Legowife

We received a similar email (also on Oct 7) for our April 16 Seaside cruise from Port Canaveral.

Ours is offering to move us to the April 30 cruise, with an identical itinerary. However, when we called customer service, they insisted the 4/16 cruise was still happening?!?

Also on Allure in July and see the same prices as chrisr99.

However, there used to be options for 2, 3, or 4 person packages that gave a better per person rate (we usually travel between 4-8 people per cruise). Now, you can only choose the single rate and while you can add more people to your plan, they all get the same rate.

I was able to purchase the 4 person Surf&Stream package on Black Friday for $36.99/day, effectively $9.25/person. Today it would be $71.96/day for 4 people ($17.99*4)!

15 minutes ago, Legowife said:

Yes to both. Also, I asked guest services and we have about

35 minutes ago, LorraineP said:

Can you please find out capacity for the 11/28 cruise. Thank you. 

 

Guest services didn't know for sure, but expected about the same as this cruise.

20 minutes ago, LorraineP said:

Did they have Spectra last night? Also is WWRU still on for tonight?

Yes to both. Also, I asked guest services and we have about 2800 onboard.

I'm onboard and we were told this stop was added to resupply. We missed Port Canaveral on Tuesday due to weather, so it makes sense. 

We also only got the first two cruise compasses. Steward said it's to reduce waste, available on request.  But our neighbors with a different steward have gotten them and they didn't have to ask.

These are the dates I have for the 4 waves of cancellations so far

On 3/13 - Cancelled all cruises through April 10

On 3/24 - Cancelled all cruises through May 11

On 4/16 - Cancelled all cruises through June 11

On 5/20 - Cancelled all cruises through July 31

There are some others like Explorer cancelling all August cruises, but these were the mass cancellations

On the Adventure this July prices were:

6 Digital or Print for $109.99

10 Digital or Print for $159.99

15 Digital or Print for $209.99

Unlimited Digital for $259.99

We bought the Unlimited Digital in the Cruise Planner prior to the cruise for $199.99

They did offer $25 off the Unlimited package during the cruise.

We've played evening games as a group (15+) in both the Windjammer and the Conference room. 

Windjammer was on Mariner and the trick was to get there prior to buffet closing. They would remove the food and mostly close the doors (to keep out people looking for food), but said we could stay and play. 

On one of our other cruises, we just asked at Guest Services for availability of the conference rooms and we got lucky that they were able to give us some times.  It's hit or miss, though, another cruise the rooms were completely booked by a tour group. Also, they say no food or drink in the conference room (no one checked up on us though).

My husband and I did a Baltic cruise on Navigator this summer. I posted my review in the link below.

From our cruise compasses, this was the weather:

June 15: Southampton 66 partly cloudy

June 16: At Sea 64 partly cloudy

June 17: Oslo 61 cloudy with chance of rain

June 18: Copenhagen 63 partly cloudy

June 19: At Sea 72 partly cloudy

June 20: Tallinn 57 clear skies

June 21: St. Petersburg 64 partly cloudy

June 22: St Petersburg 65 overcast, showers

June 23: Helsinki 59 partly cloudy

June 24: At Sea 59 mostly clear

June 25: Skagen 66 clear skies

June 26: At Sea 55 partly cloudy

Another comment on the activities - has anyone done the "Royal Mystery" by Puzzle Break? It was held on Day 3 and sounded like it would be an Escape Room sort of thing. Now, we've never done an Escape Room and this was free, so we thought we'd give it a try. I don't know if it's normal to give 0 instructions as to what is happening? It was held in the Star Lounge and each team got a packet and they told us that we were trying to determine who did the crime. Then we were told we had an hour to figure it all out. They did point out that there were clues around the room.

We figured out several of the puzzles, but even after they announced whodunit, we were scratching our heads trying to figure out how we were supposed to get that answer. So...mixed feelings on that activity. It was fun solving the puzzles we understood but frustrating because we weren't exactly sure how to add up the pieces.

An excellent and informative review. We were on the same cruise and in fact we were on the same shore trip in St Petersburg. (I apologise that the back of my partners head seems to have found its way into some of your pictures. ) the shore trip packed so much into the two days that could not have been done with bigger groups. You have not commented on the entertainment side which we found to be mediocre with the exception of the ice show. If only the singers and dancers could make it look like they were enjoying themselves as much as this ice dancers did!

 

PS what did your husband think of the price of Lego in Skagen?

 

 

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Wow, didn't know there were other cruise critic folk with us there, it seemed like most everyone on the roll call was looking into private tours! I'm glad we went with that tour, though.

As for entertainment, we've been on the Navigator a couple of times and had seen a few of the shows prior. We weren't impressed enough then to see them again on this trip, except for the ice show - that's always fun. I do wish Royal would rotate the shows on their ships a little more frequently. Guess I just need to try more of their other ships!

