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Thanks for that reply. I just want to make sure I understand. We will each have our seapass cards, and the two passengers who switch cabins will also have a key to the cabin they're not assigned to? Can both of us parents get access to both cabins? Is there no way for them to just allow access on our seapass cards rather than to have to keep up with a key as well (I'm mostly worried about my 14 year old losing his key - repeatedly!)

That's the way it worked for us... I had two cards and one of my sons had two cards. We were mainly concerned that the two rooms would have different muster stations, and wanted an adult with each kid just in case.

We got them lanyards that they kept their cards in/on with a plastic pouch for like an ID badge. Made it a little "bigger" so they'd know if it wasn't in their pockets if they chose not to wear it around their neck.

OK, so I have a question related to this. We have two cabins booked, with my DH in one with one of our teenagers, and I am in the other with our other teenager. Our travel agent said it's totally fine to switch cabins once onboard, so that my husband and I are in the same room. With all of our excursions, drink packages, etc, will this get messed up at that point? How can we move the guys around so that everyone's in the correct cabins without messing up all of our reservations? Do these issues only arise when rebooking to save money pre-cruise, or will we run into this same problem if we switch once onboard?

Nothing will happen if you leave it "on paper" that you're in separate rooms. We went to guest services, and they gave us two "keys" that worked for the rooms for the people that were switching. So I had a seapass card and a key, as did one of my children. And our seapass cards also worked to open the other room.

I had no problems when I got a price drop and had OBC removed that had already been used but got to keep my Black Friday pricing for my drink package, or with cancelling a purchase made via OBC and rebuying it using that same OBC (two separate issues on two separate rooms). It sounds like your biggest problem came into moving people around. Sorry you had so much trouble and I'll keep that in mind if I need to move people after buying things :(

If we did the falls again in Jamaica (which is probably never happening), we'd go for a private tour guide. The daisy-chain walk-up was a NIGHTMARE. And that was before I slipped while trying to pull the woman behind me up onto her rock. I fell face first and slid down the falls ending up in one of the pools straddling some poor girl's legs. My husband's back up where I fell looking for me and the guide was telling him to keep going.

Yeah, that's a nope, not doing that again for me :)

I read it as soon as you posted it! Just waiting for more

We have one of the interior/balcony connecting combos for our trip in June, but I'm seriously coveting your do nothing balcony!

You pay for 7 :)

just be prepared for some interesting messages to be left. :eek::eek::eek:

We put ours inside the room for that reason...well, that and we didn't want the kids to be able to say "I wrote it, someone must have wiped it off!" :halo:

Why is it "Fake News"????:confused::confused:

 

I love reading your reviews! This one has come after a while!

My guess is because he put "Live" and it's not.

I can't wait, we have 96 days until our Liberty sailing :)

Makes perfect sense... and the way you outlined it sounds like it will work just fine.

Even with the single supplement, it's cheaper to put the two people in the interior? Crazy pricing!

When we had one adult and one kid in each of those rooms, they gave us a separate key for the room we wanted to sleep in, but kept our seapass card with the original room. I don't know if that's the same as it's been a while. But there was no problem with doing that.

We'll be in those rooms in June, but we booked the kids in the interior to begin with this time.

To answer your question- if you used OBC in the planner and then change promos to something that doesn't include OBC, then the planner will prompt you to pay the difference. You can keep the price at whatever you booked originally.

Yeah, luckily she confirmed for me and it worked exactly like that. I just didn't want to take any chances, ya know?

Interesting... I kind of feel bad then because I specifically called a PVP when there was a price drop. She had emailed me when I did a mock booking to check prices. I just wanted a person with an extension that I could get back to because the drop included losing some OBC that I'd already used on the planner, in case I couldn't keep the price on my beverage package ;)

(that all makes more sense in my head, but ... )

Schooner and pub mainly. pool band? Wondering who the casino host is but I'm not sure you go in there. :)

Have a great time!

