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We are diamond on Royal. On Cyber Monday we booked B@B Voyager of the Seas for October of 2024. First leg Rome to Athens leaving 10/7/2024. Second leg 10/14/2024 Athens to Barcelona. We had the same cabins for both cruises. Then in July they sent a letter saying they were canceling and replacing the Athens to Barcelona leg with a Athens to Malaga leg same dates. We had to choose if we wanted to change or keep this cruise by August 10th. I got in touch with Royal on August 3rd and received a new cruise invoice with the proper ports and the same costs. This morning by chance I was reading the pubic board on this cruise and saw that several people had the cruise canceled and refunded because they did not make a decision by August 10. I checked my royal account and the Athens to Malaga leg was gone. No email from Royal saying it was canceled. I called Royal and they had canceled my Athens to Malaga leg for nonresponse. After being passed to a supervisor, I did get the cruise reinstated at the Cyber Monday price but now my cabin was gone. I am not sure why they had to completely cancel the cruise and make everyone choose to rebook. This is very poor customer service. Royal had to know there would be issues with this cruise they way they were forcing everyone to rebook rather than just accept by default.

We will be staying at the Electra Palace 2 nights in May before our cruise on Enchantment of the Seas departs. We booked it with our flights through AAvacations.

Thanks for the article, we will be stopping at Zakynthos in May off Enchantment.

Our problem is we are wine snobs 🙂. There are few wines on board we are willing to pay for. The ones we might purchase we get from the vineyards at significantly less cost. I wish Royal was like Princess and just let you bring as many bottles on board as you want for a $25 corkage. We are glad the diamond drinks are now a $13.00 credit rather than a limited menu of wines by the glass. That way we can at least get $13 off a higher end glass of wine.

I have used wine case shippers as luggage for years and never had an issue. We usually travel in a group and 1 of us checks a case of wine for the group to put their bottles in. We always fly to our departure ports.

2010 when they quit allowing combining loyalty discount, share holder credit, and sales.

The face recognition software will also have you getting pictures of other groups that you are "photo bombing".

We had booked 5/22 for the stops and had a suite guarantee so while we would rather be on Brilliance we are ok with Enchantment since it is only 1 sea day. This will be our first Greek Adriatic cruise. We will be exhausted in the evening. Plan on enjoying the local cuisine so MDR not so important. We have about 40 friends go on the cruise so it will almost be a charter.

We are on May 22 sailing and booked our flights as soon as they were available. Nice hotels to in Athens and Venice :(. We have a group of about 30 friends booked already with another 10 or so trying to book that is how I discovered it was not available. The following is pure speculation. I wonder if Royal is concerned about fuel availability being an issue in Europe next summer.

You can no longer book Brilliance of the Seas out of Greece, Ravenna, or Barcelona in 2023 from May to September. We have about 20 couples booked on her on May 19 out of Piraeus and have not heard a word from Royal. I know they pulled the Serenade of the Seas out of Northern Europe because of the war in Ukraine. Any knowledge, rumors, or pure speculation on Brilliance? I am wondering if Royal is concerned about fuel next year in Europe.

We have cruised multiple times the week of Thanksgiving. Usually out of Puerto Rico. We love it. It's a way to not have to worry about family conflicts. We would leave Friday before Thanksgiving and get back Sunday after Thanksgiving. You do have to be ready to book flights and cruises the day they become available and hours matter on costs but it's worth the trouble.

Thanks for the update

I was looking for a Hilton Property in Athens for next May and none showed up. Is the Hilton in Athens switching brands soon?

In 2009 it was by 9 am. We made an 11:30 flight to the us out of BCN.