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Jewel of the Seas is appears to have a transatlantic from  Bridgetown, Barbados and then San Juan, PR (6 April, 2024)   crossing to  Southampton with stops booked in La Rochelle and Le Havre among others. 

4 hours ago, Cruiser519 said:

Hello, With pearl or gold MGM status, is there any direct value on board RC ships by adding the MLife # somewhere?

Or is it something to just let RC casino know to link so it might improve RC casino ship offers moving forward?

 

I always book through TA group rates and I do want to earn RC points and keep OBC I already have, thanks!

 

MGM Rewards members must validate their tier status by calling Royal Caribbean at (1-800-762-0702) or Celebrity Cruises at (Platinum & NOIR: 1-888-858-4478; Sapphire, Pearl, & Gold: 1-855-227-2537). Benefits must be requested at the time of the initial booking and at least ten (10) days prior to the cruise’s departure date.

Onboard Credit Terms :

The Onboard Credit is limited to one per qualifying MGM Rewards member per sailing. Benefits must be requested at the time of the initial booking and at least ten (10) days prior to the cruise’s departure date. MGM Rewards Onboard Benefits are only available when sailing onboard a Royal Caribbean or Celebrity Cruises Vessel using MGM Rewards Quarterly Exclusive Cruise Offers, Annual Complimentary Cruise Benefit or its cruise fare trade-in value. These benefits do not apply to members sailing using a cruise certificate or sailing as part of a group program. Onboard credits are not redeemable for cash and are non-transferable. MGM Rewards Relationship Benefits are not combinable with any other offer or promotion, including, but not limited to, Standard Group, Interline, Travel Agent, Travel Agent Friends & Family, and Net Rates. All unused onboard credit will expire at 10:00 PM on the final night of the cruise.

25 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

That's a pretty weird/unique address (the part after the ship name) - not sure it does, that's why I was wondering. Plus, not even sure exactly who gets that email.

I have emails from that position from a couple of ships dating back quite a few year.  I have had it copied in on threads where one ship is emailing to another ship that I will be on in the future.

1 hour ago, Biker19 said:

Biker, who wonders if that would work on other ships.

with the unique 2 letter code for each ship it does.

AD = Adventure

AL = Allure

AN = Anthem

BR = Brilliance

EN = Enchantment

EX = Explorer

FR = Freedom

GR = Grandeur

HM = Harmony

ID = Independence (don't say "IN" - that's Celebrity's Infinity)

JW = Jewel

LB = Liberty

MA = Mariner

NV = Navigator

OA = Oasis

OV = Ovation

QN = Quantum

RD = Radiance

RH = Rhapsody

SC = Spectrum

SR = Serenade

SY = Symphony

VI = Vision

VY = Voyager

2 hours ago, sgmn said:

Are the CIs also dropping testing requirements for visitors from the mainland?

Spain has been great about updating information quickly and changes are happening daily by autonomous region. They have a travel safe website:  

https://travelsafe.spain.info/en/

Italy has just dropped outdoor mask mandates from this Friday the 11th of February and the indoor event and crowded place mandate is currently extended to at least the 31st of March. 

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/italy-scraps-outdoor-mask-mandate-aims-ease-stadium-limits-2022-02-08/

Spain has dropped the outdoor mandate from this Thursday the 10th of February. Local regions are continually updating other mask and vaccine requirements.

https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/masks-will-longer-20220207122226-nt.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-scrap-mandatory-outdoor-masks-feb-10-2022-02-04/

8 minutes ago, Wilde_37 said:

Waiting anxiously to find out what happens when Wonder gets to Europe.  I'm on B2B with TA and then 7 nights in Med.  I received two emails - firstly, TA is now going 4 days early - that means April 20.  Presumably it is still 12 nights and gets to Barcelona on 4th May instead of 8th May. 

They have booked the 'Allure of the Seas' for the 7th of May at Palma  and it shows that she is coming in from Marseilles, France , so that would appear to be a 4 day sailing. 

I have done a similar sailing on Liberty one time and they filled it with incentive and other groups at that time. It was a very international group of passengers with groups from Korea and Japan among others.

1 hour ago, Biker19 said:

Unlikely anything customer visible was done, but Jewel just got out of dry dock from Cadiz.

