Oasis Refurb

[Ourusualbeach]

4 minutes ago, #55worktoplay said:

Not always does it work this way. I was one of those affected by the Empress fiascos and I could get full refund but no FCC and to sail when scheduled had to pick from few options Of other ships in same or close to time frame and had to pay quite a price difference as it was only two weeks notice from them so prices were not so great due to so many Empress sailings cancelled.

 

Of course they were not consistent on what their offers were I believe others received better offers than I.

The difference being the Empress cancellations were due to a change in government policy and outside of Royals control while this is totally under Royals control.  It’s consistent as to how they have differentiated between these two situations in the past. 

[AshleyDillo]

4 minutes ago, #55worktoplay said:

Not always does it work this way. I was one of those affected by the Empress fiascos and I could get full refund but no FCC and to sail when scheduled had to pick from few options Of other ships in same or close to time frame and had to pay quite a price difference as it was only two weeks notice from them so prices were not so great due to so many Empress sailings cancelled.

 

Of course they were not consistent on what their offers were I believe others received better offers than I.

 

Im not familiar with the Empress issue..but I'm talking about sailings that are canceled completely.  But I am guessing in this scenario with Oasis if they don't have these cruises sail as scheduled they're going to offer the full refund and FCC of some sort.  They tend to offer more when it's close to a sailing and folks have travel costs involved.  If the ship sails but with limited activities as they're finishing up things I don't see a FCC being offered they could possibly let you opt out for the full refund.  If you sail you would get OBC too for the inconvenience.  Just from what I've read on how they handled other similar situations.

[rcclmiami]

On 10/30/2019 at 4:26 PM, John&LaLa said:

 

Absolutely love it, so cool. Much better furnished than an OV. Plus that view is to die for

Will they have to close their curtains at night, being over the bridge. We did a cabin unde4 the bridge and had to keep it closed at night.

[lsharp32198]

58 minutes ago, TurtleCrossing1 said:

My royal caribbean rep just said that my december 8th cruise will likely be cancelled. he is awaiting word regarding credits. so so so so disappointing 😞

I just spoke with RC since we are on the Nov 24th sailing.  He said it has not been cancelled.  They are rearranging some room categories so my room may or may not change, but not cancelled.   I sure hope this is true.

[GMoney]

That's the same answer I received from Kenneth at C&A. I'm calling back to see if I get a different answer. 

[tmbasuhre]

1 minute ago, GMoney said:

That's the same answer I received from Kenneth at C&A. I'm calling back to see if I get a different answer. 

I so hope that's what you hear again and that it's true.  Please post what you're told.  Thanks everyone!

 

[#55worktoplay]

17 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

The difference being the Empress cancellations were due to a change in government policy and outside of Royals control while this is totally under Royals control.  It’s consistent as to how they have differentiated between these two situations in the past. 

I didn’t realize there were more occurrences but I was affected by the cancellations of the Empress when she was taken over by the European company and many of the first sailing dates were cancelled due to dry dock taking longer than expected.   Exactly same scenario. I received nothing more than  but change fees which did not cover costs of increase in plane tickets to change to new dates AND we had to pay the cost difference for different ship and dates.  We did sail on Independence as we all had our vacation time booked etc  and had a great time but Royal did not give FCC or deals on changing ships.  At the time it seemed surreal that they cancelled my booking but I had to give them more money in order to still sail on their ship. It was quite a fiasco for most but some people did get better offers so just saying what happened in my case.

[#55worktoplay]

27 minutes ago, AshleyDillo said:

 

Im not familiar with the Empress issue..but I'm talking about sailings that are canceled completely.  But I am guessing in this scenario with Oasis if they don't have these cruises sail as scheduled they're going to offer the full refund and FCC of some sort.  They tend to offer more when it's close to a sailing and folks have travel costs involved.  If the ship sails but with limited activities as they're finishing up things I don't see a FCC being offered they could possibly let you opt out for the full refund.  If you sail you would get OBC too for the inconvenience.  Just from what I've read on how they handled other similar situations.

