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If it is OBC that your TA is gifting you it will not show up until Day 2 on board.

Yes, the ship is not listed in the drop down menu so I selected Adventure but put in the reservation number for Utopia and her sail date. approved 2 days later and OBC is in my planner

I asked my rep and she said they woukd be charging port dsys as well....😪

It will get applied to the first 2 guests.

probably February when the rest of the itineraries are released

That is correct.

Phase 2 is Star of the Seas

While most next cruise bookings are non refundable if you pick a specific ship and sail date, pay the full deposit and ask for a refundable rate you can get a refundable next cruise booking, you do get less OBC for the booking though.

Suites are all non refundable. Cancelation will result in the loss of the entire deposit

They are charging to control capacity. On port days there are few people on the ship so it's not an issue. On Sea days everyone is on the ship so they charge. Same principal apples to Crowns edge. Even if they ran it 24/7 they could still not put through 50% of the guests on board, Hence they charge

That there will be!

Not allowed. The reservation number must be kept intact to only pay the $100 pp penalty

No you can't get an FCC and the money can't be applied to an existing sailing. The reservation MUDST be transferred to a different ship and sail date keeping the reservation number intact.

They are all sold, nothing being held back

Hard to compare against Jewel as she has been shuffled around so much from August onwards

It was a plan B and Plan C and pretty sure they were both in place from the start, it was just on the timing as to when they were released. I think they may have success if they did the same kind of itinerary with a VY class ship and only sold it as individual segments right from day one and then offer discounts based on the number of consecutive segments people booked. Scrap all the extra perks that added significantly to the cost of the full voyage and on a ship with a lot more balconies and suites. I know it would possibly mean sacrificing a few ports because of it's size

Pretty easy to calculate what the pricing would be by comparing cost of 2 in a cabin for various sailings. pricing will stay relative applying the same discount to each comparison

I don't use the US site.

A lot of it had to do with how they marketed it. They released the full world cruise and then waited too long to release the 4 quarterly segments and then again waited far too long to release the short segments. By the time they released the short segments other itineraries had been available and people had already made other plans on different ships. The other gig hindrance is the ship itself. There are relatively few balconies and suites so by the time it got down to the shorter segments there was really only insides and oceanviews remaining. Lots of great itineraries just not a lot of good cabins.

I can't answer if it's worth it as that is all subjective but I can tell you that Star class on Harmony out of Galveston is lower than any ports out of Florida.

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Have you tried calling in to have it applied. I have had no issues in getting it applied.

Pretty sure that the Serenade was a one and done as far as world cruises and Royal goes

Not on a B2B. they have 2 cabins on the same sailing