Spurschick

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The a la cartes are normally just walk in. The restaurants depends on ship. Which ship are you on? if you are in a suite you can book through concierge. If not then when you get to port you can connect to ships wifi and book. normally embarkation day I have never seen the specialty restaurants full or overcrowded, so you can just turn up when you get onboard.

Correct it is only payments made to Royal directly that are double points. The parking is not operated by RC.

I do not believe so as this is a key lunch in MDR - however if you have UDP you can book chops for embarkation lunch (or any of the specialty dining restaurants) or even depending on the ship an a la Carte and get a per person credit.

Go for it - it will be nicer weather once you get further south. But cruises much more relaxing with far fewer kids.

My Celebrity BDM said no intention of sailing from Galveston any time soon.

Agreed that’s why when I see it lower I just call in and upgrade myself. The other ones are normally because the categories are already sold out.

We won 1 out of multiple cruises since restart. Have actually upgraded prior to cruise for less than the bid amount as well and withdrew my bid lol.

We moved to fl from tx but was very frustrated with the RC options out of Galveston when we lived there. Prima looks nice but isn’t there long either. Galveston needs fresh blood.

Unfortunately they can change itinerary’s (and even ships) any time. We were doing Explorer to Aruba this June and unfortunately a Tropical Storm came through so we ended up in Jamaica. 😢

Last week on Harmony there were several empty as well which surprises me as they are a lot cheaper than the Cabanas at Coco Cay.

Pompey Sailor is currently in time out! Was in Yacht Club so did not need reservations as there was a YC seating area in theatre.

From LA on Harmony last week

Love the Harmony, but really enjoyed Royal Princess (sister to Regal) unfortunately our regal got cancelled due to Covid

Or you can add to wallet as a back up

Beach area with Buffet there is a bar with to pay for drinks. there was a water and I think fruit punch dispenser at the buffet. loungers and umbrellas in the middle are included. if you are suite guest there is a barefoot beach shuttle as well - which was fun last week when the concierge had us counted and lined up for the next shuttle and as soon as it pulled up people just walking by just pushed in front and got on it and the poor concierge had to explain that we were all waiting and it was a suite guest barefoot beach only shuttle. 🙄

The shuttle driver will know - the ships and terminals are digitally signposted entering the port., and they will have already been picking up departing guests that day. have a great trip.

Does that mean no one could find the ketchup then 🤣😂🤣 in answer to the OP we thought food was very good, and we would do again at the right price. We have seen prices over $200 pp which we will not entertain but closer to $100 we would.

It is done on set sail pass not room key. if you don’t have printed copy and refuse to turn phone on to scan then you won’t be on the ship in the first place. And no you don’t have until sailaway to complete as they won’t sail until everyone has completed.

I’ll try again when we are on Symphony soon. I know it didn’t work when we were on Oasis last year. Didn’t bother trying it again as it was painful trying to watch it multiple times wondering why it wouldn’t check off so when told had to connect to ships wifi just went into automatic mode every cruise there after so as to not have to keep repeating the exercise lol. Will be interesting to see how it works on Celebrity cruise we have upcoming seeing as it’s basically the same app. either way it’s a lot lot easier than doing the very painful muster on MSC 🙄

Per ourusualbeach looks like it has changed since we restarted cruising. On our first cruise back after restart we literally watched it multiple times and when couldn’t work out why was still showing incomplete was told had to be connected to ships wifi. Didn’t think it would change but then with RC IT anything is possible.

I guess we started back cruising when it was required to be connected and per ourusualbeach this has changed. Was unaware it had changed so we always connected in the same way.

Thanks, maybe because when we started back cruising last year we were told that was how it had to be done as we were wondering why it was not marking off as complete and were told had to be connected. We didn’t know it had changed more recently so we have always automatically connected to wifi to complete as never saw reason to think it had changed.

Again I never said you couldn’t watch it I said it won’t mark as complete - there is a difference i just watched my one for March at home but guess what didn’t mark it as complete. When you are connected to ships wifi it will then come up green once you have watched it with completed next to it

Well I have been on multiple cruises since this inception. Yes been able to watch multiple times from wherever but not once has it marked off complete unless I have been connected to the ships wifi. Maybe you got lucky that it marked as complete for you but it certainly has not on any of our sailings