PopeyeDaSailor

How rude of the Captain to not turn the ship so you were facing East! 😉

I'm picking up these items just to be safe:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0725V26T6/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A23A2LDFV3EUTQ&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01I1430WQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A1E57UY6AMKO25&psc=1

Thanks.  I'm in a GS so I'm going to plan for both now that I read motherof post.

So Symphony I would imagine would offer it.  I'm looking to buy waterproof carrying containers but if I can get a RFID waterproof wristband then I won't need it.

Simple question.  Can you get a wristband (like Disney Magic-bands) instead of a Seapass card?

Love your review.  Wondering why they didn't clean the balconies early in the morning on a flip over day back at port?

Thanks.  My son won't turn 12 until half way through our cruise and he's a bit immature (aren't all boys?) so we might sign him up with the 11 year olds.

Agree with Jenny ... with the amount I'm sure you paid after day #2 I would have requested a new Genie bottle.

18 minutes ago, Cel_cruise said:

 

On boarding day - head over to adventure ocean (14th floor
Forward Elevators) and sign up your 6 year old! You can start using AO Your 12 year old is part of the teen program. The most important thing for your 12yo will be to go to the meet and greet on the first night - I think it’s at 8:30. You want your kid to make friends to have someone to meet up with to do the teen programming. 12 year olds are really generally on their own though!

We work hard to keep Disney ‘fresh’ by trying something new or special each visit....and luckily Disney has made it easy for us to do that! New rides/attractions, a special dessert party or boat ride or meeting friends/family to add spice... so far it’s mostly working although we are lucky enough to go often enough that missing something (a broken ride, long lones etc) is not going to cause us too much heartache!

I’m waiting for the details on the full Star Wars land effort and 50 year birthday attractions to be more defined before we do too much more...trying to time out annual passes vs individual tickets and DVC point charts! I think we could end up with APs and make a few trips that year again.


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Thanks.  My son has been there like 12 times since he was 3.  It's tough to keep it fresh.  We have stayed at the Disney hotels to spice it up.  We're waiting for the Star Wars land to finish before going again.

3 minutes ago, Sam Ting said:

There is no reason to be rude especially to an elderly person.  Disgusting.

Agreed.  The Concierge should have been trained to know better.  She should have simply asked the OP to take his MIL outside the lounge and deal with the issue.  Like I said earlier it appears both sides handled this poorly.

7 minutes ago, Chloesimon said:

Read the initail OP's post:

 

"I stepped in and asked the concierge if she could please help my mother in law to resolve an issue."

 

Again, it seems suspicious that OP never tells us what the MIL really said. I'm sure she was upset and made a scene.

 

If I am wrong, I will admit it and take my lumps. The OP wants sympathy when the MIL was in the wrong. Take your lumps and learn from it. Do not try to slander the concierge with a one-sided argument.

 

I tend to lean this way.  If you breakdown what the OP said he clearly said his table was not in view of the door, yet his MIL showed up at his table.  How did she do this without interacting with the concierge first?

At the point the concierge asked for her Seapass card the OP should have excused his MIL and walked her out of the lounge to deal with the situation. 

One follow up question ...

If you buy the 1/2 day at the waterpark do you get to pick which 1/2?

10 minutes ago, mcgilldj said:

She was not asking for help from staff.  She was looking for her family to help her.  I hope you never get what you deserve!

What does that mean?  If she needed help from her family, then why not ask at the lounge entrance for someone to get her family and wait for them.  If you read the original story the family was sitting at a table that was not in view from the door, yet their MIL "appeared" at their table.  At this point she already had broken the rules. 

Both parties were in the wrong, and need to admit that.

So I'm bumping this to ask some opinions.

I'm definitely going to hit the waterpark for at least a 1/2 day, but will that be enough?  Is there enough to walk/around and do on the island the other 1/2 of the day?

I'm thinking 1/2 day waterpark and 1/2 day free beach/pool.  My son and I are doing the waterpark zip lines as well.

21 hours ago, dwhe said:

The Concierge could have handled it better but I'm confused, why couldn't you have gone outside the lounge to talk to your MIL if you knew it was so taboo for her to enter. That's what I would have done.

 

I'm soon to become Diamond, does it mean that my partner who will not be Diamond can't come with me to the lounge, if that's so they can stuff the  Diamond lounge where the sun don't shine and I'll go else where. 

