Anton

We are talking about two different things. There is the bag you can currently buy online as a gift with 6 cans in it, and there are the bags that were only sold at bars on the ships at one time that came with the refill special offer.

It can be frustrating. More than once I've specifically told the server or bartender not to use one of my free drinks and charge me instead and they didn't do as I asked. I've had to resort to being very precise in my language.

Note that not all the balcony cabins on Odyssey are equal in size. We had 6256 and a friend 6258 and they are significantly smaller than the 198 sq ft quoted in the deck plans. I measured and it was 150 square feet including the bathroom.

If you are referring to the cooler bags they used to sell at the ship bars with the buy X number get one free, I haven't seen those offered since the restart of cruising, and I've been on about a cruise a month since the June 2021 return.

Two weeks ago, a few days prior to boarding the Voyager I received an email with a link to a list of items and asking for my cabin preferences. One of them was beds set together or apart. First time I’ve received something like that. They apparently paid attention to it because I changed the bed layout from what the original booking had listed, and it was in the new configuration.

Hideaway Beach is the official name.

There is also the possibility of a problem with your method of entry into T&T. There is cruise ship passenger day visit entry and then there is normal visitor entry, meaning presenting yourself to an immigration official like at the airport. Different rules in play. If you knowingly stayed overnight and purposely missed the ship the authorities might not be happy. As noted in a previous post, once people are not accounted for by the ship they typically send security and a guest services officer to the cabins and gather up what they can and leave it on the pier with the port agent, assuming you had some trouble returning and might need medication, clothing,etc.

Don’t forget that cruise points are based on the original cabin category you booked so if you get moved from the balcony to the suite you won’t get the extra points for it. But you will get the other suite perks and the opportunity to pay the higher gratuities.

I didn’t have to click the link to know you were referring to the Norwegian Epic. What a ghastly looking tub.

I am moved to the February 16 Freedom in the same JS I had on the cancelled cruise. My agent said there were no problems with the change and the RCI agent was up to speed on what was going on. Port and tax increased a little.

Just be aware that the last sentence "If we haven’t heard from you by July 12th, your reservation will be cancelled" means exactly that. They will cancel it and keep all non-refundable deposits if they don't hear from you. They won't refund them. This happened to me last year when I foolishly assumed that not calling to specifically tell them I wanted Option 3 meant they would just cancel and refund. My agent called when no refund showed up and that's what they told her. Then the supervisor graciously said he would make a one time exception in my case and approved the refund.

I have a Freedom booking that I was going to move since I sensed this was coming, and it was for a JS for half the price of what a JS is going for now on the optional sailings. Maybe I'll win this one. Now for my agent to call the confused call center who won't have any idea about this change or how to apply the rebookings.

No.

RCI hopes "new to cruise" guests will want to come back for more after a bite of the apple for 3 or 4 nights.

Yes, all those of legal drinking age in the same cabin have to buy it. However, you can call RCI and request to get the deluxe package for one, and the other adult (the one who doesn't drink alcohol) will have to get the refreshment package (not the soda package). And, since you have the VIFP logo in your account, you might be surprised that Royal doesn't have the 15 alcohol drink limit like Carnival.

Within the last couple of hours the DP340 and C&A balcony discounts showed up. I was looking at October 2024 b2b and a boardwalk balcony as a single. What was around $2800 total is now about a $1000 cheaper.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/alcoholic-beverages

I liked booking JS at NextCruise for the lower deposit, but since they moved JS category to the full suite category for deposit purposes (and apparently only that purpose) I can't see me visiting the desk again.

The rules for confiscated items state that alcohol they find will not be returned.

The day passes are available for my Wonder cruise this August, at the completely reasonable price of $268.99 per person. Children get the true value though, at only $250.99 each.

I did a dummy JS booking and the refundable deposit was half the cruise fare.

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Check in opens at 45 days out and electronic cruise documents (luggage tags) are issued at 30 days out. There is a way to look at current drink package prices for any cruise using this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ukT6gOPcu7coL92LuDcyDaWXQfO88u5kN9FEdHRj5bM/edit#gid=0 Use the pulldown menus for ship name and date and it generates a link that opens the cruise planner for the cruise you selected.

Here is the latest list. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/content/dam/royal/resources/pdf/cas-amenities-feb-2023.pdf

They used to do exactly that and even had two versions of the all-drinks package, I think it was the premium package and ultimate package or something like that with top shelf liquors being the kicker for the most expensive one. The beer package which was often around $35 a day. They dropped all of it to streamline things to the current one size fits all version, along with dropping several beers, whiskeys and liquors from the inventory.