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I guess I knew the answer considering the consistent state of X's IT dept. I was hoping I was wrong. Thanks.

Thanks, that's what I suspected. I knew I could change the sailing date to see a menu, but it's a pain lol. I was hoping I was missing something obvious without changing the sail date/ship.

Recently, the menus for dinner in the MDR only show the desserts on a cruise for next year. I tried uninstall/reinstall to no avail. Anyone have a workaround other than looking at a current sailing?

A travel router is an awesome idea. Would you share the brand and source to purchase one? TIA I use the VPN all the time at hotels and when linking to public WiFi, but had difficulty onboard X ships in the past.

This!

Translation = filed in the circular file.

and if it is, then what?

Would you mind sharing which lines? I'm very sensitive and am considering other options if this becomes the new norm. TIA

With x% off and prices increased by a $gazillion!

We got our 1 point each. Retired, so taking a nap.

If in January you bought tickets to see The Boss, but in August you could only stay for the first 1/2....😜.....lol...Enjoy!

Looking at the current pricing, they only need 1/2 the customers to make the same money. Our cruise with them is still 7 months away and selling for over 200% of the fare. Good luck to them.

The problem is that at the same time as they are hiking the prices, they are watering down the product offering. It is no longer the elevated product that they've been known to provide. Price raises alone do not make a premium cruise line (or even an upper end mid range line). Cutting one thing here or there, okay but cutting lots of things, charging more for lots of things, at the same time as charging a lot more for the cruise fare seems foolhardy. I guess time will tell. We've enjoyed our X cruises in the past. While none of the cuts alone will send us elsewhere, the many little cuts, combined with the many extra charges for things once included, along with the fact that if we booked the identical prime Aqua class cabin and identical add ons for our currently booked 2024 cruise today, it would cost us $4350 over what we paid when we booked it in January. It would also have much less OBC credit. Before booking another X cruise we will be looking at many other options.

Unless you are staying in a suite, Luminae isn't an option. It is the dining room for suite guests. If you are, and are underwhelmed by the menu on your anniversary night, I'd definitely choose Murano. Also, you might want to clue the maitre d into the fact that it's your 25th. They will likely bring out a special yummy rich chocolate cake as an additional dessert. They did that for us on our special anniversary. I'd definitely suggest the Lobster Murano, or Chateaubriand (or they've done both for us). The Crepes Balon Rouge is an outstanding choice for dessert as well as the Grand Marnier Souffle.

Maybe. However we booked an Aqua cabin in January AI, refundable, lots of OBC. Today booking identical category, same inclusions refundable with less OBC and tons of cabin availability it more than 2x the price per person. Comparing apples to apples.

Exactly. It is now far less expensive to book a balcony and specialty dining for every night of the cruise than to book Aqua. Makes NO sense.🙄

It's even more ridiculous. Our AQ cabin is now booking for 3x the price we paid with identical add ons and less OBC. Still tons of available cabins in all categories. We'll no longer be looking only at X when booking future cruises. There's lots of other options for vacations.

Prices on the cruise I'm talking about have increased over 200% on an S-class ship in 7 months with a great deal of availability in all categories still unbooked. That just doesn't make sense. I didn't do the math, but looked at all cabins available across the board and if I had to guess, I'd say more than 50% of the ship is unbooked.

They have gone berserk. I just did a mock booking on a cruise we have booked to check cabin availability. I was looking for a particular cabin we like. Clicking on a cabin in our same category with all the same additions (AI, refundable deposit, etc.) the cruise priced out more than double the fare we booked back in January. There is still a very large inventory of all categories of cabins from inside to top suites showing as available.

From looking at your avatar, yes, we are in Bucks County. Go Phillies and Birds! ..and go TO Murano lol!

Absolposolutely! We're doing it 4x next cruise.😁

1.Murano 2.Murano 3.Murano

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Perhaps he did that because he was served lobster tails the size of a jumbo shrimp. I had one on my recently that was exactly 2 moderately sized forkfuls. If I had been charged $16.95 for it I would have been extremely unhappy. In fact, if that was served to me as the "complimentary" lobster tail I would have been equally unhappy!

X pricing has gone up exponentially in the last year. Since we made our last booking in February the pricing for the identical cabin/amenities that we booked has increased over $1000 pp and there have been significant cutbacks and extra charges instituted. The cruise is still 7 months out with the ship less than 1/2 sold. This is on an S-class ship in the Caribbean. It has given us reason shop around elsewhere when previously, when booking a cruise we went to X as our go to cruise line.