Another_Critic

Yes, but you will be paying your cellular provider's "roaming" rate while connected to Cellular at Sea.

There is a chat feature, via the app, that works without a Voom package.

1 hour ago, Biker19 said:

Use the planner, not the app for pre-cruise bookings.

 

I've used both the planner and the app to reserve MTD.

I'm flying into MIA and [3 weeks later] flying out of BCN.  🙂

1 hour ago, SUgwoz said:

Icon has high prices, but there is value there if you search and if the ship amenities fits your needs. I'm paying roughly $271/pp per night for OVB (removing 3rd/4th cabin guests) as I can skew the number very low. This includes gratuities, TA dinner, and about $200 OBC, booked last fall. You could get balcony for $321/pp per night even 45 days before sailing. 

 

I prefer my deals.  🙂

Oasis TA - $106/night (including gratuities) SOLO in OVB.  Plus $575 OBC.

Odyssey TA - $155/night (including gratuities) SOLO in OVB.  Plus $500 OBC.

1st cruise - Song of America Sept 1987

48th (29th RCI) - Oasis April 2024

Posted by @DragonOfTheSeas regarding last week's Anthem sailing.

We always select My Time Dining for our cruises.  I made reservations for dinner each night at 7pm when it opened. We can always change individual days if we need to. My reservations appear in my calendar on the app.  However, when we got to the dining room at 7pm last night they told us we actually had a fixed dining seating at 6:30pm. 

Sure enough, that was listed at the bottom of the sea pass. 

2 hours ago, cruisegirl1 said:

Last TA had FOG!  Lots of fog for days.  I found the sound of the fog horn to be relaxing but others had a different experience and had sleepless nights.   Guess it had to do with our cabin placement in relation to the actual horn.

 

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41 minutes ago, firefly333 said:

I've had that fog horn out of Galveston. It was so annoying trying to sleep.

 

Fog horn was going off frequently on our Sept 2022 Arctic Crossing.  Had a spacious OV under the bridge wing.  Didn't bother me ... one of the advantages of being hearing impaired.  😄

48 minutes ago, DragonOfTheSeas said:

We had this same situation last week.  We just did not take access any Sky class benefits.  

 

We ignored the tours, top tier event and cheers with the officers. We were ok with that.  

Just an FYI - You were in Sea Class (JS), not Sky class.

Some Tours, Top Tier, and Cheers with an Officer are C&A events, not suite related events.

Many moons ago (2002), I booked Inside GTY on B2B Celebrity Horizon cruises.  I was assigned the same Ocean View cabin on both legs.  🙂

I should have bought a lottery ticket.  😱

9 hours ago, DragonOfTheSeas said:

Hahaha 😂. We have decided we will check out other cruises 🚢 on Anthem in the future. We are just now really finding our way around.

Note that Anthem is leaving Cape Liberty on Apr. 28 and will be replaced by Odyssey on Nov. 17.

Was on Oct. 2023 Anthem TA ... 15 nights.  New menu every night, but there were some repeat items.

29 minutes ago, Charles4515 said:

I would be pretty surprised if there wasn’t what I will call a watch person with a radio on the bridge with the work crew or as a member of the crew. They would be watching the traffic, not the ship channel. Given the timeline it seems like it would have been pretty difficult to get the work crew off in time.  

FYI - What you quoted (salvage command) is not related to your reply (construction crew).

I've Escaped from Pompeii multiple times ... at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.  😄

I will be staying in Rome in the fall pre-cruise and was thinking of driving to Pompeii (2.5 hours each way).  So, I'd be interested in people's opinions.

37 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

We did a cruise to Bermuda years ago and the Love Boat was tied up at the Dockyard while we were in Hamilton on Celebrity's Horizon. When we got back to NYC we were on the opposite side of the same pier with the Pacific Princess.

I was on Celebrity Horizon (46,811 GT) in Oct. 2002, leaving Hamilton, when we passed Pacific Princess (20,636 GT).  I thought, that ship is tiny.  😄

Later (Oct. 2011), I did a 10 night non-stop TA (LIS to SJU) on "tiny" Azamara Journey (30,277 GT).  🙂

6 minutes ago, lovesthebeach2 said:

About 20+ years ago we took the Pacific Princess from NY to Bermuda. On our last day there, One couple missed the ship. They got there as we were pulling away. We were told that their parents were onboard with their two small children. The Captain left the port and we anchored quite a distance away and waited as finally the couple was brought to the ship by a motorboat and hoisted onto the ship by a rope. It was very scary even for us being able to see this from our balcony.

