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Sept 26 as well.

Sept 12 sailing as well.

All of the CAS on board offers are for use on board as the name applies. They can not be used before or after the cruise.

At CocoCay ship wifi is extended onto the island so if you purchased a Voom plan it works on CocoCay. Labadee isn't there yet (wifi coverage).

Some Alaska cruises depart from Seattle (USA) while others depart from Vancouver (Canada). As offered more details are required to answer your question.

On the July 17, 2022 - 8 night sailing lobster night was night four while in San Juan. We were in San Juan until late that night. Second formal night had no special menu in the MDR.

CAS is currently rejecting people who call and try to get a fiance into a relationship as reported recently by people who have tried. Their ship, their rules.

Wasn't long ago here or on another forum a user was complaining CAS rejected their relationship request because they weren't married yet. The answer was come back when you are married.

GGG is up

Technically a fiance is not a spouse in any legal sense of a spousal concept. The purpose of the relationship recognition is not so it can be abused by people who are not spouses. While you are at it why not promote claiming that folks are fake military? Why not promote claiming fake police or fire? When a program is abused it will lead to honest people that should get a benefit losing out when they close the program because of fakers. A fiance is not a spouse or the intended purpose of the CAS relationship. Fluffy is not a service animal even if you put a fake service vest on Fluffy. You end up hurting the people that truly need the benefit when you promote fakers.

Before the shutdown I was in a similar situation sharing a cabin with a Gold family member. I asked CAS how to proceed. They suggested buying it in advance then once onboard asking the ship to refund just me and re-charge just me using my D+ discount. The cruise was lost to the pandemic but it sounded very hokey and I wasn't at all comformatable the ship would understand and process it properly. At any rate you can purchase it now and email CAS about how to proceed.

The key is the wording that the price shown includes the BOGO50 discount applied. I know people don't want to see that, they want to assume the BOGO50 is applied to the price per guest that is displayed, but that is not how it works. Words matter. Everything is relative to the onboard rate, not the last sale price someone saw last week or last month. $105 seems to be the new on board rate but that is subject to change. Most ships offer the BOGO50 on board for day one only. That does not combine with the onboard D+ 30% discount. Everyone pays the 18% gratuity on beverage packages in advance or onboard so that is not relevant to the math. Doing the math... Assuming no discounts were available, two regular guests buying the DX onboard @ $105 for 3 nights is 3 x $105 = $315 each or $630 total (before 18% gratuity). This is the baseline price. The BOGO50 is offered in the cruise planner and usually on board for day one. BOGO50 has the first guest pay the full price $105 per night and the second guest pay half that or $52.50 per night. Buy one at full price, get the second one half off. The average price per night is $78.75 per guest for 3 nights, 3 x $78.75 = $236.25 per guest or $472.50 total (before 18% gratuity). A price of $472.50 from the baseline $630 amounts to a 25% discount for two guests. As a D+ buying it on board using the 30% D+ CAS discount... assuming both people are D+, $105 per person per day less 30% = $73.50 per person per day, times 3 days = $220.50 per guest or $441 total (before 18% gratuity). As expected $630 less 30% is $441. Yes there will be 18% gratuity added to all beverage packages either in the cruise planner or onboard. On the surface the D+ 30% discount does appear better than a BOGO50 in the cruise planner. Your risk is the onboard rate going up by the time you get onboard. Mariner onboard was $102 two weeks ago, on the current cruise it is $105 so the onboard rate can and will change at any time.

Last two cruises I received a separate survey specifically about the app. If you spend a lot of time you can often find some of the information in the app, like LA hours, but you have to dig for it. I suggested they put the PDF of the cruise compass in the app itself with the ability to pinch and zoom so you can read everything. If the actual cruise compass was available in the app that would work for me and I'd be happy eliminating the paper version. Suggested the same for menus - actual menu images instead of the text only versions of the menu. There is something about looking at an actual menu compared to the text only menu currently in the app. Otherwise the app is a massive technology fail.

During the pandemic they restricted it but have since gone back to old ways on most ships. Platinum and above.

Often the health questions don't work the day before. Even when the app notifies you it's time to do the health questions I've seen them unavailable. Try again later or in the morning of the cruise.

Guess not if they are in Australia.

The four ships involved sail no where near those areas.

Yes. Dude from the site we can't mention here did. He was not in a full suite. Also others on the same cruise in non-suite cabins did as well. They had a couple of over water cabanas. Mariner Day 3 - Labadee BB Cabana

The fact that the CDC, THE CDC, is willing to give up all requirements to cruise says everything we need to know. This is the most risk averse public health agency that imposed all of these conditions in the first place. Now the CDC doesn't think that the protocols are required anymore. Enough said.

If you enable airplane mode at home you may miss the text message that reminds you to show up on time based on your scheduled arrival time. 🙂

Most of the time a WS "Suite Guarantee" will result in a Junior Suite. Just because you don't see a JS available to book doesn't mean they are not holding back JS cabins and keeping them from being displayed on the public website. The lowest category of suite that is available today is meaningless.

Could be. You are on the bubble. Call and ask.

I expect we'll get assigned a 4D cabin on the side of the ship. Same category so "like for like" in their mind. I had an aft balcony 4B through the panama canal and when they swapped ships like for like they put me in a 4B on the side of the ship. In that case the same cabin existed on the sister ship but that didn't matter. Aft, forward, side - it's all the same category to them.

Anthem and Symphony summer of 2023 - all suites are out of inventory as noted on the blog message boards. That's rarely a good sign.

Surprised you haven't grabbed 9256 yet 🙂