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I'm sure the purser's desk has a means for converting staff's inconvenient forms of cash to more happy ones.

You can get quite a lot just standing at the bar watching the bartender do the thing. Almost nobody considers this top secret, and actual inter4st maybe combined with a nice tip after the first round will go far. As for "why to ingredients change?", it usually comes down to availability. They ran out of some stuff, usually because it didn't show up when it was supposed to, And maybe a gally-mate made a replacement. The substituting "cinnamon syrup" for "spiced brown sugar syrup" above seems like a case where a batch pf replacement just got brewed up, and it's close enough. We don't have to take a drink off the menu just because three gallons of syrup (wholesale price US$35) wasn't available.

Nope. Symphony is doing sailings from Port Liberty to Bahamas in October, but calls at Port Canaveral on the way there. It's a reasonable but weird set of sailings. The only recommendation I have for OP is to remember that the only train that you can get with time to get from New York Penn Station to Port Liberty same day (Empire Service) is scheduled to leave Niagara Falls at 3:45 AM and arrives at Penn Station at 12:45, which is only probably okay to make it to the port on time, because trains sometimes run late. Another train (Maple Leaf) runs at a more reasonable departure (just before noon) but gets into Penn at about 9 PM and you've got 12 hours to kill before even thinking of leaving for the Port.

This can happen with a queue overflow in some systems. That is, after a while of being on hold for a specialist, the VRS (Voice Response System) just passes you to any open representative, kind of just to see if your question is of a nature that doesn't really need the specialist. Good ones will recognize you being transferred back to the specialist queue from inside, though and flag that you're to wait for the specialist this time instead of going back to open general reps.

Yah. Either's going to be nearly a 2-hour ride and going to cost about $75 per person once you're all paid up.

Yup. No longer at the passenger dock, without safe transport through the yard to any kind of amenity.

There's at least ten here: https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2024/01/09/royal-caribbean-menus

A couple of battery-powered LED tealights. The cabin is VERY dark, the bathroom light is PAINFULLY BRIGHT in comparison, and having a gentle glow nearby makes it far easier to navigate if there's more than a tiny bit of sea state.

Sometimes there's additional spaces, sometime people cancel or otherwise space opens up. If there's something you want to do, it's always worth checking once aboard.