BEENSAILING

on WONDER Willie’s contract is over on March 25. He gets Vacation time.

We are on Allure and Cory Rogers is here as Cruise Director.

3 hours ago, abpplh said:

Marc Walker posted on FB that he found out the other day that he won't be back until some time in 2022. 

Too bad. He’s terrific.

17 minutes ago, birdylady said:

FYI- just saw on Marc Walker’s FB page today that he has extended his stay on Allure till December 5th.

 

Erika

On now! Bing Bong!

TA is nor cancelled per email from Vicki Freed  to Travel partners 

34 minutes ago, Slainte! said:

Jimmy Rhodes has moved on….Director of Entertainment with Virgin Cruises.

Nice for him!

Thank you

We have 5 cruises September  to end of December.  Can anyone tell me why my 2 excursions to St John on the Ferry (through Royal Caribbean) all got cancelled…. And they are not showing up on the cruise planner even on the cruises where I wasn’t planning to go to St. Johns. Yet snorkel excursions to Trunk Bay and Honeymoon Bay Beach are still showing. Is there a problem with the ferry? Or is there issue on St John re covid / tourists ?

40 minutes ago, golfpccc said:

Jorge Gutierrez is on his way to meet up and be Concierge on the Odyssey.

 

Carla

Thanks. Diamond or Concierge lounge? Too bad cruising from

Israel is only for Israeli residents. I would be happy to cruise from Haifa on the Odyssey!

On 1/22/2021 at 8:27 AM, Sunshine3601 said:

We were undecided when offer came out on quantum on 6.28 or Radiance on 6.25 and went with quantum since it is easier flight then flying into anchorage to board radiance.  

Guess we picked the wrong one, but imo I dont think alaska sailings will happen this summer so probably better we found out now instead of waiting till april or so to find out.

 

That would be great if they allow to switch to 2022 but I doubt it.  We will probably just request refund for our cabin upgrade and port/taxes pd.

Let me know how you do.  Good luck!!

We were able to switch to QN July 2022 from July 21.We had used signature level tier for 2021 and some fcc. We were able to switch to following year on whatever price guarantee is called because it was a tier comp. Not one of the email/snail mail comp offers.

6 minutes ago, texasreb said:

I got hit with 2 on this round. Making a total of 11 since March 2020. It is getting old.

13 plus these new 5 - 18 cancels!

5 hours ago, texasreb said:

Just out. Jan and Feb 2021 are dead.

we have decided to extend the suspension of sailings for our global fleet for all sailings through February 28th, 2021 – excluding sailings onboard Quantum of the Seas in Singapore and Spectrum of the Seas in China. Our plan is to resume further operation in March;

That’s 5 more cancels for us including 4 which had already been cancelled because of CDC 

41 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said:

And another casino offer arrived today for summer sailings.  Just booked a corner aft balcony for Freedom 5 night to Bermuda on 8/14.

Casino just keeps pushing them out.  We now have 7 cruises booked for 2021 and 6 of them are from casino offers.  Still have his prime freebie to book.  Booked my prime freebie for his birthday cruise he doesnt know about yet.

I just also booked same cruise - aft port corner! deck 7!

I had 2 cruises in a row - Rhapsody and Adventure - which couldn’t dock in Costa Maya because of strong winds and waves. Captain on Adventure was backing in and then .... out we went. We then we headed to Cozumel where Adventure was given permission to overnight, plus the day there as was scheduled. I think the crew was happy to have a port over night...we were refunded port fees for Costa Maya. But it was based on weather issues - not another ship in our spot. Wouldn’t you just love to hear the conversation between lawyers for Royal  and Carnival. 

32 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

We adore Robert!!  Of course he had loved being on the northbound/southbound Radiance Alaska, since it goes to his home town of Vancouver every other week.  Now that Serenade is doing 7 night round trip out of Vancouver, he is probably loving that even more!  🙂 

 

I hope he is still on board when we cruise on Serenade early next year!  

I have cruised with Robert as HD on Jewel and Serenade. He is terrific.

1 hour ago, Hoopster95 said:

Just in case this was missed...

cut and pasted from the "Deployment" thread (credit to Kroozfoolz)

https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/4720/

 

"The National Park Service confirmed that the cruise line recently elected not to finalize its agreement to visit the park. Earlier this year, the federal agency announced that seven cruise lines had won 10-year park access including Cunard, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Seabourn, Viking Cruises and Royal Caribbean.

 

This means that Royal Caribbean won't be visiting the UNESCO World Heritage Site until at least 2029, when the current agreement expires."

It is crazy/madness that Royal sold something to cruisers and then cancelled those itineraries. We had picked Ovation to Glacier Bay. Ovation had 3 sailings to Glacier Bay in 2020. sigh. We are keeping our iten and will return to Endicott Arms and Dawes Glacier. It is still going to be beautiful.

On 10/27/2019 at 9:18 PM, SherriZ366 said:

Michelle -- The Google Doc can only be edited by me or my co's.  We had it open for editing but people posted obscene things or wrong information.  

 

Will be doing a big update 

Thank u Sherri.

Obscene comments.... horrible people. Too bad u can’t figure who did it get them removed from CC.

I also received the email. sigh. There were only 3 Ovation cruises for Glacier Bay.  I am on another cruise and went to Next cruise and  the rep checked and all 3 were replaced with Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier, which I did this past August. Still beautiful.  The rep has not even received notification.   Royal made a big deal of announcing they were going to be able to go. Also Radiance cruises had their Glacier Bays replaced.

9 minutes ago, gerif said:

Fruit is one thing that is strictly prohibited. Just because the security people were doing their job does not make them rude. 

Were u there to hear how they were talking to people?

13 hours ago, njkruzer said:

We're on the Anthem now with a stop in Boston.  As we reboarded the terminal security people iwould not let the people in front of me bring their open bottle of water or their leftovers through security.  I have brought water bottles through in other ports so that part surprised me. This was terminal security not Royal's people. 

Same rude security people at Black Falcon pier took away someone’s apple.

Currently on Anrhem. Fredrico is in CL. Jorge in DL In a few weeks Ricardo is coming back from his vacation. I have heard Frederico will stay on until Ricardo returns but not sure when Ricardo returns if he will go to CL or DL.

On AN Alex is currently in CL. He leaves the ship on Oct. 24 and was not sure who is coming into CL. I am staying on for cruise beginning Oct. 24  and will post update.

23 minutes ago, DELTABLUE said:

Can we please get clarification on when Cory is where and the same for Daniel (still need last name)?  Who's on Freedom and who's on Navigator and when?

 

FREEDOM:   Daniel late September #1426, Cory Rogers for 30 days in December to take ship to Cadiz in January for drydock #1444

 

NAVIGATOR:  Cory Rogers until 10-18, then vacation.  #1444 Hugo Arenas returns 10-18 #1426

 

Cory can't be on Navigator until 10-18 and on Freedom for 9-29.  Or can he???

This is a time waster....

I post on the site what Cory wrote me 2 days ago about his schedule.

and then someone else posts something different.

2 minutes ago, DELTABLUE said:

I've lost the breadcrumbs.😕  What is the correct sequence of dates for Cory Rogers and Daniel on Navigator and Freedom?

my quote post from Cory is what he replied on a social media platform this morning.

re post 1440 - your list -

per Cory Rogers on NV now (I was on NV just after he began) - 

“I am here until October 18 then vacation. I join freedom in December and take it to dry dock in Jan”