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Hi

We are booked on the 8 September 2018 7 night cruise from Venice on Rhapsody. We were keeping an eye on the prices for the 1 September 2018 7 night cruise, also on Rhapsody from Venice as we were considering a back to back.

There were lots of available cabins when I checked a couple of days ago, but today when I search on the Rccl website the 1 September 2018 cruise doesn't appear at all. Could this cruise have been cancelled? I doubt it's fully booked, so wonder what other reason there could be for it having disappeared. Any ideas?

Yes you can cancel in the cruise planner and rebook at the lower price. Your credit card will be refunded. I did it several times last year and am in the UK

Just cancelled our deluxe beverage packages for our March 2017 cruise on Adventure, and rebooked them, saving £75 in total (for two people). Prices for our July 2017 cruise on Navigator haven't reduced though.

RCI did put the prices up before this offer was launched. However it is a very good offer and when we priced out the purchase of the drinks package the price under this offer was cheaper than the price we obtained onboard - which apparently included a North American 30% discount. So we rebooked 2 of our cabins under this new offer. It is however only a good price if you were going to buy the drinks package. Some people in our party wouldn't make use of the drinks package so for them the offer wasn't particularly favourable, and they haven't switched to it from our original booking.

We found that the martini's were much better from the R Bar than the schooner bar. The cocktails in the casino bar also seemed much stronger than from the others bars I wonder why!

We booked on board this summer. We paid £98 per cabin deposit. But they immediately gave us the same amount back in OBC on the cruise we were on at the time. So in effect our deposit amount was zero and we confirmed with them that we could then cancel the forthcoming cruise up to 90 days before without being liable to pay any more money. So, yes you can cancel without penalty. You get the option to have to OBC on your current cruise or the future cruise. If you choose the future cruise you don't get the OBC back if you cancel - so it's important to opt for the OBC on the current cruise.

Thanks, so the cabin steward won't be freaked that there are different people in the cabin? And they'll need 2 keys each - one seapass and one new key?

And on the Adventure of the Seas (which I thought was the same ship layout) that cabin is categorised as a balcony.

Interesting. The color code on the deck plan indicates ocean view (not balcony). But the picture sure looks like it has a balcony......

Yes, it looks like a balcony on the plan, thats why I'm a little puzzled.

Hi

We have booked cabin number 7380 on the Navigator (the second to last cabin from the aft). It was priced and sold to us as a window cabin (not a balcony). But on the deck plan it looks like a balcony cabin! I'm confused - could the recent refit of Navigator have changed the cabin from a balcony to a window? Can anyone throw any light on this for us? Thanks

Hi, hoping someone can help clarify something for me. Our parents have an inside cabin booked, at a good price, with no drinks package included. They won't want or need a drinks package.

Our son and his partner have booked a window cabin, with a deluxe drinks package included in their cabin price - which is also a really good price and it wouldn't have made sense for them to book an inside based on the differential.

Our son would like our parents to have the window cabin, as they will really appreciate the window. They can't swap cabins on the reservation though, as the window cabin includes the drinks package which my parents won't use (and my son will).

What do we do when we board the ship to enable them to swap cabins? Do we just get an extra 2 keys for both cabins? They could all then use their original seapass cards for purchases/ exiting the ship etc. and use the spare keys to enter their (new) rooms. Would that work? Any problems with us doing this? Are the cabin stewards likely to be confused or unhappy? The cabins are just across the hall from one another, so we can just swap the luggage across, as this will obviously be delivered to the original room.

What do we do about the charges to their credit cards? I presume their charges will just go to the original cabins, and they'll need to swap statements in order to see how much they have spent. I'm getting myself confused thinking about this though!

Is there any way that we could do this swap without them all needing extra keys? I'm concerned that if we tell guest services that they want to swap rooms that our parents will end up with the drink package instead of our son!

Please help me get this straight in my mind!

Thanks so much

I have been able to purchase drinks packages at 20%discount for our 10 night March 29 cruise. But I am not able to book them for our July 8 cruise from Southampton - it says they are unavailable and we need to purchase onboard.

Also, for a pre dinner drink you could have a gin or vodka martini with a lemon twist. These are strong, but I'm sure they are lower in calories than most cocktails due to the lack of mixers, flavourings etc which add loads more sugar.

Mojito? I always assume that is lower in calories than some of the others - but it may be wishful thinking on my part!

We have just returned from a 10 night cruise on Rhapsody with our boys aged 20 and 18. We were with a group of other families so our boys had people they knew that were the same age as them. All the young people we were with missed the sports court as a place to meet others and have a game of football/ basketball. They also felt there were very few places for young people to hang out together, other than the nightclub, which was for over 18's only. We loved our itinerary but we all agreed that we wouldn't choose that size of ship again. I missed the champagne bar!

You need the Ultimate package for speciality coffee, bottled water and freshly squeezed OJ. The premium package doesn't include those. No problems with a white wine spritzer though - any wine, spirits, cocktails etc are included that are under $12 per drink.

The Viking Crown lounge turns into a nightclub at midnight (over 18's only) and is open until 2am. My husband and I were there a couple of evenings until 1am. One of the evenings it was lively, the other it was fairly quiet. Our boys were there most nights and said that on some occasions it was deserted - probably the evenings before port days such as Athens and Santorini. I'm not sure what time the Solarium cafe was open until - sorry.

Great to read your review as we were on this cruise with you! We had similar problems to you in the MDR on the first evening but otherwise enjoyed the cruise a lot. We found that some evenings were very high energy - we particularly enjoyed the 50's night, but some evenings were in our opinion quite quiet in comparison with RC cruises we have taken from Southampton. Perhaps because some people were getting up early for the port intensive itinerary, whereas we had already visited most of the ports on previous cruise holidays. We loved Mykonos, Santorini and Kotor, all visited previously, our favourite stops on this trip. We were travelling with several young people aged 18 - 20 who did miss the sports court on Rhapsody, and found the nightclub quiet some evenings. The adults in our party enjoyed the ship on the whole, although we did miss the champagne bar! I agree with you that the solarium cafe was very good, and certainly preferable to the Windjammer. The MDR lunch on sea days was also excellent. We have booked to cruise with RC again in 2017 but have opted for a larger ship for next time. Loved this itinerary though.

There is a pool bar on deck 9 but not a sky bar on deck 10

Hi, we have just cruised on the Rhapsody, and no, it doesn't have a sky bar or a champagne bar. The R bar on deck 4 and the schooner bar were the most popular bars during our cruise. The Viking lounge was rather quiet until late in the evening when it turned into the nightclub.