Daghis

I found this offer on the website for me (22RCL703). It has a variety of sailings, 3-8 nights, from October through January. This particular one is for "Balcony + $200 freeplay". I do have one of these sailings already booked, so I'll have to see about using the offer for it. 9559.pdf

As we proceed through our period of döstädning, we came across a packet of menu cards from our very first cruise, on Century (as she was named back then) from back in October 1998. The menus have "C'97" written at the bottom, so these may have started at some point in 1997. I hope y'all enjoy this trip down memory lane. 307997748_CelebrityCenturymenus(October1998).pdf

My best was a comped junior suite cruise on Oasis of the Seas over Labor Day week last year. We upgraded it to a grand suite. Price paid for that cruise booking: $423 (fare, fees/taxes). Royal Caribbean was giving double points, and we got double points for being in a suite, so we ended up getting quadruple points (28 for a 7-night cruise). The casino offer I used also included $500 in freeplay. Due to unrelated things, the only time we spent in the casino was to use the freeplay. We ended up cashing out $540. Net price for a week-long cruise in a grand suite earning 4x points: -$117.

Ah, thanks! Tier points didn’t even occur to me! 🥹

I don’t think I realized I could see points there. I’ve always logged into the RoyalCaribbean.com site for that. I’d be surprised if last week’s cruise’s points were posted already. On a B2B I had, I had to alert the loyalty ambassador about my points threshold being reached for a crystal block.

I’d seen a few questions about Cue Health’s at home test kits and whether they’d be accepted by Royal Caribbean. I did see one person say it worked in December, but I found a few questions about this that went unanswered. As an experiment, I brought my proctored (their “plus” subscription benefit) negative test results and they were accepted just fine. The only issue was that the form wasn’t in a standard form (there apparently isn’t one; they’re all different in some way), but there were no problems being accepted either at the front door or when checking in in the suite area (Port of Miami) other than trying to find the test date on the form. (I had brought CVS antigen test results as a backup just in case.)