Mr. Candyman

1 hour ago, jp2746 said:

I am so sad and do not want to cancel, but if they will not allow my father in law on the boat, will they return our money?  It's not like we don't want to go, I just don't think he will be allowed.  How is this situation being handled?

From my understanding If they deny boarding to anyone in the party, the entire party will/can be refunded.  

 FCC can be a tricky thing because, as you were told, it is applied to each person and isn't always beneficial when involving multiple people. If everyone in your party will be cruising again within the next year, then it's wise to get it. But if just one person cannot, the extra 25% is not worth the aggravation of trying to ensure all FCC gets used; making it better to accept the full refund.

I've checked 5 different ships and Symphony is the only one I've discovered thus far

It was definitely from the update.  I just updated and I'm now am able to see it.

I'm not sure if this popped up on the latest update but it appears that the app will now show you your muster stations.  This was posted in a FB group by Dean Bailey.  I would have never known because I'm still too far out to check-in to see my assigned muster station. 

23 hours ago, Grumpy8 said:

Where are the soda machines located on the Oasis

If you download the RCI app, it has deck plans but also a feature that will show you where the Freestyle machines, venues, and other POI by clicking on it.

12 hours ago, Lbicklel said:

We leave one week from today on a 7 night on the Majesty. This is my first RCI cruise. So far the only activity showing up in the app is a sushi making class every night. And for the main dining it looks like there’s pretty normal menus for nights one through three, but nights four and five are only showing the vegan menu, and nights six and seven are saying “venue closed.”  It’s been that way for over a week.

 

 

Try hitting refresh

55 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

That might only apply to a few things and closer to sailing - other than dining venues (and corresponding menus), the app seems to only loads things a couple of weeks before sailing.

 I'm still looking for others that have encountered the same thing but this particular sailing is for April 18th.   I'll have to go back and see what was reserved but I want to say it was laser tag.

A passenger on an upcoming Symphony sailing says he was able to reserve things with the app without being on board. I'm just waiting for others to confirm this.   Anyone else hear about this, especially since there was another update?

5 hours ago, Kovster said:

Actually... if you have an Samsung Galaxy s9 or s10.  Those phones have a feature called "Wi-fi Sharing".  Which allows you to do exactly what you ask.     https://tunecomp.net/wi-fi-sharing-on-samsung-galaxy/

 

I used it on HotS last year, and it was great to share it with my group of friends while on the ship.

 

Guess I need to upgrade from my S8

16 minutes ago, Host Clarea said:

 

If they were posted here on CC, you can post a link to them.

I know, but it wasn't.  I just think there was some misunderstanding (don't really see how) so for know it's all good.

I found some current breakfast menus from @twangster but wasn't too sure about re-posting them without asking

Just now, Ourusualbeach said:

It sounds like there was some misunderstanding by the person on board. 

That's what I was thinking but when you get management involved, I would think miscommunication would get cleared up.  All that was ordered was coffee and a muffin.  I didn't want to push or argue with her because I am wrong at times.

1 minute ago, Ourusualbeach said:

That $7.95 clearly refers to the specialty selections and not the continental part above it. 

I agree and said the same thing but thought I was missing something....thanks Ken!

She just informed me that it happened on Serenade if that makes a difference

2 minutes ago, Ptroxx said:

Where are you getting this report.   .??

A PAX that was just on in November.  This is part of the convo:  Just letting you know what we just experienced. And we did let the VP of Hotel know. He kept chatting with us every time he saw us. they told us there was a fee even for the coffee being delivered...guess THEY were charging everyone for everything that cruise lol

1 minute ago, Ourusualbeach said:

I haven’t heard of anything suggesting that there is now a charge for continental breakfast. If that were indeed the case there would have been numerous posts about it here. 

That's what I thought and always come here first.

Figured I'd revive and old thread instead of creating a new one.  I'm getting a report  that the room service charge is being charged for everything now, even continental.  Does anyone know if this has recently changed (past few months) or is possible that it's only ship specific?

3 hours ago, jjtt said:

Thank you Bob. Yes, both sons are young, 10 & 9 years old when they will be cruising. 

Another question if you don't mind....   We are going on a cruise this summer with them and our other daughter and her family (husband & 1 young daughter) for a total of 9 people (4 cabins).  If 3 cabins purchase the photo package and only hand the photographer one seapass card when taken a group picture, does only the cabin that handed the photographer the card get the photo? In other words only that picture will show up in one package and not all three. 

You don't hand them they card, they simply ask you for the cabin number.  So my suggestion would be to give them multiple cabin numbers.  Better yet, I would speak to the photo people and let them link the cabins since you will have 3 purchased packages.  If you bought the digital package it's probably easier for them to manipulate but if you're getting prints only, then I would think they'll have to print duplicates for each purchased package.

4 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

Probably saves them all of 5 minutes.

I figured there was no real time being saved but at least I know they're included in the pecking order.

4 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

Expedited arrival boarded after Diamond and before Emerald last week on Oasis

Well that's good to know that expedited can get on before Emerald...thanks

4 minutes ago, travfan said:

Hello, I have searched for more information about expedited arrival, but I still am a bit confused. I am sailing out of Miami on the Oasis of the Seas and have expedited arrival on my documents. I called Royal to verify that there is a separate line for this and she said yes, but I would board faster just waiting for platinum boarding. This confused me, I know platinum is not very high up for boarding so I find that hard to believe. I have a check in time at 12. I was also wondering how early they actually let you board. I also am assuming that I will be boarding in terminal A. Thank you for any help with these questions!

Ys you will be boarding at Terminal A.  Expedited arrival has nothing to do with boarding.  It's just lets you skip the check-in line at the terminal.  Boarding will start as soon as the previous sailing has been cleared off all passengers.  It can start as early as 10:30am10:45am and they start boarding in order of status; I believe starting with Suite guests and Pinnacles.  

3 minutes ago, CruiserKris34 said:

I pre-ordered the Evian water to be in the cabin.  Is the a mini-fridge I can use?  Will it be pre-loaded with stuff to buy?  We have a window cabin with the Park view.  Thanks!  Kris

It will not be preloaded but is there for you to use

4 hours ago, Anna0513 said:

They are both 21 

The only way to include them with your package is to either purchase a second photo package or just make sure one person from the purchasing cabin is always in a photo with them.  It has been reported by one passenger that simply giving the same cabin, when asked for stateroom, included passengers (other family members that weren't their children) not in the purchasing stateroom.  I can see how that may work but that is not the norm and not guaranteed to work based on the photo policy.  

On 12/30/2019 at 4:22 AM, hallasm said:

For me the difference was the photo. I did check in for myself and my wife - did scan passport - took a picture of myself but no picture of my wife.

I did get Expedited while she didn’t - make sense.

I couldn’t figure out how to add picture using the app however uploaded a picture of my wife from a PC - then her status changed to Expedited. 

I scanned in my wife's passport and uploaded (from the PC) the actual photo they used to take her passport photo.  I scanned in my daughter's passport but didn't upload a picture.  They both got expedited.

17 minutes ago, lovelife said:

 

In all our cruises I had expedited once and DH did not.  He was not allowed to check in with me.  As mentioned, there isn't much difference in time.

I'm guessing you both checked in with passports?