I have some booked 18 months in advance. By waiting you are risking two things: price increase and selling out. If something populates later, simply cancel and rebook. There is no benefit to waiting.
Most will be wearing normal casual clothing. Some will be wearing suits and ties. People wearing full on tux’s are in the absolute minority and I didn’t see any on my last 2 cruises this year. Royal isn’t a higher end cruise line. Celebrity is more higher end than Royal, so put that into perspective from your last cruise.
Actually your post is untrue. Costa Maya is NOT across from Cozumel. That’s Playa Del Carmen that is across from Cozumel. Costa Maya is several hours by car south of both Cozumel and Playa Del Carmen.
On the days when you want to see a show that doesn’t jive with your MTD time, you have 4 options:
1) Go to the MDR stand by line
2) Make a speciality dining reservation
3) Buffet
4) go to a different free dining option
also, many shows have both an early and a late showing each day.
Yes it’s possible, but it is ultimately up to the folks at the pier if they will let you in early or not. Mostly they don’t really care anymore, but some HAVE been made to wait. It seems to be somewhat port specific on how much they enforce this.
So for my cruise, the Black Friday price was $24.99, which was the same price it’s been for 6 months. Then the week of Christmas it went to $18.99. Now it is sitting at $32.99!! $32.99 is a VERY hard pass!!
Edit: $32.99 Was yesterday’s price. I just went to reprice something today and saw it now jumped to $35.99 and this is with another “sale” going on!!!