Phil's in the Schooner until June 3 according to his Facebook page. Unfortunately we sail on the 17th :(

Sailed with her...................almost five years ago. Things change. People grow. But back then, she was "meh", IMO.

Us too...she was nice enough when we chatted with her in the Schooner Bar one day before trivia, but I don't remember her enough as a CD if that tells you anything :D (Although that could be a good thing, because it could be that I remember them for being a horrible CD.)

And maybe it's just semantics....but if your accounts are linked, it's the STATUS that transfers (applies), not the points. So I could be Diamond, and my husband could have only cruised once... He's got 7 points, but Diamond STATUS, and I have whatever points I earned to become Diamond.

So you still get your points, she gets her points, no matter which room you're booked in. But if you are in a room by yourself, and pay the supplement you get double points which could get her to her next status quicker.

but then they won't have room for the "% off some random number" banner... ;)

I got a price drop on one of our rooms, so I called up and the sweet girl on the phone (not being sarcastic) didn't think that there was any way it could be a drop because the "promotion" I'd booked under last March was a "BOGO 60% Off" and the new promotion wasn't that. So she was very thorough making sure that I was getting everything I'd booked before...and that nothing was missing, because that had to be the reason I was coming up with a lower rate.

:D

Drink packages are rarely a good deal. You'd have to drink about 5-7 alcoholic drinks per day just to break even. This includes port days when you're off the ship most of the day. Riddle me this. Do you think cruise lines are out to lose money, break even, or make money? Congratulations if you guessed "make money." They don't sell these packages unless the averages work in their favor. Most passengers don't drink that much.

 

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Depends on the person, but we've always surpassed the "break even" point. Our packages were purchased at $43 per person per day. Even on a port day, we will have a minimum of couple bottles of water to take on shore with us, a before dinner drink, two glasses of wine at dinner, and then a drink or two after dinner, plus a couple more bottles of water.

Oh, and we couldn't (didn't) do internet packages because it's hard enough to get the oldest out of the room to read in the sunshine :)

We left a whiteboard/notepad/post-its in the room.

If they were going somewhere other than where they told us verbally last check in, they had to leave a note in the room with the time/where they were going/how long they'd be there.

We did inside the room so that there was no excuse that someone wiped off the message/took the note/etc.

Don't pack GIGANTIC bottles of shampoo and conditioner just because they were on sale at Target.

If you go ahead and do that, don't put them in your spouse's luggage (with his ID tag on it).

Although, I can now say I've been to the naughty room, and got a laugh out of everyone because it really was shampoo!

"Ma'am, I'm going to have to open this bottle and look at the contents." "Go right ahead!"

The one I was looking at showed the SCMR savings and then the 30% savings. Of course I’m sure they deducted the SCMR savings first before calculating the 30%.

With whatever "new discounts" (I think three showed), it was still more expensive than when I booked last March...Go sales!

I thought it stood for Same Cruise, More Revenue ... ;) Mine changed to now show 30% off, but I did see the SCMR code earlier.

After illness aboard ship couple of years ago couldn't believe how hard it was to get rejection notice from my primary Blue Cross carrier. Despite the policy having no out of network coverage they had me submit paperwork 4 times and wanted more info from ships doctor. For 6 months I kept begging them to deny claim. When they finally did travel insurance (Nationwide) paid within one week.

Some Blues companies will offer international coverage in case of emergency, so they were probably just trying to be thorough in their evaluation. We had a client that got a claim paid for a bad fall in Israel, took a bit more paperwork, but it was paid as if she was at home.

My kids have had the soda package on both of their cruises with no freestyle machine. Trust me when I say they had NO trouble getting a soda. They were better friends with the bartenders at the Schooner Bar than we were (not really). They were most excited that they didn't have to carry around the darn cup in order to get a drink. Even if it did mean they couldn't get the drinks with the foofy flavors.

Now, if what you drink is ONLY on the Freestyle machine, I could see a problem.

Do they have places to store my sofas overnight? Or do I just throw it overboard when I'm done with it and get a new one the next day? I don't think it will fit in my room.