CruisingHogFan

That’s odd. We have never had an issue getting a can when we asked.

It was very interesting. I checked a lot of “never experienced” boxes. Haha

Everything is continuing to go up. I wished I would have booked everything a few months ago but had a few other cruises I was planning at the time Even if there is a bigger Black Friday sale it will probably still be more expensive since the base prices will be higher….

Anyone seen anything about booking dining reservations for the new speciality restaurants for Icon in the cruise planner? We are on the fence doing the 3 day vs just booking a few individually since it doesn’t seem like the supper club will be included in the packages

BOGO is just a marketing term. The package is the same price per package no matter if you buy 1 or 2 packages

Everyone get read for another 14 pages of comments now that Bee has entered the conversation… 😂🙄

Fresh, I buy them sometimes when I grilling steak. They are small rock lobster tails just like what is on the ship in the MDR. Not impressive. Hook and some of the other specialty restaurants has the larger Maine Lobster.

The lobster tails are small and not that great. You can go to Sam’s club and buy the same fresh lobster tail for $1.99. Personally I wish they would replaced lobster something better on every cruise.

We have actually started booking 2 cabins for the 3 of us (2 adults and 1 teenager) on our next sailings. Came out cheaper than 1 cabin for 3 plus additional savings in only having to buy 1 deluxe drink package.

The cabin will be more expensive for 3 vs. 2 even with a kids sail free promo

I have a lot of stories from the diamond lounge! It’s amazing how some act but I’ve also met a lot of nice people. My favorite recent encounter is a man with his “pin” proudly on his shirt cutting in front of the elevator line and stating he is able to get on first. Didn’t end well for him. Hopefully the next group also didn’t allow him on the elevator as we wanted some space. You know social distancing! Haha

We just got off Allure. It was pretty normal for the most part. Encountered a few more entitled guests and back to back cruisesr than a normal cruise. I talked to a lot of the staff and almost all of them were not looking forward to the President’s cruise. You can tell they were stressing over how the ship will be full of entitled/ demanding guests. If you look on another platform you will see post after post of complaints. I feel sorry for the staff! We cruise Royal a few times a year but you couldn’t pay me to get on that cruise even with all the benefits!

If you are really that upset over this maybe you choose a different cruise line or vacation…. I’m so glad I changed my dates on allure when I leaned my booking was the president’s cruise. The “other platform” has been nothing but gripping an complaining over the dumbest stuff all week in that sailing.

We get the $60 AT&T cell plan for our daughter as she only needs to be able to call/text us on the ship. We get the ship package since we want data and this combo saves money. iMessage still works fine between all of us. You just have to make sure to turn off data on the phone using AT&T and keep the other phones in airplane mode so it only uses data. No issues

At $100 day it still works out to less than 7 alcoholic drinks per day. We get the free C&A drinks and still are able to come out way ahead and never are constantly drinking/drunk. Add in 4-5 bottles of water, soda, coffee drinks per day then it really saves up!! Plus the convenience factor of no receipts. I guess if you plan to only have a few drinks per day with none of the other stuff it wouldn’t make sense but that isn’t 90% of cruisers…..

The only issue I have with Allianz annual is the medical and emergency transportation is really low compared to their individual plans. I can buy 4 individual plans per year for what an annual cost and have better way better coverage.

That’s one of the main reasons I don’t want to do unlimited. Too much time and food for lunch. We probably will just book 3-4 specialty restaurants for dinner including the supper club and do the other nights in the main dinning room. Does Royal care if you have a traditional time and only show up 3-4 nights or is it better to do my time? We have been cruising for 20 years on Royal and just now starting to try the specialty restaurants. Haha

Depends on sailing if cheaper or not. We wouldn’t eat in the specialty restaurants for lunch as we are always on the go or at the pool during the day and plenty of included snacks. I thought I read somewhere on here (can’t find it) that if you call you can get a refund without losing your spot (not a rebook but just a reprice) vs having to cancel and rebook online

We have never purchased any of the specialty restaurants. I’m looking a booking separately each night so I can pick my times now vs the unlimited plan. It’s also a little less expensive this way. If I book them individually and the prices for down can you call for the price drop? I wouldn’t want to cancel and try to rebook through the online planner with the risk of losing my preferred time.

Like others have said the Black Friday sales might start early but I wouldn’t count on your sailing being included. Most of the time Royal isn’t going to discount that close to sailing .

I’ve had 3 price drops for about $700 for next March on Oasis since booking. Icon for next June has more than doubled lol

Pretty sure you have to use AMEX Travel and they will control the booking just like any travel agency. I book with my Platinum as a backup for travel insurance and points but I always book direct. Just easier for me to be in control and take advantage of price drops myself.

Were you booked under MTD on your invoice or under the early or late traditional dinner time with a reserved table?

You might want to read the shareholders report before you say bookings are slow

Because they are two different things… Others have mentioned this as well