twangster

Kids are not conveyed Pinnacle status, only a spouse. I don't think problem is as extensive as some make it out to be. There is likely a bell curve type distribution of kid status. I suspect for the frequent Royal cruising family many kids have sailed multiple times and if they aren't Diamond on their own merit they are probably not that far away. There will be the families on the far ends of the bell curve that will be exceptions but most fall in the middle. When your spouse doesn't have the same status there would be little motivation to book Royal as the first choice. "Sorry honey, you can't come into the DL" isn't going to work well for newlyweds. At that point they might as well consider all cruise lines to book. The non-Diamond spouse wouldn't care less about silly CAS status. "Let's book NCL, or XYZ cruise line". A loyalty program is supposed to motivate repeat business except it doesn't when you don't offer a status match for a newlywed couple. By offering to match newlyweds it gives Royal an advantage and tilts the playing field towards Royal.

Welcome to the bizarre inconsistency of the Royal Suite class. Actually, most ships don't offer the 11am to 11pm beer and wine in the suite lounge that Oasis class ships do. Only Oasis class ships offer that. So technically it isn't "most" ships.

I can see it both ways. My adults "kids" never received CAS status from me because I switched to Royal later in life, after a divorce. Right after the divorce I didn't have money to cruise and I didn't, for a while. By the time I could my kids missed the match. Fast forward and now my adult kids are booking and paying their own way. Absent of meaningful CAS status and being early in their careers they can't afford Royal, they shop low prices. So they book elsewhere. Royal loses the revenue. If they were Diamond that would make all the difference with their limited budgets. Four free drinks would be a game changer. They would be more likely to book Royal. At their age they are not lounge dwellers so their presence, if they were D would have zero impact on other CAS members. As an investor I have to weigh the cost of four drinks versus lost revenue and seeing the competition get the business. It's their money my kids have earned themselves by working, I'm not going to tell them how to vacation. Bottom line, Royal loses. But they have no issue filling ships so, Royal wins? They didn't have to give 4 drinks away for free. 🤷‍♂️ It's a loyalty program. The match generates loyalty. Mission accomplished.

No more or less than any other Royal ship. If you have cruised Royal lately on any ship the Quantum entertainment experience will be similar.

1/2 million dollars for some onboard credit, carry-on bag drop off with delivery, welcome lunch with Chops menu, 2 device surf and stream? Looks like one example when it would have been cheaper to buy The Key.

Tough crowd. About 28 years ago.

What the ship say about the audio issue in the theater?

I think you were talking to the wrong Bailey.

Available inventory doesn't indicate the way it used to. It is no longer absolute. "Seven cabins left" used to mean there are seven cabins left. Today that has become... there are seven cabins available at this moment in time. In the past Royal would open a ship and every cabin was available to be booked. They are moving away from that. Now they are purposely holding back inventory, releasing it in blocks at various dates over months. From a call center agent perspective there may be just seven cabins in a specific category that can be booked at this moment in time. That's is all that agent can see. That agent doesn't see what has been booked and what hasn't been opened for booking yet, they just see what is available or unavailable. Unavailable does not mean it's been booked. The agent doesn't know. From the May 4, 2023 RCCL Investors call Q&A: Jason Liberty -- Chief Executive Officer (responding to an analyst's question) Yes. Well, we actually, through the COVID period, had kind of shifted how we go to market with our inventory. We used to kind of put everything out there and all the suites would be sold basically right off the bat. And then you would kind of work your way down to the inside cabins. Well, now we hold back inventory and we release it, based off, of the much more sophisticated revenue management models that we have today. And so, all of that takes into account, you know, the demand environment we are seeing and that's why I think sometimes when we get into conversations around what percent booked are you? How does it relate to this period versus that period? What we are really focused on is optimizing yield. And so, there might be periods where, you know, quarter over quarter or year over year, we want to be in a stronger book position or less -- or lesser than what we were booked in a previous period because what we're focused on is maximizing yield, which, sometimes, you know, comes with us having more inventory to sell.

Maybe they are redeploying her. 🤔 If you call it that when she hasn't been deployed yet. Maybe it was a diversion, preliminary, placeholder or outdated information rendered obsolete. Maybe she will assume the Allure cruises from Miami like Wonder and Harmony. Maybe... time will tell.

It's on the US site now.

It might be both arms, both legs and a spouse's leg to make the switch. Stay tuned, but the expectation is that Utopia being brand new vs. Allure, being the 2nd in this class and more than 10 years old, will have a large price discrepancy between them.

My bad... that's 2.8 km or 1.7 miles.

Captain Johnny is also known for being a bit of a maverick. Perhaps there is more to it than just the social presence.

May have slipped again.

2.8 miles to South Beach per Google Earth. That's not much as cell towers go. Probably overloaded.

I connect to the GSC tower all the time. The problem is, so does everyone else. Speeds are pretty good until the masses figure out there is cellular. If NCL has a ship at GSC that's even worse.

Make sure to avoid studio cabins designed for a single guest. Single points only on those. Avoid the word studio. Depending on how old your daughter is there may be restrictions where the two cabins can be located relative to each other. If your daughter is under 18 then her points don't matter as much.

Like the pictures in a fast food restaurant? "Let's use a picture of an actual McD's burger" said no marketing department ever.

I wasn't kidding... it works!

Access points in each cabin means great wifi signal strength in your cabin. There will be no need to but in a shoe in the cabin door to use the internet.

Perfect Day Coco Cay

She may yet, just not in 2024. She is too busy helping Royal print money at PDCC.

You can't use DP340 on studio cabins. They are already adjusted for solo. To answer your question studio cabins receive only one point per night. Also be aware that booking a GTY as a solo on a ship with studio cabins may result in being assigned a studio cabin and in that GTY scenario you only receive one point per night. A solo in a double occupancy cabin nets you an extra point per night when booked as a solo.

News from Orlando this week: Fist fight breaks out at Disney World. Who goes to "The happiest place on earth" and gets into a fist fight? Disney theme parks visits are not cheap. If you are going to see the mouse you got some bank. Goes to show that the company or cruise line isn't the source of the fighting. Humans are the worst. So far Silver Sea has no reports of fights on board. Apparently there is enough Grey Poupon for everyone.