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For anyone that could stll be interested. Last month we completed our B2B from the RCI Harmony of the Seas followed with the Carnival Celebration. When we boarded the HOTS, we went to guest services as suggested and asked them about arranging transportation from the HOTS to the Celebration. Unfortunately they only provide transportation between cruises on Royal, so that was out. After we debarked the HOTS the morning of the Celebration embarkation, we jumped into the taxi line and with the help of a person directing pax to the taxi's waiting, she flagged a guy down, told him where to take us and what to do when he came back to the Royal terminal. Rather quick ride to terminal F and the Celebration. I don't think the cab driver ever actually gave us a fare. I handed him a twenty, asked if that was good, and he thanked me and away he went, and we headed to the Celebration. Walking just did not seem to be a safe and straight forward option. Way to much construction activity and traffic. But the cab ride was such an easy option, may not have walked even if there was a path.

With the Venezia currently on it's maiden voyage, probably not to many pics are going to be available. However, you could try searching for pics from the Costa Venezia since it sailed under the Costa brand for a few years before Carnival took it over. Also, the Venezia is pretty much the same ship as the Carnival Vista, Horizon and Panorama, so the cabins layouts should be pretty close to the same as the Venezia. They look to be from what Carnival has on their website. Cabin 6207 does look fairly large with enough room for the scooters. We stayed in a similar cabin on another ship and it was very roomy. Looks like a roll in shower also.

I certainly missed that…still very disappointed

Hi...I'd like to squeeze in a question if I may. We just got off the Celebration this past Sunday, and now have a cruise booked on the Mardi Gras. We went twice to Chibang on Celebration, and very much enjoyed it. We even went....now get this...to Chibang on the second "elegant night"....you know...the one where they serve the...um....lobster. After ordering our dinners, our server asked if we'd like to have the lobster, the one they were serving in the MDR and we said sure!! He brought that...and just about every other item on the menu!! Thought that was very odd, but we enjoyed all of their offerings. All that said, my wife read..."somewhere" that now on Mardi Gras, your first visit to Chibang is still no charge, but any subsequent visits there'd be sort of a cover charge...8 dollars I recall her saying. Can you verify that? Thanks.

Before he left for Venezia and Pride.

No wonder Heald never answered my questions!! Very disappointing. Thanks.

Hello...I've a question if you don't mind. Is the statue of David still in front of the steakhouse? I understand the steakhouse was rebranded to the Fahrenheit 555 name like other ships, I have a thought they may haven taken the opportunity to dump the David statue altogether.

For anyone curious, I had the video call with my MD on a sea day during our Celebration sailing last week, and it went surprisingly well. I did bump my service from the value plan to the premium for the day. Even though the "setup and testing" for the call via my health providers app continued to "complain" about a weak internet connection all went well. Some video lag, but overall good performance and I accomplished what I needed to.

As you had no, nor are you entitled to know the detail of what i was asking, I will still thank your for this completely and utterly useless reply.

We may have seen something very similar yesterday. Back in February we purchased several gift cards from both Allstate and AARP to pay the balance of our Celebration cruise in 2 weeks. They were all ecards and one had a balance left. I didn't indicate properly the one that had the balance so started searching one card at a time. The one with the balance, showed the balance....All the others came up as invalid on different devices, browsers, os's etc. We figured the hell with it, got the one with the balance...rest don't matter as they paid the cruise...thought they shoulda shown a zero balance..but didn't matter.

If memory serves, Celebration has the new, "upgraded" internet service, Starlink? We're on the Celebration starting May 20. I have a video appointment scheduled with my Dr. Nothing crucial, but if the internet service can handle it, I want to have the discussion. We've purchased the value internet package, but I've no issue upgrading for the day, if needed, assuming thats still an option. Just looking for input from anyone that has done any sort video conferencing, Zoom calls whatever onboard. Call is scheduled on one of our sea days heading back from our ABC cruise. Thanks.

Indeed. Way back on one of our first cruises on the Pride, before the whiners started ruining the Pride, we were in line for our whatever set dining time. Heading into the MDR there was a larger mural, of a large breasted woman and little cherubs around. Two young boys, less than 10 yrs old I recall, walked up to the mural, reached up an "touched the woman's breast's" looked each other and one goes, I touched boobies!! Was hysterical at the time...folks in line chuckled, mom was probably mortified, but the MDR opened, everyone that saw went in chuckling a bit.

Ok, thats what I was wondering, will we get a "thanks for playing, better luck next cruise" type of message saying no upgrade for you!

The "is it worth it" question consistently comes up on these and other social media forums, which has spawned all of these detailed calculators, spreadsheets, and other assorted "tools" to determine the worth of the package. To us it's simple. Can we drink enough beverages across all of the alcoholic and non-alcoholic offerings onboard to equal the per day cost of the package and we go from there. That said, one difference between RCI and Carnival is, Carnival has the 15 drink per day limit, but max drink cost of I believe $20 per drink. RCI has no per day drink limit, but a per drink cost limit of $14 I think. However RCI does a couple of things "better", like being able to use the drink package at their "private" spots like Coco Cay and Labadee. Also something trivial is RCI package covers "fresh squeezed" OJ at breakfast, which Carnival does not. I'm at least $10-12 into the per day cost just on OJ alone!!

Totally trivial question, just curious. We're sailing on Harmony next week, 5/13. We have a couple of Royal Up bids submitted. We're just curious will they stay in our planner as submitted until the cruise happens, or could we get any sort of acknowledgement that they are "done" with the bids, no more upgrades being given? Or could it be something like a guarantee cabin where you may not know until right up to boarding day if the bid was accepted?

Interesting. Carnival states pretty clearly with the information for their Cheers drink package, a 5 minute wait between drinks, I couldn't find what that was for RCI. Most times it's a none issue, but pretty silly when a bar offers a floater to accompany a rum runner, to serve the rum runner, then tell you, you have to wait 5 minutes for the floater!!!

Nope...not for a second person at all...all for me!! I been around this rodeo for a while, and I also prefer to follow the rules and not contribute to ruining anyones fun. But it's really simple. One of my cruise indulgences is to enjoy a cigar or 2, in the appropriate smoking section, with a bourbon or scotch or whiskey. Takes a while to good through a decent cigar, and one or two drinks...usually not enough...I enjoy most of my brown liquors neat.......so just looking for ways to keep my glass "full" as simply as I can. Doubles would be nice, but can't always seem to get them. As for floaters...I totally get the "good tipping" part....though many bars will provide or offer a floater with a rum drink..say a rum runner...for an additional cost usually. If Royal does not offer that...maybe then nice tipping will "fix that"!!

If you get a frozen drink..often times a rum drink..the bartender will "float" another shot of rum on top of the drink. Some bars but the shot in a sort of test tube, and insert it in the drink, and the extra shot sorta "floats" in the tube until it's pulled out.

We pulled the trigger on bought the DBP today for our Harmony cruise in a couple of weeks. Like many, we stalked the Royal site and today the price was down low enough for us to buy it. Here's my silly questions. Does Royal require you to wait a set period of time between ordering drinks? If you got a frozen rum drink, will they allow a floater with the drink, have you wait, or do they even do floaters??

I've seen the exact same, saw it just a couple of hours ago today!! A couple of days ago the Chops+1 package was the same...lower cost...was sold out..."regular" cost was available. The other thing I get a kick out of are the reservation times. The reservation times for the individual restaurants, much more times available over the less desireable times of the packages.

Ugh. Ok..thanks. We're a few points shy of diamond status.

Are doubles allowed if you have the DBP? Read on here someone saying a bartender would not serve doubles, and I can't recall last times I sailed on RCI with the package if they were covered or not!! Also, is there somewhere to get current drink prices? Thanks.

Another slight change. If your bid is not selected, does it ever show up as anything other than submitted prior to the cruise? We're 21 days out, have 2 bids submitted, just curious if we'll see a no-go or it'll just sit until the cruise.

Cool...Thanks. What about a "coffee bar" in the WJ. For like "specialty coffee's"...espressos, cappuccinos etc....

Curious if there is a bar/service bar in the Windjammer on Harmony of the Seas? We've not cruised on Royal for a while, but last few times we were on the Anthem and enjoyed "frequenting" the bar and Seattles Best coffee spot on Anthem. May sound odd, but having those bars available in the WJ during breakfast, "helped" us make use of the drink package.