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Sailing on Royal for the first time next month and have a quick question on the bidding system. I am in a Central Park interior room now. I bid on both an Ocean View Balcony and an Ultra Spacious Ocean View. Am I right in assuming the system would put me in the Balcony first but if I don't get that then would try for the Ocean View. I prefer the Balcony but would take the Ocean View if that is my only option. Thanks.

My family of 5 is booked on Wonder for March 17.Izumi Hibachi currently shows completely sold out on the website. Is it worth trying to get reservations as soon as we get on the ship or are we out of luck?

We have a beach cabana booked on our Wonder cruise next month and the price just dropped by$400. Already called and rebooked. Woohoo!

Suzanne they just did the same thing to my cruise on 2/25 except wr also swapped Montego Bay for Falmouth. Think there may be an issue with Grand Turk. Anyway, they did not change the map after they did it so the previous post was correct. Go with the written schedule.

66th? SHOWOFF!!! Have a WONDERFUL anniversary!

Thank you all for your prompt response. Looks like I will be making a call to RCL to change my reservation to 150. 😆

We are celebrating our 5th Anniversary married and 32nd Anniversary together so want a special dinner. Any thoughts?

Thank you to both of you.

4 looonnnnnggggg days.

I am going to be on the Epic next week. We lost our bid up to a Spa Club Balcony Suite. The cruise only has 1 sea day and we have things planned in ports every other day so we don’t really want to spend the money on a weekly pass. First question is do you get access to the Thermal Suite if you are having a massage on the same day? Second question, any tips on daily passes? Thanks in advance.

All things being equal as far as itinerary, age of ship, and price I would go with Celebrity. I think Celebrity is just a little bit nicer in almost every category that matters. The thing is though that “all things” are probably not equal. NCL does tend to be a better price value. So that really leaves it up to you. They both offer a good product but you have to decide what matters most.

We will be in Aruba in a couple weeks with a group of 11. I am planning a beach day at Reflexions. Never been there before, did I make a good choice? All mid 50s adults that just want a good beach with decent drinks.

I need to vent so I figured I would tell you about my first and last experience with NCL Air. We are booked in a group of 12 people on the Epic for Feb 5 cruise out of San Juan. We all chose to use NCL Air. 10 of us are flying from Milwaukee and 2 from Cincinnati. Us Milwaukee folks were hoping to be on the same flights but we are on 5 different flights. I knew that might happen so no big deal there. What I was not expecting is the married couple from Cincinnati was actually put on 2 separate flights that leave about the same time but connect through different cities. Seriously? On top of that my DH and I were originally booked on a Southwest flight to San Juan, however when I called SWA to give them my TSA number they said they have the request but NCL never had us ticketed through them so we are not on that flight. Found out about that about 10 days before Christmas and was told by NCL (our group cruise consultant never calls back so I don’t even bother calling her) that an expert from their air department would call me in 1-2 weeks with a new reservation. No call…..so I called them last week and was told it would be escalated and I will get a call in 1-2 days since we are so close to our cruise. No call……so I called again yesterday and was told it is now “super escalated” and will get a call back shortly and to keep an eye on my email for new reservations. I have been very patient and nice through this whole process but we are now about 3 weeks out from this cruise and we do not have an outbound flight. I am a bit of a Planny McPlanner so I am getting nervous. If I have to call again tomorrow I would not want to be the unlucky NCL rep that answers.

Jim I would love to say that I will be following your review but I am going to be far too busy having fun on this cruise also. 😝 This is going to be our first cruise since COVID and we are really looking forward to it. This is actually one we rebooked after we cancelled ours last year when Omicron came out a few weeks before we were supposed to leave. Feel free to say hi if you see us on board. Jeff and Jeff here.