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1 minute ago, basenji56 said:

I much prefer the modern pop tops. 

I'm not a fan either.

38 minutes ago, basenji56 said:

I hate the aluminum cans. Between the wetness and my surgically reduced grip strength, I often can’t get then open 

Don't feel bad. I have no surgically reduced grip and sometimes I struggled to open them. 

On 8/4/2023 at 7:59 PM, musicman85 said:

Thank you everyone. Yes I'm going to get a certified copy of my birth certificate and bring it with my Passport and new driver's license I'm getting this October. I'm not chancing renewing my passport right now with the delays. God forbid my passport gets lost and then I'm really stuck out of luck! I'm a nervous traveler, so trying to avoid any unnecessary worries like this passport question. 

Between Royal and Celebrity we did 3 cruises out of Florida within 6 months of our passports expiring. No one batted an eye.

13 hours ago, Biker19 said:

Like in Haiti, what happens in the capital (very far removed from the cruise port) is very unlikely to affect cruising.

Information is the first line of defense in avoiding an unlikely scenario. 

I couldn't find it...

https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/news/caribbean-news/belize-city-under-state-of-emergency/

4 hours ago, basser said:

I bought the Cruise On non surge protected power plug and my cousin bought the Cruise Essentials version. His came with a n insert that said Royal Caribbean and Disney doesn’t allow their use. Does Royal Caribbean allow the use of any version?

Used a non-corded for the first time on Celebrity without a problem recently but I've yet to try it on a Royal cruise. We haven't got one booked until November. 

Had a S2S booked in Port Everglades. Problem? They moved the 2nd ship to Miami scheduled to begin on our cruise. D Concierge signed us up for an excursion that she said would drop us at Port of Miami. Asked the driver while pulling into Miami airport if he was going to POM next...Nope. Exited the bus and took a cab the rest of the way. The worst part was the 2nd ship had to drop off in PE before moving to POM but they still couldn't allow us to board there. 

Got stuck behind a guy swiping his phone on our last cruise. The reception person finally told him to step aside because a line was forming. He had three other people trying to help him. We always take a print copy.

It's available for our May 2024 Icon cruise.

I'm not sure if they solved this problem but too many times passengers had to remove the band from their wrist and hand it to bartenders for them to scan it for drinks. Seemed a little counterintuitive. 

When we first started cruising wife and I thought we were Bonnie and Clyde sneaking our bottle of bubbly up to the pull deck in her big old beach bag with 2 full glasses of OJ to make Mimosas when no one was looking. We were bad@ss cruisers back in those days. Now we're just old and get them at the bar.

10 minutes ago, Gitana said:

Can suite passengers go into Diamond Lounge or only Concierge Lounge?  Thanks!

Gitana

Both if you're Diamond and up but only the Concierge or Suite Lounges if not.

4 hours ago, Ret MP said:

Star class excepted:  I believe the intent of the policy is to not have more than one drink/bottle/can at a time in one's possession, including in the cabin.  So, I don't believe stocking your cabin is quite kosher or the intent of the policy.  It's been my experience that even in Star Class, you can only have one drink or glass of wine delivered to your suite, per person, at a time.  Beer, sodas, water, and wine cooler-type drinks are stocked in the suite.  When the roving bartender/cart (my term, not sure what he/she was officially called) used to come to the Star Class suites, they would only give one drink or glass of wine per person.  

 

YMMV and/or your experience may differ.  

I did mean water. We usually pack the fridge with it.

58 minutes ago, gerif said:

The bartender will gladly give you glasses of ice water at no charge. 

Agree but bottles are more convenient especially when on the move or stocking the cabin.

42 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

It is a Sky Junior suite category JY and yes it is part of Sky Class.  They sold quickly which may be why you could not find any in the 4 sailings you looked at.

1 hour ago, bigmoose7563 said:

That's because all the Sky Jr Suites sold out Day 1

I couldn't find them on any deck plans I looked at and had to Google 'Sky Junior Suite' to see them. We're on her May '24 and never saw the option. Crazy prices but we got talked into going with extended family.

13 minutes ago, HicksRA said:

The reason you could walk right in on the last night is because it was “tip night” and everyone went to the Windjammer…. 😆

LOL...We actually joked about that while eating dinner. 😁

Just did 4 mock bookings out to April '25 for Icon and JS only have Sea Class perks. They do have CK when available but that's the same on the Oasis Class.

We're doing back B2B shorties on Independence in November. It'll be our first without the DBP...at least for the first leg. The problem will be getting waters. Wife is a 1 water for 1 cocktail/wine drinker and I'm a 1 for 2. That's a lot of waters between the two of us. Add the convenience of not signing and not keeping track of C&A drinks and the experiment is already teetering on failure.

Old enough to remember walking into MTD anytime between 5:30 - 6:30 and being seated right away. Then we did a stretch of Oasis Class suites and Celebrity suites. Fast forward to Serenade last November and holy cow! What a mess. Ended up in specialties and the WJ every night except the last night. The last night we walked right in.

1 hour ago, alfaeric said:

For dinner...  about a decade ago, we were in a GS, and hosted family who were in a JS for Thanksgiving dinner in our cabin.  There were no issues, as we just ordered the whole menu ourselves.

 

Have done the same when our grandson was feeling under the weather. His mom and dad were in a JS. It was lobster night so we invited them up. He slept while we ate.

Is this because of the rock slides at the pier?

On 4/27/2023 at 5:07 PM, Spikedr said:

What are your favorite drinks on Equinox? I want to make a list of some drinks to try and have seen various ones in reviews that sound good.

French Caribbean and a Zacapa Old Fashioned get mentioned quite a bit.. What else do they have that you like?

Couldn't get Zacapa on my March Reflection cruise. Rumor has it that Celebrity's distributor no longer carries it. We're on Equinox in 2 weeks so we'll see.

Always wore a tux until they stopped cruise ship rentals. Now I'm a suit guy. We like spiffing it up now and then and even occasionally stop for a photo. Seems like there are less and less times to dress up these days so cruising it is.

2 hours ago, ryzmom said:

We sail in 4 days and I haven't seen an email from Concierge yet.

They're usually pretty good about emails but you can email them if you have requests. I've also had their emails land in my junk mail folder.