HappyTexan44

Mine says "Reserved" there and is still being offered.

Me too. Even a half bottle of the champagne makes the price worth maybe keeping the spare package. I am trying to look at it as what would I have bought anyway. We won't use the laundry bag, I'm too particular about our clothes. We wouldn't have gotten the internet, but it might be worth some money to be able to wifi-call each other rather than message. We wouldn't have paid for the tour, but that might be interesting. Being able to priority board with the two teens as our plus ones will be nice. Some wine at a meal will be nice. Assuming they cancelled this package, wouldn't it get it off to a failure-level start? As in the bad press would kill it? Also, I bet lots of people haven't heard about it. Only reason I noticed is that stuff is being added regularly to my cruise, so I'm checking about every week.

What do people think was meant? Maybe per day? But that would be obnoxious.

I wonder if "Officer's lunch", "Captain's toast and photo" and "Wine pairing with sommelier" will all be at the same time? This will be our first cruise.

That was me. On the Voyager cruise leaving 2/19/24.

The Inside Access Tour is something we wouldn't have considered. On one hand, I want to look up what that is, on the other hand, I don't want to get too excited in case Royal says, "Oops, our bad" and cancels it with a refund. Does any have past experience with too_good_be_true offers from Royal? How did they handle it?

hmmmm, yes there is that. Well, we'll have two teens with us. So, if the cancellation penalty is anything much, we could just have the teens be our plus ones for everything non-alcohol related. Maybe DH and I could do two Officer's Lunches and wine pairings, with each taking a turn being the plus-one.

I have no personal experience. But isn't cancelling add-ons pretty easy? When people have priority debarkation, is the luggage held in a different area and left there until you get there? I am a bit worried about a Sam Brinton type luggage thief. I was planning on us being at the leading edge of our time slot to lower the odds of someone walking off with our luggage on accident, or not. But, if the Priority luggage was in a different area and handed to us as we arrived, that would be nice.

When is your cruise? Since this seems too good to be true I booked two packages for DH and I. But then our cruise isn't for a year and I can cancel his depending on how this shakes out. But adding him later on if needed seems unlikely.

ETA: I wonder if they are limiting the number sold on each cruise? For example, if most people have priority boarding then there isn't really priority boarding. Also, my sailing is Feb 2024 and the fine print said it was only offered for 2023 sailings. I hope they'll let me keep it.

I saw that and came straight here to see what you guys thought. I'd been pondering upgrading one soda package to Voom plus Soda. For our cruise that would make the internet cost $14/day or $70 total. I wonder if by adding two people I was actually buying two packages? Maybe the package is a plus-one situation? So it is whoever is on the package, plus another person with them. That would be nice. As it is, since our group is two adults and two kids we couldn't use the embarkation and debarkation. Unless maybe we sent one adult on ahead to secure a nice WJ table. I expect we'll get the first regular boarding time since I plan on using my Disney-skills. So the rest wouldn't be far behind.

I could see two tender ports would make the Key much more worthwhile, particularly at $20.

For our cruise in a year it is $43/pp for the Key and streaming internet is $18/day/device. That is a big price difference. I'll be using my Disney World skills to get the first boarding. I'd rather keep my carry-on with me (even if we had the Key). I think I'll find a quiet corner and enjoy a book until the room is ready and keep everyone's carry-on piled around me. Knowing me I'll probably want some "We made it! and now I can relax time."

I've been thinking about this. I'm not there yet. But I remember reading an article about a woman that travelled the world renting an apartment in different places for six months at a time. She was in Rome at the time of the article. She didn't have a home, just a storage unit near her grandkids. Since she didn't have a permanent home it wasn't that much more expensive that having a permanent home and taking a couple of trips a year. I could see this cruise fitting in well with that lifestyle.

Since you have to pay for two people anyway, couldn't you make the second person a friend of yours who just never shows up? Then you could bring your friend's wine on board also.

Yes, I'd seen that. For someone living in an apartment and either retired or able to be completely remote it would be amazing.

For toddler juices, couldn't you bring some for the first day and then take some juice back to your room from breakfast every day? Then you could just bring some toddler cups.

I used to work with a guy who married a woman from the Phillipines(?) I think. They do that. They modified the existing house so that the cooking was done in the garage. Last I talked to him they were divorcing and selling the house. Buyers kept commenting on how pristine the kitchen was. DH can be extreme with his spices. One time I fussed at him about his cooking smells and that he needed to put on the exhaust fan. The smell was a little worse than normal. Fortunately he hadn't been cooking anything because then we figured out the smell was our dog who had just been skunked. Since then he has been good about using the exhaust fan.

That is a question. Are you allowed to leave after you check-in? For example, what if you forgot something in your car? Like that other bottle of wine : ) With my friend's allotment, I'll still get four bottles which should be plenty of a 5 night cruise. But if I could not bother them, that would be nice.

Same reason that you pay more for English speakers at the Day Labor Center. The supply of workers is less.

They always had Indian food, it was for the crew. They added it to the menu to plump out the offerings. So, having it on the menu doesn't mean that there is the demand for it. Maybe it is awesome a ton of people are ordering it. But, just having it on the menu doesn't mean anything.

I love Indian food, but the Indian dishes on the new menus aren't ones that I'd order. They are the ones cheapest to make. Which makes sense because it is crew food. A guy at work used to manage an apartment complex. He said that the smell was harder to remove than cigarette smoke.

I don't think many people would wait tables for minimum wage. You work your butt off, and are compensated for it. It is the ONE job I can think of where you immediately get more money for doing a better job. Only reason I stopped was because my RLS was keeping me awake all night and waiting tables made it worse. If I'd known about Potassium back then, I'd have done it longer and lots of other things in my life would have been different. Maybe better, maybe worse.

Well, bummer. I was planning on four bottles. Two cabins, two adults and two children. We have some friends that decided to join us and they aren't big drinkers so I can probably have them carry a couple through security. Or we make sure and go through security at the same time.

I think it is more that he lived as a bachelor without a roommate until we married at around 40. Early on it was a problem mainly because he didn't appreciate when I did his laundry. Some of the clothes left around were meant to be worn again and his mind it was annoying that they were moved to some unknown place. I don't understand that, I think clothes must be washed after they are worn. Period. Then I stopped doing his laundry. Any clothing left on a chair or table are knocked onto the floor and walked on. Even then now at home we rarely have his clothes around. In a bathroom remodel, a PAX wardrobe has some baskets for his dirties, and hooks for his still-clean.