TwoMisfits

Having eaten a lot of restaurant and friend made allergy-safe food, I'm sure it's to make sure you actually like 1 of each course (b/c some can be bad - let's be honest) and have an option if you're not in the mood for what you ordered. I'd be thrilled if waitstaff had 2 apps and entrees planned for me next month (I'm not sure they'll manage 1 dessert if sorbet isn't on board)...

Question since I have a Hooked lunch - could your wife have preordered a fish appetizer vs a salad? Or was salad the only option they offered? I expect no dessert (so 2nd paid place with no sorbet or even option for a complex allergy that includes dairy), but I'll be bummed if all the apps are also no bueno except a salad...

Thank you for posting your dairy allergy meals!

Thank you for posting your wife's dairy allergies meals. This will help me a lot next month! Bummer that Izumi didn't have sorbet to go with the berries.

For sleeping...not in the entire room. Having the extra sofa bed means we can kick a kid between the cabins if needed...

Thanks for the barcode tip - if it's right, I'm very happy with the 2 interiors I was assigned. While not next door to each other, they are close and they are in a great spot in the middle of the ship (not under the pool, not over the dining room) where we can do stairs up and down to get places - and only 2 decks from central park, but not on the central park deck, so no traipsing folks coming down our hallway. Plus, they gave me 2 3 person rooms, even though I had canceled our 3rd person in one room months ago...so extra bed space is a plus...

Thanks! That's the info I needed - so 10am arrival, no earlier:).

That's my plan - I just didn't know if it started at 10:30am, or even earlier. I can get to the port at any time b/c I'm staying overnight (I was planning 10:30am, but might pop over at 10am if that's actually start of boarding)...

Hi everybody, I have a confirmed 11:30am check in, but I have the Key, so I'm just wondering what the earliest check in time in Cape Liberty for Symphony of the Seas in May 2024 is (b/c I need to get on board to reconfirm allergy accommodations with a few places - including the Key lunch, and I'd like to do it before the madness of a sold out ship all being on board). Thanks for any info you can provide!

It's actually VERY rare for soft serve to not have dairy. The only one that is widespread on the market is the one that makes dole whips. If you go to McDonald's, Dairy Queen, Wendy's, Mr. Softee's, etc - all those places have dairy-full soft serve. So, if you see a soft serve machine and the word "vegan" is not listed anywhere near it, you can be pretty guaranteed it's a dairy-based product. PS - And even dole whips - only the fruit flavors are vegan - if you are ever getting a vanilla dole whip, it has dairy. It is very hard to make a vanilla or chocolate soft serve that passes muster as vanilla/chocolate ice cream without using dairy.

The previous poster's response is incorrect. If there has been no change in RCCL's supplier, the soft serve DOES have (a ton) of dairy and lactose in it.

Funny enough, the only thing not sold out on my sailing ARE the suites. Inside, outside, and balcony are all gone. I was deciding if I should Royal Up, but for me, it seems like it will be pointless (since it's too many levels higher), so I'll stick with the insides I have...

And now we know most of RCCL's Baltimore folks also come from the west and south of Baltimore vs the north.

But you're rare...I'm betting Carnival looked at their passenger location stats, and that's why they made such a quick call, while Royal is still deciding...

I think anyone driving south and west of Baltimore won't go north now b/c traffic through Baltimore is now gonna be horrific for awhile. So I understand why Carnival went south and took getting through Baltimore out of the way for a lot of their cruisers (who, when driving, I expect come more from the south and west of Baltimore vs the north, b/c if you were north, you'd probably go to Bayonne/NY for the larger ships and more varied itineraries to start with)...