island lady

Yup, welcome to the RCI....we don't care about your loyalty program. 😄

Bottom line....RCI no longer cares for it's loyal members. Bye...bye Royal. There are other lines out there that will welcome our money. 😉

Being Pinnacle AND in a JS cabin on Allure (disembarked yesterday)....I still had to make reservations day by day. And no guarantees on availability. Was unable to book a full suite on this sold out cruise. Though we were keyed in (being an "allowed on this sailing" Pinnacle), which was a nice for going up early for my coffee in the SL. If I were not keyed in, I would not even try for CK or entry in the SL on Oasis class...not worth it.

And of course...cannot get through to the WC department. Am on hold now with an idiot from customer service (once I had to get tricky to talk to a real person)...that never even heard of the World Cruise. Shheeeeez... 🤪 Lost cause. I also sent an email to the WC desk...but still no return reply.

Ugg...I had the same awful "robot" experience yesterday. RCI tech, in their wonderous evil ways, decided to charge me another 40K for my last quarter WC that has been paid in full for months. Shows up as "pay remaining balance" on all four mini segments. This of course annoys me further, since I never booked the "mini segments". It was the quarter I booked. The master number for the quarter never shows up on my cruises section. Now, being worried I will show up in Barcelona and be told my cruise was cancelled due to non-payment, I called trying to get the loyalty number by pressing 9...imagine my surprise when robot lady would not let me talk to a real person. Yet another knife in the back for loyal cruisers. And yet another reason, I am no longer..."Loyal to Royal".

Only suites (GS and above) pax get the freebie (now really cheap rot gut stuff) from 11 -11. And cocktails from 5-8 freebies are also for suite's guests only. Pinnies...not in a suite have to use vouchers...and with with six vouchers per person per day, IMHO...have enough to sustain them. 😉

Am not disagreeing with you...so no trusting required. 😉 I would never consider cruising with theme park Disney cruise line...for the reasons you mentioned, as I totally agree. I also am not a fan of RCI's new theme park mega ships.....for the same reason. Viking is now getting most of our bookings, and most of our cruising dollars.

Just off Allure this morning. No email letter at all pertaining to access before we boarded...but we did have it. Had to make reservations each day for dinner in CK...but no problem. Could not book anything above a JS when we booked months ago, as ship was full, even with checking daily until sail date. There were only 29 of us, so the top 30 did not apply. Not sure if we had access to Chops for breakfast as we never got any kind of letter from the LA on access.

Got another (different this time) form letter from American Queen...telling me I have not submitted my claim forms yet. Ummm...have done it many times now already, both online and in the mail. The usual run around...no results of course.

Remember during Covid era...all the menus were on scan code. 🙂

Simple solution for me. I "washy washy" on the way in. Pick and choose at the endless buffet, then head back to one of the hand stations for a re-sanitize. I have seen others with little bottles of the stuff, but it is so simple just to hit one of those machines before you sit down to pick up that French Fry. 😉 😄

And no casinos. 😉

Bacteria soup. This senior would not even think of sticking a toe in that water. Case in point: "Bubba" has his six beers and never leaves the hot tub. Ummm...ewww. Just one example, other than the "fecal teabags" in the pool. 🤢

Wow....that is some old seaweed! More than a year old in fact. 😉 Just left Coco Cay a few hours ago. Beach lovers can rejoice....water was clear of drifting seaweed.

OK Dave...you did it again....now I have THAT song stuck in my head!! 😄