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Sue I am very happy to read your post. Getting the all clear is the best holiday gift ever! Wishing you all the best of health and grandparenting.

Jan 2. 11 night.

Debbie, I went to get my coffee card and I asked if I can carry it over to another cruise. Patisserie lady said yes if I am back on the Anthem (which we will in Jan). Completely different answers from last year. Good, since I am not going to be able to finish it. Also, I would not do the dining reservations in the manner I did before (pre pay and then change to use Bogo or voucher) since when they refunded me, they also cancelled my future reservations. So I will wait till I get onboard as suggested by gs. @Jimbo hope you will read this since I had mentioned something in a prior post.

Anthem is very steadfast in saying no. 😀. But they have bent if nothing is available on d 1 or 2.

Hi! BOGO is only for night 1 or 2 but some ships may accommodate for other nights, The only reason they have acommodated us recently was because there were no reservations available at all on night one or two.

Will have a slice in your honor today. 😁

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This looks great! Everything will go well.🤞

Great itinerary! Curacao is my favorite. Have you ever considered the Anthem, considering it is in driving proximity to you? Just curious. And the Sorrento's on the Anthem is the best in the fleet, I promise (among the Sorrentos I have tried on Royal ships). LOL!🤣🤣Is that incentive enough?🤣🤣 😛

We have booked this excursion via Celebrity for February. I am a bit anxious about the boat ride. Will come back and post what I thought of it.

For our January and March cruises I purchased yesterday at $13.99 Surf and Stream for one device. Additional device for $11.99 but as others reported that came out more expensive in the cart, so I purchased one plan per person for one device. Today it is $14.99. No "surf only" option seen. When and where are you sailing OB?

That is an awsome price for a 12 nighter in a balcony, for the Serenade. Just have to work out some date kinks before we decide.

We go to any specialty dining venue after boarding and have them re arrange the reservations, so D + BOGO can be used on the days it can be used (day 1 or 2) and the package reservations go for later days. Some people suggested to pre book individual restaurants you plan on going to, in cruise planner and then when you go let them know that you are using BOGO or TA's specialty dinner voucher and they will refund the difference as OBC or however you booked. Both ways to do this have worked for us. When and where are you cruising? I am very happy to see that you finally feel comfortable cruising.

Congratulations! 🥂

With a couple of new venues, I felt it was very much like a wider version of the Anthem, having been on both. I loved it.

Loved it!❤️ Would definitely book again. Quantum plus class and felt like a wider version of Anthem. I like the Oasis class, no doubt, but I like the Quantum class way better. Just a matter of preference.

If this helps you predict price ups and downs for the sales: ($5.99 is great for soda package). Currently soda pkg $7.99. Internet plus soda is $18.99....for our Jan and March sailing. Coco pass was $88 for March sailing. Internet for Jan and March is $1 up this morning at $14.99 Blue Lagoon Dolphin experience was $99 and Stingray was $57 for Nov sailing. Will revisit on Cyber Monday unless I read something new. I am eyeing that Serenade sailing and one other. I love that ship. I want to go before that lovely old lady sails the world cruise and gets "tired" or develops gut problems.🤣🤣

Cruise Planner Update: I was just able to log into cruise planner and print out the order history and check prices. Soda pkg for two of my cruises was $7.99 (so far). Bev Pkg was $65. No discount on excursions I was interested in, except for Coco Beach Club Pass . I understand CP prices are different for different sailings. Of course this was short lived and the cruise planner went sailing again within minutes!🤔 I will not complain because I was able to book what I wanted for the lower price, but I will join in saying that their IT really sucks! I am having the same problem with Celebrity's cruise planner, not that anything is at a lower sale price there in the cp and our cruise prices have jumped.

It was $13.99 for one and add another for $11.99 with today's sale.

Try the App. I just purchased it from the App. which worked (for once!!! 😁)

Please check your credit card charges. I "seemed" to be having that an issue, but the cc was already charged and charged twice.

"Cruise Planner" came back on from it's "gone sailing" message. It keeps zoning out though. I was able to book the Voom Surf and Stream for $13.99 for two of our cruises. Debbie check out your 12/4 cruise. I was also able cancel and rebook a watter bottle package at a lower price. There was not much on sale in shore excursions that we were interested in looking at. As for lower cruise prices. Nada for our bookings I checked.

I think it is the amount of people trying to log into the servers and they are crashing. Plus Royal must have been trying to desperately increase the price back up again in between 🤣 Cruise Planner has been "sailing away" for a long time now on all my cruises.

Sorry about that. Hopefully she will feel better soon. How nice of your son to take care of her.....Mom trained him well 😉😁and he must have also learnt from Dad. And again Congrats to all on the nuptials.

Yes actual card. Mine is usually left with the papers in the cabin and once there was a note to collect it at cafe promenade, where the guy had a list of precruise coffee card purchases and checked my name off that list.