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Wow! We were on one of the first cruises after restart from US! Have a nice restart!

Our cruises with Royal are usually Two 11 or 12 dayers to Southern Caribbean on Quantum/Vision classes in January/March One 5 dayer Bermuda on Freedom/Voyager class or 7 dayer to Bahamas in May/June on Oasis class One 9 dayer to NE/Canada in September on Freedon/Voyager class One 7-8 dayer to Bahamas for Thanksgiving on Quantum class Plenty of longer cruises. We avoid large number of children by sailing during school time or longer cruises, or using adult solariums. No short cruises for us.

We won't try to entice you... we want prices to come down, not up. We personally switched to RCI completely after Covid pandemic and 1 cruise with Celebrity (Edge) which we loved. So now 31 cruise are with other 7 lines and 31 with RCI. RCI works very well for our 5 cruises from Northeast (4 NJ and 1 Baltimore). Gives us variety, overall quality (Celebrity is ranked higher in this department, but there are more factors), great entertainment in theater and lounges.

Why? We have a nice display. We have two. One is four shelves with ships models. Another is with crystal blocks.

I take it as a comedy. Otherwise it is extremely confusing. I collect different things, which I do not use as doorstops. I do not collect anything that I would use as doorstops. 🙂

You will with a time. Since 2003 we have 31 cruise with RCI - 304 points 31 cruise with other 7 cruise lines Less points with others as with RCI we have many 12 dayers and 10 and 9 dayers. With others it is less.

So you do not really care. LOL. In this case I would just let them know I do not need them. They most definitely find next taker We do not sell ours Anthem November 2021, Oasis May 2022, Anthem November 2023. I am surprised people buy on Ebay or anywhere else other people Crystal blocks. Why? They are recognition for reaching certain milestone.

We got 2 onboard and for one we filled a request and followed with a call after return. Several calls. Received it after 8 months

This was our experience. Also many of Ps are much older folks so if they enjoy wearing pins I am happy for them.

We had this situation with block #2 on Oasis in May 2022. We waited about 8 months before receiving it. We called to check several times. #1 and #3 were received right on the ship.

In our experience you need to check if crystal block is in your room during 140pt, 210pt, 280pt etc sailing. If it is not and you want it you need to ask LA and if there are no blocks available on the ship you can fill special form so they will send it to you.

We do not wear pins. They are in our albums about cruising (1 album per approx 10 cruises) together with room keys, programs, tickets and other artifacts. Nobody except us even sees albums usually. From what I noticed in this thread... people conflate wearing pins with some other issues (or maybe not issues, but what they consider to be issues). Yes, there are pinnacles who wear pins and behave differently or wear something not up to your liking. There are pinnacles or any other people who do not wear pins and behave differently or wear something not up to your liking. No need to find something weird about people who wear or do not wear pins. There are no connections. 🙂

Somehow I suspect issue was not with a pin, but with " the tightest trunks I have ever seen anyone wear". Am I correct?

Interesting reading comprehension issues. Let me try again. I don’t need your pin. I have mine for years. All except Pinnacle. People like their (not yours) pins for various reasons. It seems like some people are upset about it. Quite a phenomenon.

There are changes. You no longer have Happy Hour with unlimited liquor + 3 vouchers during this time from limited menu. You get 4 vouchers during whole day from unlimited menu at any bar under $14. HH is still held in Crown (not Diamond) lounge, but no unlimited drinks. If there are too many Diamonds and up you won’t have access during this time.

Is this an attempt at humor? Weak. Why would anyone bid on other people pin? Just like on other person’s crystal block? Just because you have no use for them or are not interested … doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t. People collect them as memories. Personal memories. If you are not interested you shouldn’t make a big deal out of it. Just return it to C&A concierge, they will give to the next person 🙂

I drink wine between cruises. 🙂 We quit hard liquor between cruises, but I still drink this wine.

Seriously? How long you have been sailing with RCI? Not sure how it is now, but even recently pins were able from Gold level. Asking why somebody wants it is a very strange question. People want various things. Do you ask why people want pizza, internet, drinks, shows etc ?

We had 4 in 2021, 5 in each 2022, 2023 and 2 in 2024 and one on Celebrity Edge Anthem, Liberty, Oasis, Enchantment, Vision I admit we do not cruise for gourmet experience, but we do not eat in Golden Corral types of establishments on land either. As long as there is a selection of seafood, escargot, stake, salmon, etc we are happy. I often skip entries and eat 2-3 starters. 🙂 On our recent Vision cruise we had amazing Osso buco. Things like this is a nice bonus. Enjoy cruising! My parents are not big fans of cruises, but occasionally take one to explore various regions. Out of Princess, NCL and Royal they preferred Princess in terms of food. Recently they sailed with Oceania and said that food was fabulous.

We started cruising with Royal in 2004 and never found food to be consistent. In fact first four cruises 2004 Splendor, 2007&2009&2010 Explorer food was I think weaker than now. Overall menus have changed, but it’s still very good food. We never considered RCI to be a line with great food, but always find nice dishes

I find it better than NCL.

Norwegian is different line. They are not re-using names for their ships on a regular base. Yes, PoA was never really fully built so they used it for another ship. Princess, Holland America and now Carnival re-use names. I do not have any pros or cons this practice.

We sailed on Splendor and I think Splendor & Legend were somewhat different than the rest of them. Viking Crown lounge was more to the middle and there was mini golf behind it. It’s also interesting that class is called Vision when Vision ship is one of the youngest. It’s like calling Oasis class Utopia class. 🙂

I don’t think Royal has sunk ships.

I wish they reused Splendor of the Seas rather than used Star of the Seas … I think Holland America and Princess started reusing names first.