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Just off Odyssey. Our cabin steward put a solid white plastic card in the switch during turn down on the first night. Prior to that we just used one of our sea pass cards.

I’m assuming you are on the last Sunday to Sunday cruise on December 11? Leaving anytime prior to 9 should be fine. But if you use Royal’s transfers they will assign you and earlier time. Now if you are on the Dec 18 5 nighter or the Xmas cruise you will get to experience Houston traffic on Fridays proceeding majorly holidays, which can lead to some of the worst Houston traffic. Your cruise will be heavily Texan.

Because it can save a lot of money and it usually works out. I’ve seen balcony guarantees go the the cost of insides. I’ve actually had an inside guarantee net me a ocean view balcony on one of my Alaskan cruises.

Ive never been compensated for missed ports beyond taxes and fees and I have missed about five or six over the year years. On my Baltic and Med B2B years ago I missed three ports and had a fourth cut short, two because of terrorist attacks and the other because of being stuck in Russia an extra day due to high seas. Sucks for everyone involved; the family of the medial emergency; the people onboard the people waiting to be on board. I was on a cruise this week and originally it was this cruise before I switched to a different ship the week before final payment.

I’m in 11295 on Allure in December. How is the view from there? We booked it because we booked a neighborhood balancing guarantee for not much more than an inside cabin. We have RoyalUp bids in for other rooms.

It can be anywhere from 30 days out to 2hrs after boarding. The norm is closer to sail date. But I am one of the few that was notified 30 days out that I had a winning bid. I went from obstructed balcony gty(was the same price of an inside cabin, didn’t realize it was an obstructed view gty when I booked) to an ocean view with large balcony on Odyssey. Currently waiting on my RoyalUp bus for my Xmas Cruise on Allure. I have a neighborhood balcony gty and have bids in for an ocean view balcony, ocean view with large balcony, ultra spacious ocean view with large balcony and a jr suite. I’m really hoping for the ultra spacious… but I’m 1 for 5 on RoyalUp bids at the moment.

So I had my RoyalUp bid accepted 30 days before sailing last week. I booked a balcony guarantee for less than an interior guarantee on this cruise. I was assigned a dreaded obstructed view balcony on Odyssey. I am now in an ocean view with large balcony. Still saved $1000 over what I would have spent at my original booking.

Utopia is likely to do its inaugural season in Europe correct? Do we think it will still debut in late Spring 2024? With Icon being unveiled and its sailing going to booking tomorrow, when do we think we will see summer 2024 Utopia bookings?