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This is all that showed up this AM. have seen connecting balcony categories (not guarantee) in the past on this sailing.

In general, I’m very happy to cruise and not be expected to cook! My take on food over the last year of resuming cruising again: 5/23 Adventure 8 night sailing: food was very good. Among the best we’ve had on any cruise line. Service in all areas was exemplary 6/23 Indy, 3 night: they tried. Had waitstaff come to table twice, saying there would be a delay with them re-ordering entrees as what was sent up was not up to standards. 11/23 Allure, 4 night: Oy, it was a “cold” mess. WJ for dinner one night was lacking to point we grabbed sandwiches and pizza on the promenade. note: even tho the food was gosh-awful on the November allure sailing, we still booked it again for upcoming sailing in June. Why? Only because we wanted the GD to experience her first Oasis ship and it coincided with our annual WDW trip. Our expectations are set so low re food, we will surely be pleasantly surprised 🙂. Discovered it’s easy enough to speak to them and order grilled chicken and a large salad. Surprisingly, well done. Thinking as it’s less mass produced. I will settle for decent food court quality at this point & will order the add on filet/lobster one night in the MDR

Ah, that could be, although it was never mentioned. All the reps & supervisors I spoke to insisted they could not see a cabin for 3 “adults” on their end open in that category. Tried to convince me that I was seeing a category for a cabin that slept 3, however the 3rd berth was a crib…not a couch, or bunk. My 3rd adult is a 13 y.o. it never specified anything other than it slept 3 adults on their website. Perhaps was inputted wrong on their end and they didn’t have the particular inventory for the original balcony category. know I didn’t see anything pop up in online search when I searched for a GTY connecting OV for 3 pp.

Not sure if this is new procedure that I missed. Have always been able to upgrade our cabin after final payment date. Sometimes multiple times as the pricing dropped. Just noticed an OV balcony GTY come up on website today for cruise 6/28, less than what I paid off for a neighborhood one. Had to arm wrestle RCCL for it. Didn’t request credit or anything, just wanted the category I saw on website. Was refused, told the cabin was not available despite me seeing it on the website. I escalated it. First time I’ve run into pushback from RCCL when modifying cabins after final pmt An hour later, they said the only way they could accommodate me was via me booking a new reservation on the website, complete with putting down full payment. They promised it wouldn’t hit my CC and that it would be a placeholder. Ummm, ok, i guess. A few tense minutes there. They did immediately cancel it after transferring that cabin # to my original booking. Then, they cancelled the new reservation ??? Not sure what’s going on there. The CC charge for the 2nd cruise never did hit my CC. Will be watching that carefully for a few days. Haven’t been on the boards much lately, have they stopped this sort of upgrade practice that I’ve enjoyed in the past? Thinking maybe they want to save more cabins for last minute bookings or Royal Up FYI, Wound up in a connecting balcony GTY category. Sailed this same ship in the past in another connecting (along with other RCCL ships), no noise factor. Conversely, on DCL sailings you could hear people’s conversations.

Ok, good option. She had charging priv last cruise, didn’t buy a thing. I know she’d be more likely to use the GC

Thank you!

Does the Starbucks kiosk on the Allure accept SB gift cards vs charge back to cabin? also, wondering whether “stars” also will accrue to reward account for purchases via linking the card. I thot the refreshment pkg coffee offerings were fine at the cafe on the Allure in December. Was just going to get the refreshment pkg for GD for upcoming sailing but, realized she doesn’t do coffee, so a bit of a waste there. She likes the other ‘fancier’ SB drinks the cafe doesn’t offer Thot it would be a bit easier to control the $ spent on those drinks if i would pick up a $100 in SB GC, vs having her charge it back to the room.

Never expected to do that. Did so for upcoming Dec res on Utopia. Even with the penalty, the much lower price of one week later basically negated the penalty. Last cruise (Dec on Allure) it was rather shocking to see the pricing drastically drop (multiple times) a couple of weeks after final payment date. so many nice OV cabins opened up too. We wound up moving up the food chain multiple times for a few $ more. exact opposite on cruise on Adventure last May, things just kept increasing in price up to sailing date. guess you can’t really predict it one way or the other.

I’m honestly not 100% sure which GTY I Booked. My first GTY and so excited it was approx price of inside in place. Had hoped to see the code on website vs calling in like the GTY noob I admitted am lol Booked directly thru RCCL assume whatever assignment will beat the inside however, if I do see that another category opens up after final pmt date; can I still pay the difference in price & upgrade to a higher category even tho I’m booked via GTY rate?

On the website my res only indicating no specific mention of neighborhood or OV. Maybe will get lucky & get OV lol

thanks that’s encouraging

Several months ago, switched an NR inside booking (made by phone on a late June Allure cruise) to a Neighborhood Balcony GTY. Called in as I saw it was in same ballpark. first GTY I’ve booked. Will be happy with whatever, have GD along who is eager to hear where we will be bunking. Will try the bar code trick after checkin date. Made “next to last payment” and noticed the confirmation of it didn’t make any reference to a balcony. Hoping not a problem brewing. Deleted the original email by mistake, can’t remember if it initially made specific reference to a balcony. Gave up on hold twice today with RCCL after long wait time, trying to verify we do indeed have a balcony pending. Hoping somebody might know what the standard wording is on GTY neighborhood booking statements also, trying to figure out what/where neighborhood Obstructed cabins could be on the Allure. have sailed it recently, only thing I can think of is perhaps one of the upper decks with an overhang? Maybe a possible support blocking view in Boardwalk area? There was no referenced # in the obstructed view percentage section of the invoice. Stateroom: GTY Description: Stateroom Obstructed View Percentage Pending ALLURE OF THE SEAS 3 NIGHT BAHAMAS & PERFECT DAY CRUISE

That’s been pricing off & on for awhile. Maybe a buck less. They just raised them before this ‘sale’ on cruises I’ve booked that said, you can always buy yourself the unlimited drink pkg and get the Mrs the refreshment pkg

Re The cooler with the bud light, can you sub it out for another brew? If so, how does that work! site says: Beverage brand and size is subject to availability. Substitution can be made for similar product and size.

That wasn’t mentioned earlier when I booked a new cruise today and prepaid other gratuities since one sailing fell thru the cracks can take my time to prepay that one then vs calling back in before the 11th