kezz

We stayed at the Grand Harbour. Really nice.

Great breakfast in morning, lounged about then Walked accross the road to terminal. 10 mins.

Easy

Got a great rate as well. £72 per room.

Kezz

Years ago both me and my pal bought chains.

Now wear them on ever cruise and never had a problem with them.

So they must have reduced with quality.

Great buy, and the do look like gold.

Soz can't remember what ship. Maybe Princess.

Kezz

I'll try and put a pic up later.

Toodle

All connection ports are disabled on our televisions.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

reply from Carnival

Bluetooth isn't connection. It's a menu option on the TV.

But as I said, they may disable it.

If this is the case, all you need is a Bluetooth Transmitter/reciver. cost minimal.

This plugs into the headphone jack on the TV. (Most newer tv's have anAudio/Headphone jack.

Then pair with your headphones and your off.

Toodle

kezz

I have wireless (Bluetooth) headphones.

If the TV has Bluetooth, mine does. You can use the headphones without 'plugging in'

Same goes for Mobile phones. I listen to music while on board without upsetting anyone while I lounge around.

Most new TVs have this,

But on ships they disable things so you can't use.

Kezz

Hi kevin. How you doing?

We're booked on her next year for TA to Caribbean.

Not easy finding info as the P&O page is slow.

Thanks for the pics Kevin.

Ditto. For a 16 year old and worse still, an 18 year old and in an agegroup uncatered for and who is excluded from drinking despite being of legal age where we will be. (It's not actually a problem for him as he doesn't drink.... But others won't be so lucky.)

 

I know they would both be interested in the games arcade place but I'm not prepared to fork out a fortune for them to use them. Shame they don't provide Xbox or playstations.... But where would the profit be!

I'm sure your 18yo will be able to drink on a European cruise.

It was the case on Anthem. As the Law for drinking age is 18 as you know.

Read the T&C

Hope this helps

kezz

Ignor that. Well blow me.

See here - http://www.cruisecritic.co.uk/articles.cfm?ID=46

This is from Royal, I thought it would be same for all.

ALCOHOL POLICY

Efective immediately on all sailings, the minimum drinking age for all alcoholic beverages on all Royal Caribbean International is as follows:

The minimum age to consume alcohol on Royal Caribbean International ships on sailings originating in North America is twenty-one (21).

The minimum age to consume alcohol on Royal Caribbean International ships on sailings from South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand is eighteen (18).

The minimum age to consume alcohol at all private destinations remains twenty-one (21) without regard to where the sailing originated. The Company retains the right, on rare occasions, to raise the minimum age of alcohol consumption on any sailing when local laws require or permit such a modification.

I think your TA is confusing things a little.

 

If you wanted a balcony at today's price with todays perks (free drinks etc) then you would have to do a new booking; hence the need to cancel, lose the deposit and rebook.

But all cabin grades have different costings.

You need to ask for the outright cost to upgrade to the balcony.

If you have a promo then you would lose this.

 

But there is no reason that you should not be able to move to a balcony. After all you are trying to give RCI more money ££££.

 

The cost will be more than you are seeing on line though. As I said before, those are for 'new bookings only'.

 

As others say; book via the USA in future! Much easier.

Yes that is what our TA has said.

No problem being able to do it.

But if we DID book the inside now at the cheap price waiting for balcony prices to fall and the offer ended, we would lose the 'free' drinks package, as it would be a new booking.

I always do Balcony cabins, and don't want an inside. But wanting to book to secure the cruise. (do i make sense, Lol)

As of now, we will just have to wait for price drops as our TA says, thier discounts WILL come.

But will their be any Balcony cabins left? I hope so.

Great replies, Thank You

Kezz

I really thank you for your replies. Everyone on the same sheet.

Another reason was at the moment for £1.100 inside you also got all Inclusive drinks package.

But if we could have made the move we would have lost this anyway i think :(

It's a long way off yet, buy know that Trans sell fast.

We'll just have to wait until price drops come along.

Thank you so much

kezz

From UK

I thought this would be no problem.

Called our TA and they said can't be done. If we change we would lose deposit and have hvae to rebook from scratch.

Reason being is balcony prices have shot way up on the Indi Trans in Oct 2017.

So we thought if we book an inside to make sure we're on the ship and wait for prices to drop, we would just Pay the diffrence.

Anyone done this? Is it possible to do?

Thanks

kezz

Was on the Anthem in September. Had glass bottles from the pool bar.

So it does happen.

Maybe new reinforced glass, i dunno.

Kezz

Yes but think of how easy it will be to get to your muster station from the pool deck. Hit that slide and you're there.

Lol

Being up there when u look down. You only have to look out an inch or 3. And see the sea.

I know what u mean though.

Best thread ever.

Kezz

Thanks for the replies on the sticky out things.

Great photo Loungerz.

Have been a Jacuzzi that stuck out. Sitting there looking all the way down to the sea was cool.

Thanks

kezz

I especially like this recent one from above(courtesy of Nunzio Campanaro)

 

On this picture,

Can someone tell me what the four sticky out half circles are above the lifeboats are.

Sorry if it's been asked.

Kezz

Thanks hkto.

Thanks for the Brcelona yellow link.

Been looking at images of Barcelona Sants station. from what I see is 14 Platforms.

Hope the signage is good, Lol.

Thank you

Kezz

Hi all.

A little specific this one.

I know we have to get the train and have the timetable for times.

What I would like to know from people who have taken this trip.

We're having a day at PortAventura

Sorry the question is

How easy is it at the train station to,

1, Buy your ticket? (I understand I can get a train and Park ticket in one)

2, How easy is it to find the right platform.

Sorry long winded

Thanks for any help

we booked on saturdau but still can not log in it just says this cruise is cancelled the full money is in two weeks time will i be able to log on before this with just the deposit(which was half of the cruise price)? we just want to get started on make the cruise real.

As you know we had the same problem.

After we contacted our TA, she said they called Carnival and it was sorted straight away.

It took us a few days as our TA was off work.

It shouldn't matter that you have only paid a deposit.

So if you booked through a TA call them. If booked through Carnival call them.

As soon as you do you'll be a happy bunny as we are.

Kezz

Update.

I tried again to log in this morning and same thing. (I'm up early)

Trogmd just squealed from his room. 09.35

He just logged in with his nick and password and lo and behold and whole different page comes up. Yeah.

So what was it? I don't know. But Maybe deposit has been paid?

I mailed Carnival with screenshot of what is going on so maybe it was them?

Anyway, sorted now, will we ever find out what the problem was.

Happy days

Kezz, Phew.

Called today. A girl who is not in till tomorrow has sorted it out.

So our girl can't do anything till then. She'll call us.

Becoming a joke this.

We paid £600 deposit 2 weeks ago.

Will keep you informed.

Kezz

I'm one the cruise with Trogmd.

The funny thing is, the little Red Banner top right shows how many days to our cruise?

We are able to Login using Nickname and password. But it's after that, whatever we click. IE Manage Booking, it comes up with another page asking us to put in our booking number, name, ship, date or cruise that when we click submit we get "booking has been cancelled"

Hope to get to the bottom of it today.

Keep you informed.

Kezz

Called our TA today about this. She gave us the price?

Solo cabin wasn't mentioned, but it's only £50 above the prive we paid. So presume it's a single cabin?

Kezz

I've just looked at this for a friend who wants to join us.

I found that Vista is doing inside solo cabins.

Will post pic, Although will be small.

Kezz

Hello Universal Studios.

Staying in Barcelona before our 1st Oct Cruise.

Will be going to Salou now for the day thanks to this info.

Thank You

Kezz

So happy to read this.

Kezz