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Location
Myrtle Beach
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Interests
Relaxing on the beach
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Favorite Cruise Line(s)
RCCL
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Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
Anywhere the ship will take me.
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Independence of the Seas Question
temple1 replied to nyyhoneybee's topic in Royal Caribbean International
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We had 12:30 check in time for our November Independence cruise. When we arrived at the port there were 3 lines for 3 different boarding times. Once we were inside the building the 3 lines merged and no one ever looked at our assigned time.
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I will cruise on most anything, but my sister, who is also my cruise partner, has no desire for what she calls a floating amusement park or the pre-promenade ships. I really like the concept of the infinity room. I like the balcony but it is usually too hot, cold, windy, or something to spend much time out there. If not for covid slowing down our travels, I would have tried to get my sister to go with the panoramic cabin on Enchantment (if I recall the correct ship).
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We used off site parking. The one we used was about a mile from the port and provided shuttle service to and from.
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I didn't watch the TikTok but read some of the article at the link below. Seems some people don't know there are different types of cabins on ships. Wait until she finds out what other perks frequent Royal cruisers receive, perhaps she'll leave the cruise. 😉 https://www.dailydot.com/news/royal-caribbean-9-month-cruise-special-treatment/ ‘Clacissm? On MY elite world cruise?’: Passengers on 9-month Royal Caribbean cruise say they booked the same experience–but some people are getting special treatment 'You can't convince me that this isn't a social experiment.'
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Vicariously enjoying the trip from home. I have seen several of the TikTok posts on my phone. It is amazing that someone who has never been on a cruise ship (or out of their home) is supposedly on a world cruise. They are putting out so much disinformation it is very sad that their articles are what potential cruisers see about the trip.
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Questions about check in, I'm new to time slots
temple1 replied to newcruzer2's topic in Royal Caribbean International
On Independence last month they had 3 lines and sent you to the appropriate line on arriving at the terminal. Sounds great, all 3 lines moved at the same pace and once at the door, everyone was clumped together. -
The luggage was on 2 separate carousels and they were much longer than the ones in most airports.
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The luggage was in zones based on your number.
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It was always annoying wading through all the luggage, a suitcase here, duffle there then getting them all together. With the carousel my luggage comes to me. It also seems to be quicker and less chaotic.
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We rarely cruised out of Miami and we're recently returned from our first cruise since 2018, sailing out of Miami. I don't know if this is something just in terminal G, or is being added all over, but ........ Why did it take so long for them to adopt luggage carousels like at airports? What a pleasant surprise, almost better than the new immigration and customs process. Do you have an "it's about time" item?
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Question about turn around day of a b2b cruise
temple1 replied to screenname2004's topic in Royal Caribbean International
Our group lunch was in the main dining room and started at 11:30. -
We took a B2B on Independence, our first cruise since 2018. Since memory is a little fuzzy on anything that long before Covid, it is difficult to compare. It is also difficult to compare a 4 night cruise to the 7 night cruises we used to take. Our biggest disappointment was the Windjammer. Very repetitious in their offerings. I do tend to over analyze things, so going through 2 musters close together and listening to the count down of the hundreds of cruisers who had not yet stopped at their muster station I have to wonder why the staffer welcoming us aboard does not specifically tell you to go to your muster station? Following up on that, we were in Schooner over hearing someone giving their first time cruiser friend completely incorrect info.
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Question about turn around day of a b2b cruise
temple1 replied to screenname2004's topic in Royal Caribbean International
Fresh off a b2b on Independence out of Miami. We kept the same room but we were not aware we could reenter early. The letter with instructions arrived the day before docked back in Miami. We arrived at the meeting lounge on time and were give our new Sea Pass cards. Once all the cruisers had checked in we left the ship, using our old Sea Pass. The hiccup was once off the ship we had to wait in line about 20 - 30 minutes to go through immigration, several passengers had not left the ship and we were not allowed back on until the ship was cleared. Once cleared the process was incredibly quick, We walked up to the immigration officer, looked at a screen, it found us and we went back on the ship. By that time the bars were starting to open and we hug out in Schooner until our 11:30 lunch was ready in one of the dining rooms. One person in line said they had to wait almost an hour once while they forced a person off who thought she could stay. I asked a crew member why we couldn't stay in the lounge until the stragglers were found, she said it was not their option. They had to escort us off. My thoughts on how the cruise staff discussed the stragglers, once their time to depart the ship had passed and they were still on, they shouldn't be called guests, they were now trespassers and should be treated as such. -
Deployment 2025-26 booking season begins
temple1 replied to SummmerInKefalonia's topic in Royal Caribbean International
When I booked the short b2b I couldn't find a cruise that was affordable and went somewhere new. I did not think about how repetitive it would be, cruise 1 - Cozumel and cruise 2 - Labadee, each with a sea day out and a sea day back. Our last trip was in 2018 and my memories of which ship and ports we visited are a little fuzzy, but the ship itineraries did not seem overly enticing. As in the past, I drove to within a 100 miles of Miami, where we spend the night, get up early and drive to the port. In the past we would drive all the way home after the cruise, Too old now to make the drive all the way home, so we stopped in Jacksonville, I found a great location off 295E. I booked an Adventure of the Seas for 2025 out of Pt Canaveral. I wish I could find more offerings sailing from there.