Online Check-In necessary for B2B second cruise?

Hello,

If the two sailings are linked by RCI either at the time of booking or thereafter but before check-in is started, we (in the UK at least) need only complete the check-in for the first cruise. This is because the details from the first check-in have automatically populated the fields for the second cruise. Well, more or less - arrival & departure times are wrong but no-one seems to mind. People at the pier are not interested in a second SetSail pass as their systems can only manage one cruise at a time.

A WORD OF WARNING: Credit card details get lost between the two cruises and I have twice received early morning calls re an 'outstanding balance' on my account. I twice complained to Miami (and even wrote on these boards) who (1) twice gave me $1000 future OBC to say 'sorry' (2) told me that the ship was not following procedures and it should not have happened. My B2B on Navigator in October will be interesting in this respect!

We do NOT have have to disembark the ship: We roll-up to one of the public areas and new cruise cards are distributed and find somewhere to squat whilst waiting for cabins to be released. We do however have to go to the outside deck to 'disembark' our old cards and 'embark' our new ones.

Regards,

Cublet

Following our Transpacific, we had our meeting two days before, and were told we could pick up our new cards at Guest Relations between 6 & 9 AM or in the dining room after 9 AM. If we chose to get our cards early, then we could disembark the ship for the rest of the day. in Honolulu. Because we had done Immigration at our Lahaina stop we were all set. We returned to the ship around 3 PM. We embarked at 10 PM for our Hawaii cruise, disembarking in Seattle.

We print the set sail pass for both cruises in case we want to carry on more than 2 bottles of wine. We can carry on four bottles- two per cruise.

M

This is great information.. Please let us know how the B2B portion goes.. My wife and I are booked on Harmony for a B2B next year.. I'd love to hear your experience..

B2B on Harmony in September, will yours be from PC? They often do it different from port to port

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B2B on Harmony in September, will yours be from PC? They often do it different from port to port

 

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Ours is out of PC.. But not till sep 2019

Ours is out of PC.. But not till sep 2019

Beware of the Pinnacle Creep. [emoji6] Newly boarding Pinnacles try and sneak into the B2B area. No idea why.

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We print the set sail pass for both cruises in case we want to carry on more than 2 bottles of wine. We can carry on four bottles- two per cruise.

 

M

Our last b2b, they took 2 bottles, but delivered them to our cabin on the last night of the first cruise. We had showed our set sail pass to security for our second cruise, but they still took them. First time that happened on our many b2b 's.

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As for printing stuff out, we never did that. Our TA prints out everything and SO picks it up, in nice zip folder. Don't all TA's do that?

If a person doesn't have that stuff printed out, is it printed out when one gets to the embark terminal?

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Our last b2b, they took 2 bottles, but delivered them to our cabin on the last night of the first cruise. We had showed our set sail pass to security for our second cruise, but they still took them. First time that happened on our many b2b 's.

Why didn‘t you just leave the bottles in your room?

Why didn‘t you just leave the bottles in your room?

When we went through security at port, they took 2 of the bottles. We were not able to take all 4 onboard at embarkation. They did deliver them on the last night of the first cruise for our second cruise of the B2B.

But that system of theirs which shuts you out of your bookings all the time sure is annoying!

I’ve had it happen to me as well, but I’ve found if I use their back buttons instead of the browser back buttons and log out instead of “Xing” out of the check in process it does not happen. Also, make sure you don’t have your reservation open in more than one browser window. The same holds true when pre-ordering shore excursions, dinner or beverage packages.

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Sounds like you locked up your reservation. Call RCCL to unlock it. We have always checked in for the second & third leg of cruises. At check in for the first they just hand back the other forms.

My last B2B on Anthem, we met in Boleros and waited until almost everyone was off the ship. We were then escorted off the ship through customs and back on in less than 15 minutes. We were given our new cards and were able to go to our new cabin when we came back on. There was also a private lunch for B2B's in Chic at noon.