My cancellation was exactly that and less than two weeks before scheduled time.  They cancelled many sailings because dry dock was taking longer than expected. 
 

No FCC had choice of sailing on other Empress sailings after dry dock finished or take different ship which is what we chose.  No FCC, no full refund, change fees for air was covered only and no deal on sailing of choice within the same original time frame.  Their cancellation cost my group more money!

 

Just saying not always do they offer all of what you state. 

[TurtleCrossing1]

17 minutes ago, lsharp32198 said:

I just spoke with RC since we are on the Nov 24th sailing.  He said it has not been cancelled.  They are rearranging some room categories so my room may or may not change, but not cancelled.   I sure hope this is true.

i hope your rep is right and mine is wrong lol mine has been with the company for eight years now, so i'm saying my prayers HAHA

[tmbasuhre]

6 minutes ago, TurtleCrossing1 said:

i hope your rep is right and mine is wrong lol mine has been with the company for eight years now, so i'm saying my prayers HAHA

I hope their rep is right, too but.....I would think that it if it was room category issues it would have impacted more than the first 3 cruises after dry dock.....hopeful but just a bad feeling in my gut

[TurtleCrossing1]

1 minute ago, tmbasuhre said:

I hope their rep is right, too but.....I would think that it if it was room category issues it would have impacted more than the first 3 cruises after dry dock.....hopeful but just a bad feeling in my gut

i agree

[Mikew0805]

39 minutes ago, tmbasuhre said:

I hope their rep is right, too but.....I would think that it if it was room category issues it would have impacted more than the first 3 cruises after dry dock.....hopeful but just a bad feeling in my gut

I have that same sinking feeling. UGH

[uvadover]

Apologies for the re-post but there are now two active threads on this.  

 

On the social media site most frequented by the current US president, Royal Carribbean's official twitter is saying as recently as 55 minutes ago that "Oasis is resuming sailing on 11/24" and "No changes have been made to [these] sailings" and "This is just a rumor and there are no cancellations for Oasis."

 

I am sailing 12/29 so I certainly hope things are set.  Also went thru TWO recategorizations for this same sailing, so I am over the nonsense reshuffling of cabins.  Let's go!

[Casino Comp Chick]

21 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

We dont need a balcony, doing one of the vista suites on Adventure next month

 

We have an A1 in March on Allure. Those balconies seem much larger than the ones on Symphony. 

This category just opened for my sailing. $18,000.00 for 4 people ($4500 each)...I would never pay that and not have a balcony, Star class or no Star class. That is just not worth it. I do not plan on sitting in the bedroom looking out the window so those 2 in-room bedroom lounge chairs would be wasted on us.
We paid 1500 pp for a 3BR garden villa on NCL a few years ago and there is no comparison between that & this cabin. 
 

Edited November 1, 2019 by Casino Comp Chick

[lsharp32198]

6 hours ago, uvadover said:

Apologies for the re-post but there are now two active threads on this.  

 

On the social media site most frequented by the current US president, Royal Carribbean's official twitter is saying as recently as 55 minutes ago that "Oasis is resuming sailing on 11/24" and "No changes have been made to [these] sailings" and "This is just a rumor and there are no cancellations for Oasis."

 

I am sailing 12/29 so I certainly hope things are set.  Also went thru TWO recategorizations for this same sailing, so I am over the nonsense reshuffling of cabins.  Let's go!

I am staying positive.  When I called last night I was on hold a long time and then told about the recategorizations in detail.  If the posted this today I would assume it is still a go.   Of course, it could change by tomorrow.  Fingers crossed - I don't want to tell my 3 kids it is cancelled.  They need this break as much as my husband and I do.