On a recent cruise, they brought a couple to the ship on the pilot boat (when picking up the pilot).

1 hour ago, cincicruisers said:

Can anyone share information about what benefits come with the key/vip?

I am diamond level but it’s been years since my last cruise with Royal.

52 minutes ago, Ashland said:

When and what will be the next RCI schedules released.

https://creative.rccl.com/Sales/Royal/Deployment/2025_2026/2025-2026_Deployment_Opening_Schedule.pdf

Cruise planner typically closes 2-3 days prior to sail date.

2 hours ago, BND said:

It's also illegal, so there's that.  There are signs are you approach Baltimore about hazardous/explosive material carriers and what routes they should take.

Apparently I shouldn't have gone through the tunnel after eating chili or baked beans.  😱

Completed:

Star Princess EB (FLL to CPH) 2005

Azamara Journey WB (LIS to SJU) 2011

Celebrity Constellation WB (SOU to MIA) 2012

Quantum WB (SOU to Cape Liberty) 2014 (8 night pre-cruise in England)

Anthem WB (SOU to Cape Liberty) 2015 (10 night pre-cruise in England)

Vision WB - Arctic Crossing (CPH to Cape Liberty) 2017 (3 night pre-cruise in Copenhagen)

Anthem EB (Cape Liberty to SOU) 2022 (5 night post-cruise in England)

Voyager WB - Arctic Crossing (CPH to BOS) 2022 (3 night pre-cruise in Copenhagen)

Anthem EB (Cape Liberty to SOU) 2023 (7 night post-cruise in Wales)

Anthem WB (SOU to Cape Liberty) 2023 (3 night pre-cruise in England)

Booked:

Oasis EB (MIA to BCN) 2024 (5 night post-cruise in Spain)

Odyssey WB (FCO to Cape Liberty) 2024 (6 night pre-cruise in Italy)

Thinking About:

Brilliance EB (MIA to Portsmouth) 2025

Odyssey WB (FCO to Cape Liberty) 2025

25 minutes ago, TPKeller said:

 

I'll chime in.  I think the channel will be open long before that.  Remember the channel is only the section between the two bridge supports on either side of the ship.  They can leave the rest of the bridge outside the channel to be removed later.

 

[snip]

Space to store them on land is not an issue.  All they have to do is get the steel out of the channel.  They could even dump it a few hundred yards off to the side if they have to. They'll clean the parts up later.

There's also the concrete roadway that is laying on the bottom.  If those pieces broke up or mostly fell flat, they might just leave it for later as well.  Losing a foot or two of channel depth to save a month's closure is well worth it. 

 

I don't think they will open the channel if there is any known debris in the water.  Unless they can anchor the debris, they will not want to risk the debris moving into the channel (too much risk).

4 minutes ago, BND said:

There weren't 2 others.  There were 6 missing.

"The search for six people presumed dead became a recovery effort in the wake of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge Tuesday. Two were recovered in a red pickup truck Wednesday morning."  = Still four missing

"Officials say that eight people were working on the bridge at the time of the collapse. Two people were rescued from the water shortly after Tuesday's collapse. One of the rescued workers was unhurt, the other was treated at the University of Maryland Medical Center and has been discharged." 

1 hour ago, ticketsunlimited said:

For every day that these poor souls are at the bottom of the Ocean you can add another day to our predictions for when this channel opens up.  This is a grave site right now and until all of these bodies are recovered nothing else is going to move.  I have not seen any news today about recovery  but until all six are accounted for no steel is coming out of the channel and the ship probably will not be removed.  

True, but they aren't putting off planning channel clearing until the recovery operation is over.

Planning (acquiring resources and equipment, etc.) and recovery can be done at the same time.

3 minutes ago, BND said:

They found 2 bodies today in a red pickup truck..  That leaves 2 more which they think are under the debris where they can't get without moving it.  

Tuesday = 2 found alive

Wednesday = 2 found underwater

Under Debris = 2

What about the other 2?