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I think you kind of answered your own question there. Is there still enough fun things to do without paying for those items that require a charge? The question is subjective based on what we all find fun.

It's still considered food and must be declared. Failure to declare it can be met with fines and confiscation. I get that they won't bat an eye at it. But you are still required to declare any food you are bringing into the US.

Just make sure you declare it.

Not sure what your point is? Slot machines are hardly random. They are required to pay out a certain percentage and those calculations comes into play every time someone spins the wheel. The laws are more strict at US casinos than they are on cruise ships in international waters. Are you trying to imply that I am saying they are trying to defraud those using them?

Came to say the same thing. If only people knew just how not random slot machines really are, they may stop playing them.

Based on what you posted, you may want to go back and work on them a few more years. As someone who has been a Software Engineer approaching 30 years I will agree with you on a few points. Yes, developers are rather poor at documenting their code. Yes, it's not always clear what developers were thinking when they wrote their code or why they wrote it a certain way. However, in the vast majority of cases, business logic is not determined by the developers. It is determined by the Business Analysts and the user community. I can look at code and tell you what it's doing. Any decent developer can do that. What I can't determine is if it meets the users needs unless I have those specifications. Based on your list of variables, something tell me you also subscribe to conspiracy theories, believe in the Loch Ness monster, and have seen a Sasquatch. Your "examples" are you pulling at straws that really hold no weight in the process. You're ignore the number 1 rule of software development. KISS - Keep it simple stupid. At the highest level Royal is attempting to maximize their their profits per sailing. At a deeper level their contractor is using algorithms and data structures that allow them to calculate the various profit margins of all possible scenarios. It's really not that complicated. The contractor would be given a list of the available rooms (Your COVID examples are moot since the quarantine cabins would not be included in this list), the software would build its data structures and run its algorithms to find the most profitable paths. Are there some "unknowns" in the process? Of course. Is it magic? Not in the slightest.

That statement kind of contradicts itself, doesn't it? Just because you don't understand the algorithm would suggest there is indeed an algorithm behind how winning bids are determined, and therefore, would conclude there is a rhyme and reason.

If you're not first, you're last! Shake & Bake!

Then perhaps I misunderstood your original message. I interpreted it to mean you were getting surf & turf 17 years ago on Royal every night. 40 years ago? I believe it. I still remember the midnight buffets. Oh yeah, those are gone too.

Then your waiter was giving you something free of charge that was not intended to be free of charge. Consider yourself lucky. We all got some indirect perk from a bartender or waitstaff but if we didn't, it wouldn't matter because it was not supposed to be included. Like I said, only time we ever got lobster free was on lobster night or our last cruise when we were Star Class.

These were my thoughts exactly. Free drinks seem the same today as they did 17 years ago. I also remember back to when you had to get a modem from Guest Services to get onto the Internet. Then they went to per minute packages on WiFi where you connected, checked your mail, and disconnected from the internet to save those minutes for use during the cruise. Also, they can still order surf and turf every night. Don't believe that has ever been included except on lobster nights. Not sure if OP was implying you could get surf & turf for free? If so, that has never been a thing as long as I have been cruising over the last close to 25 years.

I am considering it but based on my research, LastPass has the most robust functionality of any of the password managers.

Please see post #14

I don't believe Royal will do anything to change how their website works. This really falls onto those who develop the password managers to find new ways to integrate with sites like Royal's.

Dashlane is specifically mentioned in the link Smokey provided. The link did not provide any research on Edge though I did try using LastPass in Edge without success. Perhaps Dashlane has found a way to work around this limitation?

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing this. I don't write customer facing web apps so I have never heard of Shadow DOM until now. I definitely will put this on my list of things to research and what the benefits are of implementing this in the first place. I will pass this onto LastPass support though I am actually quite surprised (no I am not) that their Level 1 support has never encountered this issue before.

And it very well may be the way Royal's site is coded. But that is for LastPass and Bitwarden to work out with Royal. Don't ask your paying customers to do that legwork for you 🙂 Out of curiosity, how do you like Bitwarden? I have considered switching since LastPass support has left much to be desired and their data breach last year is also a bit concerning.

Yep, fully understand and agree. I just want to come back to LastPass and say "I reached out to them. Now fix your own product."

Autocomplete built into Chrome works for me. This would lead me to believe that autocomplete, as a whole, is not disallowed on the site. I am only trying to reach out to Royal's IT to satisfy the request from LastPass's support.

I am only contacting their IT dept to show LastPass that I have done so. I still think this is an issue with LastPass's software and they should be the ones working with Royal's IT dept. I am just looking for the answer to the question, from Royal's IT; Is autocomplete disallowed on their login page. I personally do not expect Royal's IT to fix any of this for me.

Hard to search the forum for IT and support because so many false positive hits are made. So if this has been asked and answered, I apologize but I was unable to find my answer. I used a password manager called LastPass and about a few months ago, this application stopped working on Royal's website. Personally I believe it is an issue with LastPass but they have requested that I reach out to Royal's support and inquire as to whether or not Royal has configured their login page to disallow autocompletes. I did find a number for Technical Support (had to google for it) but I am hoping for an electronic form of contact. Does anyone know how I can reach their technical support electronically? I did reach out to them on Facebook and their response via messenger was that they could relay my question/concern but that IT did not communicate with users directly. For the record, I have told LastPass that I believe the issue is on their end and that, as a software developer, I would never tell one of my paying customers to do the legwork and research to find out why the tool I wrote wasn't working correctly. However, I am trying to humor them so that once I have this escalated to management I have a track record of how they shouldn't be conducting support.

So I have friends that have never been on a cruise and feel all the sea days of a TA would be boring. I am the type of person who always needs to be doing something on vacation. However, the sea days actually force me to slow down which is much appreciated. I can sleep in. I can do something or nothing. I still find things to do with all the sea days while also taking it easy. But as others have said, to each their own. You won't know how you feel about all the sea days until you actually try it.

It is included with Star Class.

You do NOT get double points if you are upgraded to a suite and your original cabin was not a Jr Suite or higher category.

One thing I have noticed is that people are always more likely to bid (more) on suites than on lower categories so you will more than likely need to bid more than the minimum to better your chances at getting a suite. I have used Royal Up twice and won bids both times. First was minimum bid ($150pp) to move from an Oceanview to an Balcony on Vision and the second was maximum bid ($3500pp) to move from a Jr Suite to Grand Loft Suite on Odyssey. Thing to keep in mind is the algorithms used will calculate how much did you pay for your cabin (category), how much your bid is in relation to what you paid & how many bids and how much those bids + what they paid of anyone who may get upgraded to your current cabin (and this is recursive of who may move into their cabin and so on). The desired outcome is to maximize the amount of money Royal earns for the sailing. Since you don't know who you are bidding against and how much they have paid and are bidding or who is bidding to move into your cabin and how much they bid and paid for their cabin, some of it is simply luck as to whether or not you win the Royal Up bid. You could still bid the maximum and yet never win a Royal Up bid.