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Where do you get your bus number? Do you collect your baggage or does it go straight to the ship? Thanks in advance.

Absolutely bonkers how US residents can travel just about anywhere without it being reciprocated.

I’m from the UK and not heard anything yet!

Not happening on Explorer. I asked the concierge and she knew nothing about it!
 

You need to have a paper copy of your ESTA if you don’t have a visa. 

I’m from the UK and mostly use a US Travel agent. You get better T&Cs and usually better prices.

This seems to have turned into a P&O thread!

I’ve received my refunded deposit from my TA but no news on my FCC from Royal. Does anybody know how they’re doing this and if there’s a date I should have it by?

I received the white tubes on my recent transatlantic on Rhapsody. I’m diamond plus but not yet up to 340 points and was only in an outside cabin. I guess I was lucky!

How about a new section being set up for trip reports? It would reduce the need to search through all the posts.

Luggage tags for my Allure 16 Sep cruise are just available today. 45 days out.

12 at the moment. 9 Royal and 3 Celebrity.

No, but you don't have to pay your gratuities until you've boarded.

So you’re paying gratuities for service you haven’t yet had?

I leave a tip for the waitress. What she does with it after that isn't my concern. (And I don't reduce what I give her just because she might be sharing it with others.)

But do you do it before you’ve had your meal?

When you go into a restaurant on land do you auto tip your servers, bar staff, dishwashers and the people who wash the tablecloths before you eat?

Thought not!

Why should it be different on a cruise ship?

I have one too that is showing on my cruise account and I’m not from the USA or Canada.

I’ll be on Rhapsody transatlantic Tampa to Barcelona on Sunday and was told that Mario is on the ship now and will be travelling to Barcelona.

We're hoping those preceeding sailings get filled in soon. I read that the sailings following the TA have been released.

Yes she needs to get from Venice to Barcelona and. B2B would be nice!

Just booked for November 2019 Rhapsody transatlantic. No sailings shown three weeks prior to that does anybody know where she could be?

My status has just been updated a week after debarkation.

Yes you can safely drink the tap water but it does have a particular taste. I always bring my own.

I took a carry on with small bottles of soda on to the Navigator in January. No problem I didn’t even have to open the case.

Rhapsody has two in Windjammer and one on deck 6 atrium beside Cafe Lattetudes

Had Richard Spacey on Celebrity last summer he loved himself and the video at the end of the cruise was all about him.

Graham Seymour was great on our Rhapsody transatlantic in November. I think he said he was off to fill in on one of the Royal ships in Australia round about now.

But the bottom line is that RCI should be paying them a decent wage. They’re not so we are guilted into topping it up through our gratuities.