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Hi all, this 2 port thing is a little confusing to me. I'm looking at a cruise sponsored excursion and it says "Your final stop in the bustling capital city of Fira lets you snap some memorable photos before the journey back to Athinios port." Is that the newer port where the tour buses go? So we won't be needing the cable car back down to old port to tender?

Thanks for the reference! Honestly didn't' think about non-traveling family members getting sick. Granted I have a pretty small family so there's only a handful of ppl I'd cancel a vacation for haha. Will check out the webpage. Thanks!

Hello! Booked a Greece/Italy cruise for August 2024 for 5 people (husband, myself, 2 kids, and my mother) with RCL. Haven't purchased flights yet. We're looking to purchase travel insurance for two reasons. 1 - recoup some cost in case we have to cancel (i.e. sickness, but we're all relatively healthy, no pre-existing conditions), as it's not a cheap vacation. 2 - in case of medical/evacuation needs during cruise. My question is, when should we purchase the insurance? I'm shopping plans now but it ask how much the trip costs, which I don't know yet since I haven't made all the purchases (flights, hotel, excursions, etc). Should I purchase it now or after final payment? Final payment is April 2024. and RCL refunds certain amounts depending how many days is cruise. But also want to make sure flights will be covered as well if we have to cancel last minute. Thank you!

Can you only do this if you book through Royal directly? What about through TA?

i just wish there’s some notification to tell me when my post gets deleted and why. so I won’t make the same mistake again 😄

Ah, that's why I couldn't find my post anymore. Forgot I can't name the TA, it's been a few years since we cruised and been on the boards and rusty at it! Thanks for the response!

Yeah, I understand I don't get the OBC. At this point I'm just trying to see how I can not lose the $200 deposit. The deposit isn't attached to a specific cruise yet, so does April 2023 still count as the date to count 30 days from to transfer to TA?

Hello, I put deposit down onboard my last cruise (april 2023) for the NextCruise thing. Don't even know why I did it since we didn't know when we were cruising again so I won't even get the OBC. My question is, if I book with Royal so I don't lose the $200 NextCruise deposit, can I transfer it over to a TA afterwards, specifically Costco and still get the shop cards from them? We're looking at a August 2024 cruise next. Thanks.

Just to report back, we found taxi's by where the surfboards were. One thing was we didn't know what cabo taxis looked like! We had to google real quick and found "white vans with Taxi printed". We asked for price befoore getting in. I believe it was $15USD there and $12 on the way back. We just asked the staff at the Sand Bar to help us call a cab. Super easy and we had a great time! Thanks for everyone's tips/help!

Just off the Navigator so I know it’s not the Oasis info you want, but hopefully it’ll give you an idea. 1) No reservations, it was first come first serve. 2) See above 3) See above above 4) We were told to drop off within the first half hour of each session and shouldn’t have trouble, which we didn’t. 5) Babies and tots, 3-5, 6-8, 9-11. Sessions were mostly 9-12, 2-5pm, 7-10pm, some days you could sign them up for lunch and dinner time. For lunch at 12pm, sign up by 11. For dinner at 6pm, sign up by 4:30.

Reservations for laser tag available on app once on board. They also had standby line which moved faster on port days vs sea days as one can imagine.

Thank you!

Hi everyone, We're returning to cruising after being busy having kids and living through a pandemic for a few years haha 😂 I was always one of those mad pre-planners, but now life with kids and working full time, I dropped the ball on a lot of things. 1. We're 3 points away from Platinum, does anything happen during the cruise, or we're just gold until next cruise? 2. For things like the ice-skating show, do we have to get tickets from somewhere on boarding day, or just the day of? 3. Missed all the pre-cruise booking, we're sailing within 48 hours. Am I just SOL now and have to pay full price for things like photo package and wifi package? 4. Adventure Ocean - first time utilizing this service. Do we have to pre-book or pre-register the kids? Should we stop by on boarding day to figure things out? Thank you everyone, can't wait to get back out there!!

Good idea. I changed my 1400 reservation to 1500. Ship arrives at 12:30PM. That should be good right?

Hello. I have tried searching for info but keep finding info for water taxi's mostly. We are tendering to Cabo Port on Navigator of the Seas next week. I have an 8 and 4 year old with me, so don't want to do water taxi to Medano Beach/Sand Bar. Where will we find land taxi to take us there? And how much should I expect to be paying? Peso or USD? It's been years since we've cruised and first time with 2 kids, so I'm a little rusty. Thanks everyone!