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The Key is an extra charge program with a limit on the number sold per cruise that offers perks. https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/what-are-the-benefits-of-the-key-program

I asked the RCI meteorologist if any Disney ship was at Coco Cay yesterday and he said no and also that he checked with the Port Captain stationed on the island.

Nobody was tying up to the Coco Cay pier yesterday.

Deck 6 on Oasis class is my preference. Easy access to a lot of places just by taking one or two flights of stairs.

Yep. Last month my cab fare from Explorer to MIA was something like $36 before tip. I learned about the flat rate going away the hard way.

I was a nuke on Nimitz (an ELT specifically - your son will know what that is) 40 years ago on the originally installed reactor cores.

I've been a pinnacle for a year now so my probationary period has ended. I'm now allowed to speak to pinnacle questions and offer sage advice. I'm still - after all these cruises - just happy to be on another one. In this instance I happen to have actually booked one of those obstructed view balconies on deck 6 of Odyssey for my free pinnacle cruise and it's fine with me. I'll endure having to overlook a lifeboat and let the newer cruisers have a better view.

On the Brilliance TA this past November the onboard deluxe package price was $89. That was the same price the Brilliance had for the two shorter previous cruises around the Greek Islands and around to Rome to start the TA, so they didn't change it and it wasn't especially cheap.

"Are there special prices for single guests?" is not in the US website FAQ database.

Radiance class has 3 interior studios on deck 4 aft. Odyssey has 12 (I think) studio balcony cabins.

Be aware that the first generation of the Voyager class ships (Voyager, Explorer, Adventure) have no hinged separators between balconies, they are steel walled on both sides.

According to one cruise industry media subscription email this morning, they reached out to Vicki Freed over the weekend for an update and she said they should have the new menus rolled out fleetwide by the end of February and they continue to tweak them.

If I understand your question the answer is no, you will not get the extra point. The points that show on the website for accounts linked by relationship will always show what the person with the most points has, for both people, even though both may not have that many individual points. Since your husband has more points than you, his point total appears for both of your accounts. If you were to no longer be linked on C&A your 73 points would then appear as your total. There is no way to see what your actual points are without calling them.

I have a standard plan for cruising from Galveston. It suits me but it's not for everyone. I fly to IAH and stay at the Marriott at the airport the night before the cruise, and I book Galveston Express shuttle to take me to the port. I don't care about seeing Galveston since I've been there a lot, so my plan is simple. My plane lands. I pick up my luggage. I take the underground tram from baggage claim to the Marriott (the hotel is the only one at the airport with a connection to the tram), and then all I have to do is find dinner and sleep until I take the tram again in the morning to Terminal A where I walk out door A -114 and look for the black Mercedes van. The hotel does have access to normal transportation like Uber and taxis so I could use those to go eat someplace.

Yes. Their poorly worded letter (well it is RCI after all) appeared to indicate that if we did nothing they would automatically cancel the original booking and refund us, but I also found that we had instead been moved to the new shorter cruise - automatically. My agent called and the RCI rep initially said that wasn't what the letter meant and we would be penalized for canceling the new booking. He finally told my agent that "he'd make an exception in this case" and refunded all my money.

Someone in a pinnacle group somewhere else posted this a couple weeks ago: "For the Pinnacle certificate cruise, the ambiguous blackout dates for summer are June 15-August 15 anywhere in the World (Winter in Australia, not their Summer), and Spring Break is March 11-27, 2023, also anywhere in the World." Also, when I booked my free cruise I did get whatever the sale was at the time (the variation on the 30% being used last March) and nothing else. In my case I had already booked an 8 night Odyssey and decided before I booked it that I was going to use the $2400 value. So I made sure my price was more than $2400 before taxes in order to get the points. Then I called and had them apply the certificate. All they removed was my P balcony discount.

You can use your diamond drinks for anything up to $14, including cans of Coke Zero.

It helps to look at Labadee not as actually being in Haiti but mostly as a tiny spit of land that just happens to be in Haiti. If they didn't have locals working there you'd never know you were in Haiti.

From the terms and conditions of the offer: "Excludes onboard purchases, e-gift card and physical gift card purchases made online, transfers/transportation to the ship, MGM Resort International Joint Vacation and Royal Wedding Packages. Excludes Celebrity Cruise, TUI Cruises and Silversea brands."

I have the same problem as the OP so perhaps it's the size of the ipad.

Yes.

The app is coded to operate on phones. It will install on an iPad but won't work properly. I don't know why they don't have it for both. I'm not an app developer but looking at a web search it has to do with how the Xcode is set up by the developer.

It must be my suspicious looking face then. Seriously, now that I think about it, of my 11 blocks there probably was one or two that they didn't want to see but it hasn't been lately.

It’s not a big deal. TSA just wants to physically inspect the block and then they let it pass. It happens to me every time, such that now I remove it from my carry on and put it on a tray for easy access by TSA. If you put it in checked baggage they will probably flag the bag for secondary inspection too. I’d prefer they do it in front of me.