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Keep your knees tucked in too. I might have scraped a hole is a pair of dress pants going down the slide one night...

Rome is great but you only need a few days to hit most of the sights (including the Vatican). We spent a week there on an anniversary trip and started to look for day trips outside of Rome after day 3.

It's usually a fruit plate or desert bites delivered to your cabin mid cruise.

It all depends on your tolerance level. The good news is that the hot tubs are open if the pools are too cold 🙂

1) Oasis class, especially the Amped Oasis for variety of things to do. 2) Freedom class - Liberty of the Seas is our most sailed ship 3) Voyager class - similar layout and features to Freedom class 4) Radiance class - love the views of the ocean and size makes it easy to get around 5) Quantum class - odd configuration compared to other ships but love 270 Have not tried Vision or Icon class

As others have mentioned, the Windjammer has themes for dinner too. We actually prefer their Tex Mex night to the Mexican night in the MDR.

You are correct that the only way to get the 22 points you need for Prime is to earn them on a cruise before 3/31.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you get it resolved soon. Doesn't help now but next time you can have the folks at Next Cruise release the TA while you're making the Book Later reservation (assuming you're doing it in person and not on the app). All we had to do was sign an additional sheet of paper and they took care of the rest.

When I ran into this issue, Club Royale had me email agencychanges@rccl.com to request releasing the reservation from my TA. I included the Next Cruise reservation number, my name, C&A # and a brief explanation of the situation. They released it within a couple of days and I finished the booking with the casino.

There's always rumors out there 🙂. According to the folks at RCI, the casino and loyalty programs are currently under review at both brands to see if there are opportunity to align certain features. One example in the casino is that Celebrity is now using the same offer platform/website style as Royal. What's to come is anyone's guess (but it is fun guessing).

The way I tend to look at cruise pricing is could I get a land vacation cheaper. Currently I have 5 cruises booked for this year at an average price of $164 per night (inclusive of port fees, taxes and tips). I can't get a decent hotel room in a good location for that price let alone food and entertainment. Cruising is still a fantastic value relative to other options.

Just got off Harmony and had multiple shows in each venue: Grease and Columbus in the Theater Fine Line and Big Daddy's Hideaway Resort in the Aqua Theater 1887 and iSkate in Studio B So it may just be an Oasis issue and not an Oasis class issue. We also could find jazz playing across the ship in different venues each night too (Central Park, Dazzles, Promenade, etc.).

What I would love is the ability to accrue one set of points on both (or all three) brands but they keep their unique benefits. This way I can continue to bounce between the brands and grow my status while still being loyal to RCI. It's tough to choose to book a Celebrity cruise currently when I'm almost Diamond Plus knowing that I have a mountain to climb to get to Elite Plus. Celebrity's product is more in line with my current cruising needs but it's tough to walk away from the status on Royal. Also it would make the trek to Pinnacle/Zenith more realistic, encouraging me keep my cruise dollars in the RCI family.

Definitely. Getting off in Galveston is a breeze and you'll be at Hobby in less than an hour.

Thanks for the review. We're boarding this Saturday and was wondering how fast the tendering went in Cabo? Capacity for our cruise looks about the same as yours and we are hoping to make a non Celebrity whale watching excursion at 9:00 when the ship gets there at 7:00. I think that's plenty of time but would love anyone who has experienced tendering in Cabo to weigh in. Thanks again!