We did watch the Confusionist which was just ok and my husband dislikes ventriloquists so we skipped that. What he did really enjoy was watching the Vendettas play. They were a cover band that played most nights in the Star Lounge. I had trouble understanding one of the comedians (he talked really fast with an accent and I may have been drinking), so I'd have to agree that the entertainment really wasn't a hit with us.

We did try the 8pm trivia most nights, but it seemed pretty disorganized (like some of the other games/trivia we tried throughout the trip). They gave completely wrong answers to some questions and at least one night the questions and answers were in different order so it was very confusing. If you want to try the nightly trivia, it pays to have a mix of British and American members on your team. Questions leaned British, but there were definitely some that we helped out with (who was the 41st US president, for example).

As for the Lego prices in Skagen- they were about 20% higher than our prices in the States (after factoring currency conversion), so we didn't buy any.

We didn't get the drink package this cruise due to the number of port days and the deluxe package for two for 12 days would have been well over $1000.

We were on the lookout for the infamous 10 drink cards, but alas, they were never offered on our cruise. However, we did take advantage of the wine discount you can get with the dinner package. You can get 40% off wine by the bottle when you have dinner (for bottles under $100). We'd have some with dinner and either have leftovers or buy a bottle to take back to the room.

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I dont have a lot of comments on the casino, as we really didn't play much. I prefer blackjack and the low limit tables were all paying 6:5. You could get 3:2 for $25 and up. Shame, since it was a smoke free casino and it's usually the smoke that keeps us away on other cruises.

They do have the point requirements for rewards in the flyer, if you're interested.

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The disembarkation instructions seemed to be pretty typical of what we were used to (see photos). We chose walk off, since we were taking a tour after and didn't know if it would be a long line off the ship.

We wouldn't have much to declare, at least, our souvenirs consisted mostly of chocolate purchased at each of the ports!

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Day 12 - Sea Day

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We got back into Skagen and still had some time before we had to be back on the ship. We decides to check out the local shops. We were surprised how many were just clothing store. We also found the Lego store! Then we stopped at a grocery store to buy some candy and mail a postcard (I was surprised that the ship's service desk did not sell postage, so we had to hunt for post offices in a couple ports this trip)

Back onboard, it was cake night in the windjammer - yum!

That night was the Rock Brittania Street Party in the Promenade (70s party was earlier in the week).

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It was about a 3 mile ride to Grenen. Then we parked the bikes to walk along the beach to the very tip of the country. The walk was a bit longer than we expected - took us about half an hour.

There were some signs about the wildlife, but we didn't see any. There was also a sign that seemed to indicate it was dangerous to go in the water, but plenty of folks were in there. It's neat to see where the two seas meet, so there are waves coming from both directions.

You can opt to take a ride to/from the tip (instead of walking) in a Sandorman shuttle. We decided this would be a good idea for the way back. They don't take credit cards, but they did estimate what the cost was in us dollars and charged us that.

There's a small building back at the parking lot for snacks and souvenirs. We stopped for some ice cream to get energy to bike back to town.

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There's not a lot to do in Skagen. Royal only offered 4 excursions at this port. We decided to do our own thing.

We carefully mapped out a bike shop and checked our GPS while still onboard using the wifi to map out our path. And wouldn't you know it, there was a group renting bikes right outside the pier for $10/each. There was a bit of a wait since they were just unloading bikes from their van and then driving back to the store to get more.

We hopped on our bikes and grabbed a free map and headed to Grenen (the northern tip of Denmark).

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Day 11 - Skagen

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Thanks so much for this review It has made my mind up this will be my next cruise to book in 2020 x On NOS n September this year for Africa and canneries and was on her for the Italian med So it was great to get this amount of info on the ports Fingers crossed NOS will still be doing this cruise in 2020 xx Thanks Again Terrie

Glad this helps! I didn't find too many reviews out there when we were planning, so I tried to pay attention to the things we weren't sure about to mention them here.

We went back under the Great Belt bridge again. Not sure if I can link to a youtube video here?

Not sure if all of the ships are using these door magnets now? I like them better than the little cards we used to leave in the key slot.

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2nd formal night (yes, only 2 formal nights even though it was a 12 night cruise), so we went to Chops.

We did not try the seafood tower, it was an extra cost, but looked interesting.

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We passed a few windfarms while relaxing on the balcony. Thanks to Google and GPS, we're pretty sure this is the EnBW Baltic 2 Wind Farm.

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If you check the cruise compasses, you'll notice that Royal Caribbean has a "Russian Bazaar" almost every day. That's basically a few tables of lacquer boxes, eggs, amber jewelry and matroyshka dolls in the promenade.

Not sure how the prices compare to what you could buy in Russia, since we weren't really shopping for souvenirs. However, I did grab one of their brochures.

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