home-mom

I wouldn’t do it. Ship delay, traffic, weather, airport security. Our daughter flew out yesterday and had an hour delay at security because the bag scanner machine broke. Good thing she was there 2 hours early. 

Sent three passports for renewal February 1st and two came back March 4th. Non expedited. The third said delivered, but I never got it so it went to the wrong place apparently. Had to go through waiting period with post office to try to locate it and then passport office to declare it missing. Now I’ve submitted more paperwork to apply for a reprint of the lost one. We’ll see how long it takes. Thankfully travel isn’t until June. 

We just called Hilton directly and asked about prices for day room and day passes and then picked. 

When we took the sushi class on Voyager this fall we said one doesn’t eat seafood and they said no problem and gave us more veggies instead. They have it all laid out in front of you on the table and you can basically put what you want in it. 

2 hours ago, SplashOfWater said:

When you see the search results, do you see anything when you click on My Offers? We saw the notice because we had a casino offer that we applied.

I only have this in my offers 

Repriced my cruise today and had the same notice pop up. We’ve been on 4 RCCL cruises and have never been in the casinos so not sure. 

Thank you!  Our Harmony in 2024 dropped $645 thanks to the sale!!!

I checked in on Friday. The app wouldn’t work. I had to use the website. I couldn’t just pick arrival time, I had to actually go through all the steps to get to it. Got errored out once and had to restart the process. Finally all checked in after 20 minutes and was able to get the 10:30 slot, but what a pain. When I was done it told me to refer to the app which worked the next morning. 

We also booked a room for the day at Rose Hall Hilton. Was a fantastic experience. Had a room to store our stuff, change, shower and rest in. Lunch was included. Enjoyed the pool and beach. 

Our Radiance cruise in March only had half and half the first two days. The remaining 7 days we were told they were out. 

On 5/14/2023 at 5:11 PM, home-mom said:

It’s a man made beach. I’ll see if I can find my pictures. 

This was from the restaurant next door. You can see the man made beach on the right. It was only a 5 minute walk from ship. We rented a room for the day but they also had day passes available. 

On 5/12/2023 at 4:10 PM, soccer2010 said:

it looks like it's a quick walk from the cruise port ... what's the beach like there?  Does it include a chair at the beach?

It’s a man made beach. I’ll see if I can find my pictures. 

I take motion pills the entire cruise and usually the day or two after as well. This seems to help me anyway. 

I agree with the other posts so far. Glacier Bay is a must. Our last Alaska cruise was on the Encore. Beautiful ship!

We went the second week of March.  Initially disappointed, but it got better as the island emptied.  Booked through Royal and the person meeting us was late, the boat left without our group, we had to wait for another one, in the sun on the pier, it cost us over an hour of our time.  (There were 5 ships in port that day.)  We arrived at Pearl Island after 2 pm and the island was packed.  Nowhere to sit.  It eventually cleared out after 3 pm and we were able to find chairs and go in the water.  Chairs were easier to find far from the water. We ate lunch - meh - but I know food is subjective.  It almost emptied at 4 pm because a tour left to swim with pigs.  We left about 5:30.  

On Radiance last week. Wore shorts or jeans to most main dining room dinners. No issues. 

We were there last week and it worked on chill island beach. 

We went this week.  Initially disappointed, but it got better as the island emptied.  Booked through Royal and the person meeting us was late, the boat left without our group, we had to wait for another one, in the sun on the pier, it cost us over an hour of our time.  (There were 5 ships in port that day.)  We arrived at Pearl Island after 2 pm and the island was packed.  No where to sit.  It eventually cleared out after 3 pm and we were able to find chairs and go in the water.  Chairs were easier to find far from the water. We ate lunch - meh - but I know food is subjective.  It almost emptied at 4 pm because a tour left to swim with pigs.  We left about 5:30.  We did talk to shore excursions when we returned and they said they were aware of the issues at the pier that morning and did offer a 30% refund.

This was ours this week from Radiance shown to me by guest services 

7 minutes ago, neuro0 said:

Junior suite too? 

Junior suites and up still get service twice a day. 

We stayed at the Hilton SeaTac and it had a free shuttle to the hotel and they offered a bus you could reserve for a fee to the cruise terminal. 

We prefer to eat our meals there vs windjammer, but beware it’s not fast service that’s for sure. 

Why not?  We cruise for the destination.  Not for the ship.  We like simple and don't need the constant activities and shows that most people like.

May on Allure out of Ft. Lauderdale it was 12 bottles. 

It’s been like that for me all day 😡