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The deck plan indicates an upper bed, no sofa bed. Sofa beds are indicated by a black square, such as 8198.

Ryan is a great guy.

Book it now and if there is a sale, or lower pricing, just call back and get it repriced to the prevailing rate and offers.

Then might as well get rid of the chairs too if that's the concern 🤔

That's probably so you don't accidentally fall over the railing while standing on it...

There was priority boarding ten years ago, but it is all by check-in time now for almost all.

Apex and Ascent have 4 dining rooms that are anytime dining, no fixed seatings. go to whichever one you want at the time you want. On the Silhouette there is only one dining room and it has a section for anytime and a section for fixed seating

All I heard in the webinar was blah, blah, blah, blah, carefully culled question, generic non specific answer, blah, blah, blah. Rinse and repeat.

Your interpretation of supplement is flawed. That has always been one of my pet peeves when people discuss this. OP specifically stated 150% supplement. That intimates a fare plus an additional 150%. A supplement is an amount in addition to the originally set price, so his assessment of a 150% supplement is correct. The charge is 250% of the original fare. If the charges were 200% of the fare it would be a 100% supplement.

Yes. When I did this in Miami we were told that if we wanted to do any thing ashore while in port we had to leave with all other passengers. If we chose to stay aboard we did not have the option to go ashore later. Of course this was 9 years ago and things may well have changed during this time. My bad if it has.

I can't speak to non-US ports. I would think it is the same as a B2B in US ports. You can't leave once you have returned back on board..

From my understanding once the ship has been zeroed out on arrival there are no departures allowed. Why not just drop off your luggage and then go for lunch? Come back and check in later when you are done.

When you book, your fare will include any current offerings. If you did not get any OBC then there was none offered at the time.

I am well aware of the previously included gratuities and the option to increase my fare by going refundable. I was just commenting on the fact that the reason they removed it was a way to increase their bottom line.

More $$ added to the bottom line.

Probably for the same reason they don't include gratuities and refundable deposits like Princess.

I had no issues this morning.

Which ship?

Deck 11 is quite long. Was this forward, midship, aft, port, starboard? It would be nice to know which cabin you were. I have one booked on 11 coming up.

Right, no more FCC, but if you change the ship/sail date it costs you $100pp. I just did this in November.

If you are lucky the menu will be correct by the 8th day of our cruise.😎

As of some time last year they made their non-refundable just that, non-refundable. Had you just changed the sail date/ship (keeping your original booking number) instead of canceling you most likely would only have had a $100pp fee to do so.

Looking at the deck plan you will see a wider section of the cabin. The bed is in this wider section. Bed by bath alternates as you go along.

You have been on these boards long enough to know that the app is mediocre at best and can't be relied on until you are on the ship, and even then....

When I look a the Solstice deck plan it does not show an upper. It only shows as a connecting room to 7200. 7192 and 7196 show an upper. Yes, the room steward will set up and take down daily.