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    Royal Caribbean

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  1. Just returned yesterday from Symphony TA and also didn't get a final statement email. Just sent a request to royalguestrelations@rccl.com asking for it. Will follow up once received.
  2. Onboard Symphony TA now, didn't know what happens if someone walks away from a slot machine without cashing out... Wife was playing video poker, another lady next to us (total stranger) gets up and leaves her machine. After a few minutes, the other lady hasn't come back. Her machine has $10 in credit & her casino account says Karen with xxx points. We ask another lady on the other side of us if she knows who it was but didn't. So I go to Cashier cage and a slot technician comes back with me. He says there's nothing they can do to put the credit back into Karen's account, and it will disappear. As soon as he leaves, the machine changed back to the idle state and I can't collect the $10. I didn't want to be accused of theft, but I was surprised they'd not make any effort to salvage the players funds. Oh well, live and learn.
  3. Hey Airbear232, We're on Oct 22 out of Barcelona (7-nights), and back to back on the transatlantic sailing. Hope you have a great cruise. If you can follow up later with info on MDR seating details, that would be awesome 👍
  4. Hoping someone currently aboard Symphony can report back with how the Main Dining Room is set up. Cruise Critic has an undated article that says Deck 3 and Deck 5 are traditional seating, and Deck 4 is MyTime. We're trying to figure out where we want to request a good Table for 2 for Early seating on upcoming October cruises B2B. Don't want to be in the row of really close tables. Thanks in advance
  5. We had a difficult time May 4 disembarking Jewel of the Seas TA at Amsterdam cruise terminal with taxi service or Uber. Our hotel was Holiday Inn Express City Hall. Taxis outside were only interested in fares to Schiphol airport. We each had a large suitcase and didn't mind paying for taxi or Uber. However Uber could not find drivers & taxi quoted â‚Ŧ40 for the very short trip (1.8km = 1mile). Fortunately weather was nice & we did it on foot but have never experienced such a problem with taxis & Uber.
  6. Ship - Jewel of the Seas Deck - 8 Stateroom # - 8518 Stateroom Category – Balcony Starboard or Port Side - Starboard Quiet Stateroom? (With comments on problems) – Generally quiet, however balcony door whistling noise when ship was moving. Was stateroom a connecting stateroom? - Yes Balcony View - Balcony Size? Normal Was wind a problem? - Yes, balcony door whistling. Also with swells/ rough seas/ wind, the cabin walls popped loudly. If an aft cabin, was soot a problem? - not applicable Any specific problems with this cabin? - We had both sides of connecting cabins. We kept inside door between cabins open, but only 6 inches between door & bed. Also the outside balcony partition was solid & could not be opened ☚ī¸ Any other comments? - Location on forward hallway was generally quiet. No noise from neighbors.
  7. Not sure... I just went down to Deck 4 where there's a photo collection of ship's management team, and it still shows Jeffrey Arpin as CD. When she introduced herself at the Welcome aboard show, she mentioned filling in but I didn't catch all the details. She's from Mexico and has a high-energy outgoing personality. Still don't know her last name, argh! 😟
  8. Onboard Serenade OTS... Cruise Director is Jimena. I'll try to get her last name & post an update.
  9. Hi JennyB, No, we don't have any new video of 1108 but I watched the video you attached. It looks identical to how it was July 2022 for a Baltic cruise. Enjoy, it is a great cabin 🙂
  10. Latest update... We skipped our day stop in Passau (arrgh) & squeezed under a bridge. No further issues expected.
  11. Currently onboard Monarch Empress from Budapest to Amsterdam. We've appreciated all the excellent info on this chapter and the Rhine water level chapter. Just to provide an update today: we are hoping to dock at Passau in a few hours but we are worried about too much water!?! Here's the updated gauge chart. Keeping fingers crossed 🙂
  12. We were in a CP balcony on Wonder April TA to BCN. We didn't know about the movie screen issue until shortly before sailing, and once onboard, we found out for ourselves it was really loud. Action movies with loud volume past 10:30pm. With all the 23-hour time changes we were already sleep deprived. Our original cabin was #12247, very close to the screen & speakers.
  13. We're in 1108 on Voyager now, it is lovely! 👍🙂
  14. Currently onboard Liberty. June 12 departure has 4,100 guests vs capacity of ~4,500. Approx 1000 kids. We had early Main dining but it is quite early at 5:00pm (We're by ourselves at a Deck 4 table for two & waiter said we could come later so we show up around 5:30). We were curious about MyTime dining and were told now that they're running close to full, it is back to starting earlier (5:00pm) and Deck 3 is MyTime, along with some empty tables on Deck 4 as they become available. Enjoyable cruise with a great crew!
  15. We were on Wonder TA & wife tested positive at BCN airport. If US citizen in Spain tests positive prior to return flight back to US, an alternative to waiting to hopefully retest negative is the Certificate of Recovery. This involves a telehealth doctor or local doctor certification in writing that you are "fit-to-fly" and you have your positive test result. Still requires 7 days of isolation from symptoms to be cleared. https://www.mobidoctor.eu/ https://quick.md/documentation-of-recovery/ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/testing-international-air-travelers.html Please mask up on your flight home.
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