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This is something I have never seen, but I have no reason to doubt you. I will be on the lookout my next cruise.

;) Its not a big deal, but after 2,3, 4 times...it's anoying. And the phone messages were something new for us too...Arrived to the cabin, saw the mesage light..."Hello, we are calling from Spa/Jewllery/...." What?! :D

We had "hard sells" 2 weeks ago aboard Anthem of the seas.Not the regular promenade sales. I'm speaking about being interrupted every single night when dining in MDR to sell backstage tours, restaurante packages, drink packages and so on. Sometimes twice.This happened in windjammer too. This happened several times when we were quietly having our pizza in sorrentos. We were just strolling around and were interrupted to buy things constantly. We had at leats 10 messages per day regarding to sales and promotions.We had also lots of mesages in our phone regarding to sales. Never saw something like this in any cruise we sailed before :)

Regarding to the other OP's complains ...nothing to declare, we love RC, did the transatlantic aboard Liberty, 10 sea days in a row, 15 days of perfect time... Hope they never call us by the name when we arrive, it's a little bit...weird...

(btw: I was in Moroc, Egypt, Tunis...I can recognise hard sells :D just kidding ;) )

We always select "no upgrade" under our preferences to avoid this kind of upgrade. No w will not help, but maybe you have your settings to "automatic upgrade" :(

I heard a few years ago that the major revenues for a cruise company are alchoolic drinks and casino, not what we pay for cabins. ;) I was really surprised but asked it lately and it seems that this is true...

Maybe if you try the items with a charge :);)

From the website:

• Casual: You’re on vacation – relax! Jeans, polos, sundresses and blouses are all the right amount of laid back. Please keep swimwear to the Pool Deck. Shorts are welcomed for breakfast and lunch.
  

http://www.royalcaribbean.com/customersupport/faq/details.do?pagename=frequently_asked_questions&faqId=255&faqSubjectId=334 ;)

BTW, my husband wears classic dark jeans, but he looks better and well dressed in classic shorts (not the beach or sport ones) than much people in suits! :D I believe that they refer to beach shorts when they say that are not allowed ;)

The basketball had priority in our last anthem cruise...they had other games in cruise compass to last one hour, but after 20 minutes they stoped the games saying that there are guests that prefer basketball...This hapened to my husband, that was in a group of +20 guys playing soccer (that was schedulled in the cruise compass from 2 to 3 pm) and had to leave before 2:20 pm because other guyes were asking to play basketball...This happened twice. They will have a blast if they love basketball!

Keep checking everyday; the booking was open only for 4 or 5 days, then gone ;)

Are you allowed on/off the ship all night?

 

 

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yes you can, lots of people went to hard rock cafe, senor frogs, paradise island.Specially the crew members ,)

I would like to know if dress shorts are allowed in the MDR. My husband wore them on the Anthem laser Year with no problem.

• Casual: You’re on vacation – relax! Jeans, polos, sundresses and blouses are all the right amount of laid back. Please keep swimwear to the Pool Deck. Shorts are welcomed for breakfast and lunch. ,)
  

http://www.royalcaribbean.com/customersupport/faq/details.do?pagename=frequently_asked_questions&faqId=255&faqSubjectId=334

To be honest my husband looks better in dressy shorts than lots of people in long pants...but... :) We saw people wearing training suit. (True story). :D

We had a reservation for solarium bistro dinner in Anthem, last week.It was free. Contrarely to all the reviews we read, it was the worst meal that we had during ....our cruise history. Really!And we love all the food aboard all the ships...i believe that we just were unlucky with the food an service ;) The buffet was mediterranean style (....living in the mediterranean I was not impressed, it is our daily food at home, but with less flavour in the Bistro), we, and the other people sitting around us, waited +- 45 for the entree (the restaurant was not full at all, maybe 20 people), my kebab was cold and with no flavour, the rice had no flavour too, like rice and water and nothing more and my husband's shrimp had the size of one apetizer dish...But, once again , this was our experience that is different from the others, the dinner was free, there are lots of other places to eat, plenty of variety so it was not a big problem :) During the day the bistro was fantastic!

From the website:

• Casual: You’re on vacation – relax! Jeans, polos, sundresses and blouses are all the right amount of laid back. Please keep swimwear to the Pool Deck. Shorts are welcomed for breakfast and lunch.
  

http://www.royalcaribbean.com/customersupport/faq/details.do?pagename=frequently_asked_questions&faqId=255&faqSubjectId=334 ;)

Couple years ago we booked a cruise less tahan 5 days before, and had to fly for it...I remeber that it ws really cheap!..Normally we book 3 weeks/5 weeks before.

Thank you very much for this report!

It will help us alot!

Me too ))) just trying to find somebody who were there to ask or there are puzzles, connected with English language (especially specific phrases). In that case for my Team it will be "epic fail" [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

We are big lovers of these kind of entertainment. ))

 

 

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You are in my roll call group...we are portuguese, you are russian...it would be the perfect team!!!(y)

There is a recent map (2017) from Royal caribbean Website http://media.royalcaribbean.com/cont...y-2017-map.pdf

I can't see the other map, so I'm sorry if it's the same ;)

The reason there is confusion is that it has all changed. There are no longer Cabanas. They now have Bungalows. They are located in South Beach (the Cabanas were not).

 

I cannot tell you anything other than what RCCL's website says or what others that have been there recently have stated.

There are cabanas (seaside Ponte cabanas), marked as "1" in the recent maps ;) But are diferent than the Bungallows, and are in almost oposite areas :)

Royal caribbean page for Coco Cay-recent map http://media.royalcaribbean.com/content/shared_assets/images/ports/pages/cococay-2017-map.pdf

I have never understood using cash. Whether you pay the cruise line cash or pay your card off when you get home, it's the same thing. Personally for me, if it's the same, I'd rather have the extra points on my credit card for more free vacation.

We have to pay taxes when we pay with card (our home currency is euro) and we had problems in the past paying with cards because of bank permissions and sometimes our debit card don't work outside Europe.On the other hand, personally, we are not used to pay things with credit card, we like to pay the things imediately ;)

That was new for us too...there is always one time from when and until when we should check-in, but never been asked to chose from 10 am to 10:30am, from 10:30am to 11am, and so on...

I keep reading that lots of people have the water delivered to the cabin...We only need 2 or 3 bottles of water....should we pack it to be delivered or should we keep with us and show it to the security? I don't want our luggage in the naughty room :D

The only time I used the porters tags...it was lost...Other time i use paper tags, it was raining so much and so much wind that one of the tag get lost too...Now I use covers (home made covers, not the ones that we buy online)https://www.

Thank you for your replies...We will sail aboard Anthem during the Crown & Anchor Society event with the C&A Director Millie (March 26th) so maybe something special wiill happen ;)

Hello! Starting to pack for our next cruise! This time we will attend to the Top Tier Event...because it's our first TT Event I was seaching about the dress code and reading that shorts are not allowed... is it a fancy event? Can I use dressy shorts with nice sandals and a nice top, or do I have to use long pants or a dress? Searching for photos from previous events but can't find it...Maybe a silly question but we will fly to this cruise and stay 5 days in New York so we want to pack as light as possible...Thank You!

Thank you very much for your replies!!! :D