship: Carnival Sunshine® Minimum Height: 42 inches | Maximum Weight: 265 pounds Drainpipe™ Ships: Carnival Breeze®, Carnival Dream® and Carnival Magic® Minimum Height: 42 inches | Maximum Weight: 300 pounds Aqua Tunnel Water Slide Ship: Carnival Firenze™, Carnival Freedom®, Carnival Glory®, Carnival Radiance™, Carnival Sunrise™ and Carnival Venezia™ Minimum Height: 42 inches | Maximum Weight: 300 pounds Minimum Height: 51 inches | Maximum Weight: 300 pounds (Carnival Firenze, Carnival Venezia) Gondola Glide Slide Ship: Carnival Firenze™ and Carnival Venezia™ Minimum Height: 51 inches | Maximum Weight: 300 pounds Green Thunder™ Thrill Slide Ships: Carnival Legend®, Carnival Miracle®, Carnival Pride® and Carnival Spirit® Minimum Height: 48 inches | Maximum Weight: 300 pounds Green Lightning Thrill Slide Ships: Carnival Splendor® Minimum Height: 48 inches | Maximum Weight: 300 pounds

Again, I can give you a list of things which I think can be corrected for me. I do not demand it though.

Other cruise lines have other limits. I sailed with 7 lines aside RCI multiple times. What if a guest of 500 lb wants to experience I-Fly and coach will die trying to support this guest? My husband was not allowed as his weight was 254lbs. He understood... (He really wanted to experience that so he worked on it for the next cruise) There are limits in life. On cruises and beyond cruises.

Boarding times are not different. Ship arrives to SJ very early.

Yes. This is why free cruises is a bit deceptive description.

If statistical you "cycle" lots of money/spend much time in the casino statistical you are bound to lose.

Found! 2011! https://www.travelagewest.com/Travel/Cruise/RCI-Revamps-Loyalty-Program when they switched from number of cruises to number of nights. I lost 7 nights back then because Royal counted all cruises up to 12 nights as 1 credit (7 points). I had 9 and 10 nighters which became 7 points (people who had many 3-4 nighters got more points. as they also were converted as 1 credit (7 points). I think you were Platinum 21 years ago. 🙂

I thought Emerald was introduced during the last 10 years? Maybe Platinum or Diamond?

Welcome Aboard on most cruise ships is just 1 show. At lease on Anthem, Enchantment, Oasis, Adventure, Liberty it was a case during this and last year. Although I think it was later. Other shows align with dinner times.

I do not think it works this way. For example you cannot get 3 bottles of water and count them as 1 drink under $14.

You don’t need majority … you need certain number which will demand huge amounts

I thought that’s what they meant when they extended hours to be not up until 12 am, but till 5 am, meaning that yes, you can get your last drink even after midnight last day, but … only before 5 am. I guess they didn’t word it properly

It’s n + 1 day.. We are fed as there is no breakfast on day #1, but I don’t think drinks should be or are included.

You'd think D+ should know this after being Diamond. 🙂

Well.. not same number of kids. For example we sail every Thanksgiving on Anthem and it is 1300+ kids... yet in January for Southern Caribbean cruise on Anthem there are usually < 200 pax under 18. Btw parents are not necessarily pulling kids out of schools. There are many various schools with different schedules which do not match standard public school schedule (which also vary by state). 7 days cruises and shorter during holidays always attract many kids. Unless it is some sort of exotic itinerary.

LOL. Independence is not sailing to Boston. We only saw Queen Mary 2 in Boston on 4th We sailed on Queen Mary 2 in 2017 and for July 4th we were in Boston ... answering my question about "How come British ship was in Boston for July 4th?!" captain suggested to do exactly this. 🙂 We had about 100 kids on 5 day's cruise to Halifax, NS and Boston. They were all so well behaved ..

We cruised for 20 years with them + RCI, NCL, MSC, Carnival (with them we split our ways almost right away). RCI is our line of choice now. It has cons, but pros + logistics (we cruise from Northeast of US) + us reaching Diamonds and then Diamond+ made us very loyal. 🙂 Celebrity is a sister line with some luxury touches and a bit more sophisticated crowd on average. They created amazing Edge class ships which encompass many features of Royal too.

As for service in hotel... If we stay in a hotel, which due to us cruising now 5 times a year rarely happens we stay at Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton, Westin and such. I do not remember ever more than 1 service a day. Maybe at Ritz or such there is a full service, but RCI or even Celebrity are not luxury brands. I think suites on RCI are still serviced twice (or more) a day though. If one wants luxury service they need to book suites.

I believe premium massmarket line do Celebrity Holland America Princess Cunard

I thought I'd miss, but I do not. We actually have more freedom. We now use only one service in the morning and this is completely enough. We are rarely in our room, but if we are it is for a short nap. Then we always tried to leave our room tidy, Now we do not need to think about our bed being unmade or our clothes being in wrong places. I definitely do not need interactions with room stewards. Polite "Hi! How are you?" in halls is plenty enough for us. They are not our friends or anyone we are interesting in interactions. They clean our room. I love cruising WAY more than A/I or any other hotel vacation, but only 1 cleaning per day was never a problem in hotels. Frankly, we never needed it every day too. Our garbage bins usually hardly have anything to remove, so this is also not a problem We need ice, but apparently getting it once a day in the morning is enough too If we do not have enough towel, or ice, or shower gel we have no issue finding our steward and asking to get it for us.