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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.

Management who is responsible for this specific issue doesn't benefit from the DSC. Removing the DSC in retaliation for this issue impacts the most junior members of the crew none of which are management or have any influence on this specialty restaurant issue. It's a billing issue. Not a service issue.

Allure was a left over ship they had to stick somewhere. The red headed step child no one wanted to talk about. While I personally love Allure the lack of updates is something that hasn't gone unnoticed by the cruise booking masses. To your point, that Allure bookings didn't flop on 3/4 may have opened the door to put Utopia, as a brand new ship, on the same 3/4 albeit for very different reasons. We've all grown accustomed to Miami being the top cruise port in the world. It goes to show that Royal isn't so numb to reality after all. With another port challenging and taking the title (for now) Royal has done what Royal does best. They've placed assets where they can generate the most revenue in the bigger picture, With more Icon class in process Oasis class aren't the mega ships in their own league any more. Oasis will soon be just another class of ships that once we're the largest cruise ships in the world. Just as Majesty once was a mega ship of the seas so goes Utopia before she even sails. Utopia will be the first Oasis class ship that was never the largest cruise ship in the world. Maybe once Icon 2 or 3 is doing 3/4 from Florida it will be time to put Oasis as just a large class of ship at that point into the Pacific.

Another option is a Voom package, a laptop and a subscription to a VPN service that has a gateway in Canada. cbc.ca carries a lot of games right on their website but you need to appear to be in Canada to watch them.