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kwazi07

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Go to My Cruises, click on your reservation number under Purchased and Held Cruises. Scroll down to Preferences and Requests and click Modify. Under Reservation Linking enter your friend's reservation number and select the things you want your reservations to share. Hit Save Changes and that should do it!

 

If there are any issues once you're on the ship you could always talk to the Maître D. Plus, since you have MTD, there should be more flexibility in table mates.

 

I used my phone to type this, excuse any typos please!

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Ourusualbeach

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You will need their reservation number and you can call Royal and they can link them together

 

 

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Go to My Cruises, click on your reservation number under Purchased and Held Cruises. Scroll down to Preferences and Requests and click Modify. Under Reservation Linking enter your friend's reservation number and select the things you want your reservations to share. Hit Save Changes and that should do it!

 

If there are any issues once you're on the ship you could always talk to the Maître D. Plus, since you have MTD, there should be more flexibility in table mates.

 

I used my phone to type this, excuse any typos please!

 

 

I believe that linking your reservations only links dining reservations for traditional dining.

 

For MTD you need to add guests from another reservation when you are making your dinner reservations.

 

The other option is to show up without a reservation and ask to be seated together.

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Clarea

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Simple. Each of you call Crown and Anchor and give the booking# and their names and give permission to link. Both must do it or it will not go through. So you have no hassle. Just do before you go!!

I believe the people with the booking through the travel agent will need to contact the travel agent to link their booking.

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dedosr

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The easiest and most direct way is to send an email to rcldining@rccl.com.

Include all names and reservation numbers, ship name and sailing date, and the request to be seated together. They have always responded to me within a day or two, and have always said they will make that happen by linking all reservations for dining.

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I had trouble once linking our friends because I think they had a group booking, not sure what the problem was but it wouldn't allow me to add them so that evening we all went to dining, I informed the Maitre d that we had two additional couples and he took care of the rest and we were escorted to our table.

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If you all are My Time, then you don't need to be linked in order to do dinner time reservations. I just did it last week for a group of us that were not linked together and it worked.

 

Now, you never know because IT could have done something since then and it might not work now. But it did for me.

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dedosr

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My understanding was that this email was for those in Traditional Dining.

 

We were on the Anthem in July with Dynamic Dining. We had reservations at varying times at all 5 restaurants. When I sent the email I gave them all the info, and their response was "All linked for dining purposes, when you arrive, a notation was made that the 4 staterooms will be seated together".

 

We have Traditional dining on the Harmony in November. We received a similar response to that request.

 

So maybe it depends on what agent that actually handles your request. As we all know, when you call Royal Caribbean, you get different levels of service as well as sometimes different answers. When I call and don't get the information i needed, because they tell me you made the reservation through a travel agent, so I can't assist you, I call back and the next agent is more than helpful. :)

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Clarea

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We were on the Anthem in July with Dynamic Dining. We had reservations at varying times at all 5 restaurants. When I sent the email I gave them all the info, and their response was "All linked for dining purposes, when you arrive, a notation was made that the 4 staterooms will be seated together".

 

We have Traditional dining on the Harmony in November. We received a similar response to that request.

 

So maybe it depends on what agent that actually handles your request. As we all know, when you call Royal Caribbean, you get different levels of service as well as sometimes different answers. When I call and don't get the information i needed, because they tell me you made the reservation through a travel agent, so I can't assist you, I call back and the next agent is more than helpful. :)

Thnaks, I appreciate the clarification.

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We were on the Anthem in July with Dynamic Dining. We had reservations at varying times at all 5 restaurants. When I sent the email I gave them all the info, and their response was "All linked for dining purposes, when you arrive, a notation was made that the 4 staterooms will be seated together".

 

We have Traditional dining on the Harmony in November. We received a similar response to that request.

 

So maybe it depends on what agent that actually handles your request. As we all know, when you call Royal Caribbean, you get different levels of service as well as sometimes different answers. When I call and don't get the information i needed, because they tell me you made the reservation through a travel agent, so I can't assist you, I call back and the next agent is more than helpful. :)

 

Since you had all made reservations got different times, did they notify you what your new dining time would be and how did they decide which time to pick for everyone?

 

JMO but it still seems that the easiest way for MTD is just to have one person make the reservations for everyone and add guests from another reservation. I hate having to rely on Royal to make something happen that I can easily do myself...less chance for a screw up.

 

For traditional dining though definitely get the reservations linked.

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Since you had all made reservations got different times, did they notify you what your new dining time would be and how did they decide which time to pick for everyone?

 

JMO but it still seems that the easiest way for MTD is just to have one person make the reservations for everyone and add guests from another reservation. I hate having to rely on Royal to make something happen that I can easily do myself...less chance for a screw up.

 

For traditional dining though definitely get the reservations linked.

 

I agree with you about one person making the reservations for everyone and then use the add guest feature. I have done that in the past and it worked great, not only for dining but for entertainment and show reservations on ships that require or recommend reservations.

 

However, on the Anthem sailing, everyone wanted to do their own reservations on the cruise planner, thats why I had to send the email. We all had agreed where we were eating each night and what time, so no change was necessary. I tried to explain how much easier it would be for just one to do the reservations. After the fact they all agreed we should have done it the way I suggested.

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Ourusualbeach

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I agree with you about one person making the reservations for everyone and then use the add guest feature. I have done that in the past and it worked great, not only for dining but for entertainment and show reservations on ships that require or recommend reservations.

 

However, on the Anthem sailing, everyone wanted to do their own reservations on the cruise planner, thats why I had to send the email. We all had agreed where we were eating each night and what time, so no change was necessary. I tried to explain how much easier it would be for just one to do the reservations. After the fact they all agreed we should have done it the way I suggested.

 

The one thing that I don't like about about the adding guests is the amount of time that it takes. Surely there has to be a quicker way to do it.

 

Maybe I'm missing something but I just did this for our upcoming cruise on Allure with 7 people in 4 cabins and I could only do 1 day at a time then I had to checkout, fill in the information and then go back in and repeat everything for every day of the cruise. 6 confirmation e mails.

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The one thing that I don't like about about the adding guests is the amount of time that it takes. Surely there has to be a quicker way to do it.

 

Maybe I'm missing something but I just did this for our upcoming cruise on Allure with 7 people in 4 cabins and I could only do 1 day at a time then I had to checkout, fill in the information and then go back in and repeat everything for every day of the cruise. 6 confirmation e mails.

 

No quicker way to my knowledge.

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