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I've no personal experience, but I have read about people getting their delivery at the end of the first leg. However, that may well be cruise line dependant, so you might be better off asking this question on your cruise line's board.

Here are Carnival's requirements, updated less than two weeks ago: https://unitedcruises.cruisehelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045307851-Carnival-Cruise-Line-Travel-Requirements-Safety-Protocols Additionally, if you are flying to the US, you are required to have proof of vaccination, although it appears that few airlines are actually asking to see proof. But you don't want to be the ones caught out. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/proof-of-vaccination.html As you are writing on the Canadian Cruisers board, I'll assume that you are Canadian. If that's the case, she is able to download her proof of vaccination from your provincial health website. I don't have all of the websites at the tip of my fingers, but if you are in Ontario, here's the link: https://www.ontario.ca/page/proof-covid-19-vaccination

The evening touch up service was always quick and easy compared to the full morning service. You may be getting 50% less visits, but certainly not 50% less service.

Based on some of your other posts I'm assuming that you are American. That being the case, there are no other documents required. For more information, I suggest that you take a look at this website: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/International-Travel-Country-Information-Pages/Canada.html

The Dragon's Breath Flight Line is the original option where you sit in a harness. The Dragon's Fire Flight Line is the newer option where you lay face down in a different type of harness. Go to post #34 in this thread for photos: https://boards.cruisecritic.com.au/topic/2626522-dragon’s-breath-or-dragons-fire-flight-line-in-labadee-timing-for-excursions/page/2/

Check with the excursion company to see if they'll wait for cruise passengers. Some get most of their business from the cruise ships, and are flexible so as to accommodate passengers. Others have a broader customer base and are less likely to wait for a couple of late comers getting off a ship.

I think that depends on what yardstick you use to measure the service. Person 1 walks into a nice restaurant and orders a lobster dinner. No starters, no dessert, no drinks, just the single course. The bill comes to $50 and he tips the waiter 20% of the bill ($10). Person 2 enters the same restaurant and sits at a table served by the same waiter. He orders a small salad, fish and chips, and a small bowl of ice cream. He also orders a soft drink with his main course and a coffee after dessert. His bill also comes to $50, and he too tips $10. In a restaurant setting, the yardstick used to measure the tip is usually the price of the meal, not the amount of time and effort put in by the wait staff. If my cabin is kept neat and tidy and the towels replaced daily, I really don't mind if the work is done in one visit or two. Towel animals and bed turn downs to me are like an amuse-bouche served at better restaurants, a nice extra but not factored into my tip. In my experience, the amount of time and effort put in by cabin stewards during first and second visits is quite different. While the new system may result in half the number of visits, I doubt that it will result in half the time and effort on the part of the stewards, and I would never consider reducing their tip by 50%. Of course, I've not sailed under the new conditions, and like most other commenting here, I'm making assumptions as to the impact of the one-visit-daily approach. After our next cruise, I may well have a different perspective. Heck, if the steward can provide anything close to the level of cleanliness in just one daily visit, I might well consider increasing the tip!

We're typically out of our cabin by nine, so a morning service to make the bed, change towels and clean the cabin would be our choice.

Yes, you can always call and hope that you too will be granted an exception to the policy. The advantage for the OP is that there's no risk of being refused, nor any requirement to phone requesting the exemption. It's been written a LOT on the boards... there can be significant wait times when placing a call to Royal.

There are two advantages to booking this way that you may not have considered. First of all, with an adult booked in two of the cabins, you can now bring aboard 4 bottles of wine. Secondly, if one of you chooses to buy the Deluxe Beverage Package but the other one doesn't, you won't be obliged to buy the second one as you would if you were booked in the same cabin.

No issues, MacBook Air, Ventura 13.2.1, Safari.

On the app, tap on the person icon. Under the name of your cruise, tap on "Select a different cruise". Scroll to the bottom of the page and tap on "Don't see your cruise? Let's add it now". Next, you will need to provide the "Last name/Surname", "Date of birth" and "Reservation number" for the reservation you are trying to link to. Repeat for each of the other reservations in your party.

This gives a pretty good overview:

Linking should be painless. Our coming family cruise has five separate bookings, three with different TAs, one with a big box agency and one directly with RCI. I subsequently linked them all effortlessly.

We had a family cruise a couple of years ago on the Allure, twelve of us in total. We enjoyed it so much that we are booked for a repeat performance on the Symphony. Other than shore excursions and a couple of shows that were booked beforehand, we had no set plans other than having a group dinner every night at a table for twelve that was set up for us. For port days, we tended to split into two groups, sometimes three, depending on people's preferences. Much the same for sea days, although the number and size of the groupings fluctuated throughout the day. It seems like everyone was happy with that model, and we'll do the same for the coming cruise. With ages ranging from 8 to 80, interests and abilities dictate a variety of activities, and dinner provides an excellent time to recount the day's events.

This current thread should answer many of your questions:

BTW, for future reference, you can find Roll Calls here:

Hi, welcome to Cruise Critic. The place for you to best ask this question is on your Roll Call. The one for your cruise can be found here: Roll Calls are the place where booked passengers, or those thinking of booking, go to talk to other passengers. Enjoy your cruise!

This article provides a good review of the time changes for Cozumel and the impact on cruise passengers. https://thisiscozumel.com/tourist-info/91-transport/1114-cruise-ship-time

Posting links to YouTube videos is both permitted and very much appreciated. Go for it!

Yes, the Rhapsody visits Trinidad and Tobago, not the Turks and Caicos. I hope that @coachmike1959 wasn't banking on visiting the T&C.

Holland America was one of the very last lines to finally prohibit smoking on the balconies, and they've had smoke-free balconies for about 7 years now.

We did an almost identical 14-night cruise with HAL the summer before covid arrived. It's a wonderful itinerary, with so-o-o much to see! You will enjoy the cruise without a doubt!

Could someone explain this hack to me?

All of the cruises we've taken that had Bar Harbor on the itinerary either started or finished in Boston, giving us ample opportunity to see the city. We'll miss visiting, at least on cruises, but I can understand why Bar Harbor, like Venice and other ports, has decided to implement limits.