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Thank you for your recommendations! We will be cruising there August 2024! 🙂

Thank you for your recommendations. We will be cruising there August 2024.

Thank you for the links. I will check them out. I think we will book on our own for the rest of the stops. The trolley tour in Newport sounds like fun! 🙂 I will be sure to check out their cancellation policy too with whatever we decide to do.

Thank you. Sounds like a great plan! I haven't been to any of these stops, and wondered if the town is close by. I love to shop!! lol

Hello, We are cruising on the Enchanted in August. So far, we have booked excursions through the cruise line for two stops. Just wondering if we should we go through the cruise line or on our own for the rest... We still have to decide on the Newport, Rhode Island....St. John, Canada and the Halifax, Canada stops. If you have any excursion recommendations for those stops, that you have already experienced, I would greatly appreciated your input. TIA

That's great to hear, thanks!

Hello, Are they still offering the "Ultimate Ship Tour" on Princess? I went on one in 2010 on the Caribbean Princess, and the ship was truly AMAZING!! The limit for the group was only 12 people per cruise. We toured the Kitchens, walk-in fridges, massive laundry area , engine room, printing press area where they make the daily activity sheets, enormous laundry area, backstage theater, the bridge with the Captain....etc. They had personalized gifts waiting for us when we got back to the cabin, including 2 beautiful bathrobes. It was a ship tour that I will never forget. I am really HOPING they still offer it. The tour sign up was on a first come/first serve basis....so needless to say...as soon as we got on the ship..we RAN to the Guest Services to sign up..LOL

I was wondering the same thing...about the coffee card, but then noticed the "Specialty Coffees" are all included in the "Princess Plus" plan...along with other beverages..

Thank you

Thank you

Hello I haven't sailed on Princess in a while...but just booked a cruise for 2024. Does the Plus and Premier plans ever go on sale during the holidays, or is it always 60/90 Per Person Per Day? Thank you!

Thank you! That's good to know..

Fantastic! Thank you!

That's great to know! I will be planning a cruise, just not sure which ship yet. I hope the GF option is fleet wide. Thank you!

Thank you!

Hello :) I will be placed on a Gluten-Free Diet soon and would like to know...other than ordering ahead from the dining room, is there a Glute-Free station anywhere in the buffet? thank you

I am glad to see this discussion about Gluten-Free foods. Is the Gluten-Free choices only requested in the dining room, or is there a Gluten-Free section at the buffet also? Thank you.

Excellent review, thank you for sharing your thoughts. I was on the same cruise last week, and enjoyed it SO much!! It was my fist time on Oasis....what a GREAT ship!! I seemed to have missed the escape room somehow though....didn't know it existed..lol

Am I reading this right? Starbucks in NOW included???? YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Royal Caribbean Makes a Drink Package Change Customers Will Love The cruise line has made a huge improvement to something passengers complain about a lot. Daniel Kline 17 hours ago Food and beverages play a huge role in cruises for most passengers. From the second you get on board, a virtual feast awaits you. Many people get on the ship, report to their muster station, and then head to the buffet or another casual restaurant. One of the biggest benefits of cruising with Royal Caribbean International (RCL) - Get Royal Caribbean Group Report, Carnival Cruise Lines (CCL) - Get Carnival Corporation Report, and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH) - Get Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. Report is that cruises are more-or-less all-inclusive. Your basic cruise fare includes meals in the main dining room, the buffet, and a handful of free restaurants. That pretty much always includes 24-7 pizza and a cafe with snacks from early in the morning through late at night. Beverages, however, are another story. Your cruise ticket just gets you access to the bare minimum. Water, a few flavored waters, hot chocolate, tea, milk, and basic coffee are all you get. To get access to sodas, bottled water, and fancy coffees, you need to pay as you go or buy a beverage package (which vary in price and composition by cruise line). And, of course, if you want alcohol, you can pay for every drink or buy a package. Royal Caribbean sells a lot of drink packages, but no matter whether you get the refreshment package that does not include alcohol or the everything included drink package, there's one thing you previously did not get. Now, the cruise line has fixed that. Image source: Daniel Kline/TheStreet Royal Caribbean Adds Starbucks Many Royal Caribbean ships have Starbucks (SBUX) - Get Starbucks Corporation Report locations onboard. These standalone cafes do not accept any of the cruise line's beverage packages. If you want a Starbucks coffee, you have to pay for it (think high-end land prices, like visiting one of the chain's airport locations). People with a Royal Caribbean beverage package do get access to premium coffee at Cafe Promenade, the Windjammer, and usually one or two other locations onboard, Those places have espresso-based beverages, frozen drinks, and even adult coffees, but they did not use Starbucks coffee until Royal Caribbean's newest ship, Wonder of the Seas. That ship, the largest in the world, quietly added Starbucks coffee to Cafe Promenade and the other premium coffee locations onboard. The ship has a standalone, full menu Starbucks which still costs extra even if you have a drink package, but you can now get Starbucks lattes, cappuccinos, even Frappuccinos, and other beverages at multiple locations on the ship. Now, Royal Caribbean has confirmed to TheStreet that the cruise line has brought Starbucks to Cafe Promenade and other premium coffee locations on all of its ships. Royal Caribbean Does Something Good for Passengers It may seem like a small thing, but it has always been a pain point for cruise passengers paying for a beverage package that they only got access to inferior coffee. That meant that some, maybe many, coffee fans chose to pay for a Starbucks beverage at least once or twice on their cruise. Now, they can get that as part of their package, rather than only at the actual onboard Starbucks. This change almost certainly means that the onboard Starbucks locations will sell less coffee (but they do still sell lots of beverages beyond the traditional espresso-based drinks now found in other locations on its ships). It's a case of the cruise line doing something that benefits passengers, giving them a better experience without charging them more.

Thank you 🙂

Do you know which specialty restaurants are open for lunch, if any, after we board the ship? I have the UDP. Thank you! :)

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I will bring my own Seltzer....lol.

Good Afternoon, If there is anyone Cruising on Oasis Of The Seas right now (or anyone that already has that knows...lol) that can tell me if I will be able to get a can of seltzer anywhere on the Oasis of The Seas ship. I drink seltzer...and have tried to get seltzer....on every cruise I have been on. They always tell me they only have tonic water, and club soda available...and since I have a salt restriction, that doesn't work for me. (Tonic and Club contain sodium...seltzer doesn't) My last alternative...if they still dont have seltzer inboard....instead of bringing the allowed 2 bottles of wine....can we bring only 1 bottle of wine, and a 12 pack cans of seltzer...or perhaps 2 12 packs of seltzer? Thank you in advance

Me too! Someone told me the room service coffee is made from powder. Not sure if that is true, but it sure tastes gross...and I am usually not picky when it comes to coffee.

LOL!!! Thanks!