Reports from the shipyard in the Diario de Cadiz do state that minor upgrades were done on the deck area and in the cabins. 

https://www.diariodecadiz.es/noticias-provincia-cadiz/Jewel-the-Seas-abandona-astillero-Navantia-Cadiz_0_1574842893.html

Several enhancements to the Malaga port have been approved during the pandemic and the first full size autonomous bus route in Europe is now being tested with 8 daily runs from the port into Malaga city. 

http://www.surinenglish.com/local/202102/17/video-first-driver-less-20210217183402.html

The Qatari Al Alfia group (Qatari Royal Family)  has finalized and gained approval for a 5 star hotel tower to be built right across from the Cruise Terminal. This will most likely be an American branded hotel opening in 2023. Hilton will open a Conrad property on the coast that same year. 

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/02/17/mayor-of-malaga-praises-the-design-proposed-port-skyscraper-hotel/

Marbella will see Hyatt, W Hotels and Four Seasons openings in 2022.  

I have sailed mainly with NCL out of Malaga and the embarkation was among the best I have had anywhere in the world with a fully automated modern terminal. 

8 minutes ago, radarcruiser said:

A rough average cost to charter a single aisle jet is about 20K per hour (although RCL could probably get better rates with a contract).

 

 

RCI owns the charter airline, Wamos Air. It was the former Pullmantur Air. They have 10 wide body aircraft, but have converted 2 of those to cargo during the pandemic. 

13 minutes ago, martinpj said:

Mexico announcements is what I bet is next

Definitely. There are so many Domestic and International regular and charter flights to Cancun. 

Great solution for Vision. I will definately consider this sailing. 

I guess the best flight options are United from EWR and American from MIA. BA from London is great for Europeans as well.  Round trips are often $300 to $400 when on offer from the US. 

29 minutes ago, taznremmy said:

I have been using https://www.portsamerica.com/operations/cruise-los-angeles-terminal-schedule and it shows "No Results" and doesn't even give an option for 2022 or 2023.  Which website are you using?  Thanks....

Catalina is separate. They had Voyager booked for a long while and then the bookings shifted a few months ago to Navigator. 

https://www.lovecatalina.com/community-information/catalina-cruise-ship-schedule/2022-cruise-ship-schedule/

21 minutes ago, springaussie said:

The minute I seen the possible California Departures article by the Blog the first thing I thought is It will be interesting to see if they disappear like they did last time he did a story.

Yes Los Angeles Ports removed the Navigator bookings from the website very quickly. 

The Navigator bookings for Catalina Island for 2022 are still showing as they have been for months. 

The Navigator bookings for Monterey are still there for 2023. 

1 hour ago, crzndeb said:

I did this sailing on the Serenade in 2018, but I don’t remember it being this high, and I was sailing solo. 

I was on the Legend of the Seas sailing from Oslo in 2014 and just checked my guest invoice and I paid a total of $849 solo for that years 14 day TA.  I did book a GTY cabin just a few weeks out though.

That one had an overnight in Reykjavik that arrived early AM and that is something I would miss.  It was great the way they had the booked rental cars just waiting in the port upon the ship's arrival. 

I am glad to see that Voyager is doing the Boston Canada season!

4 hours ago, janabelle61 said:

Question for those of you that follow future sailings - Is there any word on Canada/New England for 2022? 

 

I'm retiring and planning some extended cruising fall of 2022.  Celebrity has their itineraries out, but I'm really looking for Royal and hoping they deploy their itineraries soon.

 

The only ship that Royal had booked already for Maine ports previously for 2022 was Empress of the Seas. 

With Jewel heading to the MED and then possibly on to Dubai, it would seem that Voyager would likely head over to Boston or Bayonne. It would seem likely that in addition to Anthem that Oasis and then one other ship would do Canada / NE sailings as well. There are not port bookings currently to accurately predict the season. 

5 hours ago, Biker19 said:

The Premier of the Cayman Islands, Alden McLaughlin, has stated that he does not foresee the return of cruise ships to the islands in 2021.

 

 

On an interesting side note, RCI just booked Grandeur of the Seas at Gran Cayman for a single call on May 4th, 2023. It would seem to be a transition sailing where they are moving the ship from possible New Orleans to another US port. 

2 hours ago, Chiliburn said:

Isn’t radiance supposed to be in the Caribbean at that time also?

That would leave Australia short a ship.

