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  1. @Pchamb3, you should be able to check in for your cruise now. Checkin opens 45 days before sailing--and that's when you choose your arrival time for the port. The longer you wait, the less options you'll have to choose from. Documents don't show up until 30 days out, so you're getting close. Use the website right now to check in and get an arrival time (some people call it boarding time, but it's really the time you can arrive at the port before getting on the ship). Make sure you check in EVERYONE in your party so you can all get the same arrival time.
  2. if you go into the app under dining, it will have the menu with prices. For Navigator, mine is showing $12.99 +18% for the various burgers. No breakfast menu on Explorer. As Firefly said, only on Oasis class ships
  3. unfortunately no, they delete them at the end of the sailing.
  4. just book it for yourself, don't add anyone else. Don't click on any other names, just yours.
  5. I miss the Iggy Pop commercials. I've sailed Enchantment twice, it was my first ship, before she was 'stretched'. I don't think I could handle a TA on her. I'd pick Anthem not only for more things to do, but for the solarium and indoor pool alone.
  6. There can be good deals, but there are years when it's not so great. One thing you need to watch out for since your sailing is so close to Black Friday, is that things like excursions and specialty dining (both single and packages) can sell out. When it comes to Black Friday, the one thing that I've noticed the last several years is that the soda and refreshment, and bottle waters, are a pretty decent deal, but the DBP with alcohol didn't drop to anything other than what some previous sale prices had been over the months leading up to Black Friday.
  7. I/we always get it. If buying for more than one person, we go for the one person/multi-device package because it saves a bit. Even when there are 4 of us in 2 different rooms, it's easy to share the 4 device package.
  8. The way I read that is that you can't use the discounted single supplement during blackout dates. But if someone is essentially paying for 2 people, why wouldn't they be able to do that?
  9. I got the email on March 14th for my December sailing. Still showing in my Cruise Planner as 'booked'. No refund on my card yet, no OBC yet either. I also got the email for the Aquaventure 'error' for my October sailing. Also still showing as 'booked' in my planner, no OBC, no refund yet.
  10. and they cannot be used onboard. Need to be used to book and apply to a new cruise. Not OBC.
  11. Make sure they spend it BEFORE they sail. I see a lot of posts where people are very upset that they took their gift certificates onboard and were told they were unusable. So they'll need to call and have the gift certificate turned into onboard credit well before sailing.
  12. That's terrible that the staff made you feel that way. I've done UDP when sailing by myself and never got that feeling. In fact, the opposite. I went back to Jamie's for the second time in my sailing and the waiter I had the first night came up and asked if he could seat me in his section again. Said I had made him laugh a lot the first night I ate there. I also had a really fun waiter in Chops when sailing alone. Now maybe because I travel a lot for business, I'm used to dining alone and am more comfortable with it. Or maybe because years ago I worked in the restaurant business and waited on quite a few tables myself and find it easy to strike up conversation with the waitstaff.
  13. Many airports have baggage drop off outside the main doors. You get out of your taxi, go to the 'Skycap' stand for YOUR airline, show your boarding pass and they check your bags before you even enter the building. Not all airlines have this, and those that do, don't always have them set up. But if they are out there and checking bags, it's a huge timesaver. But you definitely need to have some cash tips, and some airlines charge a small fee too. They cannot help you if you have any ticketing issues or other problems. They are strictly there to take checked bags.
  14. Miami Beach is the city next to Miami itself. The party crowds gather there. That's why the article calls it out, and not the City of Miami itself. Are they close? Yes, but worlds apart when it comes to nightlife. In the area of the port, you don't get an actual 'beach' where people come to play in the water, drink, and cause mayhem.
  15. Are you staying in Miami Beach/South Beach? That's where it's crazy--college spring break madness. Same thing happened last year with all the drunken partying, fights, etc. If you're staying by the airport or cruise port, you should be just fine.
  16. Quantum class--the tiered pools, the views.
  17. The meals ARE complimentary, what's the issue? That you can't have multiple entrees served to you at once? You can have more than one, but they will bring them one at a time. But they are complimentary. Other cruise lines are moving to charge for addional entrees beyond two, so far Royal hasn't done that. But at what 'off the menu' land restaurant where you are given a menu, and are served by waitstaff, not a 'all-you-can-eat-glutton-fest', are you able to keep ordering entree after entree? Pretty much nowhere. There is almost always a limit to 'complimentary', no matter what the business is providing.
  18. They slowly add things, no rhyme or reason. I have cruises booked through April of 2025, and things come in one thing at a time. As with many things Royal, it makes no sense. Just keep checking. For my Sept/Oct/Nov cruises this year, things are still being added.
  19. This has been such a 'fun cruise' to be part of, if only from my living room. Thanks to all of you for posting pictures, sharing funny stories and details about all the shenanigans. Safe travels home!
  20. First, not every school is out, in fact the majority are not out, they will have just returned from 'winter/holiday' break. If you look at the flyer I posted from this year's Yeshiva cruises, you will see this--that that had two, back to back, to cover the other fact that not all private schools take the same week.
  21. Anyway, if it's not Yeshiva week and that's the ship they are using, something else is going on for sure. All suites are totally sold out as well.
  22. Is that Yeshiva week? If so, that could be it--tons of families and kids. ETA: these were this year's dates. I think it impacts some restaurants and other areas of the ship as well.
  23. Nice--I'm always tempted by those, then can't quite pull the trigger even with the doublewide balcony. I need to see the ocean.
  24. Also, make sure to check in and choose an arrival time either on the website or the app. That opens up 45 days before sailing. The earliest arrival time slots go quickly. "Arrival time" is when you will check in at the port to answer the couple of health questions, show your passport and set sail pass and then you can proceed to boarding or the waiting area if they haven't started yet. Some ports have been real strict with arrival time, others not so much.
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