NutsAboutGolf

This is most likely the reason. If anyone encounters this in the future, they should just say something like "coffees are available all day everyday, the happy hour is different, please get your supervisor"

The next logical step is for them to quietly eliminate offered services

Thanks. So it would appear they offer a higher room type for sailings that are harder fill which makes sense. To my knowledge X hasn't done that yet

Are your offers limited to select sailings which are typical hard for them to sell? Thanks for the datapoint as we haven't sailed on them yet but did just book one though a partner of theirs, MGM

As many as one is willing to sail on as it would just be ongoing until the BCC inevitables changes the rules/requirements. X currently only cares about your LAST sailings play to receive comped rooms. Some of us, myself included, believe they'll eventually mirror RCI's rules which only looks at your CURRENT sailings play and if you meet the requirements you're given a free cruise offer on your last night of the sailing

Some will say this will vary from ship to ship but it actually comes down to the app menu updating person/team. I am seeing the kids section in the dinner on a few sailings I just checked

Good point; who knows. I will say they're not claiming a "revolution" with new restaurants and public spaces, just a better retreat and added staterooms. You'd imagine if X wanted to spend some money renovating, the retreat following by new staterooms would be the best use of $$$

Interesting with the new retreat; I said it before and I'll say again, my WAG (Wild A$$ Guess) is that when X "revolutionizes" again it will be and look very different from the ones done in the past. 6 years have gone by, lots of "lessons learned" and now you have new leadership I googled the @Traveling Fools statement and surprisingly, it's on X's site. Isn't the Infinity the ONLY X ship without Starlink and it's not getting it for months? For the hell of it, I also checked the Connie and it doesn't have that verbiage. If anyone else wants to check other ships, you go to the ships page then you have to click on some itinerary and scroll down

My WAG (Wild A$$ Guess) is, if they start with a team of 25 butlers for the team, every year they’ll cut 3 of them

For us, the aluminum can: -Feels more premium in our hand -Makes us feel better that we’re not using “single use plastics” -Are happy to refill them if our water bottles aren’t handy It’s really bad optics IMO

Interesting, thanks for sharing the datapoint. Sounds like someone dropped the ball

They'll get one for you if you arrive without a phone or printout, its a waste a paper and ink to print one out as a backup

There's a QR code on the table of restaurants

I've found it very accurate, can you share anything specific that couldn't be ordered?

Pretty sure it's purified drinking water

Corrected for those in a skysuite

I believe many on here that are confused by this thread think those with comped rooms are playing $0.25 slots. At a minimum on tables, you're probably CONTINIOUSLY betting $25/bet an hour a night where its not uncommon to see folks on a losing streak and lose a $1,000 in 30mins with $25 minimums. If anyone like the OP received a comped sky suite, I would have to imagine they're CONTINIOUSLY betting $300/bet or more for an hour per night

Reportedly the Eclipse, too

Looks like Drogo from Game of Thrones and Aquaman will have long hair again

At least you know you're talking to a real person and not a "bot"...ha ha

It's pretty much always been like that with them ever changing the gambling requirements for comped rooms. Also sometimes an offer is for specific sailings which usually includes the Pacific "Mex Riv"; those generally have lower requirements than most other sailings. Point being, sometimes people get tunnel vision and never read the offer beyond seeing "free room" then get upset they can only book a sailing they have no interest in

The average gamblers who's on a free room offer will most likely lose more than the cash price of the room. While there are some exceptions, the overwhelming majority of the time offers are based on your PREVIOUS play so it really isn't a gamble for X, they know how much you gambled last time If X was losing money on free rooms they wouldn't offer them and if they were losing money in the casino, they'd close their casinos

The comped room offers and requirements have evolved since the restart and they used to not offer insides or OVs but around this past march they changed the program to make it more like RCIs by offering insides, coincidence? I'll also add when they were offering balconies, while they did offer the AQ upgrade (wasn't available to everyone nor was it offered on all sailings), there was no way to pay for an upgrade to a sky suite. Now you at least get some sort of discount if you take the inside offer and upgrade to a sky

I've never asked, my WAG (Wild A$$ Guess) is it isn't a fixed number, varies by sailing. There are limits for sure as I tried to book an inside offer, they said there none available on that sail but I could pay $200ish to "upgrade" to an OV. If anyone receives an offer, best to book it immediately

If I reply to an existing thread it’ll get buried. Second part of the message was to an unrelated question