Deployment 2025-26 booking season begins

[smokeybandit]

Other ships are now missing from the months that remain,  too

Edited March 14 by smokeybandit

[ONECRUISER]

About one half Royals sailings are missing at moment. Usually just an IT issue

[twangster]

27 minutes ago, ONECRUISER said:

About one half Royals sailings are missing at moment. Usually just an IT issue

 

It's nothing really, think of the money they save by having old IT infrastructure.  

 

We all know what that means... much lower cruise fares!  Could you imagine what cruises would cost if they invested in IT?  

 

Edited March 14 by twangster

[Chiliburn]

3 hours ago, twangster said:

 

It's nothing really, think of the money they save by having old IT infrastructure.  

 

We all know what that means... much lower cruise fares!  Could you imagine what cruises would cost if they invested in IT?  

 

Their billing process seems to work efficiently.

[twangster]

9 minutes ago, Chiliburn said:

Their billing process seems to work efficiently.

 

That's what the $18 dollar DX intern said.

  

Edited March 15 by twangster

[Tin can]

I’m not sure if this is linked to the booking IT issues but there are gaps in the recently released China 25/26 from Shanghai.

 

There is only one four night sailing in February, three sailings in March and two in April 2026 showing.

 

I wasn’t sure if this was a glitch or particular to China with non public sailings or charters being common?

[cruiseboy89130]

Any news on Voyager? Any other ships still totally missing?

[FionaMG]

25 minutes ago, cruiseboy89130 said:

Any news on Voyager? Any other ships still totally missing?

 

Still missing the same five ships: Anthem, Ovation, Radiance, Serenade and Voyager, with Australia currently scheduled for release the week of 18th April and Singapore the week of 13th May.

 

Does five ships for those two markets seem like a lot? I don't usually keep tabs on those.

 

Also, there are no EB Panama Canal cruises posted yet for Autumn of 2025. I would be expecting at least one, so that would need to be Radiance or Serenade.

[woodscruise]

20 minutes ago, FionaMG said:

Still missing the same five ships: Anthem, Ovation, Radiance, Serenade and Voyager, with Australia currently scheduled for release the week of 18th April and Singapore the week of 13th May.

 Ovation was released with Spectrum and will be in homeported in China.

[FionaMG]

6 minutes ago, woodscruise said:

 Ovation was released with Spectrum and will be in homeported in China.

 

I'm only seeing Ovation up to October 2025, nothing beyond that. That's on the US site, though. Are you seeing it for further ahead on the Oz site?

[woodscruise]

44 minutes ago, FionaMG said:

 

I'm only seeing Ovation up to October 2025, nothing beyond that. That's on the US site, though. Are you seeing it for further ahead on the Oz site?

Also, only up to October 2025.

[Polarnorth04]

my guess is Ovation will come to Singapore from Oct 2025 onwards as the Singapore season is usually Nov to Apr

[cruiseboy89130]

And Anthem and Voyager?🤔😱

[FionaMG]

1 hour ago, cruiseboy89130 said:

And Anthem and Voyager?🤔😱

There are rumours both are heading to Australia but I don't know if there's any truth to them.

[Chiliburn]

43 minutes ago, FionaMG said:

There are rumours both are heading to Australia but I don't know if there's any truth to them.

Anthem has the season booked in Sydney and Voyager in Brisbane Port schedules.

Ovation is off to Shanghai/ Hong Kong according to Hong Kong cruise society.

[springaussie]

Serenade is booked in St Maarten regularly during the Northern Winter 25/26.

Voyager has bookings in Darwin, Yorkeys Knob, and Brisbane 25/26 season. Some of the Yorkeys Knob ( Cairns) bookings  were changed from Port Douglass recently. 

Anthem is booked into Papeete October 2025 and April 2026.

Sydney Ports has bookings for Royal 25/26 October 2025  to April 2026 under the name “Unnamed Vessel” 

No Royal Bookings 25/26 visible for Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle. 
 

 

 

[OzSail]

On 3/22/2024 at 11:04 PM, springaussie said:

Serenade is booked in St Maarten regularly during the Northern Winter 25/26.

Voyager has bookings in Darwin, Yorkeys Knob, and Brisbane 25/26 season. Some of the Yorkeys Knob ( Cairns) bookings  were changed from Port Douglass recently. 

Anthem is booked into Papeete October 2025 and April 2026.

Sydney Ports has bookings for Royal 25/26 October 2025  to April 2026 under the name “Unnamed Vessel” 

No Royal Bookings 25/26 visible for Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle. 
 

 

 

 

So Anthem and Voyager for the Australian Summer 2025/2026...not too shabby.

[Donsyb]

That doesn’t leave much for Singapore though if Ovation goes to China 🤔

[springaussie]

It has been like this for about a week now.

 

All Anthem 3 cruises in October 2024 have disappeared from the Royal website.

1 Canary Islands from Southampton 

2 Southampton to Civitavecchia

3 Civitavecchia to Dubai.

 

Dubai to Singapore still on sale

[FionaMG]

50 minutes ago, springaussie said:

It has been like this for about a week now.

 

All Anthem 3 cruises in October 2024 have disappeared from the Royal website.

1 Canary Islands from Southampton 

2 Southampton to Civitavecchia

3 Civitavecchia to Dubai.

 

Dubai to Singapore still on sale

Oh yes, you're right. I hadn't noticed that. I guess they're reassessing itineraries in light of the Suez situation?

[cruiseboy89130]

7 minutes ago, FionaMG said:

Oh yes, you're right. I hadn't noticed that. I guess they're reassessing itineraries in light of the Suez situation?

Totally!

[Crism]

I'm hoping they do this shortly. I'll swap to the Oasis TA!

[springaussie]

Royal Oz posted this yesterday 

 

Get ready for The Ultimate Wiggly Adventure!
We're excited to announce that Royal Caribbean is exclusively teaming up with much loved family brand, The Wiggles, as their Official Cruise Holiday Partner. Get ready to set sail on an exclusive Wiggly sailing from Sydney or Brisbane in summer 2025-2026! Sailings are on sale from 10 April, 2024. To learn more, head to https://bit.ly/TheUltimateWigglyAdventure

 

[cruiseboy89130]

8 hours ago, springaussie said:

Royal Oz posted this yesterday 

 

Get ready for The Ultimate Wiggly Adventure!
We're excited to announce that Royal Caribbean is exclusively teaming up with much loved family brand, The Wiggles, as their Official Cruise Holiday Partner. Get ready to set sail on an exclusive Wiggly sailing from Sydney or Brisbane in summer 2025-2026! Sailings are on sale from 10 April, 2024. To learn more, head to https://bit.ly/TheUltimateWigglyAdventure

 

On 3/25/2024 at 9:11 PM, springaussie said:

 

So what does that mean?🤔

Edited March 27 by cruiseboy89130

[little britain]

On 3/25/2024 at 8:11 PM, springaussie said:

It has been like this for about a week now.

 

All Anthem 3 cruises in October 2024 have disappeared from the Royal website.

1 Canary Islands from Southampton 

2 Southampton to Civitavecchia

3 Civitavecchia to Dubai.

 

Dubai to Singapore still on sale

All back on sale now!  Southampton to Rome is Cheap!