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Thank you! Do you know how often the mini bus runs?

Hello All,

A big group of friends and family (8 - adults, 9 - children (1-10 years old) are going to Bermuda in May. We are sold on going to Horseshoe Bay but torn on transportation. Anyone been there recently? Would you recommend taxi, public transit, ship excursion? Ship is charging $40 for the transfer (includes to and from ship). Thanks in advance.

I personally love Texas Hold’em Ultimate tables. Usually win between a couple hundred and a grand a cruise betting minimums and playing the bonus. The real money is in the bonus since it pays out on any hand better then two pair which is basically the 3rd worst hand or better.

I was on the Explorer a few years ago and watched a woman win $25,000. It took her all cruise, and she was down $10,000 at one point but she kept playing $100 on the bonus and caught quads and a straight flush a time or two (I think they pay 250:1 and 500:1) and she made her money back and then some. It just took a large initial investment and money to spend/possibly loose

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Hey Bob,

 

Thank you so much again, and I hope my questions, and your answer, help others as well.

 

Just for the record the reason I got worried is because I heard a story on our last cruise, where the computers at RCI cancelled a cruise within the final month after payment in full and everything, because the “parameters” of the room did not meet reservation requirements (what ever that means, I should have asked more). Anyways when I do a mock booking this is what i see:[ATTACH]421027[/ATTACH]

 

You can clearly see our room does not have the 4 person icon on it, and I want to make sure it was a computer error that would not lead to any unfortunate events in the future.

 

My wife and I are looking forward to this being our Diamond cruise and the first cruise for our second child. So I’m just double checking everything.

 

Thanks again!

 

 

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And here is a zoomed out photo, just in case [emoji6]

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Here is a current deckplan:

 

 

 

https://www.royalcaribbean.co.uk/assets/pdf/our-ships/independence-of-the-seas/rccl_1836_ID_2018_May.pdf

Hey Bob,

Thank you so much again, and I hope my questions, and your answer, help others as well.

Just for the record the reason I got worried is because I heard a story on our last cruise, where the computers at RCI cancelled a cruise within the final month after payment in full and everything, because the “parameters” of the room did not meet reservation requirements (what ever that means, I should have asked more). Anyways when I do a mock booking this is what i see:

You can clearly see our room does not have the 4 person icon on it, and I want to make sure it was a computer error that would not lead to any unfortunate events in the future.

My wife and I are looking forward to this being our Diamond cruise and the first cruise for our second child. So I’m just double checking everything.

Thanks again!

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Deck plan I have shows a sofabed in that stateroom.

Excellent!

So no fear of Royal canceling the reservation on me and no JS's left available for me to transfer too?

Thank you so much!

what stateroom number?

9626

Hey Everyone,

My family and I are booked in a Junior Suite for our Independence cruise next year. There will be 4 of us in the JS and I was looking for a price drop today when I noticed the stateroom we are assigned does not have a on it, which I assume means it is not a designated "additional" persons cabin?

The advice I am looking for is: Is my assumption true? If so should I call RCI and have them make a change in cabins? We really like the cabin location, any harm and just ignoring it? Will they still let us have the cabin? Has anyone experienced this in the past?

Sorry for so many questions. Thanks in advance for any help :)

I'm curious about this particular cabin location as well. Has anyone sailed in cabin 7660 on the Brilliance? Are there lifeboats in the way? Can you look straight down to the water or is there an obstruction?

Haven’t been on the Brilliance, but the Radiance and Serenade have the extended balcony WITH obstruction for those cabins (52-70)[emoji106]

The balconies on deck seven WITH OUT obstruction are the hump or 14-46. The later having extended balconies with half dividers as well.

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Does the alaska cruisetour 8B take a bus from anchorage to seward precruise?iI believe it does and if so I have heard about the grandview railroad and wondered if it was worth giving up the free bus transportation to the ship to try and take the train. I will have been on a train for the cruise tour for 6 days previous and wondered if that was enough without paying the extra. any advice appreciated.