Astoria Oregon port schedules show both Radiance and Serenade moving coastal following the Alaska sailings. Radiance bookings are limited in the Caribbean for 22-23 and it is hard to figure out. Serenade was booked almost a year ago to at Grand Cayman for the move to Miami and now confirmed with Astoria and Miami/Key West / Haiti booking. 

Serenade of the Seas has been booked for sailings from Miami for the winter season 2022 - 23 and will replace Jewel of the Seas. 

That would allow Jewel of the Seas to return to Dubai for the winter 2022-23 among other options. 

Grandeur of the Seas has been booked for a few sailings out of New Orleans from May to November 2021, but they still have Majesty as a place holder going forward into 2023. While unlikely these sailings will happen, it is interesting to see Grandeur still in the mix. 

1 hour ago, fvandewouwer said:

according our TA the majesty out of NO on October 23 2021 will be replaced by another ship she did not have any details yet

( this was the sailing with Key West and CocoCay and Grand Bahama  )

will it be replaced or will they just give us another ship and itinerary ?

 

 

Grandeur of the Seas has currently been booked out of New Orleans from May of 2021. She is currently only booked from May to October 2021 for most weeks at Key West. There would be a lot of uncertainty around that but the bookings were just recently made. 

On 11/29/2020 at 9:08 AM, twangster said:

 

Impossible to answer that question without knowing the details or seeing the books.  

...Even if Pullmantur doesn't yield the profit margins and dividends that other RCG brands do it has a purpose that has better potential than the one time peanuts received from scrapping ships.  

RCG's 49% interest in Pullmantur Cruise retained the ownership of the vessels along with the aircraft held by Wamos. RCG would have received payment from the cruise line for use of the ships and the provision of management and operations of the deck and engine for the ships. Pullmantur ran the hotel and travel and tourism section of the business. 

They are in a very sensitive situation now with the company having taken a 'ERTE where the wages under the first part are paid by the Spanish government. The 270 remaining employees have most recently claimed that RCG is continuing operations in Spain without Pullmantur having transferred 20000 bookings over to RCG group ships. This is complicating the restructuring especially with the consideration of the Employment law in Spain. 

Springwater Capital, the holder of the 51% interest out of Switzerland and Spain would most certainly like to start sailing again when the market conditions allow. 

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out, but it would seem that RCG is a winner no matter which direction it turns. 

Another mystery has been the booking in the past week for Adventure at Palma de Mallorca on June 3 and then in September as well.  They show the ship heading to Ibiza and then there is no booking at Ibiza, so I guess it is a fluke. 

4 hours ago, shipfriend_max said:

One travel agent webseite from UK (some might now...) at least reveals the embarkation ports and itinerary names for the RCI ships in Europe 2022:

 

-Odyssey: Rome, Med cruises to Greek isles

-Anthem: Southampton, including Norwegian fjords, WWestern Europe, Med, Canaries...

-Allure: Barcelona - 7 night Med

-Jewel: Amsterdam, including cruises to British Islands, Iceland, Norway/North Cape

-Brilliance: sailing from Ravenna, same as Rhapsody in 2021

-Voyager: Copenhagen/Stockholm, same as planned for Adventure in 2021 (now done by Jewel though)

-Vision: Barcelona, mostly 12 nights, sometimes 8 nights

 

 

Funchal bookings were updated now taking away the INDY bookings for 2022. So, no INDY at Southampton. 

It seems they have been going back and forth as to whether to have Vision or Jewel at Amsterdam or Barcelona. 

It seems there may be some sailings from Tarragona, Spain in the late 2022 season.  They have been trying to attract RCL to do turn- arounds from there, but I am unsure if that has moved forward. 

Jewel does seem to move south to the MED prior to a transatlantic. 

I found it interesting that when they booked the Odyssey of the Seas call at Funchal for the November transatlantic that they booked the destination port as a question mark and not just Ft. Lauderdale. 

Cayman bookings though would indicate that Odyssey does sail from Ft. Lauderdale for both the 2022 and 2023 winter season. 

56 minutes ago, Phamer55 said:

Love this itinerary, would be all new ports for me.  Are these repeating all summer?  Do you have a link?

Anthem will do varried sailings and they will not repeat with any frequency. 

The bookings at Le Havre show: 

26 minutes ago, Seville2Cabo said:

The week of November 30th the Europe cruise will be released. Will the spring TA’s also be released?

The spring 2022 TA sailings should be issued with the European sailings. There is no way to know for sure until they are released though.