After reading a page and a half of responses this is my thoughts... Why didn't your MIL simply ask for you and wait at the concierge desk?  You could have then gone outside and dealt with her problem. 

Yes the concierge was rude but it shouldn't have even gotten to that point.  Do you know what your MIL really said to the concierge?  Remember every story has three sides.  Had it been me I would have told my MIL where we were going to be and made it clear if she needed us how to contact us. But it sounds like your MIL appeared at your table side (from what you said) which means she got into the lounge but didn't stop at the front and found your table which you said was not visible from the door.  So clearly your MIL had an interaction with the concierge and still found you.  At this point the concierge was probably ticked that you MIL didn't listen and still found you.  It doesn't excuse her behavior but may explain it better.

And as others have said if it was really that bad you needed to handle it with the concierge's boss right then.

Wow, great LIVE review. 

I'm heading out on the same ship on May 11th with my two kids.  My daughter is almost 6 and my son will turn 12 during the cruise!

Can you two ladies please talk about signing them up for kids programs?  This will be our first cruise with kids (haven't been on a cruise since 2003) and I'm looking for any tips.  I know they will be in different age groups but I just want to know how/where/when we can sign them up. 

We plan on putting them in the program for days we are sailing and keeping them out when we're in port leaving the ship.

Oh and love the Disney thing but Grandmom/pop lives near there so my kids have been there so many times they have lost the spark (which is sad).

Instead of creating a new thread let me ask here. 

I'm definitely going to hit the waterpark for at least a 1/2 day, but will that be enough?  Is there enough to walk/around and do on the island the other 1/2 of the day?

I'm thinking 1/2 day waterpark and 1/2 day free beach/pool.  My son and I are doing the waterpark zip lines as well.

1 minute ago, Iamcruzin said:

This is the mentality that allows them to get away with what they do.  I work retail and I'm fully aware of the fake MSRP and we were doing BOGO's long before the cruise lines were. However 50% off a fake $100 MSRP is still $50. Simple math. Also department stores list the fake prices. Royal Caribbean uses a % off on board price but doesn't let you know what it is. You need all of the facts being fake or real to know if you have a true value.  Sales alone don't work anymore in retail. Now they need a coupon too. I wonder when the cruise lines will stoop to that.

I remember back in 1986 when I was 18 I really like this shirt at Macy's.  It was $24 dollars and I was a freshmen in college and poor (who isn't?) but $24 dollars was a big chunk of my pay back then.  I worked at part time job that paid next to nothing but I had saved up money. I figured I'd wait for one of Macy's famous Wednesday ONE DAY SALE! 

Sure enough one rolls around and I see 20% off men's clothes!  Wahoo, this baby was dropping below $20 dollars!  I come rolling into Macy's after work and the price of my shirt .... wait for it .... $30 dollars! 

$30 less 20% = $24 dollars!

Now I was a Computer Science major in school so the math was easy to figure out, but that was my first experience with Marketing 101. 

Son of a .... 🤬

22 hours ago, Host Clarea said:

Could be taxes and port fees for the child.

 

Also, I can tell you from where they pull out those numbers, but it would be considered bad taste.

It's definitely taxes and port fees.  That's actually pretty cheap for an extra person.

I'm leaving on Symphony on May 11th this year with my two kids and we're staying in a Grand Suite that I definitely wouldn't have been able to afford without KSF deal. 

Me neither but my wife has told me I'm like sailing with a child ... does that count? 🙂

Oh no, someone has breathed life into this thread again.

7 minutes ago, PCWalton1 said:

Our Jan 2020 cruise show it at $629. 😲😡

Yeah, if you watch that YouTube video I posted a few posts back the guy says the prices are "seasonal" which I assume means they fluctuate based on your sailing dates.

4 minutes ago, CRUISEFAN0001 said:

Obviously some of the information regarding dates is outdated, but still nice to watch.

 

The comments about WIFI on the island available to those who have ship WIFI onboard were “interesting”.

Yes, I'm sailing in a Grand Suite so we will have VOOM.  I'll update this post when I get back (Sailing May11-18) as to how "good" the VOOM was on Coco.

Just found this.  Granted it's from June, 2018 so some of these dates aren't on target:

So if I do the half day water park I can still walk to Oasis Lagoon correct?  Or is that somewhere else at another fee?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around Perfect Day stuff ...