[John&LaLa]

1 hour ago, Casino Comp Chick said:

This category just opened for my sailing. $18,000.00 for 4 people ($4500 each)...I would never pay that and not have a balcony, Star class or no Star class. That is just not worth it. I do not plan on sitting in the bedroom looking out the window so those 2 in-room bedroom lounge chairs would be wasted on us.
We paid 1500 pp for a 3BR garden villa on NCL a few years ago and there is no comparison between that & this cabin. 
 

 

In your opinion 😉

[mac_tlc]

39 minutes ago, John&LaLa said:

 

In your opinion 😉

We paid that for 8 in an A1 on Oasis. No comparison...............   IMHO 😉. 
 

mac_tlc

[Casino Comp Chick]

45 minutes ago, John&LaLa said:

 

In your opinion 😉

Everyone has one but you really can’t be serious about comparing those 2 cabins. 😉

Edited November 1, 2019 by Casino Comp Chick

[John&LaLa]

37 minutes ago, mac_tlc said:

We paid that for 8 in an A1 on Oasis. No comparison...............   IMHO 😉. 
 

mac_tlc

 

32 minutes ago, Casino Comp Chick said:

Everyone has one but you really can’t be serious about comparing those 2 cabins. 😉

 

Cramming 8-12 people in a cabin to amortize the expense is not my idea of a vacation. 

 

These cabins can't be compared.  

 

 

[mac_tlc]

33 minutes ago, John&LaLa said:

 

 

Cramming 8-12 people in a cabin to amortize the expense is not my idea of a vacation. 

 

These cabins can't be compared.  

 

 

I didn’t find 6 strangers to get the per person cost down. Having the kids and grandkids in an A1 is indeed my definition of a vacation. With over 1600 sq ft between cabin and balcony, “cramming” never occurred. IMHO

I do agree these cabins can’t be compared.

 

Anyway, we will see if it is better in a 4-bdr villa suite in August—- I’ll report back. 😉

 

mac_tlc

[Milwaukee Eight]

15 minutes ago, mac_tlc said:

I didn’t find 6 strangers to get the per person cost down. Having the kids and grandkids in an A1 is indeed my definition of a vacation. With over 1600 sq ft between cabin and balcony, “cramming” never occurred. IMHO

I do agree these cabins can’t be compared.

 

Anyway, we will see if it is better in a 4-bdr villa suite in August—- I’ll report back. 😉

 

mac_tlc

Many on here don’t care for kids on a cruise. I personally have no problem with kids. 
 

in my opinion 

[Tulsacoker]

Isn't that a Disney Cruise?

 

Asking for a friend 

[MacMarauder]

2 hours ago, lsharp32198 said:

I am staying positive.  When I called last night I was on hold a long time and then told about the recategorizations in detail.  If the posted this today I would assume it is still a go.   Of course, it could change by tomorrow.  Fingers crossed - I don't want to tell my 3 kids it is cancelled.  They need this break as much as my husband and I do.

 

I'm on December 8th and had a major problem with the re-categorization earlier this week.  Have connecting cabins with two small kids and they flipped my son and I to a different deck.  Luckily we were able to grab different connecting cabins but I can confirm first hand they are having problems with it.  

 

However the fact that it is the first three sailing only that aren't showing does worry me.  

[HBE4]

13 hours ago, Host Clarea said:

 

That's a huge jump (5400 to 6761) from double occupancy to max.  I don't think Royal's ships have that much of a percentage increase from double to max.

 

For most ships, I agree. It's usually just a few hundred more.

 

If memory serves me correctly, for Oasis, the original (pre-AMP) pax was 5,400 with a max to 6,100-6,200-ish.  Which is still almost less than 600 less than MSC.

 

After AMP, I'm sure those numbers will go up by a hundred or so once Royal figures out how many people can fit in a cabin. Which seems to be a challenge these days.

 

 

[Clarea]

5 minutes ago, HBE4 said:

 

 ... Which seems to be a challenge these days.

 

 

 

Unfortunately.