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This will potentially be our first ever cruise in an interior room assuming no royal up wins. I've always insisted we have a balcony, but the last handful of cruises, I've found me using the balcony less and less. I'd be out there waking up, but then on a sea day, we head to the pool for the day until dinner. I'd sit on the balcony while wife is gr getting ready, then we'd leave for dinner and not be back in the room until 1 or 2am. Total balcony time maybe an hour? I like people watching and music, which is why we do the pool deck. I'm really hoping we don't mind the interior because it'd make cruising even cheaper without ever paying upgrade fees. Some casino offers include Balconies, others just interior. This is cruise 18 I believe and first in an interior.

We'll actually be on Wonder about 3 weeks after this 🙂

Yeah we still deal with pto unfortunately. Although, we're way more fortunate in the pto category as you can tell with all the cruises are have booked already.

We have a cabin booked under the puzzle break room on Wonder. Should I be concerned of noise late at night? Like, midnight on? I think we're safe from adventure ocean, at least after midnight or so.

That's kind of my thought. Icon will be available for casino bookings in 2025, so by waiting a year, we'll likely get on her in 2025 for a casino comp. Just killed me giving up the aft room and pricing since it's so expensive now. More so fomo I think. But to your point, I love oasis class and a free 7 night cruise is better than paying $3400 for a week long cruise.

I'm pretty positive I should have paid the change fee and not been refunded the difference from the nrd but I certainly wasn't going to question it lol

Unfortunately no. We already have cruises booked for January, Feb, March, April and may. Lol.

Called back. Didn't fully understand what all took place, but canceled my booking I made earlier today on oasis. He then moved my icon booking to oasis, and then reapplied my casino comp. He originally said I owed $100 pp change fee, took my card number, then came back and said I didn't owe a change fee because of ????. So, I should be getting $345 back from the Oasis sailing from Port fees and taxes, and he said I'd get back about $280 from my icon booking since the $600 I paid was in excess of the port fees and taxes? We'll see what actually happens.

Such a good point. The amount of kids in general freaked me out

Killssss me losing the aft balcony on Icon, but a free cruise is better than a $3,400 cruise lol. Figure we can always do Icon the following year or something.

I'm thinking what I should have done is changed my icon sailing to oasis, ate the $100 change fee, and then applied my tier benefit to that sailing to zero it out. I think. Maybe. Lol.

Interesting. When I asked if I could change the deposit, I was told I couldn't. At least I was told I couldn't use it towards a casino booking.

I can't decide what I want to do. Looking for opinions. Right now, we have an aft balcony on Icon booked for February, roughly the 4th sailing. I booked it when it first came out, so got an "okay" price of about $3,400 for the two of us total. So far, I only paid the non refundable deposit of $500. For the same week, I can cruise on Oasis for only port fees and taxes, so roughly $300. The iterinary is less than desirable, Coco cay, Nassau, Labadee and Falmouth. It'd just be an interior room, which is fine. What would you do? As much of a "downgrade" it'd be to go on oasis, even after losing the $500 nrd, I'd still come out ahead about $3,000. Opinions? I'm like 50/50.

Sure wish I had an ugly, hodgepodge quilt. Some people have all the luck.

I feel like I've called before to have it added to cruises and they wouldn't, but I can't n remember why. I thought maybe it was couldn't be added to existing bookings?

Sorry! You're correct. My numbers in my head didn't come out the way I wanted them to early this morning lol. On land, 90ish percent, on ships, less. Thank you for the correction!

That's a lot of slide riding to cover millions of them 🙂

Casinos will always win. On land, holds are usually around 89%, on ships likely 93% or so. I've had good winning cruises and losing. But, offers don't care what you win or lose. They care about the money you're willing to circulate through the machines because they know in the end, the casino will win. I win/lose the same in the casino now as I did before the casino reward program so the way I see it, I would have played in the casino regardless, but as a reward, I'm not having to pay for gambling plus a cruise fare. Losing $5k-10k on a comped cruise is better than losing $5k-10k plus paying for the cruise.

That's how casinos work, thanks for the tip.

Has nothing to do with losses. I've gotten comped cruises many times from the casino after a winning trip. All related to the money cycled through machines and time spent in the casino.

It wouldn't shock me in the slightest if Royal marked my reservation as not paid in pull and canceled it over 8 cents 😂

This is an upcoming casino comped cruise on Wonder. Being a casino comp cruise, it's been paid in full already. Is it going to open up and become available to pay the 8 cents (or 16 cents)? Lol

Thanks! I'm the one who books a 10am flight out of FLL after a caribbean cruise. Playing it safe this time lol.

Excellent. Wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything with our noon flight. We always self carry and will likely try to be some of the first off anyway.