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    Royal Caribbean
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Singapore

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  1. Hard to imagine a worse cruise experience than paying twice as much to be surrounded by screaming children and people in weird fur suits. Hard pass. Virgin Voyages or RCL all the way.
  2. We're looking at two cruise options leaving from Tokyo in August, and we were hoping to get advice on which of these is the better option for us, since we're not familiar with either cruise line. Itineraries are comparable. Diamond Princess vs MSC Bellissima About us: 40s Will cruise in a suite this time (honeymoon) so we'll have access to some suite benefits if those are particularly interesting Prefer mega ships over small ships (we prefer some anonymity over running into the same people repeatedly) Decent Wifi is important (don't need streaming, but we need to so some work for our business) Favorite line is Virgin Voyages (amazing food, younger, more adult themed), second favorite is RCL (reliable, and we're Diamond so some nice benefits). Our favorite ships have been Spectrum of the Seas and Scarlet Lady. We've sailed HAL (bit geriatric and boring at night but good food), Norwegian (felt very low budget), and Celebrity (comparable to RCL, little more middle aged, good food, enjoyable enough) Activities we typically prioritize include stuff like trivia, game shows, excursions, food, playing board games, escape room, skydiving simulator. We also enjoy specialty coffees, adult oriented entertainment like on Virgin, tiki bars. Activities we don't typically care about include pool, spa, sun deck, dance shows, stand up comedians whose jokes are mainly about colonoscopies. Our preconceptions about MSC (may be totally off base) is that it's low end with not very good food. Does MSC rank below Norwegian in being more on the low end? Our preconceptions about Princess (again possibly totally wrong) is that it's super geriatric, even more than HAL, and this ship is somewhat small (2500) and might be totally dead after 8pm like our HAL cruise was. Is Princess better or worse than HAL in terms of being too quiet/geriatric? Neither may be an ideal fit for our preferences, but options are very limited post-covid, and we've already done the Spectrum from Singapore voyage, so this is about it for Asia, other than a Cambodia/Vietnam river cruise. What would you recommend, and what are your experiences with either or both of these? Thank you in advance for your advice!
  3. Chef's Choice for me last week, first cruise as Diamond, was the exact same plate of cookies I got as Emerald. Pretty disappointing.
  4. Precisely what we did, we took the terms and conditions along and pointed that out. They said it's unwritten. I asked again, is it in writing anywhere at all? They said no, but it was the policy and they would not relent. That is absolutely false advertising, and it's sure sounds like enough people have run into this problem and enough people could be found for a class action suit. Not sure that's the kind of trouble I want to go through for some dumb coffee card, but it's clearly false advertising that has misled many people.
  5. So we purchased the Royal Caribbean coffee card which on the website clearly states that you can use it for any coffee at their lattetudes cafe. It lists no restrictions or other limitations. Yet once we purchased it and arrived, and ordered a grande coffee, we discovered that they took two punches out of our card for the coffee. We asked why, and they explained that each size is a punch. Despite the fact that the website says nothing about only being allowed to get the smallest size. It just says any coffee. The site also specifically says that you can get iced coffee. Except iced coffees are only available in a grande or larger. So when we tried to get a tall iced coffee the next day we discovered that that would also be TWO punches because they can't make it any smaller. What the.... This is very clear and illegal false advertising. Some things are actually more expensive if you were to use the card for a grande than if you paid!! We clarified this with the ship's coffee manager and he acknowledged this but said that's still their policy. We asked if he could show us these limitations in writing and he said that it is not in writing anywhere... Has anyone had this same experience on other ships or is something wrong with this one's policies? We're on Enchantment.
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