micruiser2002 Posted January 13, 2022 #401 Share Posted January 13, 2022 1 hour ago, forgotmyCCname said: They re-opened bookings for the cruise ( JS and above available now) and I got right through to an agent as my fare went down. It's taking forever but he is also making a change in passenger for me. Good luck! Im on 1 hour 10 minutes of him coming on every 3 minutes to say "we are still working. So thank you for your patience" blah blah. but at least I'm getting it resolved ....just a lotta waiting. Yes the Feb 13 sailing reopened yesterday after my issue was resolved. We have a 2 bedroom aqua suite and RCL bookings cannot handle more than 4 people so they booked 1 child on a separate booking and somehow it got automatically cancelled. Luckily that was all fixed yesterday and we are paid in full and ready to go. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare colesc15 Posted January 13, 2022 Author #402 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Cruise director confirmed no Mama Mia even in the reduced capacity version for this sailing. No loss since we had no interest, but I know a lot look forward to that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mein18 Posted January 13, 2022 #403 Share Posted January 13, 2022 21 minutes ago, colesc15 said: Cruise director confirmed no Mama Mia even in the reduced capacity version for this sailing. No loss since we had no interest, but I know a lot look forward to that. I am surprised the abreviated version is still showing on the royal app. Wish they would update so we can change our dinner reservations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlbcruiser Posted January 13, 2022 #404 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Oh, no! Colesc15. I sure hope it just means for this sailing! It’s the whole show that I hope retiurns. Have seen Mama Mia on stage elsehere, but, except for CATs on a different RCI cruise, have enjoyed all their other musical theater shows. (With re to CATs, hardly any audience stayed. Especially after the first half of the show. Actors had strong , though English, accents and it was VERY difficult to hear or understand what they were saying. I forged through it, but my dh & friends we sailed with left. Saw it later in a community theater and liked it much better! ). Anyway, thanks for the info! Hope you leave the ship “ahead”! you deserve it for your reports! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly333 Posted January 13, 2022 #405 Share Posted January 13, 2022 33 minutes ago, colesc15 said: Cruise director confirmed no Mama Mia even in the reduced capacity version for this sailing. No loss since we had no interest, but I know a lot look forward to that. I would have liked to see it. I usually love shows, though I didnt love Saturday night fever on liberty. Felt disjointed and nothing holding it together and then in the middle they threw in that excellent couple who does Latin dancing. Too bad mama mia isnt shown. Just have to rebook same ship and see it later. At least prices right now are excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilpa482 Posted January 13, 2022 #406 Share Posted January 13, 2022 FWIW we got the fairly standard email to delay boarding on Sunday by an hour. Hope all is well we look forward to the cruise either way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare colesc15 Posted January 13, 2022 Author #407 Share Posted January 13, 2022 1 hour ago, kilpa482 said: FWIW we got the fairly standard email to delay boarding on Sunday by an hour. Hope all is well we look forward to the cruise either way So far, knock on wood, it's been a very normal cruise and haven't heard a single thing about covid all week other than when we couldn't stop at St Thomas. Today's weather turned crappy and thunder so no sun but still enjoying the pool deck under an awning 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mein18 Posted January 13, 2022 #408 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Just received our crystal. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare colesc15 Posted January 13, 2022 Author #409 Share Posted January 13, 2022 20 minutes ago, mein18 said: Just received our crystal. Is that for diamond plus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timcreech Posted January 13, 2022 #410 Share Posted January 13, 2022 What are the open bar hours in the Suite Lounge this week? We have not sailed Allure recently, but was on Harmony two weeks ago and they were pretty much all day and evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mein18 Posted January 13, 2022 #411 Share Posted January 13, 2022 1 hour ago, colesc15 said: Is that for diamond plus? You get one when you hit 140 points then one every 70 points after. You get whatever ship you are on at the time on the exact day you hit the points. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NANAGOESAILING Posted January 13, 2022 #412 Share Posted January 13, 2022 3 minutes ago, mein18 said: You get one when you hit 140 points then one every 70 points after. You get whatever ship you are on at the time on the exact day you hit the points. Our last one was mailed to us and arrived shortly after we got home. Saved carting it home in our luggage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mein18 Posted January 13, 2022 #413 Share Posted January 13, 2022 13 minutes ago, NANAGOESAILING said: Our last one was mailed to us and arrived shortly after we got home. Saved carting it home in our luggage. Yes, you have that option but need to let loyalty know. We have plenty of room in our luggage so we let it come to the room this time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NANAGOESAILING Posted January 13, 2022 #414 Share Posted January 13, 2022 1 minute ago, mein18 said: Yes, you have that option but need to let loyalty know. We have plenty of room in our luggage so we let it come to the room this time. We had no idea. I don’t really keep track. It just showed up. 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrneva Posted January 13, 2022 #415 Share Posted January 13, 2022 9 hours ago, colesc15 said: Anyone who is Prime with the casino, can you tell me more? This cruise we have the drink package so the free drinks don't matter, but, I'm guessing only I'm able to get the free drinks in the casino and not my wife even though we have the same seapass card? Is the internet discount a true discount or a Royal Caribbean discount? How do you go about taking advantage of the discounted internet? Lastly, being diamond, and say we didn't get the drink package, I'm assuming the casino drinks being prime wouldn't count towards our four each? We always skip the drink package and just get our free drinks from the casino bar. We’d usually go before dinner, order a couple drinks and head to the MDR. Yes only my wife got free drinks but all we did was go to the same bar and find the same bartender every time. Tip him/her good. And s/he usually would do anything for you including giving you 2 drinks at once or give more booze upon request. In addition to the drink, we always ask for a bottle of water. Water doesn’t counts towards the “free drink” apparently. We never run out of bottle water. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare colesc15 Posted January 13, 2022 Author #416 Share Posted January 13, 2022 Mother nature putting on another show tonight 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare colesc15 Posted January 13, 2022 Author #417 Share Posted January 13, 2022 8 minutes ago, mrneva said: We always skip the drink package and just get our free drinks from the casino bar. We’d usually go before dinner, order a couple drinks and head to the MDR. Yes only my wife got free drinks but all we did was go to the same bar and find the same bartender every time. Tip him/her good. And s/he usually would do anything for you including giving you 2 drinks at once or give more booze upon request. In addition to the drink, we always ask for a bottle of water. Water doesn’t counts towards the “free drink” apparently. We never run out of bottle water. Interesting. We may have to consider that for March. I'm guessing when you order a drink you just tell them you're prime so it doesn't pull from your diamond drinks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joekatie Posted January 13, 2022 #418 Share Posted January 13, 2022 We also have the ultimate dining package on next weeks cruise. Any restaurants you suggest skipping and/or any you’d do twice ? any chance they have Blantons bourbon on board? They had in the the bow and stern pub on the freedom a couple years ago and it was included on the package Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare colesc15 Posted January 14, 2022 Author #419 Share Posted January 14, 2022 1 hour ago, joekatie said: We also have the ultimate dining package on next weeks cruise. Any restaurants you suggest skipping and/or any you’d do twice ? any chance they have Blantons bourbon on board? They had in the the bow and stern pub on the freedom a couple years ago and it was included on the package Not sure on the bourbon. As far as restaurants, we did giovanni's twice and chops 3 times. We did Giovannis for lunch one day. We did Izumi sushi, and we have 150 central Park tomorrow. We opted to skip hibachi due to sitting at a small grill with random people and that would be an easy "close contact" on the covid front. Surprisingly, the filet at giovanni's I liked more than the filet at Chops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare colesc15 Posted January 14, 2022 Author #420 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Too much food 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare A&L_Ont Posted January 14, 2022 #421 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Food and sea porn, in posts almost back to back… oh my. Thank-you. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlbcruiser Posted January 14, 2022 #422 Share Posted January 14, 2022 (edited) I wonder if Boleros will have cachaca? I have a fondness for Caipirinha’s. First day on one of our cruises they had a sign sitting in front of Bolero’s advertising Brazilian Caipirinhas as a featured drink. When I asked for one, a bartender looked at me like a deer in headlights and said they couldn’t make them because they were out of cachaca. I was also told to come back the next night but still no cachaca. That night I suggested they remove the sign because a bartender told me they wouldn’t be getting any. Why in the world they kept the sign out I don’t know, but it stayed out all week I don’t know. Hey, we have 163 points but never got a fake crystal commemorative sign! No big deal. We had a cruise from Australia to New Zealand planned that would have left a few days ago if covid had not come along. Had we been able to do that cruise, we would have reached diamond plus. We chose this one since it is supposed to stop in Puerto Plata, a somewhat newer port for RCI. So we will still need about three more nights I think to reach diamond class after this cruise. While we have cruised close to 50 times, not all were on Royal Caribbean. No suites or high end digs, so our points have only been based on actual days spent on an RCI ship. ( Love RCI but wish their itineraries would get a bit more imaginative! I know you can’t just add a bunch more islands to the Caribbean but I’ve seen more interesting or varied itineraries listed on a couple of other popular lines.) Anyway, free drinks, hors d’oeuvres, cabin discounts and internet are hard to pass up! Edited January 14, 2022 by mlbcruiser 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare colesc15 Posted January 14, 2022 Author #423 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Stopped at the casino in the way to the ice show to play a maxed out major lightning link and it taken so got side tracked and had a good win Now ice show! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joekatie Posted January 14, 2022 #424 Share Posted January 14, 2022 What time is the first checkin group? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NANAGOESAILING Posted January 14, 2022 #425 Share Posted January 14, 2022 Just now, joekatie said: What time is the first checkin group? I’ve got an 11:00 check-in on the 22nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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