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Bring Euro notes with you. Cards are Widley accepted but not everywhere - Taxi's for example. USD is not accepted off the boat and will result in confusion in europe if you try to pay with $

Before they took them away as a cutback they were often under the counter and not on display you had to ask for them, once one asked of course within seconds everyone wanted a bag!

They have chip's back in the Cafe? That's good

The sailing date has to be by March 31 2025

The only other annoying thing we noticed was the app would not work from Rome so we had to book shows etc once on board, but it was not an issue - I think this has been sorted now and the app works both directions Heres the orange card, forgive my bad editing

Am unsure, will have a dig around later and see if I can find it, honestly it was exactly like the blue ones except in Orange 🙂

No- I got to keep the card, not sure if I was supposed too but nobody asked for it.

There was no sail way from Rome when we departed from there, only other thing that was different was we got an orange seapass card because of the interporting which we were asked about a lot by other guests, and our room was ready way before 1pm- we just went along not long after getting onboard to see if it was ready and it was. A rough guess by the amount of orange cards I saw I'd say 70-75% got on at BCN.

There was a thread on this a few weeks ago and a link to a person on I think Reddit who was a barman on Oasis, and he confirmed this was correct - they are guaranteed a minimum but the tips make up that minimum first then everything thereafter was an extra, It was done on the amount of drinks punched into the till or something. No server works just for tips as such- they are guaranteed a basic. - Thats if the person was to be believed of course. It's important to remember that the roles are seen as very good jobs compared to their home countries, they earn in a few months what they can earn in a year back home

The amended invoice came through this morning with a 0.00 balance so all good now!

Maybe it's because I'm from the UK and called the UK number? Previously I had the invoice straight away when I called the USA number but it took a day or so for the reservation to link online. Today it linked straight away. The helpline were insisting this is normal and I will get a new invoice when the casino has taken the balance off. Maybe the UK casino helpline isn't actually the casino and they book it then pass it over to them?...who knows!

Well I rang them back and they said the balance goes off to another department and takes up to 7 days to get an amended invoice showing the balance comped. Odd!

Is it normal for the invoice to show a balance on a comped cruise, I don't think I had one like this before, its showing the full cost of the cruise and the taxes I paid as a deposit

And it just popped up - booked a med cruise on oasis this September!

Shame Rome sailings are mostly excluded, I'm hoping my certificate will pop up on club royal today so I can book something

Actually you are right- just made a dummy booking and it let me select. Last year when I made a booking i was forced to pre-pay tips so it must have changed since then. Maybe RCL are holding the OP to the original terms if they booked when it was mandatory to prepay on MTD - or hes been told wrong info by RCL....as if that would ever happen!

If you booked in UK and don't want to pre-pay the only other option is to ask to switch to MTD as soon as you board. It will be subject to availability.

If you book direct in UK then for MTD you still have to pre-pay. There was a thread like this a few weeks ago, lots of noise on it but the consensus was you can't remove prepay tips once on board, though there was at least one person saying you could. I would remove them now to avoid hassle if possible.

In the UK we have something called Lenor crease release, I think in USA its called Downey? I'm sure I've seen it in Walmart. You spray it on the clothes and smooth out the marks, works very well but it makes surfaces very slippery so beware if using in bathroom

Fosters does not taste very nice cold- by the time you get halfway through one of those massive cans the beer has warmed up and the thing is pretty much undrinkable

But those ships are too big to sink.. right 🙂

Do you have a blue light card? I know there was a blanket discount on almost all bookings with that.

There are so many reasons why someone could miss the ship - not all of them are the persons fault either. I think regardless its a horrible situation to be in and I can't help feeling sorry for them, it's my worst nightmare having that happen to me.

Its just a few and they are easy to ignore. Most are still helpful and constructive.

I think this is true, it doesn't help that end of cruise survey is taken and used for 'training' I'm sure no crew wants to be mentioned negatively in one of those. It's all RCL doing really- they have the staff and means to deal with these things if they really want to.