All cruise tours take the bus from anchorage to Seward and visa versa. Our tour guide explained the train is too profitable for single day fairs to cruise ports to justify tour operation cars being added to that train route [emoji849]

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Thank you all :) really appreciate all the advice!

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Does any one have picture of a pack n play in an interior room. DW and I are debating upgrading, depending on how crapped it looks/is. Thanks in advance!

Hello Everyone,

I am looking for advice. My wife, mother, father, 9 month old daughter and I will be sailing on the Navigator in April to the ABC islands. Im looking for advice on any baby friendly excursion, either through RCI, or private, that you think would be enjoyable for our family. We are totally prepared to just relax and enjoy at the beaches at every stop, but DW wanted me to ask the CC community and see if you all had any advice or experience. Thanks in advance!

Hello Everyone,

I am looking for advice. My wife, mother, father, 9 month old daughter and I will be sailing on the Navigator in April to the ABC islands. Im looking for advice on any baby friendly excursion, either through RCI, or private, that you think would be enjoyable for our family. We are totally prepared to just relax and enjoy at the beaches at every stop, but DW wanted me to ask the CC community and see if you all had any advice or experience. Thanks in advance! :)

Dessert was incredible.

After dinner we caught the arial show in the centrum.

And then took some final sunset pictures before calling it a night and going to bed.

Thats it for tonight everyone! Riga tomorrow! See you all then!

Dinner was delicious a usual!

And the dining room staff sang and danced for us!

More beautiful pictures of Tallinn!

We then headed up the the Viking Crown Lounge for the Meet and Mingle. It was a lot of fun! Met some very nice people!

Dinner time next, but not before stepping outside and getting some amazing pictures!

It was amazing to me how close you could get to the Presidents house. You can see the police officers in green guarding the front door.

We boarded the bus and went to our final stop in Tallinn, an amphitheater where Estonia's biggest music festival is held yearly.

Great view of the Serenade in the back ground.

We made it back to the ship and got some gorgeous pictures of the city!

Thanks everyone for the kind words!

Now back to finish our day in Tallinn.

After lunch was got some shopping time.

After about an hour of free time to shop and walking around we met up with our tour guide at the old wall.

We hopped on the bus and headed up to one of the winter palaces and the current Estonian Presidents house.

Hey Everyone,

Pictures are not uploading tonight, sorry:confused: Ill continue the review tomorrow night

One thing I wanted to add to the review that I forgot to mention about St. Petersburg was "open seating" for dinner. When I scan and post all the compasses at the end of the review you all will see what I am talking about, but basically everyone had MTD the two nights in St. Petersburg. There was no traditional dinning due to everyone being out on the town. Just something interesting I wanted to make note of.

Night Everyone, until tomorrow :)

Did the bus got full with your group? We were only in a van then.

Yeah, we had a big group in Tallinn, and we filled the bus. But the next day in Riga (as you will see) we only had enough for a van as well.

We walked upstairs and sat and talked with some of our tour mates. Snack was coffee and pastries. Our tour guide gave us a hot spot and let us surf the internet during our break. Very nice of her.

Thats it for tonight everyone. Ill finish the day in Tallinn tomorrow :) Night all!

We then went into one of the oldest Marzipan candy shops in eastern Europe. Fascinating!

Still can't believe all those figures were eatable!

Then we walked to town hall in the center of town for a snack. They had a market today in the town square.

Before snack we visited the oldest pharmacy in the world. Pretty cool!

Then we headed to the cafe for a snack and coffee that was provided by SPB.

Our tour guide then took us to the highest point in the city. What an amazing view!

We then walked down from old town to new town, learning about the city, county, politics, and anything else you could imagine or think to ask, along the way.

The guard house protecting wealthy old town from the peasants of new town (or at least did in the old days)

The sky was just gorgeous!

We then headed to the Lutheran Church.

Loved all the coat of arms inside.