IceChick

We are doing the same thing leaving Jan 21 on Regal and still not certain how we will get between ships.  If you sail later I can post what we end up doing.

Detailed review, thanks!  Do you know if the elevators were working for the water slides at the water park?  I heard a few months ago that they were not.

I don't eat fish and they made modifications to some of the fish dishes for me, I was worried I would not able to try much as the menu was fairly fishy but it worked out well.  They asked as soon as we sat down about our restritions.  Even though I am a finky eater and did not love eveything, I liked the food more than I thought I would. They were were so accomodating to all our parties restrictions, it was a great experience and we had a lot of fun.

1 hour ago, JPSemprini said:

Does anyone know if Royal Caribbean sells a transfer to Hobby that includes a stop at some other Houston area attraction (maybe Johnson Space Center)?  I once did an airboat ride after a cruise on the way to the Miami airport.  I am contemplating taking a cruise in April and looking at a potentially late flight home. I can't seem to find any info on Royal's website unless I have already booked the cruise.  

We are cruising January 28 and at this time there is only one in the cruise planner and it is for flight through IAH, nothing for Hobby yet. 

38 minutes ago, khiori466 said:

Yes, it's now $15.99 per day for my cruise in January so I am booking it.  Got it on sale last year for $14.99/day so that is about as cheap as it gets.  We get only 1 and take turns using our devices.  Yes, I have to sign in as my husband.  I can read books or play games on my IPad w/o being online.  We just don't spend that much time online on a cruise.  IF I did want 2 devices I would pay as ONE person with 2 devices.  It is cheaper that way.

 

If someone could please let me know what percentage off are you seeing?  I'm Canadian and at 25% for Black Friday it is $30.15 per day for 7day in Jan on Harmony.  Just wondering it it is different percentages or if they are using "RCL math" to calculate exchange rate🤨.

This spring on QoS we did the prior request for seperate beds.  Once on board at 1pm we did the request through app as room steward was not around.  After dinner we made the request through room steward.  At 10pm we went to guest services.  At 11 we finally got through to house keeping to request.  Almost midnight a poor guy shows, by that time my travelling companion ripped apart the bed and pulled out all bedding stored under bed trying to make up beds herself but all had disgusting stains, room was a disaster zone, never forget the look on his face 🤣.  Needless to say the worker got a mention and extra tip, felt so bad for him

Fingers crossed😁.  We were pending for three days that I know of, I was checking every few days so could have been more.

We did this on our last cruise in 2020 when there was construction and not safe to walk between.  We took a taxi; at first when we told the taxi driver where we were going he said no way.  I went to the port person in charge of the taxi area and asked how we could get to the other port, they came back and made the taxi take us.  It was an uncomfortable trip but we did tip the driver very well.

For our April cruise our Move up was awarded 35 days prior to cruise and was sitting in pending for a few days. It was to a Veranda with good availability left  (around 200 mark) so that is probably why it was early.  I have not seen the link in my cruise planner since and when clicking the email links I can not make further bids so no clear indication that this would work without calling.

13 hours ago, Jim_Iain said:

On cruisedeckplans.com they have a Cabin Checker Tool that will show what's above and below a cabin.

Thank you!  All these years I have been using their drag deck function like a cave man, overlapping and lining up the elevators to figure it out 😖

1 hour ago, Jim_Iain said:

I just saw something new.   I went in to check on a number of upgrades I have pending and the both the Minimum and Maximum have dropped significantly.   The new Max is below my bid so I changed them to the Max bid just in case I was to win one (I guess otherwise I would have been charge more than the new max).    I doubt most of them will win as there are no cabins available except one bid where there is 1 cabin. 

 

Has anyone else ever seen this 

Had the same thing happen on our April Hawaii cruse.  Mins dropped 100 to 200 per person from when first avail to bid.

I have not heard anything about them changing the departure port, it was just standard info included was all US and nothing on Canada, which was not helpful.

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We have a cruise leaving from Vancouver in April and received a notification from Celebrity yesterday.  All the departure information included referenced leaving from the US not Canada. I need a facepalm emoji!

4 hours ago, davy jones said:

Would you lose any existing OBC from the initial fare?

We are past final payment and had a $300 OBC from the Black Friday Sale.  I called this morning and received more OBC for the price difference and did not lose the OBC I had originally,  My room is an O8 but  is sold out, there is still O7 avail and  I received the price difference for that category. I could move to an O7 stateroom but I did not like the locations remaining.  If I wanted to upgrade higher I could but if the stateroom was  more than I originally paid I would not be able to keep the original  OBC.

I will be wearing one for upcoming cruise when near ppl.  I am immune compromised and have not been sick for two years due to the recent measures that have been taken.  The last time I had pneumonia was on my last cruise in 2020, so  I am hoping masking might help in preventing other infections.

There were promo codes posted on this website for a small percentage off on excursions (10%) and other Carnival purchases over the black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend.  Something to watch for during that time.  I believe the codes came from John Herald's fb page but could be wrong.

Thank you for posting, excursion code worked for me.

Thank you for the update.

10 hours ago, Ren1216 said:

Anxious to hear about your day in Costa Maya.  We are still trying to decide (as a group) what to do in this port.  Hubs and I have been here twice before, years ago, did the ruins (which we really enjoyed).  The port area looks a bit different than last time we visited.  Those elevated walkways, what is that?  Is there a cost?  Know anything about that pyramid/water slide thing in the distance?  I really need to get over to the CM board and do some reading!

We have done the Mayan Kingdom (pyramid/water slide thing) a few times.  They have various slides, zipline, zip coaster, lazy river and pool.  It has never been that busy when we have gone so no lines, quite appreciate that after a few days on a cruise ship.  There is an elevator in the pyramid to get to the water slides and zips, so the only stairs are on the towers connecting the zipline runs.  Only thing missing was a hot tub as one time it was on one of the coldest days they have seen down there and we froze our butts off.  Other than that we always enjoyed our day.

We did it a couple years ago and it was good.  If any of the activities were a single tour on their own we would of been disappointed but the fact there was so much to do we really did enjoy ourselves.  The downsides were the lines and the fact we had a talkative tour guide at the estate tour.  Groups came and went and he just kept talking, this preventative us from doing all that we planned and tainted our experience.  One lady with our group just rode the ziplines the whole day; she  loved it and was planning to go back on her next cruise.     For us it was one of those tours we liked but probably would not do again.  

3 minutes ago, lakelorain said:

If I do it, I will definitely report back.  If it's too hot or rainy, I'll grab a taxi.  Some others I know are taking a taxi.

Thanks!  I had read somewhere that taxi's were not keen to do this so I was looking for other options in case.  The quote below is from a previous post regarding transport between terminals, might try that too.

"There is a free shuttle you can use...it's an unmarked white coach with a sign in the window "Complimentary to Parking Garages". We had checked with the ladies who are organizing the taxis in front of the Celebrity terminal and one of them  called the coach driver to stop for us....it's free but we gave the driver a nice tip for taking us to Terminal B"

If possible, can you please report back on how it went when you return.  We are considering doing the same thing in January and my mother, who is 73, is coming.  She is pretty spry but may not be up to leaping over barriers hauling luggage.

We attached the magnetic hooks to the ceiling between the beds and hang an opaque shower curtain.  Muffles the snores and saves the roommate(s) from getting the full show when sleep ware rides up or down during the night😲.

I wish they would too.  We are doing consecutive cruises this year but unfortunately doing this you can not hit the more Southern ports that a longer